Outtakes

Spark LIFE #24 - April 28th 2019 Listen to Spark LIFE #24 - April 28th 2019 by Clement Spark

Cord Labuhn / Yangon State Of Mind / Outtakes / OUT012
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'Goethe Institut and the Berlin Club Commission invited me for a show, talks, studio and DJ workshops to Yangon, capital of Myanmar - the country formerly known as Burma. Lucky me could travel with Lutz Leichsenring, Sascha Disselkamp and Lola Luc, get inspired and meet local talent through musician and social worker Darko C.
One day my mission was to find the 'D.I.Y Studio' run by Logn Logne with only a little piece of paper with an address in Burmese signs. Adventure time.
I met a bunch of local musicians, young producers and writers like i2, Hein Htet (MJN), Right D and T-Zin for a little session. I basically started to cut up a beat out of the field recordings I've made the days before and showed the guys how I make use of found sound sometimes to weave aural memories into music.
They jumped on the groove and came up with different ideas on their instruments and computers. From this jam I took a bunch of loops and sounds home, where I also checked through all my recorded mobile phone video bits. I thought of a piece, that works as a little self-explanatory report what happened on the whole impressive journey where I could learn a lot about high life, low life and freedom - as I basically do all the time making a living with music I love.
Many thanks to everyone I met over there in Myanmar, the crew from the Berlin homebase, Max H. Raeder for the video editing and the Punchi towelscarf to prove useful in tropical heat. Yangon State is the finale of OUTTAKES season one. To be continued. 1love ' C:

Cord Labuhn / Home / Outtakes OUT011
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'I wrote this as a second theme song of the HEART SHIP HOME mixtape some time ago. I played my mum's accordion over a broken beat, chopped a whole bunch of organic samples, used local field recordings of swans and seagulls and even played around with eu**ch voicings and a pitchtuner. My favourite engineer Jesco Lohan: Sound Engineer, responsible for the mixdown, kept it sounding warm and round, creatively chaotic and neat in equal measures - it actually feels like home.' C:

Cord Labuhn / Insection (feat. Jason Filos) / Outtakes OUT010
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'Happy to have Jason Filos on board in the first season of OUTTAKES. He once came up with a fly sketch called 'Fliege'. I eventually took some things out, put it in my brand new teleporter - just like in the 1980s trash movie - and the Insection was happening. Easy as that.' C:

Cord Labuhn / Durch / Outtakes OUT009
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'Da müssen wir durch. We got to get through this...A universal mantra, you can apply to a million situations. Find yours...' C:

Cord Labuhn / The Grind / Outtakes OUT008

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„For many years I was on the grind with my man Sacha Robotti. We met around 2004 through a mutual friend, Matz, who became something like the godfather of Robosonic because he purposely placed us together at a dinner table - and probably fed us some doobies for dessert.
Matz’ later child was named after our later first original release „Yasmin“. To survive and somehow make a living based on our love for music the three of us formed a company offering our services to corporate clients. That wasn’t always the easiest and most fulfilling but still it paid our rents or loans and meals a few times before we were welcome and somewhat respected in the international DJ-producer circuit.
Back then another friend of mine was creative director with a reknowned agency and asked me for a commissioned work for a car company, which short after had it’s ‚big‘ moment in a presentation at the Detroit Motor Show. To support my gang I involved Sacha, Matz and my favourite mixdown engineer Jesco Lohan in the project and paid top dollar out of my budget. Unfortunately the client wanted me to completely overdraw the production for wow-effects on car journalists at this trade show.
Now when I went through my folders looking for candidates and stories for the OUTTAKES series, I used some of this piece and came up with this stripped down version.
Big ups and co-production credit to Sacha, who in 2015 decided to leave Berlin and me behind - as our dual ambitions for Robosonic - to focus on his own solo path which he had prepared for years.
I was sad and paralysed for a moment, but had to accept and support his decisions and manner. I finally decided to keep Robosonic alive with fresh new energy, production work, worldwide touring and unaltered love. Good luck and nothing but the best for his grind and happiness. Peace OUT #008!“ C:

Cord Labuhn / Heartships / Outtakes OUT007

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'OUT #007 is the opener of the „Heart Ship Home“ mixtape. I remember this was one of the first beats I ever made on the Native Instruments Maschine. Also I wasn’t using my turntables a lot those days, until I got myself an NI Z2 vinyl control battle mixer - finally - that would let me scratch up any sound I had on my computer - like I used to do with vinyls in my early days of DJing. In the Robosonic productions you hear that especially in „Good Old Feel“ feat. Masta Ace, „Macho Madness“ or „Dedicated“, but in Heartships I almost overdid it with all those micro samples. :) I’ve had a few different artwork options for this one, but I went the retro-romantic route: This ship was anchored no 200m away from the place where I wrote Heartships, just someday it disappeared. Fun fact: While I took the picture a Mariachi group was playing and shooting a video there in front, a year later I found out a friends father is member of that band! Saludos.“ C:

Cord Labuhn - Boss Bossa - OUTTAKES OUT #006

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'Number 006 is like an outtake of Outtakes #004. Same session different sample source: Reel-to-reel tape with a sticker stating 'Bossa'. Rough layout for a bossy rap track or an adventurous hyphop instrumental? Decision postponed. Suggestions accepted.' C: