03/06/2025
It's getting closer! 😎🔥
So it's about time to introduce our guest for the next 45°Degrees Club
Friday 13.06.2025
10 pm @ Nachtasysl Hamburg
MERTEN KAATZ | WAJANG DISKOTHEQUE
Port of Spain- and Hamburg–based Merten Kaatz is DJ and Archive Activist and co-founder of the Wajang Diskotheque collective—responsible for an ever-evolving series of events that have brought buried Afro-Caribbean music heritage to sweaty dance floors across the globe, bridging the gap between a diasporic musical past and the immediacy of a packed nightclub.
In 2017, alongside Trinidadian writer Attillah Springer and Scottish artist Peter Doig, he launched Wajang Diskotheque in a hidden Belmont courtyard in Port of Spain. What began as an underground club night has since become a touring “Afro-global Boomsiefication,” unearthing Soca, Latin, Soul, Cumbia, Calypso, Funk, Compas, Zouk, Reggae, Gwoka and other grooves from the tropical region, recontextualized for contemporary dance-floor sensibilities.
Outside the DJ booth, he is the founder of the highly acclaimed reissue label Cree Records and curates a weekly two-hour radio show on ROVR Live—spotlighting exclusive edits and unreleased tracks from under-heard archives—and has recently begun collaborating with London’s Soundway Records to apply his archival expertise to new reissue projects.N