Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Belin, Rotterdam, Copenhagen & Moscow

London

Coma celebrate their 1st birthday at The Nest tomorrow night and they've assembled a line up packed wall to wall with quality. Headlined by Detroit techno legend, Rolando. He's joined by Blueprint Records boss James Ruskin and the man behind Coma, Doubleffe.

Surface Records make it a double birthday celebration as they're celebrating 15 years as one of the UK's driving forces in techno. Surface Records are represented by the 65D Mavericks, Oliver Ho, Voidloss and the Surface DJs.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor.

After their last party at the Rhythm Factory with saw storming performances from The Black Dog, Andy Stott and Ø Phase, this time around Dystopia have raised the bar. Celebrating some of the best artists that the UK has to offer. Surgeon, Perc and Peverelist make for a hell of a night of music.

As with all Dystopia parties there's a pre show exhibition bring visual art together with forward thinking techno. The location of the East London warehouse hasn't been announced as of yet, but we've heard they've lined up something extra special. Head over to Resident Advisor to get the info on the location when it's announced. There's also a few tickets remaining, so don't hang about, otherwise it'll be more on the door.

fabric continue their Room 2 commitment to first class techno. A rare excursion into the dark room for Craig Richards is special enough on it's own, but the fact he's joined by a live set Blawan & Pariah, under their Karenn alias, and the genius of Peter Van Hoesen will make it a real treat.

Tickets available on the fabric website.

Making it a Saturday night hat-trick of outstanding events. Not to be outdone, Corsica Studios invite UK label Blackest Ever Black to bring their considerable stable of talented artists featuring most notably the likes of Vatican Shadow (we caught his live set at the Downwards label nacht @ Berghain last week and it made for inspiring stuff), Source Direct, Cut Hands, Russell Haswell and many many more.

Tickets are available at Resident Advisor

Berlin

Berghain give the residents of Berlin a pre show to the Ben Klock fabric cd launch party, in 2 weeks time, as he's joined by Truncate at the former power station. The rest of the main floor line up is made up with the exception skills of DJ Deep, Zadig (Live), Marcelus, DJ Bone and Francois X.

Full event info, including the Panoramabar and Sonntags line up, and set times head over to Ostgut website

Rotterdam

The Strictly Techno Weekender kicks off in Rotterdam on Friday night at Perron with a couple of stars of the Slash Dot Dash Podcast, the man behind 013, Pfirter and the man who's provided our latest, 015, Charlton. Inbetween them you'll find Bas Mooy and Flink.

Tickets are on sale on the Perron Website. Weekend passes are available, and well worth the 17.50 euros are Saturday night's part two is headlined by Len Faki.

Copenhagen

Just like Rotterdam, it's a serious weekender at Copenhagen's Culture Box. Mathew Jonson is one of our favourite artists around and he'll be performing live on Friday night. For the return journey on Saturday, Stroboscopic Artefacts boss, Lucy, is joined in the Black Box by Droid Behavior's Raiz.

Full info can be found on the Culture Box Website

Moscow

Tomorrow night at Shanti, Jugendkultur / Fragment host the Fullpanda Records combination of Dasha Rush and Lars Hemmerling aka Lada. Supported by Alexey Volkov and another Fullpanda artist in the shape of Yuka. Room 2 sees London based promotion, Lokee, showcasing their infamous party atmosphere.

Full info can be found on 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

Slash Dot Dash Podcast 013: Pfirter

It's new podcast time and our next offering comes from one of South America's hottest techno exports, Pfirter. With a career that spans over a decade Juan Pablo has developed a unique and personal style and can be seen in particular dj sets that venture through the many subgenres of Techno.

Pfirter is nowadays considered Argentina’s biggest international music projection thanks to releases on CLR, Stockholm Ltd, Figure, Synewave, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Apnea and his own music MindTrip Music imprint.

His records are regularly charted and played the likes of Len Faki, Par Grindvik, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Perc, Terence Fixmer, Richie Hawtin, Joey Beltram, Luke Slater, Lucy and many more.

All of this allows him to perform in Argentina and South America’s best clubs as well as Europe’s most respected; Berghain (Berlin), The End (London), U60311 (Frankfurt), Tresor (Berlin) or ADE (Amsterdam) just to name a few.

With the rebranding and relaunch of Pfirter's label, MindTrip, we invited him to celebrate it with an exclusive podcast for Slash Dot Dash and he's duly obliged. 

You can download or stream the mix from our Soundcloud player below or you can subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes

Tracklisting

1) Hironori Takahashi - Kevsrac [Aconito Records]

2) Allan - Nonamaka - Pest [Subsist Records]

3) Delusions - Untitled (Svreca Remix) [Ballistic Records]

4) BCR Boys - B1

5) Truncate - Focus V2 [Truncate]

6) Pfirter - The Fall Of The Empire Is Imminent (Developer Remix)

7) Markus Suckut - Hunt [Figure]

8) Christian Wunsch - Seismic Waves [PoleGroup]

9) SP-X - Attack Pattern [Komisch]

10) Rumenige - Untitled 

11) Logotech - Prehypnotic (Audio Injection Remix)

12) Thee Maddkatt Chronicles - Vegeance Of A Madman

13) Tracy - Bonk [Ketra Records]

14) Ctrls - The Socket [Token Records]

15) Function - Ratio

16) Hiroaki Lizuka - Tera

17) Pfirter - Induccion A La Hipnosis [MindTrip]

18) Developer - Origins (Jeroen Search Remix) [Modularz]

19) AD/S - Transversal [Avian]

20) Patrick Gill - Lil Jet (Jeroen Search Remix)

21) Pfirter - Fractales [MindTrip]

22) Pfirter - The Fall Of The Empire Is Imminent

23) Hiroaki Lizuka - VC7 (Exium Remix) 

24) Ascion - The Poetics Of Withdrawl (Pfirter's No Fear Of Death Mix) [Krill Music]

25) Pfirter - Epistaxis [MindTrip]

We also caught up with him for a chat about the label, DJ’ing, Producing and a few other things too.


1) You set up MindTrip Music as a digital label in 2006, what made you decide to reinvent and rebrand it to create MindTrip?

Well, many things but the main reason was to change the concept of the label from a digital only label promoting mostly argentinian artists, to a new, vinyl + digital plattform where i can introduce many of my upcoming productions + remixes from some of my favorite artists in the Techno scene. I felt that this kind of change also needed an update on the whole thing: from design, promotion, distribution and communication up to the brand itself.


2) you used MindTrip Music to raise the profiles of Argentinian artists, as well as releasing your own music, will the new label continue with the same philosophy?

During 2012, the goal will be to show some of my latest records and to include remixes and collaborations from artists all over the world. Of course some artists from Argentina will be included but wont be the main thing on MindTrip. In the future we'll definitely start releasing original tracks from different producers as well.


3) and will all the releases be centred around music for the dancefloor?

Well i'm a dj as well and i can really appreciate music made for the dancefloor in a smart way. But we also scheduled many tracks that aren't concieved for the dancefloor itself. They might be played in clubs as tracks sometimes, as tools on others...but some of the music coming out on the label is definitely thought for home listening as well. Always fitting the escence of Techno music.


4) you're on the road a lot performing. Does this affect the amount of time you get to spend in the studio?

Well, i've been living 50/50 between Spain and Argentina for some time already, and moving from one place to the other has some impact on my studio time but i've learned to handle it. When talking about gigs, it affects me a lot but in a positive way; for me there's no bigger inspiration than playing in a club. After that, i always get much more energy and inspiration in the studio.


5) you're based in Argentina but you spend a lot of time gigging in Europe, are the respective scenes different in any way?

Well yes...of course there are some really good clubs in Argentina as everywhere in the planet, but the ammount of clubs for playing Techno or any kind of underground music is way less than in places like Germany or Europe in general. The quality of the soundsystem in the clubs isnt usually the same either. But the vibe from the clubbers is really special.


6) finally what's the rest of 2012 got in store for you?

Productionwise, I'll be having remixes coming out soon on CLR, Audio Assault and Krill Music plus all the MindTrip stuff coming out from now until the end of the year. Also some other original tracks for some other labels as well.
Regarding my gigs, i'm now on tour in South America until mid August, and then i'm going back to Europe for a new tour during 4 months. So i'm really looking forward to more and more great experiences during 2012!




More information on Pfirter can be found on his Facebook Fan Page. For the rest of our Podcasts please check out our Website

EarToGround pres Xhin Album Launch, Stroboscopic Artefacts and Fachwerk Records @ Corsica Studios (12th Nov 11)

Seven months ago Stroboscopic Artefacts descended on London's Corsica Studios to showcase their label to the capital for the very first time. If you was there, then like us, you'll hold very fond memories of that night. That was April but now we're in November and our friends over at EarToGround felt it was time London got exposed to the collective again.

The party coincides with the launch of Xhin's superb 'Sword' album so of course the man from Singapore is the deserved headliner and we know he's going to mark the occasion with something extra special. He'll be expertly backed up by SA artists Lucy, Pfirter (making his London debut), Inigo Kennedy with visuals from Oblivious Artefacts.

Room 2 isn't looking too bad either. After already playing host to Mike Dehnert, ETG are now bringing over the other two members of Fachwerk Records, Roman Lindau and Sascha Rydell for an extended b2b set. Additional support comes from ETG boss Gareth Wild and one half of the team behind the first release on ETG's label, Dax J.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor. Get them on the Event Page, you can also find the rest of the info there too. And of course once it hits 6am the party will be far from over because they'll all be heading to Cable for the after party and help Jaded celebrate turning 7. Expect some big names and huge surprises. All the details and tickets are on the Jaded Resident Advisor page

Dystopian @ Arena, Berlin (7th October 11)

After the huge weekend in Berlin clubland just passed, there's no letting up this week. Dystopian is a party that we have big respect for. Putting together line ups including acts such as Regis, Lucy, Ben Klock, James Ruskin, Redshape, Shed and a few more besides.

In their own words (roughly translated by google) "Dystopian wants to illuminate the harsh, melancholy, dark side of electronic dance music by linking people, things and music with each other". They will hope to achieve this with the help of some more of techno's top names, in the shape of Pfirter, Staffan Linzatti and Don Williams (check out his superb remix of Resoe's 'The Black Void Of Space') all joining the Dystopian resident Rødhåd at one of Berlin's best venues, Arena

For the full info on the event check the Resident Advisor event page. More info on Dystopian can be found on their Facebook Fan Page.

Pfirter / Dadub - Universe / Metropolis [Stroboscopic Artefacts 009]

Stroboscopic Artefacts is considered by many to be the label of the moment. It's safe to say they're flying high. With a string of forward thinking releases. 3 excellent Label Showcases in Berlin, New York and London. The launch of label boss, Lucy's debut album 'Wordplay For Working Bees'. Things keep going from strength to strength.

Their 9th release is a split pack featuring 3 SA artists, Pfirter provides 'Universe', Dadub provides 'Metropolis' and Edit Select remixes both tracks for the B Side. Dadub has taken the time to upload his original and Edit Selects remix of 'Metropolis'. Have a listen below

Metropolis [Stroboscopic Artefacts] by Dadub

Metropolis (Edit Select Dub) [Stroboscopic Artefacts] by Dadub

You can listen to samples of Pfirter's 'Universe' and the Edit Select remix, by heading over to the Stroboscopic Artefacts Website where you can have a listen to them, and all the previous releases. The Facebookers among you will no doubt want to check out their Facebook Fan Page and Twitterers will want to follow them on Twitter.

SA009 is out now in all the best record stores so go grab yourself a copy before they all go

Pfirter - Audiometria (Incl. Lucy Remix) [Stockholm LTD]

Next up on the blog is the excellent new release on Swedish label, Stockholm LTD, by Pfirter with a big remix by SDD favourite, Lucy.

'Audiometria' is a relentless droning affair packed with deep grooves and moody undertones. 'Vasodilatador' is an intense 5 and a bit minutes. Catching you off guard with it's clever arrangements. Lucy sprinkles a bit of that Stroboscopic magic across 'Audiometria' with his experimental take on todays underground techno. Those of you at Slash Dot Dash this last Saturday would of heard XI drop it, and it sounded incredible on that system!

Pfirter - Audiometria incl. Lucy Remix - STHLM LTD 021 by Stockholm LTD

The EP will be released on 29th March and no doubt will be available in good record stores. More info on the artists and all the latest news can be found on the corresponding Twitter pages, Pfirter & Lucy. And for more info on the label check out the Stockholm LTD website