HIAF-Guest Mix 9-Hauke Freer (Real Soon/Morris Audio)
Here’s a short shock from Berlin, with a 30 minute mix by Hauke Freer. If you’ve been following this blog obsessively, every day, reading for hours until your eyes hurt and most of the rest of your life has crumbled around you, as I strongly recommend, then you’ll know I’m a big fan of Mr Freer’s music (hear some on his Myspace.)
I spoke to Hauke about the mix, about Berlin, and about his music and he has explained it all for me and you.
First all, what can you tell us about this mix?
“It is actually a 30 minutes mix which i recorded to be released at some point on the mixtape website bmx-tapes.de, that is run by my crew Basstarde. We release only 30 minutes concept tapes, the shortest DJ discipline, with maximum content - no style boundaries - drum´n bass vs country: we got it. (more info at myspace.com/basstarde)
My aim for this mix was to stay on a house vibe and combine recent releases with some old pearls. DJing for 10 years now - I still love the challange to squeeze the beforehand selected records on a tape. Recorded live on 3Mk2s, vinyl only.”
When did you start DJing?
I started DJing in 1997 when I was running the radioshow elektro<>skunk with my best mate and putting on Basstarde parties.
What production work are you doing at the moment?
Currently I’m focusing on my Session Victim project with Matthias Reiling. Our “No friends EP” on Real Soon is again more on the house side. We are into raw loose beats, dirty samples taken from vinyl and like to write music without caring too much about genres.
Any releases coming up?
“Yes, we are working on another Real Soon release as Session Victim. Matthias Reiling is currently working on beats for an album of A-Plus (Souls of Mischief.)”
Who are your own favourite producers and DJs?
“I’m much inspired by Move D, FBI, Jackmate and Pepe Bradock. I’m regulary disappointed by DJs - DJ Koze never fails to impress. I wish more DJs would dare more and don’t show up with laptops.”
Where do you go out in Berlin?
“I go out less these times. We are so spoiled here and the club machinery is getting more commercial and touristic. Tape Club is a great venue with nice sound.”
If I went to Berlin tomorrow and had never been, what would you recommend me to do?
“Berlin is about the vibe. Take your time, drink coffee in Kreuzberg, shop records and chillout at an openair bar. Life moves at a quarter of the speed London does - it´s great that way.”
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Tracklist:
- Art Bleek - Antichambre - rush hour
- Slowhouse two - b1 - slowhouse
- Sascha Dive - Deep in Rhythm - Deep Vibes
- Kai Alcé - Hi-Lee Teched Off - Real Soon
- Rick Wade - Shamballa - Yore
- Iz & Diz - What We Need (Pepe Braddock’s Rad Peep Remix) - Silver Networks
- Dennis Ferrer - Buzz Beats - Objektivity
- DJ Rasoul - Retrospect - Guidance
- Rozzo - I Wish I Was A Cat - Trackdown
- Holger Ziske - The Birds - Playhouse
- Burnski - Old Run - Boe
- Session Victim - No Friends (No Power) - Real Soon
- Moodymanc - Coleman (FBI Mix) - 2020 Vision
Anders wrote:
Mix is looking great and everything. BUT
“…the club machinery is getting more commercial and touristic.”
statements about Berlin like the one above never ends to surprise and irritate me. I would be really surprised if someone could name a city whose club scene is even nearly as uncommercial and as vivid as Berlins. Of course there are more “commercial” (God i hate that word) clubs in Berlin and of course commercial interests play a certain role. But not to such an extent that it interfers with your weekend/mid week clubbing experience. I mean, all great acts come here, both underground and, well, less underground. Opening hours are fantastic, drinks and entrance are cheap, so what’s the problem?
And if you really can’t live with clubs beings sponsored by beer brands etc, there are PLENTY of other alternatives. If I say restrealitaet.de, I’m pretty sure you Berliners know what I’m talking about.
The same thing goes for the “touristic” bit. To bring up an example: At the moment many people are complaing about Berghain being overcrowded with tourists. Statements like that are not restricted to germans who have been residents here for a long time. No, it seems like as soon you have lived here for more than a month, you feel the urge to start complaining about all the spanish, italian, scandinavian and british ravers going there and destroying the once so fantastic mood. Exactly when Berghain had its peak time is however never explained. Was it perhaps around Easter 2006? I was there february 2005 (2 months after the opening) and as I can remeber it, there were plenty of “tourists” there back then too. I actually find the “tourist-destroying-the-night-life discourse” quite scary as it sometimes touches what you might even call plain racism.
Tourists play a great role in the night life and add up to the fantastic experience that a great night out actually can be. Of course there certain types of people (tourists or not) who are not desirable in a club environment (too drunk etc), but mostly these people are turned away already at the door.
Timon Engelhardts has written a really good piece on this in the latest Berghain flyer. Everyone who understands german should check it out. Can be found on the Berghain website. For you who don’t understand it, I can reveal that he is more or less on the same level as me.
I know that my comment has nothing to do with the post, and I’m sorry for taking up this space. But as this is a matter which I have been both thinking about and have been confronted with a lot lately, I just couldn’t keep myself from commenting on the statement.
My comment is, however, not aimed at Mr. Freer, nor at anyone else in particular. It seems like most people have an urge to complain about all kinds of things, and so do I (guees you could regard this comment as complaining). What I, however, will never accept nor understand is when the complaining is totally unjustified.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 2:53 pm ¶
Ronan wrote:
I like the tone of your post Anders, though I’m not in any way able to speak in a proprietorial way about Berghain…still, in the music business people are very quick to say something is in decline
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 7:29 pm ¶
bensen wrote:
thanks,good mix!like the trackselection and the way of mixing.I m pretty impressed.will try it someday as soon as I can afford a new mixer and 1210
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 9:08 pm ¶
Joe H wrote:
Great stuff I’m a fan of Hauke I especially like “my beat”
Thanks.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 11:16 pm ¶
Laptop Bob wrote:
Sincerely, i can’t understand why folks are so reluctant to newer technologies… I think this is an hippie thing ! To me, the laptop vinyl emulations enable’s me to make so much more, to play my own unreleased music and to be better… And really, I think that maybe 10% of the clubbers at your gig knows about you so what do you think the rest of them will think about with what you play? i think the only important matter is what you play… word up!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 8:35 am ¶
Roobik wrote:
The mix is one fine sonic piece. Much appreciated.
As for vinyl vs laptop… I’m kind of with Laptop Bob here. The tunes are what matters not the technology. As long as you know what you’re doing I don’t really care. But I have to admit that there is a certain charm about vinyl that just, err, turns me on
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 2:21 pm ¶
Tom wrote:
That “touristic” thing irks me too. I’m sure he didn’t mean it in a rascist way, but it’s annoying to feel that eyes are being thrown up at you when you love the music enough to travel across Europe to experience it in one of its finest settings.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 10:01 pm ¶
Elmo Saukko wrote:
Solid laid back mix, I liked the 30min “showcase” style idea. Will surely listen again.
Posted 12 Jul 2008 at 3:29 am ¶
Hauke Freer wrote:
Thanks for your nice feedback on the mix - glad you enjoy it.
Regarding Anders post - I agree to to all your points, also to Timon Engelhardts text in the Berghain flyer. Certainly my statement was not meant to be racist at all. I love traveling and have friend all around the world.
Clubs are great here in Berlin and extremely easy going. Just a few places I liked to go alot don´t feel right to me anymore.
I´m taking it as with my beloved vinyl and dig a little deeper. See you on the dancefloor
Posted 12 Jul 2008 at 4:24 pm ¶
Anders wrote:
@Hauke. Thanks for sharing my views on this matter. I know that your statement was not meant to be racist in any way and I’m really sorry if you thought that I was implying anything as such. You just happened to draw my intention to this subject by mentioning the words “too touristic”. And as this interview with you had nothing to with the subject that I brought up, I’m sorry for using your statement as a trigger.
What I was trying to say was that in certain contexts, such as the “Fuck the Spain away”- t-shirts that Enghelhardt mentioned, the “complaining” about tourists reaches a level that I’m not really comfortable with.
Posted 15 Jul 2008 at 3:58 pm ¶