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You can catch some of those DJs on the REAL Booking Artist Agency roster this weekend.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Sankeys, Manchester | Doors open at 10:30pm | £15 on door

• DJ BONE
• DJ RUSH
• BEN SIMS

DJ Bone, DJ Rush and Ben Sims at Sankeys, Manchester. Don’t forget to check out Ed Mackie podcast with DJ Bone.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Private Loft, Los Angeles (* hotline: 213-403-0113) | Doors open at 10pm | $10 on door

• LEVON VINCENT
• SANTIAGO SALAZAR
• REG XELLE

Levon Vincent joins Santiago Salazar in his residency this Saturday in Los Angeles.

Terrence Parker is scheduled to hit the road this summer for a short tour of Japan. The tour will begin on July 11th with a beach party in Enoshima, and moves on to Tokyo before arriving at Kyoto on July 16th. August will see a duo of venues taking in Tokyo and Hamamatsu. Parker then plays some dates across the States and Singapore before heading back to Tokyo, and then off to Hamamatsu for his final show on August 15th. Check out the dates below for further information:

• Jul 11. – The Beach Cafe, Enoshima
• Jul 16. – Eleven Tokyo
• Jul 18. – Metro Kyoto
• Aug 14. – The Rooftop, Tokyo
• Aug 15. – cafe 2693-1, Hamamatsu

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Following on from the success of last spring’s "Technanomicron" tour, Alton Miller and Abdul Haqq will be returning to Japan next month for a number of dates.

Alton Miller is one of the original founders of the Detroit Music Institute and it’s been 20 years now since the club closed its doors, while Abdul Haqq has been drawing and sculpting to techno music for two decades now, doing artwork for labels such as Transmat, Planet E and Underground Resistance. To mark the 20th anniversary, they’ll be touring together, playing dates together in Nagano, Tokyo (at La Fabrique), Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Gifu and Kanagawa.

Electronic Directory caught up with Alton Miller and Abdul Haqq to chat about their upcoming Japanese tour and how they’re planning to celebrate their anniversary.

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W.A.R.M.T.H. is the organization run by Detroit’s own Aaron-Carl, hosting a weekly Internet radio show "The W.A.R.M.T.H. Sessions" and organizing its own events.

The organization is set to host a Thanksgiving Eve event at Club Oslo. For this event, they’ll be bringing out a diverse selection of some of the Detroit’s hottest electronic artists.

Aaron-Carl speaks to Electronic Directory about his W.A.R.M.T.H. organization, the upcoming Preservation event and future plans for the organization. We then caught up with fellow Detroit DJ Bone, who will be playing alongside Aaron, to ask a few questions about the W.A.R.M.T.H. and how he prepares for the event.

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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

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Cielo Club, Mons | Doors open at 11pm | €10 on door

• FABRICE LIG
• BRANDY
• MASSIMO DACOSTA
• SPIRIT CATCHER
• KOLOMBO
• ROMAIN

Mons’ brand new club, Cielo, opens its doors this Saturday. The opening night will be all about Cielo, with Spirit Catcher playing DJ, and Brandy, Massimo Dacosta, Kolombo and Romain backing up Fabrice Lig on the turntables.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Café Capital, Antwerpen | Doors open at 11pm | €10 in advance

• JUAN ATKINS
• WILL O’BRIEN

SUB-SCAPE proudly presents Juan Atkins, the originator of Detroit techno music, on Friday 3rd April at Café Capital in Antwerp’s Stadspark.

At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a futuristic music which welded the more cosmic side of Parliament funk with rigid computer synth-pop embodied by Kraftwerk and the techno-futurist possibilities described by sociologist Alvin Toffler, Atkins produced hi-tech dance music gems under aliases such as Cybotron, Model 500 and Infiniti. The track "Clear," recorded by Atkins and Rick Davis as Cybotron in 1982, is widely regarded as being the very first techno release.

Juan founded his own label, Metroplex Records, and recorded his first single as Model 500, "No UFO’s", in 1985. This seminal track, along with other groundbreaking Metroplex singles like "Night Drive", "Interference" and "The Chase", set the template for Detroit techno; moody and sublime machine music, inspired by the drone of automated factories and trips down the I-96 freeway late at night.

His output continued during the nineties through Belgian R&S Records and Berlin’s Tresor Records. Atkins visited Tresor’s studio in 1993 and worked with 3MB, the in-house production team of Thomas Fehlmann and Moritz Von Oswald. He returned to Berlin several years later to begin recording what was, surprisingly, his first album since the days of Cybotron. Finally, in mid-1995, R&S released the debut Model 500 album, "Deep Space". The label also released "Classics", a crucial compilation of Model 500′s best Metroplex singles output. Another retrospective, Tresor’s "Infiniti Collection", traced Atkins’ work as Infiniti, recorded from 1991 to 1994. The second full Model 500 album, "Mind and Body", was released in 1999 on R&S.

Since then Atkins has remained active, releasing an album of new productions entitled "The Berlin Sessions" and compiling the "20 Years Metroplex" double-disc, both released by Tresor.

More recently Juan has embarked on a Model 500 live project with a line-up of Detroit musicians including Mad Mike Banks of Underground Resistance.

"High Tech Soul", a documentary exploring the deep roots of techno music alongside the cultural history of Detroit, focuses on Atkins along with fellow techno innovators Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson and explains why techno, with its abrasive tones and resonating basslines, could not have come from anywhere but Detroit.

Those who appreciate true techno music will not want to miss this chance to hear Magic Juan Atkins play in the intimate setting that is SUB-SCAPE at Café Capital.

Support from resident Will O’Brien.

Presale tickets available at Fnac stores and online at www.fnac.be

Café Capital, Rubenslei 37, Stadspark, 2018 Antwerp

Friday, March 6, 2009

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

• ROB HALL
• WILL O’BRIEN

Rob Hall’s style is genuinely refreshing, distinctive, and energetic. The defining characteristic of his performances is his ability to expertly blur the lines between techno, electronica, industrial, ebm, rave, and electro. He sensitively moves between these genres without losing flow or momentum, creating a cohesive but constantly shifting set, while managing to tailor his selections to suit the performers he is playing with on the night and for the entertainment of the audience he is playing for.

Rob began his career at techno night Megatripolis held weekly at the legendary London venue Heaven. His first of many appearances there was with Autechre in the summer of 1992. Rob Hall’s connection to Autechre is long established and infact Autechre have been his most valued friends and biggest supporters. He has played support DJ on most of the highly successful Warp duo’s tours over the last 14 years.

From 1995 to 2006, he also worked closely with Andy Maddocks and Ged O’Hara running the highly revered and respected Skam Recordings label, releasing music from artists including Gescom, Bola, Shadowhuntaz and Boards of Canada.

Rob has also contributed to numerous productions, remixes and live sets as part of the Gescom project, a collective consisting of a diverse range of producers, including Autechre and Bola. Many DJs and producers cite the work of Autechre and Gescom as being highly inspirational on their work, including Radiohead, LFO, Surgeon, Coil, Oscar Mulero, Mark Broom and Exium.

After 17 years of refusing to compromise or dumb down his sound, Rob Hall’s skills are constantly in demand and he is widely regarded as one of the most talented and influential DJs in his field, with Mark Broom, Surgeon, Regis, Ellen Allien, Meat Beat Manifesto, Andrea Parker, Plaid, LFO, Squarepusher, Speedy J, Marco Passarani and Adam X all happy to wax lyrical about his sets.

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
  

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.