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Celebrating 2 years of Electronic Directory: French-soul-man Erell Ranson provides a mix of techno soul and jacking house that shows his love for Detroit and Chicago.

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You can catch Abdul Qadim Haqq with Alton Miller at the following:

• Mar 13. – Sunsui, Osaka
  
• Mar 14. – Angelo, Yokosuka
  
• Mar 19. – Loft, Nagano
  
• Mar 20. – Club Mago, Nagoya
  
• Mar 21. – Club Four, Shizuoka
  
• Mar 21. – Rajishan, Shizuoka

To celebrate the release of his new "Technanomicron Volume 1" – Abdul Haqq will also be hosting the Technanomicron exhibition at I & I in Yokohama and at Cafe Infi in Shizuoka.

• Mar 8 – Mar 23. – I & I, Yokohama
  
• Mar 8 – Mar 20. – Cafe Infi, Shizuoka
  

The eleventh edition of the Electronic Directory podcast is from GrooveMedia man Chuck Bleu, who makes a tasty selection of deep techno.

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Jeff Mills Interview By Derek Walmsley – Legendary Detroit DJ and producer keeps it real with Derek Walmsley.

Overfly – 3024′ Dutchman Martyn gets behind the decks for Rough Trade.

RA.141 Marco Passarani – Marco Passarani mixes up records from the Peacefrog label on this week’s RA podcast.

• (in no particular order)
• Chymera – Sumatra [Figure]
• James Kumo – Kumomusic Vol 2 [Ann Aimee]
• Roberto Bosco – Soul Confusion EP [Seventh Sign]
• Master-H & Greg Oreck – Coffee Is Ecstasy [Komplex De Deep]
• Morphosis – Cetrik [M>O>S]
• Samuel L Session – Rain [Music Man]
• Agoria – Diva Drive (Fabrice Lig remix) [PIAS/Different]
• Edit-Select – Edit-Select 5 [Edit-Select]
• Slam – Hot Knives [Paragraph]
• Arne Weinberg – Alpha & Omega [AW-Recordings]

Celebrating 2 years of Electronic Directory, the next instalment of the Podcast comes from Esteban Adame, one half of ICAN.

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SUB-SCAPE will bring some of the most exciting artists in the underground techno scene to the Antwerp’s Café Capital, including names such as Function, Rob Hall, Juan Atkins, and Marcel Dettmann.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Café Capital, Antwerpen | Doors open at 11pm | €7 w/pre-mail / €9 on door

• FUNCTION
• WILL O’BRIEN

SUB-SCAPE proudly presents Function, one of the driving forces behind the revered record label Sandwell District on Friday 6th February at Café Capital in Antwerp.

Sandwell District is, without doubt, THE underground techno label of the moment. With support from all quarters (they count Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Len Faki and the Berghain crew, Laurent Garnier, Miss Kitten, Jeff Mills, Sleeparchive, Speedy J and Troy Pierce among their many devotees) they have not just blurred the boundaries of techno, but have dissolved them and re-built it in their own unique image.

As stalwarts of the hugely influential Downwards label, Function and Regis have been breaking down and re-arranging the D.N.A of conventional dance music for over a decade. Sandwell District however is very much it’s own animal and although it shares many of its ideals with the iconic Downwards, it is very much a label of the here and now. As Beatportal recently put it, "Influential British techno label Downwards are causing waves with their new imprint Sandwell District, as is Marcel Dettmann, Shed and Sleeparchive, who have all picked up where Downwards left techno in the late 1990s."

With Function already scoring 2 massive underground hits in 2008, with his ‘Isolation’ and ‘Anticipation’ EPs and Regis causing major waves on the underground as his alter ego KALON, it seems as if in the past 12 months, Sandwell District can do no wrong. Going from strength to strength with every release, so far this year both Function’s mighty ‘Isolation’ and the Kalon and Function Mixes of Silent Servant’s ‘Violencia’ earned DJ Mag ‘techno record of the month’, Function’s ‘Anticipation’ held the #1 Bestselling Techno Record position for 6 weeks on Juno in June the label earned Resident Advisor’s prestigous, Label of the Month, and currently the Kalon and Function mixes of Silent Servant are getting major airplay and DJ Support. And now with mixes from Marcel Dettmann and Troy Pierce in the pipeline for the next Sandwell 12"s, as well as Function remixing Miss Kitten, Heartthrob (Minus) and the Richie Hawtin, Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique +8 classic, Final Exposure ‘Vortex’, 2009 is already promising to be another major year for SANDWELL DISTRICT.

Function will perform a special semi-live dj set incorporating vintage Roland synths and drum machines for the first time in Belgium on Friday 6th February with support from resident Will O’Brien.

Reduced entrance price with pre-mail from info@sub-scape.com