Party DJ Leverkusen · Events since 2004
Your party DJ for celebrations between the Rhine bank and the Wupper.
I am Michael Zimmermann, and I mix live at your birthday in Leverkusen, always one step ahead of your guests' mood. From over 1450 events in more than 25 years, I know how a dance floor fills for the first time. You are the center of attention, and I deliberately stay in the background. beats per micha: Michael Zimmermann, party DJ, available for booking in Leverkusen and the surrounding area.
“We couldn't have wished for a better DJ.”
– Ben Kampen · Google reviewThe locations. The moments. My music.
You get exactly one shot. I had 1,450 to practise.
Kept the dance floor going until the very end - a great evening.
Stefanie Grübl
Party · Google review
Celebrating in Leverkusen
Villa with a garden, park on the Rhine or harbor edge: every venue carries music differently, and I shape my proposal for your party around that. Your birthday in Leverkusen can take place wherever you feel at home: in a villa with a garden, in a park on the Rhine or at the harbor. Here you can see five venues and what they offer.
Whether it is a villa with a garden, a park on the Rhine, or the harbor edge: your venue in Leverkusen decides how I choose speakers and volume. Tell me first where you are celebrating, and I will develop your set from that.
For an apartment or garden, I pack a compact setup that can run on battery power in an emergency. We will discuss how much space you have and where the power comes from beforehand, and then I am set up in about 40 minutes.
The villa from around 1855 stands in an English landscape park with winding paths and is now a community center for events. Whether you can get rooms, and for how many guests, you ask the operator; after that I plan the equipment.
The park created for the 2005 state garden show has themed gardens, a mini golf course in the south, a water play area, and several restaurants and cafés. For an outdoor party, we first clarify what is allowed and where the power comes from.
The English landscape park belongs to the Rococo palace of 1775, which houses the Museum Morsbroich. For a party there, you contact the museum, and I adapt my set to the weather and the space.
For this Rhine district, Wikipedia mentions the harbor, the crane café and the Rhine ferry to Köln-Langel. Which rooms or areas are available there for a private party, you ask the operators; after that we talk about the equipment.
The cultural center from 1969 has a terrace hall for 3,500 and the hexagonal Agam Hall for 800 people. For a large party, you can ask the venue which room is an option.
I looked up rooms, capacities and uses on Wikipedia and the websites of the operators mentioned (as of October 2026). Whether your date is free and how many guests fit, only the venue itself can tell you.
Who I am
You celebrate in Leverkusen, and I find the music that suits your guests. I started out in the nightclub, later private and corporate parties were added, until it reached over 1450 events. A birthday does not need a rigid schedule as long as I keep an eye on the crowd.
From classics and new tracks I cut my own edits, so that friends from the sports club and relatives from the Bergisches Land dance together. Tell me your wishes and no-gos in advance, and you can enjoy the party yourself on the night. If you like, I show you beforehand in which phases the evening is built.
How it works
Send me the date and venue, and I will get back to you the same or the next day. After that come a video call, arrangements and setup.
Request a dateAfter your enquiry you hear from me within a day. In a short video call you tell me about your birthday, then you receive your quote.
When you book, you get my mobile number, because WhatsApp is the quickest way to sort most things out. A week before the party we go through requests, no-gos and the schedule.
Before your guests arrive, I set up the equipment in about 40 minutes and do the soundcheck. We clear up any open questions with you or the venue, so that everything runs smoothly later on.
For arrivals, calm lounge music plays so your guests get talking. For you as the birthday guest of honour and for special moments, I find the right track.
The programme has its music too: quiet during dinner, a microphone for speeches and announcements, fitting pieces for games, surprises and cutting the cake.
As soon as people dance, I take over completely, read the mood and adapt the set to the guests until the last song plays.
My services
I mix your birthday in Leverkusen completely live, whether with a few friends or the whole family.
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Your set is created that evening, just for you, and grows with the mood. Tracks from several decades bring even those onto the dance floor who only wanted to watch at first. A living room, a garden house or a backyard is enough for me, because I carry my compact setup in myself. If a slideshow is running or someone is speaking, I turn the music down right away.
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02Safeguard If I fall ill, a colleague from my network steps in for you, on the agreed terms.
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Your service package
At your party, disco classics and fresh chart hits can share the same set. My planning begins with your first message and reaches all the way to the last track.
I stay in the background, tune the music to the mood and only pick up the microphone for speeches and programme items.
Add-on
LED uplights bathe your room in the colour of your choice and can pulse to the beat of the music.
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Add-on
The photo station runs unattended: props are ready, the pictures end up in an online gallery, and on request prints come out straight away.
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Recommendation
If you want to collect your guests' phone photos in one place, simply add Feierblick to your booking.
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The equipment includes lighting, two wireless microphones, a Pioneer or Denon controller and RCF or Electro-Voice speakers.
Add-on
From the short messages your guests leave on the retro phone, I make you an audio file.
Enquire →You hear from me the same or the next day, and until the party you can reach me personally.
We go through your music requests beforehand, and I take care of everything that needs agreeing with the venue.
Open Format
New hits and classics from many decades sit side by side in my sets, and I listen through your requested tracks in advance.
Setup takes around 40 minutes, the equipment takes up about 2.5 by 1.5 metres, and I tidy up myself after the party. About 2.5 m width and 1.5 m depth are enough for that, and under normal conditions (car close to the setup spot, no stairs or lifts) setup takes around 40 minutes.
You can add lighting, a photo booth, live music and an audio guest book, and I coordinate everything.
Request a date →Frequently asked questions
This is what hosts ask me most often, and if your question isn't among them, just give me a call.
+49 176 700 580 27What matters to me is floor space, weather protection and a power connection. With a few photos and the measurements, I can tell you before you commit whether a small setup is enough or whether space will be tight.
A wireless microphone comes with my system, so you don't need to organise anything. I take the music down as soon as someone speaks and bring it back in afterwards.
For that, I divide your evening into sections: at the start I listen to the oldies with your parents, and later the tempo shifts toward your crowd. Anything that must not be played, I note down with you in advance.
Weekend dates for milestone birthdays are booked quickly with me, so you should plan several months ahead. For smaller gatherings, less is often enough; with a short message to me, you will know the same day.
Gladly: a singer, saxophonist, violinist or percussionist can be added from my network. You choose the moment for the performance, and we sort out the rest in our first conversation.
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Even more options
If you want your evening to be more than a DJ set, saxophone, vocals, violin or percussion add live accents over my mix.
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Live over the mix.
At a time of your choosing, a saxophonist from my network joins the sound live.
Available on request
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Live band feeling.
On request, a singer sings over my mix on a track of your choice.
Available on request
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Pure energy.
With percussion, the set gets a drive on request that a playlist does not have.
Available on request
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Classical meets beat.
On request, a violinist plays a calm passage between two songs, tailored to your party.
Available on request
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An evening without a break.
For the reception or the meal, an ensemble can play lounge, jazz or pop, from a duo to a quartet. Then I take over seamlessly with my set, so that live music and DJ part feel like one evening.
Duo to quartet · Available on request
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Instead of long explanations, you can listen in on three live recordings of real parties, unpolished and with my own edits, only this is not a sample evening, because your set comes from your guests.
Setlists
Not a request list, but real set lists from past birthday parties - song by song, in the order they were actually played.
Real set list
An excerpt from a real evening, from the opening to the wind-down. The time jumps in between are intentional; you will find the complete setlist on the detail page.
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Service area
I also plan birthdays with you in Cologne, Langenfeld and Monheim am Rhein, and more places in the area are in the list below.
You give me the date, venue and approximate number of guests and tell me which music has accompanied you through life. Requests your guests make during the evening, I gladly work into the set.
Map section around Leverkusen with Cologne, Bergisch Gladbach, Dormagen, Langenfeld, Pulheim, Wermelskirchen, Leichlingen, Overath, Kürten, Burscheid, Odenthal, Quadrath-Ichendorf. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Transparency
Hours of nothing but Ballermann and schlager? A few hits of that kind can work well at a birthday party when the mood is right, which is why they have their place with me too. Building a whole evening on them is not my line, though. I'm also not your DJ for techno with no connection to the crowd, for a list ticked off title by title, or for festivals with several stages. There are colleagues who are really good at that and love it; nothing against them, it's simply not my territory.
What I do is live mixing for guests who want an evening with feeling: clean transitions, the right title at the right moment, more than letting a playlist run. That is why I tell you openly beforehand what doesn't suit me, so that you aren't disappointed on the night.
If that doesn't suit your party, I'm not the right DJ, and that's fine. If it does, let's talk.
Contact
Write to me about what you have in mind, and I will build an evening your guests will talk about for a long time. For a milestone birthday, it is best to ask early, and for a smaller party a few weeks are often enough for me.
How would you like to enquire?
Both are non-binding – you can add more at any time.
From the blog
Honest answers about party, planning and music - from over 1,450 events I've been part of.
