Filipe
Rodrigues

Biography

Thirty years of groove.

Filipe Rodrigues fell for electronic music in the mid-90s, through rave compilations and late-night radio. In 1995, at just 15, he was already playing on local radio stations and made his club debut at the legendary Casablanca, one of the youngest DJs in Luxembourg at the time.

His ears were shaped by everything around him: Detroit and German techno (Jeff Mills, Blake Baxter, Ken Ishii, Richie Hawtin), the electronic pioneers (Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream), and above all the soulful sound of New York house: Masters at Work, Todd Terry, Armand Van Helden, and the voices of Jocelyn Brown and Barbara Tucker. In 1996 he built his first home studio, and he has never stopped collecting machines since.

Over the next fifteen years, as DJ Junior S., he became one of the pioneers of deep and soulful house in Luxembourg, playing week after week in the country's best clubs, and over 100 dates in 2008 alone, from the Rockhal to stages abroad. Alongside the DJing, he spent a decade producing deep house tracks, remixes and edits.

Today he makes music under his own name, and he works hardware-first: an Akai MPC2000XL, a TR-707, Juno-X, UB-Xa and Poly D, all tied together in Ableton Live. His sound now moves between pop, funk and house, but the goal hasn't changed since 1995: warm chords, punchy drums and basslines that make people move.