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Paranoid London Live set for Movement Detroit Paxahau recorded in lockdown November 22, 2020 at The Cause (London).

When Paranoid London first emerged in 2007, their music provided a gritty counterpoint to the European minimal sounds and disco edits that proliferated at the time, and their vinyl-only releases gained them underground success at a time when the format was in decline. In the 13 years since, the project has been host to a rotating cast of guest vocalists, including A Certain Ratio’s Simon Topping, Arthur Baker, Josh Caffe and the late trans activist and DJ, Bubbles Bubblesynski. Classic drum machines and synths such as the Roland TR-808, TR-909 and SH-101 lie at the heart of their setup, with acid lines provided by the Cyclone Analogic TT-303 Bass Bot. Effects come from a host of cheap Korg Monotron Delay units, which slather vocals and synths in a grimy echo.

#Paranoid London #Performance #Live Set #Movement #x2 #Electronic Music #Livestream #Techno #Electronic

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In pandemic times of telepresences and social distancing, Live At Robert Johnson from Offenbach and Riotvan team from Leipzig up for a magical musical mission. Encompassed by the graphic design of Michael Satter & Panthera Krause, each of the five tracks has been created by teams representing both label crews and their environs, rendering a truly synergetic effort. The release “Live At Robert Johnson & Riotvan” presents tracks from Roman Flügel & Robolledo, Jennifer Cardini & Chinaski, New Hook & Perel, Fort Romeau & Panthera Krause and Horkheimer, Peter Invasion & Gregor Habicht.

Rebolledo & Roman Flügel - Star Stuff

Jennifer Touch & Chinaski - Dime

New Hook & Perel - The Lambs Suffer

Fort Romeau & Panthera Krause - Omicron 8

Horkheimer & Peter Invasion & Gregor Habicht - Summe Drei

Enjoy the Release here.

#Riotvan #Live At Robert Johnson #Leipzig #Offenbach #Release #Electronic Music #Music #Releases

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Some of techno’s biggest names, including Slam, Rødhåd, The Advent, Ben Sims, Nina Kraviz and DJ Rush are among those contributing to a new compilation, 100 Years of Colombia, which seeks to draw attention to the ongoing violence being inflicted on anti-corruption protestors in the country.

NGOs and social justice organisations including Colpaz, Desaparicion forzada, Movice, Red Juridica Feminista and Fundación Escuela Canalón will receive profits from the sales of the compilation. Since 18 April 2021, when protests began in the country, protesters have faced terrible police brutality. There have been documented disappearances of hundreds of people, killings of civilians by police forces, sexual assaults made by members of the police, and thousands of injured victims, according to ‘non-governmental organisation ONG Temblores. The compilation 100 Years Of Colombia brings the techno scene together to make attention and awareness of what’s happening in Colombia, with a hope for a better future. All the income from the compilation will be donated to charity organisations across Colombia.”

100 Years of Colombia is set to be released on 3rd June 2021 via Exos’ Planet X imprint.

#Releases #Electronic Music #Compilation #Techno #Electronic #Music #Bandcamp #Colombia

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Berlin Remixed - a unique mix of music, culture and a great location. Presented by E.ON, Berlin’s Queen of Techno - Ellen Allien - performs a unique show of light, shadow and techno beats livestreamed from Kraftwerk Berlin. The whole event is climate neutral as E.ON compensates its CO2 emission by partnering with PLANT-MY-TREE®, who will plant the according amount of trees in a wood close to Berlin. - This film series tells a number of powerful story of how very different places tackled their energy challenges driven by ambitious change makers who were enable by E.ON's expertise and technologies. Each are unique and illustrate how energy, people and environments can work together to drive sustainable results. The real power is created by people coming together to find solutions that are not easily achieved by individuals alone. Built on energy solutions that keep the environment and world in balance, these stories show that a sustainable way of living is possible today  and that the WE has no limits.

#Ellen Allien #Berlin #Performance #DJ #Electronic Music #Electronic #Music #CO2 #Stream #Berlin Remixed #x2

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Techno lovers of a certain age will probably remember where they were the first time they heard Dave Clarke‘s World Service, which was released on 21 May 2001, setting a high bar for mix CDs of the period. With 47 tracks set across two blistering CDs – one techno, the other electro – World Service included killer cuts from the likes of Surgeon, Jeff Mills, Umek, The Hacker, Adult, Anthony Rother, Joey Beltram and others, and helped spawn one of the most-revered electro tracks of all time, Fischerspooner’s Emerge. Even Radiohead made an appearance, with the ethereal Idioteque, a track that helped lay the foundations for their future direction. Released on React, and mixed live on vinyl, World Service also helped establish Clarke as one of techno’s go-to artists, and he’s maintained his status as a leading custodian of tough, uncompromising beats in the years since.

Dave Clarke: World Service - Techno Disc (2001)

Dave Clarke: World Service - Electro Disc (2001)

#Dave Clarke #World Service #Electronic Music #Techno #Electro #Releases #Rewind #React #Compialtion #Mix #DJ Set

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In October 2018, filmmaker Mia Zur-Szpiro travelled to India where she immersed herself in the country’s electronic music scene. Zur-Szpiro had been contacted by a promoter, Aneesha Kotwani, who had seen her previous work documenting music scenes around the world and suggested she come to the country to document the scene there. The result was “Desi on the Dancefloor”, a documentary that tells the story of some of the key women working in India’s male-dominated electronic music scene. Filmed across several months, the documentary primarily follows the story of Kotwani and Anu as she comes to India on tour and visits the country for the first time, and features interviews with other women artists in the Indian scene, touching on themes of mental health, spirituality, overcoming racial and patriarchal prejudice and the impact music has had on their lives.

#India #Scene #Electronic Music #Music #Documentary #Desi On The Dancefloor #Electronic #x2 #Female Artists #Documentaries #Electronic Music Scene #Culture #Communities #Underground #Aneesha Kotwani

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“I love the sound and approach. I love most of the Hauge sound, not only the acid techno but also electro. And I’ve never actually stopped loving that kind of sound.”

Helena Hauff ↝ Borshch Magazine

#Helena Hauff #Artist #Electronic Music #Quote

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Most people know Ferropolis from the MELT festival. But Ferropolis in Gräfenhainichen is a museum. Lignite mining boomed in Central Germany for decades, but at some point the era of lignite was over and then the question arose of what could be done with the site and the equipment. The area was flooded and a beautiful local recreation area was created. The idea for the “Stadt aus Eisen” came about as part of a project at BAUHAUS Dessau. The excavators are history, they are both steel sculptures and industrial monuments. The old devices should definitely be preserved, as a memento, but also as an object for viewing. The old lignite site is now a very lively museum and a monument to industrial culture.

In addition to the museum, the area now also offers a festival area on the lake and between rusty giant excavators. It offers a unique atmosphere. Therefore, the old brown coal opencast mining site is a very popular venue. The metal festival “Full Force”, “Splash”, the hip-hop festival and the well-known pop festival “Melt” take place here every year. The blogger Eva Meagwin visited the Ferropolis area and write the story of this lost place on her blog Burgdame.

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#Architecture #Ferropolis #Stadt Aus Eisen #Dessau #Festival #Melt #History #Lost Places #Burgdame #Eva Maegwin #Germany #Full Force #Splash #Museum #Technical Museum #Monument #Industrial #Industrial Monument

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An introductory video about the name and its beginnings, as well as what is hidden under the sound, and what it resulted in. Since vaporwave is mostly ambient, or new age, or tainted lounge, or completely low-grade lo-fi, it should be remembered that vaporwave isn��t music — it’s aesthetics. It should also be noted that most of the articles justifying it are basically a case of graphomania. And we should also acknowledge the fact that the master of talking about techno, Derrick May, would envy such excuses to slow down other people’s tracks. And we should remember that from the very first day, there was at least something serious in vaporwave.

#Vaporwave #Vapor #Documentary #Electronic Music #Synth #Synthwave #x2 #Synthesizer #Electronic #Music #Documentaries #Derrick May

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Minimal has become a dirty word in dance music. But the sound has greatly evolved from its legendary yet much-derided Bar25 days. Henry Ivry traces the sound’s mutation from its Detroit roots to its drugged-out Berlin peak to its ultimate return as something altogether different.

From Rio to Paris to Rome, to the warm afternoons on Berlin’s river Spree, there is a growing scene on the periphery of dance music’s underground. Trying to describe what it is, however, is not easy. Popular tracks fuse electro and garage rhythms with Detroit melancholy and IDM. Breaks fold into the loops of minimal and tech house funk. Quirky, sci-fi synth lines duet with anxious basslines. And while this may seem disjointed, the mixes, parties, and records that define this scene are remarkably consistent, taking inspiration from ’90s dance music and a deep love of crate-digging. The result is tracks that are both timeless and of the moment ...

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#Techno #Minimal #History #Electronic Music #Dana Ruh #Titonton Duvante #Dan Curtin #RA+RE collective #Music #Henry Yvri

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The book “Missing The Club” is substantially illustrated with black and white photography by Thomas Sweertvagher for Brusseleir Digger, with zoomed in record sleeves, with a unique and coloured photographic essay of Crevette Records by Sarah Skoric and with selected pictures from the author himself Kong DJ. He says about his book:

”One year has gone since my last DJ gig or dance floor action. What started as a mixtape project a few months into the pandemic last year, now turned into a 248 pages book. While recording the third and final chapter of this mixtape trilogy and intrigued by the backgrounds and protagonists of the records, I began researching and got into the idea of a book version, where stories about the mixtape’s tracks are alternated with a selection of favorite articles and interviews from my archive as a music journalist - printed on paper to safeguard from digital expiration - plus a few brand new texts and essays. The entirety offers a unique and utterly personal perspective on electronic music, club culture and vinyl record collecting.” [...]

#Book #Photobook #Kong DJ #Belgium #Electronic Music #Club #Pandemic #Scene #Club Culture #Crevette Records

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Artist and director Leila Ziu explores dance culture and alternate realities with Altered States on the Dancefloor, a triptych of audiovisual works that correspond to three different rooms at a virtual rave. Featuring musical contributions from Rian Treanor, Paleman and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, each room sees Ziu experimenting with a variety of disciplines and styles, moving between experimental choreography, video montage, as well as 2D and 3D animation. Previously working with Outlook and Dimensions festival as their festival site designer, as well as making videos for Sports Banger and Pearson Sound, Leila Ziu’s work is intimately connected to dance music and club culture. “Altered States on the Dancefloor” is a manifestation of the primal urge to connect, to sweat together in a shared space, a drive that is only intensified at a time when dancing together is more difficult than ever and the spaces left for us to do so are few and far between. Ziu envisions an alternate reality where all this is made possible and in so doing maps out a blueprint for brighter times ahead. Watch “Altered States on the Dancefloor” here:

Room 1 - Sound by Rian Treanor

Room 2 - Sound by Paleman

Room 3 - Sound by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

#Visual #Audiovisual #Electronic Music #Leila Ziu #x2 #Experimental #Rian Treanor #Paleman #Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs #Visuals #Electronic #Performance #Visual Artist #Visual Art #Choreography #Animation #Video Montage

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Gabber subculture originated in the Netherlands in the late ’80s, a hardcore, industrial take on techno that functioned as a more approachable introduction to the house music scene - Gabber, a term coined by Rotterdam based DJ Paul Elstak, comes from a Yiddish slang term that means “friend.” While gabber music can be recognized by its visceral, fast, bass-heavy beats, the subculture has also expanded into an aesthetic movement, often identified by tracksuits, shaved heads, and an ultimately anti-fashion attitude. Music and social project Wixapol—“Wixa” meaning “raving,” and “pol” regarding Poland—have been throwing their namesake parties since 2012, popular events amongst Polish youth culture. The group provides the soundtrack for Poland’s next generation of gabber kids as they show off their signature fashion and moves in an exclusive video by Stanislaw Boniecki for Document Journal.

#Photography #Gabber #Hardcore #Netherlands #Warsaw #Subculture #Poland #Rave #Scene #Culture #Electronic Music #Dance #Fashion #Nineties #90s

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There’s no denying that Japanese hardware - synthesizers, drum machines, and DJ gear - has exerted a huge influence on dance music. How did this island nation come to dominate music production and playback?

It was quite a phenomenon. There were a few decades – mostly in the ‘80s and ‘90s – where the entire chain of dance music production, from creation to playback, was monopolized by Japanese products. Sounds were created on Roland, Yamaha and Korg synthesizers and drum machines, played by DJs in clubs on Technics turntables with Audio-Technica cartridges, Pioneer DJ CDJs and mixers, and listened to by punters on Sony Walkmans and home stereo units. Japanese products were involved in almost every stage of the process and we barely even noticed. How did Japan go from the butt of jokes – ‘Made in Japan’ used to be a pejorative, much like ‘Made in China’ is today – to the global leader of dance music electronics? To get to the bottom of this, the Attack Magazine assembled a world-class group of experts, including Japanese engineers and a synthesizer documentarian and Japanologist, and asked them, “How did Japanese music technology come to dominate the dance music world?”

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#Machines #Instruments #Synthesizer #Drum Machines #DJ Gear #Japan #Technology #Roland #Yamaha #Korg #Electronic #Electronic Music #Japanese Electronic #History

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Modulations is a feature-length documentary from 1998 that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

#Electronic Music #1990s #Nineties #History #Documentary #90s #Electronic #Music #Modulations #Theremin #Juan Atkins #Kevin Saunderson #Mixmaster Morris #Tom Jenkinson #Liam Howlett #Prodigy #DJ Sneak #Derrick Carter #Armand Van Helden #Alec Empire #Terre Themlitz #x2 #Afrika Banmbaataa #Giorgio Moroder #Lara Lee #Movie #Techno #Noise #Culture #Rave

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The photo series “Underground Berlin” by photographer Nalie combined with fashion designs by Ivy Berlin it gives that 90s vibe so hard. More festival and club fashion can be found on the Yvi Berlin website.

#Fashion #Nightlife #Berlin #Photography #Photographers #Nineties #Yvi Berlin #Nalie #Undergound #Berlin Underground #Hermannplatz

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Photographs by visual artist Seana Gavin that take a trip back to the '90s underground rave scene. In her Photobook, Spiralled, she is taking us on a trip back to the nineties when she was an underage devotee of the underground rave scene. Her images reveal a life of travelling and parties, just as the UK government introduced the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act that clamped down on illegal raves and other forms of "anti-social" behaviour. It was around that time that sound systems like the famous Spiral Tribe quit Britain for Europe, and Seana went with them. She lived this travelling life, kept a diary, took the pictures and then, for near on two decades, kept it under wraps. Until now. “Spiralled” is a personal visual history of the "fuck-the-system" movement of truck and caravan convoys that crisscrossed Europe staging free festivals, raves and largely peaceful parties in open fields and disused industrial buildings. Featuring her photographs and thoughts, the book also includes an ephemeral archive of posters and flyers. Her images certainly document a great but largely lost freedom. Freedom from smartphones, social media and Zoom calls. And, of course, freedom of movement. She adds: "Spiralled is a document that celebrates all of this while taking you on the winding journey through a decade of my life."

"Spiraled" by Seana Gavin was released by IDEA in 2020 and was available in a limited edition of 750 copies. You can see more of Seana Gavin's work on her website and instagram.

#Electronic Music #Festivals #UK #Rave #Scene #Photobook #Books #Nineties #1990s #90s #Techno #Spiralled #People #Photography #Rave Scene #Underground #Photographers