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PLAYRJC 074EP
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Superfantastic release! Live At Robert Johnson is a natural home for Superpitcher, and this two-tracker shows his sense of belonging. "Lush Life" featuring vocals by Fantastic Twins was inspired by Corsican polyphony, an epiphany after a church concert though as ever with Superpitcher, simplicity is multi-layered: the track itself could be a trip back to the golden (rave) days of deep electronic US house à la François K, dubby yet peacefully driving the ecstasy home. No religious gospel euphoria though, the lyrics are a pagan hymn to Eventide presets. You can't take the geek out of the schatzi. "Diario" stretches its ten minutes in a misleading laidback groove: Sueno Latino languid clichés are blown away by a smoothly unforgiving acid line. This is a trip, not a journey, a trip dedicated to the young raver in all of us and to a friend too soon departed. As Pasolini said in the poem of the same name: "That's why I've never abandoned happiness, that's why in the anxiety of my sins I've never been touched by real remorse. Equal, always equal, to the inexpressible at the very source of what I am." In other words, kids, keep faith out there.
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In the gutter lie sun dried leaves, scraps of paper, burnt matches and cigarette butts. It is early morning; the sun rises with warm grace. you've come to the right party... you see, the body of a young man sitting by a pool, nobody important, really. Just a movie writer with a couple of "b" pictures to his credit. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, but let's go back some time and find the day when it all started in "Hollywood," the place where they pay a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Three years after he celebrated Sketch of Japan EP (2019), Superpitcher returns to Mule Musiq, bringing an epic super-pitched 40 minutes trip named Hollywood, that perfectly works as the score for the above remixed opening scene of a famous movie on the trances of Hollywood, the cage, that catch our dreams. It's a slow grower, incorporating some of core elements of the city of celluloid dreams: action, drama, romance -- all epic noir and yet so flooded by light. As ever the producer and DJ from Paris garnished his long building up and going down voyage with seducing melodies, glamorous pop, and psychic rhythms, creating the hippy dance ambiences he is famed for. Even though the twelve inch comes in accustomed a/b chapters, Hollywood should be perceived in one go to feel the depth of Superpitcher's tropical leaning story arc, that stretches the idea of a track into a dream of satin teardrops on flickering velvet lights. It paints sonic celluloid pictures of ghostly creatures, while a female/male voice is the music's constant melodic companion, injection Janus-faced longing dream pop spheres on the overall tripping house melancholy. A heroic electronic drama, elegant as Tamara de Lempicka's painting. It asks for endless rides on the Hollywood freeways. in the back the sun -- a big orange ball -- sinking slowly below the horizon. You've come to the right party... you see, the body of a young man sitting by a pool, in the back a long, graceful bar, bathed in soft light, filled with elegant customers. There's nothing else, just us and the music and those wonderful people out there in the dark, ready for a divine dance in closeup.
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KOM 035EP
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2022 re-release of the blinding 2001 debut by Kompakt's youngest family member at that time. Deep rocking techno pop. More hero than heroin. Superpitcher is Aksel Schaufler who is resident DJ at the legendary Total Confusion club night at Cologne's Studio 672 alongside Michael Mayer and Tobias Thomas. After his storming contribution for Speicher 1 and a remix for Contriva's club hit "Monika" which became one of the hottest moments during the last cold winter nights he presents his beautiful debut Heroin. Kompakt is his work place, technopop his mission -- watch out -- you'll get addicted. This is a re-release of Heroin originally released in 2001 on Kompakt.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15-year anniversary. The label is releasing twelve 12"s with Stefan Marx handling the artwork. The tenth release is by the label's long-time friend Superpitcher, aka Pachanga Boys. "Maki" on side A is a tribute song for legendary Japanese folk singer Maki Asakawa. Superpitcher wrote the lyrics and Dip In The Pool's Miyako Koda translated to Japanese and did the reading. "Mishima" on side B is a Superpitcher trademark melancholic house tune. It sounds like updated percussive NYC house from the early '90s.
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TGR 012LP
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The 12th and final edition of The Golden Ravedays brings the final two tracks to the saga. Side A is the ballad of "Late Night Skanking". True to the soul of skanking this track is weaving its delicate elements between the rise and fall of a monumental wave that teasingly never breaks. The main melody so seduces and hypnotizes that, before you know it, you're a wide-eyed cobra waving away in a basket. Standing ovation! Hands in the air! He made it! The very last track of Superpitcher's epic Golden Ravedays odyssey is a jovial spree, a hullabaloo of merrymaking, the perfect celebration of the beginning to end of this heroic album. "Punky Reggae Party" is a fantastic collision of festive sounds, beats, and voices that bring you undecipherable messages and everything else that is far beyond nice, nice, nice. Encore! Encore! Includes download code.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The 11th edition of The Golden Ravedays brings another two tracks to the saga. Side A brings "Brothers". With two decades of spinning experience in discos, nightclubs, festival arenas, shady after-party zones, and intimate studio soirees, there is no doubt that Superpitcher is seasoned in throwing a damn good party. "Brothers" is party personified and a celebration of the night and the wise owls that respect its magical rituals. Its ultra-chic disco groove and dreamy female vocals transport one to a carnival of blessings. Side B features "Sleepy Head", a hypnotic lullaby carefully tucked away in a hammock that rocks to-and-fro like dozing mermaids in a wavy curtain of seaweed. "Sleepy Head" is a smart artistic statement and whimsical pause just before the release of the grand finale of the The Golden Ravedays saga. Includes download code.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The tenth edition of The Golden Ravedays unveils two tracks that are distinctly different in zeal but both transmitting spooky and thrilling male voices adding a sense of humorous horror. These two tracks are testament of Superpitcher's ability to skillfully merge depth and playfulness. Side A is "Rock N Roll Baby". Could it be that someone with a curious but naïve mind had the courage to ask the scariest man in the club, no the world, about the origin of music? The answer rides on a tribal beat, escalates to Armageddon-like heights and an eerie voice repeatedly assures us that it's all "Rock N Roll Baby". Side B features "Shining". Don't be distracted by the deep comfort this warm and fuzzy sound bath brings to your veins. Quite a surprise is waiting for you when you are heading down the dark hallway in your birthday suit just when your hand is anxiously trying to find the light-switch of your room. Includes download code.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The eighth piece of The Golden Ravedays of the series introduces two tracks that will take you to the far side of somewhere you've never been before. They are both reminiscent of outer space blues playing spooky games in a dust bowl. Side A features "Tuesday Paris Texas", a tastefully arranged track with vintage sounds passing nonchalantly through a wild western aural landscape. The music is announced like a cowboy movie dual, complete with bar doors swinging on rusty nails in slow motion. Mournful guitar strings swirl over a steady horseback galloping beat, expanding into a full-on-fire dance track. Halfway through, a woman's haunted voice appears and disappears like an eerie siren, a gunshot is fired (was that a gunshot?), a man whispers "what!?". "Tuesday Paris Texas" is in no hurry to give an answer. Side B features "Mirage", a desert sound collage glued to a steady pulse that rolls and rolls, circumventing any destination. "Mirage" is a contour map of no surprising peaks, just undulating valleys of wistful cathodic sound creeks, sometimes veering off to plains in full-view of the moon and in earshot of solitary wolf cries. Like "Tuesday Paris Texas", "Mirage" is testament of Superpitcher's versatile prospecting beyond the elemental sound tools of the electronic music trade.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. Where number eight of the series took its listeners to outer space (TGR 008LP), number nine introduces two tracks that are an underwater celebration of all that is good and all that is sad. Side A features "Hiding". Imagine galloping sea horses pulling a Christmas chariot filled with dreams-come-true past enchanting mermaids, smiling sharks, waving tortoises, and nonplussed eels leaving a gifted blanket of mystical sound in their wake. "Hiding" stretches and breaks into many layers of listening love without enforcing one particular sound. Side B features "Flying". The piece is occupied by a sub-aquatic melody colored by whale sounds and the echoes of immersed guitar strings. "Flying" is not about complex development or diversity, but the weightless drifting of sounds that create a wonderfully hazy cloud to lose oneself in and fly, deliciously with the dolphins. Rest assured, the ending is speckled with whimsical chimes showers, paving the way for the softest of landings.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The seventh piece of The Golden Ravedays puzzle introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his listeners on this year. Side A features "Andy", music made by Superpitcher in memory and admiration of a pioneer artist and his works. "Andy Warhol looks a scream, Hang him on my wall, Andy Warhol, Silver Screen, Can't tell them apart at all, Andy walking, Andy tired, Andy take a little snooze, Tie him up when he's fast asleep, Send him on a pleasant cruise, When he wakes up on the sea, Be sure to think of me and you, He'll think, about paint and he'll think about glue, What a jolly boring thing to do." David Bowie's lyrics about Andy Warhol mirror the groovy yet deeply moving emotion of this track. The music Superpitcher imagined here is a pleasant cruise in itself and once you wake up from it, you will for sure think of Andy. Side B features "Yves". The track starts with a long introduction of harp music and then gently evolves into one of the more fragile and poetic pieces Superpitcher has created thus far for The Golden Ravedays record. Similar to "Andy", this track is dedicated to an artist, Yves Saint Laurent. What is clear in this music is that there is an intense understanding of the suffering Yves Saint Laurent lived throughout his life as an artist and fashion designer. As only Superpitcher can, he translated that emotion into this beautiful and touching piece of music.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The sixth piece of The Golden Ravedays puzzle introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his listeners on. Side A features "Protest Song". If music is a way of transporting us to other places, "Protest Song" takes its listeners to a desolate, scary, and loveless environment, a burnt-down, burnt-out place where the flesh of its former inhabitants is smoldering, void of goodwill and kindness, in a cloud of toxic and greedy smoke. It's all Kafka and Orwell and suffering -- the most twisted and eerie track so far in The Golden Ravedays saga. What is undeniably clear is an acute sense of regret and loss -- a warning that it could have been avoided, had we only listened to our hearts and protested. In the same vein, on Side B is "Resistance". Produced after the Paris attacks of 2015, Superpitcher outdid himself with this strong message of resistance. Where "Protest Song" paints a picture of under-worldly doom, the techno beat and insistent refrain of "Resistance" sweeps the listener to the surface of the muck of hatred and intolerance we've politically been dumped in. A voice that seems like a trapped animal is calling out. What is it trying to say? Is it crying out for help? Is that animal all of us? "Resistance" represents hope and encouragement and could be the perfect marching track to any demonstration against negative forces. Much needed in this age of bigotry where it seems like time has leaped backwards to a darker side of history. As for the dancefloor -- "Resistance" is irresistible!
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretching over 12 respective chapter albums, released on Hippie Dance sequentially during a one-year period. The fifth piece of The Golden Ravedays introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his fans on this year. The djembe drum on the cover and the two titles of the tracks hint that this edition could potentially include stuff that was inspired by the rhythms and melodies of Africa -- a sound legacy that is of great importance to Superpitcher. Side A features "Bluesin". Rumor has it that Superpitcher visited South Africa and adventurously traveled into the deep bush-bush where he met new friends with captivating voices who speak in enchanting tongues. Initially, "Bluesin" is bursting with aching, longing, and the oldest story of sorrow, but there is also comic relief and pride in this story; a typical emotional signature of the sound of Africa and the blues that it gave birth to later on. Side B features "Burkina". It all starts rather innocently with "Burkina". One gets carried away by the funky, ethnic drumming thinking yummy yes, this is going to be a virtual trip to the Brazilian Amazon, or maybe a corner of the Congo, Cameroon perhaps, and one is not even side-tracked by the arrival of birdsong and something that hypnotizes, like beautiful sirens because it is all too groovy for any dictionary, and then Mother Superior arrives and all hell breaks loose: Frogs, kudu horns, rattlesnakes, things that hiss and croak and the haunting voice of Her. As if that is not enough to make you believe you have been propelled to a new continent, wait until the ending of Burkina. It will transport you to another universe altogether. Includes download code.
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Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is a sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and depth of style that the artist has honed since the mid-'90s, musically, and for his whole life, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretched over 12 LPs, released sequentially on the Hippie Dance label. The fourth chapter of The Golden Ravedays saga introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his fans on during 2017. Side A features "Blood & Berry". It is a captivating track that is reminiscent of one of the very first years when Superpitcher made music under the alias Sir Positive. The beat is broken and the going is slow and rolling and the listening is a warm bath. There are flutes that one never wants to stop and they almost don't. However essentially sweet this track is, like a berry on the tongue, it might lead to some blood on the dancefloor. Listening to Side B of this Golden Ravedays edition is entering a ghost town, alone, under a full moon. "Howl" is a confluence of melodies and rhythms from Africa to Arabia where the snakes are being charmed out of their baskets and it is downright creepy. A spooky voice is saying something but it's not clear what exactly and it is bothersome because deep down, tonight, when alone in the dark, it will be expecting an answer - or else. All you can do is wonder: Did Superpitcher sell his soul to the vampires for the vocals he let lose in this track? He answers by howling at the full moon behind thorn trees, in the shadows. Entertaining, thoughtful, and brave. Salute the wolves and their master. Hooo-oooowl! Includes download code.
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Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is an autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and depth of style that the artist has honed since the mid-'90s, musically, and for his whole life, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretched over 12 LPs, released sequentially on the Hippie Dance label. The third chapter of the series introduces two further tracks of the haunting sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his fans on during 2017. Side A features "1984". It has nothing to do with George Orwell's magnificent book, but it could remind some of how the apocalypse might sound one day. "1984" is as sweet as the very first track, "Little Raver", of The Golden Ravedays 1 (TGR 001LP), but it stresses the fact that even though Superpitcher produces music mainly intended for the dancefloor - he creates sound that is bordering on the shamanic. "1984" might as well be the meeting of a group of supersonic bottlenose whales that are overly excited to see each other after being separated by many an ocean and moon. Side B of this edition is "Pocket Love". Imagine looking into a kaleidoscope and turning the dial and experiencing all those colors as pockets of love rushing your way and exploding in satin wonderment the moment they past your eyes and ears. Imagine how it must sound like if all the e-mails, tweets, facebook posts, instagrams, pinterests, grandma's postcards, text messages, letters on rice paper, hearts scratched into trees, declarations of eternal loyalty written in sand, phone calls, and videos of the whole universe were all messages of love stuffed into pockets and sent to you. Imagine the treasure you will receive. Imagine being one big ear drum and listening to the very energy that this love exists of - imagine it and you will find yourself inside "Pocket Love". Includes download code.
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Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is an autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and depth of style that the artist has honed since the mid-'90s, musically, and for his whole life, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretched over 12 LPs, released sequentially on the Hippie Dance label. The second chapter of The Golden Ravedays saga introduces two tracks of haunting sound adventure. "What Do You Miss" is a surprising spectacle of sound unlike anything Superpitcher has ever released -- like diving into a river and serenely floating past calming visions only to be overwhelmed by rapids of saxophone and animal poetry from long-forgotten forests. "Let's Play Doctor" is a playful 20-minute tribute to taking one's time in enjoying the now. Includes download code.
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Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays is a sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and depth of style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years - musically - and forty-plus-years - emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks that, release-wise, will stretch over 12 respective chapters, or albums, during a one-year period by the record label, Hippie Dance. For The Golden Ravedays, Superpitcher employed everything and everybody he is moved by in service of creating a consistently melancholy, gentle, but also complex, strong and fiery mood. By allowing the sound to take its own free course, Superpitcher discovered a new macro-cosmos of noise that he captured in longer than usual tracks that, respectively, not only tell a story, but act as a memoir. Paging through this body of sound, one discovers a place that is haunting, adventurous, playful, velvety, and sometimes essentially surreal. It is similar in experience to diving into an unknown river, serenely floating by visions that consist of a jazzy quality, hitting white waters that drum forth memories and primal poetry all the way from Africa to forests long forgotten, to cascading down waterfalls of unexpected protest, menace and resistance. The sound of the first two tracks that kick off The Golden Ravedays saga is a good testament of the alchemy that is contained in the coming chapters. Like the metaphysical theory that every moment that exists only exists by virtue of all the moments that existed before its turn, "Little Raver" is a sweetly innocent but also heartbreakingly raw introduction to the lucky-packet of wit, depth, melancholy, confusion and cliffhanger surprises of the subsequent albums in The Golden Ravedays horoscope. On the B side, "Snow Blind" brings forth the clarity of sincere determination in an open sound expanse where clusters of melodies sometimes hide, sometimes shoot off and mercilessly stay out of reach and becomes unmaskable - a game that is often cleverly played by Superpitcher in the remaining phases of The Golden Ravedays album. LP includes download code.
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Restocked, last copies... RSD 2016 release. 180-gram vinyl. Includes download code. One of Kompakt's most mythical entities, Superpitcher has always followed a thoughtful and rarified release policy, honing a record until it's perfect (and risking longer periods of time between outings) rather than rushing it out; it's a rhythm that suits his idiosyncratic approach to dance music, not so much churning out floor fodder as creating timeless classics on his own terms. As one of the label's longest-serving artists, he has managed to build an impressive portfolio, especially if one considers the ratio of iconic tracks to releases. It's no wonder, then, that at any given time, a big part of his back catalog seems to be sold out. Following 2010's highly acclaimed, award-winning full-length Kilimanjaro (KOMP 080CD), Kompakt revisits Superpitcher's unique body of work with So Far So Super, an enticing selection of some of the producer's most cherished cuts. It collects highlights from all stages of his career -- the underground club bangers as well as the conceptual album work. From opener "Jackson" (as featured on Pop Ambient 2012 (KOMP 096CD/KOM 247LP)) and early successes like "Heroin," "Baby's on Fire" (from 2002's Total 4), and Total Confusion/Speicher anthem "I Walk" to signature tracks like "Happiness" and "Rabbits in a Hurry," So Far So Super offers lots of magical moments to unearth or rediscover, all remastered and collected in one jam-packed, gorgeously wrapped vinyl release that no serious fan of electronic dance music should miss out on.
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Superpitcher released his album Kilimanjaro (KOMP 080CD/KOM 222LP) in 2010, an idiosyncratic mixture of yearning romance and hedonistic folly. No wonder then, that the album was awarded with the French Qwartz Award 2012 for "Best Album." With the "Moon Fever" remixes courtesy of Dial's Lawrence and President Bongo aka Gluteus Maximus (of GusGus fame), one of the most beautiful, but also most mysterious tracks from Kilimanjaro gets some dreamy attention.
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3LP version, including a free CD version. In his near-decade history with recording and performing for Kompakt, Cologne's Aksel Schaufler aka Superpitcher has become synonymous with the sound of the label -- the emotional sway and character he creates is unrivaled amongst today's ocean of comparisons. From James Holden to Foals, he has been cited as an influence and his remixes are cherished and have almost reached legendary status. Though it's been six years since his debut full length Here Comes Love (KOMP 032CD), it's clear that Superpitcher has remained fully in the picture not only as a producer but thanks to a diet of consistent, rigorous DJing. Now he returns with Kilimanjaro -- a full-length that emanates his rich knowledge of music as a producer. From the moment that Cologne church bells ease us into Schaufler's bewitching twist on dub with "Voodoo," he sets the tone for themes that echo throughout; enchantment, pain and magic. The first single "Rabbits In A Hurry" has caused a rapturous chime of support from the club elite and proves to be more than that -- unfounded disco dements itself with the sounds of the absurd in Superpitcher's sexiest signature flow. Diehard fans will rejoice with "Friday Night" which is a return to the classic Kompakt sound that Schaufler helped build and when he teams up with Cómeme starlet Rebolledo, it's a cosmic, hallucinogenic trip. Koelsch tequila in your glass, the '70s, disco, sex and the finest of drugs. However which way you look at it, Superpitcher has set up an accomplished sophomore release that maintains his roots in dance music while managing to have a complete disregard for genre and adding the involvement of acoustic instrumentation and vocals -- a tough integration that works over and over again on this release. Includes color insert and glossy printed inner sleeves.
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In his near-decade history with recording and performing for Kompakt, Cologne's Aksel Schaufler aka Superpitcher has become synonymous with the sound of the label -- the emotional sway and character he creates is unrivaled amongst today's ocean of comparisons. From James Holden to Foals, he has been cited as an influence and his remixes are cherished and have almost reached legendary status. Though it's been six years since his debut full length Here Comes Love (KOMP 032CD), it's clear that Superpitcher has remained fully in the picture not only as a producer but thanks to a diet of consistent, rigorous DJing. Now he returns with Kilimanjaro -- a full-length that emanates his rich knowledge of music as a producer. From the moment that Cologne church bells ease us into Schaufler's bewitching twist on dub with "Voodoo," he sets the tone for themes that echo throughout; enchantment, pain and magic. The first single "Rabbits In A Hurry" has caused a rapturous chime of support from the club elite and proves to be more than that -- unfounded disco dements itself with the sounds of the absurd in Superpitcher's sexiest signature flow. Diehard fans will rejoice with "Friday Night" which is a return to the classic Kompakt sound that Schaufler helped build and when he teams up with Cómeme starlet Rebolledo, it's a cosmic, hallucinogenic trip. Koelsch tequila in your glass, the '70s, disco, sex and the finest of drugs. However which way you look at it, Superpitcher has set up an accomplished sophomore release that maintains his roots in dance music while managing to have a complete disregard for genre and adding the involvement of acoustic instrumentation and vocals -- a tough integration that works over and over again on this release.
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Superpitcher is back with this sneak-peak from the first single from his full length Kilimanjaro. For the love of collectors and DJs, this exclusive vinyl-only white label release features the single and an exclusive instrumental edit that only 400 folks shall have the right to own!
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Repress of the first Superpitcher album, originally released 2005. Just as Kompakt's inimitable style is penetrating the crates of the world's biggest DJs (John Digweed, Groove Armada), just as imitators begin biting their sensual style and just as consumers are questioning the Cologne Empire's ability to keep up, Kompakt does it... AGAIN. Today is Superpitcher's debut mix CD. It not only raises the bar for minimal, lush techno, but it matches the quality of the great Kompakt Mix CD series: titles like Michael Mayer's Immer, Triple R's Friends and Tobias Thomas' Smallville. It seethes and breathes light, love and rhythm and reestablishes the microhouse sound. Today includes treasures and advance releases from some of the most hotly-tipped producers in the world. It is smaller, sexier and more dreamy than perhaps any mix you've ever heard. As the label's own translated description says: it is "internationally accepted role-model sex." Consider names like Lawrence from Ghostly International and Oliver Hacke of Trapez. Melt with Nathan Fake of überbuzz label Border Community and Traum. Lust after the bassline of the mighty Wighnomy Bros. Come down with the epilogue from Sebastian Tellier. Feel the vibe from other labels like Playhouse, International Deejay Gigolos and of course... Kompakt. This is the mix CD your mother warned you about. This is Today.
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Remixes by M.Mayer and Lawrence. "'Happiness', the most splendid track of the currently released Superpitcher album Here Comes Love, was indispensable to get remixed. To increase or reinterpret the dramatic beauty of the original, was a difficult job. Difficult but also tempting. It was not necessary to ask Michael Mayer twice and Lawrence was quasi finished before he was in demand. The result is two excellent affirmations to the hope, that a remix can be much more than just recycling. The mix by Mayer rebundles the energy of the original and couples 'Happiness' with a lot of craziness. Without losing the primal warmth, he drives your feelings by roller coaster and hits you in the middle of your heart and soul. It got a modern noble rave-tune. Please wack out to it with a big smile on your face. Hamburgs´ expert for poetic techno is called Lawrence. His albums on his own label Dial are a class of its own and certainly belong to the most emotional moments of the newer club-history. You can hear that for Superpitchers' 'Happiness' he invested a lot of heart´s blood. His mix sounds as if angels would sing, so wonderfully lost in reverie. You would like to put yourself inside this track. If you don´t feel anything there, you´re as cold as a Siberian lamp pole. The cover artwork is from Petra Hollenbachs´ amazing 'Happiness' videoclip." This record only exists because of one thing: "...to cause you happiness."
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"'I came the long way...' or 'Good things come to those who wait...' can be taken quite literally when it comes to how far we've travelled to get to this point. It's been 3 years since Aksel Schaufler a.k.a. Superpitcher dropped the legendary debut single Heroin/Tomorrow (KOMPAKT 35). Since then, he has earned a fervent underground following thanks to a string of singles and remixes -- perhaps the most promising purveyor of the schaffel-techno surge since Wolfgang Voigt. With Here Comes Love, Superpitcher effortlessly succeeds in delicately balancing songwriting and DJ music. The result excretes charm and personality -- referencing the most dazzling moments in club and pop music's history. Envision this scenario floating on a cloud fuelled by pure emotion -- Françoise Hardy and DJ Pierre slow-dancing in Jamaica's Studio One, Brian Ferry taking an inebriated Elvis Presley's temperature, and contemporary R&B flirting with Cologne's minimalism -- straight into your own soul-stirring disco. From the Moroder-tipped bass and mood bells tolling the opening of 'People', it's plain to see that Schaufler studio trickery has opened up to make room in the mix for the vocals that will figure heavily into every track that follows. The underlying agitation of 'People' gives way to the jump-up bounce of one of the album's highlight tracks, 'The Long Way', in which Schaufler's hazy cabaret crooning attests over and over again, 'I came the long way just to find you.' From hereon in the album swings back and forth from periodic lapses of introversion from boys who think too much ('Sad Boys') to the openhearted diary-like affectations of 'Love Me Forever', 'Lover's Rock', and 'Happiness'. Here Comes Love features previously unreleased tracks recorded over a continuous period of over 12 months. The result is proudly an album rather than a simple compilation of new tracks. It's difficult for us to avoid repeating that over-used P-word as it's so pleasurably melting in our mouth. Here comes POP. Here comes Superpitcher. Here comes Love."
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