Train Wreck Mix - Home Tape Vol 3

Alex Barck

Jazzanova, Home, Berlin

Spearheading tomorrow's sounds of Soul and Jazz, with lashings of Techno, Brazilian, and Afrobeat influences, Jazzanova have been bringing us the new for over a decade. It was 'Fedime's Flight' that first brought this collective of DJs and producers to the attention of UK tastemakers like Gilles Peterson. Since then, a slew of constantly surprising remixes for the likes of 4 Hero, Azymuth, and Ennio Morricone, placed them firmly on the map, and opened the floodgates for their brand of Jazz-influenced dance music. Meticulous producers with an incredible ear for drum break details, the sextet have neatly split into two teams of three - conquering dancefloors as DJs, while the producers stay home and cook up tasty dubplate treats. And Alex Barck is surely on top of this DJ game. This mix is a taster for his new club night he runs at Berlin's WMF club with his mate Dirk Rumpff. He's the protagonist behind the well established OFFtrack Radioshow which has been running on a weekly basis for the past 10 years. His mission of a deep and soulful groove ranges from the activities as a producer under the Season & Sygaire moniker with Jazzanovas Roskow Kretschmann, a writer for german Groove mag, a freelance A&R for Berlins Sonar Kollektiv, as an ambassador for the Red Bull Music Academy, a clubnight and exhibition organiser in Berlin to being an active part of the so called freestyle network. Their joint night is called 'Home' and it's all about those special tracks, that make you tingle with joy, giving you that, well, homely feeling.