A limited Whimsical Series: "Featured Dubs"

Episode S01E04: "Heia Walpurgisdub"

Release no.: WHIM006
Artist: Die Pilzen
Series: Featured Dubs
Episode: S01E04
Release date: 30.04.2023
Tracks:
01 - "Heia Walpurgisdub (Nimbus 2000 Discomix)" 9:32 min.

Info:

"Featured Dubs" is an ongoing project in which artists from other labels are prominently featured on Whimsical Music with either own musical creations or remix cooperations. 8 episodes of this series form 1 season. At the end of a season might or might not come an album compiling all the episodes into one release.

The fourth episode of the first season leads us waaaaay back in the days, to the late 90s. Die Pilzen was a German rap crew operating during the late 90s with two official albums on Deck 8 label, one self-released album (2001) and a couple of compilation features. Rapper Nickel at some point quit, while Maxwell Smart joined forces with DJ Robert Smith as Smith & Smart. They are still active.

The original song "Heia Walpurgisnacht" is from Die Pilzen's 1997 debut album "Gegenwarten... und andere Situationen". Dub Rogue started a remix in early 1998, back then still under the name Dieb in Dub. For many reasons, this remix never got finished, and got postponed again and again and again... It was never forgotten though and finally, in 2023, 25 years in the making, it's ready. It's been kept as original as possible, albeit it came a long way since 1998. Actually, not even the tempo of the song is the same anymore. It's crazy to think that no acapella version of this song exists, and still, there is a remix with the vocal now. Modern technology... On a sidenote, Dub Rogue is still able to rap along this song all those years later. The lyrics have been cemented in his brain, apparently.

Music critic L. Huger from Helsinki: "Dub Rogue is back with another whimsical boom tune."

Credits:

Rap by Die Pilzen (Maxwell Smart and Nickel) around 1996.
Remix by Dub Rogue between 1998 and 2023 at various studios in different countries.
Mixed by Huppuherrasmies in 2023 at Whimsical Sound, FIN.
Mastered by Me(h) in 2023 at Me(h)stro Music Studio, FIN.
Artwork by Professor Chaos in 2023 at Atelier Branle Bas, FRA.
Video editing by Bingewatch-R in 2023 at Come Watch TV Studio, GER.
Witch silhouette from Videezy.
Old TV Mockup by Daniel Gomes de Souza.
Photos on the TV by R. Wunderlich during a Die Pilzen concert in Hamburg in 1997.
Produced by Rami Rovaniemi.