DEPARTMENT DELUXE
freestyle
You may be in search of the department deluxe radio show, previously hosted by lounge radio and some other hosts world wide.
I finally stopped producing a monthly show due to the fact that I've been doing this for the last 5 years and I now have the feeling that the concept of the show needs some reengineering.
May be there will be some sort of radio thing in the near future.
Meanwhile there is some other stuff to ckeck on my website: :
department-deluxe.org
---------------- History ------------------------
We started back in 2002 with our first web radio show on jazz-network radio - which became steady hosting partners of department deluxe for the next three years. With new regulations coming up for web radio services web casting from German territory, in 2005 our hosting partners where no longer able to continue their web casting service.
Thanks to independent web casters like the Switzerland based lounge-radio.com - which became our major web casting partner - department deluxe )) is back online since May 2005 - we are now able to keep on spreading the music we love! Furthermore, department deluxe )) can also be heard on Milano based radiopellenera.com, radiozerogravity.net / Italy and danceandsoul.com / Sinagpore and has quite regular appearances at the zbikbeat's radioschau (on FM in Stuttgart / Germany).
The motivation to do a monthly touch-of-jazz freestyle in the mix show is to reach all those people who want to listen to jazz influenced electronic music, but desperately search for jazz shows on public radio. The major problem was and still is that jazz styles with a NuJazz or electronic component, or electronic or whatever music with a jazz component or influence is not enough mainstream and too difficult to be listened to, to be played on the hot rotation stations and at the same time obviously too mainstream and artless to be played on conventional jazz radioshows. Instead of being constantly annoyed about this situation why not fill the gap and set up an own radio show?
The concept of the show is quite simple to describe: if you like it - play it, if you don't like it - don't play it. The result is a highly subjective view of things, which often ignores genre borders. The show tries not to present only an explicit genre, but defines itself as a forum of fusion of different popular jazz styles which hopefully found their ways back into the club scene within the last 15 years. Therefore the definition of ?what is jazz' is a bit fuzzy and allows influences of different genres which so appear in a new context. An exact definition of ?what is jazz' is actually not the intention - there are many influences like club- and easy listening sounds (...), call it nujazz, downtempo, breaks, nubossa, brasil, modern jazz who cares about names - listen to the music and like it or not ...
During the last five years, numerous well known international artists and DJs contributed their part to make department deluxe radio :: a success: artist like zbikbeat [aka Andi Zbik / Schmollmund Produktion / Stuttgart], Lei Yang [radio take 10 / China], CurlCurl [aka Phil Broekelmann / Wellington / NZ], S-Tone Inc. [aka Stefano Tirone / Schema / Milano], Heavy ?sker [aka Rob Smith / Radio Madrid], danYdan [timelessinspiration.com / Strassbourg / FR], combo moderna [Tilburg / NL], Nathan McLay [townB.com / Sydney / AUS], jazzmate [aka Nebojsa Atranovic / tudo beleza / leftofcentre / ... / Belgrad], Velanche Stewart [urbanlandscape.com / California / USA], DJ Friendly [aka Erik Eriksson / Norway] and Kaye [dance'n'soul / Singapore] have been featured as guest selectors.
department deluxe )) resident Jan Siegmund himself has also been featured as guest mixer by radio shows and websites worldwide: Cristiano Spilatti?s Searchin? Radioshow on ScannerFM (Barcelona, Spain), Lei Yang?s radio take 10 (Guangzhou, China ), Nebojsa Jazzmate (B92, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro), BIFE Radioshow (Porto, Portugal), Lime Sorbet - Citrona Recordings (Florida, USA), Zbikbeat Radioschau (Stuttgart, Germany), Urbanlandscape.com (California, USA), deepen.hu, danYdan (Strassbourg, France), radiozerogravity (Milano, Italy), danceandsoul.com (Singapore), Schaufenster Mitte (Stuttgart, Germany), to name just a few ....
