Studio K7
2004
DJ Kicks
About This Album
Certainly one of the more curious entries in the long-running DJ-Kicks series, Erlend Øye's edition rounds up the usual batch of tastefully chosen dance records, in this case a range of mainly German, or at least German-sounding, microhouse productions. That in itself isn't particularly curious -- microhouse was certainly the trendy dance sound circa 2004, with German labels like Kompakt and Perlon setting (or more precisely, having set) the trends, while most everyone else followed along. And as this mix illustrates, Øye has a keen ear, residing in Berlin (rather than his native Norway) at the time of this album's release, and he selects several excellent tracks typical of what you'd probably hear out in the more trendsetting techno clubs of that city: Jürgen Paape's "So Weit Wie Noch Nie," Justus Köhncke's "2 After 909," Jackmate's "Airraid," Ricardo Villalobos' "Dexter," Morgan Geist's "Lullaby," and Ada's "Luckycharm." Here's the curious part, though: Øye isn't your typical DJ -- he's a singing DJ, which means he likes to sing over certain tracks, or at least ad-lib over them.
Track List (try tracks 1,4 and 13)

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