00:30XDB b2b PLO ManGöttingen / Berlin
XDB is Kosta Athanassiadis – German by birth and in residence, with Greek parentage. His roots are in the central German town of Göttingen. It was here that he began DJing in the early nineties; where he worked in a record shop; where he ran a radio show for five years; and the base from which he established the Metrolux record label in 2006.
Kosta’s DJ sets draw upon his expansive record collection, playing right across the board of the quality side of electronic music. He has no shortage of technical skill and prefers a 3 decks setup, but despite his mixing skills it’s his selection that truly shines – putting the music itself at the forefront, letting songs breathe when need be, and delivering plenty of head-scratching ‘what the hell is this track?’ moments.
Co-operator and representative of ACTING PRESS, a project engineering audiovisual works since 2015. AP is home to solo [PLO’] and collaborative music [with C3D-E, INTe*ra, Globex, CC Not].
In-game DJ experience [Europe, N.A, Asia, Oceania]: ballpark 15 years. Currently based in Berlin.
One-time host of PLO Radio, aired on the now defunct Berlin Community Radio from 2013 – 2019. Transmission has since come by way of Lot Radio, Refuge Worldwide,
Rinse.fm
, IDA, NTS, etc.
For DJ recordings, kindly refer to sessions archived and distributed on tape [most recently Cav Empt, CESAR35, CESAR08], CD [ACTING PRESS, Terraforma], and Web [Youtube].