The legendary band LYCHEE LASSI from Berlin is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a tour in their original formation. Founded in Berlin in 1999, Based, Beat, Berger and DJ illvibe came together again to finally present their unique mix of hip hop beats, turntablism and jam band improvisation live again.
After excursions to the big stages of the Republic as musicians in the bands of Seeed, Peter Fox and Marteria, as LYCHEE LASSI they shed all commercialism and networked
Hip hop with jazz, kraut and funk. But that is just the basis into which an incredible amount of inspiration from music history is introduced in order to consistently trim it to individuality with the strangest energy, total power and alienated voices of vinyl. It’s experimental, unique, powerful and modern, but it also has brothers in spirit like DJ Spooky or Kid Koala.
Works wonderfully in concert, is ecstatic and is unreservedly fun.
They enjoy sound, the architecture of sounds and the tension between rhythmic determination and formal openness.(…) They can live out their musical ideas unimpressed by the demands of others and profit elegantly from the artistic discussions that the generation who employed fathers. Lychee Lassi develops the necessary individuality both live and on record to be recognizable, danceable, and possibly even innovative. In other words: the boys are cool. — Süddeutsche Zeitung
It’s a big postmodern anything-is-possible thing that almost always wants to stay in rhythm. …. From the outset, in principle and as a result, one has to admire the courage in which Lychee Lassi dare to tackle common dance floor music with such willingness to experiment. This is how they have earned a quite legendary reputation as a live band. — taz
