 SLACK
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1990/91:Slack hippy was created,the
man that became Slack Hippy was studying in an Art
College in Cornwall and in his year out from the
Uni met friends who together with Slack Hippy bought
a sound system and proceeded to make sheep/police
and neighbours nervous.
Every weekend Illegal Raves and House Parties were
organised, mostly by or on the nearby beaches. These
continued through until the summer of 1991 and Slack
Hippy experienced the art of DJing and party for
the first time.
He was always the last DJ to play, mainly because
he was the only one capable of standing up at this
time of the evening.
But through this experience the DJ was born.
The name was given to him by friends cos at this
time he was incredibly lazy, slept a lot on sofas
and had very, very long hair.
In Autumn 1991 it was decide that we all go to Vienna
to visit a friend and basically have a bloody good
holiday.
Slack Hippy arrived in Vienna in October 1991 with
2 records a bag of clothes and a small inheritance
(erbe) which he proceeded to invest in records and
all the necessary DJ equipment.
Slack Hippy had his first DJ experience in Vienna
in the winter of 91, playing at the legendary Space
Jungle with Clemens Neufeld. This would be his only
real gig for the first few months of 92 because
in Vienna at that time there was very little going
on.
The weekly Space Jungle and the Monthly Ultimate
Rave Experience were really the only places where
house/techno were being played and the scene was
very small, comprising mostly of Djs/Promoters and
their friends.
A gig at the Ultimate Rave experience in the Summer
of 92 and a couple more gigs in the Space Jungle
led to a Residency in the newly opened Roxy in the
Autumnof 92.
This club opened up the careers of many DJs and
Slack Hippy played every tuesday there for the next
18months, playing a mixture of House/progressive
and trancey techno sounds.
Through the owner of the Roxy (Horst Scheur) SlackHippy
established a connection to the first XXX crew comprising
of 3 guys,1 being Horst (Roxy) and another being
Jurgen Bauer who eventually took over the whole
of XXX.
Slack Hippy played at most of the early XXX raves
the most popular ones being the Gasometer where
he played quite a few times and the Oil Refinery.
Space Jungle was still happening every week but
the residents Clemens Neufeld and Artur had decided
to stop playing there and the Space Jungle fell
into the hands of one of Slack Hippys friends.
From 1993 to 1995 Slack Hippy became resident at
the Space Jungle together with 3 other DJs and his
sound started to drift into the more techno side
of things.
Because of the Space Jungle Slack Hippy became more
widely known to the Austrian Public.
The music started to gain acceptance in Austria
and the Space Jungle became the place to be for
people wanting to learn about this new music.
In 1995 FM4, Austrias alternative radio station
started and in 1996 Slack Hippy joined the weekly
house and techno show (La Boum Deuxe) as resident
DJ, and this is where he is now after 5 years, still
resident DJ but now with his own show once a month
(Dogs Bollocks) which concentrates on Breakbeat
music and of course La Boum Deluxe which concentrates
more on House and Techno.
As a DJ, Slack Hippy has many different musical
sides and is capable of playing nearly all styles
of ModernDance Music. Be it Funk, Soul, Groove,
Hiphop, House, Techno, Jungle, Breaks,…Slack
Hippy can play it out. |
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