Saturday April 11
Beyond Booking presents
MUTEK_10: Brooklyn Preview
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts (Oslo, Musique Risquee, Circus Company,
Mutek | Berlin) live
Claro Intellecto (Modern Love | Manchester) live
Andy Stott (Modern Love | Manchester) live
MLZ (Modern Love, Pendle Coven | Manchester) dj
Pangaea (Hessle Audio, Hot Flush | London) dj
Ezekiel Honig (Anticipate, Microcosm | Brooklyn) live
Mutek is an international festival of electronic music and
digital creativity, which is celebrating it's 10th anniversary
this year from May 27 to 31 in Montreal, Canada. To say that
Mutek is innovative is a huge understatement. This organization
has been presenting the most forward thinking electronic music
festival in North America since it's inception. While showcasing
well known artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Atom Heart,
Monolake, Pole, and Matthew Herbert, they also played a huge role
in introducing and developing Canadian artists such as Akufen,
Deadbeat, The Mole, Mathew Jonson, Pheek, and many more. The
full list of artists who have participate in Mutek over the past
10 years is truly mindboggling, and can be found on their Myspace
page. Mutek is a lot more
than a music festival though, putting an incredible amount of
care and attention into the visual presentation of the events,
and providing panels and forums for attendees and participants to
share ideas and meet like-minded people. Discovering Mutek was
truly a lifechanging event for us, and we're hoping to convince
more of Brooklyn to head up to Montreal this year to check it out
by bringing a small piece of the festival to you for one night
only.
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts is our old friend, Guillaume Coutu
Dumont. As you can probably guess from his artist name, he has a
good sense of humor. We met Guillaume many years ago at Mutek
and invited him to come play at The Bunker as Egg, his old
project with Julien Roy. Outside of Egg, he also collaborated
with David Fafard in Luci, and with Ernesto Ferreyra in Chic
Minature. While still active in Chic Minature, Guillaume has
mostly focused on his solo project for the past few years, with
much success. After his album on Musique Risquee, he released
singles on Federico Molinari's red hot Oslo label, Audio Werner's
Hartchef Discos, and French labels Karat and Circus Company. All
the DJs we know are completely freaking out over his tracks these
days, and anyone who's seen his live set is equally enthusiastic.
In a scene that is becoming completely overrun by boring run of
the mill minimal house tracks, the creativity and personality
present in Guillaume's music puts him way ahead of the pack.
Modern Love is the in-house record label of Boomkat, the online
manifestation of Pelicanneck Records in Manchester. Anyone who
has ever shopped on the Boomkat site will tell you it's clearly
run by some of the hugest music nerds imaginable, with exquisite
taste that puts just about everyone else to shame. Needless to
say, pretty much every record released on this immaculately
curated label is worth owning. If you're not familiar, go over
to Boomkat and listen to just about anything from their catalog.
When we found out that our good friends at The Communikey Festival of Arts
in Boulder were presenting a Modern Love
label showcase this year, we had to grab them for a New York
date. Their aesthetic fits in so well with everything that Mutek
is about that the whole thing just seemed destined to happen. We
are truly honored to present Modern Love artists Claro
Intellecto, Andy Stott, and MLZ.
Mark Stewart aka Claro Intellecto is one of our favorite
producers. His immense talent was evident from very his first
release, the "Piece of Mind" EP on Ai in 2003. This EP was one of
the most talked about records of that year, and Ricardo
Villalobos included on his "Taka Taka" mix CD. Claro's debut
album proved that he had the ability to make an amazing, cohesive
techno album, a skill that has apparently eluded just about every
techno producer we can think of. Since 2005, he has been
releasing exclusively for Modern Love. His 5 part Warehouse
Sessions 12" series (which was just compiled onto a CD relase
this year) saw him strip back his sound to make tracks that
devastated dancefloors and huge soundsystems worldwide. Last
year's "Metanarrative" LP was another timeless classic album.
While his discography is impressive to say the least, he's quite
well known for his incredible live set, which has thrilled
audiences around the world.
Like Claro Intelecto, Andy Stott is one of the main artists on
Modern Love. He has risen from an unknown artist to a celebrated
figure in the electronic music world very quickly since his debut
12" was released in 2005. Unlike many of his peers, Andy's sound
is not so easy to pin down. He's best known for his dubby techno
tracks, but has delved in downtempo experiments and even put out
a few dubstep tracks. His ability to cover so many sonic
territories with ease helps to explain why his "Merciless" album
is such a classic. "Unknown Exception", a kind of "best
of" CD collection of tracks previously released on vinyl,
also works extremely well as an extraordinary, cohesive album.
Andy's stunning remix of Vladislav Delay made it onto Resident
Advisor's top 15 remixes of 2008.
Miles Whittaker has been djing and playing live for the last 10
years as MLZ, DJ Miles and other pseudonyms. Known for his genre
mashing DJ sets, and willingness to party as much as the crowd,
Miles has played at some of the highest profile events of the
last 6 years. He's appeared at Berghain's Panorama Bar, twice at
Sonar (including one set that was described by The Wire magazine
as one of the highlights of the festival), Japan's Labyrinth
Festival, Manchester's Futuresonic, and Berlin's Transmediale to
name just a few. Miles is one half of Pendle Coven, who have
released many brilliant records right from the start of Modern
Love. In the past year, he has started to release solo
productions as MLZ, which cross-reference everything from Basic
Channel to Burial while sounding completely original. He's also
responsible for the Millie productions on Modern Love's Daphne
offshoot, which are remarkable for both their stunning production
values and total disregard for genre barriors.
23-year-old Kevin McAuley, aka Pangaea, began making music with a
two-track mixer, a keyboard and a tape deck as a schoolboy.
Discovering dubstep via the sounds of Mala in the backroom of a
Leeds club in 2005, Kevin was inspired to found the cityís first
dubstep night, Ruffage, and launched himself into the studio.
Pangaea enters 2009 as an established DJ/producer and co-owner of
Hessle Audio with fellow stalwarts Ramadanman and Ben UFO. Their
young label is already the subject of much critical acclaim from
discerning dubstep and techno fans and responsible for
progressive, landmark releases including TRGís "Broken Heart",
Ramadanmanís "Blimey", Pangaeaís own "Router", and material from
likeminded producers Untold and Martyn. Check out Resident
Advisor's informative article on the young imprint. His DJ
schedule is rapidly picking up pace with consistent bookings
across Europe and a burgeoning reputation as a true pioneer
behind the decks; a notion backed up by Mary Anne Hobbs who
described his recent mix for BBC Radio 1 as ìtexturally one of
the most exquisite mixes of the yearÖbreathtakingly beautiful in
every way".
A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the
Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on
emotively warm, and largely minimal, music. While being
referential of techno and house, and using the loop as more of a
tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, striding that
blurry area between occasional dance floor sensibility and
intriguing, yet heart warming home listening - leaning between a
large, expansive view and the most intimate, careful attention to
each note, bar and measure. Ambience, soft, colorful tones, found
sounds, an occasional dub influence and an affinity for off
kilter rhythm edits are all involved in this process, with
deceptively simple melodic structures and seemingly random
percussive elements and textures - pairing the pure and beautiful
with more clunky and dirty "mishaps." Ezekiel has made several
appearances at the Bunker in the past, and he always turns heads.
door: Elijah
hostess, photos: Seze, SD Photography
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