DJ Delicious
Encyclopedia
DJ Delicious is a German producer
and DJ within the electronic music
scene.
am Main, and from his earliest childhood he was unable to keep his fingers off either radios or record players. The result was that he quickly learnt to use technical aids in a professional manner. In 1988, during a school exchange in London
, he first experienced the energy produced by the early wave of Acid House
Music. From now on, at the latest, his interest turned completely to electronic music
. Directly after his return from London he began to sketch out his own melodies on an Amiga 500
. Because this only delivered a restricted range of sound, the purchase of further equipment became inevitable, and shortly afterwards he was in possession of a complete recording studio
. With his first public release in 1993, "Chaos Tribe" on Thomas P. Heckmann's old "Uptown" label and 1996 with the first two records under the name "DJ Delicious", released by WEA
Germany, he laid the foundation stone for the coming years as a producer
and DJ. A variety of successful remixes
and commissions followed in the next few years: these were released under a large number of different pseudonyms on Urban/Polydor, Sony, and WEA
.
and founder of the label
DJ Delicious. In no time at all Phunkwerk became one of the most talked about electronic indie labels in the world. Thanks to his many different projects and huge variety of ways of producing music DJ Delicious has given a fresh and innovative face to electronic music, a face that refuses to be pigeonholed into any pre-fixed genre. This attitude – not to let oneself be musically castrated – is nothing but a completely logical consequence of almost 20 years of exposure to the climes of electronic music.
, Scissor Sisters
, Erick E
, Morcheeba
, Bootsy Collins
, Moguai
, Chocolate Puma, Mike Monday, Cicada
, Milk & Sugar
, Eddie Thoneick, Micha Moor, Tommie Sunshine
and Marc Romboy.
and works in Cologne
(Germany), where he also operates his record label
Phunkwerk.
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and DJ within the electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
scene.
Beginning
Music has played a major role in the life of Arndt Meyer-Wegner, alias DJ Delicious, since the age of four. The son of a band musician was born in Bad Soden am Taunus (Germany), very close to FrankfurtFrankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
am Main, and from his earliest childhood he was unable to keep his fingers off either radios or record players. The result was that he quickly learnt to use technical aids in a professional manner. In 1988, during a school exchange in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, he first experienced the energy produced by the early wave of Acid House
Acid house
Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...
Music. From now on, at the latest, his interest turned completely to electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
. Directly after his return from London he began to sketch out his own melodies on an Amiga 500
Amiga 500
The Amiga 500 - also known as the A500 - was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer. It was announced at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1987 - at the same time as the high-end Amiga 2000 - and competed directly against the Atari 520ST...
. Because this only delivered a restricted range of sound, the purchase of further equipment became inevitable, and shortly afterwards he was in possession of a complete recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
. With his first public release in 1993, "Chaos Tribe" on Thomas P. Heckmann's old "Uptown" label and 1996 with the first two records under the name "DJ Delicious", released by WEA
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
Germany, he laid the foundation stone for the coming years as a producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and DJ. A variety of successful remixes
RemixeS
RemixeS is a compilation of French singer Mylène Farmer's singles by various famous DJ's, including JXL, Felix Da Housecat and Paul Oakenfold.-Brackground, writing and release:...
and commissions followed in the next few years: these were released under a large number of different pseudonyms on Urban/Polydor, Sony, and WEA
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
.
Phunkwerk
A new chapter in his long musical career began in summer 2005 with the name "Phunkwerk Records", which proved to be an optimal platform for the hugely creative artistArtist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and founder of the label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
DJ Delicious. In no time at all Phunkwerk became one of the most talked about electronic indie labels in the world. Thanks to his many different projects and huge variety of ways of producing music DJ Delicious has given a fresh and innovative face to electronic music, a face that refuses to be pigeonholed into any pre-fixed genre. This attitude – not to let oneself be musically castrated – is nothing but a completely logical consequence of almost 20 years of exposure to the climes of electronic music.
Projects
Every single release from his various projects – like DJ Delicious & Till West "Same Man" & "NYPD", DJ Delicious presents Phunk-A-Delic "Rockin" or the DJ Delicious solo releases "Let It Drop" and "Jaja" – has exploded on the worldwide scene so powerfully that they almost completely dominated all the relevant dance charts. Indeed they were – and still are – featured in the playlists of almost every international big-name DJ.Remixes
Alongside his own releases, he has also produced several remixes for artists like Fedde le GrandFedde le Grand
Fedde le Grand is a Dutch house DJ and producer whose single "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" / "Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" reached number one on the UK's singles and the top 5 in the Dutch singles chart, and spent five weeks in the Spanish dance chart...
, Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York" who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism...
, Erick E
Erick E
Erick E , is a well-known DJ and producer. He is known for his energetic and danceable mix of grooves, as well as his enthusiastic interaction with the crowd....
, Morcheeba
Morcheeba
Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...
, Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
, Moguai
Moguai
Moguai , is a German DJ and EDM producer. He is best known for his 2002 hit "U Know Y", and his earlier hit "The Rock" which used a sample from the song "Top Billin'" by rap group Audio Two. Starting in early 2010, he became one of few people to release music on deadmau5's record label, mau5trap...
, Chocolate Puma, Mike Monday, Cicada
Cicada (band)
Cicada is the name of a United Kingdom based electronic music band. Members include producers Aaron Gilbert , Alex Payne and several guest vocalists including Tom Smith from Editors, Heidrun Bjornsdottir, Ben Onono, Max Berlin, Bjorn from Pacific! and most recently Megan Quashie, Joel Pott, Nik...
, Milk & Sugar
Milk & Sugar
Milk & Sugar are German housemusic producers and record label owners Mike Milk and Steven Sugar...
, Eddie Thoneick, Micha Moor, Tommie Sunshine
Tommie Sunshine
Tommie Sunshine is a record producer, remixer, DJ and songwriter of electronic music from Chicago currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He is perhaps best known for creating dance remixes to popular rock and alternative songs, by artists such as Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Good Charlotte,...
and Marc Romboy.
DJing
Aside from his huge variety of productions and remixes, his DJ-sets in which he presents a spectrum ranging from dirty electro sounds, House and Tech House tracks, via rock edits to techno classics, provide a mirror of his cross-genre musical fantasy and flexibility. His sets are regularly played on all the important radio stations all over the world.Personal life
Arndt Meyer-Wegner currently lives in KempenKempen, Germany
Kempen is a town in the district of Viersen, named after Aaron Kempen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km northwest of Düsseldorf, and 20 km east of Venlo. It was once a centre of textile manufacturing, i.e. silk, cotton, linen, etc.-Notable persons:Kempen is...
and works in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
(Germany), where he also operates his record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
Phunkwerk.
Singles
- 1996: Such A Feeling (released: May 3, 1996, Maxi-CD)
- 1996: (Take Me) Higher (released: December 16, 1996, Maxi-CD)
- 1998: Rockin' (Groovy' Beat) (released: March 23, 1998, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2003: Like To Do It (With The DJ) (DJ Delicious; released: October, 2003, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2005: Let It Drop (DJ Delicious; released: 2005, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2006: Same Man (Till West & DJ Delicious; released: March 6, 2006, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2006: Rockin (DJ Delicious presents Phunk-A-Delic; released: July 28, 2006, Maxi-CD)
- 2006: Jaja (DJ Delicious & Rutte; released: August 14, 2006, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2006: Wechseln Sie Jetzt Zu Bass (DJ Delicious & Dirk Dreyer; released: November, 2006, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2007: We Won't Stop (DJ Delicious & Errik; released: January 30, 2007, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2008: Rock Da Beat (DJ Delicious & Loulou Players; released: December, 2008, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2009: Cogito (DJ Delicious & Simon²; released: March, 2009, Maxi-Vinyl)
- 2009: Let It Drop (Santos Remixes) (DJ Delicious; released: March 16, 2009, Digital Release)
- 2009: NYPD (DJ Delicious & Till West; released: November 26, 2009, Maxi-Vinyl)
Compilation albums
- 2006: Kontor - Top Of The Clubs Vol.32 (CD1 mixed by: DJ Delicious & Till West; 3x-CD, released: August 25, 2006)
- 2007: Big & Dirty (DJ Delicious & Till West; Doppel-CD, released: March 30, 2007)
External links
- DJ Delicious official Homepage
- DJ Delicious on MySpace
- DJ Delicious on Discogs