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About Me


Hailing from the Frankfurt area, Blackfish is the musical output of Maximillian Lopp and Andreas Baßermann.
For more than 15 years they have been active as musicians and music producers in the local music scene. Maximillian created 'Blackfish' in 1998 using his faith and imagination of deep, atmospheric trip-hop and downbeats. He took the melancholic jazz tunes and concise beats that were in his head and set them free, making them a reality.
In 2001 the first album was released on the Konvex Konkav label. With all of his hard work, success was soon to follow. His presence on many important compilations and continuous airplay lead to world wide recognition. New opportunities arose including remixes for Beanfield and Slop Shop, as well as a contribution to the cult Walldorf compilation "Zeitlos II". With driving ambition, Max felt the need to venture out of the studio and take Blackfish from the basement to the stage.
2001 also saw the addition of Andreas, with whom he worked the songs into a live performance. The vision of playing live music brought Max and Andreas a certain intense, yet cohesive collaboration with a variety of talented musicians lending way to a new horizon, full of endless possibilities in making music. 2004 is the year of a new blackfish Album. The Album “Hidden Shore” carries collaborations with a few well known musicians like Peter Schwalm, MC Santana, Raechell Schäfer, Tricky Chris and Markus Rayford. The release was at Maxelect Records.
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Member Since: 17/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.blackfish-productions.de
Band Members:

Maximilian Lopp
producer, keys and percussionist

Maximilian Lopp has been active in producing music professionally since 1992. In his early years he was very active in producing HipHop with local crews in the Frankfurt region. As he found it increasingly difficult to identify with that kind of music, he re-focussed on trip-hop and clubmusic. Luckily for him the mid-nineties saw the awakening of Drum'n'bass in earnest. Maximilian developed his own approach to electronic music by primarily mixing elements of these three directions.
He kicked off the project Blackfish with his first release on the Inside 02 compilation (Poets Club Records). Successful,and busy years followed. Maximilian produced Blackfish's first longplayer Pole Navigation (2001), did Remixes for Compost records , Poets club records and Wohnton (2002). He produced exclusive tracks for companies outside the usual music business, e.g. for the synthesizer giant Waldorf, which released the Zeitlos-Compialtion as a give-away-CD for the Namm-Trade in Chicago 2002. With his partner in music Andi, the other person behind Blackfish, he worked on the second album:“Hidden Shore” was released in 2004 on maxelect records/Edel.

Andreas Baßermann
producer, drummer and bassist

he started his muscial career in the late 90ies. busy with hiphop and drum´n bass tunes, he worked with different arstist from the rhein/main area and hung out at the local dirty rehersal rooms. his first break thru the surface had been happen in 1999 during the release of the underground breakdance combillation STEP TO DIZ - DIE HIP HOP FABRIK with the song dirty drums. From that point he had apperances on Hip Hop mixtapes and gigs with some live bands. During early 2000 he had his very first live experience on RADIO X Frankfurt/Germany. The same year, Max and Andi met and he joint the project blackfish a few month later.

...what's this? watch ya wayz (feat MC Santana)

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Influences: we are inspired by...coldcut, redsnapper, dj-shadow, jamiroquai, james brown, nuspirit helsinki, amp fiddler, tm-schneider, bob marley, dj-krust, danny krivit, gilles peterson, eryka badu, jazzanova, gentleman, moloko, megashira, wei chi, police, mr. scruff, jah meek, five corners quintett, 4 heros, goldie, vikter duplaix, mosdef, stone roses, thom york, pharell, twinset, michael buble, photek, canedrive, dauler, cinematic orchestra, jah sesco, good looking records, ltj bukem, blue marten, mc conrad, future engeneers, nicky blackmarket, serious dropout, riddim wize, jah coustix, run dmc, lill kim, xavier naido, prodigy, jan delay, unique records, sven väth, glenn underground, blumfeld, dub resistance, klute, jack johnson, aphex twin, madness, n.e.r.d, future sound of london, gavin randle, kruder und dorfmeister, buena vista social club, gabriel le mar, air, peter schwalm, slop shop, beanfield, aphextwin, dj vadim, guidance records, thievery coperation, roots manuva, radiohead, soul 2 soul, aretha franklin and the old dirty one man band!

...what's this? nighttrain live @ bcn cafe

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Sounds Like: sorry...we don..t sound like somebody else..;-))

find it out on your own....check our online ep-compilation series

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Record Label: toptrax, spv, soulstar, sony...and many more
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Moving Pattern Session 0.1 out now

.............. .. Finally we take off the first label compilation of blackfish productions ever. A beautiful bundle of 14 Track combined to a lounging and grooving essence of our artist portfo...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

DJ Session @ Frankfurter Küche

Hey! We do some live DJ Sessions at the Frankfurter Küche! Come and have a Applewine with us....,-)
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:30:00 GMT

DJ Mix on Planet Radio

We are doing a monthly DJ Mix on Planet Radio at the Early Morning Breaks Show. Check out this Saturday night, we are on the Decks...,-)
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:52:00 GMT

blackfish-productions ep 10 out now!!!

It..s about four years ago, since the last blackfish album got released on maxelect records. Here we finally got a new sight by blackfish on the surface again. Max and Andi got deep in the archives...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:55:00 GMT

new attic tree ep - below the surface - out now!!

Following their successful debut album gates of time in 2007 on Toptrax, attic tree is putting out 6 brand new songs from their archives. We are happy to continue the blackfish productions ep series ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:02:00 GMT

blackfish productions presents the seat ibiza lounge

We are really happy to anounce the SEAT Ibiza Island! Check out http://www.ibiza-island.de blackfish productions has set the DJ line up and watch out june 27th in Mannheim. Flashbaxx is at the turntab...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:56:00 GMT

maximilian lopp album out on june 7th 2008

Maximilian Lopp as a music producer is long time no dark horse in Lounge- and Chillout-Sector: Since 1999 he released numerous tracks and remixes under his project blackfish" and after the major s...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 07:07:00 GMT

blackfish-productions ep 8 out now!!!

We go on with another round of our blackfish productions EP Series by publishing an all about round sounding mini album which couldn't be more refreshing. Flashbaxx is the artist...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:48:00 GMT

new blackfish interview online!!

There is a new blackfish interview online @ justaloud.com. Check out the personal chat with Max and Andi.    The classic blackfish pole navigation album is on sale for a very short time @ ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:49:00 GMT

blackfish-productions ep 7 out now!!!

Martin Fietz a.k.a. Senseque is the mastermind behind Blackfish Productions latest EP. This time we wanted to re-focus on classic Chillout Music and these five tracks have grown to become an extraor...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:06:00 GMT