O-Jay
O-Jay (born February 15, 1965 in Berlin ; actually Olaf Jeglitza ) is a German songwriter , music producer and rapper . He is also the co-founder and temporarily front man of the band Real McCoy .
biography
O-Jay was born in Berlin in 1965. After completing elementary and secondary school, he learned photography at the age of 16 at the Vocational School for Design, the Lette-Verein in Berlin. At 18 he worked as a freelance photo designer, two years later he initially became an assistant and later head of the photo department in a Berlin advertising agency.
Since 1980 O-Jay was involved in the then emerging Berlin hip-hop movement as a breakdancer and called himself The Mighty Crash . He later became a co-founder of the Imperial Nation Berlin . Together with Frank " Quickmix " Hassas, he published the first German hip-hop fanzine Freshbeat magazine in 1986 and produced the Freshline radio show . In 1988 he founded the Freshline Records label, also with Quickmix .
1983 to 1987
Already in 1983 O-Jay produced the short film Just an Illusion as part of a thesis during his training at the Lette-Verein. In the following year, 1984, there was a collaboration on another film project with the German producer and musician Jens Kuphal . An idea resulting from this collaboration to produce a first record was implemented but never published.
In 1985 O-Jay started working with the Berlin DJ Quickmix. Initially, the two gave themselves the name 2 Make Music . When they collaborated with the German producer and musician Micky Wolf shortly afterwards and the rapper The A (Aram Mouchegh) joined their team, they changed their name to Masterplan .
In 1987 their first record We Wanna Be Stars (Masterplan) was released. It was the first release by a German artist on the US hip-hop label Select Records (distributed by SPV ). Despite an extensive promotional tour in Germany, the record was not a commercial success, but it was O-Jay's entry into the music business. At the end of 1987 there was another production with Micky Wolf for the newly founded label of the Munich P1 club , in which O-Jay and Quickmix participated ( tribute ).
1988 to 1992
In 1988 Masterplan broke up and Quickmix and O-Jay founded the hip-hop electro group The Alliance . Your first production action! was released on her own label Freshline Records . In cooperation with the Berlin distributor 99 Records , they were able to sell around 20,000 units. In the same year the record was licensed to the record company ZYX Records , but a hoped-for chart entry did not materialize.
After further publications on her label, she got her first distribution deal with Rough Trade Records .
In 1989 there was a commissioned production for the label ZYX Music . They wanted a rap version of the Technotronic classic Pump Up the Jam . Quickmix and O-Jay got a studio singer and produced the title, which climbed to number 16 in the German Top 100 Singles Charts under the name MC Sar & The Real McCoy ( Pump Up the Jam - Rap ).
This first chart success resulted in a new label contract between the newly founded Freshline Records Musikproduktion GmbH and ZYX in 1990 . Quickmix and O-Jay founded Freshline GmbH together with the owner of a small Berlin studio (Jürgen Wind), where Quickmix and O-Jay had already recorded their first master plan demo. In addition to various productions, remixes and projects, other titles were published under the name MC SAR & The Real McCoy between 1990 and 1992. The follow-up It's on You made it to number 11 in the German Top 100 single charts in 1990.
Towards the end of 1992 there was a first crisis at Freshline , as the hoped-for success did not want to set in further productions. O-Jay began to work as a photographer again and to participate in other projects as a songwriter.
Discography
Artist | title | year | activity |
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Master plan | We Wanna Be Stars / C'Mon ... | 1987 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Captain Hollywood & BPM | Tribute / JayBee | 1988 | Producer / artist |
The Alliance | Action! | 1988 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Admirers | Come Into My Life - Rap ( Memento from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) | 1988 | Producer / artist |
The Alliance | Action! - remix | 1988 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Admirers | Come into My Life - Rap (Re-Release) | 1988 | Producer / artist |
The Alliance | Action! - Remix (re-release) | 1988 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
DJ Chrizz | Hui Boo | 1989 | producer |
The Alliance | Sweat | 1989 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
EMCEE | We're cruisin ' | 1989 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Admirers | Tonite | 1989 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The All-Stars | Hello babe | 1989 | Producer / artist |
Michael L. Williams | That feelin ' | 1989 | producer |
Quickmix feat. La Rose | Love is in the house | 1989 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Deep | Curtain | 1989 | producer |
Berlin eagle | Touchdown | 1989 | Producer / songwriter |
Rap IV Rap | Keep on Movin 'Rap | 1989 | Producer / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | Pump Up the Jam Rap | 1989 | Producer / artist |
Rap IV Rap | Let's come together | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Master plan | Stars | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | It's on you | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | It's on You - Remix | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Admirers | Got to get rap | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | It's on You - The Re-Remix | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
The Admirers | Out on a limb | 1990 | Producer / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy feat. Sunday | Don't stop | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | It's on You - UK remix | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Patsy | Dreamin ' | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Sugar daddy | Are you ready? | 1990 | Producer / songwriter |
Jamtronics | Another Day in Paradise - Remix | 1990 | Producer / songwriter / artist feature |
Jay rapper | Wake up | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | Make a move! | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Rap IV Rap | Hold You Tight - Rap | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
PRO-A | trance | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar & The Real McCoy | No showbo | 1991 | Producer / artist |
Construction | Oh girl! | 1991 | producer |
Hype-a-delics | So what! | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist feature |
Lucky Nineties | Ohh la la la | 1991 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
MC Sar | Let's talk about love | 1992 | Producer / songwriter / artist |
Cold as Ice feat. Eboni | ¡Urgent! | 1992 | producer |
Construction | Sex is like fire | 1992 | Producer / songwriter |
Kirk Smith | Rise & Shine | 1992 | producer |
Web links
- Official MySpace page of Masterplan
- Official MySpace page of The Alliance
Individual evidence
- ↑ How the real Jacob conquered America. In: Berliner Kurier . March 3, 1997, accessed August 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Registration in the German Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Tip article (Tanz aus dem Ghetto) Edition: 26/1983 from the Berlin Tip magazine
- ↑ Original Issue: 01/1986 First issue of the fanzine Fresh Beat Magazine
- ↑ Tip article (Berlin as it HIPt and HOPt) Edition: 02/1987 from the Berlin Tip magazine
- ↑ Entry on "Masterplan" in the Discogs directory
- ^ Entry on "We Wanna Be Stars" (master plan) in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Entry on "We Wanna Be Stars" (master plan) in the Discogs directory
- ↑ Entry on "Tribute / Jay Bee" (Captain Hollywood & BPM) in the Discogs directory
- ↑ Entry on "The Alliance" in the Discogs directory
- ↑ Entry on "Action!" (The Alliance) in the Discogs directory
- ↑ Entry on "Action!" (The Alliance) in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Chart of the single "Pump Up the Jam - Rap": ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at musicline.de
- ↑ Chart of the single "It's on You": ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at musicline.de
- ↑ Salt & Pepper "Da - He's terrible" at Discogs
personal data | |
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SURNAME | O-Jay |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jeglitza, Olaf (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German songwriter, music producer and rapper |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |