The wicked guys over at SANTORIN manged to clear the sample (Baiao destemperado by the Brazilian combo Barbatuques) and we are finally releasing our long awaited “FLUTE TUNE” in late june
For those of you who don’t know it yet, here’s a quick preview:
We had it on heavy rotation under some names, including “Flautas Felizes by Howie & Chance”, but now it will be officially labeled “J-Cut & Kolt Siewerts -The Flute Tune”.
Our release party will be on the 6. of June, so come play with us!
“Bei aktuellem Drum & Bass steht immer eine Musik im Vordergrund, darum ist Pendulum so big: das lauteste Element in ihren Tracks sind die Melodien. Darum gefällt mir, so seltsam das klingen mag, derzeit auch Jump Up am besten, denn dieser Sound ist noch real: über fetten Drums liegt eine Bassline, die zum Hauptelement wird und zugleich auch die Melodie transportiert.” via datenschmutz
After some confusion that caused a long summer-break, we are finally back with our monthly session. On the best soundsystem in town we bring you totally un-stiff party drum&bass every first friday of the month.
We restart with our favourite german jumpup hero DJ Connecta from Mannheim. So maybe the liquid heads and the neurodudes have to jump over their shadow, but the rest will totally rinse out Hope to see you there!
Biggup the magazine Massive for bringing together the german scene together again! Some years have passed since the first steps to establish a connection between all the different crews, producers and djs. The first meetings (Rotation in 99, broken beatz festival in 02, an Made in Germany in 03) all started promising, but now is the time to push things even further. The joint starts on June 2nd at Maria am Ostbahnhof / Berlin.
It’s been a busy winter, so no posts for a long time. But Mr. Matik from the lovely Subsonic Pressure Crew just sent me this video and woke me up from my blogsleep (hopefully). Although I don’t share the common Noisia hype (not enough soul for me ;)) this work is ingenious:
When somebody tells you how bad it feels to become 30, don’t believe it. Just invite your friends, throw in some music and dance all night long. This is what I did and I still can’t believe how great this night was.
Although the location was a little punked up in the daylight, as soon as it turned dark and the soundsystem started pumpin’, it was drum & bass heaven. I got the coolest presents (see the pictures to find some) and the DJs that supported me from Day 1 like the Phoneheads, The Green Man, J-Cut and Ames made the crowd scream for more. Simon V even brought me a Birthday Drum & Bass Track, I will upload it later…
So thanks to everybody who celebrated with us, I’m still smiling all day long because of this great night.
Click here to view some Pics…
And here to listen to the sweet birthday anthem by Simon V…
Just a short reminder for all of you who don’t get our PLAY!-Spam:
My birthday-rinseout starts on 9.9.06 at 22h. Come to the Kolbhalle / Helmholtzstraße 8-32 in Köln Ehrenfeld and be prepared to get your ass kicked by my buddies Phoneheads, The Green Man, J-Cut, Ames & Sektion Bewegtbild! Plus we got the fattest soundsystem around (Meyersound from Lightwave / Overath) and besides some classic d&b tunes Mr. Scheibenreiter & J-Cut will also spin some deep Dubstep.
Seems like this fall will be a hot one: I finally turn 30 and seriously hope to grow up then. And since my birthday even is on a saturday I took the chance to invite all my friends and musical father-figures to rock the party at the Kolbhalle. The Phoneheads, The Green Man, J-Cut, Ames and Sektion Bewegtbild will provide some classic tunes & videos from the last 10 years.
One week later we start a new series of parties at the good ol’ Studio 674. For more than 60 years the friday was totally into Kompakt’s hands and techno was the only sound allowed in those holy halls. But after a testrun this summer, we figured out how fat the soundsystem is and how well it plays our beloved basslines. Starting with the drum & bass bundesliga we will host parties with mostly german acts and try to put an end to the booking-cold-war that raged in the last years in Cologne. We will show you that it’s not always about the big names and we’ll continue to support the german scene as much as possible…
Without mentioning the not so good things (playing in an un-crowded club in Berlin on friday or stopping an open air party on saturday early because nobody found the location) I will focus on the positive things that happened
Meeting MC Santana and his sweet family was a clear highlight. He played his soon-to-be-released album “Clockwork Dark” to me and I was really amazed. First I thought of dark terror-beats when I saw the cover, but once the record played, it all turned out PHAT! Downtempo Hip-Hop beats meet Santana’s great voice. Think of RJD2 meeting MC Dynamite… Hope I can link some snippets of his album soon, it should be out in august/september.
Please, spread the word!
(For non-germans: Beckmann is the worst sports-commentator ever heard on german TV. We havt to stop him from commenting the finals!)
OLEEE, OOOOOOOLEEEEEE, OLEEE, OOOOOOOLEEEEEE!
1. FCDNB KOMPRESSOR KÖLN IS CHAMPION OF THE GERMAN DRUM & BASS BUNDESLIGA 2006!
MC DOUBLE J & KOLT SIEWERTS SWEPT WERDER BREMEN FROM THE FIELD & BROUGHT THE CUP TO COLOGNE!
Alright alright, ‘nough of the bold screaming, but I’m still high on adrenaline after the breathtaking final last night in Braunschweig…
Man, that was my first real DJ-battle ever and we just won the fuckin championchip! Dirk D. & MC Temper from FC Werder One Nation Bremen were real tough to crack, but in the end Double J & me definitively shot more goals than them and took home the cup.
I learned the rules for the final in my car, 1 1/2 hours before the show and was not quite prepared. I thought every team had 45mins to play their set, but President Lyde Buddah spontaneously changed the rules a bit. The timetable was:
1) DJ without MC: 25 minutes each
2) MC acapella: 1 minute each
3) DJ & MC together for 25 minutes.
After each round the crowd was asked to scream for the team who they thought were the best. We clearly won round 1 & 2, the decision in round 3 was not made because it was so close and we had won the championship anyway…
Now we have this pimpin big championchip cup and we are proud like oskar to have battled out all those strong teams. Biggup to all the crowd who supported us in Braunschweig and of course the dons Lyda Buddah and mystic Mystic Dan, who is one of the best german ragga / drum & bass MCs I know!
More pics & maybe my winning set soon…
After a long time of hard work on the road I finally found the time to finish a fresh drum & bass mix. It contains my favourite tracks from the last weeks and 2 exclusive, unreleased tunes that I produced together with Mr. Scheibenreiter and nasty J-Cut. Especially “flautas felizes” got some great feedback from the dancefloor massive, we hope to release it soon
Now that the Scorpions tour is over I’m finally fed up with playing stupid chords in the far corner of the stage and I will now concentrate again on my turntable skills. Fuck that handmade music, I want a rinsin’ bass with propper beats!
The line of surprisingly great parties magically continues. In Münster (usually called “cop-town” because you can spend a night in jail there for walking over the red lights) the opening of Theresa Frölichs exhibition “Soul Surfer” escalated in joy without being shut down by the police: We’ve put the soundsystem in front of the venue and started a jumpup party right away. People were dancing right on the street, taxi drivers honked madly but the whole night not a single cop drove down that street and no neighbor called the police. That was some of those small miracles of which my favorite movie “Magnolia” is full of
Jena unsurprisingly was one big blast. Hanging out with uncle real, the phoneheads, mischer, matik, chopper, angel dust, racoon, apo 33, politone, separat, amon, phowa, reef was like a big family meeting. The crowd was wicked and the top secret “Flautas Felizes” track by howie & chance passed the dancefloor test. I hope we will be back soon…
Wow, what a party. That was surely the best party (maybe besides the Aphrodite joint at the Stadtgarten in ‘04) i ever played at. Incredible crowd and an overwhelming vibe. Thanks to everybody who made this party possible… Pictures and Part 2 & 3 of the recording of the band & djs will be online soon…
Recordings: Part 1 : Hip Hop : Poetic Rock & Flowmega on the Mic + Moog & Double J >> Download (2:02 h / 128 kbit / 112 MB)
Part 2 : Drum & Bass : Kolt Siewerts + J-Cut & Flowmega on the Mic + Mundharmonika & Double J >> Download (2:07 h / 128 kbit / 116 MB)
Über die Jahre hat sich Kolt Siewerts seine Stellung in der rheinischen Drum & Bass-Szene mit Skills und guten Vibes erarbeitet. Seine 1998 gestarteten Wednesdaybreaks-Abende im Düsseldorfer Unique trugen nicht umsonst den Titel „Bolzplatz“: Fallrückzieher, Sonnenschein und Kopfballtor machen eben mehr Spaß als Donnerschlag, Schrottplatz und brennende Müllonnen. Fröhlich ohne cheesy zu sein, fett ohne Düsterkeit.
July 08
04.07. / Drum & Bass Bundesliga / Brain Club, Braunschweig June 08
06.06. / PLAY! feat. Lightwood / Studio 672 May 08
02.05. / PLAY! feat. Dyna / Studio 672 April 08
04.04. / PLAY! feat. Freesteppa / Studio 672 March 08
07.03. / PLAY! feat. D.KAY / Studio 672 February 08
01.02. / PLAY! / Studio 672 January 08
19.01. / beatclub / Kaiserslautern
12.01. / Beats on wheels: DJ Food / Sensor Köln
04.01. / PLAY! / Studio 672 December 07
15.12. / Rheinfeuern / Kolbhalle Köln
07.12. / PLAY! feat. Connecta / Studio 672 November
11.09. / TILT & DCC: Adam F / Gebäude 9 Köln October
05.10. / Bass Booster / Scheune Dresden
02.10. / Projekt Patchwork #4 / Stadtgarten Köln September
21.09. / Rythmusgymnastik / Sensor Club Köln
07.09. / Pleasure Island Festival / Linz A
01.09. / Beats on Wheels / Kolbhalle Köln June
22.06. / Skulptur Projekte Münster - Freihaus / Kino Metropolis
02.06. / Massive pres. "THE GERMAN CONNECTION PART I" / Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
01.06. / PLAY! / Studio 672 Köln
Seems like this fall will be a hot one: I finally turn 30 and seriously hope to grow up then. And since my birthday even is on a saturday I took the chance to invite all my friends and musical father-figures to rock the party at the Kolbhalle. The Phoneheads, The Green Man, J-Cut, Ames and Sektion Bewegtbild will provide some classic tunes & videos from the last 10 years.
