De-Phazz – Luck You!

A protest record. Against discord, narrow-mindedness, and bad moods. "Luck You!", De-Phazz's 20th studio album, contains the quintessence of everything that defines Germany's most important export in terms of intelligent, loungey entertainment music: soul and jazz, dub and pop, hip hop and operetta, nonsense and profundity. As befits a protest record, De-Phazz has reinvented itself to some extent. The album could actually have been called "Bandmade": "This is the De-Phazz studio record with the greatest band influence," explains sample specialist and sound montage virtuoso Pit Baumgartner. Thus, the majority of the tracks on "Luck You!" were created in close collaboration with his long-time instrumental accomplices Ulf Kleiner (piano, Rhodes), Marcus Bartelt (saxophone, bass clarinet), and Oli Rubow (drums). The motto was: fewer collages like on the editing masterpiece "Pit Sounds", released in 2024, but more handmade music.