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Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Just made this for my iPod, but I broke it down into three separate imaginary discs.

Disc One (55.26)
Irre
Fieber
Don’t Think too Much
Hysteria
Grace
Softmachine
More Tomorrow
More Heroin

Disc Two (55.29)
Let’s Cruise
Stealing Beauty
Time to Cry
Baby’s on Fire
Mushroom
To Turn You On
Tomorrow
Shadows
Heroin

Disc Three (64.42)
Ghost Cauldron – Ambient Skit (Superpitcher Ambient Mix)
Tocotronic – Hi Freaks (Superpitcher’s Beautiful Freaks Mix)
Phong Sui – Wintermute (Superpitcher Mix)
Contriva – Stuck (Superpitcher Mix)
Dntel – (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt Remix)
Ghost Cauldron – See What I’ve Become (Superpitcher Smallville Mix)
Quarks – I Walk (Superpitcher Schaffel Mix)
Carsten Jost – Krokus (Superpitcher Remix)
Phantom Ghost – Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix)

Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

First two discs = everything he released prior to the album, with the exception of "Love to Love You Baby" -- apparently a co-production with Tobias Thomas?

The third/remix disc is missing this stuff:

Commercial Breakup – Walking Back Home (Fur Dich Mix)
Phantom Ghost – Nothing Is Written (Accidentally Overdosed Remix by Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher)
Vermitteldne Elemente – Bruchstuecke B8 (Supermayer Mix)

Is there anything else?

Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

andy, i kiss you. this is awesome.

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The album is great.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Zee Superpitcher Box Set: Zee Early Years (Kompakt Retro). I would buy this thing. When does it hit the streets Andy? May 2117? :(

Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No kidding all this stuff I had no idea he had so much out there. I would totally pay for a cdr of this.

hector (hector), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I will kiss someone if they make me up a cd-r of andy k's mix!!!

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

o I would totally pay too. and still kiss.

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

glove- drogenkontrolle (superpitcher mix)

egon krenz (slaytrack), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course Andy realizes that by starting this thread it means he has to make CDr's for everyone.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it's missing let's cruise from the softmachine single.

tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Disc two, track one

Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Of course Andy realizes that by starting this thread it means he has to make CDr's for everyone"


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.

hector (hector), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i tried to stop my post!

this is very excellent, btw!

tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i think warpmart just started to carry kompakt, so good news may be around the corner...

tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else think the singer on "Stealing Beauty" sounds like the guy from Placebo?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There are no vocals on the version of Stealing Beauty that I have.

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.

Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"There are no vocals on the version of Stealing Beauty that I have."

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

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love most all the Superpitcher I've heard, but "Baby's On Fire" is just shitty.

Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it trip-hoppish?

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.

Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

really? i love it!

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah same here.

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

if disc two of andy's mixes were an actual album, it'd be my favorite single artist kompakt lp by faaaaaaaaar.

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seperated by a firewall from Phenagen, but if someone else gets it, could they message me and share it? Its possible I can get it from someone else
user name = djdee2005

djdee2005, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure this has been mentioned elsewhere,but for those lucky enough to live round the following:.

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.

william (william), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...
When does the album come out in the UK? I'd been under the opinion it was today (various blogs, plus good review in yesterdays Observer), but a trawl through Berwick Street later this would appear to not be the case... anyone know when it's out?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been loving a lot of the stuff on the album so much lately. when it hits its stride it just glows.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@m, did you ever get a copy of this 3cd set? or did you make your own. cause i was looking at my cdr you gave me and these are all here. thanks again

JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

am i the only one who finds the album a bit of an anti climax? i had been so looking forward to this and while i appreciate it is an album rather than a collection of club monsters, it just sounds quite weak to me. maybe it'll be a grower?

stirmonster, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A version of "Traume" by Françoise Hardy is used in François Ozon's Water Drops on Burning Rocks. IMDB says it's by M. Boetter / F. Veyrich - is it best known as a Hardy song? Superpitcher's version sounds awfully close to hers . . .

locus solus, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of find it underwhelming but I think Andy K's allmusic.com review is OTM in that it's a nice underwhelming. The album intentionally avoids any burners like "Irre" or "Fieber", or switching up styles like "I Walk" or "The Dream of Evan & Chan". And maybe Superpitcher feels that with all the other 12 inches and remixes he does, his album doesn't have to be representative of the full scope of his ability and can ply a consistent mood. Certainly a more representative album would ideally cover the full range from "Irre" to "Shadows".

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.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

djdee2005, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...
does andy k still have this up on slsk?

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
Is there anything else?

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.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

but not a bootleg exactly .... come back!

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the Kohncke and Meloboy thing on Kompakt 100 is hilarious and essential!

Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the wb's thing is good. (has anyone determined whether or not it's actually westbam?)

the superpitcher album has grown on me a lot. if i mentally program out "fever", it might make my top 10.

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i tend to erase "fever" also.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

how can people possibly hate "fever" more than "love me forever"?

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

lovers rock is ace

Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I prefer "Fever" to "Love Me Forever" - at least the groove to the former has an addictive shuffle thing going. "Lovers Rock" is great but the vocals annoy me a little bit. I sometimes wish that with a few of those tracks he'd use the choral effect that worked so well on "Tomorrow".

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ronan otm. those last three songs are pretty unimpeachable, actually. "happiness" has to be the album's most underrated track.

andy k reckons old spitcher sounds a lot like luke haines, which i also think is pretty bang on.

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! "Happiness" is probably my favourite. And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, maybe a candyflipped haines.

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

with a viagra thrown in to boot.

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

on acid, right?

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

no dude that was covered with 'candyflipped'.

i didn't even really mean the acid part. i just wanted to say candyflip.

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

Which of course also means Giorgio Moroder circa Knights in White Satin.

WBs = either Westbam or... Wighnomy Brothers?

Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...
Would anyone (Andy especially) care to make any additions to Andy's list above? A 4th CD perhaps? What would be on it. the MFA remix, surely.

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I must thank Andy for compiling that, it's easily one of the things I've listened to most in the last few months.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)

when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur. later on, i asked him what it was, and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!

geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

he is the greatest human being that has ever lived.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

his hair looks fantastic, too. just like when we saw him in cologne. mirror-shiny blond hair, sort of an angular cut. i should've asked him what conditioner he uses

geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

haha. I still want to see that Happiness video. I read in an interview with him recently and they asked him did his family support him or help him when he decided to make music and his answer was like "No, not at all. There was no help. There was no support. None"

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I walked into RX for the Superpitcher show on Saturday...to find nobody there but Alex In SF, Alex's girlfriend, and Superpitcher, all having a little chat!

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he actually remembered us from Cologne (or did a fantastic job of faking remembering)! I guess not all that many Americans go to Koln the day after X-mas with the sole purpose of seeing a Kompakt show.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I want to go back to Cologne so badly.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)

he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it

i have this remix on mp3 available for a limited time only! gissa shout!

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

We are planning another trip across Western Europe over next summer. A lot of the trip is keyed on perhaps spending two fridays (various weeks) in Cologne (it's nice to be able to point to wackiness like this whenever my girlfriend claims that I am TOO obsessive about music.)

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago)

any chance of a gmail of it Jed?

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago)

sure - i'll wait to see if anyone else shouts then send it.

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Me too!

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

if you could send it so i don't have to convert the vinyl, i'd appreciate it! (i just sent you a mail)

geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

alex can yahoo handle 9mb?

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think it can. I sent out 10mb files a while ago.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

add me to the list, please! RJG123 gmail. thanks!

RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago)

me three!

cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Me also, please. Same address as the one I use on here, only with yahoo replaced by gmail. Ta muchly!

RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago)

me too!!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

jed!

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago)

the offer is now closed : p

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago)

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

Probably. That and BURRITOS.

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago)

and toast

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago)

and staplers. Brilliant.

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

I once stapled a staple into my thumb. where was god then

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Cologne?

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

hey jed,

please tell me where i can find the remix...i'll owe you seven donkeys.

youngn, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)

THANK YOU JED!

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.studio-zuid.nl/img/airmail.gif

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

:)

geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

will someone forward it to youngn?

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago)

"and his answer was like "No, not at all. There was no help. There was no support. None""

"and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!"

I'm not sure which of these stories is better.

"when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur"

Is that the Westbam Mix?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

What I wrote back in March, on the short-lived 123 No Gravity [NEW COMMENTS IN BRACKETED CAPS]:

The WBs With Our Superpitcher – "Baby's on Fire" (Road Rage, 2004) The vocals from Superpitcher's Eno cover, originally heard on Total 4, gets grafted on top of a Westbam [OR WAS IT WIGHNOMY BROS? DID ANYONE EVER FIGURE THIS OUT?] production that's made to sound like a thumping overhaul of an imaginary first-album-era Roxy Music tune. The bassline is so boomy that it sounds like it's coming from a floor beneath you. This is far more exciting than the original cover version, and it also hammers home the fact that Superpitcher's voice resembles a young Luke Haines. (Why I didn't pick up on this as early as "Tomorrow" is beyond me.) This track comes from a white-label 12" with two other cuts: one is a piew-piew-lazer remix of Liquid Liquid's "Optimo," while the other is a microhouse take on the Doors' "Riders on the Storm" that could've been done by Justus Köhncke (seek "Shelter," his thinly-veiled Rolling Stones homage).

Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

The Creepers version still knocks it for six imo.

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Haha Luke Haines!

Superpitcher to do "Chinese Bakery" with one eyebrow firmly arched!

adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago)

hmmm... too late for a gmail shout for that remix? funwithreality @ gmail dot com ?

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago)

ah, closed... damn... shoulda read further

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I will forward - thanks jed. I wasn't around.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher schaffel mix of "The Rubettes" stat.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

And then Haines and Superpitcher must duet on a cover of Giorgio Moroder's cover of Knights in White Satin.

My favorite thing about this thread is that three or four other Superpitcher threads were started after it.

Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

alba did you forward to youngn?

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago)

yep.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago)

: )

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago)

I still want to see that Happiness video

http://www.kompakt-net.de/happiness/

:| (....), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)

alba - i owe you seven donkeys...

can someone explain to me how they could make happiness so campy? so many cliches thrown at you in such a short amount of time, it boggles my mind.

youngn, Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago)

that's what makes it so great! it's like an early kate bush video!!

geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago)

i would love that remix if anyone is feeling generous.

what other videos are available on the kompakt site?

jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago)

what up andy k!

jonas you should look for two remixes of happiness - the mayer monster of a remix (which KILLS on the dancefloor...esp. that middle part where everything speeds up and down!! the last two times i saw mayer spin he played it, and superpitcher played it too when i saw him last.) then there's the ultra-ultra-moody, sob-in-your-bedroom lawrence remix. i prefer the mayer one, but they're both great.

geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

geeta - spot on with the happiness - i haven't really see anyone talk about it anywhere, but i don't keep up enough. I like the dialogue between the arpeggios and the playful vamps. I think this track would be funny as hell to put over the music video, knock it up another notch - maybe put some flames in his eyes.

i eye up the andy k. mix at top of this thread and must assemble - like music legos.

youngn (ndeyoung), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:05 (twenty years ago)

I've still yet to hear the Happiness remixes! They never appear on Limewire (which is a bit odd actually as Kompakt's presence on Limewire has shot up a million per cent these past few months).

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago)

tim...the mayer happiness remix mp3 is pretty big, can you get 10 meg attachments in emails through your account?

youngn (ndeyoung), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

would alba/youngn/anyone else be willing to forward me that baby's on fire mix? (getmitchquick at gmail dot com)

m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

oh that Lawrence remix of Happiness is so wonderful.

adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

i can send out both happiness mixes and now the 'baby's on fire mix' if anyone still needs them

firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

New idea: The thread for gmail offers and requests

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I listened to the Lawrence mix under the covers last night and went somewhere else entirely. One of the most beautiful musical experiences I've had in ages. I'd like to hear it without vocals, I think.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

That watery keyboard line is just so just.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Our club was really busy last night and the dancefloor was full for so long that I decided I could risk emptying it and played "Heroin". It was amazing. The part where the bass comes back in is possibly the "coolest" moment in a dance record ever.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

if anyone still needs "baby's on fire," i have four versions of the track -- including the wb's one -- posted on my site.

Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

you didn't include the creepers version? i like that one most.

jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

i haven't heard it!

Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

ill send it you you now - it's only 2.5 meg so yahoo should be ok, right?

jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

yep. thanks jed!

Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069AUI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Yanc3y - nice :)

I heard this (for probably the first time) at WMF in Berlin and have since been wondering exactly which version it was!

it was being played by WestBam, not sure if that helps answer the WB question or not... He also played 'Marooned' by Wire :O

latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Anyone else heard this woman Frédérique Franke sing over 'Mushroom' or know anything about her?

http://www.doxa.de/sound/FredVsSuperpitcher.mp3

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 21 November 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

That's not that bad of a mashup actually. The website says it is from her DJ set...

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.centocelle.info/Image1.gif

This must be the prototype for the speicher eagle, by the way

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago)

i think that's the german national emblem or something.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago)

austria-hungary.

:| (....), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

nonsense. its the cologne coat of arms.

:| (....), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago)

the "baby's on fire" remix of superpitcher's cover is indeed westbam. it came out on a white-label 12", and then recently westbam put out a legit copy (which i picked up in berlin a month or two ago) w/ the original (superpitcher) version, the westbam remix w/ the VU chords, and then a westbam "club mix" which is, um, clubbier. that's what i was playing last night at Rx when ellen allien walked in, and frankly i was a little embarassed at the obviousness of the track, even though she did say, "ooh! baby's on fire!"

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 22 November 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Wait, didn't this come out at the end of last year? I got this on a 12" that says "super dope underground mixes" on the label...

Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago)

I think it was an official re-release Jacob.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:12 (twenty years ago)

I love that: "ooh! baby's on fire!"

Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago)

who has heard the superpitcher rmx. of the mfa's "the difference it makes"?

cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I have.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I was looking for maybe a bit more... is it really, really good?

cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I thought I gave it to you on that CDR? Maybe not. I'm not that mad about it, but then I'm not that mad on the original, either. I probably need to listen to it more.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

The Superpitcher MFA mix is on Gabba Amp right now. It is very good, yes.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

It's one of the remixes of the year!

adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

it's great

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

when i asked superpitcher who did the remix he just smiled beatifically and said 'a good friend, a really nice guy'

geeta (geeta), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)

"jesus christ himself"

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago)

"'Happiness', the most splendid track of the currently released Superpitcher album Here Comes Love, was indispensable to get remixed. To increase or reinterpret the dramatic beauty of the original, was a difficult job. Difficult but also tempting. It was not necessary to ask Michael Mayer twice and Lawrence was quasi finished before he was in demand. The result is two excellent affirmations to the hope, that a remix can be much more than just recycling. The mix by Mayer rebundels the energy of the original and couples 'Happiness' with a lot of craziness. Without losing the primal warmth, he drives your feelings by roller coaster and hits you in the middle of your heart and soul. It got a modern noble rave-tune. Please wack out to it with a big smile on your face. Hamburgs´ expert for poetic techno is called Lawrence. His albums on his own label Dial are a class of its own and certainly belong to the most emotional moments of the newer club-history. You can hear that for Superpitchers' 'Happiness' he invested a lot of heart´s blood. His mix sounds as if angels would sing, so wonderfully lost in reverie. You would like to put yourself inside this track. If you don´t feel anything there, you´re as cold as a Siberian lamp pole. The cover artwork is from Petra Hollenbachs´ amazing 'Happiness' videoclip." This record only exists because of one thing: "...to cause you happiness."

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/superpitcher.html

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago)

is that the same dude who writes the record summary things on the Kompakt, he is hilarious and a genius whoever he is! He simultaneously mocks things and praises them, describing them perfectly.

"CRYPTIC DEEP TECH HOUSE. LISTEN TO THIS ONE IN YOUR OWN TIME!

Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

ha! that's brilliant.

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the Kompakt summaries also cheer me up. On Sweet Light's "Abusator" this week: "SWEET LIGHT IS STROLLING ON BLACK STROBES WAYS GETTING AHEAD OF THEM ON THE GRASS STRIP. MY DARLING, THIS IS A SEQUENCER HIT."

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I've just discovered another Superpitcher mashup. 'Dry Heroin' = Heroin + the PSBs' 'Home & Dry'. It kind of works, if you think of it as a remix of 'Home & Dry'. I don't think I'll be listening to it again, though.

Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
'the whole world just gets smaller.' man what a downer!

cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

"Superpitcher" always makes me think of the Kool-Aid man.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...
the more i listen to the new mix cd, the more i think it's the best thing kompakt has released in a dog's age

strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

i am excited to hear it!

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

this is what superpitchers warm-up sets usually sound like. i always thought they were boring on purpose, so people wouldnt get disturbed while talking and digesting their e. nice to see some people actually like to listen to this stuff at home

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 28 April 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

It looks great, "Today". It seems to me to be quite similar to the Live@Switch mix that's going around Slsk, and I love that so no complaints here.

I guess we could now add the MFA, M83, and DJ Hell remixes to Andy's compilation above.

Anyone agree that that might be enough to make the remix disc of a Superpitcher "album" better than the other two? I think the remixes are amazing, stuff like the Contriva and the Carsten Jost one, there just isn't really other music that sounds like that.

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

The list above also misses his awesome mix of Glove's "Drogkentrolle" (sp?)

Yeah a remix album rightaboutnow would be very sweet indeed.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, "ambient skit (rmx.)" > "drogkentrolle" > MFA remix.

I still need to hear the last one out, but yeah alba agrees.

what is the DJ hell rmx.?

there were more superpitcher remixes / tracks played post-mayer at RJG's than any other artists'.

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm so psyched to here today though.

and yeah, like mayer, he is a god.

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

2005 is so great so far!

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

ranking drogkentrolle over the mfa remix is nuts, just nuts. i'll grant you the ambient skit for sentimental reasons. so has 'today' leaked?

jermaine (jnoble), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

I am nuts! ok ok I just don't get the MFA rmx. just yet but as I say I need to hear it out.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Cozen when I saw Tobias Thomas in Berlin he mixed Drogkentrolle into the MFA mix! Both were great but the latter really does make dancefloors explode. You need to be totally bathed in the amniotic warmth of those sun-through-the-clouds synths to really get them I think.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

So, who's going to see Superpitcher at the Dedbeat event at Koko in Camden on Saturday?

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Have a look at the Annie (From Norway) thread - she's not appearing anymore, but still.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

A Superpitcher remix of "Come Together" would be ace...

willem (willem), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

The remix of the MFA song is indeed a dancefloor monster. For anyone interesting in what taking E feels like, get in a great mood and bring some friends out to a DJ who's going to play this and dance around in the middle of the dancefloor. Oh yeah you should also imagine that world peace has been declared amongst all nations.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
Where can I find Today? I'm not on Slsk but I am on DirectConnect (although not right now) -- anyone wanna help me?

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

buy it. </snarky>

i have only heard it twice, but based on those listenings i don't thinkg today does deserves all of the accolades it's getting (and i say that as a huge fan).

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

wow i really need to proofread my posts

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

buy it? where? you're in chicago, right? i have no idea where to find stuff like superpitcher mixes around here.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

i guess i could order it online.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Do you need it right now? I've got in my shares and can get to the ILX DC room after work (like 5:30pm central).

adam (adam), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I can't get on DC right now, either. But nor will I be around much tonight. Thanks, though, Adam. Maybe I'll try to find you in there some other time.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

buy it? where? you're in chicago, right? i have no idea where to find stuff like superpitcher mixes around here.

Hard Boiled Records on Roscoe near Damen carries pretty much all the Kompakt stuff- the owner (mark) can order it for you, if neede. prices are decent, too.

scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

ha, I need to proofread my posts, too!

scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

oh, i like hard boiled. mark is nice. i guess i haven't looked for kompakt stuff there, though.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

i would try gramaphone, reckless, virgin, and tower in that order....and phone first of course. i don't know hard boiled....

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

i just tried tower. but no such luck.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

i don't know gramophone, tho?

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

clikk!

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

This is a great mix.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

a bit boring maybe

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher/Ada on tour:

Kompakt Records

date venue city state with

7/22/2005 Smart Bar Chicago IL James Pennington (UR DJ)
7/26/2005 Cielo New York NY
7/27/2005 Chicago Summerdance Chicago IL Mazi

windishangency.com

david day (winslow), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Winslow.

If you are in New England, Newbury Comics has "Today" for $9.99

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

It is a good mix, but for "this kind of thing", more people need to talk about James Holden's "Balance" mix.

mope, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Balance is 2 years old already, not to mention being more on the prog-house tip. An updated 2005 Holden mix would be pretty sweet, although I doubt he'd be as gloomy as 'Pitcher.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40507000/jpg/_40507013_yoda.jpg

"'Happiness', the most splendid track of the currently released Superpitcher album Here Comes Love, indispensable to get remixed was. To increase or reinterpret the dramatic beauty of the original, a difficult job was. Difficult but also tempting. To ask Michael Mayer twice it was not necessary to and Lawrence quasi finished was before in demand he was.Two excellent affirmations to the hope, that a remix can be much more than just recycling, the result is. Rebundels the energy of the original and couples 'Happiness' with a lot of craziness, the mix by Mayer does. Without losing the primal warmth, your feelings he drives by roller coaster and in the middle of your heart and soul hits you. A modern noble rave-tune it got. With a big smile on your face please wack out to it you must. Hamburgs´ expert for poetic techno called Lawrence is. His albums on his own label Dial a class of its own are and certainly to the most emotional moments of the newer club-history belong. For Superpitchers' 'Happiness' he invested a lot of heart´s blood hear you can. As if angels would sing sounds his mix, so wonderfully in reverie lost it is. To put yourself inside this track you would like. If do not feel anything there you feel, as cold as a Siberian lamp pole you are. From Petra Hollenbachs´ amazing 'Happiness' videoclip the cover artwork is." Because of one thing this record exists: "... happiness to cause you."

mope, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

One joke spreaded too thin that was.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

just picked it up, er, today. it's great. this is only my second micro-house record (after Immer), though, so i'm not really an expert.

poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

One of my best friends just moved in right around the corner from hard boil'd. Its the place to be.

deej., Friday, 20 May 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

either "Today" is really badly mixed or i downloaded a dud.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

you downloaded a dud

Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

joakim, jacques, formerly ewan pearson perhaps soon him again.

Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
anyone else have a complete change of heart about today? well most people seemed to really like it, but i didn't and now i can say that it's one of my favorite things released this year. i have been listening to it nonstop. well at least once a day.

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 7 July 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

I just listened to it again today too Tricky! It is v. good. Still hanging out for a remix collection though.

What was Ronan's post about?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 July 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea. was it remixer du jour or something???

still have no idea why I posted it though!

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

a remix collection would be nice, i agree. we should put one together here. andy k's disc 3 above is definitely a good starting point.

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

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!!)

Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I love that track!

anyone got the Tocotronic remix yet?

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

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.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

today is wonderful, i adore it.

ronan: ysi coming up.

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

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

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

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

tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

thanks mark p!

willem (willem), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah thanks alot mark!

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

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

c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

someone someone, are the tocotronic rmxs good?!

c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

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

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

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*

willem (willem), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I am entering the bees' nest!

c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

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

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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

willem (willem), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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

jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

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

temeraire (r h), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

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.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm up for Summerdance too.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

would give my left arm to see aksel play some records

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

It is great. Really great.

Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

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.

Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

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.

temeraire (r h), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

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

deej.., Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Club Paradise

Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

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

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

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

scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

word.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

raw diggins.

deej.., Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

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

temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

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.

deej.., Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

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.

biz, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

lucky bastards.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

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

temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

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

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Great, thanks!

temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

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

joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

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.

phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

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?)

etc, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

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

etc, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

mayer = techno, schaufler = house

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

* vast generalization that may not be true abroad

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

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’.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

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?

jon dale, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

There fucking better be!!!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

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)

etc, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

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

jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

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 Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

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?

Django Chaz, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

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...

jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher live @ Switch is the best live set I've found.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

MAYER VOIGT SPITCHER NZ YAY. YAY. YAY. YAY.

----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 (twenty years ago)

"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? "

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 (twenty years ago)

ha Tim whenever I visit Rhythm & Soul i feel like i have a personal assistant grafted to my hip. and i do always leave with a few records.

ANY word at all about superpitcher in melbourne?

jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Cheers for the comprehensive reply Tim. Yeah.. Rhythm and Soul are indeed friendly as fuck. One bloke even gave me his phone number and told me to give him a call if i ever fancy a pint. How's that for service? I'm used to being crucified by record shop staff for not being able to name the first 50 Strictly Rhythm cuts.. so makes a nice change.

Django Chaz, Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
2nd September at Honkytonks, bitches!

Who's with me?

You're either with me or against me.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 21 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

So you're all against me then...

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Australia is a little outside of my budget Tim!

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

seriously contemplating dropping into melbourne on 2nd sept on the way to sydney... maybe see you there tim?

jon dale, Monday, 22 August 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

Definitely! Drop me an e-mail (or call if you still have my number) if you can make it.

Michael I'll forgive you just this once.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Will do Tim. Can I give yr email to my friend Lou, she'll definitely be checking the 'pitcher and is well worth meeting up with...

jon dale, Monday, 22 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

ha, if I didn't have to pay an outrageous bond at the flat I'm moving to, I'd jump the ditch to see him again.

etc, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

OMG Superpitcher is the most useless e-mail interviewee I've ever come across!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

elaborate boy, or are you just mocking his lack of elaboration?

Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

"elaborate boy, or are you just mocking his lack of elaboration? "

Well, exactly. He answered half my questions with e.g. "I don't really think about it much. I try not think too much. Don't think too much!" The self-referencing doesn't really make up for the total lack of elucidation. Ah well, I always resent having to include the actual interview in my articles anyway so it'll probably just make it easier.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

tim! report! did he really join the dancefloor near the end?
(+ link to yr article if you've a chance!)

etc, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Tim what did you make of it? The Sydney set was brilliant. Was very impressed by his scarf-wearing capabilities (it musta been HOT up there.) Not so impressed with low attendance though.

jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

my mum's knitting me a total 3 scarf!

also: um, anyone want to throw out sad trainspottery what-he-played stuff out there? i've been k-piecemeal w/my microhouse &c listening lately & any chance to get myself up to date at the last minute'd be fabulous.

etc, Monday, 5 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

i wasn't doing so much of the trainspotting but the mayer/aguayo "slow", mayer mix of "happiness"... umm... (it's all a blur... i flew into sydney earlier that day after a morning of marking essays, and had already gone to see birchville cat motel et al...) highlight for me was nathan fake's "dinamo" - shivers down the spine.

jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Let's Get Blown

A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

His set in Melbourne was surprisingly straight-down-the-line tech-house (neither Speicher banging nor soft fluffiness and melancholy). The only tune I can remember recognising right now is the Dominik Eulberg remix of "Cosmic Sandwich".

I find it near impossible to remain energetic for sets that begin at 2am after working all week 8:30 - 6:30, so it meant that my enthusiasm was lower than it would otherwise have been - I ended up leaving at 3:30 rather than hang around depressed with my own inability to dance. It sounded good though!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was on NOW I was just dancing like a live Jesus!

A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

PS Tim I read somewhere that the same ppl that brought Superpitcher down are also bringing Matthew Dear and Mathew Jonson out to Oz. Good news, but no-one in Adelaide is game so it looks like I will be doing a lot of travelling in the next while.

jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Mathew Jonson is playing Earthcore I think! But is doing side shows in Melb and Sydney. Sign ov the times.

More evidence: The local dance music boards were bursting with people saying "OMG Superpitcher!!" And when I was last in Mighty Music Machine they were playing Alcachofa and talking about those Villalobos pill overdose pics, then the guy behind the counter tried to upsell me the last Lawrence album, and then we started talking about Steve Barnes and My Best Friend.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

"irre"! "knartz iv"! v.astute w/nz's general election next week "mandate my ass"! wb's "baby's on fire" (w/dance routine!)! finished w/the m83 remix! &c! I was an emotional wreck by the end . . . almost a religious experience, &c.

etc, Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

So other than Today and "Tell Me About It" on Total 6 and the M83 remix, what else has Superpitcher been involved with this year? Other than "Tell Me About It" he hasn't released anything that's not a mix or remix has he?

matt2 (matt2), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

If you haven't heard it already, his remix of Hell's "Je Regrette Everything" is awesome.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Also the Tocotronic remix (with Wasserman) for Kompakt Pop, and the SuperMayer mix of Losoul on Playhouse.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Tim, did you check him at Sunny's on Saturday.. Brown Alley i think. Only heard he was playing about 30mins before set was due to start, rushed there just in time, but tequila wasn't conducive to the music, or my head, and i left v.soon after i got there... gutted. Any good?

Django Chaz, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know!!!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

What are these villalobos pill overdose pictures?

Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

They're just pictures of Villalobos looking particularly wasted and unwashed at some gig, is all.

I was in a record store the other day and one of the guys behind the counter was playing Alcachofa over the loudspeaker. He turned to the other guy working there and said, "Hey, this album is by the guy in those pictures." The other guy looked totally shocked, and I can't say I blame him!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

These ones?

http://www.joy.gr/files/2005/7/29/146734/villalobos_des_monats.jpg

Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

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cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

he looks like a camel

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cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Hah, he just looks like me when I worked as a kitchenhand (or at least looks like I felt). Not helped by the backdrop which also looks like where I used to work.

This is how I choose to view him as:

http://www.discogs.com/release/6602

I'm pretty sure there is a better picture of that floating around ILM.

Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha he looks great

A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
Superpitcher live set at Beats in Space, August 4, 2005 can be found here

http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/aug4/bis080405part1.mp3

Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? it's amazing.

Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Aaliyah :'(

fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, that wasn't an answer. must. leave. internetland.)

fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Superpitcher live set at Beats in Space, August 4, 2005 can be found here

http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/aug4/bis080405part1.mp3

Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? I've been playing it on repeat and I need to know who it is!

Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Aaliyah :'(

one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, that wasn't an answer. must. leave. internetland.)

one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

o_0

A: I have no idea, but I'm glad you made me listen to this mix again.

fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

scroll down a bit

one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Perfect! Thanks a lot Fezaffe!

Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh THAT's the snorting pig noise! Sounds more like a monkey wrench to me, but hey.

I think I have to buy Total 6 now :(

fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, last night, Superpitcher, Ada, Metope were like so much fun. so so much fun. but one track someone said was by jake fairley and had lots of bloopy noises in it and superpitcher was very excited to have and carried around all night with him in a bag around his neck, but wow it was good but i dont know the name of the track? can someone help? its by jake fairley and has bloopy noises and sometimes causes hysteria on dance floor. plz advise.

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

And how about a long-shot ID on this one: he played it two nights in a row, straight-up driving techno; the only thing that made it remarkable was the guitar line: echoey and feedback-filled, rise-and-fall, mybloodyvalentine-ish, dominating the song. Nothing else he played sounded like it. No vocals. anybody?

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

yess any sort of setlist whatsoever would be very very much appreciated (for Superpitcher especially). so much fun: otm

lemin (lemin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i just remember hearing I BUILT THIS CITY FOR YOUUUU I BUILT THIS CITY FOR YOUUUU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU, and this jake fairley song i must have

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

jergins: wurz & blosse?

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'll check it out. Thanks cozen.

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

track 4 on that beats in space set is isolée's "my hi-matic"

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

straight-up driving techno; the only thing that made it remarkable was the guitar line: echoey and feedback-filled, rise-and-fall, mybloodyvalentine-ish, dominating the song. Nothing else he played sounded like it. No vocals. anybody?

This almost sounds like Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink".

???????????

Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh that is track 3 and I see the qn's already been answered

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

maybe adam but I wouldn't call it 'straight-up driving techno' by any stretch of the imagination, whereas wurz & blosse hinges on the fact it's straight-up driving... even tho it's not very MBV

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

anyway going to iron my jumper and listen to today

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really know what "straight up driving techno means" , other than indicating a sort of sparseness or harshness?

Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think driving is the operator... "the sky was pink" is kinda listless and even incorporates a u-turn... "wurz & blosse" (keep saying the name cs I love it) knows where it's going and tries to get there

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the one that's on Speicher and Today?

Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Speicher 2.

Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

yeah...

a pleasure as always, adam

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, after you.

Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

"its by jake fairley and has bloopy noises and sometimes causes hysteria on dance floor. plz advise."

This sounds like a lot of Jake Fairley tracks! Probably the one that gets played out most often is "Cold World", although that's pretty old. I can heartily recommend his "Going Down The Road" 12 inch on Sender from a few years back and about half of last year's Touch Not The Cat album.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, what was that Ada song last night with the epic-ish synth break in the middle? the break had the same sound as, to throw out a strange probably wrong point of reference that simply came to mind at the time, the end of Rydeen by YMO. I realize i could probably figure this out by going and listening to the Ada tracks on my computer at home i haven't listened to yet but i am not at home and ... uh it was really great

lemin (lemin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hi lemin, I was at that show last night! Did I meet you?

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

"By the way, what was that Ada song last night with the epic-ish synth break in the middle?"

"The Red Shoes"?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer: I didn't meet anyone last night. You probably met my friend Joe, though - he posts here lots more often than i do and i think he went over and talked to yall

lemin (lemin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Tim, I'll look around for it. I asked Geeta, but she didn't know the title of the track, oh but it was so good. Maybe I'll go hitchhike to montreal to see them again.

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

jake's going to be at another wearerobots thing in november, phil. ask him then!

joseph (joseph), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

If Geeta doesn't know it, it's not "The Red Shoes"! I think that's her favourite Ada track.

I remember Ada playing this instrumental track with these stabby shimmery slightly out of time synth chord hits that just slayed me, but I don't know what that's called.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Actually i ignore that I'm getting lemin and phil-two confused now.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

and yeah, last night was fun x a million. i made sure the first thing i listened to today on the way to class was that baxendale remix. and my ILXors I've Met in the Flesh List is now at a grand total of 1! (i think i saw tracer though, or at least had him pointed out to me by phil)

joseph (joseph), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

I did go up and ask Ada if she was playing new stuff and she said yes, so it could have been something none of us know.

jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

ooh that really complex organy line i'm talking about shows up a couple times in Who Pays the Bills but what she played wasn't that

lemin (lemin), Friday, 21 October 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think i saw tracer though,

tracer is the one that looked like a french sailor.

anyhow, it was the most fun i've had out since, well, saturday i guess. but still. wow. the cielo gig was okay, but not nearly as fun as this.

phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 October 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

was it the live version of "believer"?

"you must leave the forest forever!" (c) ronan / secret of mana

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

As a side note, go over here: This is the FIFTH and newest thread for requesting tracks for YSI/gmail and get the Superpitcher remix of the DJ Hell track at the very bottom. GOOD GOD Y'ALL!

matt2 (matt2), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna miss tonight's show :(

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

So it turns out the track ID I was wondering about just above was Jesse Somfay's 'This Fragile Addiction'. Not so MBV of a guitar, but fascinating and otherworldly nonetheless.

jergins (jergins), Monday, 31 October 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

what is going on w this guy?

admrl, Saturday, 10 November 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Is it true that Supermayer have remixed Rufus Wainwright's "Tiergarten"???

Tim F, Sunday, 11 November 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://media.phonicarecords.co.uk/stars06_1.mp3

jermainetwo, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

did he relocate to NYC?

jergïns, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

You know, I realized the other day that even though he doesn't come to mind as a standout producer of his own (even though come to think of it, I think I've only heard like, 4 of his own tracks, and those have been pretty good) but his selection of remixes (that I've heard) is impeccable. Along The Wire, The Difference it Makes, Je Regrette, The Dream of Evan and Chan, etc. etc. I saw him like two weeks ago and he said goodnight to me also, that and when I had longer hair I looked very much like him.
As to what's going on with him, I guess the short answer to that would be: Supermayer.

mehlt, Sunday, 11 November 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

I think a Superpitcher Remix compilation would be fairly unbeatable.

Tim F, Monday, 12 November 2007 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

especially if it included the first two singles as a bonus disc.

tricky, Monday, 12 November 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

SUPERPITCHER VS. THE CONGOSOUND
SAY I AM YOUR NUMBER ONE
GREAT COLLABORATION BETWEEN SUPERPITCHER WHO COMES UP WITH A REMIX, AND CARLES CONGOST AND HIS COLLEAGUE VINCENT FIBLA. TIP.

Why isn't this available in the Kompakt MP3 store??

Alba, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

'Today' really is wonderful. Pretty much every track gets a full work out yet it still feels like a cohesive DJ mix. Best mix comp on Kompakt for me.

sam500, Monday, 11 August 2008 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Haven't seen anything around from him in a long while, minus the supermayer thing. Not that I've been looking hard for anything. Any news of a future release or anything? What's he been up to

van smack, Friday, 7 August 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Jacob Sanders, Friday, 7 August 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Anything?

Kiitën (admrl), Friday, 25 June 2010 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, a new album release imminently!

Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 25 June 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12401

Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 25 June 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

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.

with hidden noise, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Treblekicker, Friday, 25 June 2010 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

new Superpitcher album Kilimanjaro. drip drip

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/superpitcher.jpg

van smack, Sunday, 5 September 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

why do you why do you why do you voodoooooo

this is great so far!

van smack, Sunday, 5 September 2010 04:48 (fifteen years ago)

^ had to hear this again.

van smack, Sunday, 5 September 2010 04:50 (fifteen years ago)

Superpitcher--Heroin-(KOM035)-WEB-2001-SiBERiA

a+

nakhchivan, Sunday, 5 September 2010 11:39 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

can we just talk about how "heroin" is like, perhaps the finest example of this particular genre

faust LARP (s1ocki), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

It is so amazing. There are sadly v few records like it IMO...especially these days...

I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 18 October 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

Ok I've never listened to Heroin but I generally enjoy his aesthetics. Will have to come back with my verdict.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago)

i love it so much. it is absolutely entrancing.

george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

feel like i should make a spitcher 'best of' playlist including remixes he's done. what would u guys put on it?

george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago)

i walk (remix of quarks)
the long way (from the album)
heroin obv
tomorrow?

more heroin / tomorrow?

what else

george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

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

womack and bolio's (donna rouge), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago)

oh ha this thread started with that very idea

george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago)

o ya mfa remix for sure

george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago)

oh, it is "don't save us from the flames" that i was thinking of

womack and bolio's (donna rouge), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago)

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)

Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago)

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)"

with hidden noise, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 04:08 (fourteen years ago)

Mango remix is good but falls short in comparison to Dj Koze's.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

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)

Tim F, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago)

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

willem, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago)

another essential remix:
Tocotronic - "Hi Freaks" (Superpitcher's Beautiful Freak Remix)

willem, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 07:52 (fourteen years ago)

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

lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

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.

I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQM8Ytauef4&feature=related

I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:35 (fourteen years ago)

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.

jabba hands, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:37 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Tim F, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago)

anyone know this track?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-tyurkkqE

du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

all the trax he played this evening, were the best. especially the ones that sound like you're stuck inside a washing machine!

for all, in tents and porpoises (haitch), Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

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/

du mein bestie (micarl), Saturday, 23 October 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

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?

Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 24 October 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago)

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?

The Flamoboyant Magic of Gunter and Ernst (EDB), Sunday, 24 October 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

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!...."

boxes of mint aeros I have eaten in a week (sic), Monday, 25 October 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/551
the one he did with sweeney 5 years ago was really fun, stoked to hear this one

willem, Thursday, 16 December 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago)

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.

mmmm, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

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.

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

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>

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

Don't Drink Too Much

A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

lost
track
of
T I M E

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 April 2013 02:45 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

what am i missing that's essential here?

http://open.spotify.com/user/121243668/playlist/28SeusbmHHErtXQlqorhut

socki (s1ocki), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

i'm so predictable. there i am upthread talking about wanting to make a spitcher mix. forgot i even had that convo.

socki (s1ocki), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:47 (eleven years ago)

six months pass...

Turns out King So So is Superpitcher. I should have known...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApWBL0ZHB_c

Michael F Gill, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:09 (ten years ago)

love that!

scott seward, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:17 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

Do Kompakt still release comps akin to Superpitcher's "Today"?

djh, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:23 (ten years ago)

not very often ... but occasionally, they do

for example: http://www.discogs.com/Rebolledo-Momento-Drive/release/5789158

the late great, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:36 (ten years ago)

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

the late great, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:36 (ten years ago)

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.

djh, Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:56 (ten years ago)

I don't like calling dance tracks essential, but Superpitcher's take on Along the Wire is super duper essential

Sharkie, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:33 (ten years ago)

x-post: Ta for the Rebolledo recommendation.

djh, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:50 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Just discovered a 14 minute (!) Superpitcher remix of Paradis released earlier this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7uBYuwtPY

Michael F Gill, Saturday, 6 June 2015 02:13 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

Superpitcher's new album will include 24 tracks that will be released over 12 separate releases, one a month.

mmmm, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:19 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

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

willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:13 (eight years ago)

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.

willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:16 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

My god I love all of these so much.

Tim F, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:24 (eight years ago)

six months pass...

#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

Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:17 (seven years ago)

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.

Tim F, Friday, 3 November 2017 02:07 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

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

willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:37 (seven years ago)

Perfect remix. Bon voyage :)

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:50 (seven years ago)

Vielen Dank!
(Will be attending Kraftwerk at Dresden's library #bragging)

willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:57 (seven years ago)

Big surprise you're seeing something hella cool :) Enjoy man.

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:03 (seven years ago)

four months pass...

Only up to the third but yeah, they've been exquisite so far. My fav stuff of his even.

albvivertine, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:28 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

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.

Roz, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 13:18 (five years ago)

two years pass...

how come ilx didn’t go nuts for this

https://www.discogs.com/master/880525-King-So-So-Disco-In-The-Sky

brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:51 (two years ago)

lol oh wait, read thread you idjut

brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:52 (two years ago)

i went totally nuts for it. still love it.

stirmonster, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:55 (two years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrbZw0cj5Qs
Oh boy, new Superpitcher on Cocoon 🔥🔥

willem, Tuesday, 17 June 2025 04:39 (three months ago)


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