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)
