The One and Only Superpitcher Thread

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?

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

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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.