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Soon after opening, it became a institution known for its emphasis on freedom of expression and high quality soundsystem. Inhe spoke with Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton gay DJ History about how he went from selling silk shirts in a small boutique to spinning every night at one of most iconic nightclubs in German history.

I was born in Bonn, the capital. I grew up in Bonn, went to school in Bonn, then went to study in Cologne, which is half an hour train ride. There were lots of pimps in there buying silk Versace shirts bar one of them had a discotheque and he east somebody to DJ on Tuesday nights. So I tried that, and stopped working at the boutique soon after.

The club was all of a german very hip. First I just played Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and then I played weekends and it was full of kids all of a sudden. And then some day the owners of the Coconut, an industrial club in Cologne, booked me for their gay Sunday tea dance, an idea they imported from America.

They opened from 5 PM onwards and it was so busy. People came from Frankfurt, Belgium, Amsterdam just for these few hours, and this helped me get a name. Very early on I was really into Philly and funk and soul.

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It always had to go from here [ motions to heart ] to here [ motions to groin ]. I always hated this sledgehammer method. You know when you have the bar and the DJ booth all in one? So on a bad day you could do the door, bar and the DJing. Really bad, but really okay.

I got bored. Devotion and mixed it around, and I was freaking. So I started a little bit. I had a very basic quick in-and-out, and ciao, basta. And if there was a goal it was to get them together as quick as possible. There was no stretches, or double or triples or delays. I wish I knew now! Coconut people got me for the Sunday, and then another club from Frankfurt called No Name wanted me for Thursday and Friday.

There was a huge American base there and it was full of black gays and lesbians in the army there. Yes, there were. It was super cool.