Paul Dakeyne

In the Kitchen at Parties

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Paul Dakeyne.

In the last quarter of 1993, a pioneering nightclub manager called Nodd McDonagh called me to say he’d been head-hunted to run a new venue in Dublin’s Temple Bar district, to be named, ‘The Kitchen’ – the owners of which, were U2. ‘Would you like to DJ for the opening night and see how you [...]

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Kraftwerk Live Mix on Technics DZ-1200′s

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.

Here’s a fact – I was the first DJ ever to perform a live mix set on Technics CD decks, sometime around 1987. Of course, at a time when vinyl was king, some may have viewed this as sacrilege. Fast forward to 2005, and I was invited back by Technics and DMC to perform a [...]

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