Corvin Dalek – A Real Man

Release Information

Artist: Corvin Dalek
Title: A Real Man
Label: Flesh
Catalogue: 7616-6
Country: Germany
Released: 30 July 2002
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Genre: Electronic
Style: Wet&Hard · Tech House
Studio: Narodni Podník 5 · Berlin

A Real Man was released on 30 July 2002 on Flesh as a 12-inch single. The release belongs to Corvin Dalek’s Wet&Hard period and to the harder, more explicit side of his club productions from that time.

The A-side contains A Real Man (Corvin Dalek’s Real Hardcore Mixxx). The production is built around a reduced vocal concept: a male vocal sample functions as a recurring central element within a percussive, club-oriented structure.

The track was produced at Narodni Podník 5 in Berlin, the studio associated with this phase of Dalek’s work. Corvin Dalek was responsible for the composition and production.

The B-side contains Pornoground (Eiven Major’s Piledriver Mixxx), bringing together two works from the Flesh/Wet&Hard context of the period on a single release.

Contemporary DJ Context

Contemporary use of A Real Man can also be documented through surviving DJ records. A Real Man (Corvin Dalek’s Real Hardcore Mixxx) appears in the tracklist of Corvin Dalek’s set at Lush, Portrush, on 27 July 2002, alongside other productions from his repertoire of the period.

On the same date, A Real Man is also listed in a surviving playlist from Mark Spoon’s hr XXL Clubnight.

As an archive object, the single therefore documents a specific part of the 2002 Flesh/Wet&Hard period: as a physical release, as a production from Narodni Podník 5, and as a track whose contemporary DJ and club circulation remains traceable.