The One and Only Superpitcher Thread

Disc One (55.26)
Irre
Fieber
Don’t Think too Much
Hysteria
Grace
Softmachine
More Tomorrow
More Heroin

Disc Two (55.29)
Let’s Cruise
Stealing Beauty
Time to Cry
Baby’s on Fire
Mushroom
To Turn You On
Tomorrow
Shadows
Heroin

Disc Three (64.42)
Ghost Cauldron – Ambient Skit (Superpitcher Ambient Mix)
Tocotronic – Hi Freaks (Superpitcher’s Beautiful Freaks Mix)
Phong Sui – Wintermute (Superpitcher Mix)
Contriva – Stuck (Superpitcher Mix)
Dntel – (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt Remix)
Ghost Cauldron – See What I’ve Become (Superpitcher Smallville Mix)
Quarks – I Walk (Superpitcher Schaffel Mix)
Carsten Jost – Krokus (Superpitcher Remix)
Phantom Ghost – Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix)

The third/remix disc is missing this stuff:

Commercial Breakup – Walking Back Home (Fur Dich Mix)
Phantom Ghost – Nothing Is Written (Accidentally Overdosed Remix by Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher)
Vermitteldne Elemente – Bruchstuecke B8 (Supermayer Mix)

Is there anything else?

If it were only true!

Why can't these germans do their marketing properly and release this so we can support them.

Maybe Warp will expand bleep.com to include other electronic releases, now that would be cool.

this is very excellent, btw!

The comp's now up on Slsk, in three separate folders. Username = title of third track on The Flowers of Romance. If you're not on my user list, message me. I might be away, but I'll eventually add you.

Is it trip-hoppish? The version I have has a guy speaking/singing in French and he sounds a lot like Brian Molko? I downloaded it a while back so maybe it's

Not at all. It's one of his more aggressive tracks, closer to Irre -- bowel-rumbling bass line if played at the right volume.

"Baby's On Fire" is just shitty.

Never been big on this, either. There's a small handful of his tracks -- this one included -- that I either can't stand or just mildly enjoy, depending on the circumstances.

09.03.2004 MIAMI GODDESS SUPERPITCHER / MICHAEL MAYER XLR MAGAZIN PARTY AT THE MIAMI MUSIC CONFERENCE

12.03.2004 CHICAGO SMART BAR MICHAEL MAYER / SUPERPITCHER GERMANY STRIKES BACK ,AGAIN,AGIAN & AGAIN MICHAEL MAYER TOGETHER WITH SUPERPITCHER ARE GOING TO BOMB THIS VENUE OUT !

13.03.2004 NEW YORK VOLUME SUPERPITCHER / MICHAEL MAYER TONITE COLOGNE STRIKES BACK ! SUPERPITCHER , MAYER AND VERY SPECIAL GUEST MISS KITTIN SHOW YOU HOW WE ROCK !

...sorry it this is a repeat post.

I think it would have been better to have a few instrumentals or guest vocalists - the vocals don't get irritating but they do institute a fundamental sameness that undercuts the range of variation actually present on the record.

This is my problem with it, on the nose. I don't even mind the two tracks everyone else dislikes. Its just all v. samey.

The WB's (w/ Superpitcher) "Baby's on Fire" a kinda mash up thing, probably better than the original (the original superpitcher version that is). Has bits of the Velvets "waiting for the man" in it.

the superpitcher album has grown on me a lot. if i mentally program out "fever", it might make my top 10.

andy k reckons old spitcher sounds a lot like luke haines, which i also think is pretty bang on.

i didn't even really mean the acid part. i just wanted to say candyflip.

Which of course also means Giorgio Moroder circa Knights in White Satin.

WBs = either Westbam or... Wighnomy Brothers?

i have this remix on mp3 available for a limited time only! gissa shout!

Probably. That and BURRITOS.

please tell me where i can find the remix...i'll owe you seven donkeys.

"and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!"

I'm not sure which of these stories is better.

"when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur"

Is that the Westbam Mix?

The WBs With Our Superpitcher – "Baby's on Fire" (Road Rage, 2004) The vocals from Superpitcher's Eno cover, originally heard on Total 4, gets grafted on top of a Westbam [OR WAS IT WIGHNOMY BROS? DID ANYONE EVER FIGURE THIS OUT?] production that's made to sound like a thumping overhaul of an imaginary first-album-era Roxy Music tune. The bassline is so boomy that it sounds like it's coming from a floor beneath you. This is far more exciting than the original cover version, and it also hammers home the fact that Superpitcher's voice resembles a young Luke Haines. (Why I didn't pick up on this as early as "Tomorrow" is beyond me.) This track comes from a white-label 12" with two other cuts: one is a piew-piew-lazer remix of Liquid Liquid's "Optimo," while the other is a microhouse take on the Doors' "Riders on the Storm" that could've been done by Justus Köhncke (seek "Shelter," his thinly-veiled Rolling Stones homage).

Superpitcher to do "Chinese Bakery" with one eyebrow firmly arched!

My favorite thing about this thread is that three or four other Superpitcher threads were started after it.

http://www.kompakt-net.de/happiness/

can someone explain to me how they could make happiness so campy? so many cliches thrown at you in such a short amount of time, it boggles my mind.

what other videos are available on the kompakt site?

jonas you should look for two remixes of happiness - the mayer monster of a remix (which KILLS on the dancefloor...esp. that middle part where everything speeds up and down!! the last two times i saw mayer spin he played it, and superpitcher played it too when i saw him last.) then there's the ultra-ultra-moody, sob-in-your-bedroom lawrence remix. i prefer the mayer one, but they're both great.

i eye up the andy k. mix at top of this thread and must assemble - like music legos.

I heard this (for probably the first time) at WMF in Berlin and have since been wondering exactly which version it was!

it was being played by WestBam, not sure if that helps answer the WB question or not... He also played 'Marooned' by Wire :O

http://www.doxa.de/sound/FredVsSuperpitcher.mp3

This must be the prototype for the speicher eagle, by the way

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/superpitcher.html

"CRYPTIC DEEP TECH HOUSE. LISTEN TO THIS ONE IN YOUR OWN TIME!

I guess we could now add the MFA, M83, and DJ Hell remixes to Andy's compilation above.

Anyone agree that that might be enough to make the remix disc of a Superpitcher "album" better than the other two? I think the remixes are amazing, stuff like the Contriva and the Carsten Jost one, there just isn't really other music that sounds like that.

Yeah a remix album rightaboutnow would be very sweet indeed.

I still need to hear the last one out, but yeah alba agrees.

what is the DJ hell rmx.?

there were more superpitcher remixes / tracks played post-mayer at RJG's than any other artists'.

and yeah, like mayer, he is a god.

i have only heard it twice, but based on those listenings i don't thinkg today does deserves all of the accolades it's getting (and i say that as a huge fan).

Hard Boiled Records on Roscoe near Damen carries pretty much all the Kompakt stuff- the owner (mark) can order it for you, if neede. prices are decent, too.

Kompakt Records

date venue city state with

7/22/2005 Smart Bar Chicago IL James Pennington (UR DJ)
7/26/2005 Cielo New York NY
7/27/2005 Chicago Summerdance Chicago IL Mazi

windishangency.com

If you are in New England, Newbury Comics has "Today" for $9.99

"'Happiness', the most splendid track of the currently released Superpitcher album Here Comes Love, indispensable to get remixed was. To increase or reinterpret the dramatic beauty of the original, a difficult job was. Difficult but also tempting. To ask Michael Mayer twice it was not necessary to and Lawrence quasi finished was before in demand he was.Two excellent affirmations to the hope, that a remix can be much more than just recycling, the result is. Rebundels the energy of the original and couples 'Happiness' with a lot of craziness, the mix by Mayer does. Without losing the primal warmth, your feelings he drives by roller coaster and in the middle of your heart and soul hits you. A modern noble rave-tune it got. With a big smile on your face please wack out to it you must. Hamburgs´ expert for poetic techno called Lawrence is. His albums on his own label Dial a class of its own are and certainly to the most emotional moments of the newer club-history belong. For Superpitchers' 'Happiness' he invested a lot of heart´s blood hear you can. As if angels would sing sounds his mix, so wonderfully in reverie lost it is. To put yourself inside this track you would like. If do not feel anything there you feel, as cold as a Siberian lamp pole you are. From Petra Hollenbachs´ amazing 'Happiness' videoclip the cover artwork is." Because of one thing this record exists: "... happiness to cause you."

What was Ronan's post about?

still have no idea why I posted it though!

anyone got the Tocotronic remix yet?

Re the last track: I don't hate it, but it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the mix.

ronan: ysi coming up.

x-post: *heads over to p'fork*

If any of you are going to be there tomorrow night and want to have a drink, look for a tallish brunette girl w/ a grey tank-top - that'll be me.

also superpitcher is such a sweetie. super cute too. he looked like a sailor in his outfit. should have taken a picture.

Superpitcher grew up in the south of Germany, alone and lonely. He started to collect music at sixteen, seduced by the soft sounds of Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, and Roxy Music. Despite never having his interest encouraged, he learned to play both piano and guitar, and vowed to make tracks as soon as he could. He began to daydream. Pop would be his escape. Here was a parallel universe of sweet release, where being awkward and curious was rewarded and cherished. In his mind, he’d fallen to earth, without personal past or communal history. His arteries ran from his heart to the stars.

A decade later he moved to Cologne. He got a job working in the distribution department of a record label, Kompakt, and found new heroes, men that linked his sonic youth and adult aspirations. Wolfgang Voigt, Chain Reaction, Jorg Burger, and Air Liquide can each find their seed in the Superpitcher sound. In 2002, he decided to give up work, and forge a new nocturnal lifestyle. He increased his DJing, steadied his socialising, and perfected his producing. In his own words, ‘everything fitted together, and clicked into place’.

The Kompakt audience met Superpitcher on two superlative EPs. ‘Heroin’ contains freaky bleeps and frantic basslines, expansive electro vistas, heavenly acoustics, and sugar-sweet vocals. ‘Yesterday’ followed with waves of engulfing electronics, surging strings, and shimmering, glimmering techno. He continued to contort other people’s work into his own shapes - memorably drenching Carsten Jost’s ‘You Don’t Need a Weatherman’ in sweet birdsong - contributed tougher tracks to Kompakt’s ‘Speicher’ series, and adorned the Kompakt Extra imprint with six minutes of genre-defining brilliance: the glam-rocking, shaffel remix of Quarks’ ‘I Walk’.

‘Pitcher is a poster boy, an artist whose natural habitat is looking out at us from glossy pages. Dressed to kill but built to care, he is fearless and fragile, strong and shy, both confident and coy. His music is emotive; like setting your diary to a tender, melodic, and driving soundtrack. It has peaks and troughs, ups and downs, highs and lows. It equally evokes the feelings of surfing on endorphins, of never being more content, and crying alone on a bedroom floor, as low as you’ve ever been in your life. In a nightclub it sounds torrid and passionate, a mainline injection of soul and sex; the perfect backdrop to meeting a stranger, or devouring your lover.

In 2004, Superpitcher released his debut artist album. It begins with a haunting three-note chime, and ends in a yearning, angelic vocal. In between, it speaks of sadness, longing, craving, and infatuation: lazy, luststruck afternoons; rainy, unrequited nights; tragic vulnerability; and sickness-inducing desire. An aural spectrum of the deepest emotion. In tone, terms, and texture, it captures the sharpest edges of existence: feeling hopeless, helpless, and hapless; or excited, ecstatic, incited. It’s the stuff of dreams and nightmares, hopes and fears, symphonies and cacophonies. It’s about being human, needing someone, seeking completion. It’s called ‘Here Comes Love’.

Glitch presents Superpitcher (Kompakt, Germany)

Date: Sat 3rd Sep, 2005
Time: 10:00 pm
Venue: Bohem, 467 - 477 Pitt St, Sydney
City: Sydney
Cost: TBA

http://www.glitch.net.au

I'll actually be in Sydney that weekend, ostensibly for the Birchville Cat Motel/Sandoz Lab Technicians etc. gig that's on the same night, just down the road. I imagine I'll be hovering between the two. Any Sydney people going?

Is there going to be a show in Melbourne?

are there any good superpitcher live sets floating around slsk & the like? haven't been listening to today too much - "lovefood" keeps sticking in my throat :(

(hmmn, if there's a melbourne show, maybe I could get some cheap trans-tasman tickets . . . oh, & birchville cat motel + sandoz lab technicians should play a show in AUCKLAND, geez)

I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't come to Melbourne though - I get the impression that the "scene" for this stuff is bigger here, and Spitcher at Honkeytonks is just too good a fit, ya get me.

Anyway, Superpitcher Sydney is on a Saturday night.

Is Deep Chord still going? I remember hearing that was a good place to go to in Melbourne. Adelaide has *nothing* of this ilk, from what I can tell (Electric Circus maybe, at a push.) Though if there are any Adelaideans out there who wish to correct me...

----oh, & birchville cat motel + sandoz lab technicians should play a show in AUCKLAND, geez)

I disagree

Ha ha Rhythm & Soul are evil: they put so much effort into servicing you and chatting you up that if you don't walk out with at least one record you feel immensely guilty (also a couple of the guys are quite cute which makes it worse).

Honkytonks is great yes, a weird intersection club actually insofar as on the one hand it's got the best music policy of any dance music club/bar I've been to in Melbourne, and on the other it still attracts more than its fair share of coked up young professionals and younger uni students or service indusry workers who want to be coked up young professionals. But then a lot of the time such people have decent taste in dance music... Anyway unlike many clubs afflicted with this, the combination of the music and the great layout and etc. makes it easy to ignore.

Some of the regular DJs at Honkytonks are part of Little Beasties who are a Music For Freaks act, and MFF is pretty indicative of the basic Honkytonks sound - disco/electro/microhouse with the emphasis on HOUSE. But the international acts they get playing there are more diverse, and basically all the big German artists and DJs play there - I missed the Mayer show cos I was on my way to Europe, but I've seen DJ T, Martini Bros, Captain Comatose, Hakan Lidbo etc. etc.

I think there are still Deep Chord and Liquid parties, which cater more for the post-prog crowd into deeper techier stuff (they're where you're most likely to hear e.g. Kompakt records in the DJ sets). And then there's a lot of interconnected parties playing more electro stuff - BPitchControl etc. Meccanoid's a big monthly one, and then there's another one at Revolver on Tuesdays and quite a few in North Melbourne it appears.

For the more crowd-pleasing electro-house sound Boogs is probably the most high-profile DJ in Melbourne - he plays a big night at the Lounge on.. Fridays I think? It's quite beery compared to the others which are all much more fashionista/trainspotter/freak-friendly, but it works really well - great to see drunken jocks sloshing their beer to Black Strobe etc.

I'm far from being an expert though as I don't go out nearly as much as I'd like to.

ANY word at all about superpitcher in melbourne?

Who's with me?

You're either with me or against me.

Michael I'll forgive you just this once.

Well, exactly. He answered half my questions with e.g. "I don't really think about it much. I try not think too much. Don't think too much!" The self-referencing doesn't really make up for the total lack of elucidation. Ah well, I always resent having to include the actual interview in my articles anyway so it'll probably just make it easier.

also: um, anyone want to throw out sad trainspottery what-he-played stuff out there? i've been k-piecemeal w/my microhouse &c listening lately & any chance to get myself up to date at the last minute'd be fabulous.

I find it near impossible to remain energetic for sets that begin at 2am after working all week 8:30 - 6:30, so it meant that my enthusiasm was lower than it would otherwise have been - I ended up leaving at 3:30 rather than hang around depressed with my own inability to dance. It sounded good though!

More evidence: The local dance music boards were bursting with people saying "OMG Superpitcher!!" And when I was last in Mighty Music Machine they were playing Alcachofa and talking about those Villalobos pill overdose pics, then the guy behind the counter tried to upsell me the last Lawrence album, and then we started talking about Steve Barnes and My Best Friend.

I was in a record store the other day and one of the guys behind the counter was playing Alcachofa over the loudspeaker. He turned to the other guy working there and said, "Hey, this album is by the guy in those pictures." The other guy looked totally shocked, and I can't say I blame him!

http://www.joy.gr/files/2005/7/29/146734/villalobos_des_monats.jpg

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This is how I choose to view him as:

http://www.discogs.com/release/6602

I'm pretty sure there is a better picture of that floating around ILM.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/aug4/bis080405part1.mp3

Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? it's amazing.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/aug4/bis080405part1.mp3

Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? I've been playing it on repeat and I need to know who it is!

A: I have no idea, but I'm glad you made me listen to this mix again.

I think I have to buy Total 6 now :(

This almost sounds like Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink".

???????????

a pleasure as always, adam

This sounds like a lot of Jake Fairley tracks! Probably the one that gets played out most often is "Cold World", although that's pretty old. I can heartily recommend his "Going Down The Road" 12 inch on Sender from a few years back and about half of last year's Touch Not The Cat album.

"The Red Shoes"?

I remember Ada playing this instrumental track with these stabby shimmery slightly out of time synth chord hits that just slayed me, but I don't know what that's called.

tracer is the one that looked like a french sailor.

anyhow, it was the most fun i've had out since, well, saturday i guess. but still. wow. the cielo gig was okay, but not nearly as fun as this.

"you must leave the forest forever!" (c) ronan / secret of mana

what is going on w this guy?

Is it true that Supermayer have remixed Rufus Wainwright's "Tiergarten"???

http://media.phonicarecords.co.uk/stars06_1.mp3

did he relocate to NYC?

You know, I realized the other day that even though he doesn't come to mind as a standout producer of his own (even though come to think of it, I think I've only heard like, 4 of his own tracks, and those have been pretty good) but his selection of remixes (that I've heard) is impeccable. Along The Wire, The Difference it Makes, Je Regrette, The Dream of Evan and Chan, etc. etc. I saw him like two weeks ago and he said goodnight to me also, that and when I had longer hair I looked very much like him.
As to what's going on with him, I guess the short answer to that would be: Supermayer.

I think a Superpitcher Remix compilation would be fairly unbeatable.

especially if it included the first two singles as a bonus disc.

SUPERPITCHER VS. THE CONGOSOUND
SAY I AM YOUR NUMBER ONE
GREAT COLLABORATION BETWEEN SUPERPITCHER WHO COMES UP WITH A REMIX, AND CARLES CONGOST AND HIS COLLEAGUE VINCENT FIBLA. TIP.

Why isn't this available in the Kompakt MP3 store??

'Today' really is wonderful. Pretty much every track gets a full work out yet it still feels like a cohesive DJ mix. Best mix comp on Kompakt for me.

Haven't seen anything around from him in a long while, minus the supermayer thing. Not that I've been looking hard for anything. Any news of a future release or anything? What's he been up to

Supermayer was a disappointment for me. I was expecting the album to be more like their remixes, which it wasn't. Tonite was the last thing he did that I really loved.

Anything?

yeah, a new album release imminently!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12401

He has a remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg's "The Operation" on Immer 3 which is very nice - doesn't look like it's been released. "Rabbits in a Hurry" got a weird limited release. And Discogs suggests that there's a newish remix by him & Tobias Thomas of Tocotronic - haven't heard anything about that.

Currently listening to Rabbits In a Hurry. Quite funky, less angsty than the old stuff. Beat is a bit I Zimbra and the vocals are a bit like a German Matthew Dear. Interesting although wonder how this will work across a whole album.

Having said that personally I've always felt that Superpitcher was more of a singles/remix artist who suffered from the curse of the patchy dance music album.

new Superpitcher album Kilimanjaro. drip drip

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/superpitcher.jpg

why do you why do you why do you voodoooooo

this is great so far!

^ had to hear this again.

Superpitcher--Heroin-(KOM035)-WEB-2001-SiBERiA

a+

can we just talk about how "heroin" is like, perhaps the finest example of this particular genre

It is so amazing. There are sadly v few records like it IMO...especially these days...

Ok I've never listened to Heroin but I generally enjoy his aesthetics. Will have to come back with my verdict.

It is amazing. How come noone played this song for me before? It does sound eerily familiar...I'm pretty sure I've overheard it somewhere in the past, or maybe it's just its pop appeal, only one listen and I'm sold. It is already amongst my favorite songs in his catalogue.

i love it so much. it is absolutely entrancing.

feel like i should make a spitcher 'best of' playlist including remixes he's done. what would u guys put on it?

i walk (remix of quarks)
the long way (from the album)
heroin obv
tomorrow?

more heroin / tomorrow?

what else

mine would probably tip in the direction of his remix work. definitely definitely put his rmx of 'the difference it makes' by the mfa, and i'd say also his m83 remix whose title i don't remember offhand

oh ha this thread started with that very idea

o ya mfa remix for sure

oh, it is "don't save us from the flames" that i was thinking of

Already mentioned several times throughout thread but these are among his best:

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Operation (Superpitcher remix)
Dntel - Evan and Chan (Superpitcher kompakt remix)
Quarks - I Walk (Superpitcher schaffel mix)
MFA - The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher remix)
M83 - Don't Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix)

Not mentioned here for whatever reason but really good:

Lawrence, "Along the Wire (Superpitcher remix)"
Sasch Funke, "Mango (Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher's como mango version)"

Mango remix is good but falls short in comparison to Dj Koze's.

These are the other essential ones IMO:

Hell - "Je Regrette Everything" (Superpitcher Remix)
Ghost Cauldron – See What I’ve Become (Superpitcher Smallville Mix)
Carsten Jost – Krokus (Superpitcher Remix)
Phantom Ghost – Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix)

The moment the bass comes in on that Hell remix: insane. The manager of the place I held a party once ran towards my DJ friend to demand the master volume to be lowered. lolz

another essential remix:
Tocotronic - "Hi Freaks" (Superpitcher's Beautiful Freak Remix)

lullabies in the dark - iridium (superpitcher remix)
superpitcher - happiness (m.mayer remix) <= this is the godhead for me
superpitcher - the long way
superpitcher - mushroom

wonder if a superpitcher singles poll would work

andy k made a huge comp called "non album tracks" a few years back and believe me, every single song on it was pretty great. he did such a weird and wide range of techno, one of the most original producers.

Amazing how lonely sounding so much of his music is, even when it's doing hands-in-the-air communality at the same time. No idea how he continues to pull it off.

That Lullabies In The Dark remix from a couple of years ago is one of my favourite pieces of music ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQM8Ytauef4&feature=related

the only tracks on my best of superpitcher playlist that haven't already been mentioned were Irre and Tell Me About It.

but Mushroom was always my favourite, such a unique mood to it.

he did such a weird and wide range of techno, one of the most original producers.

Yeah it's very easy to just assume that there's a single "superpitcher sound" (especially based on the first album) but his remixes in particular cover a lot of ground, very inventively most of the time I think.

Not sure whether I'd listen to it an awful lot on its own but "Irre" works so so well as the opening track on the first Spiecher mix.

anyone know this track?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-tyurkkqE

all the trax he played this evening, were the best. especially the ones that sound like you're stuck inside a washing machine!

Was the Melbourne? He was great in Auckland Friday night too.

He played this http://www.juno.co.uk/products/think-twice-mark-e-remixes/341039-01/

Tell Me About It is my jam at the moment, my housemates are SICK of me listening to it on repeat...but it's just so good. Haunting, melancholy, sounds like every Kompakt record should doesn't it?

I imagine I'd pay good money for a Double Disc Superpitcher remix comp.

And I must note that I think his/T. Thomas' remix of Mango is indeed better than the already really good Koze remix.

Anyways,

Copies of Kilimanjaro were unusually cheap at a local record store, so I picked one up. Enjoyed it a good deal, especially Country Boy, Joanna, and Friday Night (which is just so wonderfully glorious).
Regarding the vocals: I think with Superpitcher you kind of have to take the whole package, the whole persona, I guess, that's behind his music (well, his own productions), which indeed does have a lot of personality. I don't know, but looking in the cd case (e.g. at the portraits of him) I get a kind of debonair playboy vibe from him which I find kind of charming. I think this album is at heart an artist-album, and it just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't his voice, even if it, and the lyrics, can sound (wonderfully) cheesy ("sugar girl don't give me pain, don't leave me standing in the rain" got a big smile from me). Though there are some weaker tracks on it, who can deny a good Superpitcher fix, no?

especially the ones that sound like you're stuck inside a washing machine!

I almost struggled over to you somewhere in the last half hour to note that he had now dropped a marble into the washing machine. "tonk! ....tonk! ....tonk!...."

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/551
the one he did with sweeney 5 years ago was really fun, stoked to hear this one

no longer have the old Superpitcher one.. currently downloading these. The Michael Mayer mix from a couple of months ago was really good. Kilimanjaro up there as one my albums of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DUlnnLXMY

we all know it....but the "wub-whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" noise in this after the "verse". and the way he teases into it. so so amazing. unique producer.

should also add...the bit where the bassline comes back in in "heroin" channels a highly concentrated form of an emotion i seek in almost all music i like, ever. < /drunkpost>

Don't Drink Too Much

lost
track
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what am i missing that's essential here?

http://open.spotify.com/user/121243668/playlist/28SeusbmHHErtXQlqorhut

i'm so predictable. there i am upthread talking about wanting to make a spitcher mix. forgot i even had that convo.

Turns out King So So is Superpitcher. I should have known...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApWBL0ZHB_c

love that!

Do Kompakt still release comps akin to Superpitcher's "Today"?

not very often ... but occasionally, they do

for example: http://www.discogs.com/Rebolledo-Momento-Drive/release/5789158

there's a conversation to be had about the decline of the dance mix CD in the age of the internet, but it's an old conversation and we've had it before so i'm not going to start it again

Yeah, it's not the time for that conversation ... It was more: I was enjoying 'Today' and was wondering if there was a handy contemporary equivalent.

I don't like calling dance tracks essential, but Superpitcher's take on Along the Wire is super duper essential

x-post: Ta for the Rebolledo recommendation.

Just discovered a 14 minute (!) Superpitcher remix of Paradis released earlier this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7uBYuwtPY

Superpitcher's new album will include 24 tracks that will be released over 12 separate releases, one a month.

let's put this here:

I can't find the Superpitcher thread, but his third 12'' is great as well. This album is shaping up to be a favorite.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, April 5, 2017 2:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The One and Only Superpitcher Thread

Yeah I've loved every Golden Ravedays 12" released so far. Perfect nocturnal listening.

― willem, Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:11 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Listening to the available fragments of #4 on the Kompakt website. Synths on "Blood Berry" sound like Tom Tom Club/Talking Heads ca. Speaking in Tongues.

My god I love all of these so much.

#10 is out (duh) and I have all these on a playlist that's now up to 5 hours and 2 minutes, and man is it wonderful

the whole project is starting to feel a bit overwhelming - but in a good way.

I can't keep track of which is which now but I love the recent one that is mostly just rippling harp.

Uploading Andy K's playlists to my iPod for a roadtrip to Germany tomorrow.
Some additions, not much though. Had to add this one to Disc Three, one of my all time favourites:
https://youtu.be/IiegYkWmWOY

Perfect remix. Bon voyage :)

Vielen Dank!
(Will be attending Kraftwerk at Dresden's library #bragging)

Big surprise you're seeing something hella cool :) Enjoy man.

Only up to the third but yeah, they've been exquisite so far. My fav stuff of his even.

lockdown has been good for listening to these in succession even though it's hard for me to tell which is which at this point. Up to no. 9 now.

how come ilx didn’t go nuts for this

https://www.discogs.com/master/880525-King-So-So-Disco-In-The-Sky

lol oh wait, read thread you idjut

i went totally nuts for it. still love it.