OVER-NITE(s) 8 : OPEK - MOIN

„Moin! Kaffee?“

PRODUCED BY OPEK.

OVER-NITE(s) is a story of opening doors and entering rooms to explore a world of different productions, vocals and sensations. Be yourself a room-boy and take a look at all spaces.
An ongoing cooperation of Wadada Records with various artists and illustrator Jens Roth.

ARTWORK(S) - JENS ROTH
MASTER - LEON MACHE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM
CONTACT - OFFICE@WADADA-RECORDS.COM

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Opek - Moin

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"Sock-hole-funk is not a crime!"

PRODUCED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - GIZEM WINTER

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Opek - Sock With A Hole

"Mucho Gusto."

PRODUCED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - GIZEM WINTER

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Opek - Mucho Gusto

"Butterbrotdosen."

PRODUCED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - GIZEM WINTER

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Opek - Butterbrotdose

„While working on this song I focused on a lot of stuff at once – Music, university, friendships and where to go in life in general. That is why I had a bunch of good, as well as bad theories and thoughts in my head.“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND.
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION.
MASTERED BY LEON MACHE.

ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

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Black Friction - Brain Theory

„We had a DIY skatepark called “Utopia” in Dortmund and around the corner there was this Pizza place called “Bella”. They serve a Pizza for like 2 freakin’ Euros and we were joking about how sick it would be if they expanded their business and become a record label. This song is dedicated to you Bella Universal Recordings.“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND.
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION.
MASTERED BY LEON MACHE.

ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

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Black Friction - Bella Universal

„When you realize how much chewing gum is stuck to the ground ... . .. The whole world is dotted ... .. .“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND.
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION.
MASTERED BY LEON MACHE.

ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

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Black Friction - Dotted

„Back in my teenage years, me and the crew used to travel to Barcelona to skate and party. Cerveza and Loco were pretty much the only Spanish words we knew, so we combined them and to this day, we use it as a synonym for beer… duh. Go out and have a Cerveza Loco!.“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

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Black Friction - Cerveza Loco

"Lemonade sippin' music for lemonade sippin' people."

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Artwork & Photo www.dennisarnold.de

Wadada Rotations #19 : Zitrone Trüb (by Delicious Frequencies)

"A record check by the Cologne DJ-Legend with thirteen alphabetic characters called Hans Nieswandt."

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CORNERS „Paths meet at the corner. People have a drink and talk at the corner.
The point where two paths meet is more than a linear function. The X marks the point where two ideas meet, sometimes worlds meet, cosmoses meet, or maybe just two people meet.
Drummer and producer Opek couldn’t have made this album alone, nor would he have wanted to, because the magic comes from collaboration. For the album ‘Corners’, Opek invited some of his favorite musicians from the Ruhr area for each and every track.
Sometimes the guests were invited as soloists (Julius van Rhee on ‘The Lighthouse’), sometimes he recorded an artist for hours just to find the perfect bass loop (Caris Hermes on ‘Finders Keepers’). The result is an intimate mixture of noisy instrumental hip hop and honest jazz. Check your corner(s)!“

RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 01, 2021

DRUMS, SAX & TROMPONE RECORDED AT IFPOM BOCHUM ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS 
PHOTO - CERM

OPEK „https://soundcloud.com/opekmusic prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.
After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.
Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.
The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

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OPEK - CORNERS (SNIPPET BY HANS NIESWANDT)

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„One day I visited Caris at her home and recorded her playing solo for one hour straight. While listening back to what she played I immediately found this one part that I turned into a loop because it was just perfect. The feeling of finding something you want to hear over and over again is so fundamental, I hope its beauty and fascination will never leave me.“

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK
DOUBLE-BASS: CARIS HERMES

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS
PHOTO - LIS BAD

„Opek prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

www.wadada-records.com

OPEK - FINDERS, KEEPERS (DOUBLE-BASS: CARIS HERMES)

„Money is teuer. Think about it.“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

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Black Friction - Money Is Teuer

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„I don’t know whether I should believe in coincidences or in destiny, but I can not believe that it’s a coincidence that I’ve met Duy. He has a beautiful soul and his bass-playing never ceases to amaze me.“ 

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK
BASS: DUY LUONG

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS
PHOTO - OPEK

„Opek prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

www.wadada-records.com

OPEK - NO COINCIDENCE (BASS: DUY LUONG)

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„The chorus melody of this song developed while Julius and I were in the studio together. When he played the melody for the first time to me it felt like an enlightenment. Julius’ sound and soloing is so wonderful and clear, mixed with his calm personality he sometimes seems like a lighthouse to me. Standing there, sending out his rays of sound to help people find their way.“

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK
SAX: JULIUS VAN RHEE

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS
PHOTO - OPEK

„Opek prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

www.wadada-records.com

OPEK - LIGHTHOUSE (SAX: JULIUS VAN RHEE)

OVER-NITE(s) 10 : BLACK FRICTION - EMOLLDMOLL

„What about augmented reality?“

PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION.

OVER-NITE(s) is a story of opening doors and entering rooms to explore a world of different productions, vocals and sensations. Be yourself a room-boy and take a look at all spaces.
An ongoing cooperation of Wadada Records with various artists and illustrator Jens Roth.

ARTWORK(S) - JENS ROTH
MASTER - LEON MACHE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM
CONTACT - OFFICE@WADADA-RECORDS.COM

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Black Friction - EmollDmoll

OVER-NITE(s) 11 : BOKOYA - KAKTUS

 „Kaktus is a little spaced out, still spiky and full of love. Might be slightly inspired by two of our favourite Johns.“

PRODUCED BY BOKOYA.

TRUMPET FERDINAND SCHWARZ
DRUMS LEON RAUM
KEYS DARIUS HEID
GUITAR LUKAS WILMSMEYER

OVER-NITE(s) is a story of opening doors and entering rooms to explore a world of different productions, vocals and sensations. Be yourself a room-boy and take a look at all spaces.
An ongoing cooperation of Wadada Records with various artists and illustrator Jens Roth.

ARTWORK(S) - JENS ROTH
MASTER - LEON MACHE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM
CONTACT - OFFICE@WADADA-RECORDS.COM

WWW.ROTHJENS.DE
WWW.WADADA-RECORDS.COM

Bokoya - Kaktus

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„Tim’s choice of melody and soloing on this song is so distinct and logic to me that while we recorded I just felt like nodding my head and confirm to him: Copy that!“

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS
PHOTO - ANA BUTTLER

„Opek prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

www.wadada-records.com

OPEK - COPY THAT (GUITAR: TIM BÜCHER)

OVER-NITE(s) 12 : WYL & DRAMADIGS - VILSESTER „Continue Ted. Continue.“

PRODUCED BY WYL & DRAMADIGS

OVER-NITE(s) is a story of opening doors and entering rooms to explore a world of different productions, vocals and sensations. Be yourself a room-boy and take a look at all spaces.
An ongoing cooperation of Wadada Records with various artists and illustrator Jens Roth.

ARTWORK(S) - JENS ROTH
MASTER - LEON MACHE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM
CONTACT - OFFICE@WADADA-RECORDS.COM

WWW.ROTHJENS.DE
WWW.WADADA-RECORDS.COM

Wyl & Dramadigs - Vilsester

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Rap by AzudemSK
Beat played by WYL

Bass - Leon Mache
Keys & Saxophon - Marco Zügner
Drums - Leon Raum

Cover by Daniel Koch

"Lauf" produced by "Adlib Swayze".

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AzudemSK & WYL - Lauf

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FINDERS, KEEPERS - from the forthcoming album "Corners" (October 01, 2021)

„Paths meet at the corner. People have a drink and talk at the corner.
The point where two paths meet is more than a linear function. The X marks the point where two ideas meet, sometimes worlds meet, cosmoses meet, or maybe just two people meet.
Drummer and producer Opek couldn’t have made this album alone, nor would he have wanted to, because the magic comes from collaboration.
For the album ‘Corners’, Opek invited some of his favorite musicians from the Ruhr area for each and every track.
Sometimes the guests were invited as soloists (Julius van Rhee on ‘The Lighthouse’), sometimes he recorded an artist for hours just to find the perfect bass loop (Caris Hermes on ‘Finders Keepers’). The result is an intimate mixture of noisy instrumental hip hop and honest jazz.
Check your corner(s)!“

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE

„OPEK prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

www.wadada-records.com

OPEK - OUT HERE (KEYS/VOCODER: JAN ALEXANDER)

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OPEK - CODES (VIBES: MICHAEL KNIPPSCHILD)

„AxDrake covers you like the light of the golden hour. Exactly the right thing for a walk along the boulevard or promenade at dusk.“

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BASS & SYNTH - LEON MACHE 
DRUMS & PERCUSSION - LEON RAUM
RHODES & SAXOPHONE - MARCO ZÜGNER
SP404 - WUN TWO
TRUMPET - FERDINAND SCHWARZ

ANALOG RCORDED AT STUDIO STROM.

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY WYL & WUN TWO 
MIX & MASTERING BY LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - RAKATIE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM

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Wyl & Wun Two - AxDrake

"s/o Goddess & Groove Attack Recordstore."

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VOCALS, CUTS & EFFEKTE: 4TRACKBOY & ECHOMANN 

BASS & SYNTH: LEON MACHE 
DRUMS, PERCUSSION & KEYS: LEON RAUM 
RHODES & SAXOPHONE: MARCO ZÜGNER 

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED BY WYL 

ORIGINAL 4trackboyundechomann.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK: JEREMIAS DIEKMANN & ROBERT WINTER 
MIX & MASTERING BY LEON MACHE 
IDEA: MR.TOM 

GODDESS 1.1 
WADADA 040 

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4Trackboy & Echomann - Der Konformismus (WYL Rework)

"Royal Blu" flipped by WYL. The singer, songwriter and entertainer from Spanish Town, Jamaica works with different genres, moods and emotions. "WYL" picked two early hip hop flavoured tunes and created their own take on them for 2022. Fire!

VOCALS - ROYAL BLU 
REWORK - WYL 

PHOTO - THESHADIOMAR 
ADDITIONAL ARTWORK - ROBERT WINTER

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Royal Blu - Here We Go (WYL Rework)

"Royal Blu" flipped by "WYL". The singer, songwriter and entertainer from Spanish Town, Jamaica works with different genres, moods and emotions. "WYL" picked two early hip hop flavoured tunes and created their own take on them for 2022. Fire!

VOCALS - ROYAL BLU 
REWORK - WYL 

PHOTO - THESHADIOMAR 
ADDITIONAL ARTWORK - ROBERT WINTER

Royal Blu - Nobody's Vent (WYL Rework)

„Water Sounds describes the conclusion of a sticky, muggy summerday at the buisy but shifty harbour“

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BASS & SYNTH - LEON MACHE
DRUMS & PERCUSSION - LEON RAUM
RHODES & SAXOPHONE - MARCO ZÜGNER
SP404 - WUN TWO
TRUMPET - FERDINAND SCHWARZ

ANALOG RCORDED AT STUDIO STROM.

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY WYL & WUN TWO
MIX & MASTERING BY LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - RAKATIE
IDEA & PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MR.TOM

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Wyl & Wun Two - Watersounds

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"A story about a boy who´s in love with trees."

PRODUCED BY OPEK

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - GIZEM WINTER

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Opek - Very Far (Feat. Isabelle Pabst)

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