Influences: Session Victim

Matthias Reiling – I could have picked a few tunes off … Endtroducing, because this album was a real game changer for me. Stem/ Long Stem is one of the most intense songs to be ever produced with a sampler.

Matthias Reiling – I think I first came across Stax through Otis Redding’s’ ‘Dock Of The Bay’. This here however totally blew me away, still does. What a groove! “Do you have any Stax?“ would be my first question coming into a record store for a long time.

Matthias Reiling – I’m not listening to a lot of hardcore music anymore these days, but ‘Start Today’ is an album that has barely lost any of the effect it had when I first heard it and this song still literally increases my heart rate every time I come back to it.

Matthias Reiling – I became a Doors fan at the age of 14 and their music never lost any of its magic to me. This song is one of my absolute favourites.

Matthias Reiling – A lot of people I know would rather name a song from ‘Dummy’, but for me it was always their second LP, ‘Portishead’. This album is pure bliss, from beginning to the end.
‘Only You’ is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever to be written in the nineties, the drum sound, that brilliantly incorporated Inspector Clauseau sample, even the ‘It’s like that’ scratch.

Hauke Freer – When growing up, I was listening to lots of the golden era hip hop, this must have fuelled my love for sampling. By good friend DJ Krisch had the biggest hip hop vinyl collection by miles and made mixtapes nearly every week which is how I got introduced to Mike Zoot’s beats.

Hauke Freer – My brother was living in Berlin, collecting records and going clubbing in the 90’s. Pre internet age, he recorded tapes which introduced me to acid jazz, hip hop, techno and drum and bass. Remembering this particular tune from an ‘In Order To Dance’ compilation on R&S, listening to it at my parents while he was showing me how to dance to this type of music.

Hauke Freer – A guy from my hockey team put me on to some music from Prince when I was 14. I ended up buying every single album on CD and that was for over a year all I was listening to, which made me a bit of an outsider at school. I ended up selling all, which I really quickly regretted and now I have the most of them again on vinyl.
Damn, no Prince on YouTube…

Hauke Freer – My best friend back at school had 1210s and showed me how to mix records. He was into techno and this is one of the amazing records from his collection. This track aged well and I can’t wait to find the right time to drop this again. A few years later I was working for the label that released the Richard Bartz’s subway EPs…unreal.

Hauke Freer – This must be the house record I have owned the longest. I bought it at the only local record store in town back then, where I spent days (instead of going to class), listening to every single record that came in and then had to make the very hard choice, which 2-3 records I could afford that month. I still play this, but have had to get a fresh copy since.