and the beat goes on

jan 10th, 2010
what a start. onur, dinky and blm as special guests for christophers and my birthday at cocoon. it was a very nice evening and night. shouts to everybody that showed up and xxl thanx to dali & tina, holger, andreas, matthias, aarash, manu, judith and ariane, susi, nina and boris, wojtek and of course extra extra shouts to kathrin. the night kicked in quite late due to the weather (no thanx to "daisy" and extra extra no thanx to the panic-weather-forecasts, sic!) but turned out to be very good and special with an amazing crowd that seemd to be very much into the music. wow ;)

to everybody who enjoyed onurs and my music, please keep the below standing date in mind as we have a little rematch end of february at lovely club gold!

dec 30th, 2009
fingers crossed and let's hope the world will be a better place (oh my god, a michael jackson quote). music is of course one way to spread love & happiness but there are many more things that need to be done and the failure of the copenhagen conference showed us that music is unfortunately not everything. so, my wish for 2010 is peace and global understanding for the problems that need to be solved! and of course, back to the track: more good house music ;)

"massive" at cocoon with luciano and mathew jonson dec 18th was an amazing night and i hope to see all of you again at cocoon for my birthday celebration. yes, again, another year, dammed, time is passing close to lightspeed it seems. be my guest and enjoy the music of onur özer and miss dinky and have a glas of champagne or water with me. or two, or three. water of course.

nov, 2009
I have to admit it (again): I definetly need to update my blog more often here. too little time too many things to do, dammed. the last weeks were amazing, especially sven's birthday and my return to grazy graz and the wicked boogeebasement boys! if you ever come to graz make sure to see/hear one of their nights. and of course i need to thank everybody there including rainer and dj hell (nice house set by the way, surprising). dinner at restaurant johann was amazing, too.

oct 2nd, 2009
october kicks in and it's time to look back at this years summer. amazing gigs and trips to miami, dallas, austin, new york, tokyo, ibiza, london, gijon, barcelona, la coruña and madrid. thanx to everybody who brought us over and very special thanx to everybody that showed up and supported me or motorcitysoul at the clubs and festivals. the list is endless but there are a few names that needs a very very special thank you. so, big shouts to sven, johannes, will, ino, timm, brett grandpa johnson, henri, nic fanciulli, satoshi tomiie and everybody at club air, willie graff, julien shade and jef k, clarisse and last but not least to my two bookers harald and christopher.

coming up next is the motorcitysoul ljubljana debut. a personal highlight for me as it's one of the cities i always wanted to see & feel. october will also see sven's 45th birthday at cocoonclub frankfurt together with onur özer, mymy and cassy. the november gigs will take me to lovely graz again with the "grazy" boogee basement crew. athens is also on the list which will be very exciting as it's my first time to greece, too.

on the productionside I am proud to announce that the current motorcitysoul 12" ("vivid" incl. roman flügel remixes) has just been released on simple. you can check out the release at wordandsound (click picture above) or through beatport. so far for now, time is passing and I have to continue packing things and stuff for the next rounds.

august 16th, 2009
friday night at gold was nice again... good to be back after that long summer break. also back in full effect is the frankfurt football team... well, only 1:1 against nürnberg but a 3:2 away victory in bremen last week at least. unfortunately I won't be able to see their game in cologne as I will be in berlin together with dj stoopid at sascha's wardrobe.

august 14th, 2009
touring and playing and a bit of vacation in between kept me quite busy the last weeks. the gigs at the 5th cocoonclub anniversary (with nic fanciulli), cocoon ibiza (with luc & ricci and onur) and cocoon@matter were all really good. amazing nights and great music by everybody. deep shouts to onur and nic! and a very special thanx to brett johnson who played here end of july. coming up next is my return to lovely club gold outside of frankfurt together with longtime dj-firnd toni "tio" rios. also quite promising is the "we party like it's 1989" night in ibiza end of august... what a line-up with underworld, josh wink and sven. by the way: big shouts to josh for his set at sonne, mond & sterne and for staying that long and listening to my set - thanx man!

july, 2009
finally - the wait is over. after playing "rawsen" for more than six months from cd & serato and leaving screaming dancers on floors around the globe stir15 has released this raw house lovers delight with stunning remixes by nic fanciulli (skylark) and nacho marco (loudeast). check it out and even more important: support it with a click and a buy ;)

june/july, 2009
the last weeks were really busy for me. besides playing gijon, cologne and of course cocoon in frankfurt i had an amazing gig at goa madrid for jimpsters freerange night. shouts to everybody at goa, we had a very good time and an amazing party there. another highlight was the local open air festival called "homerun" which suffered a lil bit of rain. however there were over 2000 people celbrating to the sets of butch, toni rios, tobi neumann and reboot. coming up the next weeks is the motorcitysoul-gig at "air" in tokyo (really looking forward to this one!) and my return to ibiza on july the 6th. saturday the 4th will see a revival of ricardos bridge-party in darmstadt (30 miles south of frankfurt) - a legendary venue with some really outstanding nights over ten years ago. not sure how long police will let us do what we do but it will be special no matter when they end it ;)

july 11th is big cocoon@matter night in london at the almighty o2 arena. no idea how this will turn out but presales are breaking all records and the aftergig at retox is planned yet, too. exciting weeks with amazing venues and line-ups coming up.

besides all the touring make sure you grab some of the rare and limited "rawsen" 12"s. my new release on stir15 with stunning remixes by nacho marco (loudeast, valencia) and nic fanciulli (skylark, london).

may, 2009
some impressions from my usa tour and the mcs gig at cielo in nyc. click on the images to see more in my facebook picture section:

back in full effect and even more, back from a massive jetlag due to a quite mad trip from new york to vancouver over chicago. with a cancelled flight and a non-planned stay in chicago and of course a missed gig in vancouver. not to mention the story of the bag that was supposed to be in vancouver while i was still in chicago but in fact it wasn't (which i found out a day later after I arrived in vancouver). however i was able to catch my flight back to europe although i had only 40 minutes to look for my bag, talking to the lost&found guy, entering canada and talking to a border officer and then to the customs guys and then checking back in to my flight to london - without my bag of course. whatever, all good now, in a way, still trying to solve out what to do with the flightcosts as it seems the missed gig (thanx to united airlines) now means I have to pay the flight to canada, the hotel in chicago and lost the money for the no-show in vancouver. so, in theory, the jetlag is not 100% over yet ;)

however, it was a great trip and i have to thank everybody in the us involved in that tour. henri for the nice stay in miami, clarisse and will for inviting me to "electric pickle", brett and mike1 & mike2 and miss paige in dallas and last but not least michael and willie in new york.

if you would like to read some more detailed impressions from my gigs you should check out my diary-section. find my bahrain-diary entry here as well as the infamous afterwork party experience (in german).

some more hot links
lofi stereo (new website by kubus media)
stir15 & lofi stereo on myspace
motorcitysoul on myspace
faithfanzine (top notch uk house mag & forum)

charts & stuff

		c-rock best of 2009 charts: Kink & Neville Watson "Full Flight" (hour house is your rush) Joris Voorn "Sweep The Floor" (rejected) Motorcitysoul "Vivid (Roman Flügel Desperate Dub)" (Simple) C-Rock "Rawsen (Nacho Marco Remix)" (stir15) Knee Deep "What To Do" (Knee Deep) 2020 Soundsystem: Hide Away (Johnny D Remix) #2020 Luna City Express "Mr. Jack" (Moon Harbour) Tolga Fidan "So Long Paris" (Vakant) Ooft "This Sound" (Instruments Of Rapture) Michel Gleis "Red Tape" (Supplement Facts)

		c-rock @ cocoonclub cocoon club frankfurt is c-rock's german homebase and holds his night "rock da house" in the new and amazing lounge-floor (fridays, monthly). so far infamous names like brett johnson, ferderico molinari, nic fanciulli, cassy and c-rock's longtime pals nelson machado and stoopid co-starred the night. you can also hear/see señor rock on cocoonclubs mainfloor every other month, too hosting names like felix da housecat or luciano. visit: www.cocoonclub.net

		SOMETHING AUF DIE OHREN: motorcitysoul "move d & manuel tur remixes" (simple, uk) marcello giordani "galaxia / motorcitysoul remix" (mule) motorcitysoul "change you / shur-i-kan mix" (simple, uk) motorcitysoul "technique - album" (simple, uk) nacho marco "feeling good / c-rock remix (loudeast, es) tiger stripes "beach buggy / motorcitysoul remix" (urban torque) motorcitysoul "phantasy / daniel stefanik mix" (tsuba, uk) motorcitysoul "mango / jimpster & milton jackson remix" (freerange, uk) jussi pekka "stream horse / motorcitysoul remix" (laka) motorcitysoul "space kætzle / jerome sydenham remix" (aus, uk) matt flores "nice day / motorcitysoul remix" (farside) james priestly & dan berkson "chariots / mcs remix" (simple, uk) evil hinko "ratzefummel / motorcitysoul remix" (gedankensport) mix-cd "back up" (infracom) blaze "how deep is your love / motorcitysoul rmx" (infracom) motorcitysoul "kazan [exit cube]" (aus, uk) david k "incoming / motorcitysoul remix" (tsuba) brett johnson "cuckoo " / motorcitysoul remix" (freerange) motorcitysoul "aura" >>> incl. jimpster remix (stir15) fuckaponydelic "switch the lights / motorcitysoul remix" (cocoon) dani casarano "el zapo hablo / motorcitysoul remix" (connaisseur) motorcitysoul "housemusic / state of mind" (lofi stereo) motorcitysoul feat. onejiru "mbali" (stir15) dj ino "981 north / motorcitysoul remix" (house cafe music) check the soundfiles in the productions section. find the complete c-rock & motorcitysoul discography hosted by the nice guys from discogs.

		mailorder check the latest c-rock, motorcitysoul, dubstar, stir15 and lofi stereo releases at mbeat recordstore. visit: www.mbeat.de