Claudio. Pleasure to meet your acquaintance. Tell us about who you are, what you do and the history of Tanzgemeinschaft.

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The pleasure is all mine. Thank you guys for taking the time to answer the Q&A that I put together for your label as well. Love your story.

As for me, my story goes way back. It all started at the age of 15, being a DJ at the local parties with friends that were much older than I was. I can assure you that my mom was waiting for me at the door upon my return on those late nights. With some of the friends I made DJ'ing these parties, we started a collective to promote local talent mixed with established (international) talent. The idea was to run events at abandoned industrial places, and in the end, we ended up in bunkers, caves, barns and old mining buildings. We got promoted via the first online streaming radio station called Pirate Radio based in London. We flew them over and they broadcasted some of our events over a 256k modem. Can you imagine that? Crazy times.

After a while, we split up and I moved abroad. After a long silent period, I met some people at work who maintained a page on Facebook called Minimal Techno. With over 300.000k fans, I found it to be a huge opportunity to start again and reunite with my passion for electronic music. As a group of 3, we managed to accumulate around 450.000k fans. I wanted to start a promotion platform outside Facebook, but the owner of the account sold it to fund the purchase of his house. I could have killed him after hearing that.

I started all over again about 4 years ago as a solo project and put my heart and soul into it. I set up a website, started social channels from scratch and contacted a lot of labels, managers, artists to get things going.

My motto was, and still is:

We do not look for just any music or anyone, we are looking for music and people who create memorable music that inspires and evokes emotion.

I believe young talent deserve a platform to be heard.

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How do you manage your time, in order to run a label that puts out so much content - interviews, podcasts, social media posts and artist correspondence?

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Tanzgemeinschaft is not a label, although I think about starting one once in a while. I do manage to help some artists sign contracts.

I spend about 20 hours per week on my platform. It is still a side project as I have a day job. When working on this project, I spend my time answering emails, preparing interviews, planning mixes, etc. As my time is limited, I need to refuse a lot of good talent and music, unfortunately.

With this platform I have created, I am looking for passionate people who are looking for an entry in the music scene.

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