Various Artists - 5 Years Lebensfreude feat. "Mönk Mönk" by M. Schaffhäuser (Lebensfreude Records)
Raveline May 2009 about "Mönk Mönk": "...ganz großes und zeitloses Kino!"
Lucy - Grainy Lines EP / feat. Remixes by René Breitbarth (Ware 080)
Ziggy Kinder - Ribbon Twist EP (Ware 079)
De:Bug June 2009: "ZIggy Kinder kann einen immer wieder überraschen."
Raveline May 2009: "Großartig!" (6/6)
Schaffhäuser & Friends - Unequal Equality (Ware 77 + 78 / Ware CD 17, feat. Alex Smoke, And.id, Benjamin Brunn, Fabrice, Lucy, Markus Güntner, Midinovela, Ursula Bogner, Xhin, Ziggy Kinder)
Press + DJ Feedback about "Unequal Equality":
Raveline Feb. 09: "Schaffhäuser war wirklich noch nie besser als hier...".
Maetrik (Treibstoff Rec.): "It's wonderfully pretty!! Full support."
P.toile (Ostwind/Mothership): “What a nice album. Great! I like it very much!”
Groove Magazin, März/April 2009:
„... ein grandioses und in sich stimmiges Album (..), das Einflüsse aus Dub, Deephouse, Minimal und hypnotischem Techno zu einem souveränen Impuls für das Clubleben 2009 zusammenbringt.“ (Jochen Ditschlerl)
De:Bug, März 2009:
„Die Kollaborationen gehören defintiv zu den besten Ware-Platten überhaupt.“ (Sascha Kösch alias Bleed)
Mathias Schaffhäuser - "Nice To Meet You" (live @ Subway, Köln, Dec. 2008)
Still fresh:
Various Artists - Malatoid 003 (Malatoid Records) feat. "Pustertaler Freiheit" by Mathias Schaffhäuser
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Mathias Schaffhäuser & Xhin - Ice Monster EP (Persistencebit Rec.)
De:bug Jan/Feb 09:
"‘Ice Monster‘ will über den Floor sliden, und das gelingt dem Track mit sehr feinen Bewegungen auch perfekt und wirkt wie ein Minimaltechnoballet auf flirrend ausgedehnt groovenden Gleitschuhen. (...) Eine Platte für alle, die es etwas bilderreicher mögen und den Geschmack des Seltsamen dennoch durchtanzen wollen." (Bleed)
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Mathias' "Miles Over Zero" on Brett Johnsons/Mathias Schaffhäuser - RSPRED 027 (Resopal Red)
De:Bug 10/2008: "Die "Miles Over Zero" Seite von Mathias Schaffhäuser gehört nicht nur in den Percussioneffekten zu dem Ausgefeiltesten, was ich von ihm seit langem gehört habe, sondern auch der langsam eingefädelte Funk-Unterton der Synths ist einfach ein Monster. Brilliante Fortsetzung der Serie." (Bleed)
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Finally available as wav and mp3 files:
Benjamin Brunn - "Laminar EP" (Ware 14)
Markus Güntner - "Such A Shame Remixes" (Ware 35)
Decomposed Subsonic - "Live In Bogota" (Ware 37)
Go to www.ware-net.de (and click button "buy mp3s" or check out http://www.myx2u.com/ware_records
Influences
king crimson/robert fripp/david cross/bill bruford/john wetton, matthew herbert, cpt. beefheart & the magic band, onur özer, artbeat, rainald goetz, vakant records, jimi hendrix, sibylle berg, alex smoke, michael schmidt-salomon, spex, james holden, sonic youth, ricardo villalobos, john lennon, xtc, robag wruhme..., nastasia kinski, friedrich nietzsche, syd barrett, mike ink/studio 1, the swell maps, magma/christian vander, john peel, marc bolan, koelsch, can, no-u-turn records, jane birkin, whirlpool productions, dietmar dath, elliott smith (rip), alzey, nicola busse, melvins, james blood ulmer, dj pierre, patti smith, peter hammill, 'rip, ric & panic', maurizio, fred frith, pan-pot, miles davis, stephen stills/neil young, francis ford coppola, jutta koether, eno, wire, neu!, hotze, led zeppelin, dagmar krause, frank zappa, slayer ... to be continued...
Finally available digitally at Beatport and so on:
Mathias Schaffhäuser - "Hey Little Girl"
This is the original video to the radio edit:
BIOGRAPHY:
Mathias Schaffhäuser’s around in the techno and house scene since 1994 and currently released his 8th album called "Unequal Equality" which features 10 collaborations between Mathias Schaffhäuser and various artists, including Ware acts like Benjamin Brunn, And.id, Markus Güntner and Ziggy Kinder, Schaffhäuser’s long time hero Alex Smoke, but also new ones such as Lucy and Xhin from Singapore (both with releases on Meerestief Rec.). The album was released on CD on the 2nd of march, and on 2 vinyl EPs on 9th of feb. and 2nd of march.
Past releases of Mathias appeared on WIR Recordings, Lebensfreude, on Persistencebit Rec., Resopal Red, Force Inc., Multicolor, Definitive Records (house sub-label of Plus-8), Blaou Sounds, Frisbee Tracks and some others. In 1997 he started his own record label WARE which released 78 twelve inches until now (as of Febuary 2009).
2001 saw his club hit "Hey Little Girl", 2002 "Musik ohne Bass" entered the clubs (Force Inc.). In April 2005 he released his album "Coincidance" (Ware CD 14/Ware 52). The title track was remixed by Trentemöller and by Dapayk (Mo’s Ferry Productions, Dapayk & Padberg/Ware 54). December 2005 saw his 12" "Lost Vox" with a remix by Pan-Pot, in febuary 2006 the next remix 12" "more alternatives" was released with a mix by Audio Werner.
In January 2007 Mathias released his 2nd remix album "RE:2" on Multicolor Records with exclusiv mixes for Pan-Pot, Dapayk & Padberg and DJ Good Groove. The year ended with his long time project "God Is Dead", inspired by the “Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism” ("Das Manifest des evolutionären Humanismus"), written by german author Michael Schmidt-Salomon. Electric Indigo says “Thanks for this great record! Music and concept are excellent. I’ve always been all for an evaluation and revitalization of the enlightenment process :-) Congrats!”
On the 11. of Febuary 2008 our jubilee EP "10 Jahre Ware" / "10 Years Of Ware" appeared on the scene with 2 epic tracks, one by Ziggy Kinder and the other by Mathias. Both tracks reflect the Ware history by using samples of the the label’s past 10 years + fit them together with new + unique ideas to 2 new exciting monster tunes.
In year one after Ware's 10th anniversary Mr. Schaffhäuser looks back on a veritable live tour which led him to Buenos Aires, Offenbach, Singapore, Rostock and Trieste. What combines these illustrous places, you may ask? Everywhere was absolutely super cool! Schaffhäuser's set kept throwing audiences off the curve. I mean, who squeezes minimal sounds, spontaneous vocal performances, crude cover versions and melodica solos into a one-hour set, without constantly staring at a computer screen? But, from nothing nothing comes. Even before 1993 (does anyone remember this?) Schaffhäuser sang and played guitar in several bands, so he knows how to rock the house. And that works even better with a big enough stage and wireless microphones! Though another fine house track is never far, after all, Schaffhäuser wouldn't neglect his traditional Ware style, no matter how much he rocks.
Schaffhäuser’s motto at the turntables is: Purism sucks! The quality of the music is what’s important, not sheer functionality and a perfect mix. That is: at times his sets can be rather varied from Ware-style music, nice + smooth neo-house and funky minimal to thumping techno. His current favourites still come from labels such as Cargo Edition, Ostwind, Islands & Islets/Sthlm, Freunde Tonträger, Diynamic Rec., Mobilee, Vakant, Circus Company - just to name a few.
Mathias has produced remixes for Goldfrapp („Twist“, Mute Rec.), Steve Bug („Lover Boy“, Poker Flat Rec.), Misc. („The Magic Number“, Sender Rec.), [A]pendics.Shuffle („No Reductions“, Adjunct Rec.), Luomo („Tessio“, Force Tracks/Force Inc.), J.C.A. ("I Begin To Wonder", Deep Cukture), Northern Lite („Trusting Blind“, 1st decade Rec.), Faust and many many more.
PS: “Music is and will always be political.” (Ed in De:Bug 09/07, p. 70)
KABELTON is in love! Usually, the enfant terrible of the minimal scene is better known as a restless insomniac and won't even stop producing disturbingly catchy techno tracks while eating, dancing or going berserk to the beat. That was before he met IVANA, however.
No romantic wallpaper to play during a candle light dinner perhaps. But then KABELTON is not the guy to disrespect his roots not even when he's in love.
INITIAL 028 ENOLA / WORDS IN A BOTTLE (FEAT RODRIGUEZ JUNIOR REMIX) / DISTRIB DISCOGRAPH :
After a fistful of EPS for Initial Cuts or Dave Clarke..s White Noise with NOIRDEGOUT, Mathieu Monnin takes off as ENOLA with a first EP, taken from a forthcoming album to be released in September. Take NOIRDEGOUT trademark motorcity fuelled sound, pitch it down a little, make it a little less nostalgic, dress it in 2009 fashion, and add a devastating remix from RODRIGUEZ JR (The Youngsters), you get ENOLA..s "WORDS IN A BOTTLE" :
A - ENOLA - WORDS IN A BOTTLE - B - ENOLA - WORDS IN A BOTTLE (RODRIGUEZ JR) -
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