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162 DJ HELL 066 DISCOTHEQUE ARCHIVES As his International Deejay Gigolo Records label turns 20, DJ Hell reveals the tracks and albums that make him tick... 010 COMIN’ UP Sub Focus, Chloé, Rich NxT, Session Victim, Tiefschwarz, Blade & Beard, Rebirth, Hodge, Jeffrey Boakye... 072 ON THE FLOOR Aphex Twin owns Field Day, exploring Salvador’s unique scene, choosing hope at Love Saves The Day... 109 MUSIC REVIEWS Marcel Dettmann, Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas, Terrence Parker, Steffi, Rodriguez Jr., Point G, Lapalux... 142 TECH Pioneer XPRS, Stanton turntables, 053 HOT SINCE 82 152 STANTON DECKS Djebali, Matthias Tanzmann...

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TOP 100 DJS 2017 IS GO! The global children’s organisation Unicef are this year’s headline partner…

YES, IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN — the Top 100 DJs poll countries around the world to keep all children your help, we can make the world a safer place for is back for 2017! The world’s biggest music poll — healthy, happy and safe. They ensure more of the children.” with over one million votes cast annually — is the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and definitive guide to the world’s most popular DJs. protected than any other organisation. The fact that we’re raising money and awareness for Voting opens for the 2017 poll at 12.00pm BST Unicef UK Deputy Executive Director, Catherine Unicef this year adds an extra layer of importance on Wednesday 5th July, and runs right up until Cottrell, said: “We would like to thank DJ Mag for to this year’s Top 100 DJs poll. We are donating Wednesday 13th September at 11.59pm BST. The supporting Unicef through the 2017 Top 100 DJs all profits from digital sales of the Top 100 DJs results will then be counted and verified, and poll. The money raised through working with this edition to Unicef, and using the events and awards announced at the special awards show during the long-established cornerstone of the dance music ceremony to raise money for this worthy cause. Stay Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) in mid-October. calendar will have a great impact on the lives tuned for full details of how you can get involved. of children around the world. DJ Mag readers’ This year’s headline partner is global children’s donations will help Unicef to continue to protect •To vote in the Top 100 DJs poll, go to top100djs. organisation, Unicef. Unicef works in over 190 children in danger and transform their lives. With com

010 djmag.com djmag.com COMIN’ UP MARCUS INTALEX R.I.P The dance scene mourns the passing of a great d&b and techno producer

DRUM & BASS and techno innovator, DJ, recent moniker Trevino (named after producer and label owner Marcus Intalex golf hero Lee Trevino) marked a return sadly passed away on 28th May. Born to four-four rhythms, and saw him Marcus Kaye in Burnley, Lancashire, but experiment with those more linear chiefly associated with the Manchester genres with remarkable fluency. Few dance scene, he was one of the most others have managed to operate so respected artists in electronic music. skillfully in multiple styles and command the admiration of their contemporaries Kaye started out as a DJ playing at as Kaye did. Burnley club Angels at the beginning “Marcus was a great friend of mine,” of the 1990s. He went on to work at DJ Marky told DJ Mag. “I’ll always legendary Manchester record shop admire his music and his passion for Eastern Bloc selling drum & bass, moving bringing musicality to the dancefloor. to the city in 1994, before going on to I’ll never forget the great times we spent host his own radio shows on Galaxy FM together.” and Kiss 102. Scores of prominent figures in the dance Known best within drum & bass thanks scene took to Twitter to pay tribute. “RIP to classic releases on 31 Records, Marcus Intalex,” said Chase & Status. Metalheadz, C.I.A and Hospital, he “Such devastating news, another legend, initially broke through as part of M.I.S.T one of Manchester’s greats taken too (Marcus Intalex and ST Files), before early. Our thoughts are with his family.” going solo. Cuts such as ‘How You Make “One of the true original soldiers and Me Feel’, with its crisp beat, pummeling pioneers of the movement. RIP. Wherever bass and futuristic synths got him you are, light up that world,” said DJ noticed, while 2000’s ‘Universe’ is widely Krust. considered a d&b milestone, with its “Fuck, just heard about Marcus Intalex... original breaks, sampled keys and cyborg geezer was so sound and an absolute surges. Kaye went on to release many legendary producer, RIP,” Skream cuts on his own Soul:R and Revolve:r commented, while LTJ Bukem said: “It’s labels, and the acclaimed ‘21’ album in the emotion he put into music, that will 2011, plus mixed the universally adored give us all joy everlasting. Thank you for ‘FABRICLIVE 35’. those eternal memories and feelings. His sound owed much to Detroit techno, RIP Marcus”. house and jazz. Kaye was a forerunner in the liquid funk offshoot of drum & MC DRS and LSB have produced a new bass, which placed an emphasis on track, ‘Angels Fall’, dedicated to him. soulful sounds rather than oppressive People downloading the track have the atmospheres. option to make a donation to support his family and girlfriend during this difficult House and techno were the first dance time. Go to: 4marcus.bandcamp.com genres that inspired him. His most

co-run with Rory Hamilton, better known as DJ/producer, Hammer. The self-titled record, and associated singles, will mark Bicep’s debut for Coldcut’s seminal Ninja Tune label. The Northern Irishmen — who won the Best Producer category at DJ Mag’s Best Of British back in December — have also shared the lead single from their first full-length, titled ‘Aura’, which is available to buy now in 12-inch format, and to stream or download over on the Feel My Bicep Bandcamp. “It was a happy experiment,” the duo say of the track. “You might call it an accident. We’d been playing with this specific and very complicated gear-chain for a while but nothing worked, or didn’t feel musical enough, then it all just fell into place — and ‘Aura’ appeared.” The pair also followed their album news with BICEP PREP plans for a global live tour. Having kicked off at Glastonbury last month, Bicep will perform SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM their new LP at shows across the UK, Europe Best Of British Award-winning pair will also tour their new live show… and the US, including Amsterdam’s revered BICEP HAVE ANNOUNCED their debut album, McBriar, the Belfast duo kicked off their career Dekmantel gathering, Flow Festival in Helsinki, ‘Bicep’, will land via Ninja Tune on 1st proper on Throne Of Blood in 2010, making a and Bristol mega-venue, Motion. Full tour September. regular home on Aus Music before focusing on dates can be found on Bicep’s Facebook page. Formed of Andrew Ferguson and Matthew their own imprint, Feel My Bicep, which they

djmag.com 011 HYPE CHARTS This month’s biggest tracks, as determined by early sales data analysis from BPTOPTRACKER. These hype cuts are predicted to smash the Beatport charts soon. Listen to the tracks at bptoptracker.com

HOUSE TECHNO DISCO

01. ROUTE 94 01. JERO LIKCHAY 01. THOMAS GANDEY House & Pressure Hot Creations F#ck1ng A Connections Records Pieces of Me Einmusika Recordings 02. SOLARDO 02. PLEASUREKRAFT 02. TODD TERJE FEAT. DET GYLNE TRIANGEL On The Corner Sola Bellatrix Kraftek Maskindans (Erol Alkan Rework) Olsen Records 03. ANDY TOTH, BILLY LOVE 03. ORKESTRATED, MIN & MAL 03. TODD TERJE Thrillseekers (Chuck Daniels Remix) Play It Say It Venom Darksound Recordings Maskindans feat. Det Gylne Triangel Olsen Records 04. GENE FARRIS, RIVA STARR, DENNIS CRUZ 04. MONIKA KRUSE, PIG&DAN 04. AEROPLANE FEAT. TAWATHA AGEE Play Snatch! Records Get Me On Terminal M Love On Hold (Birdee Remix) Glitterbox Recordings 05. RIVA STARR, DENNIS CRUZ 05. ASHWIN KHOSA 05. AEROPLANE FEAT. TAWATHA AGEE Tribal Snatch! Records Save Me (Jerome.c Remix) Baile Musik Love On Hold (Dimtiri From Paris DJ Friendly Re-Touch) Glitterbox 06. SONNY FODERA FEAT. ALEX MILLS 06. ALEXIC ROD, COLOMBO 06. LESSONS Always Gonna Be (Mat.Joe's Funked Up Mix) Defected Tic Tac Low Groove Records Tempest (Adam Port Europa Remix) Sinnbus 07. SONNY FODERA, ALEX MILLS 07. MONIKA KRUSE, PIG&DAN 07. JOEY NEGRO Always Gonna Be feat. Alex Mills (Low Steppa Remix) Defected So Good Terminal M Stomp Your Feet (Hot Toddy Remix) Z Records 08. ANDRE LODEMANN 08. THE YELLOWHEADS 08. LESSONS Birth (Adriatique Remix) Best Works Records Hydra Kraftek Tempest (Adam Port Europa Remix Sinnbus 09. RODRIGUEZ JR. 09. HOSH, GHEIST 09. SEBASTOPOL Heal Me Mobilee Records The Watergate Affair fryhide Assassin Correspondant 10. SONNY FODERA, ALEX MILLS 10. HELMUT EBRITSCH 10. BORIS DLUGOSCH, CASSARA Always Gonna Be feat. Alex Mills Defected The Maze Lucidﬂ ow Traveller Running Back

BASS EDM TRANCE

01. SERUM 01. WILL SPARKS, FERAL IS KINKY, TYRON HAPI 01. WAIO, AVALON Black Metal Horizons Music Militant feat. FERAL is KINKY Spinnin Records Shiva Nano Records 02. NOISIA, THE UPBEATS 02. MERCER 02. ADAM ELLIS, FENNA DAY Dead Limit (Noisia's 'Outer Edges' Remix) Vision Recordings Qazar Heldeep Records What Makes Your Heart Beat (Club Mix) Amsterdam Trance Records 03. NOISIA 03. BRYNNY 03. ALEX DI STEFANO Diplodocus (Noisia's 'Outer Edges' Remix) Vision Recordings Miracle Bourne Recordings Split Skullduggery 04. SCRVP 04. NLW, KIIDA, ASPYER 04. MEGAMIND Helix MMXVAC Around The World Wall Recordings Taub (Mark Sherry Remix) Outburst Records 05. LEON SWITCH 05. LE SHUUK, SWITCH OFF 05. MINDBENDERZ Xeno Deep Dark & Dangerous All In My Head Fonk Recordings Sacred Rituals Iono Music 06. DAZSTA 06. DARIO RODRIGUEZ, TIEFBLAU 06. GIUSEPPE OTTAVIANI, KYLER ENGLAND Devil That Never DiE DivisionBass Digital Smackdown Playbox Fireﬂ y (OnAir Extended Mix) Black Hole Recordings 07. DODGE & FUSKI, 12TH PLANET 07. MAURICE WEST 07. SHINOVI Big Riddim Mariachi (Cookie Monsta & Funtcase Remix) Disciple Love & Money Mainstage Music (Armada Music) Indian Summer Who's Afraid Of 138?! 08. DOCUMENT ONE 08. DIMITRI VEGAS, LIKE MIKE 08. FERRY CORSTEN Uh-Huh Technique Recordings Ready For Action Smash The House Drum's A Weapon Flashover Recordings 09. TORRO TORRO, SMALLTOWN DJS 09. NICKY ROMERO, JOHN CHRISTIAN 09. DJ XQUIZIT, HIDDEN TIGRESS House Shake (Brillz x My Bad Remix) Twonk Iconic Protocol Recordings Euphoric Light Entrancing Music 10. MONTY 10. DUKE DUMONT, GORGON CITY 10. DIRTY SOUTH, ANIMA! Set The Swing (Original Mix) Invisible Real Life feat. Naations Virgin EMI I Swear feat. ANIMA! (Jason Ross Remix) Anjunabeats

OFFICE PLAYLIST DJ MAG LIVE STREAM PICKS... What’s on the DJ Mag ofﬁ ce stereo? COMING UP!.

•Swayzak •Kamasi Washington LAUREN LANE Gestures Of A Sycophant Truth LIVE FROM DJ MAG IBIZA HQ Beat Boulevard XL 11TH JULY @ 6.30PM .djmag.com/HQ. •Kid Drama •Fisher Trife EP Ya Kidding Metalheadz Dirtybird

•Crypticz •Bicep Forever EP Aura Cosmic Bridge Ninja Tune

•Floorplan •Sei A Let The Church Holding EP CATCH UP! M-Plant Aus Music

•Inland Knights RONI SIZE • Nick & Samantha LIVE FROM #DJMAGHQ On The Beach EP Subway WATCH NOW! Chris Coco Music Drop Music .djmag.com/HQ.

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Untitled-1 1 19/06/2017 15:54 KILLERS This month’s promos destined to destroy the danceﬂ oor... INCOMING Stone Cold DEKMANTEL are going release-crazy this KILLER month, ﬂ ooding the market with some of July’s best moments — a proper gold rush of goodness! There’s the oddball tribal- house-funk of Dusseldorf’s BUFIMAN and his playful ‘Peace Moves EP’, with its wonky pitch-bent hook, broken-beat skits and raw, reedy synths… BRUXAS, a duo (Jacco Gardner & Nic Mauskovic) that’s basically Holland’s answer to Motor City Drum Ensemble, bring us a tropical Balearic disco EP that falls somewhere between Cerrone and Young Marco. If that’s not enough, there’s the fourth Various Artists EP celebrating ‘10 Years Dekmantel’, this time featuring THE EGYPTIAN LOVER, SYRACUSE & EPSILOVE, PALMS TRAX and INTERSTELLAR FUNK. Has Christmas come Hodge early?... NINA KRAVIZ has made a long- ‘No Single Thing’ Nina Kraviz Livity Sound

BRISTOL’S Jake Martin is one of the perfection, it’s guaranteed to whip Night Slugs — and our only gripe is most diversely inventive producers dancefl oors into a frenzied 4am that it doesn’t last longer. around. As one half of house act trance. Lastly, ‘Joe Likes To Dance’ is urban Outboxx, he can make any dancefl oor On the fl ip, meanwhile, ‘Light Waves’ warfare — all sirens, disorientating feel good, while as Hodge, thanks is grime-techno with a metallic whirls, distorted bass and distant to his rugged rhythms and rasping school bell hook that rings out gunshots. Robust, methodical awaited return to production with a sleazy textures, he can call people like hauntingly over throbbing sub-bass and menacing, it’s the sound of techno stomper on her трип label that has Peverelist, Pinch and Pearson Sound drop, off-kilter beats, heavy chimes, foot soldiers marching under the a haunting vocal sample and pulsating acid part of his immediate circle. a pitched-up and looped vocal clandestine cloak-and-stealth danger touches (‘Pochuvstvui’), and you’re going The A-side of his latest EP, ‘No Single snippet, sinister synth-strings and of UK ghettos after-dark, shrouded to hear it... A LOT... Deadly duo DUSKY also Thing’, his fi rst for Livity Sound, is all — the pay off — those sweet, sweet in lingering sub-bass, shrilling FX deliver some new material this month onto about the drums. A carnival-esque rave keys. It’s peak-time warehouse and machine-like military beats. If their techno-facing 17 Steps imprint. ‘Cold stomper of African tribe percussion techno crossing dub/bassline at you thought Top Boy was modern-day Heart’ is meaty house with a juicy bassline, over rumbling bass and a dramatic 126bpm with a bleak, threatening Shakespeare, clearly you haven’t a chopped up house vocal and euphoric steel-drum melody layered to edge — Randomer meets Spyro meets heard Hodge. rave airs fi t for the world’s biggest rooms — bound to become a big fi xture of their epic live show. ‘Psychic Life Coach’ is an Tendts Mathew Jonson old skool US garage affair, while ‘Bowed’ ‘It’s Everywhere’ ‘Decompression (dB’s is basically electroclash circa 2003... Lower Parts Raw Edit)’ Metalheadz mainstays ULTERIOR MOTIVE Freedom Engine are launching their own label, Guidance, TENDTS are a Greek duo with the fi rst EP featuring the likes of SP: MC but you’d be forgiven for WONDERING what that and ICICLE alongside the duo themselves... thinking they’re Italian — roughneck, brassy roller SCB, aka SCUBA, is another heavyweight or from another planet. being dropped in all the UK act back in the mix. ‘Teleks’, for his very Their new meaty six-track Exit Records sets recently own Hotfl ush, is a frenzied, dark-as-fuck EP opens with ‘Who Are The Pleiadians’, which takes a is? Well, look no further — released on the fi rst of four acid work-out and ‘Acid Bath’... well, the stupendously juicy Italo-disco bassline and lays it over remix EPs celebrating 13 years of Mathew Jonson’s clue’s in the title... For something a little the journeying electro percussion and moving arpeggios classic ‘Decompression’, dBridge’s ‘Raw Edit’ is exactly lighter, LETHERETTE have a gorgeous EP that Omar-S so skilfully managed on ‘Here’s Your Trance that, packing Darren White’s trademark precise, driven of sunset house grooves for Wulf Records. Now Dance’. It really is epic. The other pick of the bunch percussion and a bold version of the original’s instantly ‘Feel it’ melts mellow chords with a soulful is ‘Gold Silk’, which offers muddy tropical house through recognisable hook, cranked up to a drum & bass tempo. vocal sample and warm unctuous bass for a languid haze of Amazonian melodics. Cosmic! Gunfi ngers at the ready, rinse-outs inbound… a supple tune still with enough oomph to work a dancefl oor, while ‘Flowatch’ has a Djinn STATUE/Ara deep, funky French house fl avour with a ‘Dark Reference EP’ Koufax touch of boogie... THE REVENGE is back Foundation X ‘Cin Cin 08’ with a vengeance, this time for Dutch deep Cin Cin house label Dirt Crew. A four-track EP with SHOW us a jungle release a technoid disco sensibility throughout, that kicks harder this AUSTRALIA is still it’s the A-side ‘Every Night’ that stands month and we’ll show enjoying its time in the out, with its humungous build, killer “Every you a fl ying unicorn sun, and that’s just dance night!” sample and massive glitter-ball that can fi ll out your tax music. From Mall Grab to drop... NY’s JACQUES RENAULT is another return. Cut from the same cloth as Equinox and B-Key, Francis Inferno Orchestra and now this, a double-sided dude doing the disco damage, with a remix Manchester’s Djinn is earning a rep as one of the most release from two Melbourne acts for Fort Romeau’s of YUKSEK’s ‘Golden Age’... Also watch out brutal breaksmiths around. Her latest four-tracker, out spotless Cin Cin imprint. The STATUE duo lay down huge, for deep French groove master D’JULZ’s via Skitty’s Foundation X, sees Djinn in full berserker cavernous harmonic techno, intricately layered with cow- ‘The Sound Of Bass Culture’ mix comp to mode, unleashing vicious drumwork with only one aim: bells and steely melodics that make you feel fabulous, mark 20 years of his label, featuring SEBO total decimation. Strap in tight, this one’s not for the while Ara Koufax go darker into a disco worm-hole. All K, MR. G, STEVE RACHMAD and more... faint-hearted. killer, no fi ller!

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We throw a few curveball questions the way of... SUB FOCUS Words: JOE ROBERTS

Having flourished from his drum & bass roots to become a multi-genre, festival-headlining artist, Sub Focus, aka Nick Douwma, is a constantly moving talent. Combining breakbeats, junglistic bass and dreamy ‘90s pads on the club-ready ‘Love Divine’ at the end of 2016, his latest single, ‘Don’t You Feel It’ — featuring the vocals of ALMA — nods instead to the admitted influence of radio-friendly A-listers like Major Lazer.

It makes an intoxicating blend for his new live show, the pumped-up second incarnation of which — now featuring modular synths — debuts this summer at SW4 and Reading/ Leeds. With a third album currently brewing, drawing sonically on his ‘90s roots in jungle and speed garage, and a couple of exciting still-under-wraps collaborations, expect plenty of new material. US fans can also catch him at various festivals Stateside, including at New York’s Electric Zoo, while other European dates include a string of shows at Together in Ibiza.

Looking ahead to these sun-blessed gigs, we chat classic ambient albums, attic acoustics and how Burial may have ushered in the Millennial Whoop...

We read you were recently inspired by Manuel Göttshing talking about ‘E2-E4’, his classic album which utilises a modular synth. Is it possible to make modular bass music? at Fabric at three in the morning too. I want to before that we rented off Pete Waterman, the “I love delving into the history of electronic keep that balance in my output. I just Googled famous ‘80s pop producer. I think it shaped a lot music and that was a really seminal piece, the Millennial Whoop. I’m not sure I’d totally put of our outlooks because at the time we were all because it was recorded at a time when dance it in that category, but I understand the device. experimenting with new genres, dubstep had just music really didn’t exist yet. He recorded it as I do really enjoy a lot of vocal manipulation that started to cross over, and we were encouraging something he could listen to on a plane journey, guys like Major Lazer and Mura Masa use a lot. It’s one another to take risks more. You get really but of all the hundreds of jams he did, it turned turning vocals into instruments, so you can have good results when there are crews of people out to be a particularly fruitful one. I do the same a hook that’s doesn’t have words. around. I remember reading about Roni Size and thing, more or less. I record sections of it and “The challenge with dance music songs is you can Reprazent in the ‘90s, a whole group of producers video me using it as you don’t have any recall, have too many words, it’s a nice way of making trying to better the tracks their peers had made.” you have to record something there and then. the tune breathe more. Lots of people have been “The modular synth is really nicely designed for doing vocal manipulation over the years and You’re playing at SW4, where the location is live use as you have a choice of thousands of keep coming up with new ways of doing it. I feel central to its identity. What’s been the most different modules, and the types of variations it almost originated with people like Burial, a influential postcode that you’ve ever lived in? you can get from patterns are quite cool completely different style of music and much “Probably N7, as I’ve had two studios there. It’s and unexpected. There’s this whole idea of more underground, but he put weird auto-tune kind of Holloway. I went to university in London randomisation in modular, which doesn’t onto vocals and made them muffled and hard to and in my second year I went into a flatshare exist much using software. You create random hear. Then you go back even further to people there. I had a room in the attic at the top of the melodies or rhythms. It’s something I’m really like Todd Edwards, who was amazing at chopping house which I turned into a studio, and it just itching to try, I think it could really add another vocals.” turned out to have amazing acoustics. A lot of my dimension. It could get weird! I think that’s good early music that became really popular at that though, I’m a big fan of the Chemical Brothers’ With everything that you’ve achieved, Optimal time was written there. live show. There’s normally a section when it feels Focus is a more accurate moniker. Do you have “I’m back in N7 now and have a studio space like a departure from the actual song. That’s the any tips on how to be a high achiever? in King’s Cross at a place called Tileyard. There ultimate to aim for, as much malleability with the “I think there’s a a misconception about making are tons of people, The Prodigy are here, tracks as possible to get spontaneous and really music. It’s incredibly competitive, it’s not an easy Mark Ronson was here for a bit, so there’s a unexpected results.” thing to do, despite being very enjoyable. There big community. It’s funny to see King’s Cross are always new people doing incredible things, it changing. I used to go to Bagley’s in the late ‘90s As a contrast, you’ve just released ‘Don’t You motivates you a lot. to various kinds of big raves. It’s mad to see a Feel It’, which sounds like a summer chart “At the moment I’m in a studio complex with place that I used to frequent as a kid completely anthem. Is that a Millennial whoop [note- Chase & Status, Nero, Shy FX and a bunch more changing. There’s actually some great new places changing woah-woahs — Ed] squeezed into the people. When you’ve got others around you doing like Spiritland, which has a lot of DJs playing and chorus? big things, you feed off each other. That group has a super audiophile soundsystem.” “I like songs, but I like playing weird club music I mentioned, we were all in a studio together

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CHLOÉ FROM? PARIS

SOUNDS LIKE? MISS KITTIN, THE HACKER, KÖLSCH

THREE TUNES? ‘SOMETIMES’, ‘TAKE CARE’, ‘THE DAWN’

WHERE NEXT? STUDIO VENEZIA, VENICE (LIVE), 4TH - 8TH JULY / DC-10, IBIZA, 17TH JULY

“I’M a real Parisian,” beams Chloé, who has always lived in the French capital and always enjoyed its restaurants, coffee shops and beauty. Her music, though, captures a darker side of the city and hums and throngs with a subtle industrialism. It’s metropolitan electro that soundtracks high-rise conurbations, after dark, when the freaks come out to play. “I guess my music always has a bit of weirdness and love mixed in,” she muses. “Finding the right balance is diffi cult but is also the interesting and exciting part about it.” Chloé is no newcomer. She has been making music since 2002 on essential labels like Kill The DJ and BPitch Control. But for the last four years we’ve not heard much from her as she has been busy touring and producing EPs for a Franco-Chilean band, Nova Materia, as well as joining them on stage at places like the famous Pompidou Centre. She’s also worked with Paris’s Institute for Acoustic Research and Coordination of Music on a live show that places a focus on audience and artist interaction, fi lm scores for a Lidia Terki movie and a live performance of Hitchcock’s silent movie Blackmail from 1929. But now she is back with a new album that features a number of collaborators and has been all the easier given her experiences of producing other bands. “Things go so fast these days. The electronic scene used to be a little family, but now it has become a business, so I’m evolving my way, fi nding the balance between my DJ life and studio time.” Judging by new single ‘Dawn’ — which comes on Chloé’s own new label Lumière Noire, named after her long-running party at Paris’s Rex Club and is about her being able to release the many demos she gets handed — the album will be a pensive mix of sombre synths, slick grooves and libidinous vocals. At those Rex parties, Chloé likes to play early rather than the usual headline slot as it allows her to stretch her musical legs. “Being a resident means you instil your idea on the night, I invite whoever I want and I have my own graphic identity,” says Chloé, whose whole creative output is stylised by a mix of the dark and the sensual. With a new machine-only live show and more fi lm scores in the works, that style has never been in more demand. KRISTAN J CARYL Pic: ALEXANDRE GUIRKINGER

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RICH NXT FROM: LONDON, UK

SOUNDS LIKE: SEB ZITO, LIVIO & ROBY, ARCHIE HAMILTON

THREE TUNES: ‘EYES WIDE OPEN’, ‘WASTELINE’, ‘NOIR’

WHERE NEXT: HYTE X FUSE IBIZA

AS an original resident of FUSE London and a core artist for their label, Rich NxT is now established as an integral part of one of the most essential underground brands to have emerged from London over the last 10 years. Rich grew up in Leytonstone, north-east London, and was introduced to midi and music technology by his teacher in his early teens, stating “the concept blew my mind”. Developing a taste for hardcore and jungle in the ‘90s and picking up DJing shortly after — though not in the sense we know it now, recording mixes on a four-track recorder — he pursued his percussive talent as a drummer, heading up to Manchester to study music production whilst also being in a band. Three years of performance and recording skills later, he returns to London. It’s the early ‘00s, around the time when the Shoreditch party scene really took off. An inﬂ uential time for everyone involved, the sense of community was a fundamental aspect of these parties and leads into the FUSE era. Rich met Enzo Siragusa (FUSE founder) in Ibiza years before FUSE began in 2008. “We were introduced by two mutual friends, got on and carried on hanging out when he moved back from Ibiza later that year to London,” Rich tells DJ Mag. “He played for my party (D-LATE), I played for his (Circuit), and it was natural that when FUSE started I would play.” However, it was a little over two years before Rich made an impression as a producer. “I was working on some music 18 months or so into FUSE’s existence,” he says. The turning point for him came in August 2010 where he “played early versions of Bristle and Seize”. “Enzo ran up to the booth and said, ‘what the fuck are these?’” he explains. “None of us had released any music yet and I think those months when we all tried our ﬁ rst pieces out were magical.” During this time, Rich was also becoming a father and this presented him with a turning point. “I wanted time away from regular gigging and late nights. It also gave me a good year in which to take and hone what I was doing at a critical point in my evolution as a producer,” he says. On his own imprint his unique stripped-back, sinewy, percussive sound really shines through on his own vinyl-only imprint NxT Records, and he’s also just launched a second vinyl-only label called What NxT, which “is about music that lives deep in my record bag and I will play time and time again”, he adds. “That’s the sound I like to play.” LEON CLARKSON Pic: CARL FISHER

djmag.com djmag.com 017 TAKE TEN Session Victim We hear all about the crucial tracks that helped shape Matthias: this Hamburg duo into the sample-happy house groovers 01. The Doors ‘When The Music’s Over’ they are today... “This is one of my favourite Doors tunes, also one of the fi rst ones I ever heard. I remember this was playing when I smoked weed for the very fi rst time, and it’s come back to my turntable ever since. Also, like all of their best work, a prime example of how four musicians with completely different backgrounds melt their infl uences together into something unheard of.”

02. DJ Shadow ‘Stem/Long Stem’ “OK, this album had a key role in me wanting to become really good at making beats (I guess about a million beat-makers my age would say exactly the same), and this tune has always been my favourite off that album. I could babble on for the rest of this page about how crazy it is, but you probably already know...”

03. Marlena Shaw ‘California Soul’ “If I had to pick my favourite tune of all time, this would be one of the closest contenders. It’s not the ﬁ rst version to be recorded — that would be Nick Ashford — but it’s the one that started it all for me. I have over 15 different versions on vinyl, but I’m still missing a few...”

04. Booker T & The MG’s ‘Green Onions’ “The tune that made me fall in love with Stax. I love everything about this. Pure perfection. I realise how much I love music everytime I listen to this one. Oh, while I’m at it, I hereby declare Al Jackson Jr. the best drummer to ever walk the earth.”

05. Labi Siffre ‘I Got The...’ “One of the most wonderful arrangements in pop music history for me. Goodness, it’s already fantastic before the Slim Shady moment... and it only gets better after that. This is one song I recommend to literally anyone at any given time, it gives me the chills every time that vocal sets in after the big break.” Hauke:

06. Round Five feat. Tikiman ‘Na Fe Throw It’ “My favourite Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald production. Such a minimalistic take on dub, where all details are just in the right place. When I ﬁ nally tried out a Roland Space Echo myself, the mystery about how to make music sound like this was a tiny bit revealed.”

07. Creative Source ‘You Can’t Hide Love’ “This was the song that got me into soul and funk and made me spend my free time digging through the local second-hand stores. Covered by many, this is my favourite version with its outstanding orchestra arrangement and vocals. Its only ﬂ aw is that it’s way too short.”

atthias Reiling and Hauke Freer, aka Session Victim, were snapped up by 08. Rasoul + McArthy ‘Retrospect EP’ Jimpster’s Delusions Of Grandeur label at the start of the decade, after “This was the fi rst house record I bought back in the days when releases on Hauke’s vinyl-only Retreat and Steve Kotey’s Hairy Claw. The our hometown still had a record store. My fi rst copy severely 2012 album ‘The Haunted House Of House’ put the Hamburg duo on the suffered from the poor equipment I used to play it on at home. M Not many Guidance records stood the test of time, but these map initially, and they followed it up a couple of years later with ‘See You When You Get There’ — recording and remixing in between gigging all over. three incredible songs I still spin a lot — a crucial lesson in house Now their third album, ‘Listen To Your Heart’ — out now on Delusions Of Grandeur music.” — could even be their best yet. A lush blend of soulful, blissed out house and beautifi c beatscapes, it’s all the more incredible when you know that it’s pretty much all made 09. Photek ‘The Hidden Camera’ up from choice samples. From the Balearic guitar-layered ‘Over & Over’ — a future Ibiza “My brother gave me tapes of music he found himself dancing classic if ever we heard one — through the deep agrarian groove of ‘Bring It Back’, the to in the late ‘90s in Berlin and therefore introduced me to drum fi lttered fl amenco ditty ‘If We Can Make It Here’ to the Aim-style chilled-out cinematica & bass, which led to a nearly 10-year-long obsession with this of ‘Castle For Sale’, this is music of quality and distinction. sound. I have listened to this countless times and will never be ‘Shadows’ is the product of days and days crate-digging in San Francisco for disco sick of it. As a producer, this is one to get you grounded again and nuggets, leading to a smooth cut akin to Osunlade meeting Joey Negro at the Paradise go back to the lab and try harder.” Garage, while ‘Up To Rise’ is more beach house grandeur. No wonder Jimpster loves ‘em! 10. Mike Zoot ‘Urban Harvest’ ‘Listen To Your Heart’ is sure to land Session Victim on many Albums of 2017 lists by “Happy us — we grew up on ‘90s hip-hop. Music that went back to the end of the year. It didn’t take much to persuade these samploholics to divulge the past to create something new, sampling as an art — not out their most infl uential tunes ever... of a lack of ideas. It’s impossible to pick a favourite, but this song brings up particularly good memories of those times.”

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LAURENCE GUY We’re thinking of you

Intricately-strung melodies, flute solos and dusty vinyl samples are what make the introduction to Laurence Guy’s stunning debut album ‘Saw You For The First Time’. Out on Church Recordings, it follows a string of EPs on the same label as well as finely procured vinyl cuts on Monologues and Rose Records. Tracks like ‘Anchor’ featuring Ishmael are a fine example of his organic sampling techniques that would make the original dons like DJ Premier feel proud. The dreamy melody-lines that he so often captures are reminiscent of the legendary Pépé Bradock. Laurence’s album will be your hazy soundtrack to a blissed- out summer, and catch him making his debut at Lost Village Festival in August.

SOUNDS LIKE? Glenn Astro, Henry Wu, Moomin

ELLIOT ADAMSON Want fries with that?

Newcastle lad Elliot Adamson has been bringing the noise with his own flavour of Chicago house-inspired beats. He’s already had the cream of the DJ crop raving about his music; Jackmaster, Skream, Patrick Topping and Eats Everything being amongst them. Not surprising, then, that the latter snapped him up for the 10th Edible Music release. ‘Still Workin’ is a jacking treat that samples the legendary DJ Deeon with vigour. ‘Where The F*ck Is My Flanger At?’ has recently been destroying soundsystems with its gnarly bassline and energetic stabs. Elliot’s sound is chunky full-fat house music with extra sauce — good enough to eat.

SOUNDS LIKE? Green Velvet, Jamie Jones, Eats Everything

FRITS WENTINK Wonky house wonderments

Hailing from the Netherlands, Steve Mensink — aka Frits Wentink — not only plays records like a pro, he’s been releasing records since ’12 and runs his very own labels Will & Ink and Bobby Donny. Staying true to his quirky house sound, his signature grooves stem from MPC jams and he has a penchant for lo-fi samples and bending melodies. Over the last few years Frits has put in some serious groundwork, with a slew of releases including a delightful double album on Wolf Music Recordings. His A&R ears are well versed; the latest release on Bobby Donny sits perfectly with two dusty groove-led cuts from Bristolian Scissorwork.

SOUNDS LIKE? Detroit Swindle, Mall Grab, Medlar

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APEIRON CREW Three is the magic number

It was in Copenhagen that the fantastically named Mama Snake, Solid Blake and Smokey joined forces. Since 2014, the super-powered trio that make up the Apeiron Crew have made a name for themselves throughout the city and beyond. Residents of the infamous Culture Box, we also hear on the grapevine that the secret parties that they’ve been throwing in unconventional locations are something special. Their DJ sets are energetic and eclectic; musically spanning industrial techno through to house, with a mutual love of electro and hip-hop. As well as their exploits together, all three have their sights on their solo projects — Solid Blake has an EP out on the new Glasgow label Outer Zone, and Mama Snake runs her very own imprint Ectotherm alongside Courtesy.

SOUNDS LIKE? Hessle Audio, Jane Fitz, Lena Willikens

NSDOS Organic sounds from Alaska

NSDOS is making music his own way, following experimental EPs of rattling techno for ClekClekBoom. Now he’s delving further intro abstract territory for a debut album released in two parts on Upton Park Publishing. After setting out on a journey through Alaska, the Parisian interprets fi eld recordings across six tracks. NSDOS takes us on his expedition through the environment, using audio and video samples and adopting modifi ed instruments to record and interpret data, bridging the gap between nature and machine. One track is assembled upon the movement of tress, the next on water fl owing, but the underlying tone of ‘Intuition Pt. 1’ is one studded with techno textures that set a cold and abrasive tone. The second part lands in October.

SOUNDS LIKE? Aleqs Notal, Jean Nipon, Bambounou

SAOIRSE Say my name, say my name

Ireland’s latest export Saoirse has already built an impressive reputation on the London circuit, and the world is taking note. She recently made her debut in Room 1 at Fabric, and this summer will be making an appearance at Meadows In The Mountains, Craig Richards’ Houghton Festival, Freerotation, Love International... the list goes on. Her record collection is extraordinary and musical knowledge insurmountable; ﬁ nd her spinning rare B-sides and wax that you’ll have never heard but are guaranteed to love. Fresh from her Boiler Room appearance at AVA Festival, this July she’ll be spinning at Percolate Open Air alongside the likes of DJ Koze and Ryan Elliott, and listen out for a long-awaited EP upcoming on Argentum Audio alongside Alex Anderson. Learn to say her name – pronounced ‘seer-sha’ — as it’ll be one you’ll be hearing for a long time to come.

SOUNDS LIKE? Ricardo Villalobos, Call Super, Nicolas Lutz

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INLAND Out of this world

One of the most beautiful things about techno is the genre’s natural blend of two disparate elements: the hypnotic and the hard. Of course, some producers choose to lean further towards one or the other, but to weave entrancing headspaces without losing impact is an impressive skill — one that’s been mastered by Berlin-based Brit, Ed Davenport. Launching his career via Leftroom in 2006, under the alias Szenario, since switching to his Inland moniker four years ago, Ed has been turning out driven four-four rhythms swamped in heady, reverberating ambience for the likes of Nonplus, Infrastructure New York and Ostgut Ton. Take the two highlights of his latest EP on his own Counterchange imprint, for example; whether it’s the epic, interstellar voyage- turned-space battle of title-track ‘Coriolis’, or coarsely layered decimator ‘D10D3’, each marries the otherworldly with the industrial, gripping and pummelling in equal measure. Techno-heads, get to know.

SOUNDS LIKE? DVS1, Jonas Kopp, Cassegrain

CONCEALED IDENTITY Sleuthy movements

Jump-up is back with a vengeance (just check the full feature on p.51), but that doesn’t mean all of drum & bass is bristling with neck-snapping snares and low-end that sounds like your grandad’s arse after too many sprouts. Blocks & Escher’s Narratives Music still leads the way in delicate, musically-driven d&b, and Concealed Identity has done the bosses proud since signing with the label last year. Defined by prominent atmospherics, and organic, unprocessed percussion, the UK producer’s sound ranges from dubbed-out to — on his most recent two-tracker — rolling, Roni Size-esque jazz, both made equally intriguing by untold subtle intricacies and infectious grooves. While the tag ‘intelligent drum & bass’ always sounds pretentious (as if any other form requires no thought at all), the time and care that’s gone into Concealed Identity’s work is unarguable, and anything we can sip a tea to on a Sunday afternoon is alright by us…

SOUNDS LIKE? Blocks & Escher, Roni Size, Hidden Turn

ALASKALASKA Get familiar

Taking a sidewards glance at pop music, London’s rising art-pop six-piece ALASKALASKA cross synth, jazz, disco, funk and R&B in a way that’s both playful and introspective. Led by the sultry, brooding vocal charms of Lucinda, the band’s debut EP ‘Familiar Ways’, released via House Anxiety, is an excellent introduction to a sound as inspired by the stripped-back electro-dub- funk of Peaking Lights as it is the dulcet dream-pop of Bat For Lashes. The full EP is out this summer, but two tracks ‘Bitter Winter/Familiar Ways’ surfaced in May and a tour of the UK has helped spread this exciting new act nationwide. It’s just the beginning for ALASKALASKA.

SOUNDS LIKE? Warpaint, Peaking Lights, Bat For Lashes

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GAME CHANGER Seminal cuts that altered dance music forever

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GAME CHANGER

for more than 15 years. At that time, we received a “The dub mix was a no-brainer,” Ali says. “That phone call from Ata to see if we were interested in happened in one afternoon, bam bam bam bam. remixing Spektrum. They sent us the material, and That’s why we were so unsure. Most of the time, we were like, ‘Wow, amazing, of course we want to when you’re in the moment you don’t need much. do a remix’. We put a lot of time and effort into the That’s how they received it, they were like, ‘The vocal remix, and the dub version, which became original is very cool, thoughtful programming, you a huge hit, was the stripped-down, less vocal can feel the effort. But the dub mix!’ It was this version. We said, ‘OK, here’s our remix, and here’s arse-shaking, not thinking moment. How we made a dub version on top if it’. Ata said, ‘We love your the track was also why it was successful. It was remix but the dub version is amazing’. We were not spontaneous, and there was also a good energy.” sure about it. They took both versions and at the end of the day, the second version was the big hit. ‘Kinda New’ provided a huge boost to the profi les It was really funny.” of Tiefschwarz and Spektrum. Ali likens its effect on the band to what happened with two other The remix of Spektrum represented something of a massive remixes of the ’90s. departure for Tiefschwarz at the time. Their deep, “It happens quite a lot that a remix really pushes disco-infl ected house had appeared on Classic the band, or pushes the career of the original SPEKTRUM Recordings (tunes such as the crisp funk of ‘On people. Like Boris Dlugosch with Moloko [‘Sing ‘KINDA NEW Up’), and Four Music. But Tiefschwarz’s tastes are It Back’], Todd Terry with Everything But the Girl broad, and they found the darker-edged sounds [‘Missing’]. We were in an insane position because (TIEFSCHWARZ DUB)’ coming through exciting. The ‘Kinda New’ remix the remix, we would have done it for free — it was offered a perfect opportunity to fl ex their skills in not about money. Then it became such a huge (PLAYHOUSE/NONSTOP, 2003) this new direction. success for the band. They played our remix version “At that time we did a lot of crossover mixes,” Ali live. We had a party once in Berlin and they were This electroid remix of live band remembers. “That punk-funk, disco clash, techno performing live, and they were just standing there Spektrum by German brothers mixture. It was a really amazing time for dance playing the remix version. It was also their biggest music ’cause it was like a whirlwind. It shook up the hit.” Tiefschwarz slotted perfectly into whole scene. Techno was in a dead-end street. It Ali is grateful for the opportunities it’s afforded the electroclash continuum, and felt like a fresh breeze going through dance music. Tiefschwarz, and says meeting Spektrum set Ali and Basti off on a career of We were lucky to be a part of that.” themselves and hanging out was one of the best That the remix was adopted as something of things about the collaboration. “It helped us ever-evolving house and techno an anthem for the electro/punk revival placed immensely in our career. And to meet the people sounds... Tiefschwarz fi rmly within that scene. Several from Spektrum was really cool, we had a few of their subsequent tracks bore that grittier amazing moments together. It was not only the IN THE EARLY 2000s, dance music was in a rut. The infl uence, though since, they’ve returned to classic success, it was the surrounding, what we got out of superclub phenomenon had imploded, the hubris house and techno tropes. it. It was a lucky moment.” of the biggest DJs matched their oversized wallets, Ali says that their infl uences have always been and the scene was starting to look bereft of ideas. diverse, and that reinvention is their credo. “It Tiefschwarz celebrate their 20th year DJing and The period even inspired music critic Alexis Petridis happens quickly that people put you in a draw,” producing in 2017. It’s destined to be a year-long to pen a 2004 feature for The Guardian on why he says. “We always redefi ned our sound, we party, with releases upcoming on their Souvenir dance music was dead. developed. We did this deep vocal house, then label, showcases and global live dates. “We decided It wasn’t all over, though. The underground more punky edgy stuff, then pure techno. For us, OK, it’s happening, let’s make the whole year the provided a solution, in an unexpected form. electronic dance music is such a wide fi eld and the campaign,” Ali says. Post-punk began to fi lter into house, from such music is so rich, we would feel very limited if we Part of the reason for their success has been an sources as Trevor Jackson’s Output label, James only fi tted in one genre. Why do you want to limit ability to sidestep categorisation, and ‘Kinda New’ Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy’s DFA and others. yourself? Especially nowadays. A lot of people do was the point at which they realised they didn’t Jagged guitar, doomy bass and raw-throated that on purpose to sharpen their profi le. But then have to compromise. “Music is about creativity and vocals became the new hip. Frankfurt’s Playhouse they’re also stuck in one corner.” life and being open, so for us it was always the way label was listening, and amidst chic micro-house to go forward: reinvent yourself.” BEN MURPHY releases from Villalobos and Isolée, they put out The track was remixed at engineer Jochen the debut album from London band Spektrum, Schmalbach’s Studio Stehende Welle, and while ‘Freakbox’. the vocal version took days, the more famous dub came together very quickly. Spektrum’s natural composite of electronic beats and live instrumentation was among the best of the era, though it’s the Tiefschwarz dub mix of their ‘Kinda New’ cut that’s become their most memorable tune. Powered by pinging slap bass, electro synth, bleeping riffs and snippets of Lola Olafi soye’s cool voice, sparkling psychedelic chords create a counterpoint between melodic drama and the 4/4 beat’s propulsive forward momentum. A huge underground hit, ‘Kinda New’ found favour with house and techno DJs, as well as post-punk- inspired electroclash kids. The ‘Kinda New’ remix eventually went mainstream, picked up by commercial dance labels Data, Cr2 and Ultra. But when Tiefschwarz fi rst delivered the mix, they had no idea they had such a big track on their hands. Stuttgart brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz had been tasked with creating a full vocal mix of the song, which they made, but decided to make a dub too. It was the dub that the label, and later DJs, went wild for. “We are close friends with the whole Playhouse and Robert Johnson posse, [former label boss] Ata, Roman Flugel,” Ali says. “We’ve been playing there djmag.com djmag.com 025

DJ571.CominUp-Game Changer.indd 25 16/06/2017 13:48 OFF THE FLOOR Books, art, movies, etc... Words: KIRSTY ALLISON Raving Iran DJ and production duo BLADE & BEARD escaped the moral police in Iran after putting on raves. The new film, Raving Iran by Susanne Regina Mueres, tells their story. Their new label is called Futurist. Here, they speak exclusively to DJ Mag…

What’s it like being an electronic music fan in What was the maddest party you ever did in What sort of music did you play, and how has it Iran? Iran? changed? “Being a DJ in Iran is not only extremely difficult, “All the parties were mad really.” “We play techno, we always have, and we believe it is very illegal at the same time. Western music that this hasn’t changed — we play the sound we is banned in Iran, and is punished as a crime. What was the craziest night? like, what we feel, our passion. Throwing parties is illegal, and authorities have “The craziest night was when the police came and "We are playing our debut in Amsterdam at to be bribed in order for anyone to even be able arrested us. It was crazy in the sense that we had Undercurrent. We’re playing Munich’s Bob Beaman to do such a thing. Even though you pay them, paid the cops and didn’t expect this to happen at Club, and our personal highlight, Tomorrowland, on many occasions they will still come and arrest all.” where we will join Dave Clarke on his own stage. you. There are many other struggles involved in We are also playing Docklands Festival, Vogelball putting on parties — for example, finding a place If you were women DJing in Iran, what would and Sonne Mond und Sterne. We’ve also had the where we can perform, produce and follow our art be the consequences of putting on headphones honour of opening the Lighthouse festival main without the authorities intervening.” rather than a hijab? stage in May.” “We only know what happened to us — being How do the government facilitate the cultural beaten on several occasions, and having to pay Any producers we should be aware of? policing and censorship processes? fines to get out of jail.” “The scene in Iran is very small, as many people “For one part, men and women can’t dance don’t want to risk it. Yet Iran has been a great together, can’t go to the beach together or sit What's the drug culture like in Iran? exporter of artists. One producer you should really in the same compartment of the underground in “We’ve had this question a lot. Drugs are a watch out for at the moment is Habischman; his Tehran. problem of society. Drugs are everywhere, collab with Hot Since 82, which was remixed by "Our internet, or so called ‘Filternet’, is blocked whether at sports events, bars, work, clubs. Dubfire, on Moda Black hit poll position on the like in many other countries around the world, so People do them.” Beatport charts, and his upcoming release on pages such as Facebook, SoundCloud, Twitter and Knee Deep In Sound this summer is going to be many, many more are not available to us. Luckily, Did you receive asylum? one of this year’s big Ibiza tracks.” Beatport was not blocked and it was possible for “We received our asylum for Switzerland as ravingiran.com us to access the music and artists.” political refugees. And can now travel Europe.”

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GRIME-TIME HERE IS AN EXTRACT OF AN ESSAY FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Jeffrey Boakye has penned the fabulously textural polemic Grime, KEEPING IT REAL: GRIME & EXTRA Black Masculinity & Millennials, -ORDINARY STYLE published now on the brilliantly The intersection of It’s telling that Skepta, finally in a diverse Influx Press. The book is democratisation position to lean into the opulence of phrased around 50 records. Off The and style is high fashion, brags about donning a Floor asked him a few questions about nothing new in pop black tracksuit (brand unspecified) it… culture. Hip-hop in the front row of a fashion show. veered away from its early tendencies Understated style is in, gaudy fashions, If you had to select five tunes that tell towards theatricality with the onset of out. the story to our readers, what would streetwear, thanks largely to LL Cool J That said, it’s not that simple. Grime’s they be, and why? and Run DMC. Punk invited devotees preoccupation with wealth acquisition “Cutty Ranks ‘Retreat’. Simply because this is a near-perfect example of to undergo a DIY image makeover alongside street authenticity creates the soundclash culture that grime is linked to. There are way too many with gel and safety pins. Grunge asked a contradiction that we see in the soundclash ragga hits from the '90s to count, but I've always thought you to stop washing your clothes. evolution of roadman chic. Streetwear, that this one is a neat example of competitive conflict and soundclash And so on. For as long as pop culture by association with success and wealth, bravado that we still see right up to this day in modern grime. can be said to have existed as part is suddenly not the clothing of poverty. “Shy FX featuring UK Apache ‘Original Nuttah’. Shy FX owned the '90s. of wider youth culture, it has drifted It’s gained a status and allure of its Jungle is one of the first genres that shook me up and put me on to towards verisimilitude on its way to own, an exclusivity. This stems back underground music. All that soundclash energy over these mental authenticity. to the early days of hip-hop, in which breakbeats. That's the template, that's the energy, that's what grime is Grime has followed this pattern. The emerging artists of the mid ’80s turned all about. tracksuit has completely democratised street brands into hot commodities. “Wiley ‘Wot Do U Call It’. He's the godfather. And he asked the most a grime look, offering an attainable Think LL Cool J and Kangol, Run DMC pertinent question just before the genre really existed, which is perfect. level of ‘roadman chic’ for anyone and Adidas. Being cool meant spending What is this music? Exactly. Fist emoticon. within reasonable geographic access money on streetwear and dressing it “Meridian Dan ‘German Whip’. Because this one kind of represents the to a Sports Direct. Grime’s elite look up with flashy accessories like gold start of the resurgence after years in the wilderness. It's sick that it came very much of the same universe as chains. Grime is in a similar place now from someone like Meridian Dan, who (like so many artists in the scene) their fans, decked out in the attire of — looking expensive and street at the was quietly plugging away when no-one mainstream seemed to care. real mandem from actual ends, and it same time, nodding to its heritage as When ‘German Whip’ dropped, a LOT of people started paying attention. shares an image code with any other a street culture whilst acknowledging “Skepta ‘That's Not Me’. It's a perfect modern grime anthem that’s all genre borne of real people; whereby its inherent aspiration. Compare this to tied up in nostalgia, sampling Wiley's 'Ice Rink' riddim. This is where authenticity is sacrosanct. Yes, there are US hip-hop, which (due largely to the grime is like a reflection of itself. I talk about that a lot, how new grime overblown egos and outrageous levels fashionista inclinations of Kanye West) is interlocked with early grime. Look at Stormzy remixing 'Serious' and of bravado, but never at the expense of has branched off into experimental 'Functions On The Low', or Chip using Ruff Sqwad classics, or Jammz verisimilitude. regions of fashion and style (one potent remixing 'I Luv U'.” Arguably, this downplayed image example being the gender-bending confirms the fact that grime’s biggest provocations of Young Thug, alongside It may surprise our readers, but you start in 1969… stage is the street. The theatricality the high-end couture adopted by A$AP “Yeah, I've always felt that grime is part of a much wider musical of stadium-level pop would be out Rocky). heritage. I grew up listening to garage, electronica, jungle, ragga, of place in grime, despite grime’s For the majority of its existence, grime dancehall, reggae... it's all in the DNA. Modern music is this complex web newfound ability to fill stadiums. The has existed in a largely ineccentric of influences and heritages, and grime's a key meeting point. I love that, genre has evolved beyond the confines state. Its realness has been rooted it's wicked.” of basement clashes and pirate radio, in a level of ordinariness, despite but its dependency on street credibility the quirkiness of grime’s early Do you watch GRM Daily? stifles moves towards opulence. Even personalities. The flamboyance that “Yep. That's another great thing about millennial culture, how there the relative low-key ballerism of UK might widen the narrow field of are so many channels to experience grime. It used to be Channel U, a garage has been shunned by grime, blackness that grime operates in is few forums online and pirate radio. A lot of the kids I teach don't even with bait designer labels having largely absent, despite the fact that Afro- buy music — that must terrify the industry but is super-healthy for the been binned in favour of sportswear. Caribbean cultures are often typified audience.” UK garage was about club attire, by a flamboyant stylishness designed characterised by the ‘no hat no trainers to showcase wealth and status. The There's a real fun element that you pinpoint in the book — how much or you’re not coming in’ dress code. In conflict between street authenticity of the content has been inspired by classroom moments? the early noughties, grime threw such and showy displays of wealth and self “Lots! These kids were talking about J Hus about three years ago, while codes away and replaced them with is captured in grime’s dress code. Look I was still scratching my head. Now he's Top 10. I have a few sick MCs in a moneyed anti-glamour. Akademiks like the road, but splash out on the my Year 9 class in particular. Hold tight Reaper — he's going to go far. tracksuits, Avirex leather jackets, brands. Don’t be too showy, but let Getting kids to make video essays and write traditional essays on grime exclusive trainers, exclusive fitted everyone know you’re here. and take a hip-hop education approach to their studies keeps everything caps, all with an import US aesthetic. influxpress.com/hold-tight/ alive and vibrant. I love it.”

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Q&A SHIELD How and when was Rebirth born? “I launched Rebirth Records in 2006 but it was in 1998 when I got closer to the electronic music world, thanks to the extraordinary Fabio Bacci. In 2001, I started working as a promoter and A&R at Oxyd Records. I found the need to create something totally mine, to follow my inspirations without any compromise. In 2006, I decided to create Rebirth and it was a shining moment for me.”

Who’s involved? “100% myself, with collaborations with Robytek, Corrado Bucci and the artwork skills of Luca Sanchezlife.”

What does Rebirth sound like? “The philosophy behind the label ﬁ nds its roots in the past, building a link between the soul of a song and the warmth of a melody, then combining them with a contemporary sound. I’m always looking for something to catch me instantly, or something timeless, that I can imagine still listening to in 20 or 40 years time.”

Who’s releasing on it? “In the fi rst 10 years, we released music from established artists like Joey Negro, FORMED BY Shield — one half of in on fl ash-in-the-pan passing With a compilation of re-rubs, Michel Cleis, Agoria, Butch, Rampa, Marc NUfrequency — in 2006, Rebirth fads. As a result, it’s provided a ‘Rebirth 10 Remixed’, featuring Romboy, Freaks and Blond:ish. We’ve had recently celebrated its 10th home for releases from a range of the likes of Ron Trent, Red Axes remixes from incredible names like Motor anniversary. One of Italy’s most artists, new and old — the likes of and Roy Davis Jr. out now, and City Drum Ensemble, Deetron, Radio Slave, respected sources of house music, Butch, Marc Romboy and Blond:ish with a collaboration between Tensnake, Morgan Geist, Henrik Schwarz, due to its selective approach to alongside classic names like Larry Shield and Robytek featuring Sal Andrès, Joe Claussell, Soul Clap, Jimmy timeless dance music throughout Heard, who last year supplied a P & Dennis Young (from Liquid Edgar and Ripperton.” the past decade, its focus is on the mix (his fi rst ever) celebrating 10 Liquid) about to drop on the label, roots of the scene, from a fresh years of the label — since its birth. we fi gured it was high time we Who’s playing it? perspective, rather than cashing gave them the credit they deserve. “Too many DJs to mention.”

Proudest Rebirth moment? “Collaborations with artists like Shara GIMME 5 Nelson, Tracey Thorn, Ben Onono and NUfrequency ‘Go That Tevo Howard feat. Marvin Gaye’s classic 2014, and now remixed recently Liquid Liquid and Antena have Deep (feat. Shara Tracey Thorn ‘Without acapella on a Klement by Rampa and included been essential moments for me. I’m also Nelson)’/‘Fallen Hero Me’ Bonelli beat. Cleared and within the ‘Rebirth 10 very proud a legend like Larry Heard, aka (feat. Ben Onono)’ “An emotional track re-vocalled by Martin Remixed’ package, this is Mr Fingers, accepted for the ﬁ rst time to “Released in 2008 and produced by the Chicago Wilson, the record was a probably going to be one select and mix a compilation, and he did it 2009 and produced house producer, featuring huge hit in Ibiza in 2015 of the biggest club tracks for our 10th anniversary last year.” by Shield and the beautiful vocals from and later thanks to the of 2017.” Cristiano Massera (aka the English pop singer Radio Slave remix.” What’s next for the label? Nufrequency), ‘Go That and songwriter Tracey Butch & C.Vogt ‘The “We have just released the ‘Rebirth 10 Deep’ and ‘Fallen Hero’ Thorn. Included a remix Pastaboys feat. Infamous (Robytek vs Remixed’ collection that includes remixes feature magic vocals from from Marcus Worgull and Osunlade ‘Deep Shield Re-Edit)’ of some of our favourite classics of the Shara Nelson (formerly Dixon.” Musique (Rampa “Released in 2014, the label, by names like Ron Trent, Red Axes, of Massive Attack) and Remix)’ original version is a Roy Davis Jr., Borrowed Identity, Rampa, Ben Onono, and amazing Michel Cleis & Klement “A collaboration between wonderful blend of jazz Palms Trax, Fouk, Ewan Jansen. My remixes by Charles Bonelli ‘Marvinello’ the Italian house music and electronica, and the collaboration with Robytek and Sal P & Webster and Motor “Originally a bootleg tool trio and the icon of the Robytek vs Shield re-edit Dennis Young (from the NYC seminal band City Drum Ensemble. produced by Michel Cleis spiritual music culture. became a classic for many Liquid Liquid) is coming out at the end of Timeless.” only for his DJ sets, using Originally released in DJs.” June with amazing remixes from Paranoid London, Playgroup (Trevor Jackson) and Nico De Ceglia. In July, we have the debut single from the extraordinary Paolo Mantini (remixed by Pèpè Bradock), the brand new Michel Cleis EP, and new music from CRS+BRG and Easy To Remember. We have also just launched our weekly radio show on Ibiza Global Radio.”

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