Magician On Duty Podcast Series

Magician On Duty Journey Series presents Gauner @andreas-stefi-1 Some DJs spend a lifetime refining a single sound. Others remain restless—guided less by genre and more by the emotional thread that connects music across styles, tempos, and eras. For Andreas Stefi, better known as Der Gauner, it has always been the latter. Active as a DJ and promoter since the early 2000s, Der Gauner has quietly cultivated a deep relationship with electronic music in all its forms, embracing its constant evolution rather than its boundaries. Now, as his long-awaited debut productions begin to emerge—including a collaborative release with I’m Mady on Magician On Duty, alongside forthcoming works for Art of Downtempo, Kosa, and Dialtone Records—his appearance on the Magician On Duty Journey Series feels both timely and deeply personal. For his contribution, Der Gauner resists the obvious route. Rather than assembling a purely downtempo excursion, he delivers a richly textured voyage through the sounds that have accompanied hi