Browse by Artist: SUPERPITCHER

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Heroin
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KOM 035EP

"Superpitcher is Aksel Schaufler who is resident DJ at the Total Confusion club in Cologne's legendary studio 472 among Michael Mayer and Tobias Thomas. After his storming contribution for Speicher 1 and a remix for Contriva's club hit 'Monika' which became one of the hottest moments during the last cold winter nights he presents his new beautiful record 'Heroin'? for heights of this season. Kompakt is his work place, technopop his mission -- watch out -- you' ll get addicted!"

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Yesterday
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KOM 066EP

"In Superpitcher's case, the past is 'Tomorrow', an unpretentious, little Song on his 'Heroin' EP, released on Kompakt in 2001. A track which has already broken innumerable hearts, decorated a number of compilations and found admirers from all over the world. And now, it's the elegant uptempo version of ,More Tomorrow' which encroaches the dancefloors and ranges among this summer's great superpitched moments (just listen to the gorgeous remixes he did for Plug Research's DNTL, Cocoon's 'Glove' and his tracks for Speicher 4' and Total 4. Apart from the clubby track 'More Heroin', the B-side also features the brilliant 'Time To Cry', a track which not only follows in the footsteps of 'Tomorrow' as far as the B2-positioning is concerned. At present, there isn't anybody or anything who would be able to occupy more convincingly the interface between indiepop and techno than Superpitcher. This is real glam!"

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Happiness Remixes
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KOM 103EP

Remixes by M.Mayer and Lawrence. "'Happiness', the most splendid track of the currently released Superpitcher album Here Comes Love, was indispensable to get remixed. To increase or reinterpret the dramatic beauty of the original, was a difficult job. Difficult but also tempting. It was not necessary to ask Michael Mayer twice and Lawrence was quasi finished before he was in demand. The result is two excellent affirmations to the hope, that a remix can be much more than just recycling. The mix by Mayer rebundles the energy of the original and couples 'Happiness' with a lot of craziness. Without losing the primal warmth, he drives your feelings by roller coaster and hits you in the middle of your heart and soul. It got a modern noble rave-tune. Please wack out to it with a big smile on your face. Hamburgs´ expert for poetic techno is called Lawrence. His albums on his own label Dial are a class of its own and certainly belong to the most emotional moments of the newer club-history. You can hear that for Superpitchers' 'Happiness' he invested a lot of heart´s blood. His mix sounds as if angels would sing, so wonderfully lost in reverie. You would like to put yourself inside this track. If you don´t feel anything there, you´re as cold as a Siberian lamp pole. The cover artwork is from Petra Hollenbachs´ amazing 'Happiness' videoclip." This record only exists because of one thing: "...to cause you happiness."

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Kilimanjaro
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	3LP+CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	KOM 222LP

3LP version, including a free CD version. In his near-decade history with recording and performing for Kompakt, Cologne's Aksel Schaufler aka Superpitcher has become synonymous with the sound of the label -- the emotional sway and character he creates is unrivaled amongst today's ocean of comparisons. From James Holden to Foals, he has been cited as an influence and his remixes are cherished and have almost reached legendary status. Though it's been six years since his debut full length Here Comes Love (KOMP 032CD), it's clear that Superpitcher has remained fully in the picture not only as a producer but thanks to a diet of consistent, rigorous DJing. Now he returns with Kilimanjaro -- a full-length that emanates his rich knowledge of music as a producer. From the moment that Cologne church bells ease us into Schaufler's bewitching twist on dub with "Voodoo," he sets the tone for themes that echo throughout; enchantment, pain and magic. The first single "Rabbits In A Hurry" has caused a rapturous chime of support from the club elite and proves to be more than that -- unfounded disco dements itself with the sounds of the absurd in Superpitcher's sexiest signature flow. Diehard fans will rejoice with "Friday Night" which is a return to the classic Kompakt sound that Schaufler helped build and when he teams up with Cómeme starlet Rebolledo, it's a cosmic, hallucinogenic trip. Koelsch tequila in your glass, the '70s, disco, sex and the finest of drugs. However which way you look at it, Superpitcher has set up an accomplished sophomore release that maintains his roots in dance music while managing to have a complete disregard for genre and adding the involvement of acoustic instrumentation and vocals -- a tough integration that works over and over again on this release. Includes color insert and glossy printed inner sleeves.

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Here Comes Love
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 032CD

"'I came the long way...' or 'Good things come to those who wait...' can be taken quite literally when it comes to how far we've travelled to get to this point. It's been 3 years since Aksel Schaufler a.k.a. Superpitcher dropped the legendary debut single Heroin/Tomorrow (KOMPAKT 35). Since then, he has earned a fervent underground following thanks to a string of singles and remixes -- perhaps the most promising purveyor of the schaffel-techno surge since Wolfgang Voigt. With Here Comes Love, Superpitcher effortlessly succeeds in delicately balancing songwriting and DJ music. The result excretes charm and personality -- referencing the most dazzling moments in club and pop music's history. Envision this scenario floating on a cloud fuelled by pure emotion -- Françoise Hardy and DJ Pierre slow-dancing in Jamaica's Studio One, Brian Ferry taking an inebriated Elvis Presley's temperature, and contemporary R&B flirting with Cologne's minimalism -- straight into your own soul-stirring disco. From the Moroder-tipped bass and mood bells tolling the opening of 'People', it's plain to see that Schaufler studio trickery has opened up to make room in the mix for the vocals that will figure heavily into every track that follows. The underlying agitation of 'People' gives way to the jump-up bounce of one of the album's highlight tracks, 'The Long Way', in which Schaufler's hazy cabaret crooning attests over and over again, 'I came the long way just to find you.' From hereon in the album swings back and forth from periodic lapses of introversion from boys who think too much ('Sad Boys') to the openhearted diary-like affectations of 'Love Me Forever', 'Lover's Rock', and 'Happiness'. Here Comes Love features previously unreleased tracks recorded over a continuous period of over 12 months. The result is proudly an album rather than a simple compilation of new tracks. It's difficult for us to avoid repeating that over-used P-word as it's so pleasurably melting in our mouth. Here comes POP. Here comes Superpitcher. Here comes Love."

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Today
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 040CD

Repress of the first Superpitcher album, originally released 2005. Just as Kompakt's inimitable style is penetrating the crates of the world's biggest DJs (John Digweed, Groove Armada), just as imitators begin biting their sensual style and just as consumers are questioning the Cologne Empire's ability to keep up, Kompakt does it... AGAIN. Today is Superpitcher's debut mix CD. It not only raises the bar for minimal, lush techno, but it matches the quality of the great Kompakt Mix CD series: titles like Michael Mayer's Immer, Triple R's Friends and Tobias Thomas' Smallville. It seethes and breathes light, love and rhythm and reestablishes the microhouse sound. Today includes treasures and advance releases from some of the most hotly-tipped producers in the world. It is smaller, sexier and more dreamy than perhaps any mix you've ever heard. As the label's own translated description says: it is "internationally accepted role-model sex." Consider names like Lawrence from Ghostly International and Oliver Hacke of Trapez. Melt with Nathan Fake of überbuzz label Border Community and Traum. Lust after the bassline of the mighty Wighnomy Bros. Come down with the epilogue from Sebastian Tellier. Feel the vibe from other labels like Playhouse, International Deejay Gigolos and of course... Kompakt. This is the mix CD your mother warned you about. This is Today.

Artist:	SUPERPITCHER
Title:	Kilimanjaro
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 080CD

In his near-decade history with recording and performing for Kompakt, Cologne's Aksel Schaufler aka Superpitcher has become synonymous with the sound of the label -- the emotional sway and character he creates is unrivaled amongst today's ocean of comparisons. From James Holden to Foals, he has been cited as an influence and his remixes are cherished and have almost reached legendary status. Though it's been six years since his debut full length Here Comes Love (KOMP 032CD), it's clear that Superpitcher has remained fully in the picture not only as a producer but thanks to a diet of consistent, rigorous DJing. Now he returns with Kilimanjaro -- a full-length that emanates his rich knowledge of music as a producer. From the moment that Cologne church bells ease us into Schaufler's bewitching twist on dub with "Voodoo," he sets the tone for themes that echo throughout; enchantment, pain and magic. The first single "Rabbits In A Hurry" has caused a rapturous chime of support from the club elite and proves to be more than that -- unfounded disco dements itself with the sounds of the absurd in Superpitcher's sexiest signature flow. Diehard fans will rejoice with "Friday Night" which is a return to the classic Kompakt sound that Schaufler helped build and when he teams up with Cómeme starlet Rebolledo, it's a cosmic, hallucinogenic trip. Koelsch tequila in your glass, the '70s, disco, sex and the finest of drugs. However which way you look at it, Superpitcher has set up an accomplished sophomore release that maintains his roots in dance music while managing to have a complete disregard for genre and adding the involvement of acoustic instrumentation and vocals -- a tough integration that works over and over again on this release.

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