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Hailing from the small West-Austrian town of St. Veit an der Glan, Wolfram was always going to make it big. Barely in his twenties he set out for New York City with little more than a pair of Helmut Lang jeans and a bag of old disco records.
The Big Apple welcomed the boy from the countryside with open arms however, and when Wolfram eventually relocated to Vienna, he had already made a name for himself as a DJ as well as many new friends in NYC's glamorous night-life scene: Princess Superstar for instance, with whom he recorded 'Lick The Alphabet', the first release on his Diskokaine label, or in fact Moby, who let Wolfram remix his track 'Disco Lies'. Another stroke of genius proved to be the signing of Sally Shapiro and Johan Agebjörn to his fledgling label. The Swedish duo shot from obscurity to stardom with the innocent disco pop of 'I'll Be By Your Side', while Wolfram's more sinister side found its expression on jacking acid tracks like the Condoleezza Rice sampling 'America Fuck Yeah' for Crème Organization. Over the years Wolfram has convinced an impressive number of artists to work with him, from Auto Repeat to DJ Funk, but his recent debut album for Permanent Vacation, simply titled 'Wolfram', is surely the pinnacle not only of his musical but also his persuasion skills: A line-up of contemporary all-stars like Hercules & Love Affair, Holy Ghost!, Patrick Pulsinger, and Legowelt is complemented by moustached '80s disco hero Paul Parker and '90s eurodance star Haddaway, who celebrates a triumphant return on 'Thing Called Love'. Even more recent is Wolfram's single 'Recession Session', a collaboration with Constantin Zeileissen of Vienna's electro duo Microthol. Essentially a contemporary acid makeover of the KLF hit 'What Time Is Love?', the track was just released on the mr.intl label of Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler, continuing Wolfram's ongoing mission of coming to terms with the past. |
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Wolfram's fascination with those slightly camp moments in music history has yielded a zero" podcast this week that's ripe with little-played gems from the days when disco became house: Knight Action's 'Single Girl', Gwendolyn's 'Come To Me', and Ron Hardy's eternal Muzic Box classic 'Sensation' to name but a few. Add to this a selection of modern tracks with an old-school vibe by like-minded artists such as Morgan Geist's Storm Queen project, Microthol, and Black Meteoric Star, and what you get is a mix that should keep you smiling throughout the holidays! |
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Rush Hour, Crème Organization, Permanent Vacation, Environ, Clone Classic Cuts, Vienna, Microthol, Trust, Skatebård, Marco Passarani, DFA, Virgo, Diskokaine, Wolfram, Black Meteoric Star, The Diskokaines, Los Angeles T.F., Ron Hardy, Marcus Mixx, Hercules & Love Affair, Jamie Principle, Storm Queen, Trax Records, Maurice Joshua, Hot Hands Hula, Ralphi Rosario, Knight Action, Gwendolyn, Techno, Disco, Electro, House
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