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Meet Her At The Love Parade (Radio Edit)
About Da Hool
Da Hool helped define the sound of European rave at the point where underground club culture was becoming a global dance phenomenon. His “Meet Her at the Love Parade” became one of the era's signature records: a relentless, melodic club anthem tied directly to the atmosphere of Germany's Love Parade.
The sound of the Love Parade
Frank Tomiczek's career traces the evolution of German rave from local club culture to international dance music, first as DJ Hooligan and later as Da Hool.
Da Hool is the principal artist name of German DJ and producer Frank Tomiczek, born in Bottrop in 1968. He emerged from the late-1980s German club scene and was already gaining a reputation as a DJ by 1990, when he also began moving seriously into production. MusicBrainz lists Da Hool alongside his earlier and related aliases, including DJ Hooligan, Hool's Experience and Paranoia X.
Before the Da Hool name became internationally recognised, Tomiczek released club material as DJ Hooligan. Early records included “B.O.T.T.R.O.P.”, “It's a Dream Song” and “Rave Nation”, the latter becoming an important dance-chart success. This period established the hard-edged, energetic approach that would carry into his later work.
In 1996 Tomiczek adopted the Da Hool name and released “Meet Her at the Love Parade”. The record was closely associated with Berlin's Love Parade and the rapidly expanding European rave culture of the period. Its combination of a simple melodic hook, driving rhythm and large-scale club atmosphere made it unusually effective both on the dance floor and in crossover radio formats.
The track became an international hit after a subsequent release on Kosmo Records. It reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom and performed strongly across continental Europe, including top-five positions in Germany and France. The song's many official editions and remixes also show how deeply it became embedded in the remix-driven club culture of the late 1990s.
Da Hool followed the breakthrough with “Bora Bora”, another major club record, and then assembled his debut album Here Comes Da Hool. The 1997 album places “Meet Her at the Love Parade” alongside “Bora Bora”, “Freakstyle”, “Get Funky” and other tracks that document the broad rave and house vocabulary of his peak period.
His catalogue continued through the 2000s and beyond, moving between rave, house, electro and contemporary EDM. Later collaborations connected Da Hool with a new generation of dance producers, including Harris & Ford, Joel Corry, VIZE, Tiësto and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. In 2025, Da Hool remained active with new material and further reworkings of “Meet Her at the Love Parade”.
Key moments
From Bottrop's club scene to one of the defining anthems of the European rave era and a catalogue that continues into modern EDM.
Frank Tomiczek is born
Tomiczek is born in Bottrop, West Germany, the city that becomes the starting point of his DJ career.
DJ Hooligan emerges
Tomiczek develops a reputation in the German club scene and begins releasing productions under the DJ Hooligan alias.
Rave Nation
“Rave Nation” becomes an important dance-chart record and establishes Tomiczek as a producer as well as a DJ.
Da Hool begins
Tomiczek launches the Da Hool name and releases “Meet Her at the Love Parade”.
International breakthrough
“Meet Her at the Love Parade” is reissued and becomes a major European hit, reaching number four in Germany and France and number 15 in the UK.
Here Comes Da Hool
The debut album brings together the signature single with “Bora Bora”, “Freakstyle”, “Get Funky” and other rave-era productions.
Bora Bora
The follow-up becomes another internationally recognised club record and reinforces Da Hool's place in the European dance scene.
Meet Her remixes
A new series of official remixes keeps the signature track active in clubs at the start of the new millennium.
Singles Collection
A retrospective collection documents Da Hool's run of dance singles across the 1990s and early 2000s.
Light My Fire
The album extends Da Hool's recorded catalogue into a later phase of electronic dance music.
Rocketship
Da Hool joins Harris & Ford for “Rocketship”, connecting his classic rave pedigree with contemporary festival EDM.
The Parade
The Da Hool catalogue is reinterpreted for a modern dance audience through “The Parade” with Joel Corry.
Meet Her with Tiësto
Tiësto and Da Hool revisit the signature title, bringing the Love Parade classic into a contemporary festival context.
A new generation takes on the classic
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Maddix collaborate with Da Hool on a new “Meet Her At The Love Parade” release.
Meet Her and Madhouse
New collaborations include “Madhouse” with Timmy Trumpet and W&W and another “Meet Her At The Love Parade” remix with Luca Agnelli.
Essential releases
Start with the Love Parade anthem, then move through the debut album and the records that show how Da Hool's sound evolved.
Essential tracks
A compact route through Da Hool's signature rave sound, early DJ Hooligan work and modern collaborations.
A rave anthem that refused to disappear
Da Hool's defining achievement is not simply that “Meet Her at the Love Parade” was a successful 1990s single. The track became a durable piece of European rave vocabulary because its title, melody and driving arrangement were inseparable from the culture of the Love Parade and the communal scale of the era's outdoor dance events.
The longevity of the record is visible in the number of later reinterpretations. From the 2001 remix cycle to collaborations with Tiësto, Joel Corry, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Maddix, the original idea has repeatedly been adapted to new generations of club production while retaining its recognisable identity.
That makes Da Hool a useful bridge between two periods of electronic music: the physical, hardware-driven rave culture of the 1990s and the globally networked EDM ecosystem that followed. His catalogue shows how a record born in the German club scene can remain relevant when its central hook is strong enough to survive changes in production style.
The Da Hool sound
Four elements explain the appeal of Da Hool's classic period.
German rave
The music grew out of the late-1980s and early-1990s German club explosion, where DJs and producers were building increasingly large, physical electronic sounds.
Love Parade
“Meet Her at the Love Parade” tied its musical identity directly to one of Europe's most important mass dance events and its sense of collective movement.
Remix culture
Multiple official mixes by producers such as Nalin & Kane and Space Frog helped the track travel between rave, trance and progressive club audiences.
Modern EDM
Later collaborations show that Da Hool's catalogue continues to connect with contemporary festival and electronic dance production.
Official destinations
Explore Da Hool's current catalogue and background through verified artist and music-reference pages.
Editorial profile prepared using Da Hool's official website, Apple Music and MusicBrainz. Internal research citation markers have been removed from this production HTML.
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