Kenneth Bager
Copenhagen
The man with his iconic glasses - music visionary Kenneth Bager is a pioneer, music lover, label owner, record hunter and collector. Through his legendary Club Coma and subsequent stints with Danish National Radio, he has been on air for 4 decades promoting dance music. These days he also does a weekly monday radio show for Ibiza Sonica.
DJ and live bookings: cmn@phatphase.com or chr@musicfordreams.dk
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MUSIC FOR DREAMS WITH KENNETH BAGER
Broadcast on Ibiza Sonica FM
Mondays 10am - 11am UK time
www.ibizasonica.com/
Podcast available: soundcloud.com/kennethbagerofficial/sets/ibiza-sonica-radio-the-kenneth/
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Kenneth Bager started out as a dj i 1979, he has played a numerous of styles, House, Jazz Funk, Electro, Reggae, Mombathon, Disco, Chill Out, Balearic - anything that goes with a strong identity. His collection is over 70.000 vinyls and cds.
He has played in some of the world s most famous clubs and Festivals: Bestival, Roskilde, The Big Chill, Mayday, The Omen and Dorian Gray in Frankfurt, Amnesia, Cafe Del Mar, KU, Sa Trinxa, Space, Mambo, Sunset Ashram, Khumares and Pacha in Ibiza, Spectrum in London, Roxy in Amsterdam, 1985 djing with Marco Trani in Hysteria in Rome, Quatar, Oslo, Manchester, Munich, Helsinki, Stockholm, Cannes, Dubai and playing a numerous of raves in the UK in the early 90 ties as the Act Dr Baker - famous for their track "Kaos".
Kenneth is also a regular at high profile private parties and has been spinning for Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Talk Talk, New Order and Heaven 17. Over the years he has been following the moods and ever evolving sides of dance culture visiting clubs all over the world.
He has ran several labels with great success in Scandinavia, Coma Records where he released, international dance hits. Later the label was called Flex and the line of international dance hits continued. In total Flex sold over 4 million units and had tracks on over 40 million units of compilations.
Next stop was the 2 cd compilation called Music For Dreams that lead to the label of the same name, it started out as a lounge /chill label but has evolved into a label without any boundaries: Music For Dreams has generated sales of over 2 million units.
Kenneth has organzied a Music For Dreams Festival, and he has even done a weekly dance programme on TV.
In 2013 Kenneth Bager was resident Dj in Cafe Mambo in Ibiza, where 13 Music For Dreams Sunday Events were being held, live music were being combined with live artists and guest dj's.
He has done 3 solo albums under the moniker: The Kenneth Bager Experience - a weird and wonderful happy place where balearic electronica soundtracks, scenes of decadence, beautiful women - frolic in lacy underwear, white rabbits are regarded as equals. Featured guests on the two albums include: Violin wizard Jean Luc Ponty, Julee Cruise ( Twin Peaks), Aloe Blacc, Thomas Troelsen ( Junior Senior) and Damon C Scott ( Storm Queen). His tracks has been used in several commercials, campaigns and, movies ( amongst: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
Kenneth's latest venture is doing regular nights at the famous danish Museum Louisiana, and recently he started a new danish festival, Apple Flower Festival, on an island called Lille Ø ( meaning small island) - a food and music festival together with Claus Meyer, founder of the new nordic cuisine.
In 2015 Kenneth Bager continue to arrange Music For Dreams events in Copenhagen and Ibiza. Kenneth is playing as a dj in Brazil in October. The third solo album from Kenneth Bager named "Follow The Beat" is being released and his well-established radio presence on Ibiza Sonica continues to push Electronic Dance Music with his weekly show..
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