Henrik Schwarz's Very Own Thread

'where we at' is what slam's 'this world' really really wanted to be.

Can anyone ID the track with the female vocs 10 mins in to the RA podcast? http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.asp?id=33

i was happy to see that he did an RA podcast although i haven't listened yet as the end of this year has seen so many mixes that are worth spending time with. i haven't even caught up with the ILM mix thread yet.

i love the extended "stop look and listen" too. (i think that's henrik's mix)

The jam kids on the vespas
And glum looks on their faces
The street is full of punks
They got spikes
See those rockers with their long curly locks
Goodnight to the rock and roll era
Cause they don't need you anymore
Little girl, boy, girl,
bo...................y
Their composures are so distracted
jazzbo's, skinny arms,
And the dance faction, a little too loose for me
Every night it's straight and narrow
Laws are broken, amusing era
walls are broke in the music era
Round and round and round and round she goes....

And the fact that he rocks vocals on his DJ Kicks track is a major bonus. I only hope we can somehow connect wity him in the coming year and get something done together in some manner.

Yeah a hook-up is definitely a good idea.

I mean, you have to understand, when you subscribe to evey email weekly newsletter (Juno, Phonica, Picadilly, Beatport, Bleep, Clone, Forced Exp, etc etc etc) which I am sure many here do, and I see all the dozens and dozens of new 12" singles coming out every week, you dont want to listen, you want to crawl under the covers and never come out! When something great rears its head, we do fucking carthwheels, we want to send champagne, we want to just KNOW them in some way. It is inspiring.

That said, I am in London right now and just went to the DC Recordings night w/ Padded Cell Live and J Saul Kane dj'ing and there were maybe 20 people there. That really bummed me out. London man, WTF?

Also, his track for Diamonds and Pearls (Jimis 2006, no?) is monsterfully big. Love it so much.

maybe I am a dork, tho I just use Phonica and Decks.De, but I always want to listen, and actually really enjoy listening, don't underestimate the bite sized kick of a 90 second snippet of something good!

This track is great! Reminds me a bit of Luomo's "Body Speaking".

The RA podcast is ace, esp. the first half. I'm not quite so into Schwarz when he's in Moodymann mode (dusty sounding funk and disco loops), if only b/c it's not quite as distinctive. On the other hand, the use of Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday" on this is inspired.

one of the things i want to also say is that when tim asks

has deep house ever been as good as it is right here?

it reminds me of the old reynoldsism about how house just *never changes*, it's just stodgy and reliable year after year whereas whatever he's always hyperenthusing about is so mercurial and always rushing into the future or whatever. well, the secret about house is that it aside from stodginess it's incrementally ALWAYS getting better, by tiny steps.

I tried to argue this line, or something quite similar, in that thread where Jess broke up with house (circa beginning 2003), but no-one agreed with me.

I do like the more Moodymann-ish Schwarz stuff as well, it's just not as startling to me (post Moody/Parrish etc.) as his more orchestral sound - e.g. "Imagination Limitation", the Alton Miller mix etc.

Basically I like him most when he sounds like he's lost in a Bermuda Triangle constellated by Moodymann, Isolee and Faze Action.

trickski usually pretty good.

On a slightly related note, has anyone heard this mix Dixon put out last year?

I've been contemplating making a CD for a friend with stuff like Schwarz, "Rej" etc. alongside Fuckpony, Nass etc, called "The New Deepness"

also, i cannot get enough of the coldcut mix. i knew this already, i am surprised that others don't feel this way. it works spectacularly well tacked on to the end of the mandy at the controls mix.

The Wei Chi one is still the best I feel.

The remix isn't bad...it's those lyrics.

I must check the Tosca again, I remember being kind of meh about it tho as the shop I worked in closed down that Tosca remix album was one of the few CDs left...hard to feel enthusiasm for it.

sometimes cheesy inspirational lyrics are precisely what is needed to hit the spot. and it's better than 'this world'!

can henrik pull off an album? he's doing one for k7, you know.

RA comments people are wack

-- HUNTA-V (vahid), jeudi 16 novembre 2006 22:41 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link
yes utter morons

-- Ronan (Ronan), jeudi 16 novembre 2006 23:05 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

lawl

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I'll certainly give it a chance. Got any details?

bill withers is not country but ok

henrik's rmx of dj hell's 'the angst' is a+++

(as is the original, surprisingly)

love the Withers mix

while we're at it his remix of detroit experiment's 'think twice' is pretty great too

he's done the most recent beats in space!

(with ame)

can't stand the wobbly warping on the bill withers vocal. otherwise it's a great track. loads of dodgy warping all over his dj kicks as well. is it on purpose? it's such a horrible side effect of warping audio and there are pretty simple ways round it.

"can't stand the distortion on these marshall amplifiers when the gain is increased above a certain level"

ha. not quite. so you find that stuttering pleasant?

god, i just discovered the Mari Boine remix for myself. though i have been listening to the man a lot as of recent (the Yalla Yalla remix rates high for me), the Mari Boine remix fucking KILLS ME. shivers up and down the spine.

^^my favourite schwarz track

the warping is a bit of an ableton live thing. it's not ideal but i can deal with it.

Aside from maybe Imagination Limitation, that remix I think is the best application of the Henrik Schwartz aesthetic, essentially all the right ingredients mixed well, and cooked al dente. Whereas I find a good portion of HS's stuff kind of middling, this shows the extent of the subtle grandeur that is HS at his best.

I rate a lot of his stuff high...i think 'Walk Music' is fucking brilliant, and love the Amampondo shit too.

feel like Moodymann dropped the Bill Withers edit a couple months back-- was wondering who did it then, now i'm glad i know.

Mari Boine is definitely his high point by some measure for me, although "Walk Music" and "Chicago" are up there. I dunno, I was crazy about him for a while but as Edward said above sometimes he falls into middling territory. As seen above I really thought he was on to something pretty special for a while (around the DJ Kicks release) but have cooled on him since.

agree that the mari boine rmx and 'walk music' are schwarz pinnacles - would add the alton miller, ane brun and coldcut rmxes too.

mari boine mix is amazing. i also like the v old "faces and places" one which I prob said here 2/3 years ago!

my favorite is "walk music" though i find little to argue with in the last few posts. i like how it's unsettling and uplifting at the same time sorta like a bad weather day where you're really happy anyway.

Also agree with the Ableton warping thingy. It seems at odds with his otherwise more organic production values.

mix of Omar featuring Stevie Wonder's "I'm Feeling You" is, in my opinion, fucking stunning.

yeah that tune is great. real catchy.

damn, he played here last night, and it was one of the best sets i've ever heard, no shit. 2+ hours, all his own tracks and edits i think, and people were losing their minds. top notch!

A copy of the Vuoi Vuoi Me remixes should be arriving in the mail within the next week. Will be very glad to have it.

I would love love love to go see him play in Melbourne tonight but it's too soon after surgery :-(

yeah probably 2½ hours? an hour longer than he was meant to play for! obviously having a great time - he was in the other room downstairs later, jiggling onstage, looking like he was itching to take over from Chateau Flight blokey on the decks, but he was also already running an hour and a half past his finish time and showing no signs of fading

some people losing their minds:

http://www.poisontothemind.org/pics/2009/schwarz1.jpg
http://www.poisontothemind.org/pics/2009/schwarz4.jpg
http://www.poisontothemind.org/pics/2009/schwarz5.jpg
http://www.poisontothemind.org/pics/2009/schwarz6.jpg

PS Tim you could have borrowed a wheelchair, called ahead feigning disability, and had them rope off a safety sitting-and-nodding-appreciatively area?

god i love this man

http://www.ableton.com/schwarzonator

Even if you don't use Live, it's cool to see his music making process. The notes that the plugin produces sound so much like his tracks.

i've been messing around with his schwarzonator a bit. really great results so far.

A bit of talk in here about his remix of Bill Withers

Finally available on record, well this certainly sounds like it - http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/395418-01.htm

it did come out on record though -

http://www.discogs.com/Bill-Withers-Who-Is-He/release/1663797

it was available for months, they kept re-pressing. same as the Omar/Stevie Wonder "I'm Feeling You" remix...

Missed that on Juno. Can't seem to find an out of stock product page for it but thanks for the heads up.

I can't get enough of this at the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyoL1GRY-g

I'd like to send this track back in time to when we were YSIing everything awes.

BTW, the "who is he" remix is coming out again via GAMM. Should be in shops right now...

i was raving about his detroit experiment remix on twitter, and got turned on to these two also-amazing remixes that i'd never heard:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCXLGzwT-Yw

Also don't sleep on the Emmanuel Jal remix. And I really really hope his remix of "Wanna Be Starting Something" eventually sees the light of day.

yeah the emmanuel jal one is awesome madness. i've never heard his "wanna be starting something"!!!

I think he's only playing it live. There are youtubes but they're not great quality obv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQpexM2S4d4

BTW, the "who is he" remix is coming out again via GAMM. Should be in shops right now...

― mikebee (BATTAGS), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark
this isn't the tss tss remix i linked to earlier? http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/395418-01.htm
can't find any other releases for Tss Tss on discogs anyhow.

Black Rose - Anthem here http://soundcloud.com/made-to-play/mtp036-black-rose-anthem/

Oh wow this Henrik Schwarz / Bugge Wesseltoft album is ace In A Silent Way business, it's like the Nicolas Jaar album if that was really good.

"take words in return (return version)" is sick... anyone heard it/talking about it anywhere?

YES I love this tune, those constantly changing stuttering percussive bits really knock.

yes & the vocals are fantastic

this is probably a stupid thing to say but i listened to it and was like "well i'll get on board with some minimal joint that reminds me of 'days go by'"

lol

love how the return version just spruces up the original enough to push it from good into great territory

carl craig remix is excellent too, takes me right back to his prime remixing years

j0rdan have you heard "walk music"? it's a few years old, but if you like this you might love that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Oxo76OfS4

The House Masters compilation feels like such a brilliant victory lap.