As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it.
Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno.
In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time.
It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment.
At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits.
His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts.
If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.
EPs:
Akumal EP - LAUT & Luise lul004
Mirrors EP - KATERMUKKE KATER027
Magma EP - Heinz Music HM008
Buffalo EP - KATERMUKKE KATER072
Leila EP - URS 003 / w Mira
Ayun EP Katermukke
Three Rivers EP URSL
Saubohnen EP Feathered Sun Circus Company
Bulbo EP Platon Records PL005
How Strange EP Feathered Sun Denature Records
Two Journeys EP Feathered Sun Laut & Luise
Four of us EP with Iannis Ritter Bandcamp
Leaves EP Denature Records
A New Beginning EP Katermukke
LPs:
Ritterwald LP with Iannis Ritter Bandcamp
Iannis Ritter - Out the Window LP HYG Records
Single Tracks:
Nu & Christopher Schwarzwalder - Dance in my Pants Bar25-19
Choose feat NU & Mz Sunday Love
Scheune Feathered Sun Arche Musik
Ayun feat Mira Kater105
Poper Scott fest Iannis Ritter Katermukke
Barranco Katermukke Compilation
Madmotormiquel & Schwarzwalder - Paracas Feines Tier
Gottlieb Scheppert & Schwarzwälder - Halia Metanoia Records
Mira & Chris - Yuvia Kiosk ID
Kleintierschaukel & Schwarzwalder - Radio Crash Laut & Luise
Schwarzwalder - Meru Mystic Tales
Schwarzwalder - Tropo Kiosk ID
Mira & Schwarzwälder - Deía
Remixe:
Omurah - Paranormal Symphony NU & Christopher Schwarzwalder Remix Kindisch034
Nico Stojan & David Keno - Princess of the night Mira & Chris Schwarzwalder Remix URSL006
Lake Powel - More or Less Mira & Chris Schwarzwalder Remix Fenou17
Lust n Love - Dont Care Mira & Chris Schwarzwalder Remix Kater043
T Groove Remix Katermukke
Hangover Remix feat Mira Delicieuse Records
Steppin into Fire Remix Metanoia
La Veronica Remix Katermukke
Frequent traveller Remix SOSO
Vital Signs Remix feat Mira on Auditive
Natural Striptease Remix feat Mira Katermukke
Sireli Remix feat Mira Denature Records
Sabilu Remix feat Mira Sol Selectas
Trachyt Remix feat Mira Loot Recordings
Roderic - Slowly Remix Katermukke
Monolink - Faces Mira & Chris Remix Free Download
Noraj Cue - Story at the campfire Mira & Chris Remix Happy Camper Records
Ninze & Okaxy Contructions Remix Laut Luise
Budakid - No Human is illegal Mira & Chris Remix Einmusika
Miyagi - Secrets Remix Lost Diaries
Kermesse - Nostalgia Mira & Chris Remix LNDKHN
Kerala Dust - Closer Remix
El Mundo & Zazou - Can u see what i see Remix
Arutani - Oag Pudern Mira & Chris Remix Voll Schoen
Amount - Beach Boy Schwarzwalder Remix URSL
Madmotormiquel - Someone to take me home Schwarzwalder Remix Bunte Kuh
Decalculator - Summit the sun Schwarzwälder Remix Metanoia
Paul Baule - Opaque Mira & Schwarzwälder Remix Rebellion der Träumer
Paul Träumer - No spell left Madmotormiquel & Schwarzwälder Remix Magician on Duty
Netherlands