Who is he and what is he to you?

Germany’s Henrik Schwarz is one of those highly acclaimed, exquisite producers who commands serious respect. A top produced of techno and house, he’s often lauded (incorrectly) as one of the few, or at least biggest, deep house producers of electronic music’s booming capital, Berlin.

You may have already heard this one, a staple of many house sets this summer. Bill Withers’ funky vocals goes straight for the soul, while Schwarz’s remix brings a breezy, rising house vibe that capitalises on the uplifting vocals. I can’t recommend this enough:

Bill Withers – Who Is He (Henrik Schwarz Edit) [pelski highly recommends]
Henrik Shwarz brings some tasty stripped back deep house to the sax and scat of Omar and Stevie Wonder. Screeching synths seer and soar behind a deep house groove. I managed to get my hands on the full version, not the shortened set rip that’s been floating about. A beautiful piece of music:
An even older one here: Henrik Schwarz provides some slightly more punchy, emotive house backing to the rockier exclamations of Boundzone:
More recently, Henrik Schwarz has produced an excellent remix for Visti & Meyland’s excellent ‘Yes MaamEP, but the whole thing here.
  • Scottie

    Hey man, I really enjoyed these tracks, really nice

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/07733366419252258974 Frank

    Who is he and what is he … to you.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/03566436667567514758 gez.hatton

    who is he is one of the finest house records in the last few years. well impressed at this post pelski, bit of a departure from your usual tack. like it a lot :)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/00320901160021649926 Pelski

    The reason you don’t find this kind of deeper, finely produced house posted as mp3s on here is simply because I do not have permission to post it.

    Soulful, techy, deep, and jazzy house such as Daniel Steinberg, Dan M, James Braun, Sebo K, Marek Hemmann have been popping up in featured mixes and my monthly charts. But getting permission for such tunes isn’t such an easy job.

    I held back on posting these until i found out ‘who is he’ was given to ‘palms out sounds’ for posting, and when i found out all three can only be purchased on 12″.

  • Anonymous

    can you please just give some good track names in the same style as “who is he”?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/15742594927921143711 Cashmere Misfit

    This is an absolute classic… good choice.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/10421645606293580946 Mongrand

    Henrik Schwarz is definitly a weird producer to French people. He remixed one of the indie pop/folk tunes of 2007, a song by Camille called “ta douleur”. Very curious association.

  • Anonymous

    Ride on Withers! Love it.

  • http://my-tea-at-om.blogspot.com/ mytea@om

    mixed it on here..
    http://my-tea-at-om.blogspot.com/2009/08/mixtape-august.html

    blinding track….love that kind of shit!

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