Jonty Skrufff's Blog

Archive for the ‘Jonty Skrufff DJ Stuff’ Category

Take 300 or so mainly Berlin and Swedish DJs, artists, revellers and ravers and drop them on a deserted, treeless, infrastructure-less, Swedish island, for a few days or more. Add a sound system, generator, lighting rig, vegetarian café and water container and you’ve got the recipe for Secret Island Nation Festival, one of the best events I’ve ever played at and attended. And toss in a hurricane: a proper serious, fuck off hurricane, one powerful enough to be given an official name (Per) and deadly enough to sink 70 metre Norwegian cargo vessel Langeland, with all hands lost: the result: an experience: one to remember for life…..

Island newspaper The Secret Standard (in reality a photo-copied sheet of A4 paper) has the key details two days after the tempest.

“About 3 sea (nautical) miles away, six persons died last night- in the storm,” the Standard reveals.

“Some 150 more fortunate people have been homeless for the last two days, before arriving on Secret Island Nation. Between ten and twenty people got homeless after their tents were flattened by the wind. The answer could have been hiding in the stones, like two people did.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

“Hanoi’s club scene right now is dire; there’s no other word for it.  There’s simply no infrastructure in place to support a decent nightlife here at present.  The cops closed down the only decent club- New Century- about a year ago following a drug raid and fragmented the scene well and truly.”

Though New Zealander Giles Cooper heads up CAMA one of the few party promotion crews currently operating in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi- he’s refreshingly candid in his assessment of the city’s current nightlife scene.

“A couple of reasonable small venues have opened up but they tend to get filled with fancy boys and girls purely there to be seen; it seems no-one really gives a toss about the music,” he continues, “That’s not to say there isn’t good stuff going on from time to time (CAMA events of course) but it’s slim pickings.  Probably the biggest problem is the supposed official shut-down time of 12am.  It’s pretty hard to get cranking properly before that time, isn’t it.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

Myself and skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow are attending and DJing at the Secret Island Festival in July, spinning alongside a host of Berlin / Sweden underground DJs including La Fleur, DJ Nibc, and stacks more. Scroll down for more pictures from last year’s event:

Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

I’ve just confirmed details of my next Brazilian tour which will be happening between November 5 and November 17. I’ll be spinning at D-Edge again on Wednesday November 11, with Sao Paulo legend DJ Magal, with more gig details to follow.

P
Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

For the second year running myself and Fidelity Kastrow will be headlining the always fantastic Summer OF Love warm up party at the Roxy in Prague, on Monday August 10.

As always it’s free admission and is likely to be EXTREMELY packed: early arrival is essential.

Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

Alex Silverfish died last year, tragically hanging herself at the age of 43. As well as being a special person. Alex was one of London’s greatest underground techno DJs and promoters and also gave me my very first DJ lessons as i struggled to get to grips with turntable technology. This picture above was from my second ever gig at Mark Moore’s Electrogogo (alex is in the foreground)
Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

Revellers attending Bosnia’s Neofest International Peace Festival next weekend will have pay just 5 euros, event organiser Zeljko Antoni told Skrufff, in response to the tough economic conditions affecting the Balkans country.
Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO WATCH A YOUTUBE CLIP FROM MY LAST BUT ONE GIG AT SAO PAULO’S WONDERFULLY DECADENT UBER-UNDERGROUND INSTITUTION A LOCA

Share on Facebook

My new remix of MOTOR’s single Death Rave is out this week in the States on Steve Aoki’s kabel Dim Mak (and on T Raumchmiere’s Shitkatapult in Europe).

More DJs are getting behind it including this bunch below:

Read the rest of this entry »

Share on Facebook

In December i made my debut in Vietnam spinning to 2,000 party crazed Hanoi revellers, all of whom liked it HARD.

Local website the ‘Organ of the Military Central Commission and Vietnamese Ministry Of National Defence’ very nicely described me as ‘‘one of the world’s leading DJs’. hmmmmmm;-()

Share on Facebook