2022-07-01 Live At Power House, Le Sacré, Paris (Soundstream, DJ Pete, Finn Johannsen)

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@ Lighthouse Festival 2022 – Croatia

2021-11-05 Live At Power House (DJ Pete, Soundstream, Finn Johannsen)

@ Power House

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@ Panorama Bar

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Finn Johannsen – Mixmag.info Podcast #75

Mix I recorded for a Russian podcast. Which might explain the intro. Well, it did not help in the end.

Pet Shop Boys – My October Symphony
DJ Sprinkles + Mark Fell – Say It Slowly (N.U.M. Mix)
Robert Hood – Torque One
DJ Qu – Times Like This
King Felix – Spring 02
Schizolectric – Traveller Circuit
Paranoid London feat. Paris Brightledge – Paris Dub 1
Cheap And Deep – Words, Breaths & Pauses (Jonsson/Alter Remix)
Frak – Untitled (DJ Sotofett Remix)
SVN Feat. Paleo – Track 1
Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold – The Special Place
Theo Parrish – Black Mist
Funkinevil – Night
Heatsick – Benelux
Innerspace Halflife – Wind
Four Tet – Percussions
Bookworms – Love Triangles
Aardvarck – Nubian
Joy Orbison, Pearson & Boddika – Faint
Mark Fell – Side 3 Track 5
Stefan Goldmann – Rigid Chain
Secret Mixes Vol. 14 – I’m Warning You
Pépé Bradock – Katoucha?
Trance Yo Lie – Cosa C’e Sotto?
KiNK feat. Rachel Row – Hand Made (Main Mix)
Soundstream – Disco Crash
Da Sampla – Over
Unfinished Business – Out Of My Hands (Love’s Taken Over)
Dez-Andrés – Seasons So Long
Lil Louis – Fable (Frankie Knuckles’ Directors Cut Classic Club Mix)

Finn Johannsen – To The Bone Guest Mix

Mix recorded for to the bone. Check here for tracklist.

Peter Kruder – Verspertilio
Stablo 9996 – A
Spekter – Pipe Bomb
Container – Rattler
Dresvn Feat. Sensational – Bliss (DJ Sotofett’s Orgel Versjon)
STL – Mindbender
Helium Robots – Jarza (Theo Parrish Translation 2)
Mike Huckaby – Baseline ‘87
Terrence Dixon – The Parkhurst
Arttu Feat. Jerry The Cat – Get Up Off It
Bernard Badie Feat. Muphan – Bones
A Made Up Sound – Take The Plunge (Beat Mix)
Answer Code Request – Reflected
Gerry Read – Roomland
Ike Release – Outrun
Wax – No. 40004 A
Photek – Sleepwalking (Falty DL Remix)
The Exaltics – One Circle
Auto – Ms. Minnie
Philipp Quehenberger – Uffuff (Patrick Pulsinger Out Of The Box Remix)
BMG & Sal P – Credit Card
Brandt Brauer Frick – Bop (Pépé Bradock Geoduck Dive)
Soundstream – Just Around
Reel By Real – Untitled
214 – Drift Divin’
Legowelt – Poverties Paradise
Peter Kruder – Xenomorph
Simoncino – Inga’s Creme (Chez Damier Morning After Mix Part 1)
Norm Talley – Tell Me (Late Night Creeper Version)
Drivetrain – Driven
Gerd – Palm Leaves (Mr Fingers Afropsycojungledub Instrumental Mix)
Cosmic Metal Mother – Time Is Now (Fingers Dub Mix)
Aggy – 808 Vybzin
June – Lost Area (DJ Sprinkles’ Lost Dancefloor)

@ Soul Revival

Playing Favourites: Soundstream

> Love Unlimited Orchestra – Welcome Aboard (1981)

I found it interesting that this record sounded already a bit like what Metro Area were doing later on.

It is a very unusual track, especially for the time it was produced. There was not a lot then sounding like this. It almost has a housey touch, and a very beautiful atmosphere.

The track title is very telling, it is the perfect way to start a set.

Exactly, we did a show for betalounge.com once with Smith N Hack and used this as the first track.

The sound is very romantically space-like. Is this something you look for in disco? Some kind of futuristic touch?

Well, here it is a feature that definitely attracts me. I also like that it is so reduced. I like tracks that are special and unusual, like this. It is very straight, there is not too much happening in it.

Barry White kind of transformed his symphonic kitsch into something completely different with this production.

The beat almost sounds like it was sampled, very strange. I think it is a warm up bomb.

Your productions are normally not associated with sounds this mellow.

Yes, but this has this certain straightness to it, and I always like that. They hold this sequence for the whole track and just add strings and vocals, and the beat just goes on.

> El Coco – Cocomotion (1977)

This goes right back to your first Sound Stream 12”. I found it interesting that you just used a tiny weird loop, instead of its catchy bassline.

Yes, I often just get hooked on single parts and sample them. “Motion” was more like an edit. It is just a loop which then gets chopped up a bit. I like the loop because it holds the tension for so long, it’s very trippy.

But it is a very special approach to editing. You certainly were not aiming for authenticity or better DJ use.

It is kind of how it started. The first re-edits in Chicago for example. They looped bits and extended them until they developed a hypnotic quality. I think Ron Hardy initiated that. He rode a loop for several minutes and after a while it just sucked you in. This repetition also goes back to James Brown. His band played a riff for a while, then a break came on, and then it started all over again.

So you decidedly edit music to achieve a track-like quality?

Yes, definitely. With nearly all my productions I try to last long with little, and it is the same with other music I like. Simple tracks that don’t need much to hold attention for quite some time, instead of losing that after half a minute.

I remember hearing a Ron Hardy set a while ago, where he extended just the break part of Isaac Hayes “I Can’t Turn Around” for ages.

Yes, they reissued that tape edit recently. It sparked early house, like “Love Can’t Turn Around”. It is basically the same, they took the tape loop and replayed it with synthesizers, and some additional bassline and piano.

What do you think of edits that keep the arrangement of the original and just tweak the beats?

No. Something new has to be created in the process of editing. And as a DJ, I’d rather take a real drummer and fight my way through the timing. It’s funkier than a streamlined edit. That makes no sense to me. It’s okay if you have track with a wonderful part in it and then a break follows with guitars or something else you just don’t want to have. But an edit ultimately has to lead to something new.

Do you make edits for your sets?

I did a few. But they are secret. Read the rest of this entry »