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This week we're honored to bring to you the Fall promo mix of Luke Morrison (www.lukemorrison.com). Many of you are familiar with Luke's impeccable resum? - From opening up for Digweed, Sasha, and many others, Luke has quickly established himself as a household name among EDM fans. The mix that he's put together for us is amazingly programmed and features amazing track selection. Funky, groovy, and danceable, it's a set that would fit nicely at any house party or just piped through your ears as you walk down the street. I listened to this one while I was at school the other day and it really provided the perfect soundtrack to life.
I've been a fan Jose Zamora's productions for years now. Tracks such as 'Lochness', 'Transatlantic', and his superb remix of Viton & Stel's 'Wooden Swordz' are still played around the world long after their release. Jose's mix is provided courtesy Emanuel over at Trust Entertainment (www.trust-entertainment.com). And if you're in Poland at the end of September, make sure to check Jose out at K2 on the 24th.
And in my constant effort to providing you with different styles each week I've decided to host the first 2 parts of Richie Hawtin's (www.richiehawtin.com) 4+ hour recent banger from Club Motor in Romania. Hawtin shreds the dancefloor in this one and once again proves that he is a legend. Parts 3 & 4 to come next week so be on the lookout.
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Luke Morrison
www.lukemorrison.com
Luke Morrison is fast establishing himself as one of Canada's most remarkable young DJs. Over the past few years, Luke has proven his ability to open up for and play alongside the best DJs in the world (such as Sasha, Digweed, Pete Tong, and Nick Warren), moreover he has consistently shown he truly knows how to work a room from the early hours of the night to peak time center-stage. His re-edits have been featured several times by Pete Tong on his world famous Essential Selection show on the BBC, and his mixes have been featured on Proton Radio, Mercury Server, BringtheBeats.com, and Eccentric Beats. Luke's sets are filled with unique, fresh, upfront tracks from multiple genres which he picks out well ahead of the pack, and he seems to routinely be able to make the party go off and make the whole room smile. His insane love for music shows in his astounding collection of tracks ranging from the eclectic to the banging and in his passion when he is behind the decks. Gradually gaining recognition in international DJ competitions and also by numerous DJs and producers from around the globe, Luke has currently begun the foray into production and hopes this will give him the boost he needs to take things to the next level. Rapidly gaining local popularity with his lengthy sets at Y Afterhours (downtown Edmonton) every Saturday night, Luke is certainly one to keep an eye on.
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Jose Zamora
www.trust-entertainment.com
Born in Panama, Raised in Colombia and living since the age of 13 in Greece, Jose has been fascinated by music from a very young age, although by that time the sound he was into was mainly bands which had a tinge of electronic sound. He picked up the Bass guitar by the age on 11 and was playing on a school band by the age of 14. When the melodic Trance revolution started in the Mid-Late 90's with artists like Paul Oakenfold and albums like Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure compilations, Jose found it hard to resist to this fascinating new sound and so, by the age of 19, he started collecting all the music he could afford, on Cd's first, and on vinyl records and house music a year later.
Over the past three years Jose has become one of the most promising DJ/Producers coming out of Greece His Tracks, along with studio partners C.Nemmo, Dousk when working under the JDK moniker, and Damian DP have had support from DJ's of International Caliber such as Nick Warren, Armin Van Buuren, Sander Kleinenberg, Matthew Dekay, Markus Shultz, Hybrid, Danny Howells, Steve Lawler, G.Pal, Damian DP, As well as getting airplay on Digweed?s Legendary Kiss FM show by Austin Leeds, and Proton Radio by Subsky (34 Bpm show, Release Records) and Christopher Lobsinger (San Francisco Sessions, Allen & Heath).
His Dj skills have earned him residences in Greece's most prestigious Club nights such as Plus Soda, Venue and Mercedes, as well as various guest appearances in cities all across the Country, and abroad, in countries such as Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Argentina and Uruguay. As a DJ, Jose Has "shared" decks with Greece's top DJ's and producers as well as the ?Top Dogs? of the international dance music industry such as Sasha, Anthony Pappa, Nick Warren, Deep Dish, Satoshi Tomiie, Lexicon Avenue, Rui Da Silva, Damian DP. His Schedule for the future will be very busy with studio work, solo and collaborations, as well as a packed DJing in various clubs both in Greece and Europe. Along with Viton, Jose is the host of Playground on Proton Radio, the show being aired every first Thursday of each month.
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Richie Hawtin
www.richiehawtin.com | www.plastikman.com
His style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno, Richie Hawtin became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s, even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. Hawtin combined lean percussion and equally spare acid lines into haunting techno anthems that kicked with more than enough power for the dancefloor while diverting headphone listeners as well. While even his early recordings were quite minimalistic, he streamlined the sound increasingly over the course of his recording career; from the early '90s to the end of the decade, Hawtin's material moved from the verge of the techno mainstream into a yawning abyss of dubbed-out echo-chamber isolationism, often jettisoning any semblance of a bass line or steady beat. Hawtin released material on his own +8 Records under several aliases -- some in tandem with co-founder John Acquaviva -- and made the label one of the best styled in Detroit techno of the 1990s. He earned his pedigrees from worldwide fans of techno for his best-known releases, as Plastikman (for NovaMute) and F.U.S.E. (for Warp/TVT).
While original Detroit technocrats like Juan Atkins and Derrick May were changing the face of electronic music in the mid-'80s, Richie Hawtin was growing up across the river in Windsor, Ontario. A British native born in 1970, he moved to Canada with his family at the age of nine. Introduced to '70s electronic/minimalist pioneers Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream by his father (who was a robotics engineer for General Motors), Hawtin began DJing at the age of 17 -- as DJ Richie Rich -- and soon landed gigs at Detroit hot-spots like the Shelter and the famed Music Institute, home to all-night club sessions by May and Kevin Saunderson. Though many of Motown's innovators were skeptical of the skinny white Canadian, Richie Hawtin's formation of +8 Records helped deflect much of the criticism.
Hawtin and +8's co-founder, John Acquaviva, began working together in 1989, originally to make a Derrick May megamix for use on the radio; they later emerged from Acquaviva's studio with several original recordings. The duo issued one single, "Elements of Tone" as the first release on +8 Records (credited to States of Mind), and sat back while many in the techno world puzzled over who was responsible. The label's later releases -- by Kenny Larkin, Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) and Mark Gage (aka Vapourspace) in addition to various Hawtin/Acquaviva projects -- made the label famous for laboratory-precise techno based on slowly evolving and shifting acid lines. The aggressive sound matched the work of the label/artist collective Underground Resistance as the best techno to come out of Detroit in the early '90s, thanks to a slow-down in the work of past masters Atkins, May and Saunderson. Demand grew at the same time for Hawtin's excellent acid-inspired DJing.
The Plastikman project debuted in 1993 with two releases for +8: the seminal "Spastik" single and an album, Sheet One. Hawtin's first wide release, however, came with the alter-ego F.U.S.E. (short for Further Underground Subsonic Experiments). A more varied and melodic project than Plastikman (but not by much), F.U.S.E. released the album Dimension Intrusion for the British Warp Records in late 1993. As part of the label's Artificial Intelligence series, Dimension Intrusion was also licensed to Wax Trax!/TVT for release in America. (Hawtin joined such ambient-techno heroes as the Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre and B12, all receiving their wide-issue debuts.) Later, NovaMute signed an agreement with +8 and another Hawtin-founded label, Probe; Sheet One was reissued in 1994, followed by the second Plastikman LP, Musik. Much more restrained than Sheet One, the album fit in well with the growing ambient-techno movement. All told, Hawtin was responsible for the release of three albums and a good-sized EP in the span of just one year.
That impressive schedule was shattered in 1995, when Hawtin was entangled in difficulties resulting from a sudden crackdown on his usual procedure of crossing the American border to perform. Refused entrance for more than a year, he lost his inspirational grounding with the Detroit scene and found it difficult to continue recording for his third Plastikman album, Klinik. While he waited for re-entry, Hawtin spent time setting up the sub-label Definitive, and continued to DJ around the world. Though he recorded scattered singles for +8 and related imprints, his only full-length release that year was an excellent entry in the Mixmag Live! series, taken from a DJ set recorded at the Building in Windsor. By the time he was able to return to America, he had changed his musical direction and eventually abandoned the Klinik album.
Hawtin returned in 1996 his release schedule; during each month of the year, he issued a completely unadorned single recorded as Concept 1 (some were later collected on Concept 1 96:CD, mixed by Hawtin). Desperately minimal works, even compared to his earlier material, the singles showed Hawtin's reaction to the new-school of barely there techno coming from German labels like Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Profan and Studio 1 -- all of them originally influenced in no small way by Plastikman recordings. Finally, in early 1998, he released his third Plastikman LP, Consumed, which proved to be just as brutally shadowed as the Concept 1 material. The continued experimentalist direction showed Hawtin coming full circle, back to his position on the leading edge of intelligent techno. Many of the unreleased Klinik recordings surfaced in late 1998 on the compilation Artifakts [BC].
I've been a fan Jose Zamora's productions for years now. Tracks such as 'Lochness', 'Transatlantic', and his superb remix of Viton & Stel's 'Wooden Swordz' are still played around the world long after their release. Jose's mix is provided courtesy Emanuel over at Trust Entertainment (www.trust-entertainment.com). And if you're in Poland at the end of September, make sure to check Jose out at K2 on the 24th.
And in my constant effort to providing you with different styles each week I've decided to host the first 2 parts of Richie Hawtin's (www.richiehawtin.com) 4+ hour recent banger from Club Motor in Romania. Hawtin shreds the dancefloor in this one and once again proves that he is a legend. Parts 3 & 4 to come next week so be on the lookout.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
Luke Morrison
www.lukemorrison.com
Luke Morrison is fast establishing himself as one of Canada's most remarkable young DJs. Over the past few years, Luke has proven his ability to open up for and play alongside the best DJs in the world (such as Sasha, Digweed, Pete Tong, and Nick Warren), moreover he has consistently shown he truly knows how to work a room from the early hours of the night to peak time center-stage. His re-edits have been featured several times by Pete Tong on his world famous Essential Selection show on the BBC, and his mixes have been featured on Proton Radio, Mercury Server, BringtheBeats.com, and Eccentric Beats. Luke's sets are filled with unique, fresh, upfront tracks from multiple genres which he picks out well ahead of the pack, and he seems to routinely be able to make the party go off and make the whole room smile. His insane love for music shows in his astounding collection of tracks ranging from the eclectic to the banging and in his passion when he is behind the decks. Gradually gaining recognition in international DJ competitions and also by numerous DJs and producers from around the globe, Luke has currently begun the foray into production and hopes this will give him the boost he needs to take things to the next level. Rapidly gaining local popularity with his lengthy sets at Y Afterhours (downtown Edmonton) every Saturday night, Luke is certainly one to keep an eye on.
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Jose Zamora
www.trust-entertainment.com
Born in Panama, Raised in Colombia and living since the age of 13 in Greece, Jose has been fascinated by music from a very young age, although by that time the sound he was into was mainly bands which had a tinge of electronic sound. He picked up the Bass guitar by the age on 11 and was playing on a school band by the age of 14. When the melodic Trance revolution started in the Mid-Late 90's with artists like Paul Oakenfold and albums like Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure compilations, Jose found it hard to resist to this fascinating new sound and so, by the age of 19, he started collecting all the music he could afford, on Cd's first, and on vinyl records and house music a year later.
Over the past three years Jose has become one of the most promising DJ/Producers coming out of Greece His Tracks, along with studio partners C.Nemmo, Dousk when working under the JDK moniker, and Damian DP have had support from DJ's of International Caliber such as Nick Warren, Armin Van Buuren, Sander Kleinenberg, Matthew Dekay, Markus Shultz, Hybrid, Danny Howells, Steve Lawler, G.Pal, Damian DP, As well as getting airplay on Digweed?s Legendary Kiss FM show by Austin Leeds, and Proton Radio by Subsky (34 Bpm show, Release Records) and Christopher Lobsinger (San Francisco Sessions, Allen & Heath).
His Dj skills have earned him residences in Greece's most prestigious Club nights such as Plus Soda, Venue and Mercedes, as well as various guest appearances in cities all across the Country, and abroad, in countries such as Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Argentina and Uruguay. As a DJ, Jose Has "shared" decks with Greece's top DJ's and producers as well as the ?Top Dogs? of the international dance music industry such as Sasha, Anthony Pappa, Nick Warren, Deep Dish, Satoshi Tomiie, Lexicon Avenue, Rui Da Silva, Damian DP. His Schedule for the future will be very busy with studio work, solo and collaborations, as well as a packed DJing in various clubs both in Greece and Europe. Along with Viton, Jose is the host of Playground on Proton Radio, the show being aired every first Thursday of each month.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
Richie Hawtin
www.richiehawtin.com | www.plastikman.com
His style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno, Richie Hawtin became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s, even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. Hawtin combined lean percussion and equally spare acid lines into haunting techno anthems that kicked with more than enough power for the dancefloor while diverting headphone listeners as well. While even his early recordings were quite minimalistic, he streamlined the sound increasingly over the course of his recording career; from the early '90s to the end of the decade, Hawtin's material moved from the verge of the techno mainstream into a yawning abyss of dubbed-out echo-chamber isolationism, often jettisoning any semblance of a bass line or steady beat. Hawtin released material on his own +8 Records under several aliases -- some in tandem with co-founder John Acquaviva -- and made the label one of the best styled in Detroit techno of the 1990s. He earned his pedigrees from worldwide fans of techno for his best-known releases, as Plastikman (for NovaMute) and F.U.S.E. (for Warp/TVT).
While original Detroit technocrats like Juan Atkins and Derrick May were changing the face of electronic music in the mid-'80s, Richie Hawtin was growing up across the river in Windsor, Ontario. A British native born in 1970, he moved to Canada with his family at the age of nine. Introduced to '70s electronic/minimalist pioneers Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream by his father (who was a robotics engineer for General Motors), Hawtin began DJing at the age of 17 -- as DJ Richie Rich -- and soon landed gigs at Detroit hot-spots like the Shelter and the famed Music Institute, home to all-night club sessions by May and Kevin Saunderson. Though many of Motown's innovators were skeptical of the skinny white Canadian, Richie Hawtin's formation of +8 Records helped deflect much of the criticism.
Hawtin and +8's co-founder, John Acquaviva, began working together in 1989, originally to make a Derrick May megamix for use on the radio; they later emerged from Acquaviva's studio with several original recordings. The duo issued one single, "Elements of Tone" as the first release on +8 Records (credited to States of Mind), and sat back while many in the techno world puzzled over who was responsible. The label's later releases -- by Kenny Larkin, Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) and Mark Gage (aka Vapourspace) in addition to various Hawtin/Acquaviva projects -- made the label famous for laboratory-precise techno based on slowly evolving and shifting acid lines. The aggressive sound matched the work of the label/artist collective Underground Resistance as the best techno to come out of Detroit in the early '90s, thanks to a slow-down in the work of past masters Atkins, May and Saunderson. Demand grew at the same time for Hawtin's excellent acid-inspired DJing.
The Plastikman project debuted in 1993 with two releases for +8: the seminal "Spastik" single and an album, Sheet One. Hawtin's first wide release, however, came with the alter-ego F.U.S.E. (short for Further Underground Subsonic Experiments). A more varied and melodic project than Plastikman (but not by much), F.U.S.E. released the album Dimension Intrusion for the British Warp Records in late 1993. As part of the label's Artificial Intelligence series, Dimension Intrusion was also licensed to Wax Trax!/TVT for release in America. (Hawtin joined such ambient-techno heroes as the Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre and B12, all receiving their wide-issue debuts.) Later, NovaMute signed an agreement with +8 and another Hawtin-founded label, Probe; Sheet One was reissued in 1994, followed by the second Plastikman LP, Musik. Much more restrained than Sheet One, the album fit in well with the growing ambient-techno movement. All told, Hawtin was responsible for the release of three albums and a good-sized EP in the span of just one year.
That impressive schedule was shattered in 1995, when Hawtin was entangled in difficulties resulting from a sudden crackdown on his usual procedure of crossing the American border to perform. Refused entrance for more than a year, he lost his inspirational grounding with the Detroit scene and found it difficult to continue recording for his third Plastikman album, Klinik. While he waited for re-entry, Hawtin spent time setting up the sub-label Definitive, and continued to DJ around the world. Though he recorded scattered singles for +8 and related imprints, his only full-length release that year was an excellent entry in the Mixmag Live! series, taken from a DJ set recorded at the Building in Windsor. By the time he was able to return to America, he had changed his musical direction and eventually abandoned the Klinik album.
Hawtin returned in 1996 his release schedule; during each month of the year, he issued a completely unadorned single recorded as Concept 1 (some were later collected on Concept 1 96:CD, mixed by Hawtin). Desperately minimal works, even compared to his earlier material, the singles showed Hawtin's reaction to the new-school of barely there techno coming from German labels like Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Profan and Studio 1 -- all of them originally influenced in no small way by Plastikman recordings. Finally, in early 1998, he released his third Plastikman LP, Consumed, which proved to be just as brutally shadowed as the Concept 1 material. The continued experimentalist direction showed Hawtin coming full circle, back to his position on the leading edge of intelligent techno. Many of the unreleased Klinik recordings surfaced in late 1998 on the compilation Artifakts [BC].
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