DJ Pete & Sleeparchive live (Hardwax, Substance, GER)
Ra.H live (Morphine, M>O>S, IT)
Kassem Mosse live (Workshop, Mikrodisko, GER)
Immer.chic dj (Workshop, meakusma, GER)
Entry: 10€
//Dj Pete & Sleeparchive//
Looking at Berlin’s Techno landscape, there’s no way missing the landmark which is DJ Pete. He’s not only an eye wittness to Techno’s zero hour in Berlin, but he also became one of the early forces shaping the German capital’s underground dance scene for the years to come. He quickly went from being a consumer to actually write Berlin’s Techno history as a producer, remixer and an international dj, as well as part of the Hardwax record store crew.
Listening to Pete dj, it is hardly surprising his experience spanning two decades constantly shines through. His sets comprise a wide range of the most important currents the music went through over the last 20 years. His energetic djing is based on loop-y Techno with a tinge of Industrial, tougher House tracks, the proverbial Berlin Sound, as well as classic US Techno. One of his main strentghs is to intuitively keep the balance of pleasing the crowd while always keeping an open mind for new sounds. Moving between those poles is DJ Petes main source for inspiration, currently resulting in him spicing up his sets with a lot of Dubstep verging on Techno.
Another fine example of both his variety and open-mindedness is the fact that he – as a dj still prefering the sonic and haptic qualities of vinyl – released "Scion Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks" as part of the duo Scion, which was the first commercially available cd ever to have been produced with the then completely new software Ableton Live. In 1995, Scion released their debut „Emerge“ on Chain Reaction, followed by more productions under his solo pseudonym Substance on Chain Reaction and Scion Versions, as well as remixes for artists like Juan Atkins, Robert Hood and Rhythm & Sound.
www.djpete.de
www.sleeparchive.de
www.hardwax.com
//Ra.H//
Ra.H has been on the lebanese musical scene since 1990 selecting and playing music in small clubs and on radio since the age of 14. In 1996 he moved to Italy and had the chance to improve his studio production skills. After many releases under other aliases, he started his own imprint Morphine Records in 2005
www.myspace.com/rahisrah
www.morphinerecords.com
//Kassem Mosse//
kassem mosse has been producing and performing his style of minimal skills music since 2003. until then, he lived a quiet life, a stranger to champagne. now, he experiments with cheap and ugly drummachines and synthesizers, altering his studio and live-setups again and again. live, he jams with drummachines and synthesizers, programming and mixing patterns on the spot.
www.myspace.com/kassemmosse
www.workshopsound.com
Immer.Chic
www.myspace.com/immerchic
www.workshopsound.com
www.meakusma.org
[BE]23.04 meakusma w/Pete & Sleeparchive, etc at Recycla
Meakusma returns to Recyclart with an all-star line up of legends and new super talents.
Expect deep, relentless beats, grooves and textures that move forward, however still earthed in the rich tradition electronic club music has built up by now.
The collaborative effort between the legendary DJ Pete (of Scion, Substance and Chain Reaction fame) and Sleeparchive has been going strong for a few years already, but is now firmly moving into focus with a mind-blowing appearance at last year’s landmark Hardwax 20 party in Berlin. For the first time in Belgium, these two techno deities stand for a seductive and deep techno music that avoids the obvious and intents on further developing techno as a cutting edge genre.
Ra.H hails from Lebanon, but has been living in Italy where he started up his already seminal Morphine Records label in 2005. The Morphine sound uses a house music template but broadens it with subtle experimentalism, creating a deep and modern analogue sounding club music that is highly original and that breathed new life into a club scene dominated by made-to-measure minimal house or techno.
Kassem Mosse’s sound is also based upon analogue synthesizers and drum machines. Call it techno, but he often surprises with sounds that seemingly do not fit into any category. Releases on Microdisko and especially on Workshop have cemented his reputation as on of the most original and daring producers around today.
Immer.Chic has had a few tracks released already. He warms up the night with an amalgam of stranger, deeper tracks, the result of years of crate-digging and looking for the unexpected.