djasparagus

Location: Stockholm

Gender: Male

Favourite Music: Drum and Bass, House/Techno/Electro, Breaks, Dubstep

Favourite Nights: Soulmates, Laurent Garnier, BBE Records

About Me: Born Haris Badic with roots in former Yugoslavia, he began his musical journey as a teen, DJ’ing at local hip-hop parties. During high school he got introduced to house music and drum’n’bass at some of the smaller clubs in Stockholm where he met some of the local DJ’s, soon to be giving him a strong push from the ponds to the sea of bigger fish at Klubb Rekyl, which is one of the largest drum’n’bass clubs in Scandinavia today. But his musical state of mind wasn’t even close to completion until late 1999 when he visited the Raw Fusion Club for the first time and saw legendary Mad Mats teamed up with Jazzanova at the hot venue, Mosebacke Etablissment. Hearing them blend everything from hip-hop, funk and Latin grooves to house, nu jazz and drum’n’bass set him and his two colleagues, Ron Cohen and Boj Lucki (MIR Crew, Klubb Rekyl), out to form their own club music radio show, Kalabalik. Full of energy and will, Asparagus later at the young age of 21 got seriously introduced to the music business when he packed his bag and made his move to London where he started working for the UK hip-hop label Jazz Fudge Recordings (at the time owned by world famous DJ Vadim), promoting artists like the hyped beat boxer Killa Kela and rapper Blu Rum 13, and also running monthly parties in Brixton with guest DJ’s such as Strictly Kev (DJ Food) and Attica Blues. After a year of travelling and soul searching, Haris teamed up with now close friend Mad Mats to keep running the legendary and close to 12-year-old Raw Fusion Club, in Stockholm and also work with some of the hottest acts on Raw Fusion Recordings. At the same period in time Haris also joined forces with business partner and world renowned Swedish house producer, DJ and musician Rasmus Faber at his Farplane Records to bring forth new releases of sizzling house music. With his predilection for black dance music, he has over the past years skilled himself both technically and musically. Mashing up and re-editing tracks for the dance floors has taken him to a higher level and made him into the great DJ he is today.