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He’s not some new underground bedroom nipple-twisting monkey but he has produced a huge album of stunningly original remixes.

Who is he? He’s better known as half of Funkstörung (along with Chris De Luca) who split a few years ago to pursue their own projects. Which is a little strange then as Funkstörung they were really into remixing with a client list as wide as Björk to Wu-Tang Clan (and by coincidence working and remixing Nils Petter Molvaer who was in town this week, see HERE) and last week we featured RQM’s Colors Fade EP with, you’ve guest it, the Chris De Luca Remix.

Anyway, we’ll over look that one as this is a brand new remix compilation features seventeen fantastic Fakesch remixes for artists like Mr. Oizo, Notwist, Von Südenfed, Raz Ohara, Hexstatic, Jimmy Edgar, Herbert, Bomb The Bass, Towa Tei, Booka Shade; you get the idea, he’s very well connected.

From the hip hop of Shadowhuntaz to the so special ‘So Special’ by Bomb The Bass and featuring Paul Conboy (you’ll recall the Future Chaos and there’s the new !K7 album coming out called Back To Light). ‘So Special’ is like a short electro-pop version of the Nils Petter Molvær concert last night; one minute we’re all dreamy and in love, the next, brains are smashed all over the place.

Talking electro, D-Tron ‘bounces’ and does the opener, a remix of Brooka Shades’ classic ‘Manarine Girl’ that goes all ping-pong (a genre that regular readers will know I’m particularly keen on). This one is so good he could have ended on it rather than set the standard so high to start with. But just because there’s some not so well known tracks to follow, it doesn’t mean the standard drops. Raz Chara’s soulful ‘The Burning Desire’ is a prime slice of Sonar Kollekitve-ish house deviance; i.e. this is a tune.

Former member of Dee Lite, Towa Tei has worked with vocalists as varied as Joi Cardwell, Byron Stingily and Arto Lindsay and on ‘Taste Of You’, Taprikk Sweezee is a real find? This is twisted Prince at the colour purple that the Minnesota small person never achieved at his own royal highness himself - “I love the way, can’t resist”.

O.K. so what if there are some odd sounding European names, this guy can rock the hardest dancefloor; ‘The Rhinohead’ is The Fall in full electro guise (OMG, it is The Fall’s Mark E. Smith on vocals!). Compare with the freaked out Hexstatic (note, this isn’t the B+ we know on vocals) and talking of favourites, one of our favourite tracks on The Broadway Project’s One Divided Soul album, is ‘Paint It Blue’ that gets the treatment here and Kidkanevil (no mean remixer himself) gets it on with Taprikk Sweezee down in the basement for a bit of bondage with ‘Prince’. And who’d have thought Matthew Herbert could be out Herberted? He said it, something isn’t right (BIG glitchy soul-jazz track).

I love the water torture mix wobble on ‘My Bad Habit’ and it you haven’t guessed by now, the one issue with this CD is that, brilliant track after brilliant track keeps on coming. Yes, it’s the Jean Jaques Perry for heavens sake!

If you love to dance to twisted soul, funk, electro, boogie, tech, house, this is an album for you (and me). As most of the remixes were never released, who ever put this one together needs the proverbial pat on the backside as it’s a mover and a shaker. They say, exchange is no robbery but Michael Fakesch has taken and given back so much more on this collection that’s called Exchange - I wonder if Nils Petter Molvaer would let anyone lose of remixes of Hamada?

So, if anyone asks, “who the F is Michael Fakesch?” now you know - I want his babies, his studio, NVQ tuition, laptop, all his knobs, ‘Blue Monday’ for beginners manuscript and his contact book; that should sort me out for a bit.

Hectic Mix nominations: All but Herbert and Bomb The Bass are particularly impressive & Jean Jaques Perry of course.

Reviewed: Michael Fakesch - Exchange (Musik Aus Strom) Cat. Nr. MAS21.10CD Format: Ltd. CD, 3 x Ltd. Vinyl EPs and Digital Release date: 05 April 2010
Tracklisting:
1. MR OIZO - Lambs Anger_Jo (Fakesch Remix) [Ed Banger] **
2. BOOKA SHADE - Mandarine Girl (Fakesch Remix) [Get Physical]
3. SCAFFOLDING - D-Tron (Fakesch Remix) [Plastic Sound Supply]
4. BOMB THE BASS FEAT. PAUL CONBOY - So Special (Fakesch Remix) [!K7]
5. SHADOWHUNTAZ - Head In Noose (Fakesch Remix) [Mesk]
6. RAZ OHARA - The Burning Desire (Fakesch Remix) [Get Physical] **
7. TOWA TEI FEAT. TAPRIKK SWEEZEE - Taste Of You (Fakesch Remix) [Hug Inc] *
8. HECQ - Steeltongued (Fakesch Remix) [Hymen] *
9. VON SÜDENFED - The Rhinohead (Fakesch Remix) [Domino] **
10. HEXSTATIC FEAT. B+ - Freak Me (Fakesch Remix) [Ninja Tune] *
11. KIDKANEVIL FEAT. TAPRIKK SWEEZEE - Black Bug (Fakesch Remix) [First Word] *
12. JIMMY EDGAR AKA HER BAD HABIT - My Bad Habit (Fakesch Remix) [Citinite] **
13. HERBERT FEAT. TAPRIKK SWEEZEE - Something Isn’t Right (Fakesch) [!K7]
14. JEAN JACQUES PERREY & COSMIC POCKET - Frooots/Psyche (Fakesch Remix) [Invitro Records] **
15. NOTWIST - Gloomy Planets (Fakesch Remix) [Cityslang] **
16. THE BROADWAY PROJECT - Paint It Blue (Fakesch Remix) [One Divided Soul] **
17. FRANZ KIRMANN - Little Baby Eyes (Fakesch Remix) [Lobe Records] *
** previously unreleased
* previously not available on vinyl

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Fakesch Michael Fakesch had a busy week but now finally I got the vinyls of ‘Exchange’ (my remixcompilation) and it’s sounding gooooood! :-)Studio stuff… One of the three ‘Exchange’-E.P.s being cut at Mastercut, Munich!
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