My friends are so cool....
I scored a photo/press pass to go to the Detroit's Electronic Music Festival this year. I am super excited especially cause Phoenix will be doing video work on the old school industrial night and lots of my friends are participating and just visiting. Check out the list of artists. Wow! And Mutek is next week! Can't wait.
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Also Bryan is in Time Out this week.
Freaks come out at night
MAJOR KEYS Jan Jelinek hauls his sizable supply of synths to the Bunker.
Brush with fete
“It seems like everyone freaks out about the Winter Music Conference every year,” laments the Bunker’s DJ Spinoza, referring to the big dance-music clambake held annually in Miami. “But Detroit and Montreal get very little love.” He has a valid point. The WMC is basically a hooch-soaked hoedown where you might happen to hear some cool music, and all those open bars tend to attract the always-thirsty music press. But the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (a.k.a. Movement), which takes its inspiration from the Motor City’s status as the birthplace of techno, and Montreal’s MUTEK powwow, which focuses on minimal and experimental textures, have appreciation of music—rather than the search for free ethanol—as their raisons d’être. (Check out demf.com and mutek.ca for more on the events.)
This year’s DEMF runs from Saturday 27 through Monday 29; MUTEK kicks off Wednesday 31 and runs through June 4. But Spinoza isn’t waiting around. He’s invited two of electronic music’s finest—who happen to both be playing at the festivals—to the Bunker bash on Friday 26 as a local prelude to the two confabs. The fiesta features Zip, co-owner of the influential Perlon label, who makes rubbery microhouse with Sammy Dee as Pantytec and produces solo under the Dimbiman name. He’s also a superb DJ, which is a good thing, as that’s what he’ll be doing at the Bunker on Friday 26. And Spinoza’s scored a real coup by securing the services of one of the sound’s most celebrated figures, ~scape recording artist Jan Jelinek, who works in a myriad of styles under the Gramm and Farben monikers, among others. He’ll be performing a live version of his latest album, Kosmischer Pitch, with collaborators Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtman. The party will surely be packed, which raises a question: Why can’t New York have something equivalent to DEMF or MUTEK? The answer, according to Spinoza, is simple. “It’s just way too expensive,” he says, “to put all these artists up in hotels here.”
©2006 Time Out New York
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Also Bryan is in Time Out this week.
Freaks come out at night
MAJOR KEYS Jan Jelinek hauls his sizable supply of synths to the Bunker.
Brush with fete
“It seems like everyone freaks out about the Winter Music Conference every year,” laments the Bunker’s DJ Spinoza, referring to the big dance-music clambake held annually in Miami. “But Detroit and Montreal get very little love.” He has a valid point. The WMC is basically a hooch-soaked hoedown where you might happen to hear some cool music, and all those open bars tend to attract the always-thirsty music press. But the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (a.k.a. Movement), which takes its inspiration from the Motor City’s status as the birthplace of techno, and Montreal’s MUTEK powwow, which focuses on minimal and experimental textures, have appreciation of music—rather than the search for free ethanol—as their raisons d’être. (Check out demf.com and mutek.ca for more on the events.)
This year’s DEMF runs from Saturday 27 through Monday 29; MUTEK kicks off Wednesday 31 and runs through June 4. But Spinoza isn’t waiting around. He’s invited two of electronic music’s finest—who happen to both be playing at the festivals—to the Bunker bash on Friday 26 as a local prelude to the two confabs. The fiesta features Zip, co-owner of the influential Perlon label, who makes rubbery microhouse with Sammy Dee as Pantytec and produces solo under the Dimbiman name. He’s also a superb DJ, which is a good thing, as that’s what he’ll be doing at the Bunker on Friday 26. And Spinoza’s scored a real coup by securing the services of one of the sound’s most celebrated figures, ~scape recording artist Jan Jelinek, who works in a myriad of styles under the Gramm and Farben monikers, among others. He’ll be performing a live version of his latest album, Kosmischer Pitch, with collaborators Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtman. The party will surely be packed, which raises a question: Why can’t New York have something equivalent to DEMF or MUTEK? The answer, according to Spinoza, is simple. “It’s just way too expensive,” he says, “to put all these artists up in hotels here.”
©2006 Time Out New York