Parov Stelar

Parov Stelar ( born November 27, 1974 in Linz, Upper Austria, as Marcus Füreder ) is an Austrian DJ and producer in the field of jazz, house, electro and breakbeat. The musical style of his own productions is a mixture of jazz, house and downbeat. Parov Stelar is one of the pioneers of Electro Swing.

Life and work

Füreder completed training for Applied Design at the UFG Linz.

After the first publications under the pseudonym Plasma or his real name in the years 2001 and 2002 Bushido Recordings founded Marcus Füreder 2003 Etage Noir Recordings in Linz his own label, in which he has since published as Parov Stelar. In May 2013 Marcus Füreder announced that he has signed with Universal Music a contract and will in future publish Parov Stelar as well as under their label Iceland Def Jam.

Parov Stelar came in 2004 with the EP Kiss Kiss and even had the chance Album Rough Cuts already a breakthrough. The radio station FM4 presented the titles of all published in 2004 EPs Kiss Kiss, Move On and want to get first in the house program High Spirits and took it subsequently also in the daily program. Soulseduction took over, as in the following albums, the world sales and had his claims to be next to FM4 substantial support that has contributed to the success of the debut album. The published at the same time music made ​​then and internationally for positive reviews, with his concept, " jazz traditions to sample in softly broken rhythm " sometimes called Nu Jazz with similarities to the style of Mr. Scruffs has been described.

In 2005, his album Seven and Storm, followed in 2007 by then the album Shine and 2009, the double album Coco. In April 2012, Parov Stelar published with The Princess turn an album that is divided into two parts. In 2012, he reached his double album The Princess first time the German and the Dutch charts. By released in March 2013 album The Invisible Girl he left the electronics come into some titles in the background and gave the jazz he loved more space.

International Parov Stelar was also known by the underlaid with his music commercials. In the distribution of his music played a vital role with the Internet. The shaded with his music video clips have been viewed more than 40 million times. The Electro Swing titles Catgroove in the video version of the Australian dancer TSC Forsythe has already been played on YouTube over 17 million times.

In November 2005, Parov Stelar met for the first time with a live band on. There have since followed concerts in many European cities, performances at various festivals and outdoor concerts, as well as in Istanbul and Mexico City. The live band consists of different variations of four to eight musicians (including drummer, bassist, saxophonist, trombonist and trumpeter ) and a singer. Parov Stelar provides for the programming and controls the appearances from DJ console. In December 2012, the Parov Stelar joined Trio in the United States (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco ).

Currently, the Parov Stelar Band on the begun in March 2012 The Princess tour on the road, which was continued in February 2013 with nine concerts in Germany (including the Zenith Munich before 6000 fans ), as well as three concerts in Switzerland.

Parov Stelar is married to singer Lilja Bloom and the couple have a child together.

On October 4, 2013 Parov Stelar brought a kind of retrospective out under the name The Art Of Sampling. In addition to older titles from the past eight years, four new songs on the album included.

Awards

In 2005 and 2006 he was responsible for the Amadeus Award in the category FM4 Alternative Act nominated.

When Amadeus Award 2012 he was awarded in the Best Electronic / Dance category. When Amadeus Award 2013 Parov Stelar was nominated for the competition in three categories and received as a triple winner trophies for the " Album of the Year " The Princess and was with the musicians of his band and his trio as Best Live Act as well as in the Best category Electronic / Dance Award.

Discography

All publications under the name Parov Stelar, unless otherwise specified.

Albums

• 2001: Shadow Kingdom LP ( 2x12 " Vinyl & CD, Bushido Recordings, as Plasma)
• 2004: Rough Cuts (CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2005: Seven and Storm (CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2007: Shine ( CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2008: Daylight (CD, Rambling Records)
• 2009: That Swing (CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2009: Coco (double CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2010: The Paris Swing Box ( Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2012: The Princess (double CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2013: The Invisible Girl ( Parov Stelar as a trio, CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2013: The Art Of Sampling ( Etage Noir Recordings / Iceland / Universal )

EPs

• 2001: Shadow Kingdom EP ( 12 " Vinyl, Bushido Recordings, as Plasma)
• 2002: Lo Tech Trash ( 12 " Vinyl, Bushido Recordings, as Marcus Füreder )
• 2004: Kiss Kiss ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2004: Move On! ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2004: Wanna Get ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2004: Primavera (12 " vinyl, Auris Recordings)
• 2005: I Believe In Music ( 12 " Vinyl, ~ Temp Records, as Marcus Füreder )
• 2005: A Night in Torino ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2005: Spygame ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2006: Parov Stelar EP ( 12 " Vinyl, Big Sur )
• 2006: Charleston Butterfly ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2007: Jet Set EP ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Special)
• 2007: Sugar ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2008: The Flame Of Fame ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2008: Libella Swing ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2009: Monster ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2009: Coco EP ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2010: The Phantom EP ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2010: The Paris Swingbox EP ( Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2011: La Fête EP ( Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2012: Jimmy 's Gang EP ( Etage Noir Recordings)

Singles

• 2000: Synthetica / Stompin ' Ground ( 12 " Vinyl, Bushido Recordings, as Marcus Füreder )
• 2001: Guerrilla ( 12 " Vinyl, Bushido Recordings, as Marcus Füreder )
• 2004: Get Up on Your Feet (12 " vinyl, Sunshine Enterprises )
• 2005: Faith ( Maxi - CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2005: Kiss Me Twice ( Maxi - CD, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2007: Rock For / Love ( 12 " Vinyl, Etage Noir Recordings)
• 2007: Shine ( Maxi - CD, Etage Noir Recordings)

Music videos

• 2005: Seven (directed by Sigrid Reinhardt, included on the album Seven and Storm )
• 2007: Love ( Director: Jaquelinde system, included on the album Shine)
• 2007: Shine ( Director: Jaquelinde system, included on the album Shine)
• 2008: Matilda (directed system Jaquelinde )
• 2009: Let's Roll ( Director: Antonin Pevny & Sinisa Vidovic )
• 2009: Coco ( Director: Antonin Pevny )
• 2010: Coco Remix ( Backstage in St. Petersburg, RU: Gerd Schneider)
• 2010: Catgroove (TSC - Forsythe )
• 2010: The Mojo Radio Gang ( Chris de Krijger & Bart Geerts )
• 2010: The Phantom (Director, Motion Designer & Editor: Markus Seisenbacher )
• 2012: Jimmy 's Gang (Idea, direction and artwork: Alexandra Kardinar and Volker bad " Druzhba Pankow " )
• 2012: Nobody's Fool (Idea, direction and artwork: Alexandra Kardinar and Volker bad " Druzhba Pankow " )
• 2012: Nobody's Fool ( Directed filmed, and postproduced by Florian Schwarz & Manuel Knoflach )
• 2012: Parov Stelar Shuffle ( Josy Carver )
• 2012: Requiem For Annie (included on the album The Princess )
• 2012: The Princess (directed system Jaquelinde )
• 2012: Love Remix ( Directed filmed, and postproduced by Florian Schwarz & Manuel Knoflach )
• 2013: Keep On Dancing ( Director: Wolf & Lamb )

Tour videos

• 2013: ALL NIGHT - The Parov Stelar Tour Movie 2012/2013 (Tour documentary by Florian Schwarz & Manuel Knoflach )