Warm welcome

 Hi all readers! 

My name is Alex and I am an aerospace engineer from Spain living in Germany since 2022. 

Before I came to Germany, I was already truly passionate about music as I had been playing the guitar since I was 10 years old. For some years, before university, I had a band called Holden Caulfield (main character of one of my favorite books: The Catcher in the Rye), and we were playing mainly Green Day, Blink-182 and Sum 41 covers.

Here you might probably ask yourself: Why did you start as a DJ if your music style was completely different?

I am still looking for the answer to that question, and I think that it’s the beauty of music, that you can jump from one style to a completely different one without even realizing it. And that’s what happened to me, I discovered techno music once I moved to Germany and from the first second I absolutely fell in love with this music style, before considered “noise” by me.

I started listening to the most prominent techno DJs such as Charlotte de Witte, Enrico Sangiuliano, Amelie Lens, Carl Cox, etc… and I discovered that that amazing mixture of sounds without any vocals most of the time could make you feel a lot, without the need of any lyrics. Because techno is telling you the stories through its sound complexity.

I was able to travel to Berlin and experience the clubbing culture there in May 2023. I went to KitKat Club and Berghain, and I fell in love again with the music they were playing there but specially with the vibe. That’s the moment in which I understood that techno culture is not just a musical movement, but also a cultural movement led by many different people looking for the same purpose: to express with music all their experiences and dreams but without saying anything, just with the sound, just with some combination of kicks, snares, hi hats and a synthesizer.

Isn’t that cool? The incredible cultural movement that has been created for something as simple as a drum rhythm.

And that’s again, the magic of techno. 

At some point, I got more interested in the Berlin techno scene and I started investigating about all the DJs playing there. And that’s how I impulsively decided to buy my first DJ controller (having 0 idea on how to use all those knobs and buttons).

After trying some mixes, I felt that something that I didn’t even know few months ago, had become one of my favorite hobbies. 

During Christmas, as every adult does (at least I do), I decided to buy a present for myself, and finally invested on a better DJ controller to depend less on the DJ software and be able to touch and feel as many functions, controls and parameters of the music as I could. 

After doing some mixes and uploading them to SoundCloud (they were not really successful, but enough to make me feel happy to share my music), I thought that I could also produce my own music, that I could also tell my stories to this community on my way: with my kicks, my snares, my hi hats and my synthesizer sequences. And that’s what I did and that’s the point where I am now, creating music to share with the people, to tell what I feel with my own combination of sounds. But, mentioning the blog name, always keeping the groove alive. 

Thank you for your time 🫶🏼

Alex.