Stefan Goldmann – The Transitory State

MACRO M07 Stefan Goldmann – The Transitory State

Stefan Goldmann – Voices Of The Dead

MACRO M06 Stefan Goldmann – Voices Of The Dead

Stefan Goldmann – Radiant Grace

Finn Johannsen – Last Heard In The Wires

This mix is well informed by my visits to Hard Wax at that time. I was living a 10 minute bike ride away and was going there several times a week to meet people and dig for new sounds. At that time both techno and uk bass music was buzzing with ideas, apart from the house stuff I was looking out for anyway. It was generally a very inspiring period.

UB313 – Q (The Black Dog Bitez Down On Beatz And Bleepz Mixx)
TRG – Broken Heart (Martyn’s DCM Remix)
Link – The Augur
Martyn – All I Have Is Memories
Shed – Warped Mind
Luke Hess – Renewal Part 2
Mikkel Metal – Lumever
Substance – Relish (Shed Remix)
B12 – 32 Lineup
Brothers’ Vibe – Cuero Para Mi Gente (Altered Vibes Mix)
Stefan Goldmann – Radiant Grace
Vakula – Loop For My Friends (Lerosa’s Unsavoury Mix)
Herb LF – Sunliner (Demo)
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli – Serenity (Soundstream Mix)

Finn Johannsen – Big League Complex

I do not remember why I did this mix, but after a string of mixes revisiting my past days, here at last was one with then (mostly) new music I played in clubs. I recorded it for Ali Tillett’s Warm booking agency. I do not recall if there were talks about me joining them of if it was just one of many favours I did for friends and friendly people asking me for mixes. If you think I tend to care more about recording mixes than my actual DJ career you are probably right. The mix title is probably me making fun of that. Contained here is Tuomi – The Expense Of Spirit, the third release of the label Macro which I co-founded with Stefan Goldmann a year earlier. I just wanted to mention that.

Snoop Dogg – Sexual Eruption (Instrumental)
Phatt Pussycat – Hold It Down
Netto – Like Ghosts
Mad Imbecile – Waiting For A Brain
Mujaba – Fuelta
I:Cube – Prophetization
Syclops – Where’s Jason K
2020 Soundsystem – Scott Sounds
Namlook – Subharmonic Atoms (Pépé Bradock Remix)
Omar S – Psychotic Photosynthesis
Tuomi – Expense Of Spirit
Contra Communem Opinionem – Dreamin
21st Century Body Rockers – Ease Into The Dance
Hercules And Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Vocal)
Osborne – 16th Stage

Tuomi – Expense Of Spirit

MACRO M03 Tuomi – Expense Of Spirit

Stefan Goldmann – Lunatic Fringe

MACRO M02  Stefan Goldmann – Lunatic Fringe

Stefan Goldmann – Aurora / Beluga

MACRO M01 Stefan Goldmann – Aurora / Beluga

It – Women In Toilet (Electro-Choc)

Nur gelegentlich gibt es Sichtungen vom Franzosen Stefan Manceau, der einst vor zehn Jahren in Detroit das Label Starbaby gründete, das er jetzt in seiner Heimat weiterführt. Dabei finden sich nicht nur bemerkenswerte Eigenproduktionen, sondern auch Veröffentlichungen und Remixe von Fabrice Lig, Dan Curtin und Morgan Geist im übersichtlichen Backkatalog. Für das französische Label mit dem dusseligen Namen nun also dieser Track, der verhalten an „Rej“ erinnert, vor dessen Opulenz aber stets auf weniger befahrene Straßen ausweicht, auf denen sich versprengte Spuren zu einem kribbeligen Funk zusammenschließen. Für Stefan Goldmann hingegen scheint das nur eine Startformation zu sein, denn sein Remix macht sich zielsicher in die Tiefe davon und ist dabei so umsichtig konstruiert, dass clevere Geräuschtransformationen und angezählte Melodieschlieren zwischen Vorder- und Hintergrund Kreise ziehen können. Das bewegt sich dann so kompakt voran als hätte man modernem Deep House zwischen Berlin und New York gerade noch rechtzeitig mit einem Stahllineal auf die Finger gepatscht, bevor sich das Arrangement ausladend zum großen Gefühl hochduseln konnte. Formstark.

De:Bug 01/07

Finn Johannsen – The Boo In My Boogie

Some fine folks in the Ruhr area ran a website called Deep Groove, which indeed was a hub for all kinds of deep grooves, and included a lively message board and a good guest mix section. When they asked me for a mix I decided to give them a disco treat. I remember that the mix was pretty popular then, and I am also still really happy with it. It is a good snapshot of the kind of disco I played around Berlin’s disco circuit at the time, which after years of hibernation was growing stronger and stronger. If I may say so, the intro is really something. Mad skills!

Oh, and if you wonder about the title, I nicked it from a George Michael documentary I saw with my friend Stefan Goldmann that year. I liked some early Wham! stuff but I was never too much into his solo career. The only place showing it was a small gay cinema in Berlin-Schöneberg and Stefan persuaded me to join, because he really liked the song Freeek, which I did not like at all. After the film my opinion on George Michael really changed though, and I still have a lot of respect for him. But my favourite moment in the documentary were two elder female fans who were asked what they liked about him. “He’s the boo in my boogie!”, one replied. I could relate to that.

Sinnamon – I Need You Now (Acapella)
René & Angela – I Love You More (Mr. K Edit)
Brenda Taylor – You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too (Greg Wilson Edit)
The Staple Singers – Slippery People
Dan Hartman – We Are The Young
The System – You Are In My System
The The – Giant
It’s Immaterial – Space (He Called From The Kitchen…)
Thelma Houston – You Used To Hold Me So Tight
Cameo – Back And Forth (Dub Mix)
ABC – The Night You Murdered Love (The Whole Story)
Sleeque – One For The Money
Surface – Falling In Love (Special Extended Danny Krivit Extended Re-Edit)
Evelyn King – I’m In Love
Montana Orchestra – Sal Sold My Beats
Donny Hathaway – String Segue
Arnie’s Love – I’m Out Of Your Love
Michael Wycoff – Looking Up To You
Tafuri – What Am I Gonna Do About Your Love? (Silk On Steel – Extended Mix)
Tony Silvester & The New Ingredient – Verry White
The 5th Dimension – Magic In My Life