electronic directory

Friday, May 1, 2009

Café Capital, Antwerpen | Doors open at 11pm | €8 w/pre-mail / €10 on door

• MARCEL DETTMANN
• WILL O’BRIEN

SUB-SCAPE presents Marcel Dettmann, resident DJ at Berlin’s infamous techno mecca Berghain and recording artist for Ostgut Ton and his own MDR imprint, on Friday 1st May at Café Capital in Antwerp’s city park. Dettmann’s only previous performance in Belgium was at I Love Techno in 2008. Renowned for his marathon DJ sessions at Berghain, he’ll play a special long set at SUB-SCAPE which is sure to be something that will live even longer in the memory !

Reduced entrance price – info@sub-scape.com

The third in our Subject Detroit/Real Booking Artist Agency partnership series is from (Subject) Belgium’s Trish van Eynde, who shows us how she plays with three turntables.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Niko Marks is a heavyweight musically speaking, having played in groups with the likes of Mike Banks and Eddie "Flashin’" Fowlkes, and released records on labels like Planet E, 430 West, City Boy Records and his own label U2X Productions, and a few others as well… He speaks to Electronic Directory about the DEMF, the new album with 365 Blak, and what the future holds for him.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Electronic Directory runs an interview for the lost tribe of techno. The first one with DJ Nasty. Hailing from Detroit he has made a name for himself by DJing, producing and running the Twilight 76 sister label, Motor City Electro Company. He talks to Electronic Directory about ghetto-tech, his musical influences and his forthcoming project with Subject Detroit.

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• (in no particular order)
• Jeff Mills – The Good Robot [Axis]
  
  Classic artist, classic label, classic record.
• Laurent Garnier – Gnanmankoudji [PIAS]
  
  Fantastic. I have been playing ‘Original Broken-Afro Mix’ for a while now and just adore the track !
• Ican – El Quinto EP [Ican Productions]
  
  An absolutely awesome record, very original and super cool.
• Vince Watson – My Desire [Planet E]
  
  Beautiful work as always from Vince Watson.
• Rolando – The Afterlife EP [Saved Records]
  
  For me definitely the finest Rolando work since the Aztec Mystic releases – ‘The Afterlife’, a very classy Detroit shit.
• DJ Bone – Encounter 2 [Bastardo Electrico]
  DJ Bone returns with slammin’ Encounter stuff. Thanks to Jamie Behan for making this happen.
• Santiago Salazar – Arcade [Macro Recordings]
  
  Another S² gem – once again deepness and darkness. Stefan Goldmann does a fine job too, a gorgeous piece of music.
• Stefan Goldmann – Art Of Sorrow [Victoriaville]
  
  Biiiiiiig, fucking massive. Goldmann did it again.
• Dactilar – Phonograph EP [Organica Music Labworks]
  
  Sounds very Detroit/Sheffield inspired. Very good indeed.
• Mark Broom & Mihalis Safras – Jelle [Soma]
  
  Good as always from these two great producers – Mark and Mihalis are always consistent.

[Sound Noir] Sound Noir Podcast 001 – DJ DEX – DJ Dex puts the needle on the records in the Sound Noir Podcast.

[mnml ssgs] Why I Can Never Return to (the) Womb – mnml ssgs Cameron Eeles talks about the infamous club, "Womb". It is a personal opinion but I totally agree with Cameron.

Electronic Directory is on Fairtilizer – You can get archived Electronic Directory podcasts.

Electronic Directory is about to feature a new phase for Subject Detroit. Subject Detroit has new music from DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde as well as new album from DJ Bone. You can get a sneak preview of upcoming releases here.