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is this any good? i remember s. reynolds saying something nice about "luv sikk again". from the bits i'm hearing it sounds like bpitch's club-readiest release (a possibly wrong claim since i'm really unfamiliar with anything they've released that didn't have anything to with ellen alien).

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Smash Tv - "Queen of Man" is on Bpitch isn't it? its very club.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

see, i forgot about that one.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

search Kiki and Silversurfer-Wasp. on bpitch.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Love the Sisters of Mercy pastiche - "the end of the world" + the rest of the album is growing on me.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sanity.com.au/coverscan/575000/573458.jpg

Really feeling this right now, I love the cinematic strings, the sense of space, the off kilter melodies, the way he wears his goth + new wave influences on his sleave. So why isn't everyone feeling Kiki?

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

It's slightly dissapointing. Love all the things about it Stevo says there.

I like the glossiness, and that he had the ambition to try something less obvious for the full-length. It just becomes a bit samey by the middle-to-end though. Just one or two more tracks with the 'oooomph' of 'End Of The World' or 'Atomic' would have improved it a lot. Especially as that's what he's SO good at.

― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Kiki "Boogy Bytes Vol.1" Mix CD out in Feb!

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Boogiebytes tracklisting has Fred Giannelli, Gabriel Ananda, Oliver Koletzki, Anja Scheider & Sebo K, Michael Forzza, Donal Tierney, Joalz & Eddie, Fairmont, Troy Pierce, Turner, Misc, Slam, Guy Gerber, Digital Excitation, Ame, and Infusion. A bunch of these tracks are blended with some already released Kiki productions. Boogybytes Vol 2 is by Sascha Funke!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

I sorta tried to restrain myself from cut & pasting the mailout to one of the bpitch threads already heh.

― frickin' username (fandango), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

I figured as much!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

The cover art is kind of goofy too.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

oh well, I posted it now. Might try and not follow this label so slavishly in 2006! I can try... I do like 'em though. Grr.

I'm not so excited about a mix cd but we shall see.

― frickin' username (fandango), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Well I think 2005 was their best year in a while, so you are not totally crazy.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

I didn't notice Kiki got his website up, but it's a lot of fun. His chart are written in sentences that always end in exclamation points.

http://www.djkiki.de/

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

haha

http://www.bpitchcontrol.de/imglib/Bpc120_Cover_200x200.jpg

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Yay!

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Apparently that's Kiki himself captured in mid-headbang. Awesome.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

So where's the love for Boogybytes? :( It's the real Immer 2. It's soooo good.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

that tracklist looks quite spectacular.
the remix on this one is great, too (at least the one time i listened to it in a shop...), never knew that kiki dug (or rather, did) disco :)

― willem -- (willem), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty sweet yeah! Haven't commented as I haven't got round to acquiring a real copy just yet. But yeah it's fun, sleek, minimal, sexy, housey, rush-y and flows amazingly well as a whole mix. That tracklist is probably best ignored, it's not a cd that you're going to be able to crib nearly-complete individual tracks from. It's all very blended.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

...which, hearing the preview in my head, makes it all the more enjoyable i think. it's what i like about the dfa holiday mix as well.

― willem -- (willem), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

it's fun, sleek, minimal, sexy, housey, rush-y and flows amazingly well as a whole mix

OTM. All the tracks are amazing too.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

The real Immer 2 I'm not sure it's that special, but it is plenty more than just okay. The rollercoaster picking up of the pace in the final third is particularly great.

But yeah, I like the rushiness a lot, and the fact that a lot of it feels like a great filtery softsynth-electrohouse-disco fusion with the majority of the novelty noises stripped off (except for not really when that charging elephant appears!) & replaced with precisely focused kinetic energy.

Something still niggles about it though (I'm still not sure what though) but this at least 2/3 of a great mix, and a great late-late-night to end of the night feel too.

It's not Ableton assisted either is it? some post production sure but apparently it's just 3 decks for the mix (maybe a spot of post-production clean up) I should check that....

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

"end of the night" = exhausted, happy morning :)

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure it's that special

heheh, just a bit of hype talk (although it has something Immerish about it, it's so floaty yet propulsive).

but apparently it's just 3 decks for the mix

Yeah could be. I saw him DJ once in Berlin and he was very...precise, without losing the fun, ifyouknowwotimean.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

ah (press blurb) boogy bytes vol. 1 has 16 tracks, but really it has 25 tracks, all digitally spliced and bifurcated

So that's a no. Ah well who cares.

I think I got confused by this bit - born in helsinki, kiki himself was a young hip-hop dj, and can regularly be seen on 3 turntables, so this blending comes as second nature.

Also, this is definitely better than "Run With Me"!

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

This does need some hype Omar, you're right!

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Monday, 20 February 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

first listen, I like it. better than most bpitch stuff (not really a fan)

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Joalz & Eddie Da Silva - Don't Close Your Eyes (Kiki Remix) is pretty great

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 24 February 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

I probably like the Allien track least (no surprise) but even it's not bad

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Skrufff: The track on the cd that really stands out for me is the Guy Gerber track Stoppage Time. . .

Kiki: "That's been quite a funny record, because it came out almost two years ago and everywhere I'm playing it everyone always asks me what the track is; even though it came out on quite a big label, no-one seems to know it. Maybe it's just in the scene that I'm playing in, people don't look up to Bedrock Records so much."

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

The Allien "track" is barely a 10 second snippet/loop and a bit of the vocal though isn't it? (tedious fanboy knee-jerk defence, apologies).

The only thing I do wish he'd done extra is let a bit of that thudering bass off the Ben Klock record "Earthquake" play out in the mix.

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Monday, 27 February 2006 09:55 (twenty years ago)

can't believe there's not more hype about this, i think it's an incredible mix! yes the joalz & eddie is a highlight, as is the 'gazebo'/'wasp'/'your body is my body' massiveness.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

love the elephants, too. and that gerber track & the way it's included. and infusion (where minimal meets minimal). incredible, indeed. whether you're on your bike, in the train, cleaning the house - it always works, as long as you play it loud!

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

i finally got to listen to this the other day, driving up the coast of chile at night, and it is indeed fucking fantastic - i haven't enjoyed a mix this much in ages. (and i was shocked at how good that infusion track is... i had always written them off as proggo breaks; guess i was wrong.)

i have to differ on the joalz & eddie track, though. the track itself is golden, but those vocals make me want to skin kittens. "can you TELLLLLLL me whyyyyyyy.... DONNNNNNN'T you CRYYYYYYYY....." jesus christ people, if i wanted to hear that kind of shit i'd listen to rock music.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

"stoppage time" was a big track on the french progressive house scene (david guetta, etc)

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

haha usually i feel the same way about histrionic vocals, philip, but this track somehow prepares me for them, it just...owns them

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

actually, i should have said, "if i wanted to hear that kind of shit, i'd listen to james blunt." ;)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Have we all forgotten Slam "This World" so soon?

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Phil is lashing out in anger.

So caught up in his own beliefs.

I didn't buy that Joalz and Eddie thing though I do like it, it's just kind of undanceable I thought, maybe not. It's such a James Holden tune, the prog/trance/bono connection will never die.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I've warmed up to this quite a bit more since my slightly guarded praise upthread! I expected it to get less interesting on many repeat listens tbh, but it's actually standing up brilliantly to being pretty much caned... I can listen to this right through super-easily, whereas some recent mixes (or compilation mixes almost) I really can't be bothered to (I'm thinking of M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language, Vol.1 I guess)

I definitely have some occasional doubts about quite a lot of so-called "Electrohouse" I think, there are odd tunes that really set my teeth on edge sometimes. It's mostly all good though. I think I just lean to lower-key stuff with occasional sudden spots of brightness than incessant pop in-your-face dazzlingness all the time. Rambling...

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

but those vocals make me want to skin kittens

Don't mind them at all, there pretty much lost in the music (when i read yr comment at first i was "there are vocals on Boogybytes?". :) Certainly not on par with 'Thissssss world' (or that Luciano song on Blind Behaviour that always got on my nerves.)

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

when i first heard the vocals on 'don't close your eyes' i kept thinking how wrong it was that i appeared to be loving them - they ar slightly indie-boy, but as will says the ludicrously exciting synths make them great, almost like a jlc remix.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Infusion - Daylight Hours, feels like a great lost Underworld track.

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The next Boogybytes is from Sascha Funke!

Boomkat page with clips

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

gah! that cover!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

flaming Bpitch mantle

Oh, boomkat, what hath thou wrought?

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

dude, flap-face is sooo 2004 - is bpitch finally behind the times??

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

The cover to Sacha is kinda bad/funny but mostly bad. He's a pretty good looking bloke otherwise.

We just featured Kiki on the RA podcast. Its free to download...
RA.005 Kiki
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/podcast/ra005-kiki-cover.jpg

― rchinn (rchinn), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

richard, please link all the RA downloads like so!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Great link Richard, thanks for that.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

these are totally the worst mix cd covers:

http://www.fidel.ru/content/mp3/albumimages/49-1.jpg
http://www.s-e-n.ws/cms/upload/images/pokerflat/news/pokerflat_news_234_PFRCD16_220.gif

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Bug, geddit? Terrible indeed.

I absolutely love the Boogybytes covers. Though Kiki's cover works better than Sascha's, I think. That RA005 picture is very pretty.

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Agree. Kiki is a good looking bloke. So far all our podcast artists have been easy on the eye.

Check out
RA.004 Margaret Dygas http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/podcast/ra004-margaret-dygas-cover.jpg

Its like a hot mimimal american apparel ad. The mix is great too.

― rchinn (rchinn), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

hehe I

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

MIMIMAL!

― banana squad (dayvidday), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

M.D. left me speechless

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm not really that excited about the Sascha Funke Mix tbh... it feels a bit soon after the last one, and a bit "another trendy minimal mix". I'm assured it's good though :|

I don't know why I have doubts because the Kiki mix is storming, and I still probably like it/rate it/listen to it more than all sorts of other mixes that have been lauded around here this year, and last.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

i've listened to the kiki album a bit over the past year or so... it starts out really really strong. i love "end of the world"...it reminds me of that money penny project remix of "you are my high" by demon vs heartbreaker...that alternative/goth/ebm/front 242 vibe :)

anyways, the kiki album starts out really strong but frankly goes downhill from there...i only really like 1/2 the tracks off the album.

but in other news, i'm REALLY digging Sasse featuring Kiki "Loosing Touch" on Mood Music!!! I'm not sure what Kiki contributes to the track, but it's my favourite thing from Sasse/Freestyle Man/Mood Music ever since the Freestyle Man remix of Blaze's "Funky People" on Playhouse.

― flowbee, Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

I think he might be contributing the vocals on that track, actually.

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

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