Urban House Music

Loopuz in an orange jacket and white cap at an outdoor art stall

Producer DJ

Loopuz

House, Trance, Hip-Hop, Dancehall

Ingmar J. Gauger, known as Loopuz, has collected music since the early 90s, moving from house and Detroit techno into trance, then spending 1996 to 2010 immersed in dancehall, hip hop, and reggae while hosting the “45Knockout” radio show from 1998 to 2000. He founded and ran Roots Messenger Recording Studio in St. Pauli, Hamburg from 2001 to 2010, building it into a vital northern German reggae hub that welcomed Buju Banton, Capleton, Toots Hibbert, Luciano, U Roy, Sista Nancy, Gregory Isaacs, Max Romeo, and many more. After a decade as a VIP chauffeur and team lead, a 2017 burnout led him to study sociology and romance languages before launching the LOOPUZ project in 2023, bringing three decades of global music culture back to the decks.

Like Rain by Loopuz cover art featuring a howling wolf on a rainy city street

Like Rain

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