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Hausmusik

Hausmusik is a chronological retrospective of club music from Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 1989 until… 

Artwork by the ever genius Philip Marshall.

This is quite a huge project, and it will probably last several years. Please note that the concept has nothing to do whatsoever with national pride, I do not have one patriotic inch in me.

I am doing it because:

1. The music is great.
2. It is a pandemic situation. If I cannot work creatively as I used to, I have silly ideas or go mad. Probably both.
3. Whenever I played a record from this context at gigs in the past, somebody came up to me and asked me about its origin, and reacted with complete surprise when I told them.
4. Being born and raised here, you get to meet people who do great music also born and raised here, or living here for a longer time. Some of them became friends, others I admire. Some are quite well known, some lesser so, some are not known at all. I wanted to pay my dues to all of them.
5. Every record from Italy or Japan was already featured.
6. Times are hard. I need to boost certain Discogs stocks.
7. Club music from Germany, Austria and Switzerland? You mean like Techno? Mostly no.
8. Club music from Germany, Austria and Switzerland? You mean like Minimal? Mostly no.
9. Club music from Germany, Austria and Switzerland? You mean like House? Mostly yes.
10. Haha, seriously?
11. Yes, you’d be surprised.

Hausmusik is airing the first Thursday each month. I will also put the episodes online in a dedicated playlist with download option and tracklist at Soundcloud and hearthis, one week later.

I put up a list with the records I used. It will be updated as soon as I finish recording another episode, so you can check upcoming content if you are impatient: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Hausmusik/713743

Please also note, this retrospective is highly subjective. If I did not include a particular record you love (or produced), it is either because I do not know it, or I do not have it. But please feel free to tell me about it!

I hope you enjoy listening to the music as much as I do.

Hausmusik all night lang!

@ Blitz Music Club Takeover

2020-12 Paloma

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Theory Therapy 10: Finn Johannsen

How are you today?

I am fine, thank you. My daughter will be home from school soon, and she had a test today, for a cycling license. She was very excited about it and I hope it all went well. Else I am pondering what we will have for lunch today, and I am thinking about fresh ideas to save Paloma, the club I am booking here in Berlin. Later my wife will be back from work and we will have some time together before I will meet a good friend, and I am thankful that such simple things are possible again. But right now I am listening to music and reading the news.

Can you tell us a little bit about the mix? What were you feeling when you made it?

I was actually playing two gigs in Melbourne and Sydney in March when the virus basically took my whole life apart back home on the other end of the world, which was very surreal and confusing.

I always loved playing this kind of sound, but a main reason to fully indulge in it again was my closing set at Inner Varnika two years ago where I ended the festival on this tip, and the result was a beautiful and lasting memory for me, and apparently many others. So there was a connection that came to my mind when you asked me. That, plus I feel too uncomfortable at the moment playing a club set like nothing happened. 

What I felt while actually mixing it? Gratitude for all the good times I had, the good music I found on the way, and the fine people I could share it with. I was feeling a bit hopeful too.  

Where did you record the mix?

At home, on a bright morning last Monday.

What would be the ideal setting to listen to the mix?

I really had none particular in mind. I am honestly not sure how the situation affects the way people listen to music, or if that has even changed. Ideally, it stills works in various settings, and it may succeed in making them more enjoyable.

Are there any tracks you’ve used in the mix that are special or significant to you?

Rather expectedly I love all the tracks I used, but being a bit older I always loved Paul Rutherford, and I realised I never had the opportunity to include this record of him crooning about the moon. So thank you!

What’s on the cards for 2020?

I was at the movies in 1992, watching “Sneakers”, and when every member of the team was asked to make a request in return for the decryption chip, Whistler said, “I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.” That’s all I ask, too.

Interview and tracklist

Black Seeds – Cool Me Down

Epo – Koino Hito Hira

Natalie Williams – This Girl

Lindy Layton – Wait For Love

Keni Burke – Risin‘ To The Top

Lisa Stansfield – Never, Never Gonna Give You Up

Cheyenne – No Number 1

YBU – Soul Magic

Nikke Nicole – I Believe

Paul D.C. – Unofficial Business

Paul Rutherford – That Moon

Marvellous Marvin – What‘s Going On

Kyoko Koizumi – Yo-Ru

Loose Ends – Love‘s Got Me

Temper Temper – Talk Much

Salt-N-Pepa – Express Yourself

Marissa – Love Is Just A Game

Paloma vs. Virus

Paloma vs. Virus 

13. März 2020 – ?!

https://www.startnext.com/paloma

Wir hätten es auch nicht für möglich gehalten, gerade war noch alles so wunderbar, aber die vermutlich schönste und seltenste Art in der Familie der Taubenvögel überhaupt, die Paloma (Columba Berolinum Salticus), ist unmittelbar vom Aussterben bedroht. Wir sind fest entschlossen das zu verhindern und bitten Euch inständig um tatkräftige Unterstützung, denn alleine schaffen wir es leider nicht.

Wir haben weltberühmte Designer wie Alex Solman, Philip Marshall und Alexander Papoli-Barawati gebeten uns ihre schönsten Motive zur Verfügung zu stellen, sowie feinste Memorabilien und Dienstleistungen von exklusivster Exklusivität versammelt. Jeder Kauf von dieser Webseite kommt direkt der dringlichen Mission zugute, die Paloma vor ihrem Untergang zu bewahren.

Hier ist unsere Kampagne für die Rettung der Paloma, bitte teilt und helft, wenn ihr könnt:

https://www.startnext.com/paloma

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Paloma vs. Virus

March 13th – ?!

Everything was so wonderful just so recently, we never thought it would happen. But the most beautiful, rare and precious member of the dove family, Paloma ( Columba Berolinum Salticus), is in severe danger to go extinct very soon. We are very determined to prevent that from happening, but we ask for your kind help, as we just cannot do it on our own.

We asked world class designers like Alex Solman, Philip Marshall and Alexander Papoli-Barawati to provide us with their most exquisite designs, and gathered the finest memorabilia and services of utmost exclusive exclusiveness. Every purchase from this website will directly support the urgent mission to save Paloma.

Here is our campaign to save Paloma, please share and help, if you can:

https://www.startnext.com/paloma

@ Ghostly x DJ Sprinkles b2b Finn Johannsen

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2020-03 Paloma