Although Sepalots work about as cozy acts as the custodian of an art museum, he has produced in the mess six highly acclaimed by the critics albums with his band flowerpot and various ambitious side projects. For example, EP Fraud, where he coverte with friends AC / DC rhythm songs. Or Bavarian Beat Konducta: an instrumental hip hop album, which consists only of samples of Bavarian folk music. 'I'll do that for Gaudi', says the man whose stage name dates back presumably to a slurring of Sir Rap-A-Lot with the Bavarian respect-expression Sapperlott: Why else is one of the best hip-hop producers in Germany should with such quirky and commercially exploitable ideas hardly pass the time? His playfulness seems in any case unlikely to be broken by thoughts of charts, fame and public interest. Accordingly light hand he has his new solo album produced: 'Chasing Clouds'. Whole four months basement Gefrickel ranged to produce a handful of ideas a strong and stylistically unconventional hip hop opus' with songs that breathe the big pop.
'I've always been interested in the beats on Hip Hop', says Weiss, "and not the ego that have been spreading throughout it. ' In fact, white, born in 1974 belongs to a new generation of hip-hop lovers. When he grew up, the German rap was in the valley of gangster rap, there was a middle-class kid like not much to get him, even though he loved the music remains. He was part of one of the major developments affecting the younger hip-hop: the emancipation of the producers of the rappers. 'Meanwhile, I am convinced that the music works without a rapper puts about half furrow rhymes.'
Against Everything half furrow 'So Unmotivated, Laxe' had Sepalot already braced with his combo flowerpot. Since the late nineties they formed together with friends and beginners the vanguard of a political times, sometimes self-deprecating rap alternative culture that tried to carve their own version of hip-hop. The gangster rap wave wiped that dream aside first. Today Sepalot 'the bad reputation of the German
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produces the underdog perspective. 'If you want to be the best thing, something else comes out than when you ridiculed the environment as a nerd and you pull through it anyway.' Sepalot sips his second cappuccino. 'Geek-ness is the best breeding ground for interesting stuff.' Where Sepalot probably a serenity over all the fashion trends thinks that captured him as a youth. At that time, he had discovered a few mod-friends the Soul itself. Then he began 'in the middle of the' Rare Groove' wave of the early nineties' with the 'digg' to. 'I rolled vinyl stack until my fingers were black.' First appearances as DJ of flowerpot graduated Sepalot in old-school style: With performances in Munich youth centers he stringed like once Grandmaster Flash Beat sequences together, mixed the breaks for hours from platter to platter. But flowerpot grew with the expansion of horizons of Sepalot soon out of the radio area. The band went through ARD'Raportagen 'to the Football World Cup 2006 and 2010 beyond the hip-hop culture a name. And Weiss began to experiment with synth-electro sounds. Or backed a song exclusively with film samples.
On his first album 'Red Handed' found Sepalot 2008 final one, even futuristic like Club-enabled language: Soul songs, jazzy beats and pumping electro bass. 'Chasing Clouds' but is a body of work even more 'out of line', as the producer says. Since shimmer his dear old soul and P-Funk through the cracks' during distorted basses to retro sound upgrade for Raver spaceship. A rhythmic hail Faust opens the album: The Instrumental 'Servus' does not remain the only reference to the late Detroit producer extraordinaire J.Dilla and its idiosyncratic sample work. In the breaks that count. Whether Sepalot can sing or an old Sam Cooke-hit ausschlachtet 'always he savors the contrast between soft soul sounds and synth-beats. Is rapping on the album only two times sixteen bars. Weiss prefer spans gospelnde vocal lines as bridges over its edgy rhythms. That's the hardest part for him: 'Beats Roughe I shake you off the cuff, but a tune that is not cheesy poof!'
One looks for models from the latest hip-hop, called White Kanye West's' 808s & Heartbreak '' and not just because of the melancholic atmosphere. But also because here an artistic through and through entertainment beyond hip hop realism reflects. 'Hey, we do fucking art, what do you want?' Sepalot calls the imaginary guests to a few of his eclectic live sets, but the time finally come again to 'play hip-Hop' bleating to the DJ booth. Yes, guys like Kanye West have his respect. Because it constituted a risk, hinauszuzielen beyond the boundaries of hip-hop, to make inroads through an as yet uncharted pop wilderness. The Munich-based producer highlighted here its very own way: Gospel, Kraut Rock, Disco, Electro? For Sepalot all just building material, to live out his defiant love for soulful-unfinished, unpolished charm of over a hip-hop chassis.
The supporters for 'Chasing Clouds' from around the world: The US rapper Buff 1 and Fashawn has requested Sepalot on Myspace; the singer Fabian Füss is a Spezl from the Munich band scene; Frank Nitt lived four years ago for months with him while Weiss himself on a trip around the world from New Zealand Ladi6 at a gig in Sidney met 'and two weeks later with the camper in front of their door. Meanwhile the Munich has given her several chart hits in her homeland.
The guest vocalists, says Sepalot he needed to embody his own emotions: The video for the single release 'Rainbows' about filmed the ennui and the relationship end of a high society couple '' with Sepalot as its driver on the way to the cemetery. 'Hip-Hop' he says, 'but often is afraid of big emotions. I like that I can give the sadness their place here with the broad chest. ' Emotional dirt meets pop instinct: It's as if the glossy Genre Hip-Hop would need a good deal of Sepalot'scher uncoolness. Best German hip-hop album in 2011 in any case comes from a musty basement in gentrified Glockenbachviertel.
JONATHAN FISCHER
SZ 20.10.2011
