Mousse T. (born
Mustafa Gündoğdu on October 2, 1966 in
HagenHagen is the 37th-largest city in Germany, located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the eastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne, Volme and Ennepe meet the river Ruhr...
,
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia is the westernmost and—in terms of population and economic output—the largest Federal State of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km²...
) is a German DJ and
record producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
of Turkish descent. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with
Tom JonesSir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records.-Early life:...
, "Sex Bomb", released on the album
Reload.
One of the first producers of
house musicHouse is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami...
in
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, alongside contemporaries
Boris DlugoschBoris Dlugosch is a house music producer from Germany. Boris is usually known for funky/deep house tracks, mostly produced in conjunction with Mousse T. and Michi Lange, his partners in the Peppermint Jam Records label....
,
DJ TonkaDJ Tonka , is an electronic music artist. He is also known as Tonka, Chip Tunes, and Thomastic.-Career:...
and
Ian PooleyIan Pooley is a German-born record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence.-Career:...
, Mousse T. began his career in 1990 as keyboard player for a small band known as Fun Key B.
Mousse T. (born
Mustafa Gündoğdu on October 2, 1966 in
HagenHagen is the 37th-largest city in Germany, located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the eastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne, Volme and Ennepe meet the river Ruhr...
,
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia is the westernmost and—in terms of population and economic output—the largest Federal State of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km²...
) is a German DJ and
record producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
of Turkish descent. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with
Tom JonesSir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records.-Early life:...
, "Sex Bomb", released on the album
Reload.
Biography
One of the first producers of
house musicHouse is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami...
in
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, alongside contemporaries
Boris DlugoschBoris Dlugosch is a house music producer from Germany. Boris is usually known for funky/deep house tracks, mostly produced in conjunction with Mousse T. and Michi Lange, his partners in the Peppermint Jam Records label....
,
DJ TonkaDJ Tonka , is an electronic music artist. He is also known as Tonka, Chip Tunes, and Thomastic.-Career:...
and
Ian PooleyIan Pooley is a German-born record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence.-Career:...
, Mousse T. began his career in 1990 as keyboard player for a small band known as Fun Key B. At the same time, he set up his own recording studio and began DJing in the city of Hannover. Besides working on his own productions, usually with partner Errol Rennalls, Mousse T. also wrote and produced tracks for other artists. In 1993, he founded, along with Rennalls, Peppermint Jam Records, a label specializing in uplifting house music and melodic
acid jazzAcid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are...
.
His 1998 production "
Horny"Horny" is a house song by producer Mousse T. and pop duo Hot 'n' Juicy, featured on the South Park soundtrack album Chef Aid: The South Park Album....
" featuring
Hot 'n' JuicyHot 'n' Juicy was a duo of singers, Emma Lanford and Nadine Richardson. They appeared on the 1998 version of Mousse T's song "Horny" and the 2006 mash up Horny as a Dandy. They were residents of a tower block on the former Lee Bank estate in Birmingham....
(and a chorus sung by
Inaya DayInaya Day is an American singer best known for her vocal work on house music tracks such as "Horny" by Mousse T and her cover version of "Nasty Girl" by Prince protege Vanity 6.-Early career:...
) on vocals reached the top of the Billboard dance charts in the late 1990s and Top 20 in the UK and
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
. His first album,
Gourmet de Funk, was released in 2001. In 2004, he once again entered the Single Charts with his song "
Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?"Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" is a single released in 2004, by Mousse T., from his second album, All Nite Madness. It features vocals from Emma Lanford. It reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart....
", which is featured on his second album,
All Nite Madness, also released in 2004.
In 2006, Placido & Loo released a
mash-up called "
Horny As A Dandy"Horny as a Dandy" is a mash-up of Mousse T.'s "Horny" and The Dandy Warhols' "Bohemian Like You". It was released as a single in 2006. It features vocals from Hot 'N' Juicy. It peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Chart...
". The song fused the vocals of "Horny" and the music of "Bohemian Like You" by
The Dandy WarholsThe Dandy Warhols are a US rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, by Courtney Taylor-Taylor , Zia McCabe , Peter Holmström , and Eric Hedford , who left in 1998 to be replaced by Taylor-Taylor's cousin Brent De Boer...
.
In 2007, he wrote and produced the music for
Marc RothemundMarc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das...
's film Pornorama.
Albums
- 2002 Gourmet de Funk
- 2004 All Nite Madness
All Nite Madness is the second album from Mousse T.. It was released in 2004.-Track listing:#"Underground" - #"Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" - ...
- 2004 Right About Now
- 2007 Re-orchestrated (iTunes only)
Singles
Mousse T.
- Most tracks co-written by Errol Rennalls
- 1994 "Mine", as Davey Dee & Mousse T. (with Davey Dee)
- 1995 "EP", as Davey Dee & Mousse T. (with Davey Dee)
- 1996 "Come and Get It"
- 1996 "Everybody"
- 1997 "Bad Boy/Horny"
- 1998 "Horny '98
"Horny" is a house song by producer Mousse T. and pop duo Hot 'n' Juicy, featured on the South Park soundtrack album Chef Aid: The South Park Album....
" (with Hot 'n' JuicyHot 'n' Juicy was a duo of singers, Emma Lanford and Nadine Richardson. They appeared on the 1998 version of Mousse T's song "Horny" and the 2006 mash up Horny as a Dandy. They were residents of a tower block on the former Lee Bank estate in Birmingham....
)
- 1999 "Ooh Song"
- 2002 "Fire" (with Emma Lanford)
- 2003 "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" (with Emma Lanford)
- 2003 "Brother on the Run"
- 2004 "Pop Muzak" (with Andrew Roachford
Andrew Roachford is a British singer-songwriter.Andrew Roachford was the main force behind the band Roachford, who scored their first success in 1989 with the hits "Cuddly Toy " and "Family Man"...
)
- 2004 "Right About Now" (with Emma Lanford and Nils Ruzicka)
- 2006 "Horny as a Dandy" (vs. Dandy Warhols, mash-up produced by Loo & Placido)
- 2009 "All nite long (D.I.S.C.O.)" (with Suzie); Germany #71
Afropeans
- 2000 "Pianolick"
- 2001 "No. 1"
- 2003 "Everybody/Fallin'"
- 2004 "Afropeans EP"
- 2004 "Better Things" (with Inaya Day
Inaya Day is an American singer best known for her vocal work on house music tracks such as "Horny" by Mousse T and her cover version of "Nasty Girl" by Prince protege Vanity 6.-Early career:...
)
Other aliases
- 1989 "Don't Stop", as Fresh & Fly (with Hans Hahn)
- 1991 "African Rhythm", as Fresh & Fly (with Ralf Droesemeyer and Jörg Rump)
- 1991 "Family of Music", as F.O.M. (with Ralf Droesemeyer)
- 1991 "C'mon Get Up", as F.O.M. (with Ralf Droesemeyer)
- 1995 "Mind Flavor EP", as Mind Flavour
- 1996 "Odyssey One", as Federation X (with Grant Nelson
Grant Nelson is a DJ, producer and remix artist.Grant is heralded as one of the godfathers of UK Garage due to his numerous club hits on his Nice 'n' Ripe record label in the early 90's...
)
- 1996 "Keep Pushin'", as Booom! (with Boris Dlugosch
Boris Dlugosch is a house music producer from Germany. Boris is usually known for funky/deep house tracks, mostly produced in conjunction with Mousse T. and Michi Lange, his partners in the Peppermint Jam Records label....
and Inaya Day)
- 1997 "Hold Your Head Up High", as Booom! (with Boris Dlugosch and Inaya Day)
- 2001 "Miami Special", as Peppermint Jam Allstars (with Boris Dlugosch and Michi Lange)
(Co-)Production for other artists
- 1991 Psyche - "Angel Lies Sleeping"
- 1992 Marc Davis - "Moviestar"
- 1995 Ve Ve - "We've Got Love"
- 1996 Raw Instinct - "De La Bass"
- 1997 Ferry Ultra feat. Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers is a funk, soul and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a jazz player, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records before his tenure at Polydor Records, during which he progressed a new R&B style, slowly molding the new Disco genre.- Biography :Ayers grew...
- "Dangerous Vibes"
- 1997 Bootsy Collins
William "Bootsy" Collins is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
feat. MC LyteLana Michele Moorer , better known by her stage name MC Lyte is rap artist who has scored several Rap and R&B hits. She has released several albums since 1988.-Biography:...
- "I'm Leavin U (Gotta Go, Gotta Go)"
- 1997 Byron Stingily
Byron Stingily is an African American R&B and house-music singer born in Chicago, Illinois, known for singing falsetto with an extremely dynamic range. He is now a principal at a school in Chicago.-Career:...
- "Sing a Song"
- 1997 Randy Crawford
Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has surprisingly proved more successful in Europe than her homeland, where she has yet to crack the Billboard Hot 100.-Career:...
- "Wishing on a Star"
- 1999 Cunnie Williams
Cunnie Williams is a Los Angeles based R&B singer. He is probably best known by his singles "Saturday" and "A World Celebration" .-Discography:Albums:*2008 : No Place Like Home*2004 : Inside my soul...
- "Saturday"
- 1999 Tom Jones
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records.-Early life:...
- "Sex Bomb"
- 2000 Monie Love - "Slice of da Pie"
- 2001 Ann Nesby - "Love Is What We Need"
- 2002 No Angels
The No Angels are an all-female pop group from Germany, consisting of members Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls...
- "Let's Go to Bed"Let's Go to Bed" is a 1982 single by The Cure. It later appeared on their compilation album Japanese Whispers.In the aftermath of the bleak Pornography, Robert Smith returned from a month-long detox in the Lake District to write the antithesis to what the Cure currently represented...
"
- 2004 Inaya Day - "Nasty Girl"
- 2007 Se:Sa feat. Sharon Phillips - "Like this Like that"
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