Lovebirds non-stop

Wow, there is absolutely no stopping this man right now. If you don’t recognize the picture, I’m talking about Sebastian ‘Basti’ Döring AKA Lovebirds. Although this name has been becoming increasingly popular just recently, the Hamburg based producer has been in the game for well over 10 years now, releasing musing either solo (under Lovebirds and Superbird pseudonyms) or together with Thorsten “Toddie” Freese as the superstar Knee Deep duo.

This year alone, we could see two fine releases from Lovebirds featuring the vocals of Holly Backler In The Shadows and Love On My Hands on Winding Road. The former has been collecting excelent reviews from all over the world, which is no surprise to me. From personal experience I can tell that In The Shadows seems to be working on all kinds of audience. Also, The Beat Goes Boom was part of Buzzin Fly‘s 5th anniversary compilation, and we’re about to see many more.

So what’s more to come in 2008 and 2009 for him? An amazing EP on Freerange, another one on Winding Road and a couple of releases on co-owned Teardrop Music. Additionally, a remix of Ian Pooley‘s track made together with Vincenzo. To get into a little bit more details, here’s what I’ve been able to find out so far:

Ian Pooley – In Other Words Pt. 2 – [Pooled Music] – PLD 0186 – Release date: Oct 15th, 2008

1. My Kicks (Long Version)
2. Closer (Remix)
3. My Kicks (Vincenzo & Lovebirds Remix)
4. My Kicks (Bonus Beats)

Lovebirds – The Rat EP – [Freerange] – FR 113 – Release date: Oct 20th, 2008

1. The Rat
2. This Sound
3. The Rat (Kreon Remix)

The Rat hasn’t even come out yet and it’s already huge. I think it has been featured on every deep house podcast in the past few weeks. The Rat’s bassline sounds astonishing on a big system, trust me.

Lovebirds – Gentle EP – [Teardrop Music] – TD 001 – Release date: Nov 11th, 2008

1. Gentle
2. Tuesday
3. Juicy

You can find out more about this release from my article about Teardrop Music.

Lovebirds – Louder! EP – [Winding Road] – ROAD025

1. The Night
2. Louder!
3. It’s All Yours

I can’t wait for this to come out since the moment I first heard The Night on the Freerange Records Radio Show back in August. It says on the distributors’ site that it’s suppose to be available on Oct 24th.

Vincenzo & Lovebirds – M.U.S.I.C. EP – [Teardrop Music] – TD 003

1. M.U.S.I.C.
2. National

Lovebirds – Snary – [Teardrop Music] – TD 005

You can listen to a lot of these tracks on Lovebirds’ Unreleased Sessions on Beta Lounge.

Vincenzo & Lovebirds present Teardrop Music

I always thought it takes a huge budget for promotion for an artist’s to become recognizable by her/his first name only… When you hear Janet, Britney, Herbie… you don’t really need to hear the rest and you instantly know who’s the hero. It look that I was wrong. Vincenzo (Ragone) managed to achieve that level notoriety (at least in the electronic dance music community) with nothing more than his music.

Releasing music since 1995, the producer of the classic 1-800-Vincenzo album on Dessous has teamed up with another brilliant musician hailing from Hamburg, Sebastian Döring AKA Lovebirds (of Knee Deep fame). You can find out more about Basti in an upcoming article on this blog, but in the meantime let me focus on the latest project of these two producers.

It’s called Teardrop Music and it’s a new label destined to launch in about a month. The debut release will be coming from Lovebirds himself and it’s called Gentle EP (dropping Nov 11th on vinyl and Nov 24th digitally). It’s going to have 3 tracks on it: Gentle, Tuesday and Juicy. Here’s what the label says about them:

The main track GENTLE is been huge for a few months by jimpster, fred everything, ian pooley and the likes. ian also did a beautiful remix of this future classic which is included in this package. TUESDAY is the third track on this EP and its a beautiful, melancholic midtempo killer – simple but sooo effective. JUICY is a 80ies inspired downtempo rnb groove that features a slick mpc drum groove and some proper synthwork.

Sounds very promising, as well as future releases already scheduled on the imprint:

• Vincenzo – The Hangover
• Vincenzo & Lovebirds – M.U.S.I.C. EP
• Dana Berquist & Peder G – Guadeloupe
• Lovebirds – Snary

It’s worth to note a few things about this venture. First off, it’s not often these days that a label that hasn’t even been launched, already has 5 releases scheduled. Second, they’re planning to release vinyl along digital formats. That’s very rare in an era when even established labels decide to go digital only.

I can’t wait to see how this develops in terms of business and music. Both artists have been creating music in many different styles so it’s hard to tell what we’ll be their line as a label. Nevertheless, knowing how well Basti’s and Vincenzo’s earlier collaborations and solo projects sounded, I’m guessing Teardrop Music will be at least equally successful.

To find out more, you can visit Teardrop’s MySpace profile.