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After spending his formative years crafting a unique take on Techno, French musician Terence Fixmer released his debut album ‘Muscle Machine’ in 1999. Forging a path with tracks like ‘Electrostatic’ and ‘Body Pressure’ that became instant classics re defining the Techno scene.
For his follow up album Fixmer recalled one of his early influences and enlisted the legendary voice of Douglas J McCarthy, the lead singer from the cult band Nitzer Ebb and 2003 saw them join forces for the first time in the unlikely spot of Lille. Initially Fixmer wanted McCarthy to work on just one or two tracks as a guest vocalist but within merely a few days in the studio their collaboration proved so fruitful that they decided to make an entire album. Thus Fixmer/McCarthy was born.
McCarthy’s musical journey actually began in 1982 as a teen proto synth punk in the UK. Nitzer Ebb self released three 12” singles before signing to the bastion of electronic music, Mute Records, in 1986. Touring extensively with Depeche Mode on the ‘Music For The Masses’ and ‘Violator’ tours they cut a jarring trail through the music scene both in Europe and the USA. After five albums, McCarthy took a hiatus from music to pursue filmmaking. It was during this break that Fixmer was asked by Mute Records to remix the Nitzer Ebb classic ‘Let Your Body Learn’ which led him to invite McCarthy to participate with his new album.
Fixmer/McCarthy became the precursor to a new breed of Techno artists managing to traverse between the scene specific genres of Techno and EBM without being tied to either.
Now, after 13 years of writing and touring the world together, they return with their signature raw sound and delivery. ‘So Many Lies’ is quintessential brooding Techno whilst dispatching the cold steel aggression of EBM.
Line-up:
Jade Lee Petersen & Kewin Bonono
Geistform live
Blush Response live
Chris Stanford
DE vs. Troit
MXM
Sirio Gry J
Unhuman
Location:
Arena Club, Berlin (Germany)
Admission fee: tba EUR
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LIBER NULL XIV – AGONY
Agony as the state of being under immense physical or mental suffering.
Have you ever felt extreme pain?
Everlasting, unbearable, paroxysmal pain?
Have you ever been tortured?
Mentally tormented?
Psychological pain as an inescapable aspect of human existence.
Did you ever cause pain to someone?
Did you ever experience intoxicating emotional suffering?
Did you ever endure the last seconds?
Pleasure blossoms through agony.
Walk through the labyrinth.
Enter Liber Null.
Jade Lee Petersen & Kewin Bonono
South African male contortionist Jade Lee Petersen showcases extreme physical flexibility using his androgynous figure. The need of experimenting with physical limits and the urge to relieve energies through the body is his crossing point with the work of Kewin Bonono. Born in France with a mix of african roots, Kewin Bonono transforms his life experiences into performances and reactions within states of emergency. They both live, work and share rituals in Berlin.
Geistform
Rafael Martinez Espinosa, known as Geistform, a Spanish industrial/electro music producer and performer based in Rubí (Barcelona). Espinosa started his career in the early 2000’s and released 5 electrified albums on labels such as Germany’s Hands Productions and Belgium’s Daft Records managed by authoritative artist Dirk Ivens (Dive, Klinik, Absolute Body Control etc.). Espinosa also collaborated with Ivens on the “Behind The Sun” album thus immediately gained a worldwide recognition and reputation amongst harsh and noisy rhythmical composition listeners. Geistform production is influenced by minimal techno and industrial sound. His powerful electronic beats, intense analog textures and distortions are generated mostly from analog sources, oscillators and strictly electronic tones. Geistform’s live shows are known to be locomotive, penetrating and extremely danceable. His performances at notable shows such as Maschinenfest, Forms Of Hands and others across Europe mirrors his high technical skillfulness and pure conceptuality.
Blush Response
Blush response is Joey Blush, a cuban-american artist and sound designer hailing from nyc who now resides in berlin. blush cut his teeth doing programming work for artists such as fear factory, rhys fulber, cristian castro, and as a touring member of joey jordison (slipknot)’s alternative rock project scar the martyr. a fascinating, vibrant new artist, frequenting the outer realms of post punk, industrial, techno, you-name-it and has a plethora of releases on cd, vinyl, digital and even cassette tape format to date.
The intention behind blush response is to always push the limits of sound, structure, and perception, creating a modern version of what he perceives industrial music to be: brutal, inventive, uncompromising and always innovative. throbbing gristle, surgeon or front 242 have left audible traces in his sound, and his goal is to recapture the core spirit of these originators, and then to evolve it even further. performing on hardware synthesizers is a big part of the essence of blush response. his approach is very ‘hands on’ and thus 90% of the changes you hear on his sounds are done by hand without any automation. blush believes in performative gestures over cut and paste editing, and strives to explore the limits of human-machine interactions. his live performances are 100% improvised and mostly unplanned which includes mistakes and happy accidents, and this philosophy is also reflected in his studio work.
Blush response’s music is characterized by a heavy approach to sound design, combining rough, glitch-heavy beats with thick, distorted synths. pounding, head-tripping kick drums intermix with abrasive, dark sequences generating huge walls of cavernous sonics. a pulsating slice of straightforward noise-filtered techno with a good dose of industrial and ebm influences while blush’s improvising skills enable a sound that blurs the lines between these genres. a barely tamed beast, biting and piercing holes in eardrums and somehow magically managing to make your feet tap along or, at considerable volume, rave.
Chris Stanford
‘Chris Stanford’ holds an amount respect in London having held residencies as a DJ at various venues in and around the city since 2005. But probably the most influential of those is happening right now at ‘Corsica Studios’ where he plays most Sunday morning/ afternoons for the legendary ‘Jaded’ which is inspiring a generation of young Londoners.
Not just as a DJ, Chris has been pushing techno in London for a long time, it started with throwing parties, booking well known artists from across the world to play. Then his interests begun to sway more towards music production and label management, this happened around 2010, he had been the running EarToGround parties alongside ‘Gareth Wild’. Meanwhile Chris met ‘Dax J’, already a talented producer having been making Drum & Bass previously, something that ETG guys all hold in common in fact is an early love for D&B, Jungle, Hardcore, UK Rave.
So Chris & Dax took their tracks to Gareth and EarToGround Records was born, the tracks they have done together have been remixed by the likes of ‘Truss’, ‘Shifted’, ‘AnD’ and ‘Ryan Elliott’. Now the label has grown a lot and continues to thrive with seventeen releases around five years. There is also a not so secret sub label VA project called ‘LDNwht’ that Chris, Gareth & Dax run together.
Theres also some other projects Chris works on by himself, he recently launched his new vinyl project ‘Prodigal Son’, with they first release by newcomer French producer ‘Exal’ that he discovered via the well known ‘Blocaus’ parties in Paris, with remixes by ‘Inigo Kennedy’ and ‘Hector Oaks’, illustrated artwork makes it a great start to the new imprint. As well as this Chris’s digital release only label Quant reaches its tenth release very soon and will celebrate doing so with a compilation including some artists already initiated and one that will be releasing EP’s in the not so distant future. This year there will also be some of the first Chris Stanford solo produced tracks, as everything so far has been a collaboration, work is in progress and eagurely awaited upon, one thing being certain is his commitment to good, forward thinking, techno.
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Mark Groot is a 20 year old guy from Amsterdam who started to study law but then decided to do what he really love: music.
Nowadays his life is centered around his work at a record shop, djing and experimenting with sounds. So he released his first EP “Never Try Never Know” in January – and got signed now by Canadian label Naught Music for a new EP coming in April.
Here is his second official mix presented by Naught Music and NovaFuture Blog. It also contains some of his own productions.
Tracklisting:
01. Talismann – Russia
02. Exos – Birds in Bedroom
03. Gunnar Haslam – Athabaskan Languages
04. Ben Klock – You
05. Developer – In A Pure Form 14
06. Developer – In A Pure Form 11
07. Talismann – Germany
08. Mark Groot – Never Try
09. Mark Groot – Your Wish
10. Mark Groot – My Command
11. Jonas Kopp – Take me Higher
12. Talismann – Mars Wars
13. Oak/Pine – Cider Sword
14. Voiski – Galaxy Call
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This is the first edition of a new series on our blog. We want to mix different arts like photography, painting etc with music (DJ set, exclusive tracks…).
This part features the young photographer Max Drake.
Max started with photography 10 years ago being fascinated by landscape and nature images.
Nowadays he is also into taking pictures of urban motives, getting more and more focusses on that kind of stuff.
Photography was his first love, now accompanied by his second passion: music. Today both hobbies are in peaceful co-existance.
The mix given here is a musical partner for the photos, to inspire your imaginary and give you an idea of Max’ feelings while taking pictures of beautiful landscapes, weird buildings & architecture.
Max is happy with life filled with images and music. For sure he has also a daily life studying law.
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blush response is joey blush, a cuban-american artist and sound designer hailing from nyc who now resides in berlin. blush cut his teeth doing programming work for artists such as fear factory, rhys fulber, cristian castro, and as a touring member of joey jordison (slipknot)’s alternative rock project scar the martyr.
a fascinating, vibrant new artist, frequenting the outer realms of post punk, industrial, techno, you-name-it and has a plethora of releases on cd, vinyl, digital and even cassette tape format to date on labels like aufnahme + wiedergabe, total black and basic unit productions.
the intention behind blush response is to always push the limits of sound, structure, and perception, creating a modern version of what he perceives industrial music to be: brutal, inventive, uncompromising and always innovative. throbbing gristle, surgeon or front 242 have left audible traces in his sound, and his goal is to recapture the core spirit of these originators, and then to evolve it even further.
performing on hardware synthesizers is a big part of the essence of blush response. his approach is very ‘hands on’ and thus 90% of the changes you hear on his sounds are done by hand without any automation. blush believes in performative gestures over cut and paste editing, and strives to explore the limits of human-machine interactions. his live performances are 100% improvised and mostly unplanned which includes mistakes and happy accidents, and this philosophy is also reflected in his studio work.
blush response’s music is characterized by a heavy approach to sound design, combining rough, glitch-heavy beats with thick, distorted synths. pounding, head-tripping kick drums intermix with abrasive, dark sequences generating huge walls of cavernous sonics. a pulsating slice of straightforward noise-filtered techno with a good dose of industrial and ebm influences while blush’s improvising skills enable a sound that blurs the lines between these genres. a barely tamed beast, biting and piercing holes in eardrums and somehow magically managing to make your feet tap along or, at considerable volume, rave.
