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Paji

Six o'clock - Original Mix

The title track of Six O'Clock E.P., a 2013 Kittball record by Paji, the Aachen-born, Berlin-based producer Pajwan Faroch, who joins electronic music with classical instruments: six and a half minutes filed under deep house and techno.

Review

Genre and Mood

Paji’s Six o’clock - Original Mix is electronic music that Discogs files under two styles at once, deep house and techno. The feelings we give it, relaxed and hypnotic, are our reading of where the track travelled rather than a critic’s verdict: a DJ mix called Deephouse Lounge and a Buddha-Bar compilation, two homes for unhurried, late-evening listening.

Song Summary

Six o’clock opens Six O’Clock E.P., a 12-inch that Kittball Records released in Germany on 21 November 2013 as KITT-055-6; the digital release followed on 10 December. Pajwan Faroch, who records as Paji, is credited as its writer and producer. The original mix takes the A1 slot at six minutes and twenty-three seconds, followed by a remix by Basti Grub, with a second original, Viola, on the B side.

Musical Breakdown

No review or analysis we found walks through Six o’clock part by part or gives its tempo, so this section keeps to the record and the artist’s own description.

Main Section

Paji’s profile describes a musician who combines electronic music with classical instruments and calls the result an innovative electronic sound with classical influences. Whether this track uses such instruments is not said; listen for sounds that seem played by hand inside the electronic frame.

Concepts in Focus

The label Original Mix only makes sense next to a remix. On this record the two sit on the same side: Paji’s own version first, then Basti Grub’s, nearly the same length. A remix reworks the parts of a recording, so the pair invites a direct comparison of what a second producer keeps and what he replaces.

A dj mix is a continuous set in which one track blends into the next. MusicBrainz lists Six O Clock (original mix) inside Deephouse Lounge 2014.1, a mixed compilation of March 2014, and a version on Buddha-Bar: The Ultimate Experience in 2016. A mix places a track in a sequence and a mood chosen by someone else, which is often how a club record finds listeners outside the club.

Artistic Context

Discogs describes Paji as a German musician and producer from Aachen living in Berlin. Kittball Records, the home of this EP, calls itself electronic music from Germany since 2005: Tube & Berger started it to put out their own records and their friends’, Juliet Sikora joined as partner and label manager, and the office moved from Solingen to Dortmund. Discogs labels it a German tech house label; its own site counts 300 releases. The connection lasted: Kittball’s ADE showcase in Amsterdam in October 2026 lists Paji in its line-up.

Impact and Reception

We found no review and no chart entry for Six o’clock. Its reach shows in its afterlife, in a mixed deep house compilation within months and on Buddha-Bar three years later. It is here because it stayed in the owner’s yearbook. Give it its full six minutes and listen for where the techno and the deep house meet.

Learn from this track

Introductory

What you will learn

  • Explain what an original mix is and how it relates to a remix on the same record.
  • Describe how a DJ mix and a compilation can carry a club track to new listeners.
  • Use a database's style tags as a starting point for listening, not as a verdict.

Listening guide

  1. the groove Discogs files the EP under both techno and deep house: listen for which way the beat leans, and whether it changes over the track.
  2. the sound palette Paji's profile says he combines electronic music with classical instruments: listen for anything that sounds played rather than programmed.
  3. the length The vinyl gives the original 6:23, a length made for DJs: listen for how slowly or quickly it adds its elements.
  4. the remix Basti Grub's remix follows on the same side of the 12-inch at 6:20: compare what it keeps of the original.

Concepts in this track

dj mix

20 tracks

A continuous sequence of tracks blended by a DJ so that one flows into the next. Extended and club mixes exist so that DJs have long intros and outros to mix with.

remix

164 tracks

A new version of a recording made by reworking its parts: changing the beat, harmony, tempo or structure, often by another producer. A remix can turn a ballad into a club track.

Listen next, and why

Questions for discussion

  1. Discogs tags the record as both techno and deep house. Can one track be both, and what would you listen for to decide?
  2. The track later appeared on a Buddha-Bar compilation. How does the setting of a compilation change the way a club track is heard?
  3. Why might a producer put his original and another producer's remix side by side on the same record?

References

  1. Discogs. Paji - Six O'Clock E.P. (2013). Database
  2. Discogs. Paji. Database
  3. Paji - Topic. Six o'clock (Original Mix) (2015). Video
  4. Kittball Records. Kittball Records. Label
  5. Discogs. Kittball Records. Database
  6. MusicBrainz. Buddha-Bar: The Ultimate Experience (release) (2016). Database
  7. MusicBrainz. Deephouse Lounge 2014.1 (release) (2014). Database

Weighted overlap of genres, feelings and moods.

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