The Jubilee Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Italy, Hannover

For those of us in London a four day weekend is something a bit special, a four day week at the start of summer is a whole different ball game. There's some big events coming up, not just in the capital but all around Europe.... and here's the best of them

London

We kick off with a new comer to the London techno scene, Dystopia. The project goes beyond the standard format for a club night and pulls together the artistic talents of DJs, musicians, designers, visuals artists and photographer to form an inclusive creative showcase.


They've picked two very creative acts to guest at the party with Time To Express boss, Peter Van Hoesen and Stroboscopic Artefacts duo Dadub (check out their recent Dystopia Podcast 002). The venue will be announced for Saturdays party in the next few days. Full event info and tickets can be found on Resident Advisor

fabric are pulling in the big guns for room 2 on Saturday as the Berghain resident and Klockworks Records head honcho, Ben Klock links up with the man from Minneapolis, Berghain regular and Klockworks artist, DVS1.


Tickets available on the fabric website

When Plex and Perc Trax combine at Corsica Studios the outcome is usually pretty special, but Sunday could be the most special to date. 9 hours of first rate techno featuring some of the best names in Underground music. A live set from Kangding Ray, DJ sets from Lone, Perc, Randomer, Truss, AnD, DJ Skirt and many more make this rammed full of quality from start to finish.


Tickets available from Resident Advisor

Edinburgh

From the English capital to the Scottish capital now and Edinburgh is in for a massive treat on Friday as Adam X presents Traversable Wormhole for Unseen at Studio 24. There's no tickets so just get there and pay on the door. Full event info on Facebook

Dublin

And now on to the ROI captial, Dublin, as Fachwerk Records owner, Mike Dehnert, takes to the decks at The Academy. Again there's no presale tickets but head over to Resident Advisor for all the event info.

Italy

Je Ne T'Aime Plus Afterparty @ Studio 2 Club, Vigonovo (Friday 1st June)


Delsin Records' Morphosis joins Prologue Records artists Donato Dozzy and Neel at the Je Ne T'Aime Plus Afterparty, and best of all it's free. Full event info on Facebook

The One Festival takes place this weekend at Cocorico in Riccione. Techno highlights come from the legend that is Jeff Mills, Dasha Rush and Tommy Four Seven. All the info you need can be found on the Facebook Event Page

Hannover

TechnoDrivers mit Luke Slater @ Underground Club (Saturday 2nd June)

Our final stop off is in Hannover at the Underground club as TechnoDrivers welcome the man behind the Mote Evolver label, Luke Slater, headlines alongside a host of local talent. Full event info on Facebook

Fachwerk Night @ Culture Box (20th Jan 12)

Our friends at Culture Box in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, have been putting together some incredible line ups for 2012.... and this is the first of many.

You will all of heard of Fachwerk Records, Mike Dehnert and Roman Lindau. Along with Sascha Rydell, Mike and Roman have been cementing their position as one of the most respected collectives in techno today. They will be taking over Culture Box's main room to display why they're so highly rated by clubbers and industry types alike.

There's no tickets for this one so turn up and pay on the door. The party will kick off at 11pm. Any other info you could need can be found on the RA Event Page. To find out what's coming up at Culture Box, check out their Website and more info on Fachwerk Records can be found on their Facebook Fan Page

Delsin Records @ fabric (20th Aug 11)

It wasn't difficult selecting our pick of the weekends events today. There is really only one event worth worrying about, fabric, and another first class line up in Room 2. The Amsterdam based label will be making the short trip across the English Channel and bringing with them 4 acts from their superb artist roster, in Brendon Moeller, Mike Dehnert, Delta Funktionen and Newworldaquarium.

It's a simple decision of where to go tomorrow night but with Stacey Pullen, Levon Vincent and Bruno Pronsato in Room 1, it's going to be difficult to choose where to be once you're inside the club, but fabric have really pulled it out the bag for what's supposed to be one of the worst weekends of the year for business. And because of that reason fabric is reward it's faithful by making it free for all fabricfirst members (Of which we are). You can't say fairer than that!

Tickets are still on sale on the Resident Advisor Event Page and for everything else fabric related head over to the fabric website. Delsin can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Also for a little insight into the minds of Delta Funktionen and Newworldaquarium check out this video interview that Plastic Dreams did with them earlier on in the summer at this years Sonar festival

EarToGround pres Mike Dehnert & Shifted @ East Village (20th May 11)

Our pick of this weeks London events is a pretty easy one. Our friends at EarToGround have lined up another Friday night basement session at East Village. You'll remember the last one they put on, just before Xmas, when James Ruskin tore the place apart in the way he knows best.

Tonight's event has an equally impressive line up. Fachwerk Records boss, Mike Dehnert, is flying at the moment. His label is gathering more and more fans with every release, his album has just dropped on Delsin Records to critical acclaim and to top it all off he's getting booked all over Europe at great venues like Tresor, Culture Box, Trouw and the legendary Berghain. It's been years since we saw him play in the Lost Souls room at Rabid festival and we're highly excited to see what he comes up with this time.

The next guest is shrouded in mystery. Shifted has very much appeared from nowhere and with no visible trail behind them. Releases on Mote Evolver, their own Avian label, Syndrome Z and a remix of Furesshu of Project Squared Records has captured the eye of the techno community. We're expecting big things from them tonight!

ETG frontman, Gareth Wild, will lead the support line and he's joined by Anderson and Kieran James to kick the night off in style. Tickets are still available for tonight's event through Resident Advisor, otherwise you can pay on the door but it will be slightly more.

Mike Dehnert Interview

Whether it's as a globe trotting DJ, chart topping producer or ground breaking label boss, Mike Dehnert is in serious demand right now. His latest album 'Framework' has been getting rave reviews all over the world.

Ahead of his performance at EarToGround next Friday, they caught up with him for a chat...

Where the in world are you right now?

At this moment I stay in Berlin

What have you been up to recently?

I had a lot to do with my Album on Delsin rec.and a lot of Gigs like very nice parties and a lot of traveling (transfer)

You like to push the audio envelope. Some of your tracks sound near to distortion but fused with the other elements always sound amazing especially on the dance floor. Can you tell us about your sound and approach to making music?

At first for me it’s not important how do you make music like digital or analog so I produce completely analog.

I like it to make soundexperiments like be creative with the limits (not distortion!:-)).
I will take the Techno sound in the next higher level(for me).

But everytime with focus on the Dance floor with creating feelings (emotions,erotism) with sounds ,Tracks.

I try to establish a emotion in tracks so It’s very interesting in to create (for example)a Techno track with erotism and than I test it in My DJ-Set’s on the dance Floor.

So I can also say that I don’t play tracks in my DJ set’ I play emotions or I mix emotions on the dance floor.

What do we have to look forward to from you and Fachwerk?

….some new releases are ready like on clone

Mike Dehnert - Oblique

and I have a lot of new releases planned like for my next “deeply rooted house” and echocord color, again, MD2 part 4…………

I also found a new Label calling “Colombage” like again a small division of Fachwerk with more focus on Tech-House music like a other nice platform for sound dance floor experiments.The first release is calling MIJU EP , the 12″ is coming in two weeks.

Reno Wurzbacher & Mike Dehnert - Miju EP

After the actual Fachwerk FW018 release from Sascha Rydell comes Roman Lindau again with a realy cool 2 tracker release so I think Roman’s 12″ FW019 comes in 3-4 Weeks and than I will do a EP….

I have also a lot of remix and release requests what I have to cancel becouse I also have to spent a lot of my times for managing my Labels so I will see………..

Any message for your fans in London?

so let’Z Rooockkkkkkkkkk

Mike Dehnert will be playing in London on the 20th May alongside Shifted at the next EarToGround Party @ East Village. Tickets are on sale through Resident Advisor now

Grounded Theory pres Fachwerk Records Showcase @ Arena (5th Nov 10)

It seems that a vast amount of Londoners are making their way out to Berlin for the upcoming weekend. I can't blame them. We was out there two weekends ago and had one of the best times of our lives. There's some monster events going on this weekend. Perlon's launch of their 'Superlongivity 5 EP' @ Panoramabar, the Bermuda Festival is taking over half the clubs in the city, and for us the top pick of the whole weekend of Bermuda parties has to be Grounded Theory's 6th event at Arena Club.

The previous parties have included some great line ups, including the likes of Ben Klock, Adam X, Marcel Fengler, Function, Norman Nodge, Sleeparchive to name a few, and their resident Milton Bradley.

For this party they've teamed up with the excellent Berlin label, Fachwerk Records. They've handed over the rains to Mike Dehnert, Roman Lindau and Sascha Rydell and will be leaving them to get on with playing the style of music that's made the label so successful, great techno! Between the 3 of them they've racked up 16 releases on the label and individually they've featured on some of the most respected techno labels around, such as Clone, Echocord Colour, Deeply Rooted House and Ostgut Ton. The pedigree is there for all to see

Doors open at midnight on Friday and goes on till late. And as parties generally do in Berlin it's likely to go on very late!

To finish you off here's some links so you keep fully updated on the actions of all parties involved

Grounded Theory Facebook Fan Page

Grounded Theory Myspace Page

Fachwerk Records Myspace Page

Mike Dehnert Myspace Page

Roman Lindau Myspace Page

Sascha Rydell Myspace Page