GLOBAL UNDERGROUND. 2CD, Digital, Stream & Limited collectors edition with 110 page photo book & Art prints.

Global Underground presents the latest edition in its signature city album series with GU42: Patrice Bäumel – Berlin, due for release on Friday 29th March 2019. The album, which follows the last Global Underground city series installments by Solomun, and James Lavelle, is part of the pioneering DJ mix album series which includes alumni such as Sasha, Carl Cox, Deep Dish, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Tenaglia and John Digweed. GU42: Patrice Bäumel, Berlin is a tribute from the German DJ and producer to his second home, the album will be available as a double CD, plus digital and streaming formats, and a limited Collector’s Edition 2×CD box set with 110-page photo book containing photographer Dean Belcher’s images of Berlin and 4×12 inch square art prints.

Expertly programmed and mixed, GU42 comes as Patrice Bäumel’s career continues to
flourish amongst his string of powerful releases on Kompakt and Afterlife plus his hallowed remixes. His ability to work crowds and deliver powerful experiences is exemplified here. Featuring 49 tracks from established artists and new talent alike, the two mixes include original works from Patrice himself (with three exclusives ‘Expanse’, ‘Collider’, and Mutant Voices’), alongside Phil Kieran, Guy J, Shlømo, Ripperton, Pig&Dan, Markus Guentner, Swayzak, Matthew Dear, Adam Port and many more. Patrice’s choice of Berlin was simple; it represents the “epicentre of the electronic music world.

There is no club scene anywhere else that offers the diversity, freedom, rawness and sheer size of Berlin’s nightlife”. This rings true for many who’ve found the new German capital to be a beacon of freedom, but the city has held a special attraction for him for as long as he can remember. The son of a music journalist father and art historian mother, Bäumel was born in the small East German town of Freital in the communist Eastern Bloc.

Although he grew up behind the Iron Curtain, due to Patrice’s father’s job, music was constantly on around the house during his childhood, from free jazz, Frank Zappa, Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson through to rock and punk bands like The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols or The Ramones. His father encouraged him to find his own musical path, which led to childhood obsessions with Depeche Mode and The Cure, bands whose melancholic nature are still at the root of Patrice’s sound today. A teenage Bäumel attended his first Love Parade in 1994, and so began a life-long obsession with techno, and the city that defined the genre in Europe.

“Global Underground Berlin tells my story of a city that has never sold out, that does not know when to stop, that sweeps you off your feet with its relentless energy, that chews you up and spits you out. Had Frank Sinatra lived today, he would be singing about Berlin, the city that never sleeps.” – Patrice Bäumel.

GU42: Patrice Bäumel – Berlin | Tracklisting.
CD 1.
01 Markus Guentner – Crystal Castle.
02 Barker – Look How Hard I’ve Tried.
03 Phil Kieran – Solar Storm (Mano Le Tough Remix).
04 The Drifter & Benjamin Fröhlich – Waterville.
05 Jossie Telch – Borders (Eitan Reiter Remix).
06 Rick Pier O’Neil – Planetary (RPO Part 1).
07 Eitan Reiter – Eat You.
08 Patrice Bäumel – Expanse.
09 Shlømo – M.U.M.
10 President Bongo – Tramontana (Sturm Der Liebe Remix).
11 Ripperton – Leonor’s Lanugo (Anders Ilar’s Leonid Dub).
12 FunkForm – Synthesia.
13 Diego Azocar – Natural (Matias Chilano Remix).
14 Nicolas Rada – Cumulonimbus.
15 Guido Schneider & Daniel Dreier – Little Helper 290-1.
16 Patrice Bäumel – Grace.
17 Phil Kieran – Empty Vessels.
18 Steve Moore – Worldbuilding.
19 Øostil – Quantic.
20 HearThuG – Crossroads.
21 Pig&Dan – Lost Another Angel (Dub).
22 Mango & Gullen – Manitoba (SineRider Remix).
23 Shlømo – Vanished Breath.
24 Markus Guentner – Look at Me.

CD 2.
01 Egbert – Trip.
02 Christian Löffler – Ghost.
03 Jesse Somfay – Lying In A Bed Of Myst.
04 Patrice Bäumel – Collider.
05 Mehmet Akar – Roll the Dice (Matias Chilano Remix).
06 Edit Select – Undulation.
07 Ness – Thought 1.
08 Swayzak – So Cheap.
09 Luigi Tozzi – Demersal Zone.
10 Patrice Bäumel – Mutant Voices.
11 Guy J – Fallstar (Rising Mix).
12 Christopher Bissonnette – Jour Et Nuit.
13 Château Flight – Cosmic Race.
14 Fabrizio Lapiana – Far Away.
15 Minilogue – Clouds And Water.
16 Aris Kindt – Every New Thing.
17 Architectural – A Girl With No Friends.
18 Musiccargo – Ich Geh Den Weg Mit Dir.
19 Model 500 – Starlight (Echospace Remix).
20 Sten – Squares.
21 Matthew Dear – Another.
22 Jayro – Jungle (Fideles Remix).
23 Deepbass & Ness – Distance.
24 Reeko – Electrical Phenomena (Remake).
25 Adam Port – Do You Still Think Of Me?