"Puppet Jazz" is a compilation full of rare or previously unreleased jazz, funk & soul instrumentals from west German archives, that saw the light of day in 2005 on Sonorama Records. Now some of the tracks are remixed or even replayed by top producers to bring them to the dancefloors for modern clubbers. Malente aka Christoph Goettsch, whose recent productions "Dancefloor Whore" and "Like A Freek" went Top 10 in the DCC, delivers a really hard hitter with his electro version of Berry Lipman`s "Exotic Drums" - all in a Krafty Kuts/Skeewiff-style, that has everything to rock alternative dancefloors around the world. It is "Malente`s For Da Funk Remix" - five minutes of true rocking Malente spirit, that has made him one of the most requested electro breaks DJs and producers to come out of Germany. "I Gave My B3 For A Wersi": Eva Be, who released two outstanding 12"s on Berlin`s Sonar Kollektiv, comes up with a laidback and bassy electro dub monster, adding voices, phone signals and distorted guitar sounds by Boris Meinhold (from the band Micatone) to the original. "Puppet Jazz" becomes even more mind-bending with The Pinker Tones` take on "Soul Lady" (composed by Don Sebesky), originally played by The Klaus Esser Big Band. The boys from Barcelona mash up the crisp 70s brass sounds with their cool rhythm, samples, organ and vocals to turn this legendary tea-time classic into a club-friendly smasher. Burning down the house with Puppet Jazz beats that have it all! Finally, The Smooth Pilots from Leipzig show what the instruments of a real band can add to the difficult remixing job: They create their own version of "Exotic Drums" only taking the basic harmonies of the original track into account, moving onwards from a rearranged bongo rhythm into jazz breaks, tight brass arrangements and chill out moods of real cool.
