Johannes Vimalavong was born in 1990, the year of the German reunification. He grew up in the Thuringian hinterland that is Küllstedt, near Dingelstädt, near Mühlhausen, near nowhere, basically. In this remote paradise Johannes started to play music. Initially with a guitar and any other instrument that fell into his hands, until a Technics MKII changed his life. He began to spin records. But since there were very few opportunities to do so in the surrounding area he just started to organize the parties himself. That’s where he first showed what the people who know him personally love most about him: He gets things done. He’s a person with ten ideas at a time, of which at least five are realized. The party series he started when he still went to school is called „Fettes Geknartze“ which roughly translates to fat creaking. He would get DJs like Sascha Braemer, Raumakustik, Marcapasos, Gestört aber Geil, Pretty Pink and Ostblockschlampen to play at the events. 
 At the same time he started to remix songs from popular and not so popular artists catching the attention of up-and-coming house producer Vitali Zestovskih. Vitali saw the potential in the young DJ from Thuringia and took him under his wings. The first official releases from Vimalavong were not long in coming: Wincent Weiss’ „Musik Sein“, Dua Lipa’s „Hotter than Hell“ and Mats Heilig’s „Fliegen“ all ca.me in rapid succession and created the increasingly strong trademark of the „Vimalavong Remix“