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Dr Franz

Doc Franz or Dr Franz is a pioneer DJ in the Goa Trance movement that has retired at the age of 49 in 2016. He started his musicianship very early in life in his teens as bass guitar player and then studies conservatory as double bass player and plays rock cover first and then evolves to play jazz rock with top notch musicians...this was from 1981 to 1985. In 1985 he gets to know the electro music that was played in the very first Goa parties with electronic music. This changes his life and as soon as he is free from conscription in 1988 he gets a visa and he is off for 6 months in India - he brings with him tape cassettes with all the music (in vinyls that he records on good quality tapes)) that he can get his hands on (in those days finding "proper" party music meant spending days in record stores around northern Europe as there was not a genre up to 1994 onwards) - EBM, Disco, house, acid house, techno, industrial, etc,. He lives a great 4 years period between Himachal Pradesh (Kullu Valley; Manali area and Parvati valley), and Goa and in both location he plays alongside those that invented the genre like Laurent, Macky (to whom he will then dedicate his label - in loving memory), Vittorio, Hanuman, Rudy, Paolino, and few others....these were 1988 to 1992 seasons. After coming back to Italy he finds hard going to ive in the province and moves to London for 13 years. In 2007 founds Macky Mad House Records or MMHR - the label fades off after the first 5 CDs...but gets revived in May 2013 as "only digital" and as it is this time (Sept. 2016) is still operating and released 6 CDs and 21 digital releases (6 of which albums and the rest EPs. Retired as DJ early (March) 2016