Just a quick note, that I will have a DJ gig in St. Gallen, Switzerland this Saturday. Feel free to come, if any of you are in this area. The event is called 30years0hope @ Pfadiheim Pro Patria. The party is starting early at around 8 pm. I’m still not sure when exactly I’m going to play. Anyway, come around and find out!
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Love, Music and Happyness
The most of you might know, that last weekend was very special for me. Except spinning records on both, Friday and Saturday I’ve celebrated my birthday along with my friends, which was the actual reason for me to play on these days and to give a party for two days.
Friday, 20.6.2008:
The second part of Cafeteria Electronique @ Freizeit Lounge on Friday was a great night of tech-house and techno tunes. I played early from 9:30 p.m. in order to have some time to chat, dance and celebrate with my friends afterwards. A lot of them were coming on Friday, so it was a real challenge for me to chat to everyone.
Tobias Lear spinning the first records @ Cafeteria Electronique
My intention was to play some special tracks at the end of my set at around 12 a.m. The last track I played was Dixon’s remix of Henrik Schwarz’ and Amampondo’s “I exist because of you”, a track I recently incorporated into my Summer Mix Set and one of my most favorite house records at the moment.
Kalei-doskop & Plaste rocking to high noon @ Cafeteria Electronique (1)
From around 12 a.m. audioOptix aka Kalei-doskop and Plaste were playing. With quite good tech-house records they were rocking the dancefloor until my feet were burning ;)
Kalei-doskop & Plaste rocking to high noon @ Cafeteria Electronique (2)
Saturday, 21.6.2008:
The open-air location Zebra was a nice selection to went on partying at Saturday, where we started earlier than on Friday. B_nito and me were rotating to spin records from around 7 p.m. Musically this night was a little more house oriented than the night before.
B_nito playing @ Dance into the Summer
The atmosphere was really good! It was amazing to play some of my favorite tracks into the dusk of a clear and sunny day. From 12 a.m. we move indoor with a small but sexy and intimate dancefloor. For my longer set at that night I selected a few older house and tech-house tracks from the late 90’s and early 2000, which have gone well.
This weekend was pretty amazing! Thanks to all people who were participating in this and who were making this weekend very special. Thanks for special and surprising guests, for the presents and for special moments of love! And a special “thank you” goes to my friends who were spending these days along with my! You are so important!
Summer ‘08 Mix
Only 3 days to go until a long weekend of two events that I will play: Cafeteria Electronique and Dance Into The Summer. For those of you who cannot wait I prepared a special mix featuring some brand new tracks and one of my favorite tunes. Enjoy the mix! I’m really looking forward to see you at Friday and Saturday!
Tracklist:
- Mlle Caro & Frank Garcia - Dead Souls (Radio Slave Long Distance Kiss Mix) - Buzzin’ Fly
- Stimming - Magdalena - Diynamic
- Shlomi Aber - In Theory Yes - Be As One
- Two Armadillos - Hamlin - Dessous
- Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo - I Exist Because Of You (Dixon’s Stripped Down Version) - Innervisions
- Lemos - Who Do You Believe In? - Cecille Numbers
- Joris Voorn - Blank (Deetron Paradise Dub) - Green
- Daniel Mehlhart - Wach Werden - Manual Music
- Argy - In The Mist - Pokerflat
- Redshape - Plonk (Dub Mix) - Present
- Sven Weisemann - Amity - Mojuba
Nightlife Repair Session
Short-term gigs are incredible! Despite the fact that you don’t know what you can expect from the night, you are not prepared for what could happen - musically and socially. Last night it was like this. A friend asked me to join him to spin some records at his club. Nothing special though, just a smaller session, testing some new tracks, you know.
Well, the night turned out into a great journey that Kalei-doskop and me were using to record a nice one hour ping pong set. Everyone, who already played records together with someone else, either doing ping pong or just rotating knows that this can become very hard, since you cannot simply play your style by hook or by crook. You either fit together or you don’t. This was, of course, not the same like playing a 8 hour set ping pong, but I think for the first time our experiment was very successful.
I will upload the set soon. Until then, you can also download it right here.
Addition: There were also very strange people last night. Friendly but really strange. A guy asked me, whether I couldn’t play tracks in 4/4-beat. This is so funny, because he was moving head and legs for one hour to tracks that are all 4/4-beat. *g*
Then on the way home I walked through the city and three of these guys were crossing the road. All of them drunken. They noticed me from far away, shouting “Hey, this is the DJ.” and said that I’ve played bad when they were passing me.*g*
May Mix Set
I’m back with the monthly mix set. The May selection again features many ‘08 releases, a couple of freshly squeezed tracks and some back catalog tracks. While the whole mix remains dance floor oriented, it moves towards some deep, but still hot grooves before it rises to a great finish. I hope you like it too! Your feedback is very welcome :)
Tracklist:
- H.o.s.h. & Stimming - Radar - Diynamic
- Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - The Flyig Dutchman - Karat
- Ung & Bastos - I Don’t Eat (Tom Clark Remix) - Highgrade
- Style Of Eye - The Big Kazoo (Techno Dub) - Dirtybird
- Manuel Tur feat. DPlay - Deviate - Drumpoet Community
- Holger Zilske - The Bees - Playhouse
- Shonky - Nebula -Freak N’ Chic
- Cle - Nomads (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) - Poker Flat
- Ryo Murakami - Monument - Dessous
- Shaka - Erfolgsgeblubber -Floppy Funk
- Stefan Goldmann - Beluga - Macro
- Gregor Tresher - Break New Soil - Moon Harbour
- Onur Özer - Red Cabaret (2000 And One Remix) - Vakant
- Robert Babicz - Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Mix) - Audiomatique
Dance into the Summer
Attention folks, the start of the Summer is going to be hot! I will celebrate my birthday at the 21th of June with two nice gigs. The starting shot will be given at Friday, the 20th of June, when I’m going to play in the Freizeit-Lounge together with audiOptix DJ Team aka Kalei-doskop and Plaste. Many of my friends have already confirmed to come. We will celebrate into my birthday, and you are all very, very welcome!
At Saturday, the 21th of June I’m going to play in the Zebra — a nice cocktail bar and open air location for hot Summer nights! The perfect location though to keep on dancing into the Summer!
Event Schedule:
Friday, 20.6. - Cafe Electronique @ Freizeit-Lounge (Luckenwalde), 10 p.m.
Tobias Lear vs. audiOptix DJ Team
Saturday, 21.6. - Tanz in den Sommer @ Zebra (Luckenwalde), 9 p.m.
Tobias Lear, B-nito
I really looking forward to this and hope to see all of you at those nights, or at least at one of those ;)
5 Albums Worth to Listen to
Besides the neverending stream of records and large amount of singles currently coming out, there are also many albums being released these days. I wan to take the chance to present five selected albums which are worth to listen to.
1. Shonky - Time Zero - Freak n’ Chic:
I’ve first heard of Shonky in 2006, when he did a wonderful remix of Anja Schneider’s “Rancho Relaxo” along with Jennifer Cardini. Later the French DJ and producer also released the 12″ inch “August In Paris / Lies” on Anja’s mobilee label together with Jennifer. With other releases on Resopal Red and Freak n’ Chic he developed his sound to a deep but functional experience of dark rhythms, bleepy patterns, always tribalistic and hypnotic. Recently he released his debut album “Time Zero” on Freak n’ Chic. The 10-track work is the perfect profile of his skills to produce a great mixture of darkness and deepness, which I really like. My favorite tracks are the tribal “Nebula” with this neverending, hypnotic beat and “Ondulation” which continuosly rises to a ghostly and spacy athmosphere.
Shoky - Nebula:
Shonky - Ondulation:
2. Falko Brocksieper - Heavy Day - Sub Static:
Falko Brocksieper, co-founder of Sub Static, released his first album in 2003. Since then he only released a few 12″, but a couple of remixes, with the remix of Daypayk & Padberg’s “Close Up” being one of the best I think. On his second “Heavy Day”, which is coming out these days album, Falko presents his qualities for funky, light-weighted rhythms. His tracks are well aranged and have a special athmosphere, which he creates with characteristic and fancy synthesizer sounds. The secret gems in my eyes are “Private” and “Zychological”.
Falko Brocksieper - Private:
Falko Brocksieper - Zychological
3. Argy - Focus On: Argy - Poker Flat:
Greek raised, now Berlin based DJ and producer Argy already released a couple a great 12″ on well-known, influencing labels like Poker Flat, Cocoon, Raum…musik or Liebe*Detail. On Poker Flat he is now coming up with a special album. “Focus On: Argy” is full of exclusive collaborations with some of the most skilled house producers. Argy is known for his deep, sexual and techy productions, where he’s building up a special atmosphere, that heat up the dancefloor. On his debut album Argy takes his skills to another level and works together with producers like Solomun, Jerome Sydenham, The Mole or Maral Salmassi. The tracks are mostly transporting a percussive, housy flair leading to warm - sometimes tribal - and athmospheric sounds. My favorite is the funky “Cantstandlovegetaway”, a collaboration with The Mole.
Argy & The Mole - Cantstandlovegetaway:
Addition: For those of you, who simply can’t get enough of Argy’s producer skills or who just enjoy listening to his sounds, there’s a free download of Argy’s “Poke Her Flat” at the official Poker Flat Argy promotion page.
4. Anja Schneider - Beyond The Valley - mobilee:
Who doesn’t know Anja Schneider? After her successive radio show “Dance Under The Blue Moon” on Radio Fritz she is still doing, she found her own label “mobilee” together with Ralf Kollmann in 2005. Well-booked and playing the clubs around the globe recently she is now releasing her debut album “Beyond The Valley” on mobilee. The tracks on “Beyond The Valley” wait on with suprising sound architecture, which I had never expected after knowing Anja’s last releases. Although some of the tracks seems frisky through special sounds she is using for patterns and shapes, they always stay dance floor oriented. My favorite is “Gimlet”, which is a very straight forwarded track, with an uplifting beat structure.
Anja Schneider - Gimlet:
5. Loco Dice - 7 Dunham Place - Desolat
Loco Dice’s first artist album - produced in NYC together with no one else than Martin Buttrich - persuades one with an intelligent mixture of soulful deepness and housy grooves. I’ve actually expected an album that looks about a more minimal, and more techier flair. But anyway, Loco Dice comes up with a quite good expression of US-house and European minimalism. My favorite tracks are “La Esquina” which is constructured around a nice piano arrangement as well as “How Do I Know?!” with a funky and groovy dancefloor orientation.
Loco Dice - How Do I Know?!:
Loco Dice - La Esquina:
You can buy all theses albums or single tracks as digital downloads at What People Play and Beatport as well as the physical vinyl or CD versions of the albums at Decks or Web-Records.
Music, Friends, And What House Music Is All About
Last Sunday I had my last gig at this event series. That night was a good example of how people contribute to the music by communicating with the DJ. Although there weren’t much people overall that night, a couple of friends joined me.
It’s simply amazing how friends influence me in making music, in making decisions which track to play next. They are dancing although there’s no dancefloor, showing me, that the current tune exactly meets their mood. They are making jokes, if a their don’t like a track that much. They pretty give me something back I try to give them by playing records and making music.
And this is what I mean. Communication through music, having fun together, staying with friends. And house music is an important part of the whole thing. Thanks to my friends!
April Mix Set
Well, I finally did it: the Magic Through Music April mix set is available to listen. Sorry for the delay! Unfortunately it took a while.
I hope that your listening pleasure will be worth the wait :) The mix includes some brand new releases, like Ryo Murakami’s new EP on Poker Flat and the Tiger Stripes Remix of Lee Jones’ “Aria” as well as a few older records from mid and late 2007. It’s a cut of one of my favorite tracks at the moment.
Tracklist:
- Andy Stott - Made Your Point - Modern Love
- Argenis Brito - Amplified - Cadenza
- Gruber & Nürnberg - Our Feeling - Lorna
- Stimming & H.o.s.h. - Radar - Diynamic
- Guido Schneider & Jens Bond - In Order to Dance - Upon.You
- Lee Jones - Aria (Tiger Stripes Remix) - Aus Music
- Westpark Unit - Proper Thang - Farside
- Dan Berkson & James What - Indigo - Poker Flat
- Jon Cutler & Matthias Heilbronn - 651 - Distant Music
- Nivek Tsoy - Time & Space - Dessous
- Eve White - He Said / She Said
- Ryo Murakami - Down The Sky - Poker flat
- Rene Breitbarth - Le Rythme Korg (Westpark Unit Remix) - Dessous
- Motorcitysoul - Mango - Freerange
Go out, use the nice weather and enjoy the music!
Short-term Gig at Chameleon
Surprisingly a friend of my skipped his tonight DJ gig at Chameleon and asked my to take over. So, there will be a short-term gig at Chameleon tonight. I’ve no extra time to prepare some specials, instead I’ll simply take the newest records I bought yesterday at the record store and we will see what the night will bring ;) Such improvising performances really can be fun — well, must be fun!
Hope to see you tonight!
Regarding the April mix set: I’ve already recorded it and will be posting it tomorrow.
