Event:
Seelen x Raster
Date & Time:
14th September 2019 at 11:00pm
Line-up:
Aerts
Atom™
Atomic
Grischa Lichtenberger
JANEIN
kyoka
Opium Hum
Shaleen
Stigmatique
SubkoØne b2b TØSCH☰
SPECIAL GUEST
Location:
Transit, Chemnitz (Germany)
Admission fee:
tba EUR
Press Info:
On the 14th of September we’re humbled to reopen our doors after the summer holidays for a special occasion: the exceptional label Raster will collaborate with SEELEN. and transit on a special event, bringing together two very distinct labels for the first time. Raster will host live performances and DJ sets from some of the labels most influential artists + CTM Festival curator Opium Hum.
SEELEN. will simply bring the rave home.
transit adds some local talent on top.
Raster
raster, founded in 1996, sees itself as an artistic platform, a musical and intermedial archive.
In addition to audiovisual performances, installations or books, about 200 musical projects were published so far – often following a serial concept. The current core of the label includes, among others, Belief Defect, Dasha Rush, Kyoka, Atom™, Robert Lippok, as well as the label’s founders Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender aka Byetone.
SEELEN.
Punk is a music genre that developed in the mid-1970s widely known through it’s production style of fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and stripped-down instrumentation paired with an embrace of DIY-culture and the rejection of established rules.
SEELEN. is an independent Techno record label founded in 2018 by JANEIN and Stigmatique, that is based out of Leipzig, Germany.
While at first glance these might not have a lot in common, upon closer inspection you begin to notice, clear as day, there is a distinctly punk mentality in the labels modus operandi. From their cover artworks, that have more in common with a record-stores Death Metal section, to the fact that the label is completely self-distributed to avoid the industry machinery that crushes the spirits of many trying to go through it.
SEELEN.’s musical foundation can no doubt be found in this mentality as well. Formed around a tightly knit crew of artists sharing a single vision, it has sharp corners, an often eye-melting tempo and bleeds from every pore with ecstatic raving madness. Utilizing this, the label exploded onto the scene with two 12” compilations that garnered enormous support from audiences and industry heavy weights alike and also led to them being noticed by Leipzig’s reveled club Institut fuer Zukunft, Blitz Club Munich or objekt klein a Dresden.
If reading all this has not convinced you yet however, then that’s fine though.
Because SEELEN. is not trying to win you over.
SEELEN. comes from the hearts of the people who form it. It is a rejection of the mainstream.
Mixes:
Byetone – “Boiler Room”
Robert Lippok – “LEVpodcast 2012”
Grischa Lichtenberger – “1018 10 lv 1 nts mix 1c”
JANEIN – “#SlamRadio 362”
Kyoka – “Kyoka – Electron Festival 2016 Podcast”
Opium Hum – “Raster Electric Campfire Mix”
Shaleen – “SEELEN.podcast.003”
Stigmatique – “UV Podcast 069”
SubkoØne – “Clocktape Nr. 62”
TØSCH☰ – “@HGM Radio Podcast | 08.02.2019”
Recommendations:
Atom™’s “Riding The Void” on Raster-Noton
Atom™’s “Ich Bin Meine Maschine” on Raster-Noton
Grischa Lichtenberger’s “La Demeure; Il Y A Péril En La Demeure” on RN
all stuff on Seelen Records
Websites:
Raster
Seelen Records
Transit
