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NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!

artist: jahcoozi
title: barefoot wanderer
release: 19.04.2010
label: bpitch control berlin
format: cd / digital
distributed by rough trade / kompakt / finetunes / beatport



Free Track:
http://fairtilizer.com/track/Barefoot_Dub

What's a press release like this one supposed to be about? It's supposed to sum up an artist's journey, point out their career landmarks. So in the case of this band, you'd have to talk about their formation in Berlin in 2002. Something that wasn't just about forming a band, but also about balancing different cultural backgrounds - the beats being arranged by Robot Koch in Berlin, the vocals coming from formerly London-based Sasha Perera and the basslines being laid down by Oren Gerlitz, who lived in Tel Aviv. You'd also have to talk about the early support from John Peel, and their album releases "Pure Breed Mongrel" (2005) and "Blitz ‘n' Ass" (2007). Plus their countless 12" releases on labels such as Citizen Recordings, Crosstown Rebels or Playhouse. Not to forget their buzzing and unpredictable live shows which brought them to four continents in 2008 and covered everything from renowned festivals like Transmediale to raves in Transylvania. Then you'd have to talk about the numerous collaborations with folks like Modeselektor, Asian Dub Foundation, Anti Pop Consortium, Buraka Som Sistema and many more. And you'd definitely have to talk about them being at the forefront of producing eclectic sounds and merging genres like grime, punk rock, hip-hop and various blends of electronica to create a unique definition of pop music. A pioneering role they embraced with the same spirit that brought like-minded projects like Diplo or Switch productions, figures like M.I.A. or Terry Lynn or subgenres like baile funk, 2 step or booty bass into the public eye.

All of this had to be featured here, and well, it is now. But! A band that records an album like "Barefoot Wanderer" could hardly be interested in a text full of self references. It might even be quite useful to simply forget most things known about Jahcoozi. "Barefoot Wanderer" most definitely marks a caesura. As the title already suggests, it's the implementation of a new-found purism. It's not a loud, bright, stage-ready record. Recording something like that would've been far too easy. Of course they continue to be restless, they still filter their distinct dynamic from their different tastes in music and they are still crossing borders. With the support of the Goethe Institute they went to Kenya to record the track "Msoto Millions" along with MCs from Ukoo Flani, a Kenyan dancehall/reggae crew in Nairobi. Staying true to their core musical approach, they gathered friends from all around the globe, but this time took it further than ever. For example, there's a track with percussionist Guillermo Brown from New York, they feature Belgian singer Barbara Panther on another, and (drum roll!) clay pot percussionist Oori Shalev from Israel, who of course played his part in making this track a quite unconventional affair. In general, they bring home sound souvenirs from every one of their journeys, but they wonít tour the world with Hypebeast-approved trainers on their feet - they wander barefoot. Not only does "Barefoot" happen to be the most fitting metaphor for this album, it is also a kind of branding for the mentality that Jahcoozi and their brothers in spirit, Stereotyp & Alhaca from Vienna, have come up with. A mentality that appeals to everyone who feels comfortable in the most varied worlds of bpm counts and bass variations. Itís something like an attempt to find a genre name for the act of refusing genres.

It's not that this new album revisits all of the band's typical reference points. Rather it examines all their unexplored niches in an incomparably subtle way. Chances are the band has never stretched itself so far, and it has ended up forming a unique microcosm with its own rules and language. "Barefoot Wanderer" is without a doubt the most self-contained and cohesive work they have done so far. Its sex appeal not only speaks through Sasha's booty-shake, it virtually shines through a mysteriously hazy twilight. Unlike anything else, this album refines dubstep, it recalls the early dancehall spirit, it even reawakens the expressive force and agitation of digital hardcore, though without letting the formal execution become too explicit. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It's a documentation of subtlety. Yet in every proclamation - some of which even reach into ambient aesthetics - pulsates the most lucid form of expression and the niftiest approach to pop the band has undertaken so far. And even the most explicit moments such as "Power Down Blackout", fuelled by long-time partner in crime M. Sayyid of Anti Pop Consortium, are laid down with a nonchalance that will get a crowd going in the blink of an eye. On the whole, "Barefoot Wanderer" is the album nobody expected, but perhaps that is the only possible outcome for a band that holds unpredictability as its one constant principle.

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JAHCOOZI_WATCHING YOU_SUGARCANE RECORDINGS
12" incl. remixes by OLIVER$, TWO FINGERS (AMON TOBIN +DOUBLECLICK), PLASTIC LITTLE, and LOOSE CANNONS

RELEASE DATE_12.06.09



Sugarcane Recordings drops another set of modern beats from acclaimed Berlin favorites JAHCOOZI. This round bringing a major single "Watching You"" with a massive set of remixes. Bubbly dub basslines and Silky vox are putting this new Jahcoozi item on the hot list. Leave it to Oliver $ (Dubsided, Made to Play, GrecoRoman) to take it to the floor with 2 sureplayer remixes. An unstoppable remix for the bassjunk Lovers and one for the Dubsided fans a la Switch and Jesse Rose with an irresistible wobbly bassline and quirky jackbeats. Production team Amon Tobin (Ninja Tune) and Doubleclick knock out a Class remix from their new hyped TWO FINGERS project on Big Dada. A prime slice of heavy metallic rhythms and barrage of dripping bass that gets Serious for the real heads out there. Throw in one of supergroup Plastic Littles best remixes to date for your listening pleasure and this release is simply not to be missed!

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Sasha Perera: Blitz 'n' Ass points a playful finger at Tits 'n' Ass. It isn't just glamour 'n' glitz 'n' gloss or the mind-numbing plastic that the Media dishes out, we add our very own dose of blitz. Blitz being the Teutonic, electronic side of our sound: it's technoid, it's dark, deep and industrial; hit's you like a bomb. The Ass on the other hand is the booty side of what we do: it's organic and it's synthetic hysterical, ironic, syncopated, and sometimes even offbeat. It's real, it's live and it's shakin!! Satirical contrasts are inherent to Blitz 'n' Ass, both musically and content-wise.



The production on Blitz 'n' Ass remains in-house with Robot Koch and Oren Gerlitz swapping instruments and taking turns behind the boards, which despite the versatility of the record gives the album a coherence and feel that only well seasoned bands manage to achieve. Lyrically Blitz 'n' Ass is all Sasha Perera, the only guest appearances are that of two hip hop experimentalist heavyweights: Sayid (Ex-Antipop Consortium, Airborne Audio) and longtime collaborator RQM (Al Haca, The Tape).

Club bangers such as BLN (already featured as the opener on the last Bpitch Control compilation) or, Disposable feat. Stereotyp will rock just about any dancefloor, keeping the djs grinning and them booties shakin', whilst darker club junkies will get their dose with GetYoShitOut or the dubstep influenced Takin' Your Street. Songs such as Style or Hands In Ya Pockets offer a healthy dose of JAHCOOZI's own brand of pop which is bound to get them heavy rotation on the radio. Of course there cannot be a JAHCOOZI record without a little bit of controversy - listen to the pro-gay tolerance dub-crunk anthem Rainbow Coloured Rizzla Blitz 'n' Ass 'n' that's why we love them.

A fantastic and futuristic production pure breed mongrel is one of the most progressive albums of the last few years.
Musikexpress, DE

Robot Koch is Berlin's hottest beatmaker the kids in east london better dress warmer.
GOON Magazine, DE

2005 has brought us a no more focused piece of hip hop satire than Asian Bride Magazinewith it'a sing-along Hymen, Hymenbe better in tact.
MOJO Magazine, UK

"It would make sense to call Jahcoozi's stuff Grime for Björk this might please both fans of Aphex Twin and Roots Manuva."
XLR8R, US

"On the stage, Jahcoozi's British-Sri Lankan "lioness", singer / rapper / lyricist booty dancer turns heads with smartly sarcastic lyrics about stereotypes, sex and psychedelics on cult classics like "Fish" and "Black Barbie" while the mightily-dreadlocked Israeli multi-instrumentalist Oren Gerlitz strides the stage providing deep basslines while Robot chops up his razor sharp dancehall-electro in a way reminiscent of friend and fellow "BLN'" icon Modeselektor"
MIXMAG, UK

"The aural equivalent of a Quentin Tarentino film as beats, blasts and percussives come at you from all angles until the listener is lost within its swirling maelstrom of electronic gadgetry the highly percussive electro backbeats of the ass-wiggling "Shake The Doom" will keep the dancefloors crowded with its infectious rhythms
FOXY DIGITALIS

"The band's debut LP Pure Breed Mongrel sculpts "illectronic" bliss out of grimy shuffle rhythms. Deep and detuned bass lines, and bombastic swaths of vocal attitude. Whether rhyming like a smarter M.I.A. or taking whispered cues from Martina Topley-Bird (circa Tricky), Perera's songs launch boldly into withering indictments of mass culture, wagging a caustic skepticism at rich kids ("Ali Mc- Bills"), lecherous suits ("Dot Com Bust"), Oriental strains of sexism and racism ("Asian Bride Magazine"), and the most surreal tale of a bouncer ever penned."
RESONANCE MAGAZINE, USA