A MASSIVE PARTY DURING BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL AT TRESOR WITH ALEC EMPIRE, PATRICK PULSINGER, ZAN LYONS, DJ REZNIK!

click here to watch Zan Lyons trailer

Tresor Globus Floor 11 February 2010 @ 8pm:
ZAN LYONS’ Berlin Film Festival show. Zan will be performing a new A/V plus strings show and screening his Blade Runner Remix. Followed at midnight (12pm) by ALEC EMPIRE, Patrick Pulsinger and Reznik presenting Transducers Pt. 2 – a dynamite Thursday in Tresor!

Since Zan Lyons released “Desolate” in 2000, his reputation as a musician (violin, viola and cello) and electronic composer has blossomed. The London maverick combines an explosive audiovisual show with a live music performance that simply intoxicates. Heralded by the international press, tonight he will screen his own score for the celebrated, groundbreaking film “Blade Runner” and sharing his amazing work that breathes the dedication he affords his creations..

Tresor Globus Floor midnight-12pm:
Last February Alec Empire treated us to a special appearance to present Transducers, and tonight he is back to give it up with Part 2. With his latest EP “1000 Eyes” from his film “The Golden Foretaste of Heaven“, Alec Empire hasn’t stopped to enjoy the critical success of last year’s full-length album “Shivers“. A sonic terrorist with a mission, Alec Empire is a chameleon in his art, creating his own musical genre and the result is mesmerizing. With support from techno legend Patrick Pulsinger who intelligently weaves stabs of electro, minimal and jazz into passionate, experimental electronica; and steered way into metal-techno territories by Reznik – you haven’t had an evening of such eclectic music in years and yeah, it’s up with that.

JUST CONFIRMED! EUROPEAN PREMIERES OF GODKILLER Pt.1&2 AND POP SKULL! HALO8!

BERLINALE SPECIAL EVENT + TRANSDUCERS PT. 2
11 February, 2010 in Tresor Club

GLOBUS: (20:00 Uhr / 8pm)

- Godkiller Pt.1 (European Premiere!)

- Pop Skull (European Premiere!)

- Godkiller Pt.2 (European Premiere!)

check out Halo 8 – Los Angeles based company does amazing new stuff – it’s coming!

- Film Vertonung, Vorführung / Film soundtrack reworking, screening – LIVE!
- Zan Lyons Live A/V & Strings + Blade Runner RMX screening

GLOBUS: Transducers Pt. 2(23:59 Uhr / midnight)
- Alec Empire (Eat Your Heart Out/ London, Berlin)
- Patrick Pulsinger (Compost, Cheap/ Wien)
- Reznik (Keinemusik/ Berlin)

www.zanlyons.com
www.myspace.com/alecempire
www.myspace.com/patrickpulsinger
www.myspace.com/dancetoreznik

for more information go to Tresor’s official website

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RAVEONETTES GERMAN TOURDATES

Our friends from The Raveonettes go on tour…This time of the year is perfect…snow…pale faces…blue eyes…

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Photo Credit: Davey Wilson

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click here to see J Mascis, Nick Drake, Steve Wonder and Clint Eastwood

Berlin February 4th….the ice is starting to melt away… Transducers Pt.2 Festival next week February 11th at Tresor Club is coming….we are waiting….

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This was released last Autumn at a time when all labels throw Christmas releases at everyone.

So the chance you might have missed out on this is very high, especially when you stayed away from the music media during that time.

Many tried to avoid during the recession to get manipulated into buying something they don’t need.

That’s the right attitude and we support that. (One reason why we stayed under the radar towards the end of the year.)

So we checked if this survived the past months and is still as good as it felt in the first place.

Yes, it is and it gets better, fits better winter of 2010.

It was directed by our friend Burke Roberts in Los Angeles.

click here to watch Warpaint “Stars”

check out more Warpaint songs on their myspace site, especially Billie Holiday

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click here to hear classic Ian Pooley track remixed by Daft Punk

we are telling you this guy is that good! click here

Ian Pooley has been pushing it since a long long time now. Went through many directions in his career. From breakbeat to house records that were sounding R A W . From Chicago to Brazil. One of the lead producers of the Force Inc label based in Frankfurt, Germany. Then he moved to the beach somewhere and became a happy man…but real happy, not fake happy…he earned it….

click here for summer beach track

The real disco from back in the day is for DJs and dance music producers what blues is for punkrockers…

One needs to get back to that every once in a while ….understand where it all started…
now he moved to Berlin! The greatest fucking city of all time

click here for the real thing, ignore the weird DJ pic…was that done at soundcheck WTF???

Let’s wipe the plate clean, ignore those who fucked the dance scene over the past ten years, and move into the future please.

We all owe it to those who go to night clubs every weekend and in between.

That’s we spread this info a few hours before doors open, just want those who come who KNOW…and that is YOU!

(And Alec, if you are not coming because you lock yourself into the studio again, you’re a pu-sseayyy)

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Watch Video Flyer here!

JONTE’ 1/28/2010 @ SANTOS PARTY HOUSE – VIDEO FLYER from Cherie Lily on Vimeo.

Jonte’ LIVE with Cherie Lily, Bad Brilliance, Roxy Cottontail, Narcissister, & DJ Andrew W.K. – THURSDAY, 1/28/2010 @ Santos Party House 7-10:30PM w/ food by DANTE FRIED CHICKEN & open bar 7-8PM. $10 www.ticketweb.com Ages 18+

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http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/various/minimal-wave

In the new decade record reviews have become obsolete…so let’s cut out the middle man from now on…and raise the middlefinger to arrogant so called music ‘journalists’ who cry about bloggers taking a piece of their cake…let’s get this straight, if most magazine hadn’t become so corrupt then readers would still buy print media…but their readership shrinks more each day…no free cocaine for you my friend… this is your end

Here is what Stones Throw wrote…here it from them:

“Minimal Wave: both a genre of underground DIY electronic music from North America and Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and the name of the label devoted to unearthing these recordings. The Minimal Wave Tapes is the first official anthology (on CD, LP and digital) of Minimal Wave music from this label. Most of the songs were originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves, and only a handful of people knew about them. They’ve been remastered from their analog source tapes and compiled here by Minimal Wave’s Veronica Vasicka and Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf.

The Minimal Wave musical genre was hallmarked by the use of the analog synths and drum machines manufactured in the 70s and 80s, and characterized by simple music structures made by musicians working in the early D.I.Y. asthetic: recording on tape in their home studios, creating their own album artwork, and often collaborating via postage mail. The fanzine CLEM (Contact List Of Electronic Musicians) was very influential in creating a worldwide community for this sort of music, before digital technology and the internet came into play.

Minimal Wave the label was founded in New York City in 2005 by Veronika Vasicka, who focused the label solely on obscure Minimal Wave recordings, remastering and releasing them on limited vinyl and digital.

The Minimal Waves Tapes fits neatly into Stones Throw Records’ own tradition of compiling or reissuing the independent music of the past which influences the independent music we make today – 60s funk (The Funky 16 Corners), early 80s hip-hop (The Third Unheard) and West Coast Electro/Rap (Arabian Prince’s Innovative Life) to name a few.”

The Minimal Wave Tapes
Track List:
1. “Way Out Of Living” Linear Movement
2. “Flying Turns” Crash Course In Science
3. “Radiance” Oppenheimer Analysis
4. “Who’s Really Listening” Mark Lane
5. “Tempusfugit” Tara Cross
6. “Blurred” Turquoise Days
7. “Mickey, Please…” Bene Gesserit
8. “Moscú Está Helado” Esplendor Geometrico
9. “Reassurance Ritual” Das Ding
10. “Just Because” Martin Dupont
11. “Game & Performance” Deux
12. “Things I Was Due To Forget” Somnambulist
13. “My Time” Ohama
14. “The Cabinet” Das Kabinette

click here to watch interview with Veronica on
REVELINNEWYORK

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Fever Ray has officially ended the sad decade of money grabbing, Satan’s cock sucking pop stars.

(yes, please cross off ‘girl kissing girl’ and ‘tit hanging out’ from your how to get attention in the media list. also…We don’t need more award shows…pass it on)

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Hey DJ (as in real DJ = vinyl = real hands + brains = physical sound)

that’s the old trick to cover up your records so copy cats can’t figure out what you’re doing.

here it is …now you just have to get rid of all those lame Ed Banger Records….and you’re set…

and remember a DJ is a sender , a teacher, an innovator, someone who takes pieces and puts them back together in a new way… anyone right now can A/B tempo match…

let’s get back to this and take the power BACK!

click here to watch key scene from Rockers 1978 film

don’t let those fools continue to enslave you -

peace

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MOTOR’s new album?HYPER MACHINE is out JAN 26TH, as is upcoming single Death Rave.

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As the title suggests, Motor’s new album?‘HYPER MACHINE’ is abrasive metallic music, combining tough techno beats and raw rock riffs, underscored by “relentless mechanical grooves that spit blood” (as Bryan Black puts it.)

All ten new album tracks retain Motor’s trademark industrial/ rock elements previously showcased on albums Klunk and Unhuman, though this time round the emphasis is firmly on the dance-floor.

“We wanted it to carry on the spirit of those first two records, but at the same time we had to break new ground and we knew after producing just a few rough demos that the new record was going to be seriously raw and off the wall,” says Bryan, “We wanted to get back into the clubs with a fresh sound.”

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Artist- WE
Album – As Is
Track – Magnesium Flares
Label – Asphodel 1997
just a great record….there really was something different happening in New York/Brooklyn around that time.

…just woke up…recorded and recorded….each new album sucks out the last drop of blood in me… pleasure, pain and lust… Berlin is greyer than grey… like the outside world doesn’t exist…..

miss all of you….

Alec

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Ever wanted to know the truth about most remix deals which are being done lately? Watch this clip.

EYHO Blog urges all new and upcoming producers to not give into the bullshit. The “foot in the doorstep” will never happen. (same goes for playing commercial festivals by the way)

It is time musicians unite and fight the exploitation which is going on behind closed doors.

We suggest if you like a track that much that you’ll get on your knees to do it then just do a mash up or bootleg remix and put it online.

Basic rule in the download age: If someone makes money with your shit, you should get your fair share.

(Yes, that also goes for any torrent website that has advertising or takes donations. Share your profits and support each other.)

German band Kraftwerk described themselves as ‘music-workers’ (’Musikarbeiter’)…

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Br?der, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit
Br?der zum Lichte empor!
Hell aus dem dunklen Vergangnen
leuchtet die Zukunft hervor.

Seht, wie der Zug von Millionen
endlos aus N?chtigem quillt,
bis eurer Sehnsucht Verlangen
Himmel und Nacht ?berschwillt!

Br?der, in eins nun die H?nde,
Br?der, das Sterben verlacht!
Ewig, der Sklav’rei ein Ende,
heilig die letzte Schlacht!

UR – it’s time ! click here

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U.F.O. Hawaii has returned with another chilling radio show. 2010 , time to end digital playlists, playlists which were computer generated…we need real people putting together great music pieces…this is what it was always about….

Ufo hawaii 43 by EYHO Blog
U.F.O. HAWAII pt.43
Knickerbocker Irrsinn

Ufo Hawaii – Station ID
Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963) – Kammermusik No. 1 op.24
Fujiya & Miyagi – Knickerbocker
Scala – Irrsinn In Dub
Godley & Creme – Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)
Stephan Micus – Concert for Gender, Shakuhachi and Zither
Sofa Surfers – Gamelan
Käthe Kruse – Le Sexce Rouge
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
Alejandro Franov – Micerino Tema
Faust – Giggy Smile
Come Across Tachimbrod – Medos
Little Dragon – Twice
Panda Bear – Untitled
Zero 7 – The Space Between
Ufo Hawaii – Station ID
Phoenix Foundation – The Break Up

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…and another one

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Nic Endo’s “I didn’t exist” was taken from her album “Cold Metal Perfection”, released in 2001 on London’s GEIST Records. The track was an homage to legendary independent film “Carnival of Souls” from 1962. Nic Endo often mentioned the film as an influence in her interviews, because she could identify with the lead character and her ‘alienation of society’. In 2009 a fan felt inspired to edit a music video from the original footage of the film to her music.

Nic is about to release her 3rd album over the coming months.

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BERLIN-PARIS OPENING PARTY

FRIDAY, 15TH JANUARY 2010
RELAIS – K?PENICKER STR. 126
10179 BERLIN / DOORS 10:30PM
INFO: http://www.berlin-paris.fr

COOP & BERLIN-PARIS present: the official BERLIN-PARIS ART OPENING PARTY!

berlin-tokyo:
JEANS TEAM – LIVE! (galerie berlintokyo/spermania)
DJ SUPERMARKT (galerie berlintokyo/lhi/berlin battery)
JACK TENNIS (galerie berlintokyo/berlin battery)
MILCH DJ-SET (galerie berlintokyo/gigolo)
DJ OFFICER, OFFICER (galerie berlintokyo)

berlin-paris:
KOLKOZ DJ-SET (le baron/le regine/paris)
GREG BOUST (le baron/tete d’affiche/la clique/paris)
TODD HART (london)

salon de paris:
NITE SHININ (salon de paris/disco mystix)
COOP (club berlin/broken hearts club)
A-TEAM (coop/scala)

?BERLIN – PARIS? geht in die zweite Runde. Nach dem Erfolg des ersten Jahres findet der Galerientausch Berlin-Paris im Januar/Februar 2010 zum zweiten Mal statt. Vom 15. bis 23. Januar 2010 werden die ausgew?hlten Pariser Galerien bei ihren Gastgebern zeigen, vom 29. Januar bis zum 6. Februar beziehen die Berliner Galerien Stellung zum Kunstgeschehen in den R?umen ihrer Pariser Partner. Es darf also gefeiert werden…!

Zu diesem Anlass haben wir ein Lineup aus Pariser und Berliner Musikern und K?nstlern zusammengestellt! Nach dem gro?en Erfolg der BERLIN-PARIS Opening Party im letzten Jahr im alten SCALA, gibt es nun die zweite Auflage der Er?ffnungsparty! Aus Paris wird die Hipster Crew vom LE BARON anwesend sein. Namentlich die KOLKOZ brothers und GREG BOUST – Synonym f?r die perfekte Mischung aus Musik, Kunst & Coolness. Diesmal haben sie Ihren Blogger Freund TODD HART aus London mitgebracht.

Apropo Coolness: das Gleiche d?rfen wir selbstverst?ndlich auch von unserem Berliner Fraktion behaupten. Hier konnten wir keine geringeren als JEANS TEAM f?r eine exklusive Berlin Liveshow gewinnen! Doch es kommt noch besser: wir d?rfen diesen Floor unter dem Namen der legend?ren GALERIE BERLINTOKYO pr?sentieren! ?Synonym f?r das authentische Zusammenspiel von Galerie und Clubkultur, Kunst und Musik, urbanen Underground und bestem Pop Entertainment! Heimatst?dte von JEANS TEAM und unz?hligen anderen Berliner K?nstlern, die es zu Weltruhm geschafft haben…! Einfach unglaublich.

Neben dem original JEANS TEAM Konzert, konnten wir weitere Stars vom BERLINTOKYO f?r den Abend begeistern: DJ SUPERMARKT, der damals noch als Duo das LE HAMMOND INFERNO rockte, JACK TENNIS, der schon damals House und Disco Platten spielte, ARMIN VON MILCH, der sich um die letzte Platte im Berlintokyo pr?gelte und sie auch auflegte und ROSA aka. DJ OFFICER, OFFICER, auch bekannt als DJ SATAN. Und an der Bar gibt es ein eisgek?hltes SEXY ON ICE – is ja wohl logo…!

Dazu gibt es den kleinen SALON DE PARIS mit Discomystix Mastermind NITE SHININ, den A-TEAM Youngsters und dem Host of the Night, COOP himself…!

BERLIN – PARIS: Die teilnehmenden Berliner Galerien und ihre Pariser Partner: Johann K?nig und jousse entreprise, Neu und Balice Hertling, Mehdi Chouakri und Galerie 1900-2000, Croy Nielsen und Marcelle Alix, Wentrup und Emmanuel Perrotin, Konrad Fischer und Nelson-Freeman, Kamm und Gaudel de Stampa, Chert und Carlos Cardenas, carlier | gebauer mit Michel Rein und Natalie Seroussi, Esther Schipper und Nathalie Obadia, Gregor Podnar und schleicher+lange, neugerriemschneider und Kamel Mennour, Sommer&Kohl und Denise Ren?, rive gauche.

INFO:
http://www.berlin-paris.fr
http://www.myspace.com/coopclub
http://www.galerieberlintokyo.de
http://www.clublebaron.com
http://www.facebook.com/lesalon

K?NSTLER INFO:
http://www.myspace.com/jeansteam
http://www.kolkoz.org
http://www.myspace.com/greg_boust
http://www.myspace.com/jacktennis
http://www.myspace.com/djsupermarkt
http://www.myspace.com/milch
http://www.myspace.com/discomystix
http://www.myspace.com/groundcontrolakaateam

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Alec Empire is spinning Acidhouse and old Force Inc records tonight in Berlin! we know this is a rare thing these days…

here is the info (in German, but you’ll manage) from the press sheet from the promoter:

ALEC EMPIRE (dhr) – acid house dj set
SVEN WEISEMANN (mojuba) – techno dj set
ACID MARIA (abe duque rec, killekill) – dj
DJ FLUSH (killekill) – dj
STYPE (killekill) – dj

Der Megahorst, der Megahorst, der kommt mit seiner dicken Worst.
Das wird DIE gro?e KILLEKILL-Abschlusssause f?r dieses Jahr.

Ein ACID HOUSE SET von ALEC EMPIRE!!!!!!
?Geht?s noch?? w?rde Roman Fl?gel vielleicht fragen. Wir w?rden sagen: ?Ja!?
ALEC EMPIRE ist ein Megastar des Industrial, Berlins Anti-hero, Erfinder des Breakcore, eine Legende auf seinem Gebiet.
Dass er aber – wie jeder gute K?nstler – musikalisch nicht einseitig ist, wird er an diesem Abend beweisen: Und zwar, indem er seine ganz pers?nlichen Acid House-Perlen aus seinem Plattenschrank holt.
Damit das nicht zu kuschelig wird, haben wir den neuen Deepness-Superstar SVEN WEISEMANN im Gegenzug auf ein Techno-Set festgenagelt.
Mit sowas hat er in der Berghain Kantine schon einmal alles weggeblasen, was man nur wegblasen kann, mit seinen unwahrscheinlich schnellen Fingern.
Da bleibt kein Auge trocken.
Wunderkind ACID MARIA, der Neuzugang im Killekill-Resident-Stall, wird den Abend weiter veredeln und dass dann mit DJ FLUSH und STYPE noch zwei der Residents mit am Start sind, ist eigentlich auch kein Wunder?

Also, aufgemacht, kurz vor Weihnachten noch einmal richtig durch den Tisch getreten!

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19.12. KILLEKILL MEGAHORST
HORST KRZBRG
Tempelhofer Ufer 1
S + U Hallesches Tor
Start: 24:00
8?

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ALEC EMPIRE AND NIC ENDO ARE ON TOUR ! NOW ! PLAYING MATERIAL FROM THE PAST _ PRESENT AND FUTURE! (incl. ATR songs)

06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie?s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Z?rich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore? NEW!!!
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico

for more info and last tickets go to
http://www.alec-empire.com/

Also check out new Atari Teenage Riot Dubstep remix by The Builder!

Atari Teenage Riot “Digital Hardcore” (2009 Remix by The Builder) by alec_empire

ALEC EMPIRE:” I WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT BUZZ NERO MIGHT HAVE FELT WHEN ROME WAS BURNING DOWN…” Read latest interview with Trashhits

http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/11/interview-alec-empire-i-wanted-to-capture-the-buzz-nero-might-have-felt-when-rome-was-burning-down/

Alec Empire’s 10 tips on how to subvert the music industry on Artrocker!

WIN LAST TICKETS FOR UK TOUR VIA GIGJUNKIE! CLICK HERE!

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WIDESCREEN POP ? The Sound of Arrows

By Neale Lytollis

The rise of ?real?, some-might-say-intellectual electronic music in recent years (see Justice, Hot Chip and Digitalism) and bands moving away from traditional indie rock and venturing into more experimental territory (Telepathe, Crystal Stilts, Health being perhaps three of the main contendors), has all contributed to the word ?pop? being more or less on par with ?cunt? or ?fuck? in terms its offensiveness. Pop is shallow and disposable; pop doesn?t topple empires or cause revolutions; it?s cheap and irrelevant and only for dumb kids. This viewpoint is frankly bollocks. Pop as we know it as more than outlasted the latest New Genre of the Season and has been around since the year dot. Not bad for a genre which is allegedly about as useful as a hat made out of custard. Sweden has something of a rep for producing brilliant pop music (I wanted to avoid mentioning ABBA but find that I simply cannot overlook their massive achievements in this field and fuck you if you think I?m square for admitting it) and they?re pretty much done it again. This time in the form of Bright Young Things, Sound of Arrows. The band is currently made up of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand, two chums from Stockholm who beef up the line-up with an assortment of flashy technology. The band recently de-camped to London to schmooze with the business suits there (they?re doing very well at it) and work on their debut LP, hopefully soon to be released on as-yet-unknown label. Eat Your Heart Out recently caught up with Stefan Storm in a chilly, autumnal Regent?s Park in London.

So, Stefan, how are you doing these days? Busy?

Yes, I would say that I am. But it’s all just because of myself. I’m in the process of finishing our debut album and one could say that I’ve gone slightly mental in the process. I’m spending all of my waking hours working or thinking about the album. I’d hate for me to think back on this period one year from now wishing I’d put in more of an effort.

And how?s life in London? It must be a bit different to Stockholm?

It sure is. London is scary, filthy, messy, confusing and wonderful. Stockholm is small, pretty, clean, orderly and boring. 50/50 would be the ideal.

Why did you choose to work in London? Do you find it more inspirational than Stockholm or were there other more practical reasons to re-locate there?

Out of two reasons. One being that I was excited to see whom we could collaborate with here in London. We’ve met a lot of wonderfully talanted musicians and producers. The second being that I felt I needed to get away from home to be able to fully focus on the creation of this album. It’s much easier keeping professionally busy in a town where you don’t have as many friends.

So apart from going slowly insane and having no friends, how is the work going on the LP?

It’s going quite well. But like every creative process, there are ups and downs. I want for it to be PERFECT, something I’m starting to realize will never happen. Not because the album isn’t turning out good, more because I’ll never be 110% happy. Yesterday I finished what is to become the end credits-like end to the album. It’s very Vangelis / Moroder / Enya.

That?s quite a mix! Magic and Into the Clouds have given us a taster about what Sound of Arrows is all about. Is the album going to include any surprises that we don?t expect?

I guess it’ll be a suprise to some that parts of it will be pretty dark. Or darker at least. But that’s how all good albums are. A journey. Also, I guess to some it’ll come as a suprise just how much we do love our synthscapes. Be prepared for at least three instrumentals.

Sound of Arrows is very striking visually and the video for Into the Clouds has a very specific style. It reminds me of Neverending Story although I guess I am not the first person to think that! Do you think it?s important to bring a fantasy element back to pop music?

I don’t think it’s necessarily important to bring a fantasy element to music. But I do think that the music I like the best inhabits some kind of universe. Some elements that are larger than life. Since neither of us has a larger than life personality, we have to get some help from the visual department.

The video looks like it was made for $1 million dollars. Did you really splash out that much money on it or do you have a very clever graphics guy who made all the fantasy backdrops?

Business secrets.

Is this mystical, other world we see in your videos something you try to transfer to your live shows too?

Definitely, that is mainly why we are looking to sign with a major label. To be able to get some help with realizing our BIG vision for the upcoming live shows. It’ll be an audio-visual experience.

Speaking of which, we don?t see you out and about live so much? Are you guys more of a studio band or are there plans to tour?

Originally, I’m happiest sitting in a studio tweaking a new synth. But we do love a bit of performing now and again. Also, I think we are pretty good at it.

It seems that ?pop? has become a bit of a dirty word recently although I think it?s great and a necessary part of music. Do you dislike the pop tag? Would you describe yourselves differently?

I’ve always loved pop music, so to me that word doesn’t have a negative ring. Some people associate pop with soulless music. Not me, I think the best music is achieved when accesability and creativity meet.

Pop or not, NME and Dazed seem to like what you do and you seem to have generated a buzz in London in a short space of time. Are you signed with anyone at the moment? Are you going with an indie label or a major? Do you subscribe to this rather silly theory that all indies are great and all majors are evil?

Nope, not at all. We all understand when there is big money involved, there will need to be some sort of compromise. But we’d never let anyone tell us not to use certain songs we love. Then I’d rather release it myself.

So tell me, what DO arrows sound like?

Widescreen pop.

Do you both tuck into a big, greasy English breakfast every day before you go into the studio?

Hahaha. Absolutely not. I’ve been a vegetarian for ten years and just recently tried going further and becoming a vegan. What is then left in the english breakfast? Baked beans?! I don’t eat canned food.

And finally, do you like it when journalists flirt with you during interviews?

Hahaha. It’s always nice to be flirted with. Journalist or not.

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The Accent’s On The Offbeat (Rmx by Alec Empire) by siluh

FINALLY ! It’s here… Austrian Indie band Landscape Izuma compiled a great remix mini album last year and released it in digital format. Since then key DJs started to spin it and it gained real credits amongst collectors.

NOW they are putting out a limited edition which comes in amazing packaging!

ALEC EMPIRE:” We have given a limited number of the real CD masters to key DJs end of last year. I always thought that the mp3 version didn’t get enough that heavy bassline across in clubs. So many people have since requested the tracks to be released as a ‘real’ record. I am so glad they have made this! The track has been a highlight in my DJ sets since months…Get your hands on this fast as it is very limited!”

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check out new EP by best techno act around these days! MOTOR!

Breathing life into the scene again….recently on tour with Depeche Mode, every show these guys do is a blast (if you can dance) …

They are also on tour with Alec Empire next month….

19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie?s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
etc…

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MASSIVE ATTACK

AFTERSHOW

PARTY

? Monitorpop + Spex presents the official…
? Live Acts ?
? DJs ?
ANGIE REED
NAMOSH
MARK STEWART (Bristol)
MAX DAX (Spex)
Professor ERIC D.CLARK
iGedget (Beatevolution)
Grizzly Adams
Jose Fox (Lissabon)
30.10.2009 – 22h
St.Georg Klub
Ritterstrasse 26

Berlin

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Short message from Alec:” The tour is awesome so far….a lot of sweat, a lot of intensity! This is why we do it! ”

Full Tourdates

ALEC EMPIRE
The Past – The Present – The Future Tour 2009

15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 B-Antwerp, Petrol
17.10.2009 Hannover, Indiego Glocksee
20.10.2009 Essen, Grend
21.10.2009 K?ln, Underground
22.10.2009 Hamburg, Logo
23.10.2009 Berlin, K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus, Gladhouse
25.10.2009 PL-Gdynia, Ucho
27.10.2009 CZ-Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
28.10.2009 A-Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 A-Wien, Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt, Paradox
31.10.2009 Leipzig, Lagerhof
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie?s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Z?rich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
31.07.2010 PL-Bolkow, Castle Party

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Sonic terrorist, Alec Empire, returns for another blistering series of live dates here in the UK that looks set to blow the roof off every venue it invades across the country.

?1000 Eyes? is the new download only single taken off the animated short film, ?The Golden Foretaste of Heaven?. After the critical acclaim of his mini album, ?Shivers?, earlier this year, Alec channelled his dark energy into creating a brooding, mesmerising soundtrack to the hotly tipped film by Austrian rising star, Richard Wilhelmer.

Fresh off supporting Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails on their European leg of the tour, Alec will bring his awesome live setup to the UK showcasing material from a career spanning almost two decades. Always a knack for spotting new talent, Alec has collaborated with Robbie Furze from The Big Pink on the track, ?If You Live or Die? off his last album and has produced and written Patrick Wolf?s lead single, ?Vultures?.

Wolf also appeared on stage with Empire during his sold out London date at The Underworld earlier this year and looks certain to join up with his partner in crime for the Islington Academy show in London on November 19.

Having recently remixed IAMX, ex Sneaker Pimp, Chris Corner?s new single ?Terrified?, the hardest working Berliner in music?s next project is a team up with Major Lazer and Saul Williams for some new tracks and a remix special with Dillinger Escape Plan later this year.

As a special treat for UK fans, Alec has roped in up & coming alt techno-core outfit, Motor, who are currently on tour with D?p?che Mode as support for his UK dates.

Alec has once again reinvented himself and you can witness the Empire effect first hand this autumn as Nic Endo and him take to a stage near you.

1000 Eyes (Single Version) / Alec Empire by alec_empire
ALEC EMPIRE
The Past – The Present – The Future Tour 2009

15.10.2009 F-la Tronche, La Faiencerie
16.10.2009 B-Antwerp, Petrol
17.10.2009 Hannover, Indiego Glocksee
20.10.2009 Essen, Grend
21.10.2009 K?ln, Underground
22.10.2009 Hamburg, Logo
23.10.2009 Berlin, K17
24.10.2009 Cottbus, Gladhouse
25.10.2009 PL-Gdynia, Ucho
27.10.2009 CZ-Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
28.10.2009 A-Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
29.10.2009 A-Wien, Szene
30.10.2009 Ingolstadt, Paradox
31.10.2009 Leipzig, Lagerhof
06.11.2009 NL-Den Haag, Bazart
07.11.2009 NL-Utrecht, DBs
18.11.2009 GB-Newport, TJs
19.11.2009 GB-London, O2 Academy Islington
20.11.2009 GB-Birmingham, Eddie?s
21.11.2009 GB-Manchester, Club Academy
22.11.2009 GB-Edinburgh (GB), GRV
25.11.2009 CH-Z?rich, Stall 6
26.11.2009 F-Perpignan, CrockMore? NEW!!!
27.11.2009 CH-Vevey, Rocking Chair
28.11.2009 I-Florence (I), Siddharta
07.12.2009 I-Roma, Atlantico
31.07.2010 PL-Bolkow, Castle Party
If You Live Or Die live by alec_empire

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Pictures: Katja Ruge

Trying to summarise Mark Reeder?s career isn?t an easy task and listing his achievements almost sounds like you?re making it up. Born in Manchester, Mark moved to Berlin in 1978 and initially worked as the Germany rep for Factory Records. He went on to co-manage all-girl outfit Malaria!, took on sound engineer duties for Die Toten Hosen, toured with his band Shark Vegas as support for New Order and started the first electronic dance music label in former East Berlin. He even found time to produce the last ever pop record released in East Germany (Torture by Die Vision), show John Peel around Berlin for his Travels With My Camera documentary and discover superstar DJ Paul van Dyk. With such an enviable list of credentials to his name it?s little wonder that a recent Smirnoff Wall of Sound film described him as the ?Godfather of the Berlin music scene?. Yet despite his impressive CV Mark has never released his own solo album…until now. Teaming up with German trance outfit Blank & Jones, Mark took a selection of their more traditional ?songs? and set about re-working them into a concept LP. But if you thought that what came out ? entitled Reordered ? was just another remix record then you?d be wrong as the man himself recently told Eat Your Heart Out.

Hi Mark. So just to set the record straight, Reordered isn?t technically a remix album is it?

MarkReordered could probably best be described as a re-works album as I?ve taken each track and basically rewritten and reworked the music and added my own sound imprint. It was decided to make it in a style reminiscent of the 80?s and I produced it in exactly the same way as I had made music back then; using very few instruments, real synths and guitars. I wanted Reordered to have a different sound to anything Blank & Jones had done before and to touch territory they wouldn?t normally visit.

Blank & Jones are best known for working with trance music but you?ve been able to create something completely different with Reordered. How was this?

It was the fact they had made tracks with vocals. Their original versions worked within the concept of their album and although they have vocals they?re not really songs in the traditional sense. I decided it would be a nice challenge to rewrite them and turn them into songs. They were heavily inspired by 80?s music such as Joy Division, New Order and The Cure and that?s why some of these people featured on the album in the first place. I thought it would be nice to make their tracks in a traditional 80?s style for all the people who miss the sound of those times. This style actually gave me much more scope to be creative as I was making songs again rather than DJ-friendly tracks. This retro approach was quite refreshing.

Which are your personal favourites?

I?m happy with the way A Forest turned out. It?s such an iconic track and I knew I would never be able to better the original. I knew it was going to be a very difficult one to do so it was the last track I tackled. It was a fantastic feeling being able to work with Robert Smith’s enigmatic voice. My version has roughly the same arrangement as the original but I slowed it down to half speed, added a deep buzzing synth, chuggy bass guitar and a twangy fender and tried to retain its dark, mysterious atmosphere. I had to replay absolutely everything you hear in the track, even down to creating the sound effects at the start, using real branches and local ambience.

B+J have a lot of guest artists on this record; Anne Clark, Bernard Sumner and Robert Smith to name a handful. That can often come across as being more of an opportunity to show off your celeb mates rather than actually adding anything to the music. What do you think?

I think Blank & Jones liked the idea of recording tracks with their teenage idols and in turn bringing them to a new audience. Although there are a few really famous names on the album there are also some fairly unknown ones too. It’s quite balanced.

As someone who has been working in music longer than most why?s it taken you so long to get your first LP out?

I got a bit sidetracked along the way! I made a couple of singles and EPs during the 1980s with my bands Die Unbekannten and Shark Vegas and I produced an album in East Berlin just before the Wall came down. After that I started my label MFS and I put all my energy and creativity into that, launching artists such as Paul van Dyk, Cosmic Baby and Corvin Dalek. In reality this also isn’t my own album either as it?s a collaboration with Blank & Jones, Micha Adam and myself.

So, any more collaborations or new material expected from you soon?

I’ve been working on a number of remixes including one of I’m in Love with a German Film Star by Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood for Kompakt plus mixes for Anne Clark, Noblesse Oblige and Die Toten Hosen. I’ve just started work on a new track together with Fidelity Kastrow and Manchester-based band Spartak and recently co-wrote a track with Bernard Sumner for his Bad Lieutenant album.

Commemorating 20 years since the fall of the Wall, 2009 is an important year for Berlin. You were there when techno became the soundtrack to a united city. What was the significance of techno during these changes?

Techno was a fledgling niche fuelled by a handful of fans in West Berlin. When the Wall came down it became the sound the Eastie kids all wanted to dance to. It was futuristic and revolutionary. Techno wasn’t song based. There were no difficult-to-understand English lyrics and the music didn’t adhere to the conventional rules of blues and rock ?n? roll. After years of being force fed Party-approved music, the Eastie kids finally found the release they had always yearned for. They could let their creativity run amok and there were no rules to stop them.

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Do you still find Berlin an inspiring place to work after having lived here for so long?

Absolutely! It?s obviously changed over the past 20 years but that?s a good thing. The influx of new and creative people is quite exciting. I miss certain aspects of the Berlin of the past but all things considered I wouldn’t change it for anything. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to experience a desperate and isolated Berlin with a wall around it. Berlin today is a much more relaxed place to be. I’m addicted to its atmosphere. It?s as close to paradise as I can get!

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bells keep reminding us of those dark nights….

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do you remember Flying Saucer Attack? Today is all about lying on the floor, watching clouds pass by…

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2009 might have been Prodigy’s strongest year. They wrote anthems for UK generations over decades. You see, the UK always had this special sound,? a little bit more edgy, a little bit more extreme. Everybody is wondering HOW ARE THEY DOING IT??? Again and again…

Our man Lee reminded us that this clip pretty much sums up how far down capitalism has driven the music scene. Is it possible that maggots love music? What is music? Is music in digital format not just only a simulation?

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