Slackwax is a German musical duo of electronic music formed in 2005 and made up of Bernd Batke and Peter Hoppe. Batke was at the same time frontman, singer and bass player of the neo-country band Smokestack Lightnin', whereas Hoppe was a
Nuremberg
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-based music producer. The style of the duo is electro, moody and atmospheric with elements of jazz, blues, soul, country together with contemporary beats and modern production techniques. They are signed to the German label Modernsoul.
The duo released a self-titled EP titled ''Slackwax'' in 2008, followed by EP "''Close to My Fire'' (in 2010), their best known hit and EP ''Night Out'' (2012) and are preparing for a full studio album for 2013 with "Night Out" as the first single from the release. They also released two mix EPs, ''Night Out – The Remixes'' in 2012 and ''Slackwax reworks Mousse T.'' also in 2012 offering a completely new perspective on
Mousse T.
Mustafa Gündoğdu (; born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German-Turkish DJ, record producer, film music composer and judge on season 15 of ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar'', the German version of ''Pop Idol ...
hits with vocals from
Anna Leyne on the tracks.
Slackwax are most famous for their 2010 hit single "Close to My Fire" (written by Peter Hoppe and Anna Leyne). They have produced for Fritz Kalkbrenner, Mousse T., Bela B, The Baseballs, Oceana, Trinah, Onita Boone and others.
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In popular culture
*Their hit "Close to My Fire" was interpreted by Beth Hart
Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American musician from Los Angeles, California. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song (Out of This Town)" from her second album ''Screamin' for My Supper''. The single was a number ...
in her joint album of covers ''Seesaw
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'' in 2013.
*Band's "Spookie" track was used in a TV ad for the Mini Cooper Mini Cooper may refer to:
*Performance Cars of the original Mini series with uprated drive train and brakes, called the "Mini Cooper", made by the British Motor Corporation and also the successors 1961–1971, and 1990–2000
*Cars of the Mini (mar ...
. Other Slackwax tunes were used for advertisements for Adidas
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, BMW
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, Mercedes-Benz
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*Their music also appears in the soundtrack of a number of films, such as '' Hilde'', '' Desert Flower'', ''Wrecked'', ', ''Men Do What They Can
''Men Do What They Can'' () is a 2012 German movie directed by Marc Rothemund.
With 746,017 admissions it was the sixth most successful film in Germany in 2012.
Cast
*Wotan Wilke Möhring: Paul Schuberth
* Jasmin Gerat: Iris Jasper
* Jan Josef ...
'', ''Da muss Mann durch'', ''Joschka & Herr Fischer'', '' Sources of Life'' and ''Lulu and Jimi
''Lulu and Jimi'' is a 2009 drama film directed by Oskar Roehler. It is about the relationship between Lulu, a rich German girl and Jimi, a black man, and takes place in 1950s Germany.
Plot
Lulu, a well-off German girl, falls in love with Jimi ...
''.
References
External links
Official website
Facebook
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German musical duos
German record producers