FAUNA FLASH

"Fauna Flash's Christian Prommer and Roland Appel care as much about genres as you do: They just want to make the floor shake."
— SF Guardian

Fauna Flash’s latest…
Defend Music is proud to present Fauna Flash "Worx – The Remixes", a collection of their finest remixes showing off the Fauna Flash trademark "genre-may-care" attitude and production style. For over 10 years Fauna Flash (Roland Appel and Christian Prommer) have pushed the producing envelope, from starting out as the first German-based duo whose productions got played in the UK scene to their Latin-influenced work as Truby Trio with Rainer Truby and their new disco project Voom:Voom with Peter Kruder. “Worx” is being co-released with esteemed Compost Records of Munich, Germany.

The present…
Three years down the line since the release of their last album, "Confusion", the guys are back for more. Whereas "Confusion" featured divine artists of distinction laying their hands on Fauna Flash tracks, it’s all upside down this time: Fauna Flash showing off the broad range of remixes they have done over their notable career.
"Worx - The Remixes" offers a collection of superlative Fauna Flash remixes of the past few years, selected out of a total of more than 30 remixes, compiled and rerubbed by the boys themselves, with previously unreleased tracks as well as two brand new remixes, Rodney Hunter’s "Take A Ride” and "Jubita!” by Megablast.

What came before…
With their debut "Aquarius" they achieved and established a reputation as an essential part of the royal European drum & bass family during the last half of the 90s, the unlikely German kings of said genre! "Probably the best drum & bass album from Germany so far" opined Kruder & Dorfmeister and British NME (NewMusicalExress) rhapsodized "Fauna Flash have solved one of the great puzzles of the late 20th century: How to take the excitement and energy of drum & bass on record and translate it to a 'live' setting. And as a result, they're going to be lauded and adored wherever they go. Fact!"

On the follow-up of 2001, "Fusion", Prommer and Appel extended their musical focus on downtempo / dance soul in all its colors and variations. Through combining elements of house, dub, jazz, latin, brazil, hip-hop and soul, they created a new musical tight as tight can be unit, an identity stamped by urban club music.

Though there haven't been any FF releases since 2002, the two Munich-based producers Christian Prommer and Roland Appel have never been off-screen but in fact busy as ever with a zillion remixes and side projects: in 2003 they released the highly-praised "Baby3" 12" of Voom:Voom, their project along with G-Stone Peter Kruder as well as the eagerly-awaited Trüby Trio debut "Elevator Music" and in November 2004 the "Retreated" Trüby Trio remixes double CD. Talking about the art of refining: Their remixes are pretty much sought after, demands en masse and both of them are kinky/dinky club filler DJs, regularly booked for the most notorious clubs around the world. They also enchant festival crowds, be it Swiss Montreux Jazz Festival or the Roskilde in Denmark.

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Catalog Number:
DFN80003
Title:
Worx: The Remixes
Release Date:
May 2005

Track List
01. Roberto Di Gioia's Marsmobil "Flowers" Fauna Flash Remix
02. Fon-Kin "Montininja" Fauna Flash Remix
03. Abdullah Ibrahim "Sweet Samba" Christian Prommer Remix
04. Rivera Rotation "Dedicado" Fauna Flash Remix
05. The Underwolves
"Shaken" Fauna Flash Timbales Remix
06. Grupo Batuque "Ole Ola" Fauna Flash Remix
07. Hajime Yoshizawa "Endless Bow" Fauna Flash Remix
08. Minimal Compact "Shouts and Kisses" Fauna Flash Remix
09. Joseph Malik "Diablo" Fauna Flash Remix
10. Rodney Hunter "Take A Ride" Fauna Flash Remix
11. Megablast "Jubita" Fauna Flash Remix
12. Hidden Agenda "Low Jazz Fidget" Fauna Flash Remix
13. Klaus Doldingers Passport "Ju-Ju-Man" Fauna Flash Remix