Mojo Club
One of the most tasteful clubs in hamburg is the "Mojo Club". It opened up in 1991 and had several side activities like a shop, a lounging club and a record series.
The starting point was the music, from the beginning they called it "Dancefloor Jazz". It is jazz music from the 60's and 70's, that is very danceable. When they started to play that kind of music, it was new in the club and dance scene, because in the 60's that style of music hardly found its way over the ocean from america and in the 70's it were mostly intellectuals who listened concentrated to the virtuosly playing musicians instead of dancing. So they had to build their audience up by organising a lot of parties in different locations until they felt the time was right to open a club of their own.
They found a room on the famous "Reeperbahn", which is the main street of Hamburgs red-light- and also the amusement- and partydistrict. Before it was a musical instrument shop, so they had to improvise a club. They rent a sound-system and installed some slide projectors with images of 60's jazz musicians to produce the right mood. First they only opend on saturdays but soon found some like minded dj's to do the friday that concentrated on a more modern aspect of jazz: electric jazz.
They called the club "Mojo-Club". Mojo is somekind of positive magic in the carribean voodoo-cult. The term was familiar because it appeared in the jazz-music, so they took it as the name for the club. A friend of them, Marion Schnelle, did a logo, and for the flyers they had some rudimentary rules like "never use serif-fonts" as a first step of visual identity.
In 92 the Mojo-crew opend a shop where they sold old and rare records and also clothes, club couture mostly from england that you couldn't get somewhere else in Hamburg. Their style was mod-orientaded and also reached to old-school Adidas stuff. Even a hair-cutter was included in the shop, so you could get everything you need for a satisfied clubbers lifestyle!
That year they also released the first Mojo Club - dancefloor jazz sampler. It contained unknown songs from the 60's to early 70's by artists like Jimmy Smith, Roy Ayers, James Brown, Kool And The Gang and Nina Simone. The record was a big success, so it became a series, The club became very famous, people started waiting in a queue and the dj's made a tour through germany.
1995/96 times changed. The shop was closed and the Mojo people cared more about the music and the club again. Drum and bass came, the Mojo Club invited nearly all of the Metalheadz djs and the new loungin' music of Kruder and Dorfmeister who also played made Mojo-clubbing fresh again. A second record series ("Electric Mojo") was started with now two volumes and two remix albums. Raphael Marionneau developed a strict corporate identity for the mojo club that gave the club a strong identity. He also does his own club-night at the mojo club. On wednesdays it's time for "Le Cafe Abstrait". Raphael carries a lot of sofas into the club and plays relaxing chill-out music.
Next to the Mojo Club was a chinese family restaurant, the "Mandarin". Instead of selling and serving food the restaurant was in businesses like selling travels, copying asian soft-porns and cutting hair in their restaurant rooms. Someday in 1999 the family suddenly disappeared and left the rooms like they were. the Mojo people immediatly felt like using those rooms for something special. They built "a club without dancing" into the large frontroom called "The Mandarin". Chouches and small wooden walls that divide the seat-groups but not the room in small units.
Cool retro modern furniture with a lot of chinese noble-kitsch, like a giant dragon on the ceiling with red glowing eyes. They serve exquisite drinks and play a stimulating lounge music. After a year the Mandarin was so overcrowded, that they decided to open a backroom as a more private club, as quiet oasis. You need a special key-label to access it, therefore it's more relaxed and if you want you can play video games that are integrated very nice into the furniture.
Two weeks ago a third club was opend up. It's called "Mandalay". This time it's again a club with a dancefloor, but the name, the styling and the music are closer to the lounge feeling of the Mandarin. We checked it out last week-end and were astonished how many people were there, although they didn't do any advertisement like flyers or posters for it. leif told us, that they have two more rooms to open there, so we're very curious how they will look like...
Mojo Club
Address: Reeperbahn 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
ana@mojo.de
http://www.mojo.de
01 Stay Loose - Jimmy Smith
02 Watermelon Man - Fred Wesley & The JB's
03 He's A Superstar - Roy Ayers Ubiquity
04 No Hay Problema - Art Blakey
05 Burning Spear - Kenny Burrell
06 Cantaloupe Island - Hugh Masekela
07 The Popcorn - James Brown
08 Duji - Kool And The Gang
09 The Selma March - Grant Green
10 In And Out - Brian Auger
11 See Line Woman - Nina Simone
12 No. 9 - Jack Daugherty
13 Big Schlepp - Dave Pike
14 Last Night - Georgie Fame
01 Summer in the City - Quincy Jones
02 My Kind Of Sunshine - Dieter Reith
03 Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Again) - Hearts Of Stone
04 Sittin' On My Knees - Dave Pike
05 Ponta De Lanca Africano - Jorge Ben
06 Bolero 75 - James Last
07 Feedback Brother - Peter Herbolzheimer
08 Salsation - David Shire
09 Etude In The Form Of Rhythm & Blues - Paul Mauriat
10 Psyche Rock - Michel Colombier, Pierre Henry
11 Here I Am Baby - The Marvelettes
12 Aquarius - George Shearing
13 Jungle Fever - Chakachas
14 Just Bring It Out - Wolfgang Dauner
15 Funky Like A Train - The Equals
16 Free - Seawind
17 Saiupa - Bossa Rio
18 Blues A Volente - Baden Powell
http://rapidshare.com/files/14511138/Mojo_Club_-_Modern_Dancefloor_Jazz_Vol_6.part1.rar.html
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cd 1
01 Dusty Springfield - Love Power
02 Esther Satterfield - Love Music
03 Bobby Bloom - Fanta
04 Gary McFarland - Bloop Bleep
05 Earl Grant - House Of Bamboo
06 Manny Corchado - Chicken & Booze
07 Lou Rawls - Everywhere I Go
08 Davy Jones - Sophisticated Sissy
09 Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity - Break It Up
10 Rob Agerbeek Quintet - The Chair Dance
11 Eddy Louiss - Mazurka Cocadou
12 Georgie Fame - Hot Stuff
13 Nara Leao - Cacara
14 Gato Barbieri - Fiesta
15 Joao Donato - Banaeira
16 Tim Maia - I Don't Know What To Do With Myself
17 Smoked Sugar - I'm A Winner
18 Lenny Williams - Choosing You
19 Peaches & Herb - Freeway
20 The Miracles - Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A.
cd 2 bonus tracks, limited edition
01 The Younghearts - Wake Up & Start Standing
02 1619 B.A.B. - For Your Love
03 Candido - Candido's Funk
04 Wilson Simonal - Noves Fora
05 Alcione - Acorda Que Eu Quero Ver
06 Nelson Riddle - It's Your Turn
07 Milton Nascimento - Gira Giro
08 Lyn Collins - Me And My Baby Got Our Own Thing Going
09 Shorty Long - Here Comes The Judge
10 T-Bone Walker - Poontang
11 Dave Mackay & Vicky Hamilton - Blues For Hari
12 Friedrich Gulda - Blues Fantasy
13 Irene Reid - Hey World, Let Love In
14 Etta James - Quick Reaction & Satisfaction
15 Arthur Prysock - Another Time, Another Place
16 Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change Of Mind Part 1 & 2
17 Marvin Gaye - You're The Man
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1 Feeling Good
2 Z 'Avez Pas Lu Kafka
3 Pop Mod
4 Stand Up And Be Counted
5 Pick Up The Pieces One By One
6 Blows
7 Willie Chase
8 In The Name Of Love
9 Joker
10 Crazy Love
11 Long Skirt Baby Blues
12 V 2
13 Latin Soul
14 Ran Kan Kan
15 Bayu Bayu
16 Le Mauvais Numero
17 The Rock
18 Ape Shuffle
19 Let The Music Play
20 Cheap Lovin'
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7 comments:
THANKS!!
Yes, sir! Thanks a lot!
Cool compil, huge thanx, cheers, m.
hi thank you for the music
Epic. A simply excellent post. Thank you!
P.S. you may want to check out a couple comps I posted today in the same vein, from the same early period of the acid jazz/jazzdance movement but from the UK:
http://soundological.blogspot.com/2008/07/person-called-gerald-liberation-groove.html
I also mentioned and linked to your superb post.
Hey Groovy Site
Anychance of re - upping
Mojo Club
Modern Dancefloor Jazz Vol 5
Modern Dancefloor Jazz Vol 6
Modern Dancefloor Jazz Vol 7
Thanks
Klaus
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