Ostgut Ton vs 50 Weapons @ Peckham Palais (28th Mar 13)

Ostgut Ton once again join up with Broken And Uneven, as they return to London for the first time since that epic sweaty night in Wapping last August and this time they're bringing 50 Weapons with them. It's a start studded affair wherever you look. The Ostgut Ton room features Marcel Fengler (who was one of the real unsung heros of the last party), Barker & Baumecker (Live), new Ostgut signing Function and special guest, Detroit Techno pioneer, Robert Hood.

The 50 Weapons room makes the whole night a difficult prospect. There's going to be some tough choices to make. Live sets from Shed and Benjamin Damage with be perfectly complimented by a DJ set from Addison Groove. If you've not caught a live set from Shed before, we highly recommend taking time away from the Ostgut room to experience one of our favourite musicians doing his thing.

Tickets are available from Resident Advisor.

On top of this when 6am rolls around and you don't want to go home yet (as is quite often the case) everyone will be upping sticks and relocating to the infamous East German fishing boat, the MS Stubnitz, for the after party. Marcel Fengler will continue where he left off from the previous party as he is joined by Dark Sky and Dolan Bergin.

After party tickets are also available from Resident Advisor

Weekend clubbing roundup: London, Birmingham, Berlin, Copenhagen, Athens, LA, Buenos Aires

There's plenty of events going on around the techno world this weekend. Here's our pick of them

London

On Friday, Coma continue their London Techno Champions series at the Horse & Groom with a London Debut for Avian artist Ventress and support from Doubleffe and Setaoc Mass.

There's a £3 concessions guestlist running for the party. Send your names to comaevents@gmail.com before 5pm tomorrow afternoon to get on it.

Sunday techno returns to London as Void are throwing a free party residents special. A collection of upcoming London based producers and DJs will be displaying just how bright the future is for London techno.

It's free so if you're in the area (or even if you're not) get yourselves down to Cafe 1001

Birmingham

Birmingham has a rich history of techno and on Saturday the Gibb Street Warehouse intend to keep that going. Function, who is of course part of the legendary techno collective, Sandwell District (named after an area of Birmingham) takes top billing supported by Birmingham's own first lady of techno, Rebekah.

Tickets for the event can be purchased on the Ticket Sellers Website

Berlin

Swedish Tuna @ Tresor (Friday 20th Jul 12)

It's a Stockholm LTD showcase in Tresor on Friday night at Pär Grindvik and Staffan Linzatti showcase their considerable skills with Drumcode's Joel Mull completing the Swedish connection.

Full event details can be found on Resident Advisor

Copenhagen

Whenever we do these roundup posts, somewhere along the line there's always a mention for our friends at Culture Box and more often than not there's a party in there which includes Luke Slater, so when the two of them came together for one event, it's was always going to find it's place on the post.

Support comes from local boys and Sonic Groove act, Northern Structures, and Circuit Club's Morten Kamper with Finn Of Tomland in the Cocktail Box. Full event info on Facebook.

Athens

The Greek economy may be in a precarious position at present, but the techno scene is alive and well as Time To Express boss, Peter Van Hoesen, heads to the capital to join Slydex, HRISL and Poen at the Astron Bar.

Doors open at 8pm and stay open until 7am and best of all, it's free!

Los Angeles

Droid Behaviour head to LA to host a CLR Showcase which includes Chris Liebing, Drumcell, Truncate and Dean Paul.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor

Buenos Aires

The last stop on our roundup takes us to Buenos Aires and the home town of our last SDD Podcast contributor Pfirter. For Wormhole .02 @ Cocoliche, Juan Pablo is joined by another home town boy, Jonas Kopp.

Full event info can be found on the Facebook Event Page

Weekend Clubbing Roundup: Detroit, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm

We've already brought you the news of We Fear Silence presents Blueprint Records @ Cable and Grounded Theory @ Arena but here's the rest of the weekends action around the globe, and it's a busy one! (I'm going to be brief otherwise I'd be here all day

Detroit

We begin in the birthplace of Techno, Detroit, for the Movement Festival. Saturday night CLR set up camp at the Hart Plaza with a headline set from Collabs (Chris Liebing & Speedy J) and support from Tommy Four Seven, Drumcell and Monoloc.


Tickets available on Resident Advisor

Interface 36 - Scene 04 - Official Movement After Party @ The Works (Sunday 27th May 10pm - 7am)


Line Up


DVS1
Cell Injection (Drumcell / Audio Injection)
Raiz (Live)
DJ Hyperactive
Kyle Geiger
Jeff Derringer


+ more. Full info and Tickets on Resident Advisor

Berlin

Klubnacht @ Berghain / Panoramabar (Saturday 26th May 12)


Berghain:
Kr!z
Ø [Phase]
Inigo Kennedy
Jonas Kopp (Live)
Boris
Henning Baer


Panoramabar:
Amirali (Live)
Tama Sumo
Ivan Smagghe
Andrew Weatherall


Sonntags:
Red D
Dinky
Oliver Deutschmann


Full info on Resident Advisor

Wax Treatment Carnival Weekend Open Air Africa Special @ Gretchen (Sunday 27th May)


Line Up


Yard (Outside) - 12:00 - 22:00:
CGB-1 (Wax Treatment)
Duncan Brooker (Honest Jons)
Adamantios Kafetzis (Teranga Beat)
Hugo Mendez (Sofrito)
Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck (Live) (Ndagga)


Box 1 (Inside) - 22:00 - end
Analog African Soundsystem - Samy Ben Redjab & Pedo Knopp
Appleblim (Apple Pips)
Shackleton (Live) (Skull Disco)
Shed (Wax Treatment)
MMM (Live)
DJ Pete (Scion Versions)


Full event info on Resident Advisor

Copenhagen

Sandwell District take over the Culture Box with a live set from Function and a DJ set from Silent Servant.


Full info on Resident Advisor

Stockholm

Finally we end our tour in Stockholm at Karbon tonight for a DJ set from Semantica boss, Svreca, and a live set from Stockholm Ltd's S100


Full event info on Resident Advisor

Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Berlin, Munich, Athens, Brussels & Copenhagen

Here's our pick of the best events Europe has to offer across this weekend


London

Bank Holiday Sundays don't come much bigger than this as VOID takeover Cafe 1001 with Ben Klock (playing a monster 6 hours) and Tommy Four Seven. Tickets are sold out but there's spaces available on the door. Full event info on Resident Advisor

Colony are back at The Rhythm Factory as they team up with Scand to bring you Perc, Phase, AnD and plenty more.


Tickets available on Resident Advisor




Berlin

Fachwerk Label Night & Kinetic @ Tresor (5th May 12)


Globus: Fachwerk Label Night
Mike Dehnert
Roman Lindau
Sascha Rydell


Tresor: Kinetic
Alan Fitzpatrick
Function
Darko Esser
Mack


Info on Resident Advisor




Munich

Staying in Germany we move to Munich for Time To Express at Harry Klein with Samuli Kemppi (Live) and label boss, Peter Van Hoesen.


Event info on Resident Advisor




Athens

Reform #003 - Modal Analysis Launch Party @ 6 Dogs (5th May 12)


Modal Analysis is a new label with it's first release coming up this month in the form of the 'Plate' EP by Cassegrain with a remix of Kangding Ray (check it out on Soundcloud).  To celebrate Reform are throwing a launch party for them at 6 Dogs. You'll notice another SDD Podcast contributer on the line up too with Sawf on the line up too.


The event starts at midnight but before that (at 11pm) they'll be screening a documentary by Amelie Ravalec called 'Paris / Berlin: 20 Years of Underground Techno'.


Full event info and tickets on Resident Advisor




Brussels

Fondation Sonore # X @ Le Plan K / La Raffinerie (5th May 12)


Adam X and Ancient Methods swap Berlin for Brussels on Saturday night as they appear at Fondation Sonore's 10th party. Ancient Methods will be playing live whilst Adam will perform both a DJ set and a live set.


The documentary by Amelie Ravalec that's being shown in Athens will also be screened in Brussels at the same before before the event kicks off.


Full info on Resident Advisor




Copenhagen

Sound Of Berghain @ Culture Box (5th May 12)


We finish our roundup in the Danish capital as the Sound of Berghain makes it's way to Culture Box to continue their regular swap. Efdemin and Marcel Fengler have been handed the task of bringing the sounds of the Berlin superclub to the intimate Copenhagen nightspot.


Full event info on Resident Advisor

Mix Of The Day: Function - CLR Podcast 160

It's not often that Function appears on a podcast, so when it does happen, it's normally pretty special. More often that not it's for Chris Liebing's CLR Podcast series and this one is no exception.

You can download the mix from the following link

Function - CLR Podcast 160 (Right click, save as)

This mix is set to kick start an extremely busy year for techno legend. With an album coming out in the Autumn, the relaunch of his Infrastructure label featuring a number of new releases as well as some re-releases plus various works for other labels (including one of our favourite labels, Echocord Colour, which features in the mix) all in the pipeline... it's exciting times ahead.

Tracklisting

1) Mark Ernestus - Mark Ernestus Meets BBC [Honest Jon's]
2) Silent Servant - Dub Noise [Sandwell District]
3) Suburban Knight - The Warning [Underground Resistance]
4) Planetary Assault Systems - Wriss [Ostgut Ton]
5) Oliver Ho - Light and Dark 02 [Light and Dark]

6) Vril - UV [Ostgut Ton]
7) Planetary Assault Systems - Black Tea [Ostgut Ton]
8) Function - Disaffected (Norman Nodge Mix) [Sandwell District]
9) Robert Hood - Alpha Alive [M-Plant]
10) Oscar Mulero - 46 (Regis Antaganists Mix) [Warm Up]
11) Cabaret Voltaire - Silent Command (Edit) [White Label]

12) Regis - Blood Witness [Blackest Ever Black]
13) Sandwell District - Immolare (First) [Sandwell District]
14) Planetary Assault Systems - Beauty In The Fear [Ostgut Ton]
15) Function - Obsessed (SCB Edit) [Echocord Colour]

16) Virgo Four - Go Wild Rhythm Tracks [Trax]
17) Marcel Fengler - Thwack (Norman Nodge Remix) [Mote Evolver]
18) Terence Fixmer - Concept C [Electric Deluxe]
19) Zadig - Dark Nebula - [Syncrophone]
20) Plastikman - Those Are Voices (Jochem Paap Remix) [Plus 8]
21) Function - Obsessed (DJ Pete Mix) [Echocord Colour]
22) Rrose - Waterfall [Sandwell District]
23) Mono Junk - Channel B [Styrax Leaves]
24) Ron Trent - Making Love [Djax]
25) Shifted - Control [Mote Evolver]
26) Skudge - Overture (Substance Remix) [Skudge]

There's not much online information when it comes to Function, but you can check out his Resident Advisor Page or the Sandwell District Tumblr Page for vague hints at stuff and occasional accurate information. If you're in Berlin and you want to see him perform you can catch him playing Live at Berghain on the 31st March alongside Milton Bradley, Dave Clarke and Len Faki. Check out his RA page for the rest of his upcoming gigs.

For the rest of the CLR Podcasts head over to the CLR Website

Mix Of The Day: Function @ Sandwell District Nacht, Berghain (24th Oct 09)

We've woke up this morning to a bit of a special treat. Last month we headed out to Berlin to catch up with the boys from Sandwell District for their label night @ Berghain. We was in there for hours and the last 3 1/2 we gave our ears to the brilliance of Function aka Dave Sumner.

Just like all the times we'd seen Function before, he was on fire. Closing out the morning and pushing us through into the afternoon before Regis stepped up to the plate.

Speaking to him before his set, Dave informed me that the Berghain soundman was gearing up to record his set, and I've been seriously looking forward to getting to hear it all over again. But unfortunately it turns out that this mix is from the 2009 Sandwell District Nacht @ Berghain, not the 2010 night. Still it's a brilliant mix, I've listened to it a few times over now and it's more than worth a listen.

You can download the mix from the following link

Sendspace

Enjoy

Sandwell District to release debut album 'Feed-Forward'

Sandwell District have announced details for their first artist album, Feed-Forward, slated for release this month.

As a label and as an artist collective, Sandwell District have become a favorite among techno connoisseurs over the past few years, both for their epic DJ sets and purist-leaning 12-inches. Feed-Forward features production work from all three of the outfit's core artists: Dave Sumner, AKA Function, Karl O'Conner, AKA Regis and Juan Mendez, AKA Silent Servant, with contributions from Female. Its nine tracks follow the same blueprint as much of the group's work to date, melding steely techno beats with strings, field recordings and abstract semi-hooks. The album consists entirely of unreleased material and will see release on CD and triple-vinyl. Rather than committing to a specific release date, Sumner says the album will simply "appear" at some point this month.

Tracklist
01. Immolare (First)
02. Immolare (Main)
03. Immolare (Final)
04. Grey Cut Out
05. Hunting Lodge
06. Falling the Same Way
07. Svar
08. Double Day
09. Speed + Sound

The album will be released at some point this month and will be available from the usual outlets. Keeping tabs on Sandwell District isn't always that easy but adding Function on Myspace