German DJs and their living rooms

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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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

Sven Vath's setup reminds me of early Cronenberg movies

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

Tobias Rapp's living room to thread!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Magda, make the tea!

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

Heh! DJ Hell and the Weights Bench!

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

I love/want DJ Koze's.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Is Villalobos using the IKEA shelves for his vinyl?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

these are like algorithmic brain scans of their respective owners

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed in Hawtin having the same computer chair as mine. It's the Ikea Allak: http://www.ikea.com.sg/images/products/pe103490%20allak%20swiv%20chr%20leather-artificial%20leather%20black.jpg

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:
http://www.ikea.com.sg/images/products/PE083343_AR%C5S%20leather-leather%20black.jpg

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

lawrence is the only normal one

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

"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 (nineteen years ago)

fast= fact

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

haha you effin namedropper

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

I love the villalobos chair!

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

also lawrence with isolee t-shirt :)

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

attn richie hawtin
get one maid

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

thats lawrence's, not hawtin's

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

For a reasonable fee (plus transportation, food, lodging), I can give your collection the lived-in look of Lawrence with the order of DJ T (though purposefully facing out your records is kinda corny).

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Psshhh it's easy to keep your room that clean and organized when you're on coke all day.

― Period period period (Period period period), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

these fuckers living rooms are bigger than my apartment

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

yes. and one of them is sven vath.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

The should do this with different genres.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

you could call it ... "cribs"

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

das kribs

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I totally want to see Black Metal Cribs or Grime Cribs! Also the thing on Lord of the Decks 2 where they visit Wiley's studio/apartment is like the best thing ever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hell's weight bench is awesome.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

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^^ i'd hit it

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

I thank you.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

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

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

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

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

*waves*

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

five months pass...

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

Hmmn, I found this:
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/110/l_2525c33d61e482a189ce1d4ed9f85236.jpg

Hence there are more of these that are still unearthed.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

I don't care about any of these.

― pipebong (fandango), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

^^ almost had me

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

this is one of my favorite threads

― mark cl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

Ellen Allien's living room still rules.

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

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

this remains my favourite thread ever.

― djh, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

seven 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 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

this is one of my favorite threads

― mark cl, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:12 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ellen Allien's living room still rules.

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Saturday, 16 April 2011 11:59 (fifteen years ago)

And the photos at the top still show up. Extra joy. Why can't all threads remain so intact...sigh.

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Saturday, 16 April 2011 11:59 (fifteen years ago)

I wonder if Michael Reinboth's room has fallen through the floor yet?

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Saturday, 16 April 2011 12:01 (fifteen years ago)

lol at Kode9 having a pair of trousers over his door

― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Saturday, 16 April 2011 13:13 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

if you need a collection of rooms by all well known DJs, you should check out
http://www.dj-rooms.com

― ceeee, Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

I don't like how Ellen Alien keeps her shit in plastic garbage bags, she should head over to the Container Store.

― John Lennon, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

not german but...

http://www.deepabsurdum.com/interesting-bits/danny-tenaglias-loft-2/

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 June 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)

dj hell = terrible! dining in your sleeping space? "excuse me, helmut, i can't enjoy this spaghetti you made me, your weight bench reeks!" "pardon me while i get off the couch and bang my head on this low japanese lamp"

― am0n, Saturday, 16 June 2012 00:41 (thirteen years ago)

classic thread

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dMIYX_bNnF0&hd=1

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

where did all the pictures go

― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Friday, 13 March 2015 21:04 (eleven years ago)

the page is gone. someone should have saved the pictures.

― scott seward, Friday, 13 March 2015 21:08 (eleven years ago)

http://ffffound.com/image/2417590f652855250d10a208e9f9e45ff5b840e6?c=460189

― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Friday, 13 March 2015 21:11 (eleven years ago)

ten years pass...

Does anyone have the photos saved?

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 3 November 2025 13:38 (seven months ago)

https://thecureforinsomnia.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/german-djs-livingroom/

― willem, Monday, 3 November 2025 14:12 (seven months ago)

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