His CD/Vinyl-sets are technically advanced and dynamic, incorporating drum-machines and doing semi-live excursions to create a dynamic journey through many different electronic soundscapes., transferring the music to the crowd and making people dance on the verge of their imaginary horizon.
His mixes are always curiously combining beats with ambience, a blend of break beat-rhythms further into dreamy but hard 4/4 beats, hard and forward into ambient and steady. It is a journey through an ever-changing landscape of sound. Nonetheless, most importantly he loves what he does and can not stop smiling while doing it.
He never fails on his motto:
ABOUT
Axel Hjertman, born in Sweden, based in Berlin for some years, now based in Helsinki, is a DJ with great passion not only for electronic music, but for his main instrument, classical piano, as well as the urge to make the crowd dance like they’ve never danced before.
He began playing at underground clubs in Malmö and Lund Sweden in 2009. Active since then travelling around Stockholm(SE), Malmö/Lund(SE), Helsinki (FIN), Berlin (DE), Tallin (ES) and Copenhagen (DK). Next up is Tel Aviv (IL):
"Dance more than the people around you."
A talk with Axel
Radar Radio Interview, London 2016:
VENUES //
Berlin/DE:
IPSE, Chalet, Urban Spree,Crack Bellmer, Stereo 33, Brunnen70
Malmö/SE:
Babel, Inkonst,
Stockholm/SE:
Slakthuset Berns
VENUES//
Helsinki/FI:
Äänivalli, Kaiku,
VISIO Festival 2016 & 2017,
Poiju,
MK54
K-Club UG
Copenhagen/DK:
K-Club UG
Tallin/ES:
MTWAT, Laine Club