Mr. Alfa (Venus International)

About Me

Mr. Alfa is the nickname of producer, DJ and composer Alfa Kay. Known as one half of Germany's POPSHOPPERS, Alfa produces rather different music when doing it all by himself. Quite melancholic sounds somewhere in between the stylistic landmarks of Jazz, Downtempo, Soul, Pop and Electronica.
Together with great female singers from (nearly) all over the world Alfa started VENUS INTERNATIONAL. The first VI album will be released april 2008.
Nearly all instruments are played by Alfa and the wonderful female vocals are by Duygu Cingar (Istanbul/Turkey), Christine Lunaire (Austin/USA), Janea (Cologne/Germany), Lalah (Hamburg/Germany), Bernadette Noir (Paris/France), Elina Jaiden (Hollywood/USA), Karo (Schweinfurt/Germany), Jacqueline Bieze (Haarlem/Netherlands), Crystin (DÃ¼sseldorf/Germany), Iris Aneas (Barcelona, Spain), Niki Carrera (Milan, Italy).
Other projects Alfa Kay is involved are:
THE POPSHOPPERS (- Popshoppers @ MySpace ),
JANEA et ALFA (Frenchpop, first release on 'French Cuts III'),
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (60s Pop, Beat),
CINEPHONIC (Electronic music for Silent Movies in team with Marsen Jules).
As a DJ you can see Alfa as a part of POPSHOPPERS DJ-TEAM (Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco, ... with Senor 45)
or as a part of SEXY STUDENTENFUTTER DJ-TEAM (Super freestyle-laissez-.faire Rock'n'Elektro with Suzie Kerstgens [Klee]).
or as a part of IN BED WITH DJ-TEAM with Miss Stereo.
Listen here: DJ Muranoâ€™s Summer Soul Mix (With a VENUS INTERNATIONAL track)
DJ M. Murano (Soul On Top) has posted a new "Summer Edition" mix of wonderful rare and vintage Soul. And in the middle of the mix you can listen to our VENUS INTERNATIONAL - "People In Love", which is definitely not vintage but rare because it's unreleased yet. We enjoy this honour as we enjoy the whole mix. So here it is for your listening pleasure:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/6/2006
Band Website: mralfa.com
Band Members: ALFA KAY - e-piano, piano, organ, synthesizer, guitar, bass, vocals & all other programmings
PETE DEAL - additional guitars
BIG AL DILLY - guitar ("Moody")
CYBORG HAINES - bass (’Blow Up’)
STEFAN "BOHEMIAN" BÃ–HMER - add. bass
DUYGU CINGAR - vocals
CHRISTINE LUNAIRE - vocals
BERNADETTE NOIR - vocals
JANEA - vocals
LALAH - vocals
ELINA JAIDEN - vocals
CRYSTIN - vocals
LUDMILLA - vocals
KARO - vocals
IRIS ANEAS - vocals
JACQUELINE BIEZE - vocals
NIKI CARRERA - vocals
Influences: There are sooooo many. But wait: BURT BACHARACH, DAVID BOWIE, SERGE GAINSBOURG, JONI MITCHELL, HENRY MANCINI, PETER THOMAS and all the wonderful european 60s/70s moviescore composers, BRIAN ENO, CHET BAKER, MILES DAVIS, MARVIN GAYE, MARCOS VALLE, NINA SIMONE, KRAFTWERK, CURTIS MAYFIELD, BOOKER T. & THE MGs, WES MONTGOMERY, GRANT GREEN, PAUL WELLER, ISAAC HAYES, STEVIE WONDER, ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM, ASTRUD GILBERTO, BILLIE HOLIDAY... and even Bach, Debussy, all things soulful, groovy, funky, mod. My heroine: Carol Kaye
Sounds Like: making love
Record Label: Phazzadelic / New Format Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Serial Lovers

We have a new tune and it's "The Serial Lovers". A kind-of-jazzy-tune. We thought about the serial character of love and CHRISTINE LUNAIRE put it in billiant words as always. And her singing is great ...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:47:00 PST

A venusian diary

ok folks,from today on i'll try to blog a diary to inform you what's going on in this Venus International universe. ;-) Today I talked with two new coming Venusses about our cooperations and I'm very ...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:25:00 PST

Album Release verschoben auf 25. Juli (german)

Der deutsche Release Termin unseres VENUS INTERNATIONAL Debütalbums ist kurzfristig auf den 25. Juli verschoben. Grund dafür ist das rege Interesse der Medien an unserem Album. Alle, die sich auf das ...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:21:00 PST

what’s going on

First of all: Our selftitled VENUS INTERNATIONAL debut-album is going to be out at the end of this week. It's hard to express the feelings you have when "your baby" is going to see the light of day af...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:12:00 PST

Wow ,- we’re a Myspace Top-Artist!

Thanks to you all because you made me and Venus International Myspace Top-artist. At this moment we are: No 1 german Trip Hop artist No 3 german Nu-Jazz artist No 6 german Down-tempo artist ...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:37:00 PST

DJ M. MURANO "Summer Soul" Mix

DJ M. MURANO (Soul On Top) posted his brandnew "Summer Edition" mix of rare and vintage Soul. We feel honoured to be in that mix with VENUS INTERNATIONAL - "People In Love", which is definitely not vi...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:33:00 PST

Wicked Game

There are songs you can't do better than the original. You can only do it in a different way. That's why we chose Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" as a song to cover. We wanted to find something "female" i...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:33:00 PST

Mr. Alfa FAQ

Some questions i often been asked ... here are the answers:What is the difference between Mr. Alfa and Venus International music?Actually: There is no difference. What now is VENUS INTERNATIONAL...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:33:00 PST

VENUS INTERNATIONAL album release date: May, 23th

The release date for our selftitled VENUS INTERNATIONAL (CD and download) debut album is May, 23th. Our other (download-only) album "The Virtual Diamond Of Virgo" will be out nearly at the same time.T...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:24:00 PST

People In Love

For a long time Janea and me wanted to do some "classic soul" tracks because we both are true soul-freaks. But all the time we picked tracks of different styles to work on - just by chance. At last we...
Posted by Mr. Alfa (Venus International) on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:28:00 PST