DESCRIPTION:
Matthias Arfmann presents Ballet Jeunesse
Featuring: Onejiru, KRS One, Kele Okereke, Jan Dely, Schorsch Kamerun
Album release on 9 Sep 2016
Pre-order here: https://lnk.to/ballet-jeunesse

Leading Hamburg-based hip hop producer Matthias Arfmann has devoted himself to his greatest mission so far – his ambitious goal: to rearrange the classical hits of European ballet music, taking them out of theatres and onto the dance floor!
“Ballet Jeunesse” features notorious guest artists such as New York rap legend KRS-One, Kele Okereke, frontman and lead singer of the English indie rock band Bloc Party, as well as German hip hop star Jan Delay (from Absolute Beginner).
In a creative process over many years Arfmann and his collaborators have taken ballet classics by Khachaturian, Bizet, Prokofiev, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy and Satie and reworked them into the 21st century, adding a modern slant to their beauty and brilliance, recomposing and revitalising them to make them accessible and exciting for a new target audience.
The orchestral origins are interwoven with contemporary compositions of their own, interspersed lyrics, braided a connective cord of most diverse genres from Dance, Pop and Hip-Hop to Reggae.
Have you ever tried to create a playlist of Stravinsky’s Firebird or Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune interspersed with Kraftwerk and Madonna? Now you can do so and it sounds fantastic!