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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... Read more
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. Show less
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