Schaatz's purported backstory is so far-fetched that it deserves to be posted in full here: "We are a french duo based in Paris, they grew up in a german hippie community in Grasse on French Riviera where they lived many love stories with several german naturist ladies, sadly the ladies left France when they had [...]

I love this time of the year. Although, it feels like Winter still has a firm grip on Spring, today is scheduled to be sunny and a high in the 60's. Who am I to argue with that? Opening day at Coors Field is going to be electric and exactly what I need. This time of the year intersects with the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs, and we as residents of Denver have a lot to be excited about. The Nuggets fought off those pesky Kobe-less Lakers last night and the Avs have squeaked out an [...]
We did our first long overdue post on Schaatz a few months ago, and on the back of their recent effort which came our way, the time has come again. They've hit us up with a fun, rolling 'lil remix of We Have Band's Decisive . The Paris-duo softened the tone of the original and added some of that coastal vibe which they have worked quite well, to date. The end result is not a drastic re-work, but one which would compel you to swap the whisky, for a pina colada. [...]

We have ears. We have hearts. We also have feet that love to move nonstop whenever we hear a lovely tune or two from forever a Beaston-fave, in We Have Band . With the trio's debut album, WHB , out today we all have reason to get down with the goings on from this talented troupe of musicians. [...]

We have ears. We have hearts. We also have feet that love to move nonstop whenever we hear a lovely tune or two from forever a Beaston-fave, in We Have Band . With the trio's debut album, WHB , out today we all have reason to get down with the goings on from this talented troupe of musicians. [...]

Covering more sonic ground than most full bands, duo Schaatz is filling every nook and cranny of every track with thick sounds and textures that seem to ring in your head long after song end. Schaatz's sound seems to fill space as it pours out of the speakers and straddles a fine-line between band and producer. Their killer remix of Digits' "You're Going to Age" only serves to further blur that line, but whatever they are they're more than worth a listening to. Digits - "You're Going to Age (Scaatz rmx)" [...]
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Yes it's inevitable. We're all going to age. I just didn't know aging was going to sound so good. Schaatz latest remix, You're Going To Age is making quite the impact across the blog world. The boys from France first came to me on 317 electro where they threw down with a couple bangin' originals in Barbara Lisa Chloe and Terminus . Since then they've really honed their own style. There's a lot more fun and funk coming through in this new Digits twist. That bass to [...]
A pair from pair-ee, Schaatz is stepping into the chill-dream fray, but are not content to play within the sandbox allotted to the genre thus far. They're smushing its boundaries into conformance with their own idendity, much like Ronnie did to that chick at jersey shore last summer . Listening to Schaatz, you'll encounter brief flashes of sounds that may entered your consciousness over the past 20 years - in Terminus , for example, i get a hazy and pleasant association with Hooverphonic. In Esterel Halliday (streamable from their myspace), the connection feels rather [...]

I don't think I've said this, but Happy New Year! I'm eight days late in saying so, but I started thinking about resolutions for the new year. Some have already come to fruition. I've joined a book club! Our first book is "the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel " and we meet quarterly. I'm going to stop eating out as much and start cooking more (save tons of money that way). Last, but not least, the very cliche, going to start hitting the gym again. We have an elliptical , but it's stored in the [...]

Today the French dream pop duo Schaatz wished me a Happy New Year by telling me that I'm going to age along with their new remix of Digits . I laughed when I realized that it's only the truth. However, I didn't laugh listening to their new remix, it's once again a handy craftsmanship created by these guys, who lived in the Alps once. Maybe it was the air of the Alps that made them create these fine harmonies or maybe it's the fact that they also are growing old... Digits - You're [...]

Schaatz - Barbara Lisa Chloe Are you a complete vision of his corner of the triangle hovering in three parts: one that reflects the ego of your standing still. Trinity Freud - Angel, prostitution, her mother - a cliché, the kind of puberty and you are still in love with the image, or that someone is actually a real person stops know. However, to achieve and be used as a safety net. If you are inspired to dream of polygamy in any way, to guess you're satisfied with the completion of the trio really a [...]

Interesting. Potential. Like it. Artist is Schaatz from France. Home of great synth music right now. MP3: Schaatz: Barbaralischloe

Shaatz , from the inner-space of the electro-revolution called Paris France, shows us again where the innovative music come from. As we watch the countless of nu-disco/dream-wave acts pop up on Myspace, it sort of gives me a cosy feeling of a kid in a candystore, but yet they rarely bring anything new to the already filled palette. Shaatz brings the essential, the harmonic melodies, the spacey and sinister casio/microKorg sounds that makes the foundation of this beautiful dream-pop electro. The one thing that really sets the marker straight with this duo is [...]
Better late than never, here is last month's setlist, plus an mp3 of one song from each of us... Sarah Brigitte Bardot – La Madrague France Gall – Pense à Moi Chantal Goya – Il Court Les Filles Françoise Hardy – Tous Les Garçons et Les Filles Ria Bartok – Tu Te Moques de Moi Serge Gainsbourg – Ches Les Yé- Yé Pulp – Separations Pink Grease – The Pink G.R.Ease Datarock – Computer Camp Love Kamerakino – Polizei Macht Schule Stereo [...]

It had for centuries been a wholly closed society. Extravagantly depraved and despairing, rejecting morality, politics, patriotism and even social intercourse with the outside world. The Thieve's World...Vorovskoy Mir...this is the name given to the direct predecessor of the Russian mafia. Born in a time when all property was owned in theory, by the Tsar, felonies were not only crimes, they were attacks on the state. Organized crime in Tsarist Russian developed into a highly ritualized secret society. A society complete with it's own complicated customs and traditions, strict rules and codes of honor. Members [...]
Der findes masser af gode franske synth-duoer i forvejen, men nu er der endnu en til samlingen. Helt tilbage i juli måned modtog vi den første mail fra Schaatz , men nu, efter endnu en mail den anden dag, synes vi alligevel at det var tid til at give lidt af den opmærksomhed her på bloggen. Deres musik rammer perfekt ind i den lyd, der står ret højt på listen her hos os lige nu – nemlig kløgtigt 802er inspireret italodiscosynthelectropop. Schaatz formår at mixe deres analoge synthesizere med bl.a. 8-bit elementer og en [...]

Immer wieder schaffen es auch coole neue französische Bands in meinen Blog – beispielsweise kommen Schaatz , trotz des etwas sonderbaren Namens, aus Paris. Freunde von elektronischer Musik mit starker Verwurzelung in den 80ern kommen bei den Sounds des Duos voll auf ihre Kosten, denn die Synthies blubbern und bliepen schön analog und melodisch vor sich hin, umspült von einer sanften Männerstimme. Parallelen zu Jean-Michel Jarre oder Rökysopp scheinen mir nicht völlig abwegig. Derzeit gibt es leider noch keine offiziellen Veröffentlichungen, eine EP ist für den nächsten März in Planung – aber zwei Songs darf ich Euch hier [...]

Thanks " the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye " on Resonance 104.4 FM for introducing the French duo Schaatz to the world. They made their live debut on the show in May and the world now lays open for them. They played a few gigs in the springtime and then started up their MySpace and shortly after that they were invited to the radio show. Some of their songs, especially "Terminus" and "Barbara Lisa Chloe" just add a rotation on Viva Radio NY . They also play live on a french Web TV Show called " [...]

MP3 : Housse de Racket - Synthetiseur ( Van She Remix ) MP3 : Jackpot - Ragazza MP3 : Sebastien Tellier - Broadway MP3 : [...]