Melbourne Techno Collective

Well there is not long now until the big Deetron show at Q Bar on September 24th. The Melbourne Techno Collective have a limited number of industry tkts available to purchase for the gig. To register your interest all you have to do is follow this link and submit your details, it couldn’t be easier. Industry tkts are $25.

Also don’t forget that you can get in the mood for the big night with this exclusive Deetron promo mix compiled and mixed by the MTC’s own Sam McEwin.

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Get in the mood for the Melbourne Techno Collective’s upcoming Deetron event with this mix of original Deetron tracks and remixes, compiled and mixed by the MTCs Sam McEwin.

Tracklisting:
01 Deetron – Collide [Green] Buy Track
02 Andy Butler & Jason Kendig – And I’m (So In Love With You) – Deetron Remix [Mr International] Buy Track
03 Deetron & Seth Troxler – Each Step [Circus Company] Buy Track
04 Deetron – Lets Get Over It feat Justin Chapman (Llorcas Full Extended Mix) [Music Man Records] Buy Track
05 Voom Voom – Bounce (Deetron Mix) [GStone Recordings] Buy Track
06 Deetron – Life Soundtrack feat DJ Bone (Radio Slave Remix) [Music Man Records] Buy Track
07 Deetron – Zircon [Music Man Records] Buy Track
08 Deetron & Kraak Smaak - Plastic People feat Bobby Nio (Deetron Dub) [Jalapeno Records] Buy Track
09 Joris Voorn – Blank (Deetron Paradise Beatz) [Green] Buy Track
10 Deetron - Orange [Music Man Records] Buy Track
11 Deetron – Sing [Circus Company] Buy Track
12 Chymera – Sumatra (Deetron Remix) [Figure] Buy Track

This interview with Spectral Sound and Ghostly International boss Mathew Dear appeared recently on Resident Advisor ahead of his new album Black City.

The many monikered musician used to be full of energy. Nowadays, though, he’s ready to slow things down. RA’s Todd L. Burns talks to the Ghostly star.

Maturity: It’s a tough one for electronic musicians. Audiences are constantly in search of the new. Something brasher. Something louder. Something faster. As Matthew Dear said to me in a café in Berlin last month, though, his latest album is the sound of everything that electronic music is not: Getting older, getting tired, saying more with less. Playing it a little bit slower. His new album under his own name, Black City, has proven that this can be fertile ground—as long as you handle it carefully.

It’s yet another step in Dear’s (already lengthy) discography, showcasing his further comfort in the studio as an electronic pop artist, following in the lineage of heroes such as Brian Eno, David Bowie, Depeche Mode and Gary Numan. And, as Dear explains, because things are slowing down in his world to allow for such concentration, it’s making for his best work yet.

I wanted to ask about the responses to your work. Obviously that’s not something you can control, but do you sometimes get frustrated when people focus so much on one side or another when coming to your work? Like, “I only know Audion. This is my perspective, and it doesn’t fulfill my expectations.”

I think at the beginning I was a bit more concerned, but with Black City I had a realization that it’s a good thing, you know? I used to be like, “Don’t talk about me as a DJ when you’re writing about this album.” But that’s who I am, it’s fine. I know who I am, and I know that I can do DJ shows and feel great playing house music and techno music, but then can kind of set that aside and know what I’m doing with the band and when I put out an album like Black City. It’s just cool. I’m really happy that I can do both and I don’t need to shy away from either. I’m feeling comfortable.

You talk a lot about how it’s quite nice to shut one thing down, and begin to focus on another. When you shut Audion down, do you only write Matthew Dear stuff for a while? Or can you do both at the same time?

In the past it used to be everything all at once. I think it was easier: I was more energetic, I was younger and was hungry for everything. But in the past year, year-and-a-half it’s been more and more based around stuff under my own name. I think it’s just more personal now. I’m buying more instruments and synthesizers. It’s just more fun to play with that sound…

Do you think it’s helped to focus so intently?

It’s been a struggle not to produce anything else like Audion, but you have to be in that headspace. The good thing is that I do that more now on the road. When I’m in DJ mode, and I’m bored on a plane or in a hotel, I’ll open up Ableton and work on loops. I get in that headspace when I’m full-on touring.

You said you were listening to a lot of highlife and juju music around the time of your last album. What were you listening to around this one?

It’s definitely a generalization to say that I was only listening to highlife or anything back then. But, for me, the constant has always been Can and Bowie, some of the Dark Wave stuff, Gary Numan. I’ll just have shifts towards things, and start listening to a bit more of it and then just try to take in what I can. Eno has also been a constant.

Have you used ever used his Oblique Strategies in the studio?

No, but they’re awesome.

Are there things that you feel like you’ve taken away from listening to Eno?

The song “You Put a Smell on Me” on Black City, for instance, I didn’t want to take and just ad lib stuff so I’d do weird, kinda guttural noise and I’d go back later and fill in the words.

Are the words very important to you as far their meaning? Or is it just sound above all?

It starts as sound, and then they become very important, because they all apply to things in my life. I mean, they come from somewhere inside of me and that means something. But they’re not entire stories. They’re almost like pieces. Each sentence means something in itself. But I try to leave it very open-ended. When I sing, I’m not trying to tell somebody how to feel. I don’t want them to think a certain thing, I want them to take a little nugget of a line and be like, “Oh cool, I wonder how that could apply to my life.”

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That’s right folks if you haven’t heard by now the next Melbourne Techno Collective event will be a collaboration with Hardware and Poison Apple and will feature Swiss techno master DEETRON.

Tech-house, house, Detroit, whatever you wanna call it, Sam Geiser aka Deetron has consistently produced some of the club orientated music over the past 7 years! And after considerable time away he will finally return to Australia, to exhibit his hypnotic mix of uplifting voyages, funky techno and dance-floor bombs

For more information check out the links below:
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MTC Radio 39 – August 02 2010

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The latest edition of MTC Radio is available to download now. Tune in as the boys wrestle with a dodgy CDJ while Sam tries to figure out the difference between Australian and English accents.