Melbourne Techno Collective

The Melbourne Techno Collective and Lucky Coq come together for the first time, for a unique day-time/night-time celebration of Melbourne underground sounds. Don’t Mention the T-Word brings 17 DJs together across 2 rooms, for a 15 hr marathon mix session, as part of the 5 day music event taking place at Lucky Coq and Bimbos over the Easter long Weekend.

The huge line-up of acts includes Mike Callander, Sam McEwin, Matt Radovich, Andy Hart, Myles Mac, Arianwen, Steve Ward, Marcojux, Nadine, Rollin Connection, Peter Baker Caine Sinclaire, Andrew Hester, Ace Stojevski, Ranjit Nijjer, Jay Reading & Joe Bennett. Spend the whole day at Lucky’s from 12 midday on Easter Saturday April 11th, entry is free, the beer is cold, the music is loud and the pizza is out of this world!

…Just don’t mention the t-word.

The following is a statement from Melbourne Techno Collective founder Sam McEwin.

It is with great regret that I must today announce that German live act Brian Sanhaji, who was billed to play at this Friday’s Tastes Like Techno event at Brown Alley, has cancelled his Asian tour, including all Australian dates. At this stage it is unclear exactly what the reasons for this decision were. In an email from his tour agent on the 20th of March it was stated only that Brian had pulled out of the tour due to personal reasons. The Melbourne Techno Collective have requested an official statement from his management, which we will make public as soon as it is received.

Please understand that the Melbourne Techno Collective and it’s partners were powerless to do anything to avoid this unfortunate situation and that the Tastes Like Techno event will continue as planned. Full refunds will be made available to ticket holders who no longer wish to attend this event, the details of which will be published at www.melbournetechnocollective.com.au as soon as they are made available.

On a more positive note, the Melbourne Techno Collective are thrilled to announce Australia’s best kept techno secret, Marcus Newman as replacement for Brian Sanhaji. Newman’s high energy Ableton sets could not be a more perfect substitute for Sanhaji’s own Ableton mayhem and he was picked specifically because of his unique audio collages and mind-blowing live performances.

Newman joins an already star studded cast including Pat Stormont LIVE, Dave Pham, U-One, Nadine and all the Melbourne Techno Collective residents, Sam McEwin, Matt Radovich, Craig McWhinney and Jay Reading along with many others. We at the Melbourne Techno Collective firmly believe that even without the services of Brian Sanhaji, this will be an amazing, high quality techno event, which should not be missed.

The show must go on!

Purchase your Tastes Like Techno 3 tickets from the Brown Alley website before midnight on Friday March 20th for the super low price of $15. But be quick, because from March 21st the tickets will return to their full price.

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Recorded live at the John Selway event held at Melbourne’s club Ffour on Valentines day 2009. Playing warm up to John Selway, Sam McEwin starts with deep, brooding house and minimal techno which steadily builds towards a harder and more dancefloor orianted groove.

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US techno producer Audion aka Matthew Dear has made his latest track I am the Car available for download from his website free of charge. According to Resident Advisor, Audion will release a new track on the site every month, which will eventually form the basis of a new album which will be released through his Spectral Sound label at a later date.

Download: get Audion’s ‘I am the Car’ for Free from www.Audion.me