― willem (willem), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post: *heads over to p'fork*
― willem (willem), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― temeraire (r h), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
also superpitcher is such a sweetie. super cute too. he looked like a sailor in his outfit. should have taken a picture.
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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’.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Glitch presents Superpitcher (Kompakt, Germany) Date: Sat 3rd Sep, 2005Time: 10:00 pmVenue: Bohem, 467 - 477 Pitt St, SydneyCity: SydneyCost: 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?
― jon dale, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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)
― etc, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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 Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Django Chaz, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
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...
― jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
----oh, & birchville cat motel + sandoz lab technicians should play a show in AUCKLAND, geez)
I disagree
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
ANY word at all about superpitcher in melbourne?
― jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Django Chaz, Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Who's with me?
You're either with me or against me.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 21 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link