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“I used to walk up and down the streets every day - craving sights, sensations, encounters with people…experience.”
That was 1994, when Raz Ohara had just moved to Berlin.
Raz was 18 at the time. He soon found a room to rent above a jazz club. He sat there every night, listening to the music, watching the people, absorbing his surroundings.
It was a seedy, noirish world, like something from the American movies of the 80s. Raz bonded with the club’s resident DJ, and together they founded a hip-hop crew.
Raz, however, had a lingering and persistent desire to create his very own music, music of its own kind, music beyond any existing genre. He bought a sampler and started to produce beats that he could sing over. “I had always written songs on guitar, but now I was working hard to incorporate new elements. I gave the tracks to a small record company in Berlin-mitte.” A year later the LP Realtime Voyeur was released on Kitty-Yo.
At around the same time Raz started to make his first live appearances. He got to know Dr Phelbs and Robert Defcon (No Underground) and a Canadian guy called Wolf (aka Chilly Gonzalez). Every Wednesday night for almost 2 years, they, The Nightline City Cruisers, would sit on leather couches at the Maria club, playing improvised sets – drawing on breakbeat, soul, and electro - that lasted several hours. Robert supplied the beats, Phelbs played bass, Wolf took care of keys and Raz sang.
“We jammed on and on…People dancing round and round…We smoked and drank into the early mornings. I had just entered my twenties. This was my swinging Berlin, 1998.”
That was 1994, when Raz Ohara had just moved to Berlin.
Raz was 18 at the time. He soon found a room to rent above a jazz club. He sat there every night, listening to the music, watching the people, absorbing his surroundings.
It was a seedy, noirish world, like something from the American movies of the 80s. Raz bonded with the club’s resident DJ, and together they founded a hip-hop crew.
Raz, however, had a lingering and persistent desire to create his very own music, music of its own kind, music beyond any existing genre. He bought a sampler and started to produce beats that he could sing over. “I had always written songs on guitar, but now I was working hard to incorporate new elements. I gave the tracks to a small record company in Berlin-mitte.” A year later the LP Realtime Voyeur was released on Kitty-Yo.
At around the same time Raz started to make his first live appearances. He got to know Dr Phelbs and Robert Defcon (No Underground) and a Canadian guy called Wolf (aka Chilly Gonzalez). Every Wednesday night for almost 2 years, they, The Nightline City Cruisers, would sit on leather couches at the Maria club, playing improvised sets – drawing on breakbeat, soul, and electro - that lasted several hours. Robert supplied the beats, Phelbs played bass, Wolf took care of keys and Raz sang.
“We jammed on and on…People dancing round and round…We smoked and drank into the early mornings. I had just entered my twenties. This was my swinging Berlin, 1998.”
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Where He At
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Agony
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The Case
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Shoutbox
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roamezcua wrote:
can someone please tell me where i can find these songs' lyrics?.. can't find 'em... please!!!! specially ''one'' song... thnx!! peace...
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Ji_Kvepuoja wrote:
awesome..
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DJNikki wrote:
beautiful
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dizoox wrote:
o m g
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Sublimit wrote:
I like new album even more than previous now
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krillkrewitt wrote:
hm..the new album is so-so. it's a pity 'cause the first one was really good.
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mpak666 wrote:
new albums is craping shit :((((
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minaogni wrote:
новый альбом - об стену лбом!
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purplepeepee wrote:
new album sucks
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uninvited23 wrote:
читала русскую страничку и не поняла, отчего плакал Indigo_Ice
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enning wrote:
Zugabe !!! http://vimeo.com/7246755
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Indigo_Ice wrote:
читал русскую страничку и плакал. спасибо *________*
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bene4music wrote:
Das war wohl nix gestern! So was lustloses hab ich noch nie erlebt. Die Musik ist trotzdem gut, ein Konzert werd ich mir aber nicht mehr antun.
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Bln-Fm wrote:
Check our our interview with raz ohara, prelisten their new album "II" aaaand win tickets to theri concert in berlin on our radiowebsite! http://www.bln.fm/2009/10/raz-ohara-the-odd-orchestra/
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Indigo_Ice wrote:
Miracle <3
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Indigo_Ice wrote:
love rare and odd things like RoH:)
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deafdawg wrote:
now you can check out the Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra video "Where He At (Apparat Remix)" in HD quality over here: http://r.fm/artist/raz-ohara-and-the-odd-orchestra /Love from Stockholm R.fm - Acid Squaredance
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obelisko1971 wrote:
Unique voice, he has***
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bruno_kloimp wrote:
Where He At (Apparat Remix). Fuckin'amazing! Congrats ;) w/Odd Orchestra, really nice also!
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cottonwoolen wrote:
"Kisses" - a really amazing piece of music :) !
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