The long-awaited new album from Comfort Fit finally drops!

File this one under Hip Hop Instrumentals Deluxe!

These cripsy beats are ripe with thumping funk and techno influences, sample wizardry and daring shuffles. Composed with the help of unique sound plugins which were especially programmed to measure Comfort Fit’s needs and wishes, we think the chances aren’t bad that you’ll fall for the unique sound signature, bounce and elegance of this tight Hip Hop production.

Like the best mixtapes this thing plays strongly as a whole – no matter if it’s about classic Jazz impressions (‘Miles of Smiles’), Theo Parrish references (‘Take a Look’), Hip Hop bouncers (‘True Form’, ‘Hairy Crushed Nuts’, ‘The Hunt’), scarily deep intergalactic grooves (‘Planetary Picknick’) or love themes (‘She Knows Me Now’), all the album tracks are locked together closely and must be seen as a whole.

Skipping through this album is not allowed. ‘Forget and Remember’ is more than just beat fodder for your next mixtape, “it’s a very personal diary of mine. I feel music is my natural form of expression, not words”, as Comfort Fit says. “It is very important for me to escape from the noise pollution of the cities and from the media hypes going on. I’d rather create my own”.

Alot has changed in Comfort Fit’s life since his first album ‘Museum’ was released on Megahertz Records 2001. But despite all the action he has managed to release some critically acclaimed Singles and EPs via Tokyo Dawn Records, as well as remixes for Universal Jazz and other labels. His music is now even being used in the TV commercials of a german automobile corporation and a hitech firm, and his live acts, featuring a rap and turntablism show and an interactive ‘Taste Test’ with his audience could already be seen on MTV and Trace TV.It’s Tokyo Dawn, so you know.

Eat This Raw.

Some comments:

• Ltj bukem / Good looking Rec., UK : “Really love this music.”
• Tom Wieland / Les Gammas : “Wow! Superbes album, SA-RA in Germany?”
• Rainer Trüby / Compost Rec.: „Hatte die CD sehr lange im Auto und sie gefällt mir immer besser.Schönes Album. Vor allem der Track „Take a look“ hat’s mir extrem angetan. Respekt! Weiter so.”
• Yannick / Groove Mag, Needs Music: “Super Album, sehr schöner, deeper vibe, sehr abwechslungsreich”
• Velanche / XLR8R, UK: “Awesome job he’s done…overall production is dope”
• Paul Gamblin / Black’n'blue, Australia: “Brilliant!!! The beats and the basslines are baaaaaaaaad.Fantastic rhymes, quirky jazzy moments. You’re on a winner”
• Kwesi / BBE Music,UK: “Woooooooooowwwww…WHAT THE FUCK. THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT. My neck hurts from nodding my head to hard. It’s like someone read my mind. I love this sort of stuff a la prefuse 73, Dabya, etc….Comfort Fit is in a league of his own though. Very impressive, wish I knew about him sooner.”

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• Full Album MP 3 VBR 110MB

TRACK LISTING

01. can i help u? (1.42 min)
02. planetary picknick (5.58 min)
03. sorry (3.21 min)
04. freeze the cut (2.48 min)
05. take a look (3.52 min)
06. true form (3.12 min)
07. thursday is thursty (1.32 min)
08. whenever you wanna call me (3.10 min)
09. as pure as possible (2.10 min)
10. she knows me now (re-edit) (3.31 min)
11. remember something i forgot (2.43 min)
12. don’t show this message again (3.17 min)
13. kurz vor danach ganz ‘05 (4.06 min)
14. emotional draft (6.18 min)
15. hairy crushed nuts (4.27 min)
16. the hunt (3.46 min)
17. something to do (4.22 min)
18. go on, take it further (1.11 min)
19. swabian sound system (4.41 min)
20. miles of smiles (4.50 min)

total running time: 70.57 min

(c) tokyo dawn records 2005. written and produced by boris mezga @ the cotton field studios.
plugins and mastering by fabien schivre (stuttgart).
cover design by boompje.com (utrecht).

‘freeze the cut’ and ’something to do’ feature blaktroniks (oakland).
’she knows me now’ features mercury waters (washington).
‘whenever you wanna call me’ and ’she knows me now’ feature prymer (weimar).

official release date: 14/05/05.

English reviews

“Listen. Boris Mezga is turning it on it’s head. Under the guise ‘Comfort Fit’, the “Forget And Remember” LP is about to drop on tokyodawnrecords.com, full of abstract jazz, techno influenced, crossover,sampledelica wizardry. They call it tight, bouncey, elegant hip hop; we call it future music. It’s cutting a new path, hypnotic and rocking every corner. Somewhere between SA-RA and Bugz in the Attic and then some. “Miles of Smiles” is melodica modal jazz, “Take A Look” just hits that dub-bass-Theo Parrish spot every time. Boris, now in his 20’s, had his first club residency at 13 years old! An avid collector of synthesizers and vinyl, he creates a natural cross-genre form of music uninfluenced by media hype or city trends. Not to be confused with “just another beatz lp”, “Forget and Remember” is here now and will still sound fresh in 2010.” Straight No Chaser – UK

„Comfort Fit graced us with a chock full album of thoroughly souled hiphop beats. 20, yup, 20 tracks of what you’re used to from TDR, a whole lotta soul, a bit jazz, retro hiphop beats and a slice of techno even. All that produced and mastered to perfection with a lovely set of covers. Most of the tracks are instrumental beats but Blaktroniks made a vocal appearance on Freeze The Cut and Something To Do, as did Mercury Waters on She Knows Me Now. Ranging from jazz tributes, 70’s grooves, straight up hiphop bouncers and even love songs, Comfort Fit put out a diverse yet tight, well rounded out release.” .phonq

“There is such a lot of fantastic hiphop around at the moment, its great to hear an album full of mostly instrumental beats. Written and produced by Boris Mezga from Stuttgart, he is one name you will need to keep an eye out for in the future. Within the first few tracks you can see Boris is being influenced by the right kind of producers; from Madlib to Sa-Ra, but creating his own sound. With twenty tracks totalling over 70 minutes, this is a joy to listen to.” basic soul

The creative apartheid of hip-hop and house music is tired. Built around collective misunderstandings—that house music is a sell-out or gay; that hip-hop is gangster or misogynistic—they miss a critical fact. Hip-hop and house music came from the same place, DJs rocking disco records. Stuttgart-based producer Boris Mezga knows. His second album as Comfort Fit explores the grey area between solid boom bap hip-hop and slow-mo house grooves. The overlapping area is hot with producers and music fans right now. Although undoubtedly boosted by the rise of ‘chill-out’ CDs, the music produced has nothing to do with the commercial imperatives of another new bar. Instead, from Theo Parrish through to DJ Zeph, via Rae & Christian, the results are beautifully stoned soul music. And with the likes of Jazzanova’s Sonarkollektiv and Bugz In The Attic’s West London scene melding hip-hop, house, techno, and drum’n'bass into a whole new kind of jazz dance, the scene is set for a next step forward. This isn’t the step forward, but having started DJing at 13, Mezga is well placed to make that step. It shows in the studied funk of the beats, his expert use of samples and most of all in the warm vibe. However, oddly
enough, for a hip-hop producer, it was the stark lines of mid-nineties techno that captured his imagination early on. British electro label Clear is an obvious comparison. Although they have now moved into ambience and abstract electronics (and a name-change to Defocus), artists like Reflection, Jake Slazenger, and Dr.Rockit obviously affected his sound. Like them, Mezga undoes the knots of his hip-hop and techno influences and carefully brushes them out, before tying his own special bows.

Forget and Remember kicks off with “Planetary Picknick”’s sparse beat, the four am vibe complemented by a spacey synth. It’s a perfect introduction to the album, Mezga gradually fills the space between the beats; first a lazy rhythm, then a distorted melody swirls and is joined by a metallic bassline. Sometimes it is a little too sparse. “As Pure As Possible” reminds me of Herbert’s Wishmountain or Dr Rockit projects, and like them, its warehouse floor rhythm can be a little empty, a little too repetitive. But then again, I enjoy those Herbert tracks more every time I hear them. Mezga invited a several guests into the studio on Forget and Remember. The first appears just three tracks in on the icy “Freeze the Cut.” Orlando MC Blaktronics is no stranger to working with electronic producers; his last release saw collaborations with Domu and Mike Grant. Here he rides the Antipop-style groove with an understated, almost mumbled paean to the joys of downloaded beats: “If I unzip this would you download that? / Would you make a new folder just to hold this track?” ”She Knows Me Now” is closer to Fat Jon and Panda One’s releases on Counterflow. Mad jazz tangents, odd little helium vocals ala Quasimodo, and a solid rhyme from Washington rapper Mercury Waters. Waters’ latest album sees collaborations with the Last Poets, John Legend, and Kanye West, so either he’s got lots of money or he’s very good. He’s good here, though the track is claustrophobic—bells, beats, acid bassline wiggles—it works, but only just. Stylus

“Boris Mezga from Stuttgart/Southern Germany is a beat maniac. You can hear this if you listen to his LP “Forget and Remember”. In the tradition of Dj Shadows “Entroducing” he is able to put his well-chosen samples on a landscape of jazzy and always laid back beat structures. You can feel the connection to hiphop and the downbeats from the beginning of the 90s where Mo’Wax and Ninja Tune were the innovative labels on the map. But it isn’t just a homage to these sounds from the past. For example “Thursday is thursty” could be a track on the new Dimlite Lp on Sonar Kollektiv. Mezga is able to build a bridge between the old and the new. It is all a kind of nostalgic and very pleasantly. Did you like the worlds of Mighty Bob and DJ Krush? You have to check that records immediately. Very nice one. Please more of it. The summer needs such music to chill.” COUCHSURFER.DE

„TDR is a german label you should keep an eye on. This label releases quite alot of dope stuff, primaily on the internet and they do this even for free. (what? Wait a minute!) Yes, you read that right! And trust us is we say it’s good quality… This brings us to the album of the week.
Forget and Remember LP is the title of the debutalbum by Boris Mezga under the name ‘Comfort fit’. With 20 tracks and about 71 minutes of quality electronic hiphop, it’s filled to the edge. It’s a true sample fest with original sounds and kicks & snares that come so late that you wonder if you’ll be able to catch your last train. This gives Forget and Remember a catching relaxed flow. Most tracks are instrumentals, but every now and then some rhymes appear. A pity is that the producer has a love to sometimes fool around with filters and effects, which can make it sound corny from time to time. But besides that, it’s a descent album with a style that sounds like Prefuse73 with a chill pill or Dimlite/Jneiro Jarel with some more pepper up his behind. Concluding, this is an interesting record and we’re dutch so free shit is always interesting to get. So check www.tokyodawnrecords.com and download this. I promise you you’ll find this one dope” no breaks

Airplay & DJ charts

Afk Bassboulevard, Germany
Beyondjazz.net, Belgium
Blue Radio Show, Australia
Clubbity.com, Italia
Cyberjamzradio
Dance and Soul.com, UK
Deeper Shades of House, USA
Global House Connection, USA/
Turkey
KCPR 91.3 Fm, USA
Migrations Radio,
Montenegro/Serbia
Milkaudio.com, Canada
Radiomagnetic.com, UK
OFFtrack Radio; Germany
P-TV Dresden, Germany
Radio Active, New Zealand
Radio Alchemy/sbs, Australia
Radio Oxy-gen, Istanbul
Radio b92, Belgrade
Radio Mk2!, Hungary
Radio X, Germany
Radio42.com, Germany
Righton-fm.com, France
Samurai.fm, London/Tokyo
Monofunk.net, Germany
Stadtradio Göttingen.
Urban Landscapes Radio, USA
Radio Guerrilla 94,8 FM,
Bucharest

Additionally, the album was featured in many DJ-Charts:

Simon Harrison (London, UK),
Michael Reinboth (Germany, Munich)
Lars Berenroth (Santa Monica, USA)
and more…