Review
Genre and Mood
Stereofysh’s The Race - Radio Edit is the short version of a track that Discogs files under deep house and tech house, released on a single the same database calls house. The feelings, soulful and groovy, lean on the band’s own Bandcamp tags for the album, which add jazz and soul to house and techno; no review we found describes the track itself.
Song Summary
The radio edit first appeared on Igor, a two-track digital single that Lebensfreude Records released on 23 April 2015 as LFDL49, pairing radio edits of Igor and The Race. The full album, also called The Race, followed on CD on 21 May 2015 with the title track at five minutes and fifty-five seconds; the edit runs four minutes and three seconds. The art track credits Lysann Zander as author of the words and Gunnar Zander and Lars Zander as composers.
Musical Breakdown
No source we found walks through The Race part by part or gives its tempo, so this section keeps to the credits.
Main Section
The song has words and a singer: the band’s channel published it as a lyric video, and the album credits Lysann Zander with vocals. Gunnar Zander is credited with electronics, programming and backing vocals, and the album was mixed by Hannes Bieger with Gunnar Zander. Listen for the voice first and the electronics around it.
Concepts in Focus
A radio edit is a shortened version for radio and streaming, with a quicker start and fewer repeats. Here the edit removes almost two minutes from the album version. It was also the version Lebensfreude put out first, a month before the album.
The opposite direction is the remix. In September 2015 The Race Remixes added a version by Ruede Hagelstein of twelve and a half minutes, and a dub of eleven, beside remixes of The Ease by Mathias Kaden and Daniel Stefanik. The same song now exists at four minutes and at twelve; compare it with Max Manie – Dance - Radio Edit, another single from the German-speaking scene heard here in its edit.
Artistic Context
Discogs describes Stereofysh as an electronic music trio from Berlin and lists Lysann and Gunnar Zander as members; the band’s own channel says Stereofysh are Lysann and Gunnar Zander. Their label, Lebensfreude Records, is a Berlin minimal and tech house label. The album credits reeds to Lars Dieterich without naming the tracks, and guest Rhodes, organ, trombone, bass and trumpet players only on other songs.
Impact and Reception
We found no chart entry or review for The Race. It lives on in the band’s lyric video, re-uploaded in 2024, and in its remixes. It is here as the four-minute door into an album worth hearing whole.
