| Mousse T. | |
| Landscape: | yes |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth Name: | Mustafa Gündoğdu |
| Alias: | Mousse T., Afropeans, Mind Flavour, Raw Instinct |
| Birth Date: | 2 October 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Origin: | Turkish |
| Years Active: | 1989–present |
| Label: | Peppermint Jam |
| Associated Acts: | Boris Dlugosch, Tom Jones, Roachford, Inaya Day, Tarkan, Emma Lanford |
Mustafa Gündoğdu (pronounced as /tr/;[1] born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German-Turkish DJ, record producer, film music composer and judge on season 15 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol.
He is best known for the 1998 house hit "Horny '98" (featuring "Hot 'n' Juicy" and famous for the hook "I'm horny") and for his collaboration with Tom Jones on the 2000 pop hit "Sex Bomb",[2] from Jones' 1999 album Reload.[3]
Mousse T. is one of the first producers of house music in his country, alongside contemporaries Boris Dlugosch, DJ Tonka and Ian Pooley.
Mustafa Gündoğdu was born in 1966 in Hagen, then in West 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 moniker Mousse T. since 1994 and at the same time he set up his own recording studio and began DJing in the city of Hannover. Besides working on his own productions, usually with partner Errol 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 uplifting house and melodic Acid jazz music.
His 1998 song "Horny '98" featuring Hot 'n' Juicy (and with a chorus sung by Inaya Day on vocals) reached the top of the Billboard dance charts in the late 1990s and Top 20 in the UK and Australia. The track was also featured on . Mousse T.'s first album, Gourmet de Funk, was released in 2002. In 2004, he once again entered the Single Charts with his song "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" (featuring Emma 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 singer Zucchero Fornaciari, from the latter's album Zu & Co., and he took part in the concert at the Royal Albert Hall, held in London in May 2004, with the other guests of the Italian bluesman.
In 2005, Mousse T. performed with Emma Lanford and represented Lower Saxony in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Right About Now", placing 4th with 85 points.[4] In 2006, "Loo & Placido" released a mash-up called "Horny as a Dandy". The song fused the vocals of "Horny '98" and the music of "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols.
Also in 2006, he collaborated with another German-born Turkish artist, singer Tarkan, and composed three different remixes for the track Start the Fire, from Tarkan's album Come Closer, released on April 7, in that year.[5] In 2007, Mousse T. wrote and produced the music for Marc 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 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German equivalent to Pop Idol.[6] In 2020, Mousse T. was ranked number one at the Top House Artists of 2020 by Traxsource.[7] In 2022, he produced Gianni Morandi's song Apri tutte le porte, written by Jovanotti and presented at the Sanremo Music Festival in the same year.[8]
| 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-orchestrated | 2007 | — | — | — | |
| Where Is the Love | 2018 | 69 | — | — | |
Mousse T.
Most tracks co-written by Errol Rennalls
| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUS [12] | AUT | NLD [13] | SWI | UK [14] | |||
| "Mine" | 1994 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "EP" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Come and Get It" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Everybody" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Bad Boy" / "Horny" | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Horny '98" | 1998 | 28 | 13 | 17 | 31 | 11 | 2 | |
| "Ooh Song" / "More I Get" | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Sex Bomb" | 2000 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 3 | |
| "Fire" | 2002 | 73 | — | — | — | 36 | 58 | |
| "Brother on the Run" | 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" | 2004 | 33 | 44 | 12 | 47 | 27 | 9 | |
| "Pop Muzak" | 19 | — | 14 | — | 73 | — | ||
| "Right About Now" | 47 | 51 | 49 | — | 94 | 28 | ||
| "Wow" | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Horny as a Dandy" | 2006 | 40 | 30 | 13 | 38 | 30 | 17 | |
| "All Nite Long (D.I.S.C.O.)" | 2009 | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Boyfriend" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Melodie" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Afropeans
Other aliases
(Co-)Production for other artists