A few weeks back, I made a podcast for the dear people of Field Records from the Netherlands. And here it is, all online and everything!
As always, it’s entirely mixed by hand, no post-editing was done. It’s mostly mixed with vinyl, for tracks I don’t have on vinyl I use one of those digi DJ systems with vinyl control. The mixer I used was the old and much loved Dateq XTC, first generation (the one with those buttery 100mm faders, yum!).
This is a DJ set that I recorded on the 4th of September between 2am and 5am at the fantastic Solyanka Club ( http://s-11.ru ) in Moscow. Sorry, no playlist this time. Endless love to an unbelievable audience. This definitely was one of those unforgettable nights! Thank you!!!
(I was a little exhausted in the beginning of the set because we had a live performance at the MIGZ festival just 3 hours before i played the Solyanka gig. But having roses thrown at me after the first 30 minutes after taking control of the turntables definitely woke me up! The only thing that disturbed the fun was a horrible mixer, the Pioneer DJM 1000, that I HATE!!!)
This is a very experimental mix that i did in a series of DJ mixes around the release of my last album, ‘Privilege’, last May/June. It was supposed to be a podcast for a large San Francisco / New York based music magazine, but they seemed to have changed their mind along the way- so instead of having it rot on my hard drives, I thought to better share it with the rest of the world (because- I actually really love this mix…).
The set combines a few samples of things I have loved for many years (the first track is actually 38 years old), and there is very little techno- or club related music- in here. I guess i would be ecstatic to hear somebody play music like this in a club, and if it’s just in the first 2 or 3 hours of a club night.
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Glitterbug’s Head under Water Mix
01. Charlie Haden – We Shall Overcome
02. Zoviet France – Shouting at the Ground Part 1
03. Glitterbug – Lionheart
04. Koss – Ocean Wave (Mercury Dub)
05. Nuno Dos Santos & Traumbauer – Bensafrim
06. Morgan Packard – Waterbugs
07. Differnet- Caring Arms (Jesse Somfay Remix)
08. Benjamin Lew / Stephen Brown – Etendu
09. Krikor – Disposable Elvises (Chloe’s Remix)
10. Mano le Tough – Halve a Sun (Original Mix)
11. Christian Löffler – Silent Nights
12. Gonno – I don’t need Competition (Donnacha Costello Remix)
13. John Lurie – The Resurection of Albert Ayler
14. Zoviet France – Shouting at the Ground Part 2
This mix was entirely made by hand, utilizing only two Technics turntables and a Dateq 3 channel mixer. For tracks that i don’t have on vinyl, i use Traktor Scratch with vinyl control.
The mix was recorded in one ongoing session, no post editing was done.
This is an official remix I did for the wonderful people (and dear friends) of Efterklang for the track ‘Alike’ of their current album ‘Magic Chairs’ on the legendary 4AD label.
It might take a little longer than planned until it’s released on an Efterklang remix compilation, thus we (Efterklang and I) decided, that we’ll post it already, regardless. Efterklang will send a free download link to the track with their next newsletter- so if you want it- and especially want it on your hard drive before it’s released- you’d better quickly sign up for their newsletter today! (you can do so on their website)
I loved working on this track, and it’s also my favorite on this album. We could actually witness it coming alive, since it’s one of the tracks Efterklang started working on in February 2009 in our little c.sides residency in Tel Aviv. You can also listen to the original version as a stream on the Efterklang website (in case you don’t know the album… you should listen to the whole thing!!!).
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PS: In the meanwhile the newsletter as mentioned above was sent by Efterklang. Here is what they wrote:
“During the summer we have aired two remix swap projects and now today we will use the opportunity to air another free remix. This one is made by Glitterbug aka Till Rohmann from Germany. Till actually helped us getting started with making Magic Chairs back in 2009. Together with Ronni Schendar, he runs the c.sides festival and they invited us to Tel Aviv for two weeks in February 2009. During those two weeks we rehearsed and worked on songs like I Was Playing Drums, Alike, Me Me Me the Brick House for the first time.”
The c/o pop Festival is approaching, and one of the tracks from my current album, ‘Float’, was picked for this year’s compilation. By the way- we will perform on Thursday, the 24th of June, at the famous Stadtgarten venue. More info on our show in another post…
More on the compilation here, and the track list please find bellow.
“Included on this lovely package you will find 13 tracks by artists performing on the festival, including some of our favourite acts of the past few months, like Aufgang, Tiefschwarz, Chloé, Glitterbug, and Applescal plus our popular stop motion videos.”
Ray Okpara – Vocal Experience
Munk remixed by Mercury – La Musica (Mercury Remix)
Walls remixed by Banjo Or Freakout – Hang Four (Banjo Or Freakout Remix)
Von Spar – trOOps
Tiefschwarz – Home (Edit)
Applescal – Black Spirals
Aufgang – Barock (Edit)
Brandt Brauer Frick – Button
Glitterbug – Float
Chloé – Distant (Radio Edit)
Thomas Schaeben & Schad Privat remixed by Coma – Body Hotel (Coma Remix)
Telonius – Hit Me (Original Mix)
Tolouse Low Trax – Vai Vai
Schlachthofbronx – Arschboss (Köln Version)
c/o pop – c/o pop 2010 – Trailer #1
c/o pop – c/o pop 2010 – Trailer #2
This is a recording of me playing live @ the legendary Total Confusion in Cologne (I played the show together with visual artist Ronni Shendar, but sadly we did not video tape this specific show). What an amazing night we had! The Track after the little break in the end was an encore we had to play. The set consists of mostly new tracks from the upcoming album, ‘Privilege’, one track from my last EP on c.sides, the ‘Dim Flares EP’, and there are two tracks from my previous album, ‘Supershelter’.
The set was recorded as-is, stereo out from my little sub mixer, that’s it. No post-editing was done.
Privilege consists of 20 tracks and 1 vinyl bonus track, and has a total play time of 2 hours and 20 minutes. Below are 4 selected tracks from the project:
I decided to upload this specific live set because it kinda marks the end of an era- no, I will NOT disappear from the surface of the planet, but this was the (almost) last time I performed this specific evolution of my live set. As always, this set is recorded via stereo out from my sub mixer into a Tascam recorder, no post editing/ processing was done.
My live set has been going through many changes over the past year (both as far as content and also as far as my setup goes), and there are many new tracks in there that are currently unreleased (and allow for a tiny glimpse at my next album). The next step will be to focus on the materials of my next album and to build the performance on that- from scratch. Fun!
The two shows we had in Israel were the last in the current performance tour, and the performance at the bass the last “official” one- we also played a very small intimate show mostly for friends in Tel Aviv the night after, but I did not record.
It’s been an incredible year for me (and us, meaning visual artist Ronni Shendar, whom I was fortunate enough to be able to have with me for almost every live performance), with amazing shows and invitations all over the globe. And we really had a blast with our last performance tour, but it’s also about time to hibernate a little and to focus on a few other things, like- finalizing my next album, which has been in the work for over a year now, and is scheduled for release in spring.
Usually, I don’t make my live sets downloadable, but because we will re-do everything and will start rehearsing on the new show in two weeks, this one goes out to all of you that have been there for and with us over the past year. Have fun with it and- thank you!!!
Also, many many thanks to Pacotek for hosting us that night!
This is a 3 hour DJ set that I created for the dear people at www.byte.fm – it was broadcasted twice in October (around the release date of my last “Dim Flares EP”) and again in December. Track listing after the long text in German… the set was recorded in one take, no post-editing or cutting was done.
The text about the set in German (well, some of the information is old news… but it was first aired in October…):
“Der ‘The Last Year Mix’ ist eine nahezu dreistündige Reise durch einen Teil dessen was Glitterbug im letzten Jahr wichtig war und was ihn nach seinem letzten Album ‘Supershelter’ musikalisch so umgetrieben hat. So startet der DJ Mix auch mit dem letzten Remix für ‘Supershelter’- dem ‘Jackie Remix’ für den Album-Track ‘Reference System’, den Glitterbug selbst angefertigt hat. Auch zum ersten Mal hier bei Byte FM in aller Öffentlichkeit: zwei Stücke von seiner nächsten Veröffentlichung, der ‘Dim Flares EP’, die am 12.10. auf c.sides (Vertrieb: Kompakt) erscheint.
Normalerweise kennt man es nicht von ihm das er so viele eigene Stücke in seine DJ-Sets einbaut; hier hat er eine Ausnahme gemacht, da ja das Release zu seiner neuen EP ansteht, aber auch, weil der ‘The Last Year’-Mix für ihn ziemlich genau ein Jahr nach der ersten Ausstrahlung bei Byte FM markiert und es seitdem einiges musikalisch zu erzählen gab. Auch seit kurzem veröffentlicht und in diesem DJ Set mit eingebaut: sein ‘Ibiza Panda Remix’ Remix für Mathias Schaffhäuser’s ‘It’s just Flesh (What they call Brain)’ (Ware81), von dem die Groove schreibt: “Glitterbug bedient sich in seinem “Ibiza Panda Rmix” einer gezielteren Auswahl der Einzelpartikel, schiebt Flächen zwischen Dial und Planet E dazwischen und verdichtet das Ganze zusehends zu einer heimlich wachsenden Hymne. Monströs!”
Ansonsten spannt sein DJ-Set einen weiten Bogen aus verschiedensten Genres, die vor allem eines verbindet: die Tiefe und Stimmung, und einen drei Stunden umspannenden Spannungsbogen mit vielen Aufs und Abs, wie man ihn nur von wenigen DJs kennt. Übrigens mixt Glitterbug alles von Hand; in diesem DJ-Set wurde nichts nachgebessert, alles ist in einem Take aufgenommen und nicht nachträglich geschnitten worden.
Im Großen und Ganzen kann Glitterbug auf ein bewegtes, anstrengendes und absolut positiv hektisches Jahr zurückschauen. Nach ‘Supershelter’ war auf einmal der Terminkalender mit internationalen Bookings in Clubs und auf Festivals prall gefüllt, im Februar fand in Israel das dritte, von Glitterbug und Ronni Shendar gegründete und kuratierte, biennal stattfindende ‘c.sides Festival for Electronic Music and Critical Media Arts’ statt (das größte Festival für elektronische Musik und Medienkunst im Mittleren Osten), leider wie bereits die Produktion 2006 wieder von einem Krieg begleitet.
Seit Dezember 2008 tourt Glitterbug vor allem als Liveact zusammen mit Ronni Shendar, die eine atemberaubende visuelle Liveshow rund um Glitterbug’s Liveset gebaut hat, um den Globus. Derzeit nimmt er eine 6-Wöchige Pause um am ersten Teil seines nächsten (Doppel-CD-) Album zu arbeiten, welches im Frühling 2010 erscheint. Mitte Oktober geht er wieder auf Tour, dieses Mal nach Norwegen, Österreich, Indien und Polen, 6 Wochen ohne Touchdown zuhause in Köln. Ein Teil seines nächsten Albums soll “on the road” entstehen.
Auch dem c.sides Label geht es bestens: nach der ‘Dim Flares EP’ von Glitterbug selbst können wir uns auf eine EP von Christian Löffler im Februar 2010 freuen. Und dann kommt schon sein neues Album. Wir sind gespannt!”
Tracklisting zu Glitterbugs “The Last Year”-Mix:
1. Glitterbug – Reference Saystem (Glitterbug’s Jackie Remix) – c.sides
2. Gonno – I Don’t Need Competition (Donnacha Costello Remix) – Beyond Recordings
3. Estroe – Inspirited Away – Connaisseur Recordings
4. Christian Löffler – Blank Blood – Orphanear
5. Glitterbug – So Much More – c.sides
6. Gui Borratto – No Turning Back (Wighnomy’s Likkalize Remix) – Kompakt
7. Mr. Raoul K – Jenseits (Longer) – Baobap
8. Jay Shepard – Year To The Day (TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix) – Compost Black Label
9. Seth Troxler – Panic, Stop, Repeat! (Paco Osuna Remix) – Spectral Sound
10. Glitterbug – Daubed Beams – c.sides
11. Mr. Raoul K – Wind Of Goree – Mule Musiq
12. B12 – Solitude – B12 Records
13. DeWalta – Farina – Vakant
14. Markus Schatz – Supertrain – Salon
15. Antonelli – The Name Of This Track Is Bobby Konders – Italic
16. Rhadoo – Bau (Original Mix) – Cadenza
17. Tha Lady Blacktronica – If Some Rain – Deep Explorer
18. Spencer Parker – YOGOTO – Rekids
19. Mathias Schaffhäuser – It’s Just Flesh (Glitterbug’s Ibiza Panda Remix) – Ware
20. Samuel L. Session & Martin H – The Leap – Klap Klap
21. Skizzo – A Kaballero – The Flame Italy
22. Soylent Green – La Forza El Destino (Radio Slave Remix) – Playhouse
23. Djuma soundsystem – This Sound – Brut!
24. Estroe – Driven – Connaisseur Recordings
25. Slam – Positive Education (D’Julz Remix) – Soma
26. Edit Select – Reduktion (Original Mix) – Edit Select
27. Soukie & Windish – Occasus (Original Mix) – Ecordings
28. Neonbelle – I Just Might (Nuno Dos Santos Remix) – Field
29. John Tejada – The End Of It All (Original Mix) – Ecordings
