DePhazz

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DePhazz 2016 - left to right: Karl Frierson, Pat Appleton, Pit Baumgartner

DePhazz [ ˈdiːfæz ] is a band from Heidelberg .

history

The band was founded in 1997 by Pit Baumgartner as an open band project; The first album Detunized Gravity was released in the spelling “De-Phazz” . Haluk Soyoglu is a co-founder of the band. The name or the word creation "DePhazz" as an abbreviation for "Destination Future Jazz" comes from him. The idea behind it was that each album should represent a journey to a different music planet or style. DePhazz became famous for her radio hit The Mambo Craze from her second album Godsdog . DePhazz initially published his music on Mole Listening Pearls and was later signed to Universal Music Classics & Jazz . The label manager responsible at MLP was Haluk Soyoglu, who signed Pit Baumgartner and then threaded the contract with Universal. Today Pit Baumgartner and Haluk Soyoglu jointly run the Phazz-a-delic New Format Recordings label, which DePhazz has also been on for years.

Most of the albums were released on LP and CD . When the band performs live in clubs and at open-air concerts, there are light and color games, projections and dances. In 2006 the album Big was created together with the hr big band .

style

The mixture of electronically synthesized sounds and various instruments was formative for the musical style of the band from the beginning. DePhazz uses elements from Dub , Jazz , Soul , Trip-Hop , Latin , Drum and Bass , Ambient and R'n'B , among others . Elements of turntablism are also incorporated into the music. Starting with Godsdog to Death By Chocolate , a change in style took place; they moved away from trip-hop and drum and bass and expanded the style further in the direction of soul and latin. From Death By Chocolate the music is generally assigned to the lounge .

Songs by DePhazz have been used in several commercials. The song Anchorless is used in the program Space Night - All-Tag Nachts on Bavarian television . Some songs also parody today's music and entertainment industries .

Band members

The acoustic set DePhazz Private live in Ventspils (Latvia), April 2015

The line-up of the band is constantly changing. Its members include or included:

  • Pit Baumgartner (band leader and founder)
  • Karl Frierson (vocals)
  • Barbara Lahr (vocals)
  • Susan Horn (vocals)
  • Adax Dörsam (guitar)
  • PG Gonzales
  • Joo Kraus (trumpet)
  • Otto Engelhardt (trombone)
  • Pat Appleton (vocals)
  • Roy Randolph (percussion, vocals)
  • Jan Fride (drums)
  • Charity D. Sanders
  • Flo Dauner (drums)
  • Oli Rubow (drums)
  • Ralf Oehmichen (guitar)
  • Frank Spaniol (saxophone)
  • Matthias Dörsam (saxophone)
  • Bernd Windisch (bass)
  • Markus Lang (keyboard, video artist, DJ)
  • Haluk Soyoglu (manager and inventor of De-Phazz)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Death by Chocolate
  DE 20th 03/19/2001 (13 weeks)
  AT 50 04/01/2001 (11 weeks)
Daily Lama
  DE 9 04/11/2002 (7 weeks)
  AT 58 11/10/2002 (4 weeks)
  CH 86 11/17/2002 (2 weeks)
Natural fake
  DE 33 03/21/2005 (6 weeks)
  AT 55 03/20/2005 (2 weeks)
  CH 71 03/20/2005 (2 weeks)
Days of Twang
  DE 69 04/09/2007 (2 weeks)
  CH 97 04/08/2007 (1 week)
Lala 2.0
  DE 91 04/23/2010 (1 week)
Singles
Hero Dead and Gone (feat.Karl Frierson)
  DE 54 08/10/1998 (4 weeks)
Viva la felicità (Signor Rossi vs. De-Phazz)
  DE 98 07/01/2002 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1997: Detunized Gravity
  • 1999: Godsdog
  • 2001: Death by Chocolate
  • 2002: Daily Lama
  • 2005: Natural Fake
  • 2007: Days of Twang
  • 2009: Big
  • 2010: LaLa 2.0
  • 2012: Audio Elastique
  • 2013: Naive
  • 2015: Private
  • 2015: Garage Pompeuse
  • 2016: Prankster Bride
  • 2018: Black White Mono
  • 2019: De Capo - feat. STÜBAphilharmonie

Compilations, remixes, boxes

  • 2002: Plastic Love Memory
  • 2002: Rare Tracks & Remixes
  • 2002: Best of - Beyond Lounge
  • 2008: The Supper Club
  • 2012: The Uppercut Collection

Maxis

  • 1997: Good Boy
  • 1998: No Jive
  • 1998: Hero Dead and Gone
  • 1999: Jazz Music
  • 2000: The Mambo Craze
  • 2001: Something Special

Video albums

  • 2005: De Phazz - Onstage / Backstage: A Retrospective

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The initial spelling "De-Phazz" changed over the years via "De | Phazz" (2001) to "De Phazz" (2005) and ultimately "DePhazz". (see discography on the band's homepage )
  2. ↑ Charts DE
  3. ↑ De-Phazz in the AT charts
  4. ↑ De-Phazz in the Swiss charts

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