Sonar Kollektiv funsters Trickski climb down the chimney with the final RA podcast of 2007.
German DJs Yannick Labbé and Daniel Storte Becker are hard men to pin down. Yannick’s first record arrived on classic Berlin label Cabinet, they’ve got roots in nu-jazz, and they’ve even had the balls to cover a Carl Craig track, ‘At Les’ from More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art. In fact C2 picked up Trickski’s ‘Sweat’ for his Fabric 25 compilation, turning a house track from then unknown producers from Frieburg into an underground hit.
More recently Trickski have been releasing more groove-based house and techno cuts on Compost and Sonar Kollektiv, and have even begun a new club series on the latter, Members of the Trick, picking up artists such as Leroy and Darnell from Detroit, Movementz from England and the rising fast Future Beat Investigators from Finland. Cuts from the label have recently been compiled on Trickski’s debut mix CD, Members of the Trick, which features the likes of Pantha Du Prince, Solomun with a healthy dose of Trickski productions.
Regulars at Weekend in Berlin, Fabric in London and Club 11 in Amsterdam, Trickski’s DJ sets are sometimes accompanied by MCing by one Jack Migger, owner of the 5Finger label and general party starter. For their RA podcast, Mr. Migger is absent: this one is just turntables, hands and a whole lot of fine records—a deep house trip through the UK (Quiet Village aka Radio Slave), Senegal (Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts’ stunning ‘Sous l'arbre’ and New York (Tommy Bones’ ‘Focused Energy’). Merry Xmas and a happy new year!
Mudd - Speilplatz (Quiet Village Remix) - Rong Williams - Love on a real train (version by Studio) - Love Triangle Music Harry Swinger - is on some - Rush Hour LTD Trusme - W.A.R - stilove4music Sascha Dive - Deep - Drumpoet Community Guillaume & The coutu Dumonts - Sous l'arbre - Circus Company Pawel - Gabriel - Orphanear Tiger Stripes - Survivor - Get Physical Fetisch & Me - Diskotektonik - International DeeJay Gigolos Tommy Bones - Focused Energy - Real Tone Records