BERLIN VOGUING OUT

KILLER line up for House Of Melody's Berlin Voguing Out this year!! I need to get to this next year - maybe even sneak my way onto the bill? ;)

MVSCHI En Vogue w/ Vjuan Allure

Pic of me handing over to Vjuan Allure at MVSCHI En Vogue in Berlin earlier this year, taken by Mike Q.

VJUAN ALLURE, MIKEQ, JACK MIZRAHI, CVNT & HOUSE OF MONGO at MVSCHI En Vogue, Berlin, Sept 6 2013

So, that was my Berlin debut, and it was fucking incredible. Real live voguing form the House Of Mongo, the two best vogue DJs in the world going back to back (with me on warm-up!!) and Jack Mizrahi on the mic, bringing the heat and setting the whole thing off! Thanks for Leo Diamond for getting me involved, and everyone at Muschi Kreuzberg. xxx

DANIEL WANG + GEORGINA MELODY interview for CDR Berlin

Danny Wang (Balihu) and Georgina Melody (House Of Melody) short interview about voguing and music in Berlin.

I LOVE Danny Wang!! I first contacted him over ten years ago to contribute to my fanzine/website Discopia - he ended up writing a series of long articles that were more than I ever expected. So very wise yet not afraid to share,  I feel lucky to call him a friend - in fact, I could go further and say that Danny is actually my gay mother...

CVNT Berlin debut at MVSHI EN VOGUE, Sept 6th

I have been booked to dj alongside both Mike Q and Vjuan Allure at a vogue ball in Berlin on September 6th. Also appearing live will be the awesome Kiddy Smile - this is gonna go off!!

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HOUSE OF SHADE Interview for Dalston Superstore

By Niall Connolly

In the cult classic ’90s documentary Paris Is Burning, “shade” is defined by the legendary drag queen Dorian Corey as the art of throwing humourous insults at your rivals. “I don’t tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to, because you know you are ugly.” Accordingly, Berlin’s House Of Shade doesn’t have to tell his competitors they’re not as good. Just one listen to any of his DJ mixes on SOUNDCLOUD and wannabe ballroom DJs will hang their heads in shame, they’ll know they’re not as good. That’s the beauty of shade. Ahead of his debut London dj gig at Dalston Superstore this Friday for BANJEE BOY REALNESS, we sent House of Shade head honcho Jan some questions to answer…

Who/what is the House Of Shade?

House Of Shade is not a real house in the ballroom/voguing sense, so no mothers, fathers and children, unfortunately! House Of Shade is more of a DJ moniker and at the same time a characterization of the sounds I play, which is house, disco and ballroom beats that have a certain fierceness to them to get you in a legendary and shady mood.

You are known for your vinyl-only DJ mixes. Is it a conscious decision to just use vinyl, and do you think using one format only can limit a DJ?

Using only vinyl can be limiting, true, because a lot of the newer beats are not released on vinyl anymore. But often limitation is also a good thing, and personally I just love the whole process of mixing records too much to give it up for now. You know, the challenge of pitch adjusting and blending two records manually without fucking it up – so much can go wrong. It’s exciting!  

How is the vogue/house scene in Berlin?

The house scene is huge, obviously, but the vogue/house scene isn’t, at all. There’s not much drama on the dancefloors in Berlin, being competitive or even fierce are somewhat foreign concepts in the clubs. But there is in fact a budding voguing scene. Last year in August, Georgina Philp – who’s the best voguer in Germany – organized the first Berlin Voguing Ball which had legendary Hector Xtravaganza over as a judge and drew competing houses from Hamburg, Düsseldorf, even Paris. The next Ball will take place on August 17 at Festsaal Kreuzberg.  

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