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holocene and kompakt records present...
MICHAEL MAYER DJ Set [kompakt records, cologne]
CARO Live PA [ORAC, Seattle]
DJ BAHB
DJ Brian Foote [Nudge]
Saturday March 5 2005
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
$10 adv at Ozones, Jackpots, brownpapertickets.com and holocene
Bridging the gap between homegrown culture and world-class sonic innovation, shows like tonight?s are the reason Holocene was built. We are honored to play host to one of the world?s most respected and influential DJ-producers, Michael Mayer. Mayer is co-owner of Kompakt, the massively acclaimed distribution house, record shop, and label based out of Cologne, Germany. In 2004, Kompakt released the double-disc retrospective Kompakt 100, which ended up on many critic?s year-end best-of lists, as well as Mayer?s first entirely original album, Touch. He is joined by Caro aka Randy Jones, founder of Seattle-based, Kompakt-distributed Orac Records. Taking cues from the German avant garde, Caro?s music incorporates a playful Cascadian sensibility that has won praise from Olympia to Berlin. This will be a very special night for everyone involved, not to mention one hell of a good time. Please join us.
MICHAEL MAYER: It's safe to say that Michael Mayer is one of most dedicated and hardworking figureheads in techno today. Beyond his 17+ years experience as a DJ, since 1998 together with Wolfgang Voigt and Jurgen Paape, he co-runs Kompakt - one of the world's largest electronic music stores - the home of a distribution centre for over 75 record labels and of course their own in-house imprints. As a DJ Michael has built a solid reputation beyond his impeccable music selecting and skills as a warm and charismatic personality in the so-called faceless world of electronic music. The Village Voice accused Michael for "laying down a godlike mix of effortlessly layered, brilliantly bangin' house, techno, and everything in between" when he performed at the unbelievable March 2004 "Kompakt vs. Rephlex" event in Brooklyn, NY and rightfully so - his open-mindedness to music translates into the diverse fan-base that he continues to bring to the dance-floor and who support Kompakt's music.
CARO: A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Caro (Orac Records co-founder Randy Jones) grew up in an environment just connected enough for him to receive hazy transmissions from dance music's cultural centers. Fast-forward to Seattle in 2000 where, along with partner Konstantin Gabbro, Jones started the Orac label and shortly thereafter the infamous ROBO.trash weekly. At ROBO.trash, Jones honed his turntable skills playing sets as eclectic as the ones he started dancing to. The DJing led to the producing of dance tracks, and now a full-length for Orac is on the horizon, following up two singles which bring to mind Bam Bam as much as sleeker modern tech-house. Always pushing the technology forward along with his music, Jones performs live using software he has written in Max/MSP. "It's a combination of remixing the tracks live with live singing and processing. Computers offer so many possibilities for performance that people are just beginning to tap into. I want my performance process to be open and as live as possible because that way it's a deeper communication. I want it to be obvious when I'm doing great, and also when I'm making mistakes." matt wright
MICHAEL MAYER DJ Set [kompakt records, cologne]
CARO Live PA [ORAC, Seattle]
DJ BAHB
DJ Brian Foote [Nudge]
Saturday March 5 2005
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
$10 adv at Ozones, Jackpots, brownpapertickets.com and holocene
Bridging the gap between homegrown culture and world-class sonic innovation, shows like tonight?s are the reason Holocene was built. We are honored to play host to one of the world?s most respected and influential DJ-producers, Michael Mayer. Mayer is co-owner of Kompakt, the massively acclaimed distribution house, record shop, and label based out of Cologne, Germany. In 2004, Kompakt released the double-disc retrospective Kompakt 100, which ended up on many critic?s year-end best-of lists, as well as Mayer?s first entirely original album, Touch. He is joined by Caro aka Randy Jones, founder of Seattle-based, Kompakt-distributed Orac Records. Taking cues from the German avant garde, Caro?s music incorporates a playful Cascadian sensibility that has won praise from Olympia to Berlin. This will be a very special night for everyone involved, not to mention one hell of a good time. Please join us.
MICHAEL MAYER: It's safe to say that Michael Mayer is one of most dedicated and hardworking figureheads in techno today. Beyond his 17+ years experience as a DJ, since 1998 together with Wolfgang Voigt and Jurgen Paape, he co-runs Kompakt - one of the world's largest electronic music stores - the home of a distribution centre for over 75 record labels and of course their own in-house imprints. As a DJ Michael has built a solid reputation beyond his impeccable music selecting and skills as a warm and charismatic personality in the so-called faceless world of electronic music. The Village Voice accused Michael for "laying down a godlike mix of effortlessly layered, brilliantly bangin' house, techno, and everything in between" when he performed at the unbelievable March 2004 "Kompakt vs. Rephlex" event in Brooklyn, NY and rightfully so - his open-mindedness to music translates into the diverse fan-base that he continues to bring to the dance-floor and who support Kompakt's music.
CARO: A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Caro (Orac Records co-founder Randy Jones) grew up in an environment just connected enough for him to receive hazy transmissions from dance music's cultural centers. Fast-forward to Seattle in 2000 where, along with partner Konstantin Gabbro, Jones started the Orac label and shortly thereafter the infamous ROBO.trash weekly. At ROBO.trash, Jones honed his turntable skills playing sets as eclectic as the ones he started dancing to. The DJing led to the producing of dance tracks, and now a full-length for Orac is on the horizon, following up two singles which bring to mind Bam Bam as much as sleeker modern tech-house. Always pushing the technology forward along with his music, Jones performs live using software he has written in Max/MSP. "It's a combination of remixing the tracks live with live singing and processing. Computers offer so many possibilities for performance that people are just beginning to tap into. I want my performance process to be open and as live as possible because that way it's a deeper communication. I want it to be obvious when I'm doing great, and also when I'm making mistakes." matt wright
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