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RH: Playing live means playing my own music on stage. It’s hard to pick a favorite and I’m sad I will miss some of the sets because I’ll be playing! I’m most curious about the back-to-back with Âme and Mathew Johnson… I hope I’ll make it to their set.ĭJT: How do you approach your live sets versus DJ sets? On the artist side, well, I like them all. There are so many amazing people working on the production team, that I can’t wait to hang out with them again. Fast forward nearly twenty years, and I couldn’t be happier with the way things have panned out.ĭJT: Who are you most excited to see at the Cityfox LIVE Festival?

We became family pretty fast and I found my place in Berlin’s nightlife scene. I loved it, and they knew I was a DJ and party host, so they asked me to throw a party. When Watergate was about to open, I was working for a nightlife magazine and Watergate invited me for a visit to write about this new venue. I started DJing in Berlin in the ’90s where I was involved in a couple of projects and parties. It was such a fun moment after I said hello, then I let him know that I was about to test out my remix of his track… he seemed pretty surprised! Anyway, the label–Anjunadeep–asked me to do the remix after that.ĭJT: How long have you been a resident DJ at Watergate in Berlin, and how did you end up with the residency? I hadn’t met him, nor did I know that he would be playing before me until I got to the club. Yotto played before me, and I had the first bounce of the remix in my pocket to test out on the floor. RH: I met Yotto at Watergate, where I was about to play my monthly residency. It was important for me to not use any samples and create the atmosphere using just my analog hardware.ĭJT: How did you link up with Yotto to remix his track “Turn It Around”, out on Anjunadeep Records in April? Both tracks are unusual in their very own way and are clearly influenced by Arabic music. For this release, I thought it might be fun to work with Oriental sounds. RH: My label DUAT Records is inspired by Egyptian culture, especially when it comes to artwork and track names. We began our chat by talking about his latest releases.ĭJT: What’s the story behind your ‘1004’ EP, out on Duat Folklore on March 1st? Hagelstein, who started his DJ career in the late-nineties at the renowned Berlin club Tresor, is now a resident at Berlin’s Watergate, and he has quite few impressive productions to his name. In advance of the event, DJ Times sat down with Ruede Hagelstein, a German producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ who grew up in the suburbs of Berlin. The festival will span three stages over the course of one night and feature Âme, Stephan Bodzin, Octave One, Frank Wiedemann, Mathew Jonson, Dandy Jack, Giorgia Angiuli, Johannes Brecht, Justin Marchacos, Abe Duque, Rodriguez Jr., Liset Alea, Ruede Hagelstein, Tim Engelhardt, John Tejada, Reggie Watts, and Vril.

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There will be no DJ sets allowed at the event, which turns to many Cityfox favorites for live sets, plus a number of debut US performances for several acts. The Cityfox LIVE Festival descends on Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner this Saturday, February 16 from 10 PM – 4:30 AM.

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