“What’s that Schaffhäuser guy doing there?” some people must have wondered in the fall of 2024, when his album „Singing About It“ came out—featuring songs instead of club tracks and lots of singing. As if he’d never sung before, but okay, not that much—that’s true. And then came the remixes, which were club-oriented again, and then the idea to turn them into a compilation album and call it „Dancing About It“. Here we go—it’s time to dance again!
The compilation brings together all the remixes, including the three most recently released ones by Hans Nieswandt, B-Pushr, and Mathias himself. And a fourth brand-new mix is being added, produced by another Cologne-based Ware Records buddy who’s back in the game after a few years away from production: Ziggy Kinder! His take on „Don’t Go Crazy with Your Fantasy“ turns out to be a top-notch combination of minimal techno and pop house with a subtle build-up. The same can be said almost exactly about Sonimun’s mix of „Fancy Grey“, which kicked off this remix series a good two and a half years ago. The dramatic ballad „Cover Me“ appears on „Dancing About It“ in three variations ranging from lo-fi deep house to electropop and dub techno—with Nyland Sky and Pawas responsible for the latter two mixes. This outlines the compilation’s broad stylistic spectrum, which ultimately comes as little surprise given Schaffhäuser’s unique and wide-ranging approach. Variety rules ok — or, as the magazine Westzeit wrote about „Singing About It“ at the time: “Some tracks (e.g., „Cover Me“) almost sound like something David Bowie would write today. And „Fancy Grey“ wouldn’t sound out of place coming from the Pet Shop Boys either.” And Thomas Meinecke (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle) expressed in his feedback that he was “… impressed by the production and the confident crooning!”
🎧Stream „Dancing About It“: https://Schaffhaeuser.lnk.to/DancingAboutItWE