De-Phazz & Oscar Peterson – Wave (belooped RMX)
The third single from the upcoming De-Phazz album
belooped has been released, a reimagination of Oscar Peterson’s “Wave”, taken from the MPS record Motions & Emotions.
“One of my main intentions was to move away from virtuosity and artistic aspects, and instead focus more on atmosphere, says De-Phazz mastermind Pit Baumgartner about the belooped project. “In each track, there are strong, expressive loops that can carry the listener for minutes. Often, that is all you need. My aim was to isolate those moments, emphasize them, and reduce everything to its essence, which also gives the music a calmer quality. The ‘Wave’ edit of Oscar Peterson is a good example of this approach: There is a five-minute piano improvisation which I would leave to the jazz audience, while the intro loop alone already feels complete and could run indefinitely. Then this sweet melody arrives. Done. That’s really all that is needed.”
Listen to the single here: https://MPS.lnk.to/WavePR
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With belooped, De-Phazz and Germany’s oldest jazz label, MPS, bring together what belongs together. For this extraordinary project, De-Phazz founder Pit Baumgartner has been granted access to the archives of “Musik Produktion Schwarzwald”. With a keen sense for grooves and melodies, the sound architect has carefully restored the work of global stars such as Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and George Duke, bringing it into the contemporary sound. The result is a musical collage that combines the “Most Perfect Sound” of the 60s to the 80s with the electro-organic vibes of the lounge pioneers, proving that timeless jazz and modern dance floors are no contradiction.
belooped finally brings together what has attracted many hipsters to the dance floors of Hamburg, Honolulu, Munich and Miami over the past decades. On the one hand, there is the tongue-in-cheek playfulness of the lounge export hit De-Phazz, launched in Heidelberg in 1997 by Pit Baumgartner, with its millions of streams on Spotify & Co. On the other hand, there is the archive of the record company MPS, which is cultically revered by DJs and rare groove hunters. Old meets new, digital meets analogue. What remains is the unique atmosphere. As well as the unmistakable sense of grooves and wonderful melodies that connect the MPS productions recorded between the 1960s and 1980s with the electro-organic vibes of De-Phazz.
The album will be released on LP, CD and digitally.
Pre-order it here: https://MPS.lnk.to/beloopedPR