This set was recorded live at Unsound Festival New York at The Bunker in Brooklyn on February 5, 2010. When it was time for them to pick Polish artists to participate in The Unsound events at The Bunker, Jacek was the first name that came to mind. He totally delivered with a nice primetime mind-bending set
Ben Klock has been lined up by the powers that be at Berghain to compile and mix the next series in the Berghain compilations.
Marcel Dettmann has been a very busy man of late. What with the release of his debut album 'Dettmann', numerous gigs around the world, including an amazing performance b2b with Ben Klock at the Wetyourself Bank Holiday special at fabric earlier this month. (One of the best sets i've seen for a very long time!)
The 2nd of fabric's 30 hour parties (the first being the legendary 10th Birthday) took place on the 6th March and included the likes of Ellen Allien, Dinky, Konrad Black, Onur Ozer, Radio Slave and of course Seth Troxler.
The producer, DJ, lecturer, published author and label boss seems to have compiled a music with a mix that touches on UK funky, broken beat, grime, futuristic soul and R&B.
The mix also features an exclusive Kode9 track entitled You Don’t Wash.
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This is fast becoming one of my favourite podcasts. Excellent earlier additions from DJ Pete, Mackjiggah, Crofton and Fiedel. Now the 9th episode features a mix from Birmingham's techno legend, Surgeon, before his headline appearance at next Sundays Wax Treatment party @ Horst Krzbrg on their infamous Killasan sound system.
Tomorrow is Independent Record Store Day so make sure you get involved and support your favourite stores.
Forged in the fires of Techno's industrial past, and rising from the flames phoenix, as if to claim his place in the pantheon,Sigha is a different kind of DJ and Producer.
Releases on the fresh-to death Hotflush (Rawww EP) and alongside Spherix on Immerse (Seperation), have got techno and dubstep heads equally excited. With support from the infamous Mary Anne Hobbs and the mighty Marcel Dettmann, there is no stopping Sigha…
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Not only that but he's uploaded some new tracks to his Soundcloud Page including a new remix by Marcel Dettmann no less.
You can follow all of Sigha's forthcoming releases and updates by adding him on Myspace or following him on Twitter
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Here's a heads up on a new mix from my fellow Lost Souler, Chris Stanford. At almost 3 hours long this is a serious journey through techno.
“Beat presently imposes itself as the martial law controlling all expression. Music is now only music if legitimized by Beat. And the dancehall represents society under disco lockdown", journalist Biba Kopf wrote those words nearly twenty years ago. His was a comment on his peers - the vast ocean of influences of early minimalist pioneers like Cabaret Voltaire, Non, and Can - being buried by the rising tide of techno music - a descendent clearly rooted in the same common history - but one overtly intent on replacement. At the same time, it was also an essay to the future, to those born after punk, to those in a country that they have seen both united and divided, and to those musicians who have brought Kraftwerk's idea of a man-machine to life - a future where "disco lockdown" didn't look as much like imprisonment as it did freedom.
Marcel Dettmann is one such case, his heritage traceable back to the accumulated grime under his fingernails caused by old industrial records long ago consigned to the dustbin of time. Much has been said of Dettmann and his legendary sets at his residency in Berlin at the techno Mecca Berghain. It seems that he's taken over the role Sasha once occupied, the DJ matinee idol that can even make the boys swoon. Hype aside, the guy came of age in a time when club culture became the center of German youth culture and no other contemporary DJs or producer have expressed that shift better.
His latest release is his debut album for Ostgut Ton, the dark, minimal techno label with which he is synonymous. It's entitled Dettmann and at first the title seems like it could a testament to one man's ego and fascination with his own brand but I Voice cuts through that mystique to capture a pretty normal dude, one who likes his job, loves music, and has the laser focus to be a successful DJ and producer. So many others have the first two qualities but only a rare few have all three, Dettmann is one, and his latest expresses the thoughts and ideas of author Biba Kopf so very well, but re-conceptualized in typical techno fashion so that it is a celebration of a minimal aesthetic that runs counter to the excess that has marked the past decade in music.
There is a sense of restraint on your album, was it hard shifting focus from being a DJ who plays tracks into a producer interested in dynamic, flow, and listener response for a proper album?
To be honest it was a really welcomed change of pace. On the weekends I was a DJ playing all different kind of records and during the week I was concentrating on my personal concept for the album.
How long did this album take to make? There is a sense many of the tracks are unhurried and allowed to fully mature. Did you fool us and just push a button or were many hours spent laboring on it?
The production of the album took approximately one year. Haha I didn't fool you at all. It was my conscious intension to create tracks which give the listener a projection screen and leaves much open to interpretation.
How much of this album is indicative of what you would play in a DJ set at Berghain and did you try out anything on here that wouldn't work at the club?
In principle there is no record which can't be played in a club. You just need the right moment for it. Regarding my DJ sets at Berghain there are definitely musical elements, which you can find in my album tracks but I didn't do it consciously, rather subliminally.
This album has some of the most beautiful melodies in recent techno history, they are so brief and austere, almost old school industrial sounding. Give us a little behind the scenes tour and tell us about the process and some of the influences you used to make some of the more memorable tracks on here.
Happy to hear that - thanks! Whatever I do it has to be real. I'm permanently caught in a crossfire of influences ... That's life. Lots of these different influences are reflected in my tracks.
How does one achieve depth in an age when just about anyone armed with a laptop and software can make a track? There seems to be so much cold, emotionless in the marketplace. Where do you find your inspiration to make music that has meaning and depth?
My inspiration is my personal claim.
In all of your interviews, you seem to genuinely enjoy your job, so many DJs at this level don't seem to, how do you keep things fresh and challenging after all of these years? Is it really all about the music?
Yes it's all about the music. Sharing music with other people is a great feeling. And every weekend it's like a present you get and don't know what's in it.
What kind of tour do you have planned in promotion of the album and what else can we expect from you in the coming months to support it?
To promote my album I'll go on tour to USA, Australia, South America and Europe. Besides that I'll release some new tracks from different artists on my label MDR.
Music For Real Airports from The Black Dog on Vimeo.
Brian Eno's original work, 'Music For Airports', for me was a triumph of music, but the British act weren't convinced that the 1978 release told the whole story.
The new album consists of over 200 hours of field recordings to create a piece of music that fully represented the feel of a modern airport today
The album will be released in May 2010
Tracklist
01. M1
02. Terminal EMA
03. DISinformation Desk
04. Passport Control
05. Wait Behind This Line
06. Empty Seat Calculations
07. Strip Light Hate
08. Future Delay Thinking
09. Lounge
10. Delay 9
11. Sleep Deprivation 1
12. Sleep Deprivation 2
13. He Knows
14. Business Car Park 9
Check out The Black Dogs' Website for all the details on the release and plenty of other info to boot
You can also follow them on Twitter
12.05.2010 / AT / Graz / Springfestival / Electronic Beats
Hyperdub's Ikonika, who was once described by the Guardian as "a rare female face in the male dominated world of dubstep" as decided to send out a track for the love rather than capital gain. And here it is.
This 4th July Love Family Park turns 15, and Lost Souls are inviting you to join us on another Frankfurt adventure!
One of my favourite DJs, Perc, has just compiled the new Electric Deluxe Podcast. With him being a fellow Lost Souls resident i've been lucky enough to catch the man doing his thing on a fairly regular basis and the guy never disappoints. One of dance music's nice guys too.
Tracklisting
00:00 Jeff Mills - Glen 21 (Interview) [???]
01:00 154 - Apricot [Delsin Records]
07:00 Jeff Mills - Belief System [Axis Japan]
09:20 Steve O'Sullivan - Quatre B1 [Green/As It Is]
12:05 Function - Reykjavik [Sandwell District]
15:45 Ben Klock – Viscoplastic [Deeply Rooted House]
21:20 Jeff Mills – 001 [Something In the Sky]
26:25 19.454.18.5.25.5.18 - Unexpected Cycles [Horizontal Ground]
33:00 19.454.18.5.25.5.18 - Ghosts On Acid [Horizontal Ground]
38:05 ID
41:00 EQD - 003A [Equalized]
46:00 Robert Hood - Hoodlum [Drama]
49:20 Omens Jot - Toe Job [Ampoule006]
55:10 76-79 - Six Ten [Comfortable]
58:20 Oni Ayhun - OAR 002 B
64:50 Peverelist - Clunk Click Every Trip [Punch Drunk]
69:25 Jeff Mills - The Light That Burns The Brightest [Axis]
