MILTON BRADLEY - Paris / Berlin : 20 years of Underground Techno

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ADAM X SONIC GROOVE SONICGROOVE.COM Adam X is a sonic techno onslaught – crossing the parallels of the many styles of underground Techno, Broken Beat Electro, Industrial & EBM genres of electronic music.His history dates back to 1990 in New York City, where he teamed up with brother Frankie Bones in running the first all-techno record shop in America entitled “Groove Records,” – later named “Sonic Groove Records”. At the present time Adam X calls East Berlin, Germany his home base, where most of his time is spent in between traveling across the world to perform. KAREEM ZHARK BERLIN ZHARK.DE Zhark Berlin's hard-line revisionist doctrine holds no hostages – rejecting the myopic conventions of the electronic/club medium, with its caustic amalgam of minimalist electroid-components savagely dismantled into an extreme free-fire zone of depravity. Founder of Zhark Recordings Berlin, Kareem has been presenting heavy armoured track material since 1996, challenging the conventions of sound, pushing them deep into the abyss. His definition of the Zharkesthetic lies in conveying a claustrophobic state - an atmosphere of threatening sound architecture and almost static soundwalls. REGIS DOWNWARDS WHERENEXT.TUMBLR.COM Karl O'Connor AKA Regis is England's reigning heir to the throne of electronic incognito. Working solely within Britain's arm of industrial might and decay in the Birmingham borough of Halesowen, O'Connor and Peter Sutton (Female) launched Downwards Records in late 1993. Magnetic electronic thunder cut dark swathes through the big parties for the first time with O'Connor’s instantaneously recognizable black envelope of deep atmosphere and suffocating basslines. Shirking conforming compromise and defying media darling status never sounded so good. FUNCTION SANDWELL DISTRICT WHERENEXT.TUMBLR.COM One of techno's true underground heroes, Function, real name Dave Sumner, has been DJing and making music for over 15 years. Hailing from New York, Dave started to produce music and from the mid-90s onwards, put out music on Damon Wild's Synewave and his own Infrastructure imprint. Together with Karl O'Connor aka Regis he worked as Portion Reform, putting out uncompromising music on Downwards and becoming the only non-Birmingham producer to release on the label. More recently, Dave moved to Berlin and, still working with O'Connor and J. Mendez, set up the acclaimed Sandwell District imprint. ANCIENT METHODS AM/DOWNWARDS ANCIENTMETHODS.COM There’s something about the fearsome crunch of Ancient Methods‘ sounds that defies dry technical description and demands that you go over the top, whether in talking about it or moving to it. Whether they’re a leap forward or a consolidation of techno classicism though, is not really relevant once you’re plugged into their sound – immersed in the noise in a dark room with smoke and strobes, they represent electronic music at its absolute, most direct, straight- into-the-back-ofthe-brain best. LUCY STROBOSCOPIC ARTEFACTS STROBOSCOPICARTEFACTS.COM Lucy: producer, DJ, founder of Stroboscopic Artefacts. That’s probably how you know him. But there’s also Luca Mortellaro, a published author, experimental sound designer, and the man behind the Lucy moniker. There’s no doubt that the two are linked, but it’s certainly the hidden facets of Luca Mortellaro that are responsible for the dynamic output of Lucy. As he delved deeper into electronic music, Lucy made the essential move to Berlin. It was here he launched record label Stroboscopic Artefacts, a platform that illuminates pioneering electronic music. PARIS/BERLIN : 20 YEARS OF UNDERGROUND TECHNO • 8
LAURENT GARNIER FCOM LAURENTGARNIER.COM One of the pioneering DJs of the dance music scene, Laurent Garnier experienced firsthand the euphoria of the Acid House movement in Manchester. He then went on to Wake Up and shake up Paris nightlife, from La Luna to the Palace, not forgetting the Rex Club. As one of the leading lights in French dance music at the end of the 1980’s, he then spread his message across the planet, from raves to warehouse parties, clubs to festivals. All of this musical journey is written down in the book Electrochoc that Laurent Garnier and the journalist-writer David Brun- Lambert wrote together and came out in 2003. In this biography, Laurent Garnier tells the epic story of electronic music through his experiences and memories. TAMA SUMO OSTGUT TON OSTGUT.DE/BOOKING/ARTIST/12 Tama Sumo started playing regularly at the legendary Techno-Club Globus/Tresor in the beginning of 1994 and became a resident DJ at this location for the following years. Since 2001 Tama Sumo also played regulary at the “Dance With The Aliens“ party at the old OstGut, the predecessor of Berghain, which eventually opened the door to a residency at the new Panoramabar/Berghain. NICK HÖPPNER OSTGUT TON OSTGUT.DE/BOOKING/ARTIST/14 Currently residing in his home of choice and calling, Berlin, Nick Höppner skillfully balances, explores and contributes to a dramatically wide range of musical professions, proving him to be one of the backbones of today's house and techno underground. Be it through his monthly residencies at the inimitable Berghain/ Panoramabar and Watergate clubs, his solo releases for Ostgut Ton, his expansive DJ touring, his acclaimed co-production and live performances alongside Lee Jones as MyMy, or indeed his creative involvement and management of the Ostgut label since its inception, Nick stands out as a unique, longserving and truly dedicated figure in today's electronic music world. DASHA RUSH FULL PANDA DASHARUSH.INFO Russian-born, well-travelled Moscovite, Dasha has spent most of her time between Paris, London and Japan, combining her activities as techno producer and dj with multi-artistic collaborations alongside artists and dancers. She now runs her own techno label Full Panda Records and more experimental sub label Hunger to Create. Nowadays Dasha Rush performs Live PAs and DJ sets all over the globe. Full Panda slogans perfectly describe the musical focus of Dasha Rush and related labels, no need for more words: "All you need is ears." 9 • PARIS/BERLIN : 20 YEARS OF UNDERGROUND TECHNO TERENCE FIXMER PLANÈTE ROUGE TERENCEFIXMER.COM Icon of the electronic north of France, Terence Fixmer is one of France’s most treasured protagonists of the techno scene, of which he has been at the forefront for over 10 successful years. Respected by his peers and adored by fans of radical overand underground electro, equally at ease in the club or at a pure techno festival as he is in the so-called “dark” scene, Terence reached this respected level without ever succumbing to excessive promotion or pandering to the mainstream. Terence leaves in his wake the aggression of EBM, keeping it rough around the edges. A pioneer, he above all preserves an original style, at once recognizable, that beats at the heart of contemporary electro-techno production. TOBIAS RAPP BERLIN, TECHNO UND DER EASY JET SET RESIDENTADVISOR.NET/FEATURE.ASPX?1434 Tobias Rapp, a music journalist, has been living in Berlin for over 20 years now and obviously spends a lot of time roaming Berlin by night. His book is a portrait of Berlin’s world-famous techno scene and the people who contribute to making Berlin what it is, from DJs, club owners and urban planners, to people who fly to Berlin just for a weekend of clubbing thanks to cheap intra-European flights.
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