Musicians like to write about themselves that their stuff allows for “no pigeon holing”. With the first releases from Trickski in 2005, it quickly became evident that this is not true for these guys. They fit into every drawer you can think of! Fans returning home with a new Trickski record habitually tear their hear in front of their shelves: Where is this one going? Techno? Yes. House? Definitely. Dicso? Sure. Rock? Sometimes. Slow Motion? Well, yeah! HipHop? Certainly. And Melodies? And Banging? And Deep? And Barroque? Okay, works for them. And that is just what makes the Trickski sound so singular.
Their openness to all sides has won them friends and critical acclaim very quickly, and so it went that the co-productions of Yannick Labbé and Daniel Becker as Trickski came to fill the record cases of international DJs across all genres.
From 2006 to 2008, the next step followed: Yannick and Daniel were in charge of the limited series “Member of the Trick”. With the help of Berlin’s infamous Sonar Kollektiv, they published ten vinyl EP’s and one CD-compilation. The “kindred spirits” involved in this project were artists from the likes of Skwerl, Solomun, Future Beat Investigators, Schmutzig de Mutzig or the duo Leroy & Darnell.
After extensive touring in fall and winter 2007 (partially for Goethe Institute Australia), Trickski decided to indulge in a little “Production-Sabbatical”. Fun as it was, the Sabbatical is now over, and Trickski have already been laboring on new EP’s in their Halensee Hall Studio for the past few months. A new album is also in the pipeline. And now? Very simple, says Dannick Lecker: “If you dive down for a little while, you will return seductively moist after all and you’re ready for new adventures on the mogul piste, jump and freestyle. On the dance floor, that is.”
He speaks from experience: despite their little production-breather, Trickski have been the resident DJs at their favorite Berlin club, “Cookies”, every third Tuesday of the month, inspiring young women and music nerds alike to tear it up on the dance floor – sometimes with a special guest and sometimes without one.
Internationally, Trickski rock the crowds at clubs like Fabric, The End (London), Goa (Madrid), Club 11 (Amsterdam), Zukunft (Zurich), Dada (Tel Aviv), APT (New York City), Civic Underground (Sydney), FFour (Melbourne), Gilles Peterson‘s Worldwide Festival (Singapore), Vega, Culture Box, (Copenhagen), Nouveau Casino, Batôfar (Paris), Sottomarino Giallo (Milan), and many more.
Links: