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Dirty Talk and Honkytonks present DJ Kaos (!k7, Berlin)

Author: NewZFusion
Friday, March 3, 2006
Dirty Talk and Honkytonks present DJ Kaos (!k7, Berlin)
Sunday 12th March (Labour Day Eve)

Support: Askew, Jason Martin, Peter Finger
& the cirque de toilets with Katie Drover and Bongmist
$10 on the door

Hello Stranger - the BBQ is back! Next Sunday night Dirty Talk presents a very special DJ set from Studio !K7 recording artist Kaos. Direct from Berlin - and fresh from recent collaborations with Daniel Wang, Erlend Oye and Captain Comatose - Kaos has promised a night full of fresh sounds AND fresh meat. The man behind Terranova and the infamous Ghost Cauldron project has shown how to walk-the-walk - now get ready to find out how he talks-the-dirty-talk. DJ support will be provided by resident boogie boys Askew, Peter Finger and Jason Martin. Get your juices flowing with $5 Tiger beers and $5 Agwa & Jagermeister shots, check out the dirty movies on the big screen and then turn that PM sausage into an AM snag. $10 entry, 10pm-5am. Honkytonks, Duckboard Place, City.

Berlin DJ & Producer DJ Kaos has successfully released his longplayer "Hello Stranger" on !K7 earlier this year featuring Erlend Oye, Danny Wang, Captain Comatose and Matt B Safer and is now touring worldwide to promote his album. On the production side he has just released his new single "Feel like I Feel" The Glimmers Remix. Kaos has been remixing to the extent of a sore finger syndrome! With remixes for Marcus Lange on Belgium label Dirty Dancing. Kid Alex ' My conversion' on Universal as well as Kaos rmx Tom Vek out on Island and Kaos rmx Ruede Hagelstein out on Freundinnen. His new 12 inch "Feel like I feel" will be feat. Glimmers & Optimo mixes and We can also look forward to his Loftbabies edits out in October.

When you hear "Hello Stranger" for the first time, you might think that Kaos is a new music group. All the ingredients that shape the sound of a band are here: Live drums, an electric bass, guitars, live percussions and keyboards. And, the voices of real singers.

But you only have to add the prefix "DJ" to the name Kaos to realise what this is: the new album by the Berlin DJ Kaos. The legendary master of the wheels of steel, former member of Terranova and initiator of the infamous Ghost Cauldron project now returns as Kaos with his most mature solo effort to date.
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To define "Hello Stranger" as a typical DJ album would be wrong. The beats are groovy but not linear, the tunes are stretched but less tracks than proper songs. For the album, Kaos was looking for new challenges. Because sampling as we know it, is dead. This is especially the case for a producer like Kaos who has been working with sample based music for over a decade and for whom the collaboration with real musicians presented a new, exciting perspective. Kaos engaged various musician friends and singers. Names like Erlend Øye, Daniel Wang, Khan and Snax from Captain Comatose, Matt B. Safer from The Rapture, the performance artist Namosh, Nicole from Electrocute, Boy from Brazil, Eddy Cooper or Jason Friedman from the New York punk rockers The Boggs appear on the album.

For the recordings, the individual collaborators met with Kaos in his studio where they jammed (in the traditional sense) off of Kaos' own rhythm and harmony structures. The vocals on the album were generated in a similar way: Kaos hummed a melody, language fragments were played around with and after a few tries a real song was born. Afterwards, Kaos arranged everything on his computer.

Musically, "Hello Stranger" has a very versatile sound. However using average genre definitions is problematic. The sound of Kaos is somewhere between disco, New York white funk, Italo and rock. Kaos stated that „the album is a 'good time album', one that you can have fun with both at home on the couch, as well as in the club on the dancefloor". „Hello Stranger" is a proper Berlin album. Except for the two New Yorker guest musicians Matt B. Safer and Jas
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