German producer/DJ Henrik Schwarz has never been secretive about his inspirations. During 2002 and 2003, when he was just beginning to strike out with his own material, he released a Marvin Gaye-sampling track titled 'Marvin,' a Jon Lucien-sampling track titled 'Jon,' and a rather audacious (and excellent) Moodymann ripoff titled 'Chicago' - which sampled a Roy Ayers song titled 'Chicago.' As evidenced by his first official DJ mix, he sees most of his interests as parts of one big whole, not unlike Kirk Degiorgio - who views the early developments within techno as an extension of jazz - or tastemaking BBC DJ Gilles Peterson. Schwarz leans just a little closer toward the left than either one of his peers, and he dips in and out of very specific niches as well as either one of them. Even if he cheats a little, by implementing the use of a drum machine to provide added (if not distasteful) thump to the likes of James Brown's 'Since You've Been Gone,' Doug Hammond's 'Wake Up,' and Marvin Gaye's 'You're the Man,' Schwarz impressively and thrillingly winds his way through the varied selections. Roughly 18 minutes separate D'Angelo's hotbox soul from Drexciya's subaquatic techno, while Moondog's oddball 'Bird's Lament' leads directly into Double's even-more-oddball synth pop.
The best feature of the disc is how it keeps its best sequence in reserve until the near-end. Luther Davis Group's 'You Can Be a Star' rises from the rattling and clanging of Pharoah Sanders' 'Summun Bukmun Umyun,' rasping and flailing like one of the greatest low-budget roller-disco tracks ever made. The intensity level rises ever so slightly for 'Get Around to It,' a loose-limbed track that hangs on Arthur Russell's combination of na誰ve vocals and perverse lyrics, which melds into Womack & Womack's 'Conscious of My Conscience' - a whispered, practically psychedelic late-'80s soul nugget that holds the unique distinction of simultaneously exemplifying quiet storm and disco despite being made years after the passings of both eras. Andy Kellman.
VA-HenrikSchwarzLive-(StudioK7)-Promo-2007-BOSSArtist: VAAlbum: Henrik Schwarz: LiveLabel: Studio!K7Source: CDCat. No.:Size: 110.08 MBGenre: ElectronicStrDate: 2007-09-17Quality: 198kbps/44.1khz/Joint StereoRipDate: 20.
Sun Ra - Lullaby for Realville02. Kuniyuki - Earth Beats (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)03.
Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)04. Jesse Rose Alongside Henrik Schwarz - Stop, Look & Listen05. Henrik Schwarz - Kalimba Dance06. Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon - Where We At07. Kraak & Smaak - No Sun In The Sky (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)08. Henrik Schwarz - Leave My Head Alone Brain09. Boundzound - Louder (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)10.
Mandrill - Mang Meat11. Henrik Schwarz - Jimis12.
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Henrik Schwarz - Imagination Limitation (DJ - Kicks)13. James Brown - Its a Man´s World (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)14. Dark Globe feat. Boy George - Atoms (Henrik Schwarz Rmx)15. Henrik Schwarz - Walk Music16. Henrik Schwarz - Jazz Book # 2 (Music For Little Hands)The latest release from deep house producer Henrik Schwarz stitches together sixteen live tracks in the studio.
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'Live' will be released in September.Hailing from Bodensee in the south of Germany, Schwarz is a longtime veteran of the German deep house scene. Known for his productions and remixes, Schwarz also has an innovative approach to live laptopping: He loads up his computer with his own tracks as well as jazz, soul, house and techno from his record collection and reinterprets them on the fly.His latest release, 'Live', promises to capture the method. The individual tracks were recorded in clubs around the globe, but then spliced together later in Schwarz's studio in Berlin. The album includes new versions of well known Schwarz tracks such as 'Leave My Head Alone, Brain', 'Imagination Limitation' and 'Walk Music' as well as tunes by Mandrill, Sun Ra and James Brown rearranged and reborn for the dancefloor.iRis3% recovery.