The One and Only Superpitcher Thread

I think Today is great, except the last track (though that may just be me, I hate the beat, I hate that he stuck it on at the very end, I don't like the singing. ugh!!)

I love that track!

anyone got the Tocotronic remix yet?

I've been listening to Today while I've been falling asleep lately.

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

today is wonderful, i adore it.

ronan: ysi coming up.

tocotronic remixes a+b:
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=340638MNL6OBM2D4X65DAOHE8W

i love the last track, too! it's a perfect ending.

thanks mark p!

yeah thanks alot mark!

I love the second wignohmy bros. track on "today" and "le ritournelle" is great too.

someone someone, are the tocotronic rmxs good?!

i wrote about them on pfork today. i like them well enough.

after one listen: yeah. rmx b is clearly superpitcher: in his mfa & m83 rmx vein. rmx a is a bit harder to get into but it has grower potential (sorry, horrible term). while rmx b isolates (and expands on) certain components of the original song, rmx a seems to use all of them, including the vocals (maybe more wasserman's style? i'm not familiar with his remixes...)

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

I am entering the bees' nest!

my god, how much do i *LOVE* the Psychonauts track on this mix.

well, you said it better mark ("I pray to Mayer.." lol). but i think we agree :-)

c/n: i always thought it was "the whole world just got smaller", which seemed to me to be about some kind of epiphanic experience, neither upper nor downer, possibly intimate in nature

Anyone going to the chicago show tomorrow? I'm curious if I should will-call tickets or not...

I might go. I just realized a friend's band is playing earlier in the evening, so it will prob. depend on how much I feel like staying out after that. If I don't go, I'll def. go to Summerdance next week.

I'm up for Summerdance too.

would give my left arm to see aksel play some records

It is great. Really great.

He was way better than Mayer, for my money. And Ada played too, I think she is on this mini-tour with him. No West Coast dates.

I might go to SummerDance as well, but it seems like a hassle getting over there after work and I think smartbar will be a better venue to see him. I'm looking forward to Ada as well, I really liked Blondie.

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.

I'll def. be at summerdance. Its free and the crowd is usually more fun than at [insert club here]

Club Paradise

if i could have, i would have stayed in chicago an extra week just to go to this.

I think I should be able to go to both nights - jaymc, dj, I'll be in touch via e-mail.

word.

raw diggins.

Can one of you recommend a good bar/happy hour in the area to take my friend to before SummerDance?

Yeesh i donno its near the south loop. There's the south loop club! Haha my friends lived around there but mostly before they turned 21 so I can't help you too much. If you wander around a bit you might find a hole-in-the-wall type place.

actually, Superpitcher and Ada will be playing together in Seattle in the Fall. Date not made public yet but it IS HAPPENING! Annie with live band + others not fully confirmed yet.

lucky bastards.

Thanks anyawy deej, I can walk my lazy ass over there to scope it out at lunch. Just wondering.

Temeraire, I've never been there, before but Kitty O'Shea's is a block away.

Great, thanks!

did anyone go to cielo last night in nyc for superpitcher? how was he?

It was packed for a tuesday night. i had never been there wow the sound is great. anyhow , it was alright. about 3:30 he broke out all the hits. brutalga square, timecode, babys on fire, international pony "our house", and ended with the m83 remix.

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

ooooer. he's coming to NZ in september! I'm writing an article on him! I want a poster of this on my wall!
(ps: ppl who've seen both mayer & spitcher DJ - how do they compare?)

http://www.intro.de/img/artikel/1080217379a.jpg!

mayer = techno, schaufler = house

* vast generalization that may not be true abroad

Here's an amusing bio:

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’.

Australian folk - this is good news:

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?

There fucking better be!!!

just talked to the publicist - apparently reinhard voigt's gonna head down under & mayer's returning!

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)

tim! would you fly to sydney for this show if there's no melbourne?

Depends on what day of the week it was on and whether I can work my way out of Europe-related debt in time (or, as is more likely, I become comfortable with maintaining and expanding this debt).

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.

Tim, care to enlighten someone whose newly moved from London to Melbourne re: what the clubs, and the 'scene', is like here? Was chatting to some friendly fellas in a record shop the other day - rhythm & soul? - and they suggested that Honky Tonks and Revolver would probably be my best bet. Apparently Michael Mayer played a killer set there recently(ish)? I take it their advice is spot on?

Yeah Tim, I must admit I'd be very surprised if Superpitcher didn't go to Melbourne as well - maybe it just hasn't been announced/ confirmed yet. Fingers crossed, I know many people in Melbourne who would be well keen.

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...