May 26th - Boiler Room, Birmingham - JAHCOOZI live (Berlin)

Jahcoozi... that's abstract electronic beats mixed with ragga, dancehall and hip hop made by a multinational, that will break shit on the dancefloor. So if you can't dance listen to their latest "Pure Breed Mongrel" album release and you'll be shaking that ass. "Despite underground tendencies, they manage to find pop songs buried in digital grit." XLR8R magazine (US)

RESISTOR RECORDS and THE BOILER ROOM
Presents
JAHCOOZI
PURE BREED MONGREL TOUR 06

Heducation fling open their friday night backroom of the boiler room to resistor records to host one of Berlins hottest new acts. Read the responses to these guys and you know the boiler room will be bristling with energy.

it's FREE ENTRY before 11pm, £4 after until 4AM with JAHCOOZI on for 1am and accompanying DJ Tony Grainger from RESISTOR RECORDS.

The Boiler Room
120 Vyse Street
Hockley
Birmingham
B18 6NF

0121 248 4999
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Article from SLEAZENATION magazine

JAHCOOZI. Pure Breed Mongrel

Sasha Perera, Robert Koch, Oren Gerlitz
(London) (Berlin) (Tel Aviv)

Blip hop, ragga-tech, RnB punk, click pop illectronica? Pop? A Shakespeare’s Sister - Neptunes collabo?!! What misinformed people call grime?!

Oh No! Not another Berlin Story…. it’s just three youngsters from different musical and cultural backrounds who met in the electronic music cosmos Berlin and indulged in the uninhibited mash-up of genres. Thus the birth of da original Jahcoozi style.

Sasha Perera, Oren Gerlitz and Robot Koch first met in 2002. Through a friend of a friend, Sasha heard Robot’s beats and Robot heard Sasha’s voice. The two started meeting up sporadically in a smokey home studio in Neukölln ..…. and the rest is history.

First of all, let me introduce you to Robot (formally) known as “Berlin’s most under-rated producer“ (Lodown). There are currently rumours that the stereo mc’s want him for a remix. Robot does the beats and production. After hanging out in New York for a while, he returned to Berlin in 1999 and founded his label Hamton Recordings.

Then you have Sasha, who moved from London to Berlin in 2000. She writes texts and does the vocals. Her voice, at times smooth and sweet then harsh and husky in the next moment, gives you goosebumps and makes you want to booty-shake and pogo all at the same time.

But don’t forget Oren, who moved from Tel Aviv to Berlin in 2001. Oren is the only member of the band who is a trained musician. A qualified sound engineer who studied Jazz, Oren playes the bass and guitar, produces the tracks with Robot and mixes them down.

In 2003 Jahcoozi had their first gigs. Cult shows include their first ever, in the former squatter institution the ‘Eimer’, the legendary ‘Neukölln Dresses’ Show at Camp Tipsy and their infamous Doner Lounge gig, which of course took place in the back of a Doner Kebab shop in Kreuzberg. Even a squatted East German fishing trawler harboured in Poland has played host to a Jahcoozi show!

Soon they gained respect for their freaky live shows and made a name for themselves with their debut ‘Fish’ EP which came out on the Berlin club label WMF Records in July 2003. John Peel played ‘Fish’ on his BBC radio show and the De-Bug listed the EP as one of its favourites.

‘Jahcoozi’s homemade surrealism was marked by a cross-dressing, bass-playing Rasta and a girl crooning ‘Fish, Fish, Fish’ from underneath a safety helmet sporting stick-on bear ears’ ( the Wire magazine)

They have felt at home supporting the likes of Big Dada Soundsystem, Aphex Twin, DAT Politics, Chicks on Speed, Airborn Audio, Kevin Blechdom, Jamie Lidell, Tiefschwarz and Mocky.

Remixes by Stereotyp, Modeselektor, Beige, and DJ Highfish have also firmly rooted Jahcoozi in the electronic club szene. They have worked with a wide range of artists such as Braun and the Mob (Jahcoozi being part of the mob), Infinite Livez, Al haca Soundsystem and have even done a recording session with grime stars Kano, Lethal B, D Double and Jammer. Robot Koch’s side project The Tape vs. RQM is out on KYO (Kitty-Yo’s idm-hip-hop sublabel) and Sasha Perera has recorded vocals with the likes of MC Soom-T & DJ Maxximus, Modeselektor and Tolcha.

It is hard to define and impossible to pigeonhole the sound of Jahcoozi. Pure Breed Mongrel is a mish-mash of genres but despite this immense style crossover, Jahcoozi have managed to create their very own sound and house it within a homogenic album which is full of surprises. A pure breed of mongrel. Mongrel music, made by mongrel people for a mongrel society.
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