What makes the magic of the most successful German solo artist abroad.
The most successful German solo artist abroad is not Max Richter, not Dieter Bohlen, neither the one from Milky Chance nor the other from Milky Chance. No, dear helpless community, this is a real magician in his field. A musician who regularly manages the trick of turning pop songs, which one likes to hear on the car radio on the way to the weekend shop, into dance songs, to which one (after the weekend shop) goes to paint their helmets in the big disco. A man for all situations in life, for day and night, for party beasts and those who would like to be or used to be, back then, on a school trip in Lloret de Mar.
Yes, the DJ and producer Robin Schulz from Osnabrück is what you could call a phenomenon. Since he emerged as a classic Soundcloud celebrity around ten years ago, Schulz has remixed pretty much everything you can’t pull out of his fingers, most recently the eternal tearjerkers “What A Wonderful World” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, which as a kind of medley on his album PINK, which will be released in August. Together with the Bimmelhouse producer Alle Farben, he manages to drive out the last bit of magic from the classics in the version of singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, who died in 1997. The stomping bass pulsates happily until each song is freed from its character.
Schulz once recorded a track with James Blunt, which was very sympathetic because Blunt has been flirting with being the worst singer in the world in a wonderful way for years. Everything was fine. But as with all really greats, this career is not free of flaws: Almost exactly a year ago, Schulz was suspected of having stolen a song from the Berlin newcomer Southstar. Well, the songs sound almost identical. To this day, no one knows for sure who actually used whom. It didn’t hurt Schulz. The giant machine keeps running, and that’s a good thing: after all, the weekend shopping has to be done.