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SUMMER TUNE! ::: A meeting of Sunny Boys ::: Sonnengruss X Amit Benita “See You Later”

By chrome July 2, 2021

Eis Am Stiel 2021 – Bridging Germany & Israel

Israeli singer & all around sunny boy Amit Benita teams up with German Dj & all around sunny boy Sonnengruss for their sunshine infused single “See You Later”.
The song captures one’s peaceful state of mind, when taking a trip to the beach with your friends, your new love, just hanging out chilling until late into those beautiful summer nights, no matter if you are in the city or on the country side.

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The video also does a fantastic job of capturing the songs vibe: warm colours, friends and love.

Sonnengruss and Amit Benita – a Match made in Heaven. Their Love for warmth and comfort in Their Music brought them together. the result is a song about peace, Ease of mind and Unity. In Times of Political Uproar, media manipulation and discriminqating people for not taking a vaccine or having a dissident opinion, the wish to create a song to unite people was even stronger. The Collaboration came to be in a time, in which honest positive Messages are rare. Sonnengruss and Benita want to send a message – We need to ease our minds. Step out of propaganda. Be Love.
The song was written in Byron Bay, Australia, recorded in Israel and produced in Berlin

Door #19: Sonnengruss – Talking In Your Sleep

By chrome December 19, 2018

Pretty boy Toby scores with each track he releases. This one is a co-op/feature with Kids X-factor runner up Richard Istel who has a mind-blowing voice for a now 18y old fella. The original is one of my favourite 80’s tracks so i was at first skeptical, but anything that is positive, danceable with a good vibe is a score in my book when everything is systematically narcissistic, aggressive and pretentious if measure msuic by todays overhyped mainstream. The tracks Sonnengruss pumps out are positive, funky, get the crowd hype and the younger generation seem to completely dig it in his sets.

Sonnengruss, Toby had somewhat of a tragic story with many of his releases. Scoring a Nr 1 at the then still relevant Hypem Charts, before it became a farce, the song suffered from Universal musics inability to pump the track out within a week or two (took em 3 months w/o any promotion) and hurt the track severely. Same goes for his EP and now this track, that came out early this year, performed well on Spotify (over 1 Mio). But the officially greenlighted track by it’s composers, had a sweet video that (ironically) used the old original music video from 1983, lip-synced to the Sonnengruss Version, with some hilarious 80’s effects. Of course a major label/Vevo controlled the content so the new video couldn’t even be released and thus the promotion felll flat.

Seems like a lot of complaining, when most smaller to middle sized dance acts would be thankful for Sonnengruss play numbers, but Toby has the potential to grow immensely as an act, and he has all it takes, musically, as a dj/producer and as the earnest fun personality he is. And he is still in his early 20’s. Well Sonnengruss had learned from these missteps, Toby & his producer have made an excellent roadmap for 2019. They will work with us, have a great release plan and just had another super successfull songwriting week in Berlin. No more covers, samples and other peoples material – no matter if licensed or not. And this time the entire team supporting him and working for/with Sonnengruss is finally a 100% right. Tried and tested.

Door #3 : Free Download of “PFOS” by Mat McHugh

By chrome December 3, 2018

Nr 3 on our X-mas Advent Calendar holds a Free Download of one of our favourite releases on our brand new Chrome Music Label. It just came out and still has room and time to grow and shine. The story behind this tune is that the original, which is one of the most beautiful acoustic songs in my collection, has been a long time favourite on our side of life. Remixing or rather re-imagining this tune proved to be tougher than originally anticipated. How would you change anything to the better, if you already think it’s perfect? So i took a diff approach and got inspired by a movie called “the Red Turtle” and took on its dark, menacing but still loving and humane touch. And this is where the animation comes from in the video.

I am really happy with the way PFOS turned out and it’s definitely a track for our monthly Top Tunes selection. Time to bring those back I’d say ;)
Listen to PFOS on Spotify and/or for the Djs & Collectors : Grab the free download below.

Stevens Avenue – Bump (Video)

By chrome August 2, 2017

Pretty solid dance tune by Stevens Avenue, normally i don’t post music videos, but i like it bc it’s simply fun with all it’s flaws and not so well executed production problems. But it was never about having a billion dollar studio and production. This one is fun. I’d like to sign this track to our label, full stop ;)

Well done Stevens Avenue and a solid first entry!

Darci – Seeing Colors

By chrome August 2, 2017

Not much to say here, but give it a listen and go from “unimpressed” to totally “captured” by this tune. Darci’s first offering, at least that i noticed w/o doing any research, left a great impression on me. He must have previous releases with 7k SC followers, but everything is a stream/ is a blur these days and nobody got time for that. And “Seeing Colours” manages to go from slightly weird to super modern state of the art zeitgeist pop. And it happens naturally, almost like a sonic remedy. Well done sir! Now we know your name.