Body­movin aka DJ Fric­tion & DJ Thomilla are two DJs and Pro­duc­ers with a very high rep­u­ta­tion indeed. Over the last 15 years, they have become entwined both as friends and pro­fes­sion­als, fi nding so many com­mon fac­tors in their roots, envi­ron­ment, musi­cal his­tory and influences.

Stuttgart born DJ Thomilla (now liv­ing in Berlin) became famous as a HipHop DJ and pro­ducer. With ‚Get Up‘ and ‚Reimem­o­n­ster‘ (released on his very suc­cess­full debut album Gen­uine Draft) he landed two instant-hits of the genre. Fur­ther more, Thomilla was rewarded twice Plat­inum for his pro­duc­tions for the Fan­tastis­chen Vier (amongst oth­ers the hit sin­gles ‚Troy‘ and ‚Ein­fach sein‘ were his prod­ucts of his stu­dio wizardry).

In the 90’s DJ Fric­tion founded Fre­un­deskreis together with Max Herre and Philippe Kayser. The out­come of their ener­getic work was two albums, one live LP, one ‚Best Of‘ com­pi­la­tion, golden records, numer­ous acco­lades and awards as well as receiv­ing the label as one of the most impor­tant Ger­man bands within the last 10 years. After the mil­le­nium both expe­ri­enced a musi­cal meta­mor­pho­sis. At fi rst they looked back to the early DJ days, a new wild-thing made of Funk, Soul, Disco, HipHop, House, Elec­tro or Miami Bass into the mod­ern times. The end of this spec­trum was a com­mon ground, in which the two musi­cians found new inspi­ra­tion. This hap­pened for Thomilla together with Michi Beck as Turntable­rocker and for Fric­tion as a solo act. DJ Fric­tion then became a DJ and band sup­port for live and DJ tours of Turntable­rocker. The Body­movin duo fi nally became for­mal in the year 2004, after the riotous joint club tour for their respec­tive solo albums (Thomilla ‚Freeze‘; DJ Fric­tion ‚Soulsonic‘).

In the duo‘s own words, they play ‚musi­cal chess‘. Pro­duc­tions, like DJ-Gigs develop step by step. Both of them always fi nd the right answer. With 20 years of DJ expe­ri­ence the crowd danc­ing to Body­movin in the club is taken to a plethora or dif­fer­ent lev­els, grow­ing in inten­sity as their set rides on into the night. Peaks and cli­maxes are all impor­tant, as is the ten­sion that comes between them… each musi­cal chap­ter is like a valve through which the height­ened energy and pres­sure escapes, and lets the crowd go wild. At the same time the audi­ence has the assur­ance that the next cli­max is never far away…!

As a DJ duo Body­movin do not con­sciously serve one genre, and this is also their moto in the stu­dio. In the begin­ning sin­gle Body­movin tracks sound like their sets in fast motion, but they also work with hooks and vocals, and strong musi­cal sequences, and in the end, they get lost in space! An impor­tant char­ac­ter­is­tic of a Body­movin track, is the instru­men­tal com­po­si­tion which they give high impor­tance to. The instru­ments are played by them selves and they con­sciously avoid obvi­ous effects or gimmicks.

Their self titled debut album, ‚Body­movin‘ goes live in Autumn ‚09 on Moon­bou­tique Records! Richly dec­o­rated with lov­ingly played ana­logue synth vibes, funked-out basslines, irre­sistible vocal hooks and an unend­ing sup­ply of tight, club-friendly beats, there are 12 tracks fea­tured here, each with their own voice, mode and vision — they are all irre­sistible, essen­tial cuts! Melt­ing together elec­tronic disco, mod­ern dancefl oor beats and ultra-catchy synth-lines a-plenty, tracks like their hit sin­gles ‚Good Time‘ (released in sum­mer ‘09), ‚Every­body‘ (Sept.  ́09) or their trade­mark ‚B.O.D.Y.M.O.V.I.N‘ shake the sys­tem upside down! Its a remark­ably accom­plished album burst­ing at the seams with fresh musi­cal ideas, catchy, unfor­get­table hooks and up-front dancefl oor energy, mixed together with true song-writing and a high-class pro­fes­sional sound.

You could also say, that Fric­tion and Thomilla feel very happy, work­ing some­where between music for the head and music for the legs… Because that‘s where the body is, and the heart and the soul. Just Bodymovin!