Seelenluft
b. Beat Solr, Switzerland. Solr compares his music making methodology to that of a casting director: "My way of producing is just like casting for a film," he says, "I sit at my desk while all these sounds are coming in through the door for an audition. Some of them I send back home straight away." Unusually, the Swiss producer has previously composed a soundtrack for a troupe of 50s retro synchronized swimmers (the Synchronschwimmer EP) and adopted the alter ego of Silvercity-Bob, a trumpet-playing white rabbit. Solr has claimed that his 2000 album The Rise And Fall Of Silvercity-Bob was a "dramaturgy" of the trumpet-playing rabbit's life, and admitted the alter ego was actually adopted to circumvent stage fright. On Seelenluft's 2002 single "Manila", Solr captured 12 year old "Mike Master" Michael Smith on his hard drive, orchestrating the pre-teen rapper's warning about dancing on aeroplanes "without no life vest" into a hot disco oddity: a fantastic remix from Manitoba was even more unhinged, re-rubbing Seelenluft's dysfunctional future funk into free jazz delirium. "Manila" was reportedly the by-product of a 10-week "research" trip to Los Angeles, which was intended to help Solr escape his job as a graphic designer, and appropriate new influences. The trip also unearthed ageing Elvis Presley impersonators and a lunatic preacher whose rants were MiniDisc'd from an American radio station while Solr was driving through the desert. Seelenluft applied these influences dexterously, deploying them alongside his electronica and atmospheric/dysfunctional jazz.
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Albums
- (2006) Manila
Top Tracks
- Manila (Headman Radio Edit)
- Manila (Ewan Pearson Remix)
- Manila (Original Version)
- Manila (Radio Edit)
- Manila (Ewan Pearson Instrumental Mix)
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