De-Phazz

De-Phazz – Pit Sounds (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
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The importance of De-Phazz in electronic entertainment music since the turn of the millennium is undeniable. Anyone who has held a cocktail in their hand in a lounge in Berlin, Miami or Ibiza since 1997 knows the band from Heidelberg.

Pit Baumgartner, creative head of De-Phazz, presents his opus magnum, Pit Sounds, which combines different sounds in an unconventional way. Baumgartner describes his working method as creative digging in a huge collection of sounds to find acoustic precious metal and put it into a new context.

Even if it is, of course, an expression of pure self-irony, the album stands up very well to the tongue-in-cheek comparison with the Beach Boys classic Pet Sounds. Here, the familiar 60s choruses meet classy jazz guitar licks, syrupy retro strings à la Bert Kaempfert, singing cowboys, Latin American standard dances, multilingual language snippets and even soccer trumpets.

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De-Phazz – Music to Unpack Your Christmas Present (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:07 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Christmas
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They are a power – but a good, gentle, almost secret power. For over 20 years, the magical-light sound of De-Phazz has been inspiring the listener, freeing consciousness and sending thoughts on their travels. The Heidelbergers are both the regulars and governors of Lounge and Easy Listening. This power enraptures the mind and enchants the dance floor, catapulting us into new atmospheres with every track: A fusion of samba and soul, trip-hop and jazz, Latin and R’n’B, where you can literally feel the sand under your feet, the sunbeams on your skin and the salty air in your nose.

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De-Phazz – Black White Mono (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:04 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: Nu Jazz, Lounge, Downtempo
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The prolific and long-running De-Phazz (also known as DePhazz) is a contemporary lounge project led by Peter “Pit” Baumgartner, a German-Austrian producer who has surrounded himself with a shifting cast of collaborators that includes vocalists Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson, and Pat Appleton. Beginning with Detunized Gravity (1997), Baumgartner and company have explored various forms of lounge music, much of it balancing samples with live instrumentation, with innumerable cross-sections of vintage jazz and soul, easy listening, and Latin music. De-Phazz tracks like “No Jive” and “The Mambo Craze” have appeared on dozens of compilations with “lounge,” “chill,” and “café” in the title. Though much of the De-Phazz catalog could be termed studio creations, it also contains collaborative, acoustic, and live projects such as Big (recorded with the Radio Bigband Frankfurt, 2009), Naive (2013), and Private (2016). No stranger to outside work, Baumgartner remixed Ella Fitzgerald’s “Wait ’til You See Him” for the first Verve Remixed compilation, as well as tracks by the likes of Kool & the Gang, a-ha, and Blank & Jones. ~ Andy Kellman

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De-Phazz – Jelly Banquet (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Phazz-a-delic New Format Recordings

De-Phazz The prolific and long-running De-Phazz (also known as DePhazz) is a contemporary lounge project led by Peter “Pit” Baumgartner, a German-Austrian producer who has surrounded himself with a shifting cast of collaborators that includes vocalists Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson, and Pat Appleton. Beginning with Detunized Gravity (1997), Baumgartner and company have explored various forms of lounge music, much of it balancing samples with live instrumentation, with innumerable cross-sections of vintage jazz and soul, easy listening, and Latin music.

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