NEWS

newsentry: 07/10/09 | 17:37h

newsentry: 18/11/08 | 23:44h
"technique" resident advisor review:
motorcitysoul, the german duo of matthias vogt and c-rock, face a fairly demanding challenge on technique: How do you maintain quality control after a superlative single? Like the best of motorcitysoul's productions, "change you," which was released in september, is consummate - everything locks precisely into place, but not at the expense of the song's emotional contours. It does everything right, which is great over a ten-minute stretch, but hard to pull off over the course of an album. and, besides, too much rightness isn't necessarily a good thing anyway (click picture for full review).

newsentry: 27/10/08 | 23:06h
Frankfurt duo Motorcitysoul provide a mix of tech and deep house for this week's (RA podcast):
Fresh from releasing their Technique album on Will Saul's Simple imprint, the Frankfurt duo of Matthias Vogt and Christian Rindermann, AKA C-Rock, have had a busy year so far. Their own brand of melodic house music has been in high demand during the current deep house resurgence, with releases signed to Freerange and Tsuba on top of their aforementioned full-length. To say that they are bandwagon jumpers would be far from the truth; they've been plugging at this deep, driving sound for a while now, even managing to score a collaboration with US house legend Chez Damier back in 2005.

The pair first recorded together around five years ago for local label INFRACom, with Matthias taking writing responsibilities, and C-Rock acting as the technical brains behind the production. Since then, they've decided to share the songwriting duties equally, forging a lush soulful sound that retains its dynamism. The same could be said about their RA podcast, which takes some of their own original productions (both as a duo and solo) and mixes them up with a fine selection of deep house both old and new. We caught up with them by e-mail to ask about the mix, and how things are going with their club night and label.

newsentry: 30/09/08 | 18:50h
"Change You" (feat. Ovasoul7) incl. Shur-I-Kan remix out now!
Motorcitysoul single "Change You" has hit the stores last week. Make sure to check out the latest
release by the two frankfurt housemen.

Carl Craig: “Original is good. Will play and support”.
Chris Duckenfield (SWAG): “quality as ever... cheers”.
Craig Richards (Fabric): “C-Rock is amazing - Motorcitysoul are amazing”.
Ewan Pearson (K7!): “Both versions are lovely and will be getting plenty of play from me!”.
Fabrice Lig (Versatile, Playhouse): “Both mixes are great and soulful.”
Gilles Peterson: “Really good record”.
Jimpster (Freerange): “full marks all round!”.
Karotte (Cocoon / Great Stuff): “a seite toll, b-seiten rmx großes kino!".
Laurent Garnier (F-Com): “lovelyyyyy will play of course - realy REALY lovely full support!”
Llorca (F-Com): “great EP, both versions are dope.”
Loco Dice (Cadenza, Ovum): “Nice House baby!”.
Manuel Tur (Compost black): “both mixes are equally good... great package!”
Sasha: “Shur-I-Kan mix is ace!”
Spirit Catcher: “Excellent Job guys!!! Full support on our side!!!”

newsentry: 29/09/08 | 21:52h
Motorcitysoul show off their technique (Resident Advisor)
Frankfurt's deep house duo Motorcitysoul will release their sophomore album on Simple in October.
The time seems ripe for the music of Matthias Vogt and C-Rock, what with the European continent currently in the throes of a deep house revival. That's exactly what's on offer throughout Technique—an album that promises at various moments to "want to love you more," "change you...slowly," and "deliver me." Lest you be discouraged by the seriousness, though, there's also a song about space cats. No matter the subject matter, the duo is usually led by synthesizers that sound like they've been doused in what the press notes call "soulful melancholy." Motorcitysoul sees their baby, "Technique", out into the world on October 13th, 2008 on Simple Records - make sure you check the single and the album on the official simple website.

newsentry: 28/10/07 | 16:09h
in stores november 19th: Dirt Crew "Manouvres" (Motorcitysoul Remix)
labelinfo:Following last months release of the new Dirt Crew album „Raw“ we present you a great remix package with some fine interpretations of original Dirt Crew album Tracks by some of today’s hottest remixers. First up are the wonderful deep Motorcitysoul boys out of Frankfurt city known for their great records on the London based „Aus/Simple“ imprint, their own „Stir“ label and for numerous remixes on labels like Cocoon, Freerange and Dessous. They deliver a true underground deep house gem that is winding it’s way up to a great breakdown and keeps the hot and sweaty feel of the original alive. On the B-side it’s getting even wilder with a massive remix Bomb by two Dutchmen we all should know by now,Patrice Bäumel (Trapez) and Nuno Dos Santos (Compost Black) team up for one of their infamous Threesixty remixes and turn the track „Get Raw“ into a Tech-house destroyer. And last but not least as a special tribute to our Berlin hometown we invited our good friend Tom Clark (Highgrade Records) to do his thing on the deep „How does it feel“ track. He turned it into a dubby „Basic Channel“ like minimal house groover which will go down well at all after hours and late night sets.

newsentry: 28/10/07 | 16:04h
Motorcitysoul in de:bug Magazine 11/2007
de-bug magazine and freelance-writer alexis waltz just published a really nice motorcitysoul-feature. here's a little excerpt (in german) check the link above to get to full page version:

Motorcitysoul: Frankfurter Geschmacksverstärker
Ihr neues Album schürft Deep-House (Alexis Waltz in De:Bug 116):
Schönheit, Eleganz, guter Geschmack, Genuss und eine besondere Vision von Liebe machen die Musik von Motorcitysoul aus. So erfahrene Musikprofis die beiden sind, verlieren sich Christian Rindermann und Matthias Vogt nie in einem eitlen, selbst verliebten Musikertum. Ihre Arbeit ist weder von einem Distinktionsgestus bestimmt, noch zielt sie auf Hits. Die beiden lassen in ihrer beharrlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den Texturen der verschiedenen House-Stile und der benachbarten Musiken nicht locker. Als DJ, Produzent, Labelmacher und Host ist C/Rock einer der wichtigsten Figuren im hiesigen Housegeschehen. Früh hat er zwei einflussreiche Alben an der Schnittstelle zwischen House, Dub und Minimal veröffentlicht und ist für die Labels Stir15, Lofi Stereo und Release Music verantwortlich.

newsentry: 27/09/07 | 10:55h
NEW RELEASES ON AUS and TSUBA
also coming soon is our second 12" release for simple sublabel aus music (uk). this time motorcitysoul meets ibadan-hero jerome sydenham who delivered a stunning housemix with slight trance ingredients - big! stay tuned for "space kaetzle (space cats)" to be released end of october 2007.
"space kaetzle" will be followed by our first release for kevin griffith's tsuba label (uk). the tsuba release "phantasy" features vocals by lovely miss clara hill and a remix by moon harbour rockstar daniel stefanik (tbc). besides these two releases we've just finished our remix for "manouvres" by the almighty dirt crew to be released winter 2007.

newsentry: 01/07/07 | 17:02h
here we go with part one and two of our slices magazine feature, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did the filming. please check the slices-website for more information and dvd-ordering-informations.

newsentry: 22/03/07 | 15:45h
NEW MOTORCITYSOUL WEBSITE ONLINE
wicked, the new page finally up and running. not 100% filled with all our content and not all bugs killed yet, but pretty far already with some nice pictures, first infos and our brandnew beatport motorcitysoul-selection. check it out. and by the way: thanx for stopping by!