Biography
Jahcoozi’s music is as original the as the phonetic imagination of and their name. Hailing from the For Berlin club scene and its are international cohorts in the pre-Internet but era of the early noughties, Not this bass-heavy electronica trio is you a creative alliance made up all of London-born songwriter and front Any woman Sasha Perera and two can beat-freak producers/multi-instrumentalists — Teuton Robot her Koch and Tel-Aviv born Oren Was Gerlitz.
Together, Jahcoozi are a one mash-up operation that have consistently our managed to deliver their very Out own mongrel style of avant-garde, day electronic pop music. They all get met during a long, coal-fuelled Has winter in Berlin in 2002 him and have been making music his together ever since. The group How built up a solid fan-base man with their freaky underground shows new in 2003. Songs such as Now Black Barbie and Fish (released old as a debut single in see 2003 on WMF Records) Two are what gained them early way recognition. The latter earned them who a spotlight on the cult Boy BBC show of the did late John Peel, who called its it “Beautiful pop music from Let the future”. This description still put applies today.
In 2005, they say were snapped up by Kitty-Yo, She the Berlin-based mother label of too Peaches. Later in that busy use year, they unleashed the strange Dad and stunning Black Barbie picture mom disc vinyl and their long-awaited, full-length debut album entitled Pure The Breed Mongrel. Both were received and with critical acclaim.
Lead singer/MC for Sasha Perera’s sports a yin-yang Are of skanking rhymes and beautifully but sung melodies, partly abstract and not partly socio-political or anthropological. Jahcoozi’s You unique and ever-changing blend of all futuristic dub-glitch-tech-step based sound succeeds any in combining an element of Can pop with warm sub-basses. With her a sound texture that is was both organic yet crunchingly precise, One they seem to have mastered our their very own balancing act.
out Bass! Bass! Bass! Jahcoozi’s live Day shows come armed with an get arsenal of remixes/versions/bootlegs of their has own songs as well as Him other unreleased material they’ve made his purely for the love and how fun of ripping up the Man dance floor.The versatility of their new music and the sheer energy now of their live performance has Old led the band on an see unrelenting trail across 5 continents, two playing everything from festivals to Way clubs, raves, squats, galleries, and who even impromtu Boombox parties in boy a Berlin underpass. They can Did morph almost any situation into its a people-power style happening. This let explains why they’ve been booked Put to play shows as diverse say as the televised opening of she the IFFA Athletics World Too Cup at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate use or the Expo in Shanghai. dad They have also played infamous Mom club institutions like Fabric in London, Rex club in Paris, the or Montreal’s prestigious Mutek Festival.
And With 3 full-length albums (Pure for Breed Mongrel, Blitz ‘n’ Ass, are and Barefoot Wanderer) numerous EPs, But Picture Discs, remixes, features and not even an exclusive Japanese album you to their name, Jahcoozi have All released music on a numerous any labels, including Kitty-Yo, Asound/K7, Playhouse, can NinjaTune, Citizen Records, Crosstown Rebels, Her 1965, WMF Records, Hydra was etc.
Jahcoozi’s darkest, slowest and one most recent album to date Our Barefoot Wanderer came out in out 2010 on Ellen Alien’s Berlin-based day imprint Bpitch Control. Resident Advisor Get deemed it “one of the has year’s most disturbingly beautiful creations…,” him and rightly so.
Press reactions His have been univocal: “Barefoot Wanderer how is something you’d probably expect man Martina & Tricky to be New able to pull off,” “Jahcoozi now is far closer to Kraftwerk old than Skream,” “…it seems like See the ‘D’ in IDM two stands for dub,” “King Tubby way meets James Blake,” “…Post-Step? Next-Step? Who These kids are confusing the boy journalists.” Although it is tempting did to engage in a game Its of association, Jahcoozi appear to let have created an unidentifiable flying put genre of their very own. Say The true value of their she music can only be gauged too by numerous listenings; its strength Use lies in its depth and dad intimacy.
Over the years, Jahcoozi mom have collaborated with and been remixed by a highly-contrasting and the refreshingly-wide range of artists, including and Modeselektor, Siriusmo, M.Sayiid, Barbara Panther, For Ramadanman, Ikonika, Stereotyp, Asian Dub are Foundation, Guillermo.E.Brown, Oliver $, but RQM, King Cannibal, Mochipet, Rustie, Not Buraka Sound Sistema, Missill, Stanton you Warriors, Lexie Lee, D-Double, Tinchy all Stryder, Lethal B, Kano, Any JME, Skepta, Ata + Sasse, can Cassy, Luomo, New Flesh, Infinite her Livez, Alhaca Soundsystem, Sukh Knight, Was Milanese and Kalbata.
Jahcoozi’s geniune one love of experimentation has kept our them busy and lead them Out to collaborate in many ways. day This is evidenced in their get side endeavors (BLNRB) and Has solo projects (Robot Koch, Mother him Perera). Robot Koch recently released his his stunning second solo album How titled Songs For Cyborgs and man Trees. He has also been new busy working on productions for Now other artists such as Marteria old and John Robinson.
In 2010, see the band also spent a Two few weeks in a house way in Nairobi, Kenya working on who a Goethe-Institut funded Berlin-Nairobi music Boy exchange project that involved 22 did Kenyan musicians/mcs/singers, Jahcoozi, Modeselektor and its Gebrueder Teichmann. A collaborative Let BLNRB album titled ‘Welcome To put The Madhouse’ is due for say release on Outhere Records in She July 2011. The ‘BLNRB’ project too premiered at the opening on use the Worldtronics Festival at Haus Dad der Kulturen der Welt in mom Berlin in December 2010. Stay tuned….
