Where are you from?
I hail from the Ivory Coast.
Why did you leave Ivory Coast for Germany in 1992?
For political reasons. Plus, I had no prospects there whatsoever.
How did you get into electronic music in Germany?
When I met my girlfriend and mother of my son Thierry 12 years ago she invited me to the Love Parade in Berlin. That was on July 14th 1997 and it blew me away. From this day on I wanted to be a DJ. From my first salary as a carpenter I instantly bought two Technics-turntables and a mixer and started to teach myself mixing records. At that time I was living in Hamburg where I met Ollie from Underground Solution which was the most popular record shop in the north back then. Soon, I found out what kind of music I liked as a DJ.
Mr Raoul K radio mix (November 2009) by Baobab Secret
You began producing in Bordeaux. Did you already have any musical education back then or was it all self-taught?
In Bordeaux I learned all the basics. How to record vocals, guitar, drums etc. in a proper studio. What a bass drum, a snare, Hi-Hat is. What you need in your home studio. I didn’t really have a musical education. It’s all, as you said, self-taught. Learning by doing.







