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Patrick Lazhar – Max 115

D*ruffalo presents: Unusual Remixes Mix Vol. 1

Our music department is still on fire. While the Druffalo Hit Squad has confirmed that Druffmix 39 is in finishing stage (working title: “With A Thrill In Our Head And A Pill On Our Tongue”), and Gram’s superb trilogy in progress is still rotating heavily, we have yet another series to announce:

Patrick Lazhar’s Unusual Remixes Mixes

As we reported earlier,  Patrick is very much a person you can trust when it comes to extensive house expertise. He is also one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of incredible remixes done by credible remixers for non-credible artists.

Thus you may know some of the voices you’ll hear in the mix you can find further below, but you would probably cringe if you’d see the artists responsible for what you’ll hear in the mix.

Anyway, D*ruffalo is always ready to spread the music we cherish, but we also believe that confusion is necessary, certainty is futile, and that thorough research shall be encouraged (we also signed a contract for our own audio content with M.A.T.O.S. [The Movement Against Tracklisting Of Sets] in the early days of this site, but that’s another story).

But then you can always check Patrick’s wonderful list to connect at least some dots, and hope that he continues to update it.

Whatever you do, make sure that you listen to Patrick Lazhar’s Unusual Remixes Mix Vol.1:

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Great Unexpectations

As you may have noticed, D*ruffalo’s views on what is underground and what is not, is considerably different to other views on what is underground and what is not.

Our much beloved friend Patrick, a walking encyclopedia of all things house, promised us a Druffmix on this topic ages ago, and it takes him so long to get it done that the D.H.S. even did a Druffmix on its own ages ago, just to pass the time.

Now records on this topic lined up for future Druffmix excursions are piling up, waiting to be fired away. And they will be.

In the meantime, let us draw your your attention to Patrick’s list of recommended & unexpected house remixes of non-electronic artists, a work in progress that is a good starting point for liberating your taste in house of the rules and regulations imposed on you by undersexed and overtheoretizised  media taste makers with more media than taste.

As for the commerce vs. art debate, always keep in mind that “contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.” (Fran Lebowitz)

This beat is…this beat is…this beat is Teutonic!

At Druffalo HQ, we love to set historical facts straight with thorough research, as you all know. Thus we cannot accept how internationally the primordial soup of modern German electronic dance music is more or less linked to Kraftwerk, a few hippies, a few punks, Mike Mareen and Basic Channel, when in fact is was partly originated by, ahem, one member of Basic Channel. Well actually not BC, but the label Teutonic Beats, founded in 1988 by Thomas Fehlmann, who earlier formed the globally acclaimed German Post Punkateers Palais Schaumburg, which incidentally Moritz von Oswald joined for their last phase (see an earlier Druffalo Theme song). So Herr Fehlmann and Herr von Oswald (and other Palais Schaumburg member Ralf Hertwig) were right there in the midst of all, and collaborations like Marathon’s Movin’ brought the spotlight to their activities, as did some of the releases produced for the Olympic Games in Seoul. Teutonic Beats remained an interesting phase in their work however, which by all means should have been saved from fading into oblivion, even if it pales in comparison to their later impact (we speak for consensus here, not our personal opinion). It is not really Germany’s answer to Chicago House and the experiments of Bomb The Bass and Coldcut, it is not really Germany’s answer to Belgian New Beat. It is something different. And the according records are increasingly difficult to get a hold of.

Enter arch collector and friend Patrick Lazhar, who assembled a collection of Teutonic Beats releases and mixed them into a themed selection for us, and you!

Tracklist:

00:00 The Young Teutonic Street Band – Strawinz
02:04 Cosmic Baby – New Zone
10:22 L.U.P.O. – Hell Or Heaven (Extended Mix)
15:20 Vox Mystica – Callas (Vox Mix)
20:25 Westbam – Hold Me Back
24:25 Dick – Exzess (Monk Mix)
28:02 L.U.P.O. Feat. Cathy – Keep It Up (Vocal Extended Mix)
32:29 It‘s 2 Hard – A Long Hard Dick (Long Hard Mix)
36:19 Westbam – Monkey Say Monkey Do Remix (New Beat Remix)
39:57 Futur Perfect – Sato Agreppo (Imperial Mix)
45:31 L.U.P.O. – So Hard (Club-Mix)
50:27 The B.h.H With Ardath Bey – Bulgarian Hip Hop (Remix)
55:06 Eastbam – Aka Aka (Aka Bass Mix)
58:47 The 2 German Latinos – Gigolo Gigolette (Delkom Dance Mix)
63:33 Inga – Riding Into Blue (Sun Electric Mix)
68:10 Grace Darling – Dreams
73:55 Fischerman‘s Friend – O‘Locco (Original)

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