Cosmo Klein & The Campers Sampler 2 : Remixes by Opolopo & DJ Friction
Following album ‘Soul Fiction’ which was released in May 2023, Cosmo Klein & The Campers now issue a Soul Fiction Remix album, put together by Berlin based DJ Daniel W. Best of Best’s Friends Music. The album drops on 29th November, and the second sampler boasts reworks from Opolopo & DJ Friction.
Hailing from Sweden, remix and production wizard Opolopo DJs all around the globe. His remixes of soul and funk royalty include Grammy nominated vocalist Gregory Porter, Omar, Steve Arrington, Lisa Stansfield, Shaun Escoffery, Sandy Barber, Azymuth, Brian Jackson, Leroy Burgess, and many more. It’s impossible to keep your feet still with Opolopo‘s infectious remix of Cosmo Klein‘s ‘Right Here Right Now’!
DJ Friction started his career as Hip Hop DJ and producer in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 90s. After competing in various DJ battles (such as the DMC German Championships 1991) he had his first residency in a club in Stuttgart in 1991 and was a member of chart topping German Hip Hop band Freundeskreis. With Freundeskreis he released 2 gold selling studio albums, 1 live album and a Best Of album (FK 10 in 2007). In recent years he produced a plethora of fantastic remixes (The Jackson 5, Das EFX, The Pharcyde, Die Fantastischen Vier, Malente just to name a few) and is now contributing to Cosmo Klein‘s remix album with a super funky, sweat-inducing remix of ‘Nothing But Love’.
Release dates of the remixes will be staggered, with tracks dropping on the following dates:
01/11 – Right Here Right Now (Opolopo Remix)
15/11 – Nothing But Love (DJ Friction Remix)
The full remix LP drops on 29th November.
In the past, Cosmo Klein from Berlin has dedicated himself to different genres of music such as Pop, House Music, Soul, Jazz & Funk. Numerous hits like “Beautiful Lie”, “Feel Alive”, “All I Ever Need” or the Duet with German singer Maya Saban have made Cosmo Klein one of the few internationally successful music exports from Germany. Being a huge fan of camping vans, Cosmo recorded some of the best Jazz musicians in the game like Cory Wong from Vulfpeck, Benny Greb, Hanno Busch, Claus Fischer, Peter Weniger, Jakob Manz, Felix Lehrmann, Jost Nickel and yes, many more in his 1988 Hymer Camper Studio.
“I just don’t like studios. As a child I always wanted to play outside and I guess it ́s still the same way. I just can ́t stand to sit in front of a computer and go to the same workspace everyday. I can’t see anything inspirational about that. Recording musicians in different sceneries all around Germany was beautiful and the fact that I stick to the same instrumentation on every track glues the pieces together. It was a great journey and I learned so much, working with these great cats.”.
Cosmo Klein
