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Discography : https://donrogall.wordpress.com/discography/
Don Rogall has been creating various new music movements for 3 decades with incomparable artistic freedom, delivering the soundtrack of subculture in over 120 venues in his town Berlin and over 100 genre-defining clubs in 18 countries all over the world.
From the jazzier beginnings in the depth of Rare grooves to sampling culture and the avant-garde of 90s electronica & Headz to Raves & House, Dub, Drum'n'Bass and all types of breakbeats to various live-sound systems.
He is heavily into the early beginnings of DJ roots of 50s and 60s music based on Rhythm, Blues, Soul & early Rock'n'Roll, as well as pop punk-culture to many influences from around the globe and a passion for Exotica music and soundtrack related stuff.
Don has contributed to Arts Festivals, created soundtracks for his own Burlesque, Variety & Circus Sideshows, as well as many fashion shows of established designers, programming playlists for corporate, bars, hotels, performing artists, mixed sound for motion pictures, taught upcoming artists and DJs (also at the Berlin DJ Music Academy) and had countless own releases in various musical genres with several bands. With one of them, Nylon, he headlined the German Spiegel magazine for modernizing German music.
The creativity is flourishing. He was an original member of the label-trust Sonar Kollektiv in '97, one of the biggest independent publishers from Berlin and produced one of the labels most successful acts, Micatone, among others.
Don produced & moderated about 200 radio-shows for different stations and curated festivals at the Volksbühne Berlin. He worked as a booker and Dj at many influential clubs, held residencies at Bassy Club, Delicious Doughnuts, WMF, Cookies, Maria, Lovelite as well as playing at other legendary venues of all sizes and genres like Mojo Club Hamburg, Tresor Berlin, E-werk Berlin, Distillery Leipzig, Batofar Paris, Stammheim Kassel, Dachkantine Zürich, Home Sweet Home New York, Mercati Generali Italy, White Trash Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg - and was in the line-up at Big Chill Festival England, Sonne Mond Sterne Festival, Printemps de Bourges France, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Volksbühne Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Urban Jazz Festival Bremen, Zeltmusikfestival and many, many more.
In recent years, with the secret Phantom Islands Heritage Society, he created the growing series of Hoochie Koo, one of the most original club nights in Berlin.
Throughout his career, Rogall produced a wide range of music including recordings with:
Abdullah Ibrahim (a.k.a. Dollar Brand)
Earl Zinger (Galliano)
Farda P. (Rockers Hifi)
Henry Rollins (Black Flag)
Hugo Race (The Bad Seeds)
Lisa Bassenge
Steve Moss (Saccharine Trust)
Tony Allen (Fela Kuti)
Wunmi (NY)
As a DJ and performer, he shared the bill with hundreds of other artists of all kind of genres including:
Jimi Tenor
Nick Curran
Wanda Jackson
Ray Collins Hot Club
Ebo Taylor
Reverend Beat-man
Messer Chups
Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz
King Khan
Mark Sultan
Jazzanova (reinforcing the Dj-team in 98-99)
Nicola Conte
DJ Dixon
Tosca
Peter Kruder
Bugge Wesseltoft
Massive Attack Soundsystem
Lady Kier of Deeelite
Waldeck
Mr. Scruff
Dego/ 4Hero
Domu
Pressure Drop Soundsystem
Sweet Vandals
Wumni (NY)
Little Louie Vega
Motor City Drum Ensemble
Nightmares on Wax
U-Roy
Dj Krush
Dj Cam
Henry Storch (Unique)
Soul Rabbi
Marc Hype
Florian Keller
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