decoded_ Something for your mind… Something for your mind…

This looks like the party for me this Easter long w/end…

http://www.deepasfunk.com

So, what’s been happening international techno/minimal/deep-tech-house party, event, club night wise in Sydney?

I’ve made it out to the red ones, thoughts and comments posted up soon.

JANUARY 2009…
01.01.09 : Simon Baker, Radio Slave + more @ Spice Afloat – (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – Lady Rose
04.01.09 : Carl Craig, Recloose, Radio Slave, A Guy Called Gerald + more @ Days Like This! Festival – Entertainment Quarter
09.01.09 : Jamie Lidell [Live/Band] @ Mad Racket Presents… – The Forum
10.01.09 : Various @ Sydney Festival 2009 – First Night – Sydney CBD
10.01.09 : Mike Monday @ Kink – Nevermind
10.01.09 : Radio Slave, Simon Baker @ Deep As Fu*k Warehouse Party – Secret Location
10.01.09 : Simon Baker @ LadyLux
10.01.09 : Oliver Huntemann, Cicada [Live] @ Switch – The Arthouse
11.01.09 : Simon Baker @ Spice – The Bunker
11.01.09 : Simon Baker @ Little Miss Sundays – LadyLux
23.01.09 : Holy Ghost, Idjut Boys @ Disco Nouveau – Sydney Festival 2009 – Becks Festival Bar
24.01.09 : Claude VonStroke, Christian Martin, Gucci Soundsystem, Unabombers @ Pulse Radio – Yacht Club 002 (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – MV Starship
24.01.09 : Rhythm & Sound (Tikiman), The Bug, Steve Spacek, Mark Pritchard @ Hyper-Dub – Sydney Festival 2009 – Becks Festival Bar
24.01.09 : Mathew Jonson [Live] @ Bread & Butter – LadyLux
25.01.09 : 2000 And One, Ewan Pearson @ Lost Baggage – The Cross
26.01.09 : 2000 And One + More @ Spice – The Bunker
30.01.09 : Jimpster @ A Reckless Fuss – Civic Underground
31.01.09 : Unabombers @ Bread & Butter – LadyLux
31.01.09 : Paul Woolford @ The Club Club – Chinese Laundry
31.01.09 : Tom Middleton @ Lookin’ Good – The Cross
31.01.09 : Mathew Jonson [Live] @ Deep As Fu*k – The Bunker

FEBRUARY 2009…
06.02.09 : Various @ Playground Weekender 2009 – Wiseman’s Ferry, Webb’s Creek
07.02.09 : Joris Voorn [Laptop (Traktor) DJ Set] @ Kink – Nevermind
07.02.09 : Nic Fanciulli @ The Club Club – Chinese Laundry
08.02.09 : Chris Liebing @ Mainline – Warehouse
13.02.09 : Todd Terje @ Future Classic/Fuzzy _ Discoasis – Nevermind
14.02.09 : TG (Tim Green), Heidi @ Lost Baggage – The Cross
14.02.09 : Kevin Griffiths @ Kink – Nevermind
14.02.09 : Manuel Tur @ Bread & Butter – LadyLux
20.02.09 : Optimo DJs @ HaHa Industries – Oxford Art Factory
21.02.09 : Maetrik [Live] + Secret International @ Sex With Bass – Deep As Fu*k – Warehouse
21.02.09 : TG (Tim Green) @ Kink – Nevermind
22.02.09 : John Selway @ Spice – The Bunker
28.02.09 : Italoboyz @ Kink – Nevermind
28.02.09 : Richie Hawtin, Grandmaster Flash, Stephen Bodzin, + More @ Future Music Festival 2009 – Randwick Racecourse
28.02.09 : Stephen Bodzin + More @ F.M.F After Party – The Arthouse

MARCH 2009…
07.03.09 : Bjorn Wilke @ Kink – Nevermind
07.03.09 : DJ HMC [Live & DJ Sets] @ Mad Racket – The Interstate Mardi Gras Special – Marrickville Bowlo
08.03.09 : Bjorn Wilke @ Spice – The Bunker
14.03.09 : Andrea Bertolini, Kevin Griffiths @ Lost Baggage – The Cross
14.03.09 : Phil Kieran @ The Club Club – Chinese Laundry
21.03.09 : SCSI-9 [Live], Anton Kubikov (SCSI-9) + More ** @ Deep As Fu*k Warehouse
21.03.09 : Raresh ** @ Kink – Nevermind
22.03.09 : A:RPIA:R (Raresh, Pedro & Rhadoo) ** + More @ CircoLoco – Pulseradio Yacht Club 003 (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – MV Starship
22.03.09 : Anton Kubikov (SCSI-9), Rhadoo **, Pedro ** @ CircoLoco (After Party) LadyLux

** A:RPIA:R (Raresh, Pedro & Rhadoo) cancelled their AU/USA/Asia tour, excess $ baggage issues with their airline in Tokyo (too many records) the reason, so they returned home. Ibiza CircoLoco resident UK DJ Jo Mills played in their place on the CircoLoco boat cruise/party, along with Sydney guests Simon Caldwell and Ken Cloud from Mad Racket.

One of my fave producers last year… Stimming from Hamburg, has a new album coming out in March on the Diynamic label… Reflections.

And even more exciting news, he’s coming to Australia, and playing Sydney in late April! Awesome!

Stimming – Reflections

01. Sunday Morning
02. After Eight
03. Song for Isabelle
04. Fruits of Life
05. Silver Surfer
06. One Weekend
07. The Loneliness
08. Tel Aviv Calling
09. The Beauty
10. Sleep On
11. The Kiss

You can hear audio samples here: http://www.wordandsound.de/article/57289

Artice about the album from http://www.wordandsound.de

Hamburg-based producer Martin Stimming makes his LP his debut on the ever consistent Diynamic imprint this Spring with ‘Reflections’, an album based around specific stories expressed through 11 brand new tracks.

Like Diynamic itself, Stimming has had a massive impact on house music in just a few years via releases for Liebe*Details, Freerange, Buzzin Fly as well as Diynamic, and the quality of ‘Reflections’ sums up why the impact has been so swift.

As with previous material, Stimming imbibes ‘Reflections’ with a thoroughly modern house feeling laced with jazz and real depth of both emotion and sound via a mix of field recordings, live instrumentation and electronic wizardry. Shock, contrast and fresh outlooks are abound on ‘Reflections’, where Stimming uses tracks such as opener ‘Sunday Morning’ to lull the listener into a groove before hitting them with epic, almost orchestral slaps. Tried and tested house music influences are given new, skewed interpretations on cuts such as the drunken dub of ‘Song for Isabelle’ and Eastern-European folk-house of ‘Silver Surfer’ while even more straightforward house templates in ‘After Eight’ and ‘One Weekend’ still sound totally unique and refreshing.

‘Reflections’ see’s the SAE trained producer tackle vocals for the first time with ‘The Loneliness’, a bittersweet yet rousing piece which intertwines organic elements with electronic sounds seamlessly. (See YouTube clip below)

Those seeking Stimming anthems which have thus far propelled the artists career won’t be disappointed either as there’s plenty. Whether it be the Detroit-y ‘The Beauty’ or the lush melodic closer ‘The Kiss’, dancefloors will surely buckle. A true journey, ‘Reflections’ ebbs and flows wonderfully with jaw-dropping production allowing Stimming to create some outstanding fusions of styles and moods.

The unmissable ‘Reflections’ by Stimming is release on Diynamic in March 2009

More data:

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/first-impressions-stimming-reflections
http://www.myspace.com/stimming

2000 And One and Ewan Pearson @ Lost Baggage – The Cross : 25.01.2009

Let’s get into 2009!

I had a really fun Saturday night on the 10th of January. Started my night hanging with friends watching Grace Jones perform live at the Domain for Sydney Festival First Night, she was fantastic and sounded excellent. My mate Tad saw her play at the Enmore Theatre later in the week, his great review here. We had to sit through The Cat Empire and Mr. Scruff play prior as well, not so into those sounds, but it had to be done, getting there early to score a patch of grass for us all to laze on.

Afterwards we walked through the city streets (blocked off to traffic) with thousands of people, to get a train to St.Peters, and had a bunch of great cocktails with new friends at their place, whilst they argued with their neighbour about noise issues, then sometime after 2am we drunkenly made our way up the road in taxis to the Deep As Fu*k – Warehouse Party in Tempe. The party was held in an old-school, dark, warehouse space, with about 200 people, which was just the right amount of people for the space, and featured UK techno DJ Simon Baker, who was finishing as we arrived, bummer, but we got to see D.A.F local DJ Rif Raf, play a great set of maximal/minimal techno, followed by another UK techno DJ guest, Radio Slave, who we felt played much better at this than on/at the Spice Afloat NYD boat cruise/party, a lot more solid all round! This was probably the best warehouse party I’ve been to in Sydney, everything was great; music, sound, crowd, vibe! I had an awesome time! More please!