Große DJs erfüllen stets dasselbe Anforderungsprofil: Sie beglücken mit Leidenschaft und Liebe zur Musik Wochenende für Wochenende Menschenmassen. Sie fliegen Tausende von Meilen und projizieren ihren unermüdlichen Enthusiasmus auf das Publikum. Unter der Woche hinterlassen sie als Produzenten von Clubhits, Remixer, Labelbetreiber und Radiomacher wichtige Spuren in der Dance-Welt. Wie die Tune Brothers aus Stuttgart.
Die Tune Brothers (bürgerlich Markus Hägele und Matthias Kraus) haben alle Hürden mit Bravour gemeistert. Schnell hatte das DJ-Duo Oberwasser im Stuttgarter Local-Haifischbecken in den 1990ern. Ihr Erfolg baut von Beginn an auf einem gemeinsamen Verständnis für House in allen Facetten in Kombination mit dem richtigen Partyvibe. Stets intuitiv und die ganze Nacht Back2Back.
Dabei kreieren die Tune Brothers ein vielschichtiges House-Set wie aus einem Guss von Vocal nach Electro, von Deep nach Tech bis hin zu minimaleren Strahlern. Das Publikum dankt es ihnen. Im Jahre 2000 bekommen sie den PRINZ Nightlife Award in der Kategorie „Bester DJ“ überreicht. Zeitgleich gründen die Tune Brothers die multimediale Plattform Housesession, ein Netzwerk aus Plattenlabel, Radioshow und Eventveranstaltung.
Ihr Können transformieren die Tune Brothers auf nationale und internationale Gigs und erspielen sich einen Platz im kleinen Zelt des Headliner-Zirkus. Neben den wichtigsten Festivals (SonneMondSterne, Solar Dance/Sofia, Nature One, Love Parade), sind die Tune Brothers in allen namhaften House-Clubs der Welt zu Gast. Die Schritte werden immer größer, die Distanzen immer weiter.
Sie hetzen mit einem engen Terminkalender über die Kontinente und durch das schillernde Nachtleben internationaler Metropolen wie London, Moskau, Kiew, Zürich, Wien, Ibiza, Miami, Caracas, Sofia oder Berlin. Die Tune Brothers sind Residents im Münchner Hotspot Pacha, außerdem gehören sie zum festen DJ-Pool der Kult-Partyreihe In Bed With Space auf Ibiza. Das House-Mekka ist seit dem Millennium Fixpunkt in ihrem jährlichen Reiseplan. Die Tune Brothers spielen in Clubs wie dem Space, Amnesia oder Bora Bora.
Parallel zu ihrer DJ-Karriere erarbeiten sich die Tune Brothers mit dem Housesession Network über die letzte Dekade hinweg weltweite Reputation als geschmacksichere Labelowner, Radiomacher, Produzenten und Remixer. Dabei agieren sie stets mit Weitblick und unter dem Motto „think global“. Man schaut nicht nur auf die deutsche Szene, sondern baut auf Internationalität.
Die Housesession Radioshow, die im Jahre 2000 auf dem Jugendradiosender DASDING gelauncht wurde, wird heute auf 20 Stationen in acht Ländern (Deutschland, England, Spanien, Polen, Kanada, Belgien, Rumänien & Bulgarien) ausgestrahlt. In der Sendung sie Acts wie David Guetta, Deep Dish oder Bob Sinclar zu Gast.
Housesession Records etabliert sich zur Mitte der Nuller-Jahre dank der ausgewogenen A&R-Tätigkeit der Tune Brothers. Neben Releases von großen Namen wie Armand van Helden, Michael Gray oder DJ Sneak, stößt man rund um den ganzen Globus auf neue Durchstarter wie Ian Carey, TV Rock, Micha Moor, John Dahlback oder Patric La Funk, die House einen neuen Kick geben. Mit weit über 30 Releases hat Housesession Records bislang seinen Teil dazu beigetragen, dass sich House ständig neu modifiziert und weiter entwickelt.
Die meisten Housesession Veröffentlichungen werden von Tune Brothers Remixen begleitet. Eindrücke einer Clubnacht und die langjährige DJ-Erfahrung der Tune Brothers fließen bei der Studioarbeit mit dem erfahrenen Produzenten Peter Hoff mit ein. Die Resultate müssen zwingend Prime Time-tauglich sein.
Seit der Debütsingle „Mr. Roboto“ (2003) haben die Tune Brothers das Produzieren und Remixen stark in den Fokus gerückt. Nachfolgende Releases wie „Serenata“, „I Like It“, „Dirty, Nasty“ oder „Make Your Body Pop“, darunter auch Kooperation mit Tyree Cooper und MC Flipside, oder Remixe für Craig David, Crystal Method, Funkerman, Armand van Helden, John Dahlback, Eddie Thoneick, Michael Gray und DJ Sneak besetzen Top-Positionen in den internationalen Dance-Charts.
Noch wichtiger: Dank der Dauerrotation in Sets von DJs wie David Guetta, Laidback Luke, DJ Chus, Markus Schulz, Aaron Ross, Syke’n’Sugarstarr und vielen mehr entwickelten sich die Tune Brothers Tracks zu weltweiten Club-Anthems. Support von Radioshows wie Defected Radio, Big City Beats, Fuck Me I..m Famous oder Sunshine Live beschleunigen diesen Prozess.
Die musikalischen Phasen der Tune Brothers sind mittlerweile auf insgesamt 9 Mix-Compilations (oftmals Doppel-CDs) dokumentiert. Würde man sich die Zeit nehmen und alle Silberlinge hintereinander durchhören, stellt man keine harten Brüche oder krasse Stilwechsel fest, sondern einen fortlaufenden Fluss, der seinen Weg findet. So bedeutet DJing nicht Kopie, sondern ständige Weiterentwicklung. Diesem Motto sind die Tune Brothers stets treu geblieben.
Spring 2006: A team of DJs is celebrating its tenth anniversary and can look back on a decade in which one high was topped by the next. First they conquered Stuttgart, their home base, followed by the rest of Germany and then Ibiza. They have travelled from Russia to Latin America and back again. They have produced club hits, remixes and have established a dance network that makes tens of thousands of people happy, with its events, radio shows and record labels, be it on air, in clubs and on recordings. Ten years of full action all for the love of house music.
The success of the Tune Brothers (also known as Markus Hägele and Matthias Kraus) is based on a joint appreciation of house music and the proper party vibe. The two have developed a system, which appears to run with the precision of a Swiss clockwork, weekend after weekend after weekend, but lives from the intention of two music lovers who play one forward pass after the other, back-2-back style. Every new 12 follows on from its precursor. The Tune Brothers take their audience along on a trip around the globe of house music and create a set from vocal to electro, from deep to tech or from uplifting to Latin, that sounds as if it were from a single cast. The transitions between the styles flow naturally, maximum pleasure guaranteed.
Back in the early 1990s, the Tune Brothers set out on separate DJ careers. In 1996, they joined up as a DJ team in the context of what was then the largest series of events held in Stuttgart. Within virtually no time they became local hype and played at the citys largest parties, next to DJ stars such as Roger Sanchez, Mousse T., David Morales, Erick More Morillo, Tom Novy, Boris Dlugosch or Felix Da Housecat.
In parallel they founded the Housesession series of events, which has since become an entire network. In 2000, they were awarded the PRINZ Nightlife Award in the category Best DJ voted for, of course, by the readers of PRINZ.
The Tune Brothers managed the quantum leap beyond the deep valley of Stuttgart; in fact long before they could provide proof of their own production. Apart from the most important festivals (SonneMondSterne, Solar Dance/Sofia, Nature One, Love Parade), they also played in all well-known house clubs and rushed through the night life of international metropolises with a tight schedule of appointments.
The steps are constantly increasing, the distances are ever greater. Summer is the most strenuous time of the year, the house Mecca of Ibiza is on their schedule. The few gigs of their first season in Ibiza turned to weekly residencies in the following years. In 2005 they were official Space Residents, and on top of that, for the first time ever, their Housesession held events in the most famous clubs in the world.
In the course of the decade, two young DJs turned into two adult label owners, radio producers, music producers and remixers. Housesession has become a (registered) trademark. The Housesession network is characterised by one common denominator: think globally. Not only the German scene is watched; internationality is the name of the game.
The Housesession radio show launched on the youth radio station DASDING in 2000 is currently broadcast to nine stations in five countries (Germany, Spain, Greece, Belgium and Bulgaria). During the first hour the Tune Brothers mix the latest and generally unpublished tracks. During the second hour a famous DJ supplies a mix as has been done over the past six years, starting with David Guetta, Bob Sinclair or Little Louie Vega and through to Deep Dish. Thanks not only to this unique platform, the Tune Brothers have become an important interface for fresh house music in Germany.
With their first official compilations In The Mix Vol. 1 & 2 they laid the foundation for the record label Housesession Records, which established itself toward the middle of their first decade. Their balanced publication policy has paid off. Apart from releases by big ones such as Armand van Helden, Michael Gray or DJ Sneak, they come across hopeful newcomers and release their tracks. They are continuously developing their own pool of artists, musical content is the benchmark. Impressive artwork completes the concept of the Stuttgart music factory. The records find homes around the globe.
Most Housesession publications, such as the above mentioned gems, are accompanied by Tune Brothers remixes. An extremely fruitful relationship was entered into in the music studio with the experienced producer Peter Hoff. Impressions of a club night and the longstanding DJ experience of the Tune Brothers enter into the studio work. Their tracks must be suitable for prime time listening. Their good flavour is another factor that renders a Tune Brothers track hot.
In parallel with the label, the focus was increasingly on producing and remixing, considering that almost seven years had to pass before the Tune Brothers debuted with their first single Mr Roboto in 2003. The electro house version of the Styx classic became a club hit. The follow-up single Serenata in a Latin house version did not only enthuse the ladies for a winter and the following summer. Both tracks climbed to the very top in countless dance charts. For their third single I Like It to be produced in 2006, they are integrating a classic funky house piano into a contemporary production.
10 years Tune Brothers amount to 10 years house music and to 10 years of development. Their musical phases have since been documented on a total of seven mix compilations (often double CDs). If one took the time, however, to listen to one disc after the other, one would not come across any hard breaks or extreme changes in style. The result would be a harmonious overall image, like a raw diamond that is ground in the course of time.
Discography
Remixes
- "Self Control" - Patric la Funk feat. Jansson / Remix (Housesession
- "Come together" - Peter Brown / Remix (Housesession)
- "Roller Coaster" - Matt Devereaux & Michael Maze / Remix (Housesession)
- "Nightflight" - DJane Angel D / Remix (Pink Pirates)
- "Rapture" - Tiger & Dragon / Remix (Lickin)
- "Get Freaky" - The Good Guys / Remix (Housesession)
- "Stadt" - Cassandra Steen feat. Adel Tawil / Remix (Universal)
- "Malaika" - Steve Nash / Remix (Haiti Groove)
- "Bones Theme" - Crytsal Method / Remix (Nettwerk)
- "Circle" - Good Guys / Remix (GFab)
- "Walking away" - Monrose feat. Craig David / Remix (Warner)
- "Come on over 2008" - D'argento / Remix (Pinkstar)
- "There is Power" - Reza / Remix (Housesession)
- "Is this the Groove" - Moris & Minor / Remix (Housesession)
- "Set on the Price" - Cerryl / Remix (Twist My DJ)
- "South Beach" - Kid Chris / Remix (Open Bar)
- "You go to" - The Beatthiefs feat. Shena / Remix (tbc.)
- "Land of Electro" - MC Flipside & Saint Pete / Remix (PBR)
- "Speed up" - Funkerman / Remix (Kontor)
- "Dance" - Giulia Siegel / Remix (Kontor)
- "Counting down the Days" - Sunfreakz / Remix (Alphabet City)
- "Crazy Sax" - Wawa / Remix (Housesession)
- "Rock da Floor" - Dub Deluxe / Remix (Lickin)
- "Boys & Girls" - Deepgroove / Remix (UMM)
- "Guitar Track" - Patric la Funk / Remix (Housesession Records)
- "We got Love" - Soul Flava feat. Katherine Ellis / Remix (Housesession Records)
- Whatcha want" - Eddie Thoneick / Remix (Egoiste)
- "Nothing is for real" - John Dahlbäck feat. Erika Gellermark / Remix (Housesession Records)
- "You never know" - Patric la Funk / Remix (Opaque)
- "Dance 2 Disco" - Hugh Heffner / Remix (Housesession Records)
- "Funky Rhythm" - DJ Sneak / Remix(Housesession Records)
- "Sex on Sax" - Dub Deluxe / Remix (Housesession Records)
- "Whatcha gonna do" - Michael Gray pres. Hi Fashion / Remix (Housesession Records) - March 2005
- "Can you feel it" - Jean Roch / Remix (Warner Music)
- "La Realite" - Amadou & Mariam / Remix (Warner Music)
- "Bittersweet Melody" - Gaudino feat. Ultra Nate / Remix (Housesession Records) - February 2005
- "Can't stop" - Syke'n'Sugarstarr feat. Mel Canady / Remix (Egoiste) - January 2005
- "Perfect Love" - Timo di Roy / Remix (Ministry of Sound) - January 2005
- "Everytime I Feel it" - Armand van Helden / Remix (Housesession Records) - December 2004
- "You're Losing me" - The Beginerz / Remix (Housesession Records) - May 2004
- "Let Me Be" - Morris T. & Fjrmo feat. Barbara Tucker / Remix (Housesession Records) - July 2003
- "Message in the Music" - Marc Kulak / Remix
(Housesession Records) - January 2002
- "Mas y Mas" - Mantira / Remix (Housesession
Records) - September 2001
- "Hands" - Marc Kulak / Remix (Housesession Records) - May 2001
- "Reach For The Sky" - Lenny Fontana feat. Angie Blake / Remix
- "Left with Nothing" - David Walker / Remix (Almost Heaven) - June 2000
- "U don't know" - Pushers & Pimps / Remix (Waako Records / New York) - October 1999
Productions
- "Girlfriend" - Tune Brothers feat. Oz (Housesession Records)
- "Finally 2009" - Tune Brothers feat. Tesz Milan (Housesession Records)
- "Jack Beat" - Tune Brothers & MC Flipside (Housesession Records)
- "Make your Body Pop" - Tune Brothers feat. Tyree Cooper (Housesession Records)
- "Dirty Nasty" - Tune Brothers feat. MC Flipside (Housesession Records) - March 2008
- "I see you watching" - Tune Brothers (Kontor) - October 2007
- "I like it" - Tune Brothers (Housesession Records) - April 2006
- "Serenata" - Tune Brothers (M1 Recordings) - March 2005
- "Mr Roboto" - Tune Brothers (M1 / Usm) - May 2004
- Musicproductions for the balance press conference Hugo Boss AG - April 2001
- Tracks for the worldwide "Traveller"-campaign Hugo Boss AG - 2000
Mix-Compilations
- Tune Brothers "Yes it's a Housesession" - 2xCD-Compilation (ZYX) - April 2009
- Tune Brothers "Housesession - 10th Anniversary" - 2xCD-Compilation (Kontor) - October 2007
- Tune Brothers "This is our Housesession" - 2xCD-Compilation (Le Bien et le Mal) - February 2006
- Tune Brothers "Our Rocky Horror Housesession Show" - CD-Compilation (Le Bien et le Mal) - November 2004
- Tune Brothers "Universal Language" - 2 X CD-Compilation (Qubic) - August 2003
- Tune Brothers "Live at Ibiza 2002" - 2 X CD-Compilation (M1 Recordings) - June 2002
- Tune Brothers "In the Mix" Part 2 - CD-Compilation (Housesession Records) - November 2001
- Tune Brothers "In the Mix" - CD-Compilation (Housesession Records) - October 2000
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