2.35:1 +GAY - BERNS LOVES BERLIN

Saturday the fifth of June 2.35:1 +Gay celebrates the end of the season. This evening of the Swedish national day is honoured by a plane loaded with a magnanimous crew from our beloved Berghain chartered to Berns. The passengers include ND Baumecker, Steffi and Tama Sumo.

Berlin's DJ elite are here to entertain YOU especially! Stockholm's own stars Pjotr, Tommie X, Brandy, Pumpen, Sven von Essen, Lady Leonora, Treblinka Disney, Dora K, Emma Veronika, Kornél Kovács, Makode Linde and the Club Ombudsman Ulrich Bermsjö are currently on a think tank retreat to figure out how they can outdo themselves!

This party is insured by the official fun guarantee.

Welcome.

ND BAUMECKER
His mixing is among the best you will ever hear in a club and brings together completely different tracks in a surprisingly conclusive way. After Baumecker played at every club in Frankfurt regularly (Box, XS, Music Hall, Dorian Grey...), he moved to Heidelberg, where he started
promoting a club night at HD800 together with Dirk Mantei aka D-Man. After a short stop in Mannheim, ND finally came to Berlin in 2004, where he not only continued to run his excellent label Freundinnen (releases by Isolée, Snax, Lopazz, Ruede Hagelstein or Motivi:Tuntematon), but
also picked up a residency at Panorama Bar.

"Anything that somehow manages to sound 'new' really gives me a kick. It's really hard to describe. Dance music should have a good portion of Funk and for me it always needs to sound like Disco, be it minimal or maximal. I tend to describe my music as being 'maximal'. I like vocals a lot. In my opinion they are the most important and significant bits you're taking home after a good night out, because they're simply very memorable. That's why I don't have a problem with saying that I like a label like DFA a lot, for example."

TAMA SUMO
"Music is pure communication ? stay in contact and follow your heart!"

Heart, emotion and passion instead of pure functionality ? these are Tama Sumo's dj characteristics in a nutshell.

She started out in 1993 at the Drama bar in Berlin / Kreuzberg, one of the first bars to ever feature its own dj at the weekend and an important hang out for the scene before going to the clubs. Besides, the Drama has been one of the few locations playing house music, when techno was dominating all the other clubs and bars at that time. Tama Sumo used to play a lot of New York style vocal house and quickly became a regular DJ behind the decks at the gay saturdays at Café Moskau.

In the beginning of 1994 she started playing regulariy at the legendary Techno-Club Globus/Tresor and became a
resident DJ at this location for the following years. Here she began to integrate different electronic-music-genres into her house sets, a mixture, she conctantly improved over the years and which by now has become so sigificant for her long sets.

Since 2001 Tama Sumo also played regulariy at the "Dance With The Aliens"-Party at the old OstGut, the predecessor of Berghain, which eventually opened the door to a residency at the new Panoramabar & Berghain. In the meantime she developed a varied style ranging from House in all its colours, combined with reduced Techno, old Electro, Disco and Pop. Altogether her sets feature a lot of bass, sometimes melody, always deep, sexy, dirty, jacking, rough and funky.

"Music for me is something very subjective and I always attempt to approach it with my intuition, Tama Sumo
comments. To be a DJ for me means to be in touch with the audience without speaking and to interact with the crowd and give them what they need while staying true to myself at the same time. It's also fundamental to my work that I succeed at letting the music, the crowd and myself run freely. I have to turn off my head and go with the flow. I love to create and play with different moods and atmospheres. And I'm still fascinated by the fact that music can release a huge amount of energy and fun immediately. Music and bass in particular make people happy!"

At the beginning of 2008, she has finally released her first record. Both tracks, "Play Up" and "Brothers, Sisters", have been produced in collaboration with Prosumer. They perfectly sum up Tama's take on house music: two rough and funky tracks which made the DJ Top 50 of German Groove Magazin at first go.

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