NO MORE FAKE DISCO w/ PRINS THOMAS

Prins Thomas

Location: Oslo, Norway

Record Labels: Internasjonal, Full Pupp

The spirit of a DJ bio is boring, self-centered, and egotistical. Prins Thomas knows that all

too well and fears the result: someone who makes him sound like the best DJ in the

world...although most people would love such a comment on their skills.

It has to be the very laid-back nature of his residence Oslo that makes him overmodest.

Except for his peers Hans-Peter Lindstrom (Feedelity Records) and Todd Terje who he

works and records with and some of the city’s legendary characters like the idiosyncratic

Rune Lindbæk or the mysterious DJ Strangefruit, that place is nowhere as busy, hectic

and all-important as some of Europe’s club capitals like to portray themselves. When it

comes to the musical output, Prins and his royal household leads di way though, as dub

poets might say. Together with Hans-Peter Lindstrom, Thomas created the climax of the

on-going fascination with retro futurism and their self-titled debut album for the Belgian

Eskimo Label.

His own label Full Pupp has some of the best house-not-house, neo-disco or call-itwhat-

you-want dance music records to offer that you heard in a long time. All done by

exclusive Norwegian talent, a new outfit called Internasjonal will join the global dots with

producers from all corners of the known-world, where he currently turns up every

weekend with a crate of vinyl, his record grips and an immaculate way to play with it. In

other words, there is no stopping him now.

But it was not always like that. The Prins had to go through the school of hard knocks like

so many before him. Back, way back in time, he started playing around as a DJ at a

puerile age. Viewed as an extension of his break-dancing efforts, belt-driven turntables

where enough to support his mix of hip hop, electro and an array of Arthur Baker’s and

Shep Pettibone’s jewels. But as soon as he picked up the bass and played in more bands

than Norway has trees, the joy of the turntable took a back seat. Until the early nineties

arrived that is. Prins still didn’t have his reliable gang of coconspirators, but he picked up

a weekly residence, where he championed sounds as far fetched as Miles Davis or The

Doors together with the craze that was started by Phuture’s “Acid Tracks”. 

Dance music

was happening again and DJs like the aforementioned Strangefruit did their thing to

inspire our hero who is currently more excited about new music than ever before. “I like

to mix up the styles. The old with the new, the minimal cuts with the Balearic beauties

and my own classics on top of it in order not to get bored”, says the master himself and

if he would not be too shy for it, we would call him an edutainer (courtesy of KRS-One).

As you can see Prins Thomas has all the right ingredients one could look for in a DJ:

great skills, humbleness, productions and remixes other people would kill for and most of

all, the ability to play records in a way that makes them not only sound good and

expedient, but also makes punters dance. And have we mentioned his beard, yet? There

you go: the best DJ in the world!

Limited tickets *** €12 online | €15 at the door ***