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’

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2. Lousy Lovers ‘Sex in Progress’ (Zuckermann Remix)

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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.

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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:

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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.

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Bergmann zu Fuss ‘Slow’ EP (GO GO G 1) Tracklist:

1. Bergman zu Fuss ‘Slow’

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2. Bergman zu Fuss ‘Slow 2 Go’

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3. Bergman zu Fuss ‘Slow 2 Go’ (Traumzucker Edit)

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‘Bergmann zu Fuss’ is 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…

‘Traumzucker’, also known as former Tresor resident ‘Hagen B’ and ‘Bergmann’ has a rather emotional approach to club music. As ‘Traumzucker’ he is interested in technically inspired poetry and a dreamy distance to “normal” melodic expression, deconstructing it sweetly and neatly. Niiiice.

More Zucker (Zuckermann and Traumzucker) on Stalking Go Go Girls soon.

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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.

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Very interesting producer! Never heard of him before, but these Romanians are up and coming anyway they say;-)
I didn’t listen to “Carbon” DJ mix yet but checked his own productions on his myspace site. And yeah, his “Midnight” is a real original and kicking Minimal House track. Clever, surprising and full of interesting ideas. The future of minimal (= dead for now)?

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Since you’ll find that mentioned in the post down below, it had to come out BIG!-;

An iLight (pronounced the way French do:) of this new dance music melange thing hit Berlin one of those last weekends (finally I have some time for writing this…). But before we come to the real act of the night, the now in Brasil Circus Company label boss Sety played a nice warm-up set, upfront minimal but groovy. That is until he started to play some of the great classics of House music, including Jaydee’s ‘Plastic Dreams‘, hmmm…

Anyway, then NOZE rocked the Panoramabar even better and for real good. And in a manner rather untypical for an “electronic music” live act. And we don’t only mean the awesome manerisms of the show. For example the by now rather notorious half-strip of those gentlemen, but also the reactions of the audience. The thing felt like a mixture of a rock concert and a boygroup event. People just freeeeaked out and behaved like it. So it was not only packed to the max but the only thing actually lacking was a stage diving by the artists. But how do you stagedive over a huge, awe inspiring mixing desk in front of you? Well, at least here, Noze didn’t prove to be reeealy upfront.

Other than that, they are. It’s the hottest, sleaziest act, this town (yes, you hear me - Berlin!) saw for a long time. And we are talking music this time. Their ‘Kitchen’ track is not just the burner which Tom Waits sometimes came close, but never really made it to, but every single girl in the room seemed to know the, uhm, a bit adolescent boy-style lyrics (”come, come - and follow ME, we’ll have some FUN. I’ll make YOU come, ALL night looong” - all sung with a pretty charming french touch). Just another proof, that machism is dead (and feminism with it) - the girls liked it.

To come back to the music, Noze ironic, and full of clever references approach is just marvellous. Mainly because even if you think of Tom Waits’ voice sometimes while the singer yells hoarsely into his mic, lots of other influences can be heard, namely, Chanson, Reggae, Gypsy music, Pierre Schaeffer and… humor. But the point is, you never really think of those genres or of citations, but all this does, is to melt into an ingenious blend that can only be called “Pop” (in a very advanced sense of the word). Plus the state-of-the-art minimal beats (i.e. ‘Piano’). It’s all just becomes completely ‘nozy’, even if you wonder about that carnival piano sound in the background sometimes. Finally “House” that doesn’t take itself too seriously - what a refreshing feeling in my, uhm, noze.

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WOW!!! What A-list. You guys must have been digging the crates deeeep…
I agree on a lot of this selection of yours, particularly on NOZE, NOZE and NOZE I saw their live in Berlin’s Panoramabar (THE Berlin club experience iykwim) and it was just miiiind…well, whistlin’ (the only thing left in the frenzy was some stagediving by the half naked artists). then the very, very elegant Alex Under, almost always a yery good bet. And yeah, Shackleton!!!!! all these exclamation marks reflect his surreal “bassyness” btw. And not to forget: DJ Koze for president!!!

On my personal “i rather not agree” list: Serafin & Roman Bruderer - i never really got all the hype about some Cadenza artist anyway (Thomas Melchior beeing the one great exception). Then Karma (forget Compost, these guys are from Munich - uh, just a Berlin joke;-).

But anyway, before this gets too long and since you have them on your list too, if you find the time you might want to read my review on this Junior Boys - Like A Child/Double Shadow (Carl Craig & Kode 9 Mixes) release, incidentally just posted on our blog: www.stalking-gogo-girls.net.

cheers and keep up that crazy good work!

Zuckermann from Berlin town

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Welcome to Stalking Go Go Girls. Home of that famous Berlin “House - House? uhm, Minimal!? Whatever!” sound. For everyone that likes his or her club music fresher, less ideological or simply more post(-it)modern. More on that ideology in short copy under GO GO ABOUT.

If you are interested in a long mix, please read on: We are a label - and at the same time a blog. We release and sell music - but digitally only. We love classical house - but produce a Minimal influenced contemporary club music mixture that in some cases might even be homelistening compatible. You get the idea…

So besides the quality and uniqueness of the music we put out, we are concerned with what we feel is a contemporary approach towards that myth “label”. It’s an essay in re-writing the typical vinyl label for the iPod generation. Broadband and mp3 players are abundant and sometimes even DJs use the latter to perform. The holy grail of the Techno generation before us was that round black thing with a hole in the middle and 2 to max 3 ultra phat tunes in it’s channels. But today, professional DJing embraces many, many more techniques than just “2 turntables and a microphone”. Above all, it’s going digital. More and more Pro-DJs leave their heavy crates at home and their backs unstressed and embrace lighter digital formats. May it be via Traktor Scratch or other DVS systems, self-made CDRs on 1210 feel like CD-Players, or Ableton Live and Kore. Many also tend to blend DJing and Liveact in the process using more than just plain DJing to enhance their creative output while performing. We even heard about Magda that she cuts all the cool intros out of all these later on cheesy trance or whatever tracks and uses them as tools in her Traktor Scratch spinning. What an idea - although a good one. Please, don’t get us wrong, we still love “real” vinyl, but the times, they are changin’…
So, blog culture and social networks leave their traces. It does change the scene if promoting your music can be done all by yourself. As Ed Bangers Justice have put it in their ‘Dance’ video: ‘internet killed the video star’. May it be on myspace.com or via your own blog. And of course will the voice of an established label be heard by many more people than the utterings on a typical myspace music profile with let’s say a couple of hundreds or even some thousands of “friends”. But again, and also here, the times, they are changin’…

So yeah, what we are trying here is no less than to find another, more comtemporary approach towards such a thing as a club label. Let us know what you think, this, as most blogs doesn’t live by the writings of it’s author(s) only. Thanks and we hope you’ll like what we do.

The Stalking Go Gos

PS: We would also like to thank for all the inspiration - musically and rolemodelwise to, above all: Ricardo Villalobos, Noze, Junior Boys, then Sebastian, Tom Clark, Justice, Phonique, Simian Mobile Disco (although the album is soooo cheap….ugh), Richie Hawtin, Bookashade, Solid Groove (yeah, Yo!, cool), Ed Banger (although their label compilation unfortunately shows the limit of the hype - mostly it’s meaningless), Daypak (and also Padberg), Radio Slave, Hot Chip, Troy Pierce, DJ Boris, Panoramabar (here this dumb Sony claim finally makes sense, a place “like.no.other”:-), Harry Seldom (Hi Alex, willste nich doch weiterrocken?), Bar 25, Tigerskin, tbc

PPS: available on myspace too (of course…)

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