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.

The set times for this Friday’s MTC 8th Birthday event have now been released (see below). Party goers looking to obtain priority entry on the night can do so by adding themselves to the online guestlist found at www.melbournetechnocollective.com.au/guestlist

10 DJ Subtype (DJ comp winner)
11 Ace Stojevski & Caine Sinclair
12 Sam McEwin & Danni B
01 Jay Reading and Dave Rankine
02 DJ Devious
330 Matt Radovich and Craig McWhinney

Congratulations to Jacques Guillaumier AKA DJ Subtype who will be performing the opening set at this Friday’s Melbourne Techno Collective event as the winner of the MTC DJ competition. Jacques’ mix was selected from over 20 sets which were submitted as part of the promotion to uncover the next local techno star.

You can catch DJ Subtype performing alongside Adelaide’s DJ Devious, Dave Rankine, Danni B, Matt Radovich, Craig McWhinney, Sam McEwin, Jay Reading, Ace Stojevski & Caine Sinclair at the MTC’s 8th Birthday this Friday August 13. View Details

Paris the Black Fu & The Mysterious Mr O AKA The Detroit Grand Pubahs have returned with a brand new album which will be released in September this year.

The album entitled Madd Circus, which will be released on their own label Deletefunk and distributed locally through Stomp, will feature their first single NUmb, Deaf & DUmb, a pop-ish affair with catchy vocals and typically left of centre appeal.

You can watch the video clip for their First Single NUmb, Deaf & DUmb below.

Detroit Grand Pubahs – NUmb, Deaf & DUmb

Attention all Bedroom Bangers! The Melbourne Techno Collective and Haul Music are proud to present the MTC DJ competition. If you’re an up and coming techno jock and you think you have what it takes to cut it alongside the MTC’s residents and guests, then this is your tkt in. We’re not going to make it easy for you though, so make sure you read the instructions below and get your entries in quick. The winning entrant will perform at the next MTC event on August 13.

How To Enter:
1. Entrants must submit a 30 minute mix showcasing their talent. Mixes exceeding 34 minutes will be ineligible.
2. The mix must contain a track from the latest Haul release, Gorel by Adrian Miles. The EP is available to purchase now from Beatport.
3. Entrants must enter under their real name. Any entrant entering under a false name will be ineligible to win.
4. Entrants must be available to perform on August 13 2010 at the MTC 8th Birthday event at Deep 11
5. The mix must be recorded on equipment which can realistically be used to perform live in a club environment. In the case that the mix is recorded on equipment other than turntables or CDJs, then the DJ must be prepared to supply any equipment necessary to perform to the event, should they win.
6. Entries will be judged on track selection, creativity and skill, chance will play no part in determining the winner.
7. All entries must be submitted by Friday August 6 2010, with the winner announced on Monday August 9 2010.
8. It is a condition of entry that contestants join the MTC Mailing list. You may unsubscribe at any time.

Melbourne’s beloved Street Press Icon Zebra Magazine will cease to exist from August 11 this year. Street Press Australia, owners of Zebra Magazine, Inpress and a number of other publications announced today, that Zebra will be discontinued in favour of a Melbourne version of Sydney’s popular 3D World. 3D world was relaunched in Sydney last month in a new glossy format and was expanded to include arts, technology and travel, along side the magazine’s staple of Hip Hop and Dance culture.

3D World editor Kris Swales said in a press release today that “The Introduction of Victorian and Queensland versions of the magazine means that readers in those states will finally get the high quality, broad focus standalone dance music and hip hop publication they’ve been demanding for so long”

While the new glossy 3D magazine sounds impressive, it will still be sad to say goodbye to what has been such a mainstay of Melbourne clubbing culture over the years. 3D World will hit the streets every Wednesday starting August 11.