Just

Christopher Just was born in Vienna, where he grew up and formed as a musician. His childhood and youth were unremarkable, and the first noteworthy event can be considered the purchase of a Casio SK5-4 sampler and creating, with its help, his first piece "Wenn der Toni mit dem Polster und der Edi mit Finger". This debut piece was presented by Just at the Musicbox competition "Best Song for Football WM 1988", and after winning, he is still waiting for the promised trophy for his victory. After five years at the Vienna School of Fashion, disillusioned with the potential of the Austrian fashion industry, Christopher Just enrolled in the College of Applied Arts to study painting. The director Wolfgang Hatter accepted him without exams, provided that he never changes his style. Just managed to keep his promise for only half a year (which is easy to believe, considering the results of his musical experiments). Hatter teaches "Fantastic Realism". This unique Austrian style, which emerged in the mid-fifties, represents what many consider a pathetic attempt to prolong the life of 20th-century art after World War II. Imagine Dali, pickled on Klimt or a Sven Väth cover – this is what student Just was engaged in. On one side Hegel, on the other – the discovery that art school students are pretty cool people influenced, according to him, his decision to end it all. Christopher Just began to have fun, relax, sometimes until dawn, drink, "got involved" with women and eventually heard his first techno track at a party. It was Unique 3/ Digicallity. The time came when the young musician decided to sell everything associated with painting and managed to acquire a decent 909 and 303 sampler. This allowed him to start composing music at home. To support himself financially, Just worked in a record shop, where he met many like-minded people, one of whom later became his co-producer. This was Peter, also known as DJ Pure. They were noticed at one of the events in U4, where they performed "live", and in the blink of an eye, the first record of the new creative alliance was released. Christopher Just visited college less and less often, the director stopped greeting him, which did not upset our hero much, as his composition topped the charts with the track "Up". This was followed by the first German performances and the second maxi "Silke" opened the way to performances at Mayday. To fully satisfy the ravers, Just founded his own label "Sons of Ilsa". Marusha sang for them "Somewhere over the Rainbow", while Westbam launched "Raving Society". For Peter, this was too intense a life, and he stopped performing "live". Christopher Just, in turn, met Ella, who, according to him, "not only cooks great schnitzels but later also manages his rubber underwear". To fill the vacuum formed after Peter's departure, he decided to move the "rubber performances" to the stage, and they achieved colossal success. Not forgetting about ravers in Germany, Christopher Just released records under his real name for Cheap, Labworks, Pomelo, and Test Tube. During this time, his study of visual arts was limited to submitting excuses at the beginning of the semester for postponement of alternative service. As the musician did not want to completely lose his drawing skills, he began working as a caricaturist for the techno magazine "Envelope". Due to a lawsuit filed against the publication, it almost cost the magazine its existence. Marc Oh, Scooter, die Schlumpfe, Blumchen brought, according to many, techno-pop to perfection, making it pointless to extend the life of the "Ilsa Gold" project. This is not an endless fun, and after releasing an album and three maxis, Sons of Ilsa decided to end their existence in show business. Now, Christopher Just became more interested in his own production; he created the label Petra, co-authored the soundtrack to the first Austrian film dedicated to techno – "Tempo", opened Punk Anderson for Pomelo, and is working on a new album "Gerhard Hoppla jetzt komm ich". Teaming up with "Hells Gigolo Records" to record the track "I’m a Discodancer", Just achieved a noticeable success in the UK. When Punk Anderson said goodbye to Europe and returned to Texas, everything went wrong, and the musician decided not to engage in production for several years. From 1998 to 2001 he simply made remixes and played chess. Then he recorded under his name 12" for Giant Wheel, Cheap Records, Gigolo, and others.