I often had the impression that the artist and his music isn’t the most important matter. I launched the label because of frustrating experiences with them. I thought GOGO Music sounds good and is memorable.īefore I started the label I released music on various others. When I was searching for a label name it was a coincidence that I saw a funny car from the ’70s called “Gogo Mobile”. Was this your first record imprint, and why the long time coming? You started DJing in 1990, producing in 1993, and GOGO was founded in 2001. Happily I had (and have) residencies or gigs at some of them, but unfortunately these venues are the exception. Nevertheless there are a few places where good music is played and where you’ll find an open minded crowd. In the last 19 years I played in countless venues and as well a few raves, but often had to experience that soulful music is only understood by a minority in Germany. The bigger radio stations only play commercial pop music. The mags write about what’s considered to be hip and this is mainly techy stuff. The same applies for the music press and other media here. It’s funny, but a lot of clubs advertise with House Music these days, but what you get is mostly a mix of electro, euro dance and minimal. That style made it to some of the bigger clubs, but after about two years it disappeared from the commercial floors again. The House sound had a little hype in the late ’90s, when the Disco/House sound took over.
There has never been a big difference when I look back. The soulful House scene is very small in Germany. Can you tell me something about the scene in Germany in those days and your early days DJing? As a producer I love the freedom that this genre offers me, as you can combine so many musical influences, such as Gospel, Jazz, Soul, Afro, Latin, Disco, which I all like. Of course I went to clubs like Soundfactory, Jackie 60 and others and since then was hooked completely. I was into House Music already, but an initial experience was my first New York visit in 1991. You just have to experience it and you will hardly get away from it again. What is it about Deep House that speaks to you as a listener? I had the album, but was searching for the 12-inch to play during my first gig – and I still play it today. Maybe it was “I Know You, I Live You” by Rufus & Chaka Khan. I purchased vinyl for a while before I had my first DJ gig and then of course played a lot of the records I already had. Do you remember the first record you bought specifically for playing on a turntable? Not too many record shops in Germany offered a good selection in those days. From the early ’90s I was constantly searching for House vinyl, which was a challenge in the very beginning. It seems I simply have soul in my blood, as I was digging Disco, Funk and Soul since I was a teenager. I liked Acid at that time, but realized that the more soulful tracks in the genre were really my taste. I got into House when I heard tracks like Farley Jackmaster Funk’s “Love Can’t Turn Around”, which I found on the famous Chicago Acid House samplers in the late ’80s. These days it is the electro and minimal music that is big, while the typical techno disappeared a bit. Haha – the typical first question in an interview with me, but one with a good cause, as Germany is actually dominated by a harder sound. I’m curious about the first electronic music you were exposed to, and how you developed such a soulful sound? This might sound like a typically dumb American question, but so many folks think of techno, minimal, Tresor Records and the harder stuff when it comes to Germany. We interviewed Ralf in April 2009 – just after GOGO Music’s latest release (“Above the Sky” by Andy Compton, featuring Chicago’s Kafele) – hit the shops. His remixes have been released on labels from Defected to Peppermint Jam, and his DJ skills (honed by nearly 20 years of spinning records) have taken him around the world. Ralf’s label, GOGO Music, is likewise a beacon of soulful House in Europe, with a consistency of releases representing the creme de la creme of today’s top producers, from Raw Artistic Soul to South Africa’s Blackcoffee to Andy Compton and Ralf’s collaborations with Monique, Inaya, Diamondancer, Wunmi and other vocalists.
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Last year he released his first album, Uniting Music – a tour de force of soulful House which spawned a torrent of hits, including “Kissing Strangers” with Monique Bingham and “What I Like (About You)” with Inaya Day. From Germany, Ralf GUM is one of the top Soulful House producers in the world.
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