Hey there folks,

Right here most of you would expect to find a standard run-of-the-mill, everyday Bio! What I did when and with whom, how famous I am “whether I prefer people“ how important I am… more on that later but first of all I'd like to explain a bit….

As a young kid at the age of 13-14 years, around the time when most of you were surely trying to understand the “what's it all about”, grappling with the meaning of life, I looked for a release to get rid of the enormously stressful pressure of modern day life. Without knowing that this safety valve was in the process of mutating itself into an uncontrollable electronic monster for a large segment of my generation and also for the generations to come.

Just as the last spark of hope was about to die, at the point where I had almost given up and was well on the way to becoming another programmable functioning zombie-robot in this society, I found access to a small but fast growing community who took over dead spaces and converted them into living frantic places. Places where all life-forms, free from prejudices, could be accepted as they were. Did I really discover the electronic monster? Or did it find me? Or maybe we found each other? Who knows… either way- We fell for each other, head over heels!

We frenzied intoxicated from one party to the next. As a passionate dancer I danced whenever possible on top of the highest loudspeaker tower available:) Music became my life blood! My passion grew and grew, music and I became eternally insepara-ble.

We spent countless days and nights together in these free-spirited spaces, usually straight through, or at home where we also had our own free space sonicated by this weird revolutionary alien sound which liberated us and gave us, as a generation, our own voice. When me and my baby played a room together, what we really wanted to do was to try to cast out/repeal/revoke all social convention and somehow, together in this time/space thing, only exist for the moment. To head off on a medial journey together using the sounds energy, dancing our asses off in order to gather new energy for coping with the stress of everyday life.

So, lets see... I was around 17 years old when I really started to play, to develop my own sound, to organize parties, in and around Hagen. Sure, in the early days they were all illegal but later on, more or less Legal. Here are a few of the clubs where I was a resident, places I had a lot of fun and remember with a warm heart such as the legendary Proberaum in Hagen's Sedanstraße, Trigger-Club, Zappata, Lucianos Bar, Playground/Köln.....

Hmmm, I'd describe my sound-style as the old-mix-school. I've been told that my talent relies on my ability to spin between the music-genres that I like and play often and weave them together so tight that their borders evaporate. Musically, I'm several places at the same time; between Deep-House, Techno, Electronica, a few violins shattering, something rattling over here, a washing machine doing its rounds, something halfway between screechy and wobbly bass, basically anything our ears can recognize, and all that well mixed. With my audience I try and to protect and savor these moments and together with them reach our limits. And thats exactly where I see my place on those nights, as a go-between between these powerful entities ….the music and the audience. The venue is transformed again and again: The set is influenced by the interaction between the music, the audience and myself. Its damn hard to define what the fundamental essence of „Kamelio“ is, come along next time and become part of this often spectacular symbiosis of collective self-liberation in which we all play an equally important part.

When our sparks bounce mutually back and forth, the collective love for the music unites us for the moment, this magic floods the party and we can sometimes reach moments of pure bliss. I truly believe this is one of the essential reasons we all go out partying and enjoy electronic music so much. Thats the reason we are, and will always be, immortally in love with each other! Music.....I love you!

Later on I wanted to have a better look behind the scenes, to get to know the object of my affection from another side and deepen the relationship. I did a course in Audio Visual Media Design where I, predictability enough, concentrated on the Audio side ;-) During this time I also moderated my own radio show on Hagen's local radio station. I called the show „Kamelio“. With this show I had the ultimate means to pave the way in Hagen and the sur-rounding area. I could present electronic music, play sets from other DJ's, carry out interviews and announce upcoming events. Its safe to say that this radio show was one of many root causes for the huge growth in the popularity of electronic music in the region, one which continues to this day and whose end is not yet in sight.

In 2009 I moved to Berlin and quickly secured gigs in various clubs and bars ://about blank, Golden Gate, SO36, Morlox, Südblock, Möbel Olfe..... Its easy to stay busy in Berlin and there was no shortage of interesting projects to be involved with. I was heavily involved organizing the festival “Reise macht den Kopf frei” for which I, through good connections to the label boss of Traumschallplatten, secured TribelR alias Reinhard Reinhold for Golden Gate, a venue where I have been a secret Resident for the party series “Hoch die Tassen” which has been going on now for over 10 years already. I also made it possible for Minilouge to come and play in Berlin, twice. Playing together with both Minilouge and TribelR was a dream come true for me as they have been a truly huge influence of mine over the years.

So, after an extended time-out I'm back in the race and together with you folks, ready to shake/pulsate/pound the walls :-) Anyway, I hope I was able to give you a little insight into who I am. I'd be thrilled to see you all at one of Kamelio's upcoming gigs. Either way here is a musical sample to keep you going in the meantime. Enjoy! ...and of course it goes without saying that I have „just like everyone else“ 10000000000 very im-portant projects in the pipeline.

Lots of love and all the best

Kamelio