This 30 minute interview with techno god Sven Vath shows the serious side of the world’s biggest party animal and amazing DJ. The interview is in English with dutch subtitles and a dutch intro and is followed by another 30 minutes of footage from his performance at the Amsterdam Dance Event. (Yes that’s what it was called)
Sven Vath will perform at the upcoming Future Music Festival on Sunday March 7
Seth Troxler has continued his recent rise to fame, with the notorious party animal and wild child DJ/Producer throwing down the latest edition of BPitch Control’s Boogybytes mix series. Boogybytes Vol 5 - which hit stores last week – features an amazing collection of tunes from the likes of Luciano, Mike Shannon, Alexi Delano, Hearthrob & Fever Ray and the MTC’s Sabine Brix took the opportunity to give it a spin.
The fifth version of Boogybytes doesn’t really pack a punch until a few cuts in – then it really finds its groove, which is more akin to the refined tweakings of previous volumes.
Troxler starts off with jazz-infused house tracks but picks up the tempo with Spectrum’s Freakbox, which exudes twisted, minimal flavours, courtesty of Minimalist Man himself, Mr Hawtin.
Not straying far from the M_nus family, Heartthrob’s Signs, remixed by Troxler, is undoubtedly the standout for Vol.05, peppered with downright dirty, funky breaks, whilst Fever Ray’s Seven also gets transformed into a dark tech-house ditty.
Troxler proves that an outsider – he is the first DJ to mix the compilation, not from the label – is just as much a contender as the label mates who spun before him.
01 Seth Troxler – Intro
Ryan Crosson – Amb 1
02 The Royal We – Party Guilt (Dinky’s Arp-A-Pella)
03 Luciano – Fran Left Home / Mike Shannon – Sweet A Pella
04 Craig Smith & The Revenge – The Soul Part II
05 Baeka – Right At It
06 Dinky feat. Update – Westoid
07 N/A feat. Rosina – Fables and Fairytales (Deniz Kurtel Remix)
08 Spektrum – Freakbox (Richie Hawtin’s Uncontrolled Edit)
09 Alexi Delano – Molar One
10 Jabberjaw – The Connie Shake
11 Heartthrob – Signs (Thrill Cosby aka Seth Troxler Remix)
12 Birds And Souls – Birds And Souls
13 Roman Flügel – Stricher
14 Fever Ray – Seven (Seth Troxler Remix)
15 Kiki – Cinema Obscura
16 Nicolas Jaar – Time For Us
The long awaited Making Contakt DVD finally landed last week, after it was officially screened in Berlin in early February. The feature length documentary showcases the M_nus crew’s ground breaking Contakt events which sadly, have not yet found their way to Melbourne.
Spanning venues from Detroit to Tokyo, right through to Amsterdam – The DVD features Magda, Heartthrob, Mark Houle, Gaiser, Richie and the crew, delivering their awe inspiring showcase to heaving crowds with a unique, behind-the-scenes peak into this tight-knit techno family and their trials and tribulations in putting on larger-than-life parties.
The DVD is available now direct from www.m-nus.com
Learn more about the Contakt events
Download link coming soon
Segment 1 – Craig McWhinney
Agnes & Ripperton – Tchang Beers
Craig McWhinney – Penance
Delano Smith – Truth
Anthony Shakir – Simpatico
The Chain – Geo
Segment 2 – Craig McWhinney
Delta Funktionen – Silhouette (Marcel Dettman remix)
Redshape – Dark & Sticky
Valmay – Radiated Future
EQD – A
Xhin – Lnk
The Echologist – Dirt
Shlomi Aber – Create Balance
I:Cube – Operation Hypnosis
Segment 3 – Sam McEwin & Craig McWhinney
Alain Ho – Je Pense Atoi
Estroe – High Maintenance (Beat Pharmacy remix)
Ripperton – Leonor’s Language
The Lost Men – UC
Frivilous – River’s Fate
Yes Sven Vath is in the house, or to be completely accurate, was in the house – the house of Perth resident James Francis, who’s Future Music after party got a little bit wild when Mister Vath rocked up with an entourage that included John Digweed, Dubfire, Booka Shade and Above & Beyond. In the Mix reported on the techno legend’s cameo appearance, after discovering this Tweet from Above & Beyond which mentioned the impromptu gathering. “an amazing party here in Perth [at Future Music Festival], followed by a crazy house party with @svenvaeth who truly made it an unforgettable night!”.
ITM followed up by making contact with Francis who had this to say. “We had Sven Vath, John Digweed, Dubfire, Booka Shade and Above & Beyond all partying in our garden with about 70 or so other people,” “…It was truly amazing. Sven played for about six-and-a-half hours, and all the other internationals just watched and danced in awe with the rest of us! Sven played ‘one more tune’ about 20 times.”
The full editorial can be found here.
The answer of course, is increasingly quite a lot. And it’s not just limited to DJing either, electronic musicians of the feminine persuasion are having more of an impact on what is historically a lads only scene, than ever before. So why state the obvious, well while female DJs and producers are more than mixing it with boys across all genres, the truly talented DJs and producers still face certain challenges to be accepted as just that – truly talented DJs and producers.
While it is arguably true that being a female may open the occasional door, there is a lot of crap that female DJs/producers put up with, that their male counterparts would never have to endure. Compounded by cringe worthy inventions such as Pioneer’s “She DJ” and the emergence of topless DJs of various persuasions, being a female in the boys club that is the underground music scene, must at times feel like being in an episode of Mad Men.
In this article from The Electronic Farm, Poly Lavin tackles this very issue and asks the question are women really perceived differently than men in the electronic music sector?
Pinksilver stalwart and label co-owner Markojux (Mark Baumann) has delivered his first full EP on Pinksilver Music’s Digital imprint with the sublime “Too Little Too Late” EP. The Melbourne based producer known for his work as one half of Duke & Duke and Forty6&Two, has turned out 4 lush house numbers on the digital only label including a strong remix from Miguel Colmenares.
The EP is out now exclusively from Beatport
01 – Markojux – Tech My Jazz Feat. Colin Snape
02 – Markojux – Just One Minute
03 – Markojux – Walk With Me
04 – Markojux – Tech My Jazz (Miguel Colmenares Remix)
First release tickets have gone on sale for Hardware’s Creamfields festival which will take place at the Melbourne Showgrounds on May 3rd. Among the artists billed to perform at the festival will be UK legend Dave Clarke, the enigmatic Green Velvet and techno’s man of the moment Joris Voorn.
First release tkts are available from Ticketek, In the Mix and Moshtix for $79+booking fee and the local line up will be announced in the coming week’s.
On March 5 Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance at Shed 4, Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse. Fusing a large scale video installation with a digital DJ set, Miller will also incorporate a string quartet into this arresting multimedia performance. Thanks to our friends at Shed 4, the Melbourne Techno Collective have 2 double passes and 1 single pass to give away to this amazing show.
To go in the draw all you have to do is subscribe to the Melbourne Techno Collective newsletter on or before Feb 28 and answer one simple question. “What’s something SPOOKY that’s happened to you?” most interesting responses win!
Mathew Dear’s Ghostly International label has put together a compilation of unreleased and rare music from it’s mighty stable artists and is offering it up as a free download from their website ghostly.com. All you have to do to get the album is sign up to their email newsletter (which will also keep you in the know when they run limited vinyl releases and other cool Ghostly Int things).
Here’s what they had to say about it:
A compilation of rare, unreleased, and hard-to-find music from our vaults. Highlights include Matthew Dear’s “Don’t Go This Way”, a tasty leftover from the Asa Breed sessions; Michna’s “Quadruple Gold Dipped”, an alternate version of the Magic Monday album-opener; and The Sight Below’s “Blown”, another piece of perfect melancholia from the prolific producer.
Ghostly Essentials: Rarities One
Various Artists
1. AEROC – DAISY CHAINS
2. AUDION – BEND HER
3. BEN BENJAMIN – DESK HAS BEEN TABLED
4. MATTHEW DEAR – DON’T GO THIS WAY
5. MICHNA – QUADRUPLE GOLD DIPPED
6. MIDWEST PRODUCT – BELGIAN
7. MOBIUS BAND – THE LOVING SOUNDS OF STATIC (JUNIOR BOYS REMIX INSTRUMENTAL)
8. OUTPUTMESSAGE – METTLE
9. THE SIGHT BELOW – BLOWN
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