Live
+ Select dates
25.02.06 Londenbeat | Tielt | Belgium (With Marco Bailey, Oxia and more)
14.04.06 Soundstation | Liege | Belgium
15.04.06 Poema | Utrecht | Netherlands
13.05.06 Klangwelt | Augsburg | Germany
17.06.06 Makro Kosmos Open Air Event | Leipzig | Germany
24.06.06 M25 | Warsaw | Poland
30.06.06 POLAR TV | Berlin | Germany
01.07.06 La Cova | Girona | Spain
15.07.06 Svojsice Summer Festival | Czech Republic
04.08.06 Beachweekend Festival | Loenhout | Belgium
26.08.06 Liquid Club | Malta
+ Booking
Please visit the contact page for Justin's artist management and booking information. If you contact us direct we can pass on the booking details to Justin's agents.
+ Sets
You can listen to or watch some of Justin's sets below
LIVE at Kozzmozz February 2006
Justin Berkovi MIX
Kozzmozz video clip
+ Detail
Justin's been playing live internationally since 1998. His first live show consisted of half his (then) studio - an enormous heavy keyboard, outboard, rack gear and so on. He then moved on to various other hardware machines and famously championed the use of Yamaha sequencers which were rock solid and had timing that could not be replicated by the use of software.
The tiny Yamaha QY70 used by Justin at Neue Heimat @ PRAG, Stuttgart
Justin even dared to use the dimunitive Yamaha QY70 sequencer live and once played to 2000 people in Europe using only this machine, a drum machine and effects. However it was with the advent of the Yamaha RM1x when Justin's set took on its real power. Coupled with an old skool EMU sampler, battered Kaos Pad and other effects as well as a few electribes and drum machines gathered along the way, the Berkovi live p.a. was causing mayhem all over Europe and beyond. So deep was his knowledge of the RM1x that Justin even wrote a series of patterns for the machine commissioned by Yamaha. He was also the first to try out the Yamaha RS7000 and reviewed it for Future Music magazine.
Justin using the Yamaha RM1x early on at the 'HOUSE TOURHOUT' outdoor festival in Belgium 2000 or 2001 - he used the machine right up until October 2004.
The trusty combo - RM1x and EMU, Kozzmozz Belgium 2004
In October 2004 Justin travelled to Brasil for a couple of shows. He'd just purchased Ableton LIVE after hearing Chris Liebing swear by it at a gig in Holland weeks before - perhaps it was finally time to see what a laptop was really capable of. Justin describes how he's evolved from hardware only to incorporating the ubiquitous 'Ableton' in his sets...
"I'd played my first set at a beach location about an hour's flight from Sao Paulo - instead of getting some well needed sleep I stayed up in my hotel upon flying back to Sao Paulo, loaded up Ableton and began mucking around with loops and sounds. I'd never worked with the software before but found it so immediate, so intuitive - especially when my previous set up using old hardware was really becomming quite dated. I spent eight hours working flat out on a set and at 7am we drove a couple of hours to the venue.
James (Ruskin) was already totally rocking the whole place, really funky shuffles with some excellent depth to his set. I had BOTH sets with me - my old hardware set up and my powerbook all MIDI'd up. I was pretty nervous as I hadn't practiced with my new set up - I started with the hardware and as soon as I brought my Ableton set in I knew I was on to something. It totally blew me away. Since then I've ditched the Yamaha RM1x and EMU sampler via ebay and now experiment with a series of hardware machines with Ableton being the master sync and main sound source. I'll never only play with my powerbook - that looks totally lame but using Ableton has really changed the way in which I can put together a set, create tracks from parts that work...and so much more..."
Handing over to Valentino after I'd just completed my first 'Ableton' set in Brasil, October 2004
