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For our upcoming compilation Pssst Music Assorti 1 we went up to our studio’s attic in search for some old master tapes. Doing so, we stumbled upon some old studio equipment we have been using over the years.

Track playing: Chocolate Puma – The Wall Between Us

About the compilation:

Back in 1995 we stopped releasing on our label Fresh Fruit Records and started a new one, Pssst Music. The main goal for this label always was, and still is, just releasing stuff we like. Wether it would be underground techno, or happy bumping house music, as long as we were feeling it, we would release it. For this reason it was possible to buy a Pssst Record that would end up in Top Of The Pops (I Wanna Be U), or a record that only beard rubbing hipsters in smelly basements would approve of (like Collin Bros. – Pontti, our worst selling record ever).

Recently, and for the first time ever in the history of Pssst, we decided it was time for a series of compilation. We kick of with Pssst Assorti 1. It features some unknown B-sides, well known remastered classics and some stuff we recently did together with Gregor Salto and Firebeatz. Exlusive for this compilation is a new Chocolate Puma track called The Wall Between Us, which fits nicely along the trippier tracks like The Good Men – Kintoki, Pontti and Jark Prongo’s Wet Pants, Smelly Elbows. For the house heads we’ve included Fresh Tunes #3 – The Man, which has that classic ’90′s house feel and Jark Prongo – Sweet Little Thing

Release date: 14-05-2012

Coming up is our label’s first ever compilation called Pssst Assorti 1. It features all kinds of tracks we released on Pssst Music over the years. From 1995′s synth techno by our alias Collin Bros., deep house under our Fresh Tunes moniker, tough tribal remastered trumpets of Tomba Vira and good old fashioned Jark Prongo beats in the form of ‘Wet Pants’ & ‘Ludicrous’ to our latest collaborations with Gregor Salto & Firebeatz and a brand new Chocolate Puma track called ‘The Wall Between Us’.

Here’s a sneak peek: Pssst Assorti 1 Mini Mix

1 The Good Men – Kintoki (Remaster)

2 Jark Prongo – Wet Pants, Smutty Elbows (Remaster)

3 Chocolate Puma – A Star Is Born (Jark Prongo Remix – Remaster)

4 Klatsch! – Make Me Feel (Chocolate Puma Edit)

5 Jark Prongo – Sweet Little Thing (Remaster)

6 Tomba Vira – Crazy (Remaster)

7 Chocolate Puma & Gregor Salto – Tragito De Ron

8 Chocolate Puma – I Wanna Be U (CP’s Bass Drop Remix)

9 Chocolate Puma & Firebeatz – Go Bang! (Hardcore Mix)

10 Jark Prongo – Ludicrous (Chocolate Puma Edit)

11 Chocolate Puma – The Wall Between Us

12 Collin Bros. – Pontti (Remaster)

Released by: Pssst Music
Release date: May 14, 2012

We used to call ourselves The Good Men, and in early 1992 we made Give It Up.

Back then our studio was very basic. In fact it was a bedroom with nothing more than a bed and a few pieces of gear. For example our mixer was a dusty Boss BX 8 mixer with only a few channels and bass & treble knobs. We played the chords on a Roland D-20 that Dobre bought with some help from grandma, who was a big supporter! She had a huge stereo and would play al our records to her friends, haha! We also borrowed this EVS-1 synth module from Olav Basoski to play the arpeggio bell sounds. One day our German neighbor got angry because he didn’t like living next to dudes making house with loud drums, so he climbed up to the gutter and started banging on our window. That didn’t stop us of course.

When we gave the track to a then well known Amsterdam record label they rejected it, because they thought it needed more snaredrums or something like that. So then we went to another record company that didn’t want to put it out either, but eventually we got them convinced to give us our own label (Fresh Fruit Records) and put it on the B-side.

Who needs a G6 anyway? (ca 1993)

Then the record blew up big time and things got really crazy for us. We suddenly ended up from going to school and being unemployed to playing all over Europe, Japan and America and being driven in a limousines. That was quite something to say the least.

Now, after 19 years it was time to rerelease the song as part of our House Masters compilation. Now what do you do with a track that was so huge en so recognizable? Well, not much. We kept all the original ingredients and just did some editing, and added some oomph and swooshes. And you guys seem to like it, as it’s now climbing the beatport charts!

Check out the 2011 edit:
The Good Men – Give It Up 2011 Edit by Chocolate Puma

Buy it on Beatport

We’re very honoured by the fact that two of our songs ended up in this list:
at number 3 ‘The Good Men – Give It Up’ and at number 10 ‘René Et Gaston – Vallée De L’armes’.

01. Jaydee – Plastic Dreams (1992)
02. House of Venus – Dish & Tell (1990)
03. The Good Men – Give it Up (1992)
04. D-Shake – Yaaah! (1990)
05. Speedy J. – Pullover (1990)
06. Secret Cinema – Timeless Altitude (1994)
07. I-F – Space Invader are Smoking Grass (1997)
08. Fedde Le Grand – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (2006)
09. Grooveyard – Mary Go Wild (1996)
10. René et Gaston – Vallée de Larmes (1993)
11. Dimitri & Jaimy – On the Disco Train (1994)
12. Quazar – Seven Stars (1991)
13. Human Resource – Dominator (1991)
14. Fierce Ruling Diva – Rubb It In (1990)
15. Atlantic Ocean – Waterfall (1993)
16. Format 1 – Solid Session (1991)
17. Sander Kleinenberg – My Lexicon (2000)
18. Capricorn – 20HZ (1993)
19. Alice D. in Wonderland – Time Problem (1991)
20. Aardvarck – Cult Copy 2 (2006)