069 | nils hoffmann – mett e.p.

Nils Hoffmann, geb. 1976 in Bremen, hat eine turbulente musikalische Reise hinter sich: Seine Computersounds vermischten sich in diesem Jahr mit traditioneller, amerikanischer Musik aus den Appalachen (mit Nathaniel Damon an Banjo und Geige), mit Benjamin Brunn und Florian Stender (letzterer zu hören auf „new bad summer“, einem Stück über die französische Revolution… ) produzierte er elektronische Musik, zum Beatles-Jubiläum zerhackstückelte er die Musik der vier Liverpooler bei den offiziellen Feierlichkeiten. Als Musiker, DJ, Produzent und Remixer schwimmen bei ihm alle Musikstile wie zwinkernde Fettaugen auf einer kräftigen Beat-Brühe. Dass Hoffmann nebenher als Dozent und Lern-DVD-Autor für die Musiksoftware „ableton live“ arbeitet, ist seinen Stücken durchaus anzumerken. Ebenso wenig gelingt es ihm, seine Vorliebe für frühen Jazz und Orchestermusik zu verbergen, die ihn seit seinem klassischen Musikstudium immer wieder in die Livemusikklubs verschlug. Seit einem New York-Besuch im Frühjahr 2010 und unter dem Einfluß der dortigen Jazzszene entstanden eine Reihe von „improvisierten“ Elektro-Stücken („manhatten monday“). Dass Nils vor zwanzig Jahren als Songwriter in Rockbands unterwegs war und bis heute als Gitarrenlehrer aktiv ist, erklärt vermutlich immer noch die Entstehung der letzten beiden Stücke der EP („Ohrenschützer“ und „Die geilste Sau der Welt“). Immer zwei Schritte neben dem Mainstream rüttelt die Nachfolge-EP von Nils Hoffmanns „kurz & klein“-EP auf „broque“ an der einsetzenden Winterdepression, dank liebevoller Kleinarbeit ein spätsommerliches Wärmekissen des Elektroswings.

The voice in „new bad summer“ is from Florian Stender.

artwork by TPS Nostromo&Tend, Munich
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some feedbacks:
X-Press 2 Long Island Work is the best. – Oliver Ho (Blueprint/Meta/Raudive (Oliver Ho)/OLIVER HO AND TOMMY GILLARD PRESENT ATLAS) love track 4, iam gona love using that to pull some brains apart. – Roko (Sub.fm/B.O.M.B.) love the breakcore mentality of track 4 :) the record sleeve seems to say it all! nicewan – Grant Paterson ( Edinburgh Evening News ‚The Guide‘) Very clever, vintage sounds mixed with tech… Manhattan Monday, Long Island Work, to the superb vocal cuts: New Bad Summer…and Die geilste Sau der Welt,make for a very interesting package. – John Selway (CSM) (CSM/John Selway & Dave Turov/John Selway & Tony Rohr/John Selway) interesting stuff, not in love with everything – sometimes a bit much random direction changing – but has many fun and unique elements. – Noice Podcast Series like New Bad Summer (Subdivisions Radio Show – Digitally Imported Radio) Interesting listen.. Long Island Work super cool! – Claude VonStroke (Mothership/Dirty Bird) Downloading for Claude VonStroke. Feedback to come, Thanks! – XFM Dublin / No Territory Show Manhatten Monday is nice and the best track for me off this package.thanks. – Dan Sykes (vivamusicstudios.com) very cool – Laurent Garnier not for me this time – Benoît Carretier (Tsugi) not so for me – paris-one.com Jazz Techno Clash, excellent EP. Love Manhattan Monday and Long island Work. Fred Paris One – Radio Beton Maybe sometimes „Borderline“ but I like the way of „New Bad Summer“. Beautiful atmospherik Electro-Pop !!! – MCD magazine / WTM radio show hello hello – Swoon/ pastlessonfuturetheories blog Unusual ep. Like Manhattan Monday and Ohrenschutzer. – Nino (Altroverso) AIRPLAY IN ALTROVERSO RADIO – Different Grooves unconventional ep, already supported by differentgrooves.com – The-zone.it nice ep! – DJ Nori (Posivision) feel relax, good release. – Electric Indigo manhattan monday and new bad summer are charming – Timo Maas (Cocoon Recordings) not what id play but interesting stuff – Todd Burns (Resident Advisor) thanks, will let you know if someone pitches a review. – Tim Thaler (3headz) for radio play, thanks. – Richie Hawtin (Minus) downloaded for r hawtin – Tim Schäfer (Zitty/030 Magazin) thx – Radio Z not really my sound, strange cover and singing – Four to the Floor (Radio 98eins) wow..was für eine vielfalt. bin begeistert. ist auf jeden fall radiotauglich. – Raveline „New bad summer“ ist ne schöne deep House Nummer. Gefällt. – DJ MPLeary (Raveline) nothing for me…sry – DJ Hal (EQ Magazine) nfm – Tokio Recordings (Proton Radio) Not for me. – Machines Are Funky Blog (Resident Advisor) Variety, but not really my thing. – Tobias „Tobey“ Again quality music from broque! „New Bad Summer“ is my fav – Radio Suisse (dimitri (Radio Suisse)) Interesting work ! – Northern Rivers Echo / The Indoor Sessions ooooh wonderful! – teknology.free.fr/ radioshow I like ‚Long Island Work‘ quite crazy track. – Eric Bordes-Tosolini very cool housy stuff – Estroe ( Connaisseur Recordings, Mezzotinto ) new bad summer and die geiste sau de welt are my fav’s – Erik Buis Manhattan Monday is my favourite, slow and hypnotizing. – DJ Montana (Club Basement.net ) (Sputnik) Weird but interesting – Medellinstyle great tracks all around. Artwork is also cool. thanx for this great Ep the future is perfect now!!! total support – inputselector interesting – Presuming Ed (Be At TV) like new bad summer – Luciano Sambati (Fabric London) Weird but interesting – Slam (Soma Records) interesting trax – will try out – thanx – Dave Mothersole (Swag, Proton Radio) some nice sounds – but overall not really for me – Evil Eddie Richards (Lunar Tunes, DYNamics, Storm) thanks – Alland Byallo (Nightlight Music) Nice! Sweet sounds from Broque. Love New Bad Summer, and the rest is twisted in a lovely way. – luke stokes this ep is all over the place beautiful and soft places other places sound like a hint of underworld and old rag time thrown in….a bit unfocused but still a great ep – Audio Injection (Audio Injection & Drumcell/Droid Recordings) interesting stuff, but nothing i would play, but will make good listening, thanks! – Drumcell (Audio Injection & Drumcell/Droid Recordings) fun stuff – Cian Ó Cíobháin (An Taobh Tuathail – RTE RnaG radio, Ireland) Knows how to work a groove (and a piano)… that’s AOK in my book. – Anthony Collins (Curle, Mule, Vakant) yeah monday track is super – Krikor (Tigersushi, Kill The DJ) like it – Teknobrat / Ottawa Radio Show Long Island Work wow, traditional New Orleans style jazz samples in tech house… Amazing …. Really really cool…. I rate this release 9 on 10 – Diversions on chry105.5fm like Manhattan Monday & Long Island Work – Del Jardin Latino Broque do it again! Manhatten Monday is my fav. thanks! – Bleed (De:Bug) review to follow – Andre Gardeja Interesting EP, my favourite is New Bad Summer, i like the vocals … full support ! – Axel Bartsch (Sportclub Music) (Axel Bartsch) new bad summer is cool. – Angel Molina ( Sonar / Tresor ) sadly, not for me… – Pig & Dan (Cocoon) Good quality music from Broque as usual, sexy, sensual, urban music for those city nights – Klubbers.com its really deeper sounds. Big soul sounds for intelligent listeners. Love long island work… its fantastic!!! – Sebastian Roya (Connaisseur) Good!!! – Radio Campus Brussles new bad summer and long island work are the ones for me…. lovely! will play on my weekly lysergic factory radioshow here in bxl – Switch / Studio Brussel not feeling this – Garnica (Trenton, Radio LAE) relaxing ep! – Boshke Beats Records (Alex (Boshke Beats Records)) Excellent – Patrick Bateman (Tic Tac Toe / Connect Four) New Bad Summer is cool! thank you. – Stuart Millar these are off the wall. too much for me. new bad summer is good. i like die geliste sau der welt too. tho….im no german speaker! – Sam Allman (FWD) not for me – UniversalVibes.com like manhatten monday and will support in disco sets – Phil Kieran (Cocoon Recordings/Soma Records) thanks – Derek Taylor (Tilllate Magazine) sorry, none of these were for me. Cheers Derek – The Advent (Kombination Research/Labyrinth) not for me – Dave Martin Didn’t really grab my attention – sturdy enough though. Thanks DxM – Space DJz not what I play out but would definitely play them in …some very cool trax here .. – Nikola Baytala ([KONTROL]/Stompy.com/Tweekin Records) Nils Hoffmann takes it deep – DJ Tronic Really like the vibe of Long Island Work. – Ectomorph at least that’s some real jazz – Eric Cloutier (Resident Advisor) Weird but interesting – Barry O’Donoghue (Bodytonic) not for me. – Arnaud Le Texier Nice & Original ;-) – Quenum love track 3 long island work (original) – BOUM! TCHAK! on CIBL 101.5 FM Radio Montréal Interestingly different. – Frequencies.it dark and prog, it’s what we need! – Jorge Savoretti (Esperanza) interesting stuff! – Radio Quintessenz fine deep sounds – James Blonde (MBF, Sweat Lodge) like the first two tracks thx – D.Diggler (Liga Elektronika, Level Non Zero) interesting – Beaner (Bar25/3 Good Doctors aka Agaric, Ed Davenport & Beaner) interesting release – Metope (Areal, IRR, Beachcoma) (Beachcoma/Metope) Will play this. – Toni Rios sorry not for me. – subculture SchwarzwaldBaarBodensee Good – On3 Radio, Grenzfrequenz M94.5 (On-3 Radio ( Bayrischer Rundfunk )) Not for me. – Byte.fm (Tagesspiegel/Deutschland Radio) Good – Fredrik Nyberg (Trunkfunk) Weird but interesting – Raul (Clubbing Spain) “Great release!! Soon in Clujbbingspain.com” – DJ Fra (Nitsa) i’m really enjoying this record – Docepulgadas SORRY, NOT FOR ME – Jaumëtic cooooool – Lenny Ibizarre (DJ Awards) excellent atmospheres – Daniel Mumbling Sanchez (Remote Area,Casbah rec!,) Will try some of the tracks here, thanx good work!