We announce
Euromatic Tales – a bi-monthly show for distorted, yet witty minds!
We embrace the multi-cultural heritage of the global dance music scene. From cosmic to US disco. From new beat to Chicago house.
Euromatic Tales is a German, Italian, Greek & Georgian co-production.
We don’t pre-record. The show will have feature guests. We are serious about the fun: To our ears a set is not hysterical entertainment, but conveys a curated narrative.
If you wonder why The Sneaker goes down the reggae tip you might listen closely to the first half an hour where I felt reminded of Italo Disco synth hooks and – in the mid of the mix – digital house from the 80s (cheap samples, samplers and Casio keyboards).
Euro doesn’t mean Eurocentric – rather the concious (and necessarily) “European view on”.
In this case on Jamaica. Interestingly most of the dub-infused German-lyric examples in the latter part of the 2h-show predate the digital dancehall “version”s from Jamaica. So the narrative ain’t that simple as “political correct” predators wish for.
Or as I put it in an interview with my label Uncanny Valley:
You produce and mix music from all over the world and with various cultural backgrounds. How do you approach it and what effect does it have on your own identity?
The approach is: everything goes! I look everywhere. I judge only the music. The aim is to create intensity by any means.
Yes, we had this topic … When the genre police comes or people tell me it’s politically incorrect I remember them and myself that it’s art – abstract or fiction. And art should be free! Art doesn’t harm – stupidity does.I strongly believe in the concept of synthesis. There is nothing original to me. Everything has evolved from inspiration plus open creativity. Rearranged. Sample. Edit. Finally and after many generations the traces might not even be suspected. They are inherent and evident in full effect, but beyond … they don’t necessarily need to matter as a quoted knowledge to shape the future.
My music doesn’t have an influence on my identity. However the other way around my music is rather an expression of my existing identity. But other people’s music shape my identity. So leaving my foot print in this world may effect others, too. And thereby I see myself as stirring the cosmic pot.
All vinyl!
Enjoy!
