German DJs and their living rooms

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― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

Okay, that one was ali from Tiefschwarz.

ANDRE GALLUZZI

ATA (Robert Johnson/Playhouse-Owner)

DJ KOZE

DJ T

ELLEN ALLIEN

DJ HELL

LAWRENCE

RICHIE HAWTIN

SVEN VATH

RICARDO VILLALOBOS

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think I relate to the Lawrence one the most.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

So basically they all look the same (except for Lawrence's God love him.) PAINT YOUR WALLS GUYS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm so envious of andre galluzzi's beautiful hardwood floors!

― any cop (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

what a koze little place

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

i like villalobos' the best, he's got that dope chair and the implication of a second floor

― bijoux (bijoux), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

I feel liberated in not having painted my walls now. Thank you German vinyl addict people.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol villalobos must be a giant!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

The last two are pretty nice looking... these are more like workspaces/studios than living rooms surely... at least with Richie Hawtin's you can see through to some actual living space.

on preview: Yeah, Villalobos has that great wooden chair! I want one.

― DougD (DougD), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

let me know when they want to shoot the NYC edition...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

Sven Vath's setup reminds me of early Cronenberg movies

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

Tobias Rapp's living room to thread!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

I guess it's kinda fitting that Sven Väth still has those mid-nineties Goa trance speakers.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

But you do know that all of these rooms stink of stale spliffs and sweat, don't you?

― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yoy gotta love Väth's "embedded in the furniture" turntables though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

Is anyone else kind of amused how few records are in Hell's room?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

maybe he doesn't keep them in his living room?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

Probably the case. But still kind of an interesting contrast to the rest.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

DJ Hell seems to have the largest flat, but it really goes to show how much more space one could have once you clear out all the records.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

DJ T's is very neat.

Poor Lawrence, despite his pristine music it looks like he actually had to throw away hundreds of McDonalds bags that were lying around, before they took the photo.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

Magda, make the tea!

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

Heh! DJ Hell and the Weights Bench!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

I love/want DJ Koze's.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah Koze is the coolest one, and has the coolest house.

DJ T's horribly anal set-up makes me dislike the prissiness of his records even more now.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

Is Villalobos using the IKEA shelves for his vinyl?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

DJ T's horribly anal set-up makes me dislike the prissiness of his records even more now.

Sorted by Label and Producer apparently...

I liked the way his favorite record was "Yes sir I can boogie" everyone else being awfully cagy or elitist!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

These are great. But you should have put them up as a quiz, match room to DJ. I think I would have got Sven Hath straight away.

DJ Koze seems to live in the spare room at his mum's.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

villalobos looks like he lives in a mod-for-'67 ski lodge

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

these are like algorithmic brain scans of their respective owners

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

strongo: i would love to see the mid-90s equivalent of these
matos: bubble machines
matos: giant pleather couches
strongo: like, marc acardipane
matos: marc acardipane: s/m dungeon
strongo: with coin-op video games
matos: and d&d posters
matos: "my chosen motif is frank frazetta"

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

DJ T's horribly anal set-up makes me dislike the prissiness of his records even more now.

Amazing, i was thinking the same thing! :)

Lawrence is totally in character (when he looks out of the window there's probably some drug deal going on).

I was expecting Villalobos place to be a total mess.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm disappointed in Hawtin having the same computer chair as mine. It's the Ikea Allak:

Pretty bogstandard really. I would have thought that with the filthy minimal luchre he might be able to stretch for the much more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing Aras:

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

lawrence is the only normal one

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Tobias Rapp's living room to thread!"

Hey Tim! It scares me a little bit, how even living rooms of non-DJs like myself tend to look as if... But what can you do. You have to put them somewhere.

Actually I think there's a connection between the bad second hand-Techno-records situation in Berlin and the fast that rent is cheap. You're never forced to carry your records to a storage room, you just get some more shelves. So you never miss paying for the storage room and the stuff never gets to thrift stores. Good for some people, bad for some people.

"DJ T's horribly anal set-up makes me dislike the prissiness of his records even more now."

But I have to defend DJ T. They have the photostory in Groove because a record store offers the service to DJs to clean up their collection and give it a certain order. DJ T was the first one who asked them to do it. That's why it looks the way it looks. And I heard it was a lot of work.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

fast= fact

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

a record store offers the service to DJs to clean up their collection and give it a certain order.

i need this service!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

hawtins is exactly as i would imagine, back at the lodge, solar panels on the roof

― Tommy Woodry (tommywoodry), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'd bet money on the fact that villalobos has a housecleaner (either that or tia is a fucking saint).

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha you effin namedropper

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

I love the villalobos chair!

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

sorry, HIS GIRLFRIEND tia.
and yeah, i want that fucking chair too....

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

I really had to laugh when I saw Sven Vaeths set-up - golden record players! Red designer speakers! The carpet! The way the golden record players are sunk into this obviously very expensive wood thing!

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

wouldn't be surprised about a housecleaner. lawrence's is most appealing in some ways, while villalobos's is a bit more adult.

sven vath's place makes me shiver-- very scary carpet.

also, whoever said 'paint your walls': you are forgetting that these are Germans. white walls are standard, beautiful, and without clutter.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

GOD BLESS LAWRENCE. the rest of them are pretty much the same although Koze's has some personality at least.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

i probably like Sven Vath's least, even though it looks the most expensive.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

the first thing i thought when i saw most of these (save lawrence's): FUCK THESE GERMANS WITH THEIR ENOOOOOOOORMOUS (and probably very affordable) APARTMENTS. and i live in barcelona, for crying out loud - i'm hardly confined to new york proportions. but i look at some of these sprawling spaces and i feel, i dunno, like veal or something.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

also lawrence with isolee t-shirt :)

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

attn richie hawtin
get one maid

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

thats lawrence's, not hawtin's

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

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This thread makes me sad.

― Mr. Goodman, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 02:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

hey tim is "middle class" australian code for "actually liveable and comfy and non-bachelorish"?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 05:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ame's might be the only one that looks like an actual living room

― am0n, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 05:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

supposedly michael reinboth had to have his floors reinforced to take all that weight as his house was visibly cracking at the seams with the weight of 60 000 records.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 05:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

a sad sad man

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 05:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

no way all those records are good

― deej, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 07:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

"hey tim is "middle class" australian code for "actually liveable and comfy and non-bachelorish"?"

Yes! I wasn't trying to put them down. It's just that I had a sense that Ame's house was going to be nice and stylish but not self-consciously distinctive (a la Vath's, Hell's etc.). It looks like my living room!

― Tim F, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 08:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

i bet the sound in kohncke's is awesome. i noticed the soul jazz tom moulton comp sticking out of the record box, too.

― tricky, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

kohncke's looks like a very industrious hobo has fashioned himself a living space in a disused subway stop

eulberg's looks pretty much like what i expected from "the early 90s equivalent of these" i was talking about with matos up thread

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

he has a single bed and he's not ashamed of it.

― jed_, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

ame's is the only one i would want to be in

― elan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

subway stop or bathhouse???

― tricky, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

<i>eulberg's looks pretty much like what i expected from "the early 90s equivalent of these" i was talking about with matos up thread</i>

this is spot-on except where's the SCHWA poster and the pot plant?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

yes, Dominik Eulberg's room look's like mine when i was in highschool (minus all the records of course)

I'd like to see the rest of Villalobos' and Steve Bug's apartments

― Malcolm Money, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

I love this thread.

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 03:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I feel like we've lost some of these images to time. Can anyone bring back the love?

― yobabypop, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

this was a great thread

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 8 December 2007 00:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm still wanting to buy an Aras.

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 00:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

Oh what. They're not on the ikea site anymore :(

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 00:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

what's an aras?

― jed_, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ikea chair that is better than the one Richie Hawtin has.

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

No, I do not know why I am so fixated on this.

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

in this link at the ~2:00 mark there's a great shot of Richie Hawtin's swank apartment

― Malcolm Money, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

Steve Jobs wins

― lukas, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

^^ i'd hit it

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

ps i like richie's half-canuck-half-german accent. north american eurotrash.

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

I think that's more a result of living in England for the first 13 years of his life a la Slick Rick (While nonetheless someone like Ricardo moves to Germany at 3 and is touted as being Mr. Chile, but that's another story altogether).

― mehlt, Friday, 14 December 2007 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

I admit I haven't read the whole thread (just looked at the pretty pictures) but where was this originally - it looks like a magazine?

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 14 December 2007 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yes it was a spread in Groove (groove.de) magazine.

― blunt, Friday, 14 December 2007 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

I thank you.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 14 December 2007 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

There's just something about DJ Hell having a weight bench ...

I actually searched up this thread a few days ago and made Ellen Allien's place my computer desktop!

― nabisco, Friday, 14 December 2007 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Hi guise why is this on the front page of Digg right now?

― Stevie D, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

Dunno, but it's bringing an extra 25,000 people a day since Friday.

― stet, Sunday, 17 February 2008 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

*waves*

― jim, Sunday, 17 February 2008 22:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

classic techno mixtapes by a bunch of these djs are available at ravearchive.com.

― deej, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

thanks for the link. there is some good stuff on there.

― Display Name, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

Heh. An ILM thread was on the Digg frontpage? How'd that work out? Any epic threads us lurkers might have missed out on?

― viborg, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Hmmn, I found this:

Hence there are more of these that are still unearthed.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't care about any of these.

― pipebong (fandango), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^ almost had me

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

when we're done with the mix contest we should have an "ILX DJs and their living rooms" thread

― resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

this is one of my favorite threads

― mark cl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ellen Allien's living room still rules.

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have a room set up that I'm sure would destroy a lot of competition, but I'm too embarrassed about how few records I have (especially after looking at this thread)

― mehlt, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 01:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have just realised that Koze has the same record storage units as me. Spybox modular FTW.

― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

this remains my favourite thread ever.

― djh, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3796&Itemid=105&limit=1&limitstart=0
West Coast Boys: Dutch Electro Portraits

― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:39 (10 months ago) Permalink

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