The One and Only Superpitcher Thread

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
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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"?