tracklist

01 saucy rhodenbarr

02 cincinnatti phoenix (featuring colonel red)

03 give some get some

04 cat baloo

05 suck the monkey (featuring festa)

06 white insidious milk

07 clean the pipe

08 avana lub

09 bare chalet row

10 the butcher (featuring major major)

11 saturday sigh (featuring laura braun)

all tracks written and produced by sqaramouche,
mixed by me raabenstein, mastered by stefan betke at scape mastering.

sqaramouche are

cone, programming, live drums, keyboards,
subsequent, programming and balooisms,
me raabenstein, programming and keyboards.

guest musicians

laura braun, vocals on track 11,
colonel red, vocals on track 02,
festa, vocals on track 05,
major major, vocals on track 10,
volker meitz, keyboards on track 04, 05 & 07,
dirk leupolz, guitars on track 06,
jazzheadchronic, programming on track 01 & 08.

distributed by nonine recordings

nominee for the german record critics‘ award 2009
(preis der deutschen schallplattenkritik)

hip hop is not dead. it has transcended itself, infusing with its long desired cousins. the potentials of hip hop, minimal, dub-samba-coustics and an endless array of unclassifiable styles have been begging at each other‘s door steps since the very beginning of their creation. finally somebody brings the family together. like romeo and juliet, the threads of different worlds interweave with one another to fall into endless love, but without the tragedy…

the album is a bridge that, seemingly by happen stance, is perfectly shaped to charm those once unaware of these styles‘ capacities; to lead them into its knowingness. fusion with a timeless quality, attracting (music) lovers of every age and genre. it contains what we‘ve all been seeking between the empty spaces of our other favorite albums. each listen offers a new meaning to carry away in day dreams. sounds before their time. it hits deep and from unknown directions, with so many things tenderly packed into it which nobody else uses, which you can cry, chill or move to.

cat baloo serenades your soul into the belief that it‘s another. saturday sigh hits your head like the raindrops of a thousand poets. the ethereal voice of laura braun will haunt your hours. it is matched by sqaramouche‘s textured breaths that leave us humbled and dumbfounded, redefining what we know as hip hop and its tributaries. this must be a musical compilation of aliens. the producers and each artist featured on this album carry their own unmatched uniqueness, not of this world. a cadence of the future…
liner notes by david minor

enjoy the melody !!!

feedback

joyfully ignoring the tics of the prodigy („saucy rhodenbarr,“ the very dancefloor „white insidious milk“), it smashes new york’s ursula rucker with its – falsely – decadent rhythms („cinicinatti phoenix,“ featuring englishman colonel red) and takes a dub tangent that definitively buries english trip hop („give some get some“). three minutes of deadly boredom later (those are the only ones), it’s the bronx rap that gets blasted in the face, inviting us to suck the monkey („suck the monkey“) while blasting away at a casio jazz tricked out by stevie wonder. at other moments, bossa passes through a jazzy cheese grater, samba no longer recognizes itself in the mirror („bare chalet row“), amid a thousand off-kilter fricassees of the brain. more generally, you’d think me raabenstein (the boss of the young berlin label nonine) and his buddies cone and subsequent must have had a blast hanging out with all the guests populating this first raw, as irreverent as it is successful.
fabrice vanoverberg, octopus-enligne.com, 07/08

really enjoyed sqaramouche’s album, especially the track cincinnatti phoenix with colonel red…
simon harrison, the basic soul show, london, 07/08, uk

„hiphop ist nicht tot. er hat sich gewandelt, vermischt mit seinen lang vermissten verwandten.“, heisst es im infoblatt zum debütalbum des holländisch-deutschen projektes sqaramouche. dennoch wäre es schon eine ziemliche mutprobe, wollte man mit dieser musik bewaffnet in sido’s block aufkreuzen. denn was cone, subsequent und me raabenstein (nonine-labelchef und eine hälfte des duo’s langer & raabenstein) hier kredenzen, hat mit konventionellen vorstellungen von hiphop herzlich wenig zu tun. am ehesten noch ist man an experimentierfreudige aussenseiter wie dabrye oder slicker erinnert: elektroide sounds und verschrobene broken beats anstelle von staubigen rare grooves, kreative neugierde statt freiwilliger selbstkontrolle, anschluss statt ausschluss, stil statt pose. das artet nie in selbstgenügsames nerdfrickeltum aus, sondern ist auf kommunikation mit dem hörer bedacht: forsche future-funk-tracks wie „cat baloo“, „white insidious milk“ und „cincinnatti phoenix“ mit colonel red könnten sogar ambitioniertere tanzflächen rocken, das elegische „avana lub“ hat das zeug zum klassiker eines noch namenlosen genres zu werden, und songs wie „saturday sigh“ featuring laura braun sind den ohren ein schmaus. wie alle neuen veröffentlichungen auf dem unlängst ge-relaunchten nonine – label ist „first raw“ zunächst nur als download erhältlich.
guido halfmann, jazzthing 04/08, germany

definitely one of the best releases this year…
menno jager, sound of swoud, djbroadcast.fm, 05/08, netherlands

music with a twist, i am enjoying it definitely. would perfectly suit some tripping out consicousness. i like saturday sigh, hope she made it to sunday…
valique, freestyle records, moscow, russian federation

nice album …me likes. very eclectic and forward-moving that way.
keep on…will fit in more tracks soon.
urban landscapes radioshow, california, usa

i like these beats. definitely got a good vibe thing going on here!!
travis blaque, unique records, london, uk

uuuummmmm, nice, quirky, smooth n funky. nice one for sure.
dee banse, canada

the wobbly funk of ’suck the monkey‘ gets 50% of my ass shakin‘, which is quite a funny sight…. ‚the butcher‘ reminds me of burnt friedman, check out this stuff! i love the little horn stabs, the naughty cuts; nice one! the sound here is more varied. ‚give some get some‘ is probably my favourite: funky in a broken way, lots of space between events, room to breathe. if you want me to do a remix on this one i’m your man! ’saturday sigh‘ is the perfect closer for this. smooth without being mellow. exactly the way i think you guys are in the flesh…
kreng, miasmah, bruxelles

seriously cool sounds here.
ben parsons, seattle, usa

that´s big stuff! „different approach“ gets me high.
andré lodemann, simple records, berlin, germany