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.jpg) Mousse T. at the Lambertz Monday Night 2017 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mustafa Gündoğdu |
| Also known as | Mousse T., Afropeans, Mind Flavour, Raw Instinct |
| Born | (1966-10-02)2 October 1966 (age 58) Hagen,[1]North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Origin | Turkish[1] |
| Genres | |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Peppermint Jam |
| Website | Official website |
Mustafa Gündoğdu ([mustaˈfaɟynˈdoːdu];[1] born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage nameMousse T., is a German-TurkishDJ,record producer, film music composer and judge on season 15 ofDeutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version ofPop Idol.
He is best known for the 1998house hit "Horny '98" (featuring "Hot 'n' Juicy" and famous for the hook "I'm horny") and for his collaboration withTom Jones on the 2000pop hit "Sex Bomb",[2] from Jones' 1999 albumReload.[3]
Mousse T. is one of the first producers ofhouse music in his country, alongside contemporariesBoris Dlugosch,DJ Tonka andIan Pooley.
Mustafa Gündoğdu was born in 1966 inHagen, then inWest Germany, to Turkish parents.[1] He started learning music aged 13.[1] He began his career in 1990 as keyboardist for a small band known as "Fun Key B". He began to use the monikerMousse T. since 1994 and at the same time he set up his own recording studio and began DJing in the city ofHannover. Besides working on his own productions, usually with partnerErrol Rennalls, he also wrote and produced tracks for other artists. In 1993, Mousse T. founded, along with Rennalls,Peppermint Jam Records, a record label specializing in upliftinghouse and melodicAcid jazz music.
His 1998 song "Horny '98" featuringHot 'n' Juicy (and with a chorus sung byInaya Day on vocals) reached the top of theBillboard dance charts in the late 1990s and Top 20 in the UK and Australia. The track was also featured onChef Aid: The South Park Album. Mousse T.'s first album,Gourmet de Funk, was released in 2002[citation needed]. In 2004, he once again entered the Single Charts with his song "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" (featuringEmma Lanford, a former Hot 'n' Juicy member), which was featured on his second album,All Nite Madness, also released in 2004. In the same year Mousse T. produced the summer hit "Il Grande Baboomba", of the Italian singerZucchero Fornaciari, from the latter's albumZu & Co., and he took part in the concert at theRoyal Albert Hall, held inLondon in May 2004, with the other guests of the Italian bluesman.
In 2005, Mousse T. performed with Emma Lanford and representedLower Saxony in theBundesvision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Right About Now", placing 4th with 85 points.[4] In 2006, "Loo & Placido" released amash-up called "Horny as a Dandy". The song fused the vocals of "Horny '98" and the music of "Bohemian Like You" byThe Dandy Warhols.
Also in 2006, he collaborated with another German-born Turkish artist, singerTarkan, and composed three different remixes for the trackStart the Fire, from Tarkan's albumCome Closer, released on April 7, in that year.[5] In 2007, Mousse T. wrote and produced the music forMarc Rothemund's film:Pornorama. His music has been featured in several films and TV series in both the U.S. and internationally.
In 2018, he joined the jury ofDeutschland sucht den Superstar, the German equivalent toPop Idol.[6] In 2020, Mousse T. was ranked number one at the Top House Artists of 2020 by Traxsource.[7] In 2022, he producedGianni Morandi's songApri tutte le porte, written byJovanotti and presented at theSanremo Music Festival in the same year.[8]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [9] | AUT [10] | SWI [11] | ||
| Gourmet de Funk | 2002 | 22 | 44 | 46 |
| All Nite Madness | 2004 | 69 | — | 49 |
| Right About Now (re-release ofAll Nite Madness in the UK and Australia) | — | — | — | |
| Re-orchestrated (iTunes only; live album with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and conductorScott Lawton) | 2007 | — | — | — |
| Where Is the Love | 2018 | 69 | — | — |
Mousse T.
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [9] | AUS [12] | AUT [10] | NLD [13] | SWI [11] | UK [14] | |||
| "Mine" (as Davey Dee & Mousse T.) | 1994 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "EP" (as Davey Dee & Mousse T.) | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Come and Get It" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Everybody" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Bad Boy" / "Horny" | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Horny '98" (vs. Hot 'n' Juicy) | 1998 | 28 | 13 | 17 | 31 | 11 | 2 | |
| "Ooh Song" / "More I Get" | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Sex Bomb"(withTom Jones) | 2000 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 3 | |
| "Fire"(with Emma Lanford) | 2002 | 73 | — | — | — | 36 | 58 | |
| "Brother on the Run" | 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?"(with Emma Lanford) | 2004 | 33 | 44 | 12 | 47 | 27 | 9 | |
| "Pop Muzak"(withAndrew Roachford) | 19 | — | 14 | — | 73 | — | ||
| "Right About Now"(with Emma Lanford) | 47 | 51 | 49 | — | 94 | 28 | ||
| "Wow"(with Emma Lanford) | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Horny as a Dandy"(vs.The Dandy Warhols) | 2006 | 40 | 30 | 13 | 38 | 30 | 17 | |
| "All Nite Long (D.I.S.C.O.)"(withSuzie) | 2009 | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Boyfriend" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Melodie" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Afropeans
Other aliases
(Co-)Production for other artists
1966'da Hagen'de doğdu. Kariyerine 1990'da Fun Key B adlı küçük grupta klavye çalarak başladı. 1993'te ortağı Errol Rennals'la Peppermint Jam Records'u kurdu. Almanya'nın ilk house music yapımcılarından biri oldu. 1998'de Tom Jones'la işbirliği yaptığı Sex Bomb şarkısıyla dünya çapında ün kazandı. İlk albümü Gourmet de Funk'ı 2001'de, Single listelerinde üst sıralara yükselen 'Is It Cos I'm Cool?' şarkısının bulunduğu ikinci albümü All Nite Madness'ı 2004'te çıkardı.
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