First warm weather in Berlin town - time to celebrate with a DJ-mix of some of my favorite tracks from the last couple of months.
The photo? Yeah, agree, a bit showy, plus, I actually don’t do vinyl anymore. But a good way to say so (about the vinyl), plus, still a nice Berlin spring photo (apart from my pose;).
Enjoy the music anway!
Oi, here comes my latest DJ-mix made exclusively for Renato Lopes’s radio show on Sao Paulo’s best electronic music radio, ENERGIA 97 FM. Renato is one of THE Don’s of the electronic music scene in Sao Paulo and Brazil in general - and his radio show is certainly living up to this standard!
The show has come true due to my Brazilian tour in November and December in Vegas Club, Tapas Club, Tostex (all Sao Paulo), Dama de Ferro (Rio), etc. - uhm, see photo above and guess where the Caipirinha is… the beer is lighter than in Germany, the Caipis’ are stronger, and electronic music is still… in between (just an impression, no offence intended). So, I had a really great time;-) - and will be back soon.
Hear the mix here:
Zuckermann has done a hell of a lot of studio work during the last two years in order to develop a new approach towards House and Berlin club music in particular. He and his partner Hagen B. wanted something that can instantly be perceived as House, but also pleases body & soul with new, refreshing sounds made in the 21. Century.
We call that ‘2nd Berlin Skool’ - in contrast to what could be named 1st Berlin skool and its big uprise of Berlin Techno and House in the early 90ies, which kind of dried up in cheesy Electroclash and mostly boring Minimal in the early 21st Century.
Having had enormous amounts of positive feedback and plays for this 2nd Berlin Skool production work lately on our MySpace sites (also check the latest posts on this blog), Zuckermann has now brought forward the spirit of this particular sound to a banging House DJ-Mix, which incorporates a lot of great classics, some newer stuff, and also our productions.
Rock your neighbours, your iPod, your car stereo, and your friends and don’t be disappointed if one of those superstar DJs at your local club suddenly seems a bit dull in comparison…
Tracklist:
Having received an enormous amount of positive feedback and plays for this EP on our MySpace sites already, here it comes again on our blog.
‘M I Missing U’ (Minimal Remix) by Hagen B. & Zuckermann features our trademark sound, which we call “2nd Berlin Skool”. A contemporary club music style, that is unmistakably House, but as unmistakably modern and fresh as well. We take the best of the old Berlin House and club sound and make it ring fresh and new.
‘M I Missing U’ by Hagen B. (Zuckermann’s Radio Edit) is made so that radio DJs can throw in their f***in’ advertisement (I gave up on listening to over-the-air radio, it is just so painful), but has a very nice Elektro feeling and some lyrics only a Rusian oligarch can’t relate to. Enjoy!
1. Hagen B. ‘M I Missing U’ (Hagen B. & Zuckermann Minimal Remix)
2. Hagen B. ‘M I Missing U’ (Zuckermann’s Radio Edit)
Upadate: Listen to those on Bergmann Zu Fuss’ 001 on Beatport and a number of other portals.
First cuddle with your chérie - then do whatever it is you cannot abstain from.
That’s the idea of the “The Cuddle and Cum (split) EP”. The first track “Liebling Password Kuscheln” (Sweetheart, Password Cuddle) is all about grooving smoothly with your sweetheart. Whether it be publicly - i.e. in Café Liebling, Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg - or in private (password required).
The second track is all about what’s happened after your password was accepted and you are logged “in”. But listen to the cheesy vocals yourself. Both tracks’ lyrics share a similar sense for the irony of it all. Whatever that “all” may be (relationships, rituals, sex - you name it). The ‘Cuddle And Come’ EP (GO GO G 3) tracklist:
1. Hagen B. & Zuckermann feat. Très charmante Magali ‘Liebling Password Kuscheln’
Update: This track will be released on Beatport and a number of other portals in late February 2009 on BergmannZuFuss (BzF 002) as part of the ‘2nd Berlin Skool EP’ by Hagen B. & Zuckermann.
2. Lousy Lovers ‘Sex in Progress’ (Zuckermann Remix)
Hagen B. & Zuckermann
Hagen B. started his career in Tresor club, the old one - of course. He soon became resident of that institution but was rather attracted to the (housy) “Globus” floor at ground level than the techno torture chamber downstairs. Now he’s back in the studio after a long break and shares his passion for cool, hot House grooves with Zuckermann, Stalking Go Go Girls’ CEO/CFO/CCO/CSO (Chief Sex… okokok) and whatever you want to.
The latter also used to be Maria am Ostbahnhof Berlin resident plus resident of the incredible “Cinetrip” parties in good ol’ Budapest (mostly in the Rudazs bath, and if we say bath - it was IN the bath and a watery orgy). He played in France and Japan too and had a number of releases on rather breaks oriented labels using obscure pseudos that he thought were cool back then. Now he’s back again too and working with Hagen on the always exciting “new” idea of House: classic sounds mixed with some contemporary ideas, kling-klangs and sexy whims to produce an altogether fresh House sound. And so the redefinition of House continues…
Lousy Lovers is a project of 2 audio stars from Berlin, one of which is above mentioned Zuckermann, the other one now based in Marseille, Southern France. After they had debated the advantages of Berlin Coolness vs. French Hardcore long enough, they decided to clash these influences instead and create “eine elektronische-erotische Tanzkapelle”.
Lousy Lovers was born, transforming both the Southern way of making love - too fierce, too short - and the Northern one - too uptight, too short too - into something of an entirely different quality. Whether you’ll like that might depend on the girl(s) of course.
Their clash “très particulier” of influences merges into a unique House sound, which combines Minimal with fever and heat with not taking oneself too seriously, cheers.
Ok, after “Spin Doctor” Zuckermann got carried away in the fine world of “da(ft)” fine arts lately, my other self is back now with “something complety different” (stop!-laughing-Mr.-Cleese!).
1. The Trouble With Harry ‘Woow… Hoouse…!’ (GO GO G 2) Tracklist:
The Trouble With Harry
is a collaboration of Harry Seldom (Organic Domain) and Zuckermann (Stalking Go Go Girls). Their collaboration is about re-defining classical House patterns thus making them fit for those reeeeally outspaced moments of today’s disco nights. No matter whether these are Berlin afterhours, Barcelona beach parties, or Beijing glitz nights. It’s the state of mind that counts….
Harry Seldom was born as Hari Seldon in the 11.988th year of the Galactic Era. He decided to flee from the boredom of the future - namely Asimov’s Foundation “sagas”. Once arrived, he turned his journey into the track “Don’t Look Back”. It instantly became the hit caché of Tigerskins “Organic Domain” label, selling hundreds of copies even without a “Galactic DJ Magazine” review. Shame on you, ignorant (future) markets (oops, my stocks rumble in the background). So, NOW it’s your time.
Zuckermann is the master caster of Stalking Go Go Girls. He likes to post - and its writes. Read some of his musings or muse some of his readings in our blog section. Apart from his literay career here on Stalking Go Go Girls, he produces music for those states of mind referred to above - thaaat kind of hypnotic House that let’s you forget where your house is. The same ‘Black Holing’ applies to his DJ sets after which sometimes only the Goddess of DJs can mercifully make him find his own house.
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More on thaaat House soon with other releases by our artists.
Hagen B. & Zuckermann ‘Slow’ (GO GO G 1):
1. Hagen B. & Zuckermann ‘Slow’
Update: check our ‘Slow Remix’ soon out on Beatport and other portals on Bergmann Zu Fuss 002!
Hagen B. & Zuckermann are a Berlin DJ and producer double that is about essence. Their “essance-to-dance”-formula: shake, stir, and distill the hottest classical House ingredients, then mix with a veeeery selected choice of todays sounds until a total concentrate is reached. Result: your fuss (=feet) will be moved and your mind will follow…
Take Beatport, probably the most respected mp3-shop brand in the whole club music industry. Partners with Native Instruments - one of THE music software makers of planet Earth -, promoted by highly credible artists like Richie Hawtin, better linked to digital DJ tools like Final Scratch/ Traktor Scratch/ Traktor than any other platform - and now this:
In a very revealing article about his review work for Beatport, the creator of Test Industries tells us the story of his ever declining relationship with Beatport. Not only was he asked to work for free to begin with, but also to only send in positive reviews. As if this wasn’t enough, he finally got the offer to sell (out) his blog entirely to Beatport - without mentioning the word “Sale” at all of course, since the price involved would have meant “gift” rather than a business transaction.
All this we find incredible and completely impertinent, thus totally inacceptable!
So much about the “we are the good guys” mantra of the “independent” music industry. Obviously these people haven’t learned a bit from the PR and business desasters of the major companies. Marketing is all about building (justified) trust and business about serving ones customers in an efficient, respectful and unbureaucratic way.
Not only is Beatport taking their customers for dumbheads (thus treating them very disrespectfully) in allowing only for “top” reviews, but also are they destroying any good faith and trust in the portal, thus destroying their very business model.
If any company is losing its passion for what it is doing and only becomes a “business model” it is dead indeed. Particularly in the so called creative businesses.
Result: I’ll buy my mp3s elsewhere - having hated the non standard Beatport interface and the sloppy tagging particularly with albums anyway.
Always weird to see other people apprehend and (re-)interpret one’s very own creations. It can make them appear strange to oneself since their context has changed altogether. Fate of the “electronic/ club music” producer? Certainly! The more so on the web where a certain DJ Gnu (this guy who is one and many at the same time) often is not putting your music “in” its right place (clubbing), but “out” of it (listening).
So this said, we don’t like to deprive you of some of our Go Go Girls meeting some other folks (girls? hmmm…??) in two new mixes. Enjoy and share if you like what you hear.
The first one comes from the famous Italian Deep in Dub Posse, namely DJ Mitch - we’ve just come back from a holiday in Italy the day he posted the mix. What a nice coincidence since I didn’t even twitter about it. The mix is pretty much what the promo text says - “The third mix of a series dedicated to ” Beach House ” music, sounds warm and deep, you will dance throughout the summer 2008″. So yeah, we like the first class selection a lot (NO concealed self-praise meant;-). The mixing though has quite a, well, Italian charme to it - we just looove Italian laisser-aller, pasta and the greatest café in da world;-)): Beach House 2008 (Deepindub Mix).
The second mix dates from March and comes from the Russian netlabel mag netlabels.ru - and you certainly can tell the difference. Here we go for a much more introverted view of things. Also for a broader one, musically speaking, since a very interesting and sometimes even weird selection makes this mix a worthwhile trip. So if you are in a rather melancholic or dreamy daringly spirit in spite or because of Europes spring that finally sprung (and the quasi absence of mixing) go for this one: Audiomania podcast: March 2008 Urban Pleasures Selection.
Check this post on a German advertising blog about the what will cause the death of the music “industry”. Particularly go for the comments, it’s there where it get’s interesting.
PS: Alas fpr your english-only heads out there, it’s in German ;-). Peace