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Lorenz Rhode
Exploited/Duesseldorf
Deusseldorf’s Lorenz Rhode makes an alluring cocktail of ’80s-influenced electro-funk, electrohouse and all-out pop.
This is quality electronic dancefloor pop from the outset, and all the various sub-genres Lorenz tackles are injected with a winning quirkiness:
He blends Italo retroism with playfully proged-up synth lines to great effect, while he strips the instrumentation right down to a bare-bones sound that’s pure, krautrock-inspired synthesizer fun.
“Imagine Rick James dating Chaka Khan, dancing to Daft Punk and Technotronic, making sweetlove to a Stevie Wonder ballad, when suddenly a group of German robots and a Yellow Magic Orchestra come rushing into the hotel suite and….they all decide to go to France instead.”
That’s how Dusseldorf’s Lorenz Rhode describes his sound and it’s pretty on spot.
Following a tasty EP for Compost Records a few years back, Rhode was signed to the excellent Exploited Records label, where he has been busy producing a slew of brilliant cuts, including “Motor Cortex” (single of the month in Mixmag) and the current “Something Hot”-EP, which is absolute dynamite and got love from Top-DJS as A-Trak, Sinden, DJ Mehdi, Aeroplane, Hudson Mohawke, Breakbot.
His music is equally at home at erm, home, or on the dancefloor, and has both a little something for the head and something for the feet and hips. The man got funk!
Lorenz Rhode has contributed remixes for Yelle (Kitsune), Strip Steve (Boys Noize), Cassian (Bang Gang), Moulinex (Gomma), Malente&Dex (Exploited), Staygold (Magnetron) and Ben Mono (Compost).
Selected DJ FEEDBACKS on SOMETHING HOT&MOTOR CORTEX:
Pete Herbert (L.S.B./Eskimo): “Drop the P! digging this very much!”
Hudson Mohawke (Warp): “Telephone Helicopter Applause Gunshot my fave track name of the year so far.”
Chloe (Kill the DJ): “Excellent Release. I love all mixes.”
Strip Steve (Boys Noize) “HOT! EXACTYLY WHAT I WANT TO BOOGIE ON ALL NIGHT AND DAY.”
Breakbot (Ed Banger): “killer EP!”
Ajello: “AMAZING! Pure updated Boogie style! Roger Troutman should be happy of these great tracks!”
Llorca (F-Communication): “Great bunch of electro-funk masterpieces ! Pretty, pretty, pretty goood !”
Michael Reinboth (Compost): “Well Bootsy is back, like this phat and crunchyfunky…”
(DJmag UK): “Shir Khan’s excellent Exploited imprint continues to straddle boundaries with this first salvo into 2009.Think Electronic P-funk, spruced up by old skool house and wrung through an electro mangle.”
(XLR8R Top10): “Germany-based Rhodes delivers a hypnotic electro-funk concoction in the form of nine tracks.”
(TIme Out Magazine/UK): “A jackin’ smasher from Düsseldorf lad Rhode on Shir Khan’s label, all jittering yet dreamy beams of disco-techno and nods to Krautrock.”
(SZ/Jetzt): “Bescheiden in der Attitüde, ohne prahlerischen Anspruch auf die nächste Club-Hymne, aber doch zauberhaft einnehmend in Harmonie und Beat präsentiert sich Lorenz Rhode auf dieser EP.”
(Crack Magazine, UK): “Fusing electro funk, old school house and b-boy hand claps, this manages to sound like every great body-popping 80s synth record ever produced – and that’s just the title track! The rest is like Yellow Magic Orchestra soundtracking ‘The Breakfast Club’. Ace!”
