Pulse Radio met up with Sasse for a coffee to talk current music politics, his latest production “The Bottom Line” and Berlin nightlife - in addition to his current Australia & Asia tour, and his plans for 2010 and further !
Check the interview here
The current Dirt Crew single Deep Cover enters the top-20 Deep House charts today at place 19 with the Roberto Rodriguez Remix, while Vincenzos remix is running up at position 25 as well.
This bodes well for the single, officially released today, Monday 1.2 on vinyl and digital.
Check it out here !
Sasse has a new dj-mix online at Soundcloud. This time a deeper excursion into techy house, the mix is a mixture of upfront promos as well as some unreleased stuff he just finished in the studio - enjoy !
Tracklisting:
1. Justin Margovan - Low Slung Operator - Phobic
2. Vandermeer - Positive Light (Noah Preds Dub Negative Remix) - MFR
3. Above Smoke - Another Chance - Deep Explorer
4. Hakim Murphy - Jupiter Poop (Original_Mix) - Metamorphic
5. YOSA-Plastic_People - Dirt Crew Recs
6. Zev-Forget_The_World - Wolf & Lamb
7. Dirt Crew - Deep Cover - Moodmusic
8. Sebastian Davidson - Sunday Morning (Lemon Popsicle Remix) - 7A
9. Joel Alter - Preachin To The Choir (Alexkid Perspective) - Room With A View
10. Martin Eyerer + Sasse - Save My Life - CD-r
11. Dj Jus-Ed - New Life - Underground Quality
The new Dirt Crew single is doing serious damage on dancefloors around the world, before the official release date on Monday the 1st of February. The single features remixes from Roberto Rodriguez and Vincenzo, a perfect match for the Dirt Crew sound.
Roberto´s remix is allready climbing up the Beatport deep house charts, positioned at nr 55 right now and steadily going up.
Check Dirt Crew in action with a rocking dj-set @ Arena Club in Berlin tonite 30th of January.
Dirt Crew - Deep Cover Remixes is out on Feb 1 on Vinyl and Digital
Moodmusic head Sasse and labelmate Dave DK are joining forces to play a few dates down unden in February. On Feb 5th the guys are joines by Mike Buhl @ Revolver in Melbourne and on Feb 6th they are playing Co-Op in Sydney.
Sasse is currently promoting his upcoming Freestyle Man album “The Bottom Line” and is gonna play a few dates in Asia as well while on that side of the planet.
Feb 5th - Revolver, Melbourne
Feb 6th - Co-Op, Sydney
Tickets are available form usual outlets
Dirt Crew, hot from their recent 5 years compilation and the „Blow“ album on Moodmusic, is again on the wall with another hot remixpack…
Deep cover was the standout track on the album and gets the remix treatment from 2 of the brightest stars on the deep house scene.
Roberto Rodriguez builds up a massive groover with similarities to mid 90s deep dish sound but injects a slice of analog funk to it, showing the talent and nourishment in his music.
Vincenzo takes a deeper road, teasing the groove to slowly evolve into a tastemakers choice as we know him. deep, yet driving his mix fits perfect those early morning hands-in-da-air moments.
Support from Shonky, Stacey Pullen, Liapin, Soul Minority, Allan Byallo, Shinedoe, Deetron, Martin Eyerer, Nick Curly, gregor Tresher, Eddy Richards, Angel Molina among others..
Deep Cover Remixes is out on Jan 27th on Vinyl and Digital.
We wish everyone a prosperous and healthy new year - the best for 2010 !
We would like to thank you for the year 2009, with its many highs and lows it is surely a good year to change the decade. We had a lot of fun times in 2009, thanks again for all our parties you attended and the support you gave us.
As a small thank you, here is an exclusive podcast from Sasse, this time with a mix of his favorites from 2009 and an insight on what to come on Moodmusic in 2010… click below to listen/download from Soundcloud.
tracklisting
1. Dirt Crew - Deep Cover (Roberto Rodriguez Remix)
2. Penner & Muder - No Nose Knows (Original)
3. Phonogenic - Biden (Audio Soul Project Remix)
4. Filippo Moscatello - Kleinmond (Taras Van De Voorde Remix)
5. Sasse - Funkin My Venus
6. Holger Zilske & Dave DK feat Richard Davis - You Will Find Out
7. Lil Tony - Solid State
8. Sasse - In AM We Are Born
9. Nick Chacona - Fear (Beg To Differ Remix)
Moodmusic presents the long-running Nightstarter series with yet another exclusive collection of new and recent dance floor burners.
Compiled by Freestyle Man, the alter ego of label head Sasse, the compilation features some highlights from the upcoming releases as well some special exclusive moments from the past output of the label.
This time included are 2 unreleased remixes from label head Sasse; first a deep mix of Stels “The Nail That Sticks Out” and a cracking Freestyle Man remix of Dave DKs “Coimbra”.
Phonogenic aka Tuomas Salmela needs no introduction, with joy we welcome him back to Moodmusic after his recent hi-calibre output on Cocoon and Turbo.
Like “Blackwash” - his last Moodmusic release in 2008, the Biden EP offers diversity and dancefloor functionality combined with deepness and groove often missed in tech-house.
3 Phonogenic originals and a massive Audio Soul Project remix from Mazi, what more do you want !
Allready support and plays by Luciano, Martin Eyerer, Mandy, Osunlade, Oliver Koletzki, Deetron, MKL, Gregor Treshor, Brother Vibe and Slam Mode among others.
Sasse & Filippo Moscatello remix of Eleze - Glory Box has just been released on Italian Ego Music label. The original is a cover of the Portishead classic with vocals, while the remix from the guys concentrates on the groove and strips it down to proper old school meets new school flavour.
Getting support from lots of Class-A djs and being in the DMC buzz bodes well for the release. Allready played and supported by Dubfire , Agoria, Diskjokke, Jazzanova, ,Michael Reinboth, Rob Mello, X-Press 2, Sasha, Satoshi Tomie, Lexicon Avenue, Timo Maas, TJ Kong and Wally Lopez among others.
Very special treat tonight at Redrum club in Helsinki, Lil Tony has invited the cream of the deep house djs and producers in Finland for a special xmas bash. Check the line-up :
- Phonogenic Live (Moodmusic, 2020)
- Roberto Rodriguez Live (Compost)
- Sasse aka Freestyle Man (Moodmusic/Hairy Claw)
- Lil Tony (Moodmusic, Innervisions)
So one could say it´s a very Moodmusic biased party, yes. And we´re proud as hell about it, house music all night long !
Finns Do It Better 11.12.2009 Redrum, Helsinki
The forthcoming Freestyle Man album “The Bottom Line” is getting ready for a Feb release on Hairy Claw in the UK.
Consistent quality and Freestyle Man are two phrases that belong firmly together. Following on from two extremely well received EPs we are pleased here at Hairy Claw to present the Freestyle Man album ‘The Bottom Line’, the first full lenght Freestyle Man album since “Going South” on Sähkö/PUU in 2000.
Having a break with his Freestyle Man moniker for almost 3 years, 2009 was they year to reactivate the project and his 2 EPs on Hairy Claw proved there was a definite urge for the raw, untamed house sound Freestyle Man was associated with. The Bottom Line was recorded in Autumn 2009 in his BlackHead Studios in Berlin with a carefully chosen limited setup of vintage samplers, old school vinyl and his harem of analog synths, the result being somewhat updated version of the early Freestyle Man sound mixed with influences from the past, present and the future.
The Bottom Line is out on CD/Digital Feb 9th on Hairy Claw
Instead of storming the clubs and pubs of Berlin , James Flavour and Sasse have been creating a havoc in the BlackHead Studios, finishing EPs for both Moodmusic and Dirt Crew. The name of the game is dirty houz music, and we´re sure you will love it as much as we do here at Moodmusic HQ.
The EP on Dirt Crew will feature Sasse and Michelle Owen together with James Flavour on a 5 tracker with remixes from Luna City Express and the excellent Dirt Crew signing Yosa from Japan.
The EP on Moodmusic will be a co-op between Flavour and Sasse and will feature a remix from Tony Lionni.
More info will drop in the new year !
Phonogenic aka Tuomas Salmela and Sasse has joined forces in the studio in the last weeks and the guys are well amazed of the output, 7 tracks finished in less than 2 weeks - whooh !
Being around 2000 km away from each other, the co-op was based on file sharing and skype as main tools. While Tuomas was tweaking beats in Tampere, Sasse was mixing in Berlin - that´s what we call multitasking.
The results of these sessions will be out soon on various labels !
Filippo Moscatello´s 2nd remix pack from his highly acclaimed Pagliaccio album (mood-cd09) is about to hit the streets this week. With remixes from Koljah, Chopstick, Alex Maier and Taras Van De Voorde the package has been getting amazing feedback from people like Seth Troxler, John Digweed, Claude VonStroke, Hot Chip, Markantonio, Till Von Sein and Bothers Vibe among other.
Releasedate for the Pagliaccio Remixes Part 2 is 2.12.2009
Preview the single here
Compiled originally for the Starstyling “Hokus Fokus” show at the Berlin Fashion week in summer 2009, “Starstyling vs Moodmusic” takes us on a journey of unreleased gems and forthcoming goodies as well as special edits of some recent hits from Moodmusic, building a well thought DJ mix that we are used to hearing from the native Finn on dancefloors around the world.
Starstyling vs Moodmusic is out this week on CD and Digital
check it at Beatport here , Amazon.co.uk and Decks here
Nick Chacona is featured at Residentadvisor for a small interview on his debut album “Love In The Middle” which will hit the streets in early 2010.
The current Moodmusic single from Holger Zilske & Dave DK feat Richard Davis, You Will Find Out is getting hot reactions on the dancefloor and the dj community. With support and plays from Ewan Pearson, Chloé, Art Of Tones, C-Rock, Ripperton, James Flavour, Rob Mello, Riley Reinholt and Florian Kruse among others this will surely turn up to be an end-of-the-year anthem !
The single is out now on Vinyl thru WAS - Word And Sound and digitally thru Beatport and the other digital stores.
Nick Chacona has been busy finishing his forthcoming album “Love In The Middle” to be released on Moodmusic in Feb 2010.
It´s been taking a while but definitely has been worth the wait. 10 tracks in all, the album shows all sides of Nick Chacona - starting from his disco roots we all know him from, going thru some dubbed out slow jams and taking a stroll into serious house territory with his collaboration with Brothers Vibe. Featuring as well Kathy Diamond on “Fear” and Anthony Mansfield on “Especial” the album shows the talent behind the NYC based producer.
The first single will feature a Levon Vincent remix of “Be Like Olive” as well as 2 extended mixes from the album.
The Basic Shape EP from Gegenheimer & Jenius is getting massive dj-feedback with plays and chart support from Motor City Drum Ensemble, Shinedoe, Franck Roger, Osunlade, Ame, Tony Lionni and
Roberto Rodriguez among others.
The a-side “Basic Shape” seems to be the winner here, but lots of djs also prefer the housier “Cadaqués” and the über chilled “IPS”. The swedish born production team is currently in Barcelona working on the follow up EP for Moodmusic.
Gegenheimer & Jenius - Basic Shape is out is out now on Vinyl and Digital
Jon Freer has received the latest Moodmusic mix-CD compiled and mixed by Sasse, please check it out here
This coming weekend Moodmusic artists represent again their sound all over the World. Labelhead Sasse aka Freestyle Man and Filippo Moscatello plays Tunnel Club in Milano on Saturday, while Dirt Crew rocks Panorama Bar in Berlin for a special sunday ending set - which will light up the Capital !
Dave DK is travelling to Minsk for playing the NLO club on Friday the 30.10, which is supposed to be rocking hardtime while our Swedish heroes Gegenheimer & Jenius plays The Back Door club in Barcelona on the Saturday.
Please be sure to check any of the nights if you happen to be around - keep on rocking !
The new single from Swedish natives Gegenheimer & Jenius “Basic Shape” is out this week in the shops on strictly limited vinyl and digital formats. 3 tracks of deepest techy deep house vibes with great support from Tony Lionni, Àme, Atjazz, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Frank Roger, Laurent Garnier, Llorca, Roberto Rodriguez and Rob Mello among others this will be a hot one for the cold autumn nites.
The new Dirt Crew single “Deep Cover” is ready to be unleashed in early december. Taken from the current album “Blow” it features the original mix plus 2 amazing remixes from our dear friend Vincenzo and Compost Black star Roberto Rodriguez. While Vincenzo shows his talent in creating a deep yet driving house vibe, Roberto tackles the Dirt Crew sound with utmost delicacy, creating a peak hour tribal house monster which could have been on Yoshitoshi in 1994.
Expect the single to drop on vinyl and digital in December 2009.
The new Perspectives 03 compilation from Room With A View label is getting ready for release and included is “Lake Michigan” from Moodmusic labelhead Sasse as well. Other producers involved are Motor City Drum Ensemble, Art Of Tones, André Lodemann among others.
Room With A View is ran by our dear friends Phil & Anja from Hamburg and there will be a collaborative 12″ from Sasse on RWAV in early 2010.
Room With A View - Perspectives 03 is out now !
Here´s the latest Beatport chart from Sasse:
1. Kenny Glasgow - System Overload (Nitin Remix) - No. 19 Music
2. Freestyle Man - Century - Hairy Claw
3. Lewie Day - Money (Sasse Remix) - Siam Records
4. Penner & Muder - Fish In A Drawer - Moodmusic
5. Kasper Bjorke & His Friendly Ghost - The Great Derangement (Catz´n Dogz Pol On Scandal Remix) - We Love This!
6. Chris Carrier - I´m In Love Today – Silver Network
7. Glimpse / Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul (Jay Shepeard Remix) - Buzzin Fly
8. Gegenheimer - Kuti - Perplex
9. Kingpin Cartel - Ghetto (Nic Fanciulli & Steve Mac Remix) - Saved
10. Johnick III - Sexy Thing - Henry Street
Moodmusic headhoncho and A&R Klas “Sasse” Lindblad brings you the first installment of a new co-operation with Starstyling Worldwide, one of the more interesting fashion/design companies in Berlin right now. Featuring new, exclusive and unreleased tracks from the likes of Dave DK, Kiki & Sasse, Filippo Moscatello, Tigerskin, Stel, Penner+Muder and more this is future house music as we have come to expect from this trail-blazing label.
Compiled originally for the Starstyling “Hokus Fokus” show at the Berlin Fashion week in summer 2009, “Starstyling vs Moodmusic” takes us on a journey of unreleased gems and forthcoming goodies as well as special edits of some recent hits from Moodmusic, building a well thought DJ mix that we are used to hearing from the native Finn on dancefloors around the world.
Moodmusic/Starstyling will be out on the 13rd of November
After the latest Moodmusic release “Raw Tracks Vol 1.” is our main man in Helsinki offering another fine piece of house music on the cool Running Back label run by Gerd Jansen. The EP is called “Underground Sound Of Helsinki” and showcases his dirty take on House Music as we love it. Check it out in a recordshop near you soon !
Lil Tony is also finishing his 2nd EP for Moodmusic called “Raw Tracks Vol 2.” due out in December 2009.
Filippo Moscatello has just finished a wicked remix and dub for the german pop duo 2Raumwohnung. The song is called “Rette Mich Später” and is from their recent album “Lasso”. Expect the remixes on vinyl and digital before the end of the year.
Filippo is also working on a upcoming Moodmusic release with some more old school house love !
Greek producer Stel is working on a follow up to the highly sucessful “The Nail That Sticks Out” single on Moodmusic which lighted up dancefloors this summer with the hot remixes from King Roc and Kruse & Nürnberg. The 2nd single from Stel will be called “Last Night On Earth” and is another deeper than deep excursion of house music.
The single “Last Night On Earth” will be available early 2010 on Moodmusic.
Retakes is the latest brainchild of labelhead Sasse and will see a host of Moodmusic inner core producers dwell into the huge back catalogue from the label and re-editing songs into a 70 minutes long dj-mix. First up is Dave DK sprinkling his slowslung electronic house sound all over classics like Losoul & JT Donaldson, Henrik Schwarz and Sasse into a deep excursion of Moodmusic from 1997 to 2009.
Moodmusic Retakes Vol 1. will be available end of the year in digital and limited vinyl format.
The new Dirt Crew single “Deep Cover” is coming soon to a recordshop near you with hotten than hot remixes from Vincenzo and Roberto Rodriguez. Taken from the album “Blow” the single will be available end of November on vinyl and digital.
The fortcoming single “You Will find Out” from the Moodmusic supertroupers Dave DK & Holger Zilske featuring vocalist Richard Davis has already climbed to the Groove Mag top-20 charts.
The single is planned for late October release on vinyl and digital.
check out a great review of the current Freestyle Man single “Vibin” on Hairy Claw Records on the mighty Keep It Deep blog (in german).
1. D.I.Y. | Suck my caulk (Markus Fix Remix) | Tuning Spork
2. Till von Sein & Chopstick | Lifetime | Dirt Crew Recordings
3. HRDVSION | Cause i love you | CDR
4. Martin Landsky | We’re streaking | Pokerflat
5. Seth Troxler | Panic, Stop. Repeat ! | Spectral Sounds
6. Jacob | Diamonds (Moodymanc Remix) | BSD004
7. Will Saul & Tam Cooper | Teddy’s Back | Simple
8. Michael J Collins | Lotion Pants | Wolf + Lamb
9. Claude von Stroke | Vocal Chords | Dirty Bird
10. AFMB | Here + There | Compost
Here´s the latest in the Djbroadcast podcast series from our main man Sasse, enjoy the music !!
tracklisting
1. Silicone Soul - Language Of The Soul - Soma
2. Kenny Glasgow - System Overload (Nitin Remix) - Nr. 19
3. André lodemann - Vehemence Of Silence (Atjazz Perspective) - Room with a View
4. Jay Shepheard - Year to the day (TJ Kong &Nuno dos Santos remix) - Compost Black
5. Trickski - Lost Jams track 1 - Stillove4music
6. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Ben Watt Remix) - EMI
7. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Ben Watt Dub) - EMI
8. LAYO & BUSHWACKA - The Raw Road (Nic Fanciulli Remix) - Olmeto
9. Kingpin Cartel - Ghetto (Nic Fanciulli & Steve Mac Remake) - Saved
10. Kasper Bjorke And His Friendly Ghost - The Great Derangement (CatzNDogzAndPolOnSkandalRemix) - We Love This
11. Hatikvah - Synchronicity (chopstick&johnjon_remix) - Baalsaal
Sasse is mixing the last tracks for his forthcoming Freestyle Man album on Hairy Claw at BlackHead Studios. The yet untitled album is planned to drop end of the year while the actual single releases “Vibin” and “Century” are doing some serious damage around the clubs right now. Watch this space for more news !!
The current Freestyle Man single “Vibin” on Hairy Claw gets reviewed by one of our favourite blogsters at littlewhiteearbuds.com - check the Vibe !
Sasse is busy in the BlackHead Studios working on his 3rd studio album for Moodmusic. After the success of his latest work, “Toinen” (released Oct 2008) he´s been songwriting the whole summer and is now recording and mixing the yet untitled album, due in early 2010 on Moodmusic.
After lots of work, the brand new website for Moodmusic is ready to rock. Please check around and if there´s any problems or complaints drop us a line at info@moodmusicrecords.com
Here´s the latest podcast from Sasse for our friends at Galaktica Records in Barcelona, enjoy.
tracklisting :
1. Kenny Glasgow - System Overload (Nitin Remix) - Nr 19.
2. Layo & Bushwacka - Madgascar - Olmeto
3. Manoo - Telekinesie (House Mix)
4. Kerri Chandler - Open Source - Deeply Rooted
5. Darko Esser - Relive - Dieb Audio
6. Audio Soul Project - Dancing On The Black Keys - Fresh Meat
7. Rainer Trüby - To Know You - COmpost Blakc
8. Nils Penner, Chopstick and Johnjon - sun rises in the east - Absurd
9. Einmusik - Atl Antis -Einmusika Recording
10. Santos - Hold Home - Moon Harbour
welcome to our brandnew moodmusic records website.
1. CONCEPT
2. IN TIME
DAN BERKSON aka SYNTHO is warmly welcomed to the MOODMUSIC headquarter. syntho brings the best out of dan it seems as the tracks he’s delivered surely are some of his strongest works so far. known for his releases on Gourmet & Exun the chicago bred Dan has a knack for jacking chi-town [...]
1. HOUZ (QUARION STOP AND START REMIX
2. KLEINMOND (JAMES FLAVOUR REMIX)
3. HOUZ (TRICKSKI REMIX)
4. KLEINMOND (JAMES FLAVOUR CHEZ BLUNTS REMIX)
Taken from the “Pagliaccio” album on Moodmusic, Filippo Moscatello gets the remix treatment from his favourite house heads in the circuit..
Quarion rocks “Houz” into a frenzy of stabbing, jacking and deep bass for the full flavoured [...]
1. CINEMA PARAISO (ADA REMIX)
2. CINEMA PARAISO
3. COIMBRA (RUSS GABRIEL REMIX)
2. COIMBRA
Dave DK needs no introduction, since his debut Moodmusic album “Lights and Colours” he´s been busy travelling the world preaching his trademark electronic deep house sound and remixing Florian Kruse, Tigerskin and Seva K for labels Baalsaal, Global Underground and Dirt Crew among other [...]
1. Horisontti
2. Rebirth
3. Tomorrow Will Show
Written and Produced by Jani Lehto for D.S.E.. Flute by Kari Alikoski.
Recorded at Äänimaa Studios. Recording Engineer: Markku Alikoski.
2. SO THAT´S WHAT HAPPENS
1. SO THAT´S WHAT HAPPENS (ISOLÉE REMIX)
After the highly successful debut release on Moodmusic „Machine Ate My Homework“ (played/charted by Roman Flügel, Hell, Tiefschwarz, James Lavelle, Kiki, Loco Dice etc) from London based Gavin Herlihy, we offer you the next step in the form of „So That´s What Happens“.
Produced together [...]