fr. JPLA

Before having the chance to later play for the Rillendisco crew, Max and I came all the way from Berlin to Leipzig to attend one of their edition. After a warming up on a great set by Breza and Kontinum we both danced widely to fr. JPLA set (and also to a:tok set, we didn’t forget). We then decided to invite her to our party. She delivered a very expressive, commanding and driving yet classy techno set, neither slow or fast, with a lot of depth and character.

fr. JPLA biography :

“I was 20 years old when I was first properly introduced to electronic music. My musical background only consisted of having played “professionally” the recorder flute during my childhood, but not much apart from that. I even recorded a few tapes back then, but mostly to satisfy my technical curiosity.

As soon as I was old enough though, I started traveling to nearby nightclubs and parties in larger cities with my friends. While others preferred dancing to Monica Kruse, I found myself more and more drawn towards the Schranz-floor. Although back then I hadn’t yet entirely grasped the importance that techno music would play for me in the future.

At 24 I got hooked on Homo Elektrik, a party-collective from Leipzig, and my then girlfriend animated me to try out dj-ing. I bought myself two Technics mk2, that I still own today, got gifted a Gemini technomaster, and acquired myself a Vinyl bundle in 4/4 time.

Techno music is such a multifaceted music genre, so that I decided to stay faithful to it ever since.
I only do Techno, 4 to the floor, it makes me very happy, especially when two different tracks mix and fuse together and start to groove. ”

p.s. Mixing comes with the trade ;)!

fr. JPLA.