new remix: "I haven't played piano in a while"

A couple of days ago, I listened to a beautiful piano improvisation by Tennessee-based musician Jet Smith. The recording of that session suggests that it simply happened right there in the moment, not too much planning beforehand or even preparation of the recording procedure. At some points you can hear the sound of cars passing by his window. This noise together with the delightfully played piano create a superb setting and make it sound incredibly true and warm. After listening to it a lot of times, some days later I decided to use the improvisation, reassemble some parts and add a little bit of drumming to it.

Here is a slow and deep remix of this wonderful piano improvisation: "Jethimself - I haven't played piano in a while".


Original Artist Jet Smith: www.facebook.com/jethimself
Soundcloud: @jethhimself

Update, dec 19:
Again, german electronic music magazine, trndmusik.de, posted this mix on their facebook page. Thanks a lot for that massive support!

two musical souls:"Armas" vs "François Rengère"

You might have noticed, that I am using different aliases when producing music. "Armas" is the more melodic and trancy part inside of me, whereas "François Rengère" is more into deep house and techno sounds. I cleaned up my soundcloud and divided it into two accounts, to make things a little clearer.

www.soundcloud.com/francoisrengere



www.soundcloud.com/armasmusic

Losing My Religion (François Rengère vs Dave Leon Bootleg Mix) rocking "Schmitz Katze" Club in Freiburg.

Last night Dave Leon played the R.E.M. remix at a fully packed "Schmitz Katze" Club in Freiburg, right before the arrival of the "Moonbootica" guys. Great atmosphere!

"artist of the day" @ Tech & Deephouse Artist Support

"Tech & Deephouse Artist Support" has me featured as artist of the day. Thank you very much, guys. They picked my track "primavera" as sample tune for their post. It's still planned to be released sometime, but there have been issues with the catalogue of the label in question so let's listen to it over here in the meantime:

experiments with the cthulhu-plugin

These days, I checked out the cthulhu plugin by steve duda. I'm sure it does a lot of things, but it also gives some nice results on your arpeggio sounds.

"françois rengère - look back" released today

Today a reflective chillout tune i made some time ago got released and is available at all major download stores. here's a little preview:



now released and available:

- beatport: btprt.dj/176ljXJ
- amazon: amzn.to/H7HYWJ
- google play store: bit.ly/1d2eWGf
- itunes: bit.ly/1h5etDk

trndmusik.de featuring our r.e.m. remix

The german trndmusik.de magazine is featuring our remix "R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (François Rengère vs Dave Leon Bootleg Mix)". Unfortunately the article is only available in german, still we are very proud and thankful.

http://trndmusik.de/2013/05/gemeinsamer-remix-von-den-freiburgern-francois-rengere-und-dave-leon/

new mix available: "Back to Jatujak 2013"

This is my "Back to Jatujak" warm up mix.
Most of these tunes joined me and my friends on a trip through south east asia.
This mix is also available via mixcloud.com/armasmusic

Tracklist:

Home & Garden - Domesticated (Pezzner Remix)
David K - Open Eyes (Lexer Remix)
Deep Future - One More Night (Beatamines & David Jach Remix)
Alle Farben - Deine Augen
Niconé & Sascha Braemer - Love Me (Marek Hemmann Remix)
Steffen Deux - Playground Massacre
AKA AKA & Thalstroem - Été (Einmusik Remix)
Einmusik - Those Said (Original Mix)
David Keno - Stars Above
Peter Eilmes - Better Day (Sascha Braemers Nice Day Mix)
Martin Roth – Deep Style
Sade - Pearls (Timo Jahns Secret Edit)

François Rengère - Back to Jatujak 2013 Mix by Armasmusic on Mixcloud

remixing rem - losing my religion

Together with freiburg-based dj, dave leon, we teamed up for a joint remix of rem's classic "losing my religion". we started very simple, went to the club with our first version, test-played it just to go back to the studio afterwards and change the whole thing. we repeated this process around 3-4 times until we were reasonably happy with the result. and here it is:

bootleg of "my tears are becoming a sea"

"Would'nt that be a great song for a remix?" - I was asked. So I decided to give it a shot and made a bootleg mix of this beautiful soundtrack. Here, you can now listen to the result: