cassity

Hi. My name is Dirk.

In short: I was born in North Germany, grew up in North New Jersey and play a Maton acoustic. Any more...? Here's the lowdown:I used to play in a band called "The Jeremy Days" who were kinda cool, ...most times. I now run "Tapete Records" in Hamburg with my friend Gunther. A lotta really neat bands/artists are out on tapete including The Horror The Horror, Lacrosse, The Elephants,Maplewood, Downpilot, Salim Nourallah, Tess Wiley, etc. etc. etc. plus my own stuff.

I started tapete mainly cause I was sick of recording for labels that weren’t really listening to the albums their own artists were releasing there (my band was on a major label for 7 years!!)

Right, my albums come out on tapete too. The latest one is called "Our Favorite City" and is...ah...greeeaaat ;-) I recorded the album at Lee Russel’s place in Ringstead, Kettering U.K.Lee bought the local village chapel and built this totally amazing studio filled with outrageously cool vintage gear (amps, mics, guitars, pianos, harmoniums, etc. etc)...all set up and ready to go.

My good friend and drummer Lars Plogschties, Lee and myself got everything on tape in 10 days. Great fun.

I've put out two albums so far under my own name. Before that three albums as 'Me And Cassity'. These are nice too,..hee hee. Check em out.... Greets. Dirk