SLNTEXCHNGE 01 Marcel Knopf (Mo’s Ferry/Rrygular)

Personal Touch:

Finally the time has come...

I am proud to present to you Marcel Knopf (Mo’s Ferry/Rrygular)

The first time I saw Marcel was my birthday weekend 2008 for Mo's Ferry / Rrygular Night at Watergate. My first Berlin Summer was just beginning and with guests in town from Paris, NYC, London...it was a weekend I will never forget.

Marcel took over the dance floor at what I believe to be around 6/7am....one track he played that I will always remember “I’m lonely” by Hollis P. Monroe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCPkC8k4To&feature=related) He seems to have this classic touch to his mixes....never gets old, but always moving forward.

As writing is not my strength I will keep this short....If your not familiar get familiar! Marcel has informed me he has recently stopped working his day job to concentrate on his upcoming album (Fall 2009) expected release. I am anxiously waiting... especially after my preview of his upcoming release “Dusty Dance EP” out July 10, 2009. ....Enjoy the Mix. I sure did :)

Biography:

"Homework"! The Daft Punk Album of 1997 changed the view for electronic music of many people, so it did for Marcel Knopf. He became frenetic with collecting vinyl with the aim to stand behind the counter one day: Together with Matt John (Perlon) he founded the record store "Sine Music" in Nordhausen, in 2000. Their tiny, pretty but illegal parties in the basement of the store were a cell of Minimal in Thuringia, what was lacking that kind of music. He became resident DJ of the club "Alte Weberei".

"Sine Music" was a meeting place for DJs and offered musical alternatives. So it was just a matter of time until the Mo's Ferry guys Dapayk and Jan Langhammer met him. Soon after Marcel took over the A&R of the label Mo's Ferry Prod.

Since 2002 Marcel Knopf works together with Dapayk on own tracks. "Holpergeist EP" was the beginning of experimental club releases and gave a special sound to the label. "Sine Music" opened a subsidiary in Berlin but went bankrupt after a break-in and sinking sales figures. Marcel moved back to his native city Berlin.

Marcel continued working for Mo's Ferry. 2006, he compiled and mixed the "bits to phono" compilation, which tracks came all from netlabels. In a time of an increasing enthusiasm for digital DJ methods and release ways he took up the cudgels for the Black Beauty: Vinyl. Another 12inch "Lloyd/Narain" followed on Mo's Ferry's sublabel RRYGULAR.

Marcel Knopf's DJ sets cover a wide range of music and reflect his preferences for Dub, House, Broken Beats and experimental Techno. Fresh, different but floor-orientated.


http://www.myspace.com/marcelknopf
http://www.mosferry.de
http://www.rrygular.com/artists/marcelknopf/art-marcelknopf.html


Releases on Beatport:
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/catalog/?performerId=5585&contextType=artists&contextEntityId=5585&orderBy=releasePublishDate%20DESC

Dusty Dance EP out July 10 2009 this is what Word & Sound had to say:
http://www.wordandsound.de/article/59668

Dusty Dance EP Supported by artists Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, Nikola Baytala, The Mountain People, Franklin De Costa, dOP, Tim Xavier, Mark Henning, Laurent Garnier, Pheek, Tom Clark, the list goes on and on check here to see what they said:
http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/browse/album/?id=11626


“Plomosis” Marcel’s recent release posted on our favorite artist platform Soundcloud.. for a quick listen follow the link:
http://soundcloud.com/rrygular/sets/marcel-knopf-plomosis-rry31

Review of “Plomosis” by Magnet-Musik here:
http://www.magnet-musik.de/DJ/MarcelKnopf/news.htm