SYGAIRE profile picture

SYGAIRE

About Me


roskow started in 1983 with breakdance touched by the big media wave of hip hop from the states. he formed with his best friend & school mate Dizzy Dee / Zappo and two other guys the Empire State Breakers /ESB Rocker.
discovering at this times that radio-dj Barry Graves was playing the Latin Rascals Mega Mixes, Red Alert Radio Shows and Paco..s Supermixes on german radio at his "Studio 89", he started to tape all these american radio shows. very impressed and inspired by this totally new music, which was called "Electro" & "Rap" he started to do edits with his tape deck and a small monacor mixer.
in ..85/..86 shortly after he started to write his first own rhymes and lyrics at school, he met DJ Derezon. with him he formed the hip hop group first called T.R. Sounds and then Rock Da Most. together they did a lot of live shows in germany and europe and get a good name in the german underground hip hop szene. to start writing and composing on their own music, was a logically step to do.
in 1988 the recordings for their first Rock Da Most EP "use the posse" on imperial nation records were done in the berlin White Wedding Studio. not long after these recordings MC Blacky & DJ Run X Kid completed Rock Da Most until they broke up in 1990.
together with Derezon & Run X Kid he formed the label Juiceful Records in 1992 with a lot of releases over the next 3 years.
in these times he produced a lot for different projects: young guns, a real dope thing, spax, generated x-ed...
getting very tired about the hip hop-music production-dogmas at these times, his search for black music samples turned over into a love to old jazz, funk and soul music, discovering that there is a much more complex musically world outside with all it..s genres, styles and grooves.
going very often at these times to the Delicious Doughnuts Club in berlin he met a lot of musicians, club music dj..s, of course the dj..s Alex Barck, Jürgen von Knoblauch and Claas Brieler, which were djing at the club weekly. this mixture of old and new music, music between all genres, inspired him to start with his trip hop fusion project Kosma. shortly after the release of kosma and the first Delicious Doughnuts Compilation Vol.1 that he produced, he sticked together with Axel & Stefan of Extended Spirit to push productions skills further. more by accident they start to produce tracks for the 2nd Doughnuts Compilation together with Alex, Jürgen and Claas and the magic happened.
all 6 formed the group Jazzanova and not much later the label Sonar Kollektiv.
beneath that roskow formed the project Forum & Intega with his mate Matti Hellwig. they put out a lot of break beat and speed garage inspired remixes and a few originals. after a few years of working together , they split up again.
in 2005 he started to release under his old graffiti alter ego Sygaire, where he puts out a mixture of boogie, electro, hip hop, soul, funk, afro, cuban, caribbean inspired clubmusic.


DISCOGRAPHY:
releases:
1989 Rock Da Most "use the posse" EP (Imperial Nation Records)
1990 Rock Da Most „so we..re rockin..“ 12“ (unreleased, only 3 testpressings))
1992 Juiceful Jazz „between the chapters“ CD (Juiceful Records)
1994 VA „Macht der Kreativität“ with Rock Da Most „the no-named game“ 2LP (Rap Nation Records)
1996 Kosma "unibosvertripsal" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
1996 Kosma "universal" LP/CD (InfraCom! Records)
1996 Kosma "les promesses d’une chevelure" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
1997 Jazzanova "ep 1" 12" (Jazzanova Records)
1998 Jazzanova "ep 2" 12" (Sonar Kollektiv)
1999 Kosma "kalderon / sinther" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2000 Jazzanova "the remixes 1997-2000" 5LP/2CD (Sonar Kollektiv)
2000 Jazzanova "the single collection 1997-2000" LP/CD (Sonar Kollektiv)
2000 Kosma "odessa" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2000 Kosma "magnta flush" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2000 Kosma "odessa (black sea rmx) / flow ft. ERK" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2002 Jazzanova "in between" LP/CD (Sonar Kollektiv)
2002 Kosma "early works" CD (InfraCom! Records)
2003 Kosma "aspekte / effatholar city" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2005 Kosma "small swinging istanbul / heliocentric" 12" (InfraCom! Records)
2005 Kosma "new aspects" CD (InfraCom! Records)
productions:
1989 Young Guns „hyped up“ LP (Imperial Nation Records)
1993 VA „rap gegen rechts“ 2LP with A Real Dope Thing „roumors“ (DCO Records)
1995 VA „Delicious Doughnuts Compilation Vol. 1“ (Timbre Records)
1998 Tritop LP (infracom records)
1999 Generated X-ed "electro facism" LP (Trinity Records)
2003 Sebo K
2007 TrickSki enginering & mixing
2007 for the street dance musical "beyond the gates" Berlin 12/07
2008 with SEASON & SYGAIRE ft RANDOLPH MATTHEWS - "open to love" on
Gilles Ptereson Comp. "in the house" on Defected Rec.
2008 remix for 2BanksOf4 "shadowlands" SEASON & SYGAIRE rmx on Sonar Koll.
2008 remix for Atjazz - "parallels" JAZZANOVA rmx..... soon
as a member of Juiceful Records / First Class Records:
1992 Islamic Force „my melody/istanbul“ (First Class Records)
1992 Islamic Force „the whole world is your home“ (Juiceful Records)
1993 Cheeba Garden „houpa doupa crapola“ EP (Juiceful Records)
1994 Hype-A-Delics „mo.. funk for your ass“ LP/CD (Juiceful Records JFR-003 LP/CD)
1994 VA Hip Hop Aktivisten Gegen Gewalt "halt keine gewalt" CD (Juiceful Records)
1994 Juiceful Jazz "streets of desire" MCD (Juiceful Records JFR-006 MCD)
1995 Cheeba Garden „alea iacta est“ LP/CD (Juiceful Records JFR-009 LP/CD)
1995 Cheeba Garden „return of the skunkadelic“ (Juiceful Records)
as a member of Timbre Records:
1995 VA „Delicious Doughnuts Compilation Vol. 1“ (Timbre Records)
lots of remixes for example:
Visit Venus, Nu Spirit Helsinki, Gush Collective, Amp Fiddler, Minus8, Peter Kruder, Micatone, Sebo K, Underwolves, Furry Phreaks, 2BanksOf4, Atjazz

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/05/2007
Band Website: www.sonarkollektiv.com
Record Label: sonar kollektiv, mpm records, raw fusion records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

jazz records Interview with Roskow on !HISSIG

if you like to check out some of roskow´s favourites jazz records, here is an interview on the Norway jazz internet platform !HISSIG:click here to go to the INTERVIEW
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:26:00 GMT