Jambi - Dance Under the Blue Moon - Radio Fritz - DE - Aug 2006

Biography of Jambi

Jambi started DJing while attending university in San Diego, California. He hosted a dance music radio show on the university radio station and played anything from CJ Bolland to Chemical Bros. After running up and down California for 4 years Jambi relocated to Washington, DC and formed with other like minded friends a DJ/Producer crew called Metrotechno. Under that name several techno events were held in the US capital area. Alongside the Metrotechno activities, Jambi helped build the first US based DJ school and later taught production and DJing. In 2002 in collaboration with a few other local DJs Jambi started a mid-week club called Sleaze. The club presented techno and electro live shows and DJs. Over time the night hosted DJs such as John Selway, Valentino Kanzyani, Justin Robertson, Richard Chartier, DJ Traxx and acts as My Robot Friend, Legowelt, Bankok Impact (creme/bunker), Mummy and Daddy and more.

Jambi's studio in Washington was home to many of his Metrotechno friends and served as a place for collaboration and ideas sharing. Jambi's first remix for DC label District of Corruption was picked up by Jeff Mills to be featured on his mix cd 'The Exhibitionist'. The second release (DoC002) was warmly welcomed by the music press and gained a lot of attention due to its acid house meets techno theme. Around the same time Jambi found himself relocating to Berlin, Germany and after quiet a few complements about his wonderful sound design Jambi started mastering records for the likes of Stewart Walker, Jay Haze, Textone and Minus records.

Jambi grow up in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the first possible moment he moved to London. After two years of bad weather and many great experiences Jambi found himself in Sunny San Diego California.

Until this point Jambi's involvement with music has been secondary. Jambi worked in one of London's most notorious second hand record store while taking breaks to tour (as a roadie and tour manager) with Israel's noise band Plastik Venus, and London's Headcleaner. In San Diego, with access to his university's radio station Jambi started broadcasting as a radio DJ and soon had his own show that was later called Double Decks. Jambi was turned onto techno after hearing Luke Slater's 'Freeq Funk' album that had many aspects that were close to Jambi's teenage love, Industrial music. With that an interest in pursuing further directions in techno ensued. In 1999, Jambi found himself on the move again and this time to the east coast of the United States. There he started producing. Meeting fellow techno aficionados online, Jambi quickly formulated Washington DC's first techno crew: Metrotechno. The crew staged various disastrous raves and played for most promoters in the region. In 2002 Jambi joined forces with another Washington area crew and started a monthly party called Sleaze that fused live electronic music and DJs and brought to the former techno desertb such acts as DJ Traxx, Valentino Kanzyani, Justin Robertson, John Selway, Ulysses and more. This was also the time when Jambi met Aaron Hedges, the man behind the techno label District of Corruption. Hedges asked Jambi for a remix based on work he heard at Jambi's small home studio and before both of them realized what was happening an email arrived from none other than Jeff Mills asking for a license for his Exhibitionist mix CD.

In 2003 Jambi decided to move back to Europe and by some unplanned coincidence found himself in Berlin. The city lives and breathes music and soon Jambi met another fellow former east coast resident: Jay Haze. The two started working together on the netlabel textone.org and shortly afterwards Haze brought Jambi closer to the other labels he owned and Jambi found himself working for Contexterrior and Tuning Spork. In 2006 Jambi and Jay's new sublabel: Junion will hit the floors. Be afraid.

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