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Club nights/events with international techno, minimal, tech-house, deep-house, house DJ/live acts on in Sydney Australia…

I made it out to the red ones. Thoughts and comments to be posted soon.

NOVEMBER 2010…

05.11.10 : Funk D’Void @ Deeper Sounds : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
13.11.10 : Shonky @ Pluseradio Presents… – Name This Bar
14.11.10 : Rick Wade @ Sunday Picnic – Secret Warehouse
14.11.10 : Shonky, PQM @ Church Of Techno – Forbes Hotel
20.11.10 : Martin Buttrich [Live], Gunnar Stiller, Jazzanova + More @ Agwa Yacht Club 008 (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – MV Starship
20.11.10 : Martin Buttrich [Live] @ CO-OP & Monkey Tennis : Keep Deep (Agwa Yacht Club After Party) – Tone
20.11.10 : Gunnar Stiller @ P.S Presents… Afterparty – Melt
21.11.10 : Jazzanova @ Future Classic – Sunhaze – Alexandria Hotel
26.11.10 : Jay Shepheard @ Reckless Republic : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
26.11.10 : Untold @ Index/Void – Good God Small Club
26.11.10 : DJ Sneak @ Mo’funk & Friends – Hugo’s
27.11.10 : Redshape [Live], Jeff Mills, Ricardo Villalobos, Reboot [Live], Luciano, Technasia, DJ Sneak, Carl Cox, DJ T. + More @ Steresonic 2010 – Sydney Showgrounds (Homebush)
27.11.10 : Alex Smoke [Live] ***, Juan Atkins, Vince Watson [Live] @ HAHA Industries – Versus Round 2 – Marrickville Bowlo
27.11.10 : DJ T. + More @ Stereosonic After Party – Chinese Laundry
27.11.10 : DJ Sneak @ Wham! – World Bar

DECEMBER 2010…

03.12.10 : Ricardo Villalobos (4 Hour Set) @ Sneaker Peeps – The Metro
03-05.12.10 : Dominik Eulberg **, Heinrichs & Hirtnefellner, Michael Mayer, Tobias Thomas, Extrawelt [Live], Jens Bond, Telefon Tel Aviv, Boris Brejcha + More @ Subsonic Music Festival 2010 – Riverwood Downs / Barrington Tops
10.12.10 : Thomas Schumacher @ Reckless Republic : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
11.12.10 : Tiefschwarz @ Chinese Laundry Saturday – Chinese Laundry
11.12.10 : Carl Craig, Moodymann, Theo Parrish @ D25 (Detroit Techno Celebrates 25 Years) – The Forum
11.12.10 : The Field [Live] @ Mistletone + FBI Radio Present… The Gaelic Club
11.12.10 : Extrawelt, Heinrichs & Hirtnefellner, Turmspringer + More @ Pirates Of The Underground 4 (Sydney Harbour Cruise) – MV TBA
11.12.10 : TBA @ Pirates Of The Underground 4 After-Party – Secret Warehouse
12.12.10 : Turmspringer @ Spice – Home Terrace
18.12.10 : Konrad Black @ Organic – Sun Studios Alexandria (5pm-3am)
18.12.10 : Pantha Du Prince [Live] @ Adult Disco – The Civic
31.12.10 : Dennis Ferrer, Riva Starr + More @ Harbour Party NYE 2010 – Luna Park
31.12.10 : Milton Jackson, Bjorn Wilke + More @ Bare Essentials NYE 2010 – Hotel Sweeneys
31.12.10 : Chris Duckenfield, Session Victim [Live] @ Mad Racket NYE – Marrickville Bowlo
31.12.10 : Ralph Lawson, James Curd + More @ NYE @ The MCA – Museum Of Contemporary Art

** Dominik Eulberg cancels Australian tour… again! Read more.

*** Alex Smoke has cancelled gigs, is in a Melbourne hospital due to collapsed lung! Read more.

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Please note:

This is not a complete list of every event on in Sydney, these are events that have caught my attention.

I do my best to post up accurate info, but dates, artists, venues can change etc.

TBA = To Be Announced

If you’re after info on other techno/minimal club nights with more local flavour in Sydney, check out the Sydney Loves Techno blog.

The InTheMix – Sydney – What’s On section lists a whole range of dance/electronic music events/club nights, check it out here.

I’m not that much of a fan of dubstep, but if you’re into it, there is a crew (Void/Index) in Sydney putting on regular quality events, often with internationals, check here for more info.

Party on!

So, 2010 is almost over, looking back over all the electronic/dance music events and club nights I got out to, here are my favourites…

Sydney 2010

Danny Tenaglia @ Nevermind – 07.01.10
Robert Babicz [Live] @ Civic Underground – 30.01.10
Orbital [Live] @ The Forum – 23.02.10
Derrick May @ 202 – 18.04.10
Steve Rachmad @ Creamfields – 01.05.10
Autechre [Live] @ Forum – 28.05.10
The Revenge & Underworld [Live] @ We Love Sounds Winter Festival – 05.06.10
Marcel Dettmann @ Space – 18.09.10
Surgeon @ The Forum – 23.10.10
Jeff Mills @ Stereosonic 2010 – 27.11.10
Pantha du Prince [Live] @ Civic Underground – 18.12.10

EU holiday 2010…

Redshape [Live] @ Panorama Bar Berlin – 13.08.10
Function @ ://about blank Berlin – 14.08.10
Paul Kalkbrenner [Live] @ Th!nk Festival Leipzig – 15.08.10
Pacou [Live], Alexander Kowalski [Live] @ Krautok 2010 Maria Berlin – 21.08.10
Ellen Allien @ Berghain – 21.08.10
Surgeon & Shed [Live] @ Berghain – 27.08.10
Scion Versions [Live] @ Berghain – 28.08.10
Sandwell District [Live] @ Sankeys Manchester 10.09.10
Surgeon & Shed [Live] @ Cable London – 11.09.10

Yep, looks like I’m very much so back into techno.

Sydney friends living in London, are putting on a Sunday club event, starting at 2pm, going through till 2am, with a BBQ at 5pm. They will be mixing up electronica, dub, deep-house, minimal and techno sounds for your enjoyment.

decoded_ (London)

Sunday 14th November 2010
@ The Macbeth
70 Hoxton Street, Hackney, London, N1 6LP
2pm – 2am / BBQ @ 5pm
£3 Entry

DJs…

ARB2.5
Product
Dave Choe
eltanoloKo

More data:

http://soundcloud.com/antbox1
http://soundcloud.com/bradishiding
http://soundcloud.com/eltanoloko
http://www.themacbethuk.co.uk/

PS:

Ant (ARB2.5), Brad (Product) and I did a regular decoded_ club night in Sydney for a while, on a Thursday night at The Burdekin here in Sydney, a few years back. It’s excellent to see the guys have got something happening in London, now that they are both living there.

Yes, decoded_ is also the name for my defunct Internet radio show, and this blog.

Great to see Dave Choe added to the line-up too, as well as being a great DJ, he’s also half of the crew behind all the excellent Glitch club nights and parties in Sydney over the years. He moved to London a year ago.

All these guys know and play great music, and are great mates. I highly recommend checking this out if you’re in London town. A chance to catch up with some really friendly Aussie crew too.

Surgeon played an awesome three hour set here in Sydney on Saturday night. He blew our minds! Taking us on a fantastic journey of new and old techno, dubstep and electronica sounds and more. His set was very dynamic, with changes of intensity, twists and turns, deepness, darkness, and some unexpected blasts from the past, lots of memorable music.

I felt inspired and totally musically satisfied afterwards. I had a great jump around on the dance-floor at the front, the three hours went by in a flash, never a dull moment.

It was a really fun night, great venue, excellent sound, large techno/music passionate crowd showing vocal appreciation, lots of new/young and old/old-school friends and familiar faces about. The heavy rain we were met with leaving the venue at 2am (venue close) couldn’t dampen our spirits afterwards. I’m still on a high after this night, almost a week later. I think I’ll ride this buzz all the way to seeing Jeff Mills @ Stereosonic next month, and not spoil it with anything in-between, nothing would be good enough.

I’m really impressed with how different each of the Surgeon sets I’ve seen this year have been; Berghain in Berlin had a lot more deepness and dubstep sounds, Cable in London had more electronica/melodic (he even played some disco!) sounds, and now the Forum in Sydney with a hard/tough techno set.

My partner Joanne also saw his Brisbane and Melbourne performances as well, and mentioned the same, each performance being quite different in feel/sound. He certainly gave us a spanking (as he mentioned on his twitter) in Sydney.

Some tracks I knew and remembered him playing here in Sydney…

KiNK – Soda Caustic
KiNK – The Roots Of Techno
Frank Martiniq – Blast Corps
Egyptian Empire – That Horn Track
DJ Hell – Hot On The Heels Of Love (Dave Clarke Remix)
Kritikal Audio – Krup
Edge Of Motion – Set Up 707
A Homeboy, A Hippy & A Funky Dread – Total Confusion
Traversable Wormhole – Closed Timelike Curve (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf (Surgeon Remake)
Surgeon – Atol
Karl O’Connor & Peter Sutton – Guiltless
Jeff Mills – i9
Surgeon – Move
Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant (Surgeon Remake)
Vainqueur – Lyot (Maurizio Mix)
Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milky Way (Surgeon remix)
Surgeon – Screw The Roses
X-313 – Interferon (Dave Clarke Remix)
British Murder Boys – Don’t Give Way To Fear
Surgeon – Prowler
Jeff Mills – Step To Enchantment (Stringent)
Surgeon – The Crawling Frog Is Torn And Smiles
Whitehouse – ?
Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce – Alien Girl
AFX – PWSteal.Ldpinch.D

A couple of IDs are from some ITM crew, thanks!

I’m pretty sure there were some other Surgeon and B.M.B tracks/loops played. There was also a heap of other stuff I didn’t know, and I love that; some acid, brutal techno, dubstep, and broken-beat, dark electronica sounds.

How spoilt are we? He’s just uploaded a recording of his Sydney set, get it here:

http://dj-surgeon.blogspot.com/2010/10/surgeon-at-forum-sydney-australia-23rd.html

Lots of happy Sydney techno people gushing about the night, here on ITM:

http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=277951

Thanks to everyone who made this tour come together.

More data:

http://dj-surgeon.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/tony_surgeon
http://www.dj-surgeon.com
http://voidsound.com

PS:

Joanne and I also got to hang out with him for a few hours on Sunday and chat over brunch, he’s a really nice guy, much respect.

* EDIT *

He’s just added the complete track-list to his blog, for his live set in Sydney, awesome!

Oneohtrix Point Never – Zones Without People
Surgeon – Klonk Part3
Robert Armani – Basement Rats
KiNK – Soda Caustic
AFX – Men 1 (loop)
Squarepusher – Planetarium (loop)
Phuture – We Are Phuture
2AMFM – Desolate Cities
OVR – Post Traumatic Son
Xhin – Key
Distance – Feel Me
Raime – Blackest Ever Black 2 (Regis version)
Corridor – Two Days 1
Whitehouse – Neronia
Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant (Surgeon remake)
Bas Mooy – Warsaw (Walker FSG mix)
Vex’d – Angels
KiNK – The Roots Of Techno
Cursor Minor – Everybody Want Power 111
British Murder Boys – Don’t Give Way To Fear 1
Bjorn Svin – Eat Like Hawks
Skudge – Melodrama (Aubrey remix)
Jeff Mills – i9
Orphx – Possession
Surgeon – Atol
Robert Hood – Range
Regis – Guiltless
Frank Martiniq – Blast Corps
Chasing Voices – Acidbathory
Whitehouse – Dumping The Fucking Rubbish
KiNK – Daddy Acid
Death Abyss – The Hermetic Antagonist (Mix two)
Vainqueur – Lyot (Maurizio mix)
Reeko – The Day After
Surgeon – The Crawling Frog Is Torn And Smiles
DJ Hell – Hot On The Heels Of Love (Dave Clarke remix)
Sinistra – Kakax (Gunjack Peak Time mix)
Surgeon – Bad Hands Break Part II
Breach – Fatherless
Surgeon – Exhibit
Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milky Way (Surgeon remix)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf (Surgeon remake)
Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track
Aphex Twin – 54 Cymru Beats
Kritical Audio – Krup
Paul Mac – DVD Crash
Surgeon – Screw The Roses (Live in Norway)
Traversable Wormhole – Closed Timeline (Marcel Dettmann remix)
Surgeon – Argon
x-313 – Interferon (Dave Clarke remix)
Jeff Mills – Real Life
Morganistic – Marbles
Reeko – 6 Sievert
Function – Montage
Scorn – The Palomar
Huren – Tinseltown
Whitehouse – A **** Like You
Edge Of Motion – Set Up 707
Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce – Alien Girl
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Nebula II – Atheama
A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd – Total Confusion (Confusion Mix)
Millsart – Step To Enchantment (Stringent)
AFX – PWSteal.Ldpinch.D

Here’s a faster link to download the live set from…

http://hotfile.com/dl/78988727/3d1710f/Surgeon_at_The_Forum_Sydney_Australia_23rd_October_2010.mp3.html

Had a really fun night at this party, well, once Joanne and I got over the shock of seeing again how expensive a night out here in Sydney is, compared to Berlin a few weeks before. We stayed at this till the very end, lights on, eveyone out at 5am.

Prior to the night, I was a bit concerned that Marcel Dettmann may just play hours of that cold, deep, stripped bare, building block techno that he and Ben Klock are known to play, produce and have on their labels. I like that sound, but hours of it, wouldn’t be very interesting, well, not to a crowd outside of a night at Berghain in there for the long haul. After seeing Marcel Dettmann play, I can tell he knows this too.

I was well impressed with the range of sounds and intensities he played here in Sydney. Mixing up some of that Dettmann/Klock sound with lots of memorable, melodic techno/house, and a little tech-house, and minimal, with many nods to past techno/house classics, and a large serve of some proper, percussive, hard, solid, techno compression, all kept under 127bpm (I like how techno has slowed down).

He kept my interest for his entire set, playing for more than 4 hours. I had a great jump around on the dance floor. Even with the changes of style/intensity throughout his set, it all seemed to flow well. He finished off with some interesting selections for his encore tracks, some electro, electronic-body-music, beatless melodic electronica, some Krautrock and Kraftwerk, respect. I think he was using both vinyl and CDs to play, a few slips in the mix here and there, but mostly he was solid and tight. I was left musically very satisified and inspired. Joanne noticed he was wearing a Sandwell District t-shirt too, very cool.

This party was going to be at Plantation at The Empire (old Palladium) in Kings Cross, but from what I heard management there kicked out all the recent house and techno nights/promoters, leaving the Disconnected crew with a tough time finding a new venue at the last minute. They ended up getting the side room at Space (above Shark Hotel) in the city, sharing the venue with the DefQon1 crew using the main room.

Probably no more than 100 people there for Disconnected in the side room, but enough for the small space to look/feel busy enough to create a vibe. Minimal lighting, lots of darkness, space to move, respectful dance-floor, with lots of friendly, familar music passionate people about, plus friendly staff and quick bar service, all win! The only negative was the sound system which struggled to push out any proper bottom end or volume intensity, but was adequate enough. I think every other sound system will fail me now though, when compared to experiencing Berghain’s. There was no sound bleed from the main room, and the DefQon1 kids stayed away, all good.

Some of the tracks Marcel Dettmann played that I knew/remember…

Aaron Carl(RIP) – Down
Gerd – Arkests Blaze
Justin Martin – The Sad Piano (Charles Webster Remix)
James Ruskin – Work (Steve Rachmad Remix)
Shed – My R-Class
Deuce – Cue Ed
Planetary Assault Systems – Hold It (Deuce Remix)
DJ Hyperactive – Wide Open
Lil Louis – Why’d U Fall ( I Called You)
Marcel Fengler – Sculptures
Richie Hawtin – 005
DJ Hyperactive – Music Box
Ray Kajioka – Steam
Function – Diassafected (Ben Klock Remix)
Junior Boys – Work (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
Tadeo – 4
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Kraftwerk – Computer World

Thanks for putting this on Disconnected crew, top night. So, Ben Klock next?

Club nights/events with international techno, minimal, tech-house, deep-house, house DJ/live acts in Sydney Australia…

I made it out to the red ones.

SEPTEMBER 2010…
03.09.10 : Dario Zenker, Thomas Muller @ Bug In The Bass : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
04.09.10 : Agoria, Superflu @ Finely Tuned & Future Present… – Plantation
04.09.10 : Marc Romboy @ Chinese Laundry – Chinese Laundry
05.09.10 : Ahmet Sendil @ Spice – Home Terrace
10.09.10 : David Keno, Reuben Keeney @ Shrug : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
11.09.10 : Ahmet Sendil @ Wham! – World Bar / The Office
12.09.10 : David Keno @ Spice – Home Terrace
12.09.10 : Ahmet Sendil @ Church Of Techno – Forbes Hotel
18.09.10 : Marcel Dettmann @ Disconnected – Space (Side Room) **
18.09.10 : Todd Terje @ Adult Disco – Civic Underground
24.09.10 : Tobias Becker, Kaito [Live] @ Kompakt Session 3 – Subsonic Music : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
25.09.10 : Lee Curtiss (Disco & Deep-House Set – 9pm-Midnight) @ Pulse Radio Present… – Name This Bar
25.09.10 : Martyn, Illum Sphere, Tokimonsta + More @ RBMA, Index & SITP Present… – The Forum
27.09.10 : Tobias Becker, Kaito [Live] @ Earth Dance – Secret Location – Hunter Valley

** This party moved from Plantation. Management at Empire have stopped all dance music/club events, including Bunker.

OCTOBER 2010…

02.10.10 : Deetron @ HAHA Industries – Versus – Marrickville Bowlo
03.10.10 : Layo & Bushwacka @ Tank Long W/end Sunday – Tank
03.10.10 : Mike Monday @ P.S. – Melt Bar
03.10.10 : Holy Ghost @ Adult Disco – Civic Hotel
08.10.10 : Industrialyzer [Live], Virgil Enzinger [Live] + More @ Mainline 6.66 Birthday – Secret Warehouse
09.10.10 : Gregor Tresher @ Chemistry & Subsonic Warehouse Party – Secret Warehouse
09.10.10 : Mike Monday + More @ Effigy’s 1st Birthday – Hippo Bar
09.10.10 : Satoshi Tomiie, Guy J, Marc Marzenit [Live] + More @ Música – The Forum
15.10.10 : Bart Skills @ House Inspection : PLUS ╬ 1 – Civic Underground
16.10.10 : Timo Maas, Hybrid @ Garden Party – Chinese Laundry
23.10.10 : Jamie Jones, Robert Dietz, David Squillace @ Circo Loco – Greenwood Hotel (Noon-10.30pm)
23.10.10 : Stacey Pullen @ Chinese Laundry
23.10.10 : Surgeon @ Index Presents… – The Forum
23.10.10 : Daniel Bell @ Mad Racket 12th Birthday – Marrickville Bowlo
23.10.10 : Jamie Jones + More @ Circo Loco After Party – The Gaelic Club
29.10.10 : Spektre [Live] @ Envisage Halloween Madness – Favela
30.10.10 : Superpitcher, Alexkid + More @ Attack Of The Superpitcher – Kompakt Boat Cruise (Sydney Harbour) – MV Constellation
31.10.10 : TBA @ Kompakt Boat Cruise After Party – Secret Warehouse

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Please note:

This is not a complete list of every event on in Sydney, these are events that have caught my attention.

I do my best to post up accurate info, but dates, artists, venues can change etc.

TBA = To Be Announced

If you’re after info on other techno/minimal club nights with more local flavour in Sydney, check out the Sydney Loves Techno blog.

The InTheMix – Sydney – What’s On section lists a whole range of dance/electronic music events/club nights, check it out here.

I’m not that much of a fan of dubstep, but if you’re into it, there is a crew (Void/Index) in Sydney putting on regular quality events, often with internationals, check here for more info.

Party on!

So we’ll be in London for just under a week, after Berlin.

It’s a shame we’re not arriving a day earlier on Saturday the 28th, lots of events on the bank holiday w/end with: Aphex Twin [Live], Leftield [Live], Alex Under, Carl Craig, Sebo K, Ben Sims, Ben Klock, Russ Gabriel [Live], Steve Bicknell, Marc Houle [Live], Hobo [Live], Troy Pierce and more…

Some of the club things on, that have caught our eye that we may get out to, if we’re not too clubbed out from Berlin…

The red ones we made it to.

Much thanks to ResidentAdvisor for these listings and links.

Sun 29.08.10 : Daniel Bell + More @ Secretsundaze – Rich Mix – London
Sun 29.08.10 : Michael Mayer, Thomas Fehlmann [Live], Robag Wruhme + More @ Eastern Electrics August Bank Holiday – Union Car Park – London
Sun 29.08.10 : Stimming [Live], Oxia, Johannes Heil [Live] + More @ WetYourSelf August Bank Holiday Special & WYS! – Fabric – London
Sun 29.08.10 : M.A.N.D.Y., Layo & Bushwacka, Matthew Dear + More @ Sw-More – Ministry Of Sound – London
Sun 29.08.10 : Jay Shepheard + More @ Supercool Bank Holiday Special – Public Life – London

Mon 30.08.10 : Gorge + More @ Jaded Bank Holiday Monday Special – Cable – London

Sat 04.09.10 : Anja Schneider @ A Night With… – Secret Location – London

ResidentAdvisor’s London A-Z club list

* EDIT * 23.09.10

Hello I’m still alive…

So we left London on Sunday 5th September, and went to Barcelona (Spain) for four days, and had a lovely relaxing time, ate lots of great tapas and paella, and just hung around the La Ramblas area where we stayed. We did all the sights and tourist stuff last time we were in Barcelona, so didn’t feel too guilty doing very little this time. We were due to fly back home to Sydney from there on the Thursday 9th September.

However… We decided to extended our holiday by a few days, change our flights, and return to London, so on the Thursday (9th September) we could see Ricky Gervais perform his live show ‘Science’ at the Hammersmith Apollo, very funny, not much new material, but I’m really happy I’ve seen him live, after being a fan for so many years. Plus, train up to Manchester on the Friday, and return to London on the Saturday for these excellent gigs below, and most important, we could see and party with our London friends one more time.

10.09.10 : Sandwell District, Joey Beltram + More @ Colour Presents… – Sankeys – Manchester
11.09.10 : Surgeon, Shed [Live] + More @ We Fear Silence & Deadly Rhythm Present… Shed ‘The Traveller’ Album Launch – Cable – London

So, after leaving Cable, we went back to our friends place in West Hamstead, sorted out our baggage, I mixed it up on the decks for a couple of hours, playing morning come-down tunes. 9am Sunday morning arrived quickly, and then we were in a taxi heading to Heathrow for our flights home.

Arrived in Sydney Monday 13th September at night, stressed out, sleep deprived, after a couple of rough flights full of screaming kids and babies. It’s taken me over a week, to get my mind and body back into the AU time-zone.

What a fantastic holiday! Now the post-holiday depression kicks in…