It was a very successful year for Dim Mak Records. They have compiled a lot of the highlights for you. Including Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki, Mustard Pimp and Atari Teenage Riot.

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STEVE AOKI TEAMS UP WITH MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ & CLIFTON COLLINS JR

FOR “WAKE UP CALL” !

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New video is officially released next week!

According to Aoki’s official twitter, he will be appearing on a track called “Codebreaker” on Atari Teenage Riot ‘s upcoming album on Dim Mak Records!

Zu Deutsch: Steve Aoki bringt nächste Woche neuen Video raus! Die Bilder sprechen klar für sich. Schaut Euch den Teaser an! Top Schauspieler sind auch wieder dabei.

Laut Twitter ist Aoki auch auf dem neuen Atari Teenage Riot Album bei einem Track names “Codebreaker” vertreten. Raven, moshen, stagediving bis nichts mehr geht…das passt!

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Alec Empire interviews new New York based producer Bad Brilliance!

click here for QUACKHEAD

Alec Empire:

“Bad Brilliance – you are from New York, Brooklyn. Were you born there ?
tell us about the city. How is it these days? Is the energy back? Story over
here in Berlin goes that New York and L.A. are the cities of the next decade
(while London and Berlin will be crossed of the map)….”

Bad Brilliance:

“I was born in Brazil, raised in Rio de Janeiro until I was 9. Now I live as a full time artist in New York, i hate offices and jobs.
New York has a lot of energy, it just isn’t where you would expect to find it.? In the summer it’s kind of explosive, but it’s also important to ask a cab driver where he likes to party and not just rely on whatever activities are targeted at young people.

As far as the cities of the next decade i think they already are facebook, twitter, pitchfork, you tube.

People are not living in a physical location anymore, they are living on the internet.? Someone in New York would have gone out to an event on a tuesday night ten years ago, but this year they have the option of sitting at home on the internet and working on their fame.? It’s somewhat dark.”

Bad Brilliance with Sophia Lamar

Alec:

“Is there a genre definition for your sound? Is that Hip Hop? Do you even
care about genre definitions these days?”

Bad Brilliance:

“According to me the genre of my music is Rap – more of the fast and dirty version of hip-hop.? Whenever you hear someone say that they are interested in HIP HOP over Rap because it has more integrity, that is the opposite of what I am going for.? I am interested in that sound accompanied with the least integrity.? Just the pure syrup.

I am also fascinated by Hyphy and other variations of rap/hip hop.? I think that genre’s have a place in the discussion of music because all of these obsessions have to be organized.? People have to be funneled into their obsessions with certain sounds.? It’s intense how there are extreme reactions for or against certain genres.? To me it’s like saying that you hate dinosaurs because they are too trendy.? It’s just a specie or creature with certain properties based on a previous creature.

At the same time, i think that the genre of POP is the most powerful and it’s intense how it changes and also amazing the effect that subgenres have on it.”

Alec:

“The image many Europeans get from the US is that all genres are very
divided and don’t really cross. Many wouldn’t never believe that a guy like
Andrew WK would appear on a track like “Quackhead”. Please describe your
scene.”

Bad Brilliance:

“The thing that everyone has to understand is that people are more complex than you would imagine.? I’m obsessed with rap, but when I hear Brazilian music from my childhood it makes me want to cry with joy and love.? If you feel like you have Andrew W.K. figured out based on his product then you would never know how excited he is about Baby Birdman, or Gucci Mane.? Genres are only divided in Middle Schools where music is an intense reality for the inexperienced.? That might also be the best time in someone’s life to enjoy music.? The strange thing about Hip Hop or Rap is that it has transcended it’s own genre by being a complete lifestyle, clothing, speech, if you are African American it’s impossible to avoid it.

click here for BB on YouTube
My scene… is me in the shower blasting HOT 97 every day before i get started with my work – I am often photographing fashion shoots and album artwork, that is how Andrew W.K. met me. You can roughly see my work at www.andrewstrasser.com .? It’s very heavy on the lighting.

There are also other artists that I work with, I do album art for Girl Talk, he is also obsessed with rap/hip hop, and when I go on tour with him to do stage visuals the tour bus is always blaring rap and hip hop.? Essentially it’s white people who are jealous of rap.”

Alec:

“Santos Party House – a new club…how is it? Are you playing there as
well? Andrew posted us the link….what do you think of the New York club
scene?”

Bad Brilliance:

“Santos Party House for me is a club and also a home. ? I can land form a flight and immediately head to Santos.? If it’s a friday night things can get very intense, I have seen P Diddy and Ciara there before, and my sister saw Busta’ Rhymes and LL Cool J.? Also you can totally run into Bjork or Thurston Moore on a Tuesday.? I designed the website for Santos, so it’s pretty easy for me to walk to the front of an extremely long line and get in.? Also in costume I have great success getting into the most exclusive clubs in New York – there might be someone in a suit begging to pay 10,000 G’s for bottle service and they will let Bad Brilliance float through the door.

The New York club scene is very exciting if you are visiting.? Otherwise it’s all about specific weeklies etc. There is an entire economy around weekly events in the gay world, I call it the Gay Economy, and I have sent you a design for that term that I created”

Alec:

“You mentioned to me via Twitter that one of your first shows was with
Digital Hardcore underdogs Ec8or years back. How was that? What did you
think of this sound back then?”

Bad Brilliance:

“I was obsessed with DHR in high school, I wanted to be on <20, and I made little songs here and there.? My favorite was Bomb 20.? I remember there were other people floating around that had a similar style, this one guy TRS-80 had? a website and the shit he did was amazing,? prank phone calls.? Anyone who tried to contact him got a very cruel treatment from him. He was not interested in scenes.? Also there was another guy Combat Drug.

There were many people that were circling around the DHR style and vibe, and it was one of the more intense times in my life, and it was all on the internet.? I remember installing a red light bulb in my room so i could live in a DHR music video that I had seen on AMP on mtv at 3 AM and my mother came crying and screaming to take it down.

When I was in Cleveland going to Art School, I found out that I could open for Ec8or at a strange place called Speak In Tongues, sort of a bombed out hole in the wall.? This was amazing news for me, it was like opening for the Smashing Pumpkins in my mind.? The other band that played was Black Dice, they saw my show.? It was just a fat little boy sitting behind a computer playing music that sounded like this http://www.imeem.com/badbrilliance/music/zWlJ-rjj/andriu-ill-never-forget-cherry-cherry-island/
It was a combination fo DHR and being completely bored in the American suburbs.? I was living in Poughkeepsie, NY at the time. It is a totally fucked place, very trailer park oriented.? The mall is a way of life, with coffee and grease stains on everything.”
click to watch pioneer duo Ec8or

Alec:

“How do you record your music? Is that a bedroom thing or what is going on?”

Bad Brilliance:

“I record most of my music on my laptop on my stomach laying in bed.? My goal is to have the most portable set up. I want to have an entire studio in a bag.? All I need is my laptop, soundcard and microphone and I can make radio hits if needed.? The only thing stopping me is my mind. “

click for BAD BANK

Alec:

“What’s the idea behind Bad Brilliance? On your website there are many
pictures showing you in your outfit harrassing people at the New York
Fashion week haha…Do you perform in these clothes? Do you walk around in
the street of Brooklyn like that? Do you ever get in trouble?”

Bad Brilliance:

” Bad Brilliance began as a reaction to my work in the field of New York society photography.? I was an underpaid worker labeling names on the photos of New York society people for a website, so that magazines could pick them up.? It was a wonderful time but at the same time I learned a lot about the business, it was a big McDonalds to me.? So I created a conceptual society person.? He has his name on his face so you know who he is.? That is the Bad Brilliance of it.

As soon as I began photographing myself I was flown out to Amsterdam, that’s when I knew I had created the ultimate socialite.? An evolution.? I was invited to fashion week once, but was not allowed to wear my costume. I was invited as Bad Brilliance and received a call to attend in normal clothing.? It was a Diesel runway show, I brought Andrew W.K. along to that and it was quite wonderful.? I get dragged about, one time I witnessed a porno shoot in my costume.? I took my little red wind up toy car and let it drive under the bed where people were boning.? Also I attend different society events. I am greeted with love and hate, some people are so excited and I am asked to take a photograph with someone every 30 seconds, otherwise someone comes up to me and whispers something very dark and hurtful into my costume.
I never get in trouble, but often I am escorted out of an event by the PR people and their goons.”

Alec:

“What are your next plans?”

Bad Brilliance:

“My next plans are to get the music rolling along.? I need to start recording seriously on microphone.? I have an EP planned out with Andrew W.K.’s Skyscraper Music Maker, and with his partnership with Cargo Records.? It will be 6 songs and the goal is get every moment of it to sound as heavy as possible.? I’m very excited to be working with Andrew, he is one of the most amazing people you will meet.

Aside from that I am working on doing a residency in Miami as Bad Brilliance.? Miami is a great place for my costume.? All the rappers live there or have summer homes there, and also the women are beautiful and I relate to any city that reminds me of Rio in it’s superficiality and beach culture.”

red carpet to nowhere is his upcoming ep on andrew wk’s record label

GET IT!

check out Bad Brilliance on Myspace!

official website! click here!

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Hello to the Sound Unbound crew!

I’m just writing to say a basic hi and to give you a tiny update about what’s been going on! It’s been a while since we all corresponded about Sound Unbound, and there have been many developments. We’ve had highly successful book launches everywhere from Melbourne, Toronto, Vienna, Capetown, London, Berlin, Naples, Paris, Rome, Milan, San Francisco, Washington DC, Yale, MIT and many spots in between, and the book has been pretty much one of MIT’s best selling books for the last several months. I still have to hit parts of Asia (Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Calcutta etc probably over the summer) and the Moscow/St Petersburg releases will be in the autumn.

We’re getting everything ready for the amazon.com Kindle release of Sound Unbound, and we’re getting the book geared up for a “remix” – all essays that were in the normal book form (except Simon Reynolds) will migrate to new electronic forms. To spice up the electronic editions, there will be several additions and many more web links (sound mixes, excerpts from compositions etc). You can follow details at www.soundunbound.com

We’re adding a short afterward by an old friend of mine, the renowned hiphop historian Jeff Chang, author of the best selling hip hop history “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.” More on that in a little while.

During the interim, check out the book! It’s doing quite well in the academic scene!

It was very difficult to get everyone’s essay into the book, but it’s been a gratifyingly dynamic situation. The book isn’t really a “commercial” situation – it’s been a passion of mine to break down barriers between scenes, styles, and above all – genres. Where else would you find Pierre Boulez and Chuck D hanging out (by the way, I’d love to put you two together one of these days!). Call it “book as playlist entropy!” Anyway, thanks again!

in peace,
Paul aka Dj Spooky

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TRACK LISTING:

1. IRMLER/REUBER: Kintopp Lifelike (Alec Empire Remix)
originals on staubgold 44/staubgold 48 cd/lp

2. GROENLAND ORCHESTER: Haudura
staubgold 7 12″ / staubgold 10 cd

3. KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF: Lichterloh (N?ze Remix)
staubgold 63 12″ / staubgold 70 cd

4. MAPSTATION: When You Collide
staubgold 29 cd/lp

5. SCHWABINGGRAD BALLETT: ICE Bertolt Brecht (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 61 cd/lp

6. ORGAN EYE: Tema #2
staubgold 74 cd/lp

7. THE LOOP ORCHESTRA: Radiophony
quecksilber 5 cd

8. AUTISTIC DAUGHTERS: Hotel Exeter Dining Room
staubgold 81 cd/lp

9. FAUST: Stretch Over All Times
staubgold 37 cd/lp

10. FAUST: A Seventies Event
staubgold 37 cd/lp

11. HARALD SACK ZIEGLER: Gross Genug
staubgold 59 cd

12. DIE WELTTRAUMFORSCHER: Liebe Lilli
staubgold 57 2cd/lp

13. HEAVEN AND FEAT. ALEXANDER HACKE: Scarlet Woman (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 87 cd/lp

14. KLANGWART: Zweitoneins (A.E. Remix)
original on klangstelle 5 lp / staubgold 84 cd/lp

15. BETA ERKO: Zaspiam (A.E. Dub)
original on quecksilber 9 cd

16. PAUL WIRKUS: Blask
quecksilber 4 cd

17. MAPSTATION: More People Than Two (A.E. Dub)
original on staubgold 29 cd/lp

18. ALEC EMPIRE: Outro

EAT YOUR HEART OUT BLOG

ANDREW WEATHERALL DELIVERS 2 EXCLUSIVE DJ MIXES

Andrew Weatherall gave us these two exclusive DJ mixes as a gift, k? There are for you only! We will throw the most insane party on February 12th in Berlin at Tresor Club – where it ALL started!

to me this is important as Andrew’s mix of guitar music and beats back then in the early 90ties created RAVE in Manchester. Who knows where we all would have been without his mixes for Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, That Petrol Emotion, Jah Wobble, James, The Grid, New Order, Saint Etienne, Meat Beat Manifesto, Finitribe, S’Express, A Man Called Adam, Future Sound of London, Galliano, Stereo MC’s, Leftfield, Johnny Lydon, The Wolfgang Press, Psychic TV, Orb & My Bloody Valentine ! (yes, in the gutter! you are right about that)

So Andrew’s mixes are pure education (this is not what he’ll spin that night though). Enjoy them while you can!

Transducers! starts at 21:00 CET on Thursday 12th during Berlinale Film Festival.

Warning: This will be full of actors and film people! (uh yeah baby)

for more info go to:

Official TRANSDUCERS! Website

or

Tresor Berlin!

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December 1st Release of superbag Bass Terror 2xCD (20tracks) !

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The winners will be announced next weekend ,
Saturday 29th of November.

In 1992 Alec Empire and Carl Crack started a sound system
called Bass Terror.
About a handful of other DJs joined right away.
They promoted the first ever purist jungle and breakcore raves
outside the United Kingdom.
In Berlin squads and run down warehouses a new sound was
developed.
Journalists couldn't compare it to rave or breakbeat anylonger.
A new term was chosen:

Breakcore. 

The sound was harder, faster and way louder than its UK
prototype. 




One other significant difference: Bass Terror was highly charged
political with its Anti-Nazi and Anti-Racist slogans and artwork.
Empire and Crack saw the extreme right wing having a rising
influence on the German techno scene.
Bass Terror was formed as a movement of resistance.
One of the first tracks released was called "Hetzjagd auf Nazis!"
(German for "Hunt Down And Kill The Nazis").

Frankfurt based techno label Force Inc. Music Works started
a sublabel called Riot Beats to give this sound a new push
and platform.
A year later Alec Empire would start
Digital Hardcore Recordings (1994).

The original EP series were only released on vinyl
in the years 1992/93.
Now 15 years later, Alec Empire is about to re-release these tracks
for the first time in digital remastered format -
plus previously unreleased tracks from that era! 

when you watch German TV, it’s like seeing grass grow…so uninspiring, so bad….

DJ Diana Frankovic keeps banging out one great program after the other!

while too many radio DJs think too local in this city and hardly use their imagination, she puts together a great selection of tracks.

Our opinion is: forget about the computer generated playlists – anyone can load up a bunch of mp3s, call it internet radio station…..important is the personality which drives a good radio show.

why still have radio, when every track you want to listen to is just a mouse click away?

so the DJ/DJane is what matters at the end!

listen to her latest show!

mms link

radio station link is: click here

She should so get Paul Van Dyke‘s Saturday slot (which is a complete joke by the way- that guy takes the same CD mix he uses for his DJ gigs and streams it….this is exactly the kind of thing which is so boring….but time is our side! we know…dinosaurs) !!!!!

Her show runs night from Sunday to Monday 0:00-3:00

check out her playlist:

Womanizer (The Teenagers Remix) / Britney Spears
Kolany / Jaques Palminger
Naturra / Bj?rk feat. Thom Yorke
Allein alene /Polarkreis 18 vs. Nephew
Tourist / Polarkreis 18
Listen! Those lost at sea sing a song on Christmas Day / Get Well Soon
Cut out / Ray /Death in fiction
Ich und mein Computer / Deichkind / Arbeit nervt (ltd.deluxe edt./ m boy)
Kids (Soulwax Remix) MGMT
New York storm / Tomcraft feat. Tommy Sunshine
3 little words / Frankmusik
When you’re around (Boys Noise Remix) / Frankmusik
Mindestens in 1000 Jahren / Frittenbude
Taken away Digitalism
Detroit / Morgan Geist / Double Night Time
Sky and sand Paul Kalkbrenner / Berlin Calling Soundtrack
Changes of perception / Monika Kruse
Super black / Northern Lite
Erdbeben (1000 Robota Remix) / Fettes Brot
Bullenpolizei / Onkel Berni
My love sees you/ Beni / Kitsun? Maison Compilation 6
Herzensbrecher / Caracho
Was ist Musik / Justus K?hncke / Pop Portrait Tocotronic
Washington DC / The Magnetic Fields / Pop Portrait Tocotronic
Beat control / Tilly And The Wall O
1000 eyes / Alec Empire / The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven
Who took the pill? / Bonaparte
Heureka / Tomte
Tango / Super 700
To cut a long story short / Cazals
Who / Five O’Clock Heroes feat. Agyness Deyn
Your english is good / Tokyo Police Club
Kill me at the ponyranch / Miyagi
Wir ziehen die Zeit / Klez.e
Stilberatung (Restsexualit?t) / PeterLicht / Melancholie & Gesellschaft
No sunlight / Death Cab For Cutie
Bruises / Chairlift
The music makes me sick / It’s A Musical
Waste / The Amber Light / Play
Ion square / Bloc Party / Intimacy
Problems / Alter Me / The Fall
Moscow state circus / Eugene McGuinness

WHO IS JONTY SKRUFFF ?

We have been getting messages asking who he is… so we thought it’s time to feature him.

Check out his latest DJ Mix! (Click line below)

Jonty Skruff DJ Mix OCTOBER 2008

We’ll have to point though that you have to experience him in a club situation. The way the bass frequencies work on your brain and stomach. MP3 format hardly gets across what it feels like in the clubs. But we trust your imagination…close your eyes…..and you’ll know….we are loving this mix….

This is how Jonty is described in his bio:

Jonty plays dirty rocking, bass-heavy electro-tech, mixing together electro, techno, hip hop and rock into a seamless stew of high-energy alternative, cutting edge dance music.

Check his myspace for remixes, upcoming dates and more:

http://www.myspace.com/djjontyskrufff

4 years after launching his DJ career at ultra-fashionable London club Golf Sale (aka Boombox) Jonty Skrufff has firmly established himself on the international alternative electro circuit, headlining underground clubs, festivals and superclubs in twenty-one countries so far.

Picking up prestige repeat bookings everywhere from Pacha Ibiza and Judgement Sunday (Ibiza), to Serbia’s Exit Festival and Czech Republic’s Summer Of Love festival, he’s also toured Brazil four times
(spinning regularly at D-Edge, Vegas and mad tranny institution A Loca) as well as enjoying a high profile tour of China last Christmas.

The 9 gig trip included performances in front of 2,000 revellers at both G Plus superclubs (in Shanghai and Hangzhou) plus an exclusive set before 6,000 Chinese people in Beijing on New Years Eve. The Coca
Cola backed party was Beijing’s first ever official (Western) New Year’s Eve outdoor event and Jonty was the only non-Chinese performer at the high profile event.

Elsewhere, he’s played Japan (Club Ageha), Lithuania, Bahrain, Israel, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Thailand, France, Spain, Holland, Norway, Dubai, Czech Republic and the Balkans (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia) though still plays most frequently in London and Berlin (where he now mainly bases himself when not travelling).

In Berlin, he’s a regular guest at acclaimed trash, rock-electro queercore party Neon Raiders and has also headlined Berlin’s mighty Tresor a number of times after being invited to DJ at the legendary club’s grand re-opening in May 2007.

Spinning alongside fellow Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow, the duo played a joint seven-hour set in the club’s experimental room and made such an impression that Tresor invited them back immediately (to play the very next night)

“At the opening night parties back In May, Batterieraum fans didn’t know what hit them when the dirty rocking bass heavy electro-tech spins by UK’s Jonty Skrufff met the sex-soaked electro style of
Berlin’s Fidelity Kastrow,” said Tresor in their newsletter following the gigs, “These were sparks to remember.”

Back in London, he plays regularly at the capital’s coolest cutting edge clubs, with upcoming gigs include Gutter Slut, Calling All Tribes and Naked Zoo @ Egg (plus an imminent return to Pacha London).

As well as DJing, he also continues to produce and present the Skrufff Show on Ministry Of Sound Radio, as well as publishing his hugely acclaimed weekly sex-drugs-clubs & politics e-zine Skrufff-E
(available at http://www.skrufff.com http://www.skrufff.com).

He’s also now actively involved in making music, co-producing and remixing Fidelity Kastrow’s upcoming single 21st Century Girl and Trainwreck with Radio 1 star Judge Jules, with more productions and releases to follow imminently.

For DJ bookings and more information, please contact Jonty direct at jonty@skrufff.com or email Mark Reeder (mark@mfs-berlin.de ) or Nina Morgenstern @
nina.morgenstern@mindcreatesmatter.com
Promoter Endorsements:

“Thanks for playing at Judgement Sunday, Jonty, It’ll definitely be a repeat performance(s)- there’s been lots of good feedback about your set.”

Judge Jules, Judgement Sunday, Ibiza

“For your absolutely fuckin’ great performance at Exit I have to say only this: Jonty is a prophet from the future and he KNOWS where electro music goes! He takes us there! And now I’m a believer!”"

Predrag Nikolic, Exit Festival (Electrana Stage Organiser), Serbia

“Skrufff (that’s 3 F’s people) has been playing for me since my first ever gig at a small intimate bar in East London many moons ago and he has been a firm favourite ever since. From The Cross to The Key and
now Pacha and 4 years later he’s still destroying the dancefloor week in week out! Legend… although he could do with a haircut!”

James Clent, Pacha London

“Incredible, fantastic, amazing… I don’t know how to express the energy of Jonty Skrufff’s DJ set. His rocking electro-disco-tech simply rocks!!!! and makes people dance all night. They all did in Roxy and O2 club in Prague, Czech Republic. We want Jonty back soon!”

Michal Walterstein, Roxy Prague PR Director, Czech Republic,

“You did an awesome job at Volar. Thanks for putting your heart into it.”
Jaime Ho, Promoter, Club Volar, Hong Kong

“Thank you! It was a great party! We really enjoyed your dirty punking rocking electro set and we also received only positive feedback from the crowd! Let’s Go Punk’s absinthe party has now changed into a tour
where we take the concept forwards. We’re going to meet again soon!”

Gregor Zavcer, Supreme FM and Absinthe Supreme.

“You and Fidelity Kastrow were just great, everybody’s still talking about it. Your set moved even the stones in the fortress. Nothing’s gonna’ be the same again in this city.”

Neofest International Peace Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia

“Jonty’s started a revolution in our town. People here never heard a set like the one he played- everybody’s jumping around, dancing, and his energy is spreading around and going up. We want more definitely.”

Marcella Zanki, Metropolis, Split, Croatia

“Just a quick note to say I love your mix CD for MOS radio. Could you send me a track listing?”

Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, UK