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032 WIDESCREEN DRUM & BASS High Contrast’s cinematic productions have made him the undisputed master of underground-credible yet mainstream-accessible d&b. DJ Mag heads to Cardiff to meet the man behind the music...

FEATURES 038 COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES Following Sigma’s collab with Take That, we ask industry heavyweights to way up the pros and cons of commercial d&b

046 NON-CORPORATE HOSPITALITY Label heads London Elektricity and Chris Goss talk 20 years of Hospital Records 038 COMMERCIAL D&B 051 EXIT RECORDS and the UK’s fi rst ever d&b festival...

051 BOW DOWN TO THE EXIT We sit down with Exit Records boss dBridge to see why his boundary- breaking imprint stays true to the craft...

056 ROLLING WITH THE FLOW Why is the Czech Republic such a hotbed for d&b? We head to Beats Evolution conference and Let It Roll festival to fi nd out... 046 HOSPITALITY IN THE PARK 060 AMERICAN DRUM & BASS — FUCK YEAH! 008 COMIN’UP With d&b fi nally making real headway in Hervé, Call Super, De Sluwe Vos, The States, we zone in on the key playaz... Tensnake, Black Devil Disco Club, Moby... 098 ON THE FLOOR 064 THE JUKE OF EARL 052 ELI ESCOBAR Footwork prodigy DJ Earl is helping keep Reasons to head to Reasons fest, the DJ Rashad’s legacy alive on the new insanity of Exit, Secret Garden Party Teklife label... revealed, Butch in Berlin...

069 DJ MAG TECH AWARDS 123 MUSIC REVIEWS We’ve assembled our judges and once DJ Earl, Beyond The Wizard’s again the DJ Mag Tech Awards are upon Sleeve, Trim, Dusky, Zomby, Skudge, us. And the nominations are... Machinedrum, Gerd Janson...

086 IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS 154 TECH DJ Mag catches up with the unsung hero Pioneer’s new sampler, Sennheiser 069 TECH AWARDS of New York house, Eli Escobar... HD25+, Behringer X-Touch, Octave One...

056 LET IT ROLL 104 SECRET GARDEN PARTY 064 DJ EARL/TEKLIFE

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ARMIN VAN BUUREN ANNOUNCED FOR LONDON TOP 100 DJS PARTY! All-star O2 Academy Brixton line-up also features Ferry Corsten presenting Gouryella, Markus Schulz and Marlo... AS the votes continue to pour in for the Top 100 Buuren and current title-holders Dimitri Vegas & Like Ferry Corsten has featured in the Top 100 DJs pretty DJs poll, here at DJ Mag HQ we’re starting to get Mike raise the roof time and time again, and whoever much since its inception, although surprisingly he’s excited — and not just for the results! Given our the winner (or winners) may be this year, he, she or one of the few top Dutch DJs to have never actually chosen career paths, it should be obvious that we they will put on an absolutely unmissable show! won the prized accolade. Having resurrected his love a good party, and that’s exactly what we’ve got But that’s not all; after a short recovery period, long-dormant Gouryella moniker in 2015, he’ll be in store. Two, in fact. the party heads back to home turf for a big room performing under the alias once again for a rare Following the countdown on Twitter and Facebook bonanza at the O2 Academy in Brixton on Saturday London show. it’ll be time for the fi rst event, the Top 100 DJs 22nd October. Taking the reins alongside this year’s We’re also excited to reveal Markus Schulz, the Awards! Taking place on Wednesday 19th October at Top 100 winner will be Dutch don Ferry Corsten German-American DJ who’s been at the forefront of the start of ADE, the ceremony will see a headline presenting Gouryella, plus Markus Schulz, Marlo, and trance for well over a decade and used to perform set from the new World’s No.1 DJ. Launching the the one and only Armin van Buuren. with Corsten as trance supergroup New World Punx. Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF) from the Heineken Armin is no stranger to the Top 100 DJs list. The And last but not least, Dutch-born, Australian-raised Music Hall in the Dutch capital, a raft of other top Dutchman holds the record for most wins, with DJ and producer Marlo joins the bill, completing the DJs will be playing in support, and the awards will a whopping fi ve titles, and most wins in a row, trifecta of Dutch EDM gods. be reverting to a full awards show as we’ve done in collecting four between 2007 and 2010. Last claiming With so much talent on offer, it’s imperative to sign previous years. the crown in 2012, Armin still hasn’t dropped out up for priority access to tickets. Use the following of the top fi ve (where will he fi nish this year?) — a link to make sure you don’t miss out, and we’ll see Since we moved the event to the Netherlands back true legend of the poll and stiff competition for any you in October! top100djslondon.com in 2011, we’ve had the likes of Hardwell, Armin van upstarts hoping to take the top spot!

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With Danny Howard from BBC Radio 1

TRIPLE-RIPPLE AT BOARDMASTERS What a day it was for me at Boardmasters the other weekend! Set on the beautiful coastline of Newquay over-looking the Atlantic Ocean with the sun beaming down, it really was just the day for it, and the crowd... well, they just had all the energy! First stop out of three was a set (‘cheeky’, of course) for our favourite chicken outlet Nando’s before being called in at the last minute to play an hour on the scenic Point Stage after Jonas Rathsman’s fl ight was cancelled. Then for my actual set in the epic Unleashed Arena, I played to one of the most up-for-it crowds all summer. The atmosphere was incredible and big up to my mate Josh who, despite being on crutches, still got in the crowd and up on someone’s shoulders… hero! ESSENTIAL MIX: BIG NEWS! CLOSED? Get ready for what is set to be one of the most special live Essential Mixes on BBC Radio 1 of 2016 when the master, Eric Prydz, steps up to FABRIC’S LICENCE the hallowed turntables… but not as Eric Prydz! It’s a known fact that despite producing under different aliases, the Pryda boss only performs SUSPENDED AFTER live as ‘Eric Prydz’ (especially when it comes to festivals and being live on-air), but unleashing DRUG-RELATED DEATHS his darker, more techno side, let’s all get excited for the sounds of ‘Cirez D’ on BBC Radio 1, Hopefully this isn’t the end for the much-loved recorded live from Creamfi elds. Also on the same bill will be UK heavyweights Chase & Status for London institution... what will be a monster Essential Mix show that LONDON NIGHTCLUB FABRIC is under threat Thursday 8th August read: “For the past two you can hear on-air or, of course, listen anytime of closure once again, after the deaths of years Fabric has operated without incident you want to on the BBC iPlayer radio app. two 18-year-olds at the venue over the last but tragically in the past nine weeks two three months as a result of drug overdoses. 18-year-old boys have died as a consequence THE BIG THREE The venue has offi cially had its licence of drug overdoses. In order to understand Disicples ‘Daylight’ suspended by Islington Council following a how this has happened, we have agreed with I fi rst heard this at We Are FSTVL when I went request by the Metropolitan Police. the police and other agencies to suspend our on after the lads… it was their last tune, and I “Offi cers felt the need to act due to concerns operation whilst we investigate.” was instantly hooked! I hounded them for a copy about the safety of those attending the The last time Fabric came under fi re was every since and fi nally I can now play it. It’s a club because of the supply of class-A drugs two years ago, following four drug-related beast, and following high-profi le collaborations in the venue and the recent deaths of two deaths at the venue over the previous with Calvin Harris and David Guetta, it’s good to young men linked to the club,” said a police three years. At the time, Islington Council see the lads back to doing their thing solo. spokesperson. demanded sniffer dogs be placed at the Camelphat ‘Reverse It’ club’s entrance. However, Fabric appealed Peak-time banger from the Liverpool duo as they The fi rst man died on 25th June, then on the decision and it was overturned. smash it once again on Suara Records. Heard Saturday 6th August a second man collapsed them play this in the Main Room at Space, Ibiza, outside the venue in the morning and later Open since 1999, Fabric has become when we played together at the start of August died in hospital. the beating heart of London’s clubbing and it’s a hands-down winner every time I’ve Fabric cancelled all events the following community, bringing in the very best in played it since. The Camels are on fi re! weekend, refunding all ticket-holders. international and home-grown electronic Kydus feat. Moji ‘Boomtang’ However, the suspension has now put the talent, along with clubbers from across This is one of my favourite tunes to play out at 2500-capacity club out of action for a month the world, every weekend. As one of the the moment, I get so excited to hear it through a while an investigation is undertaken and few venues to support music from across big system! It’s all about the catchy vocals that a review of its licence is held. The club has the dance spectrum, the loss of Fabric — draw you in, and the epically long, driving build- reportedly declined to fi ght the temporary coupled with the loss of Studio 338 — would up means that by the time it drops, the whole suspension. be a devastating blow to a city that’s been crowd is going for it… big time! As supported on A statement made via the Fabric website on plagued by club closures in recent years. BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong and myself. djmag.com djmag.com 009

DJ561.CominUp-CU1.indd 9 15/08/2016 15:54 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. FERRECK DAWN, JOE STONE 01. COSMIC BOYS 01. MARC HOULE Sublime (Extended Mix) Spinnin Records Time SCANDER Music I Don’t Want To Watch You Read (Golden Filter Remix) Innervisions 02. DUKE DUMONT 02. HERTZ, ENRICO SANGIULIANO 02. AUTARKIC Be Here Defected Start Of Madness Drumcode Rotation! Rotation! (Red Axes Remix) Turbo Recordings 03. MARK KNIGHT 03. SECRET CINEMA, EGBERT 03. THE ORB Yebisah Toolroom Records Maximaal Drumcode Alpine (Prins Thomas Simpler Tool For DJ Fools) Kompakt 04. OC & VERDE 04. TIGER STRIPES 04. IVVAN BACK Maasai Knee Deep In Sound A Feeling Drumcode Pick Up The Pieces (Club Mix) Samui Recordings 05. MARTIN WASLEWSKI 05. BRANDON HADDEN, GABE AGULLO 05. MARC HOULE Clouds (Purple Disco Machine Remix) Suara Dirty Hungry Koala Records Silver Siding Innervisions 06. MARCUS SCHOSSOW, NEW_ID 06. CIVIL DISORDER 06. JAMES CURD ADA (Extended Mix) Code Red Music The Journey (Joe Tiseo & Tr3buchet Remix) Madafactory Music Checking Out NYC Exploited 07. MOONWALK 07.J AY LUMEN 07. THE ORB Meteora Stil Vor Talent Horizon Drumcode Alpine (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) Kompakt 08. SOFI TUKKER 08. BOB MOSES 08. MART Drinkee (Vintage Culture & Slow Motion! Remix) Ultra Tearing Me Up (Tale Of Us Remix) Domino Upside Down Which Bottle? 09. BOLIER 09. LUCA AGNELLI 09. JEAN BACARREZA Ipanema (Firebeatz Remix) Spinnin Deep (Spinnin) Phoenix Drumcode 303 Language LouLou Records 10. WALKER & ROYCE 10. ADAM BEYER, MARK REEVE 10. JEAN BACARREZA Boy Dirtybird Nine Of You Drumcode Special Nuthin LouLou Records

BASS EDM TRANCE

01. FLUX PAVILION, NGHTMRE 01. AXWELL, SHAPOV 01. MARLO, CHLOE Feel Your Love feat. Jamie Lewis Circus Belong (Axwell & Years Remode) Axtone Records You And Me feat. Chloe (Extended Mix) Armind (Armada) 02. INFEKT 02. AXWELL, SHAPOV 02. LIQUID SOUL Orgalorg Disciple Recordings Belong (Extended Mix) Axtone Records Sweet Things (Morten Granau & Metronome Remix) Iboga Records 03. XILENT 03. JOEY DALE, RYOS 03. MARK SHERRY, ALEX DI STEFANO Kill Me Disciple Recordings Armageddon feat. Tony Rodini (Extended Mix) Revealed Recordings Everyone Is Looking For Us Outburst Records 04. RICKYXSAN 04. BLASTERJAXX, DBSTF 04. MAJOR7, REALITY TEST Nu Dub Never Say Die Records Hit Me feat. Go Comet! (Extended Mix) Maxximize Freak Show X7M Records 05. BUKEZ FINEZT 05. HOLL & RUSH 05. JORDAN SUCKLEY, SAM JONES I’m Grindin’ Disciple Recordings Pheromones (Dannic Edit) Fonk Recordings Wilma Damaged Records 06. MADI, SLUSHII 06. ZAXX 06. MARCO V So Long (feat. Madi) Mad Decent Phunky (Extended Mix) Musical Freedom Simulated (Radion6 Remix) High Contrast Recordings 07. JAUZ 07. RICK MITCHELLS 07. CIARAN MCAULEY Shark Attack (Megalodon VIP) Disciple Recordings Let’s Go (Extended Mix) Mainstage Music (Armada Music) Eadaoin (U Know) Grotesque 08. KAP SLAP 08. OVION 08. KAIMO K, SARAH RUSSELL Felt This Good feat. M. Bronx (Kap Slap VIP Edit) Ultra On My Way (Extended Mix) Protocol Recordings Why Can’t You Love Me Amsterdam Trance Records 09. BOY KID CLOUD 09. DUBVISION 09. ALY, FILA, AHMED ROMEL Gas Up The Can Disciple Recordings Primer (Extended Mix) Revealed Recordings Kingdoms (Extended Mix) FSOE 10. PROXIMA 10. EEKKOO, SAILOR & I 10. FERRY TAYLE, DRIFTMOON Here We Go Trendkill Records Letters (Capital Jeremy Olander Remix) Big Beat Records Titanfall (Extended Mix) FSOE

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DJ561.CominUp-HypeChart.indd 10 12/08/2016 11:36 COMIN’ UP Killers This month’s promos destined to destroy the dancefloor... INCOMING Playful techno duo PAN-POT are back with new material, this time Stone Cold Tensnake for NICOLE MOUDABER’s Mood ‘Freundchen EP’ Records. ‘Win Some’ EP features two KILLER razor-sharp minimal cuts, including True Romance the huge title track, with its rolling military percussion and jacking tech- house time signature... Another world-famous Berlin DJ partnership, M.A.N.D.Y also make a return. Produced alongside studio guru LOPAZZ for their label Get Physical, M.A.N.D.Y IT’S BEEN A WHILE since you heard us maturing, diffi cult-to-please disco hinted he’d fi nd fi ve years ago. ‘Friends Kiss’ is a meaty slab of dark, bigging up Tensnake in these pages. dancefl oors he won over with his early It doesn’t end there. If you think moody tech with tight hypnotic Following a purple patch at the turn of Running Back material. ‘Freundchen’ is destined to be an bells, while B-side ‘Jupiter’ offers a the decade, the ‘Coma Cat’ sensation On ‘Freundchen EP’, however, he’s inescapable tune this summer, try good impression of dirty, growling has struggled to impress us; a stretch realigned his gaze towards his original B-side ‘Tazaar’ on for size. A man space-funk... Those more into that culminated in disappointing (classier) house marketplace. The title recognised for his unique ability to “proper” techno can enjoy releases debut album, ‘Glow’, for Virgin EMI track re-traces a similar path to that of reinterpret — check Anthony & The from TREVINO who’s releasing the in 2014. Todd Terje on ‘Ragysh’ and his remix of Camp’s ‘What I Like’ as his ‘Coma Cat’ ‘Slide Away’ EP on Hotfl ush. The His 2013 single ‘Flora’, for example, Simon Baker’s ‘Plastik’. inspiration for evidence — Tensnake title track is deeper and dreamier felt incongruous, like an ill-fi tting However, its bubblegum-acid arpeggio provides us with his own re-imagining than you’d expect from Marcus garment thrown on under major label is met with the chopped-up, retro- of an Afro spirit such as Ebo Taylor Intalex’s 4/4 alter-ego, but ‘Mosaic’ duress. Not that it was bad, more modern synth-snippets he mastered with its cheeky highlife riff and is on his thumping warehouse that it was a pop-inspired curveball on ‘In The End I Want To Cry’. And samples of tribal chanting, but put tip. Detroit’s FXHE alumnus LUKE — replete with a UK house vocal there’s a playful disco bassline too, through the uplifting, steely piano HESS, meanwhile, rears an unlikely — pitched at an entirely different joyful cowbells and some strings that house fi lter of an Inner City classic like appearance on Visionquest with audience, shoehorned at exactly Arthur Russell would be proud of — ‘Big Fun’. Instant fi re in the dance — ‘Selector’, and it’s about as expertly the ‘right’ time — rather than at the all composed with the expertise he no two ways about it. steely has techno gets. Remixes from dD5, LEE CURTISS and MAHER DANIEL complete a solid package... If you like fl owery synths, look no KiNK Emanuel Satie further than Live At Robert Johnson ‘Chorus’ ‘Pablo’s Riff’ where one-half of TUFF CITY KIDS, Midnight Shift Knee Deep In Sound LAUER, has landed the majestically musical ‘Tearsh’ EP, featuring fi ve BULGARIAN TECHNOLOGY junkie IT’S BEEN a meteoric 12 emotive tracks of light, starry-eyed KiNK has conjured up a multi- months for Emanuel Satie. ‘80s pop-inspired house echoing the pack of analogue house magic From relative obscurity likes of New Order and Jan Hammer... for vinyl release on 9th September (via digital on 30th to topping the Beatport charts and releases on Speaking of hammers, BICEP- September). ‘Chorus’ is a joyous spiral of harmonics over a Jackathon, Saved and Get Physical, now we have this. collaborator HAMMER has gone done warm underbelly of capacious funk that builds throughout ‘Pablo’s Riff’ for Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep In Sound is a release of his very own for Optimo. like a Ukrainian body-builder doing press-ups, and ‘Madam a chunky tech-house weapon — with an intensely jazzy ‘At Once’ EP (out November) includes X’, featuring Kei, is bubbling acid fl ooded with raw synth piano line and a hugely dramatic terrace-baiting drop ‘Stripes (Special Disco Remix)’, a airs. Add to that some trippy loops and that right there is — that’s currently serving as one of this summer’s Ibiza slice of glitter-ball glory you’d hope value for money. anthems. to hear at a ‘70s roller rink... Fans of that deep French touch can look forward to MANDAR’s excellent fi ve- Huxley Soul Intent/Acid vinyl LP on Oscillat Music at the end ‘Unconscious Competence Lab/Ms Tempz of September and DAN GHENACIA (Spider)’ ‘Bad Boy’ & CHRIS CARRIER have teamed up No Idea’s Original Dope Plates Mandar again for Music For LIKE DUSKY, Huxley has opted SOUL INTENT loves a good Freaks. Last to help shake off his obvious sub-label, and with the but not least, UK house association with a festival-pleasing stab at second release on his nostalgia-driven Lossless Music thank god progressive big-room techno. Few already doubted the off-shoot Dope Plates, we fi nd it hard to argue. Taking a genuine production skills of the Aus regular, but ‘Unconscious on the A-side himself, the bossman dons his serious legend has Competence’ raises the bar even higher. A driving, stepped face to deliver gruff, junglistic roller ‘Bad Boy’. On returned! DJ 4/4 over a brooding bassline, euphoric arpeggios and the fl ip, Acid Lab invokes the ghosts of rave, dropping DEEP’s ‘MKS1’ breathy alien harmonics make for a 123bpm trance/techno breaks by the bucketful over screaming hoovers and is seven- hybrid sent from another planet. With Glastonbury’s fi re- moody subs. If you’re craving a jungle fi x, don’t sleep and-a-half minutes of massive and breathing Arcadia show in mind, no prizes for guessing on this one! metallic hair-raising techno that you why its namesake is ‘Spider’. simply shouldn’t live without...

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feature film; hopefully I’ll be in the running for that. “So it’s partly that, but it’s partly making something emotive which doesn’t rely on a four-four kick-drum, which is a very easy trick to get you making music. It’s essentially about trying to make something beautiful.”

Dave Switch and Graeme Sinden both upped sticks to LA. Were you ever tempted? Are you still in touch? “With Sinden definitely, with Dave not really. Not that anything bad happened, just different worlds. When Sinden comes back to the UK we always make as much time as possible to hang out. I’d say we’re pretty damn-good friends. Same with Trevor Loveys. Dave has always been an elusive character. As much as I was part of the whole Dubsided thing and Sinden was part of it, we didn’t have much contact with him. We hung out in the studio and had beers like everyone else, but he was always away a lot.” “I’ve got a bit of agoraphobia so I find it hard being in small, contained spaces with no clear exit. Long-haul flights are not possible, basically. It’s curbed my DJ career to a certain extent but at the same time it’s enabled me to develop a lot more in the studio and to do other projects outside of music, like screenwriting. If I could I would definitely see what it was like over there. Sinden loves it.”

Can you tell us more about your screenwriting? “It was something I did at university and was pretty good at, but then was completely swept along with music for a good five years, from late 2005 to 2011. It was just insane madness; I don’t know how many gigs or festivals that I played. With The Count & Sinden I did so much, as Hervé I did so much, as Speaker Junk it was insane right from the off. The first remix we got asked to do was for Basement Jaxx, after we’d released our first 12”. Then I worked with Armand Van Helden and Fatboy Slim. So it’s only been in the last few years It’s follow-up on Skint, ‘Hallucinated Surf’, however, that I reconnected with that whole side and am playing The Hot Seat signals his return. A double album split between around with cameras again and stuff like that.” more raucous dancefloor work-outs, like recent We throw a few curveball single ‘Bang The Drum’, and a second CD that instead We just had a listen to your remix of Roisin Murphy’s shows a deft touch for downtempo, moving between ‘Overpowered’ and had a flashback to sweaty East questions the way of... field recordings, shoe-gazey fuzz and Tru Thoughts- London raves. Do you have any particular favourite esque beats, it’s the beginning of a reappearance from your back catalogue? that includes forthcoming remixes from Champion “God, yeah. In 2013 I put together a mixtape of all HERVÉ and Lone. Add to that a new Cheap Thrills EP of even my Count & Sinden, Hervé and Speaker Junk remixes. Words: JOE ROBERTS heavier cuts, alongside further releases from new I didn’t put it out as it didn’t feel like the right time artists, plus an offshoot label with an associated party, and I felt disconnected from the club scene. Then Illegal Bass, and you have the beginning of yet another Complex did it [via Soundcloud] a few months ago. It chapter in Hervé’s remarkable career… was a strange feeling of going back through that stuff “We basically set the blueprint for the whole bassy, and remembering the good times associated with speed garage-y, mash-up thing — bass-house, The second half of ‘Hallucinated Surf’ will probably those songs. I suppose my ‘Licky’ remix of Larry T and fidget, wonk, wobble. All that stuff we did in a period come as a big surprise to people. Is this new Princess Superstar and the Kidda remix of ‘Under The of about two years — me and Trev, me and Sinden, influences, or going back to something from before Sun’, there were so many. Getting to remix Orbital and me and Switch, and individually.” you became known for dancefloor dynamite? The Chemical Brothers; it was mental. All my dance “It’s very much an extension of my last album. The club music dreams came true in a period of two or three For anyone dancing a decade ago, when his first stuff in 2012/13 wasn’t really bringing me very much years.” release came out, Hervé, aka Josh Harvey, was one satisfaction. I realised I was also seen as a kind of bass of a few fresh stars pushing a new breed of distinctly guy, which was only a small part of my musical make- After riding such a giant wave like that, how do you UK house music. Bass-heavy, energetic, peppered up and influences. That album and the second disc is a deal with it when it inevitably breaks? with breakbeats and sample-happy, his productions reflection of the other side of me. It’s like, you’ve got “I always knew that it would. As Klint we were a big — whether under Hervé or Voodoo Chilli, as one half the body with disc one, the heart and mind with disc favourite of Rough Trade, they were bigging us up as of Speaker Junk with Trevor Loveys, or as The Count two.” the next big thing after the Beta Band and things like & Sinden, alongside Graeme Sinden — were tearing that. That never materialised. We learnt from a very up UK clubs, aided by a non-stop string of remixes for Be honest. Is it also a pitch for soundtrack work? early age that things appear to be the big ticket, and high-profile acts. “One hundred percent. I was in a small duo and we did then they don’t really happen. It’s just about getting the Snatch soundtrack, the Guy Ritchie film, the title back up there, or taking a break, or whatever suits His label Cheap Thrills, meanwhile, was making a track ‘Diamond’, then we did another called ‘Are You you. It was five or six years of craziness, but inevitably similarly massive mark thanks to hits like Fake Blood’s There?’, so I kind of did that before. It’s an incredibly music changes. You just chill a bit and work under ‘Mars’. It led to working with Armand Van Helden and well-worn cliché, dance producer does something different names to satisfy creative urges that come in Fatboy Slim, but a few years later, Sinden and Switch with strings in to close album, then says I’d like to do the new scenes. At the beginning of last year, when I having both moved to LA and the sonic landscape soundtracks. Everybody would like to, and most people signed to Skint, I told them of my new endeavour and changed, he admits to feeling disconnected from probably don’t have the ability to do it. It’s definitely they were totally excited and really onboard. I thought the UK club scene, something hinted at in the title of something I’d like to do more of. I’m in the process of they were going to run away and tell me to fuck off! 2013’s album, ‘The Art Of Disappearing’. doing a short film with my brother, which I’ll probably But they didn’t at all. That’s what last year was spent soundtrack. And a friend of mine is working on his first doing, putting this together.”

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DJ561.CominUp-HotSeat-Herve.indd 13 09/08/2016 09:24 Untitled-1 1 15/08/2016 14:35 COMIN’ UP Take Ten 01. INXS ‘Need You Tonight’ album and this track especially — the four- “This is the sexiest track I had ever heard as minute instrumental outro still makes my Thomas Gandey a teenager, and inspired a lot of my career as skin tingle and takes me right back there.” Cagedbaby. I do a lot of featured vocals for artists these days and there’s an interesting 06. Röyksopp ‘Remind Me’ story about ‘Need You Tonight’, which I took “The fragility of Erlend Øye’s voice, the on board. When they recorded the song dulcet and quirky tone of a foreign man Michael Hutchence just did a long improvised speaking perfect English. I always wanted vocal take for some 30 minutes and it wasn’t to get that character onto my music. The until after recording that the producer edited new Bergen wave of the ‘90s, tied in with it up to make it make sense — so that it flowed my love of the Jan Hammer Group, were like a song. It’s a great and creative way to definitely an inspiration for Erlend’s Kings Of work without rules, and creates unexpected Convenience. ‘Melody AM’ was a masterful results. That’s a template I still use today, album, later picked up by Mark Jones for Wall especially on dance tracks where there’s no Of Sound, who has solidly released amazing standard arrangement or often no chord music like the Propellerheads — another changes.” seminal album for me. ‘Melody AM’ sounds like it was made in the depths of winter 02. Jan Hammer Group ‘Don’t You in a warm log cabin with a load of flimsy Know’ analogue synths and a lot of time on their “As a keyboardist, Jan Hammer in his hands.” Mahavishnu Orchestra days was a huge inspiration to me. Sure, he did the ‘Miami 07. Grace Jones ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ Vice Theme’ but let’s forget about that for a “Trevor Horn makes it twice into my top 10. moment — way back in the ‘70s he was an Especially for the little-known fact that he’d analogue synth aficionado; a Rhodes and already written this track for Frankie Goes To riffing Arp soloist player best demonstrated Hollywood before Grace put on her vocals. by the beautifully produced and delicate It was a concept album, never supposed to 1977 album, ‘Melodies’. Soft and emotive, be a single; a 20-minute jam of amazing I stumbled across this by accident. If ever compass-point musicians and early digital there was an example that all the music that sampled drums — Grace polishing it with her ever needed to be made was already made in endless cool. It’s a perfect piece of music, but the ‘70s, this is sure a contender.” I’d love to hear what Frankie would have done with the vocals.” 03. Aphrodite’s Child ‘End Of The World’ “In the ‘60s, progressive rock was alive and 08. Future Sound Of London ‘Papua well and living in Greece wearing kaftans. New Guinea” Vangelis and Demis Roussos were way ahead “The open-mindness to it, the cosmic tint of The Beatles — making trippier and hippier that came back into play in my later career, music than anyone around. Their concept and the concept of where the track took me album ‘666’, a musical adaption of the Book when my eyes were closed. It’s a masterpiece Of Revelations, was one of the first to get of that early ‘90s progressive trip-out music, me into collecting movie soundtracks. I with synth pads for days and samples of can’t under-estimate the effect Vangelis world music and an ethnicism — without and his endless works — like the score to going all Enigma or Deep Forest on it.” Bladerunner and albums with Jon Anderson of Yes and the track ‘State Of Independence’ 09. The League Unlimited — had on my personal career.” Orchestra ‘The Things That Dreams Are Made Of’ 04. Pink Floyd ‘Time (Breathe Reprise)’ “This track from the Human League’s own “Everyone knows ‘The Dark Side Of The remix album was the first remix album I ever core solo artist on Get Physical, multi-talented Moon’ inside out. It’s the album we first got heard — unlike dubs and instrumentals. We Thomas Gandey has released on many of the world’s high too — standard yet seminal stuff. As were all familiar with it on seven-inches, but best electronic labels just in the last year — Crosstown a teenager it was always around, and the the League’s progressiveness and approach Rebels, OFF, Desolat and Monkeytown to name but a band’s kids went to my boarding school. to minimalism and limited sound gave them A I was actually in a ‘kids of’ supergroups a scope that I tried to take to Cagedbaby few. In 2015, he and compadre Radio Slave released their collaborative album project Matom on Carl Craig’s Planet E rock band in school — Rick Wakeman, Alan when I embarked on my live tours. Stripped Communications, leading to a string of live shows including the Parsons, Keith Emerson’s sons and me back and with nowhere to hide, no samples Berghain’s Kantine and Red Bull Music Academy. The pair also jamming in band. Experimental prog rock and a tight rhythm section that carried it to produce techno together as Last Communication, while Tom has was everywhere in East Sussex when I grew the dancefloor. I would take this any day over also recently collaborated with Olivier Giacomotto and German up in all my local pubs.” Kraftwerk.” Brigante. As Cagedbaby he released two albums on Southern Fried 05. Seal ‘Violet’ 10. Willow’s Song ‘The Wicker Man Records, which kick-started his touring career during which he “My introduction to Balearic came in the Soundtrack’ now incorporates more live keys and vocals than ever. As a form of the first CD I ever bought from “A lot of my early inspirations were from producer he’s made albums with Fatboy Slim and David Byrne, Woolworths. I’d heard Adamski’s’ ‘Killer’ movie soundtracks, whether it was an Ennio the Olivier Award-winning ‘Here Lies Love’, and the before I got stuck into the album properly on Morricone spaghetti western or a John multi-platinum Jeff Wayne’s New Generation ‘The War Of The a sailing holiday in the Greek Islands with my Carpenter synth odyssey. One of the earliest Worlds’ opus. parents. Watching dolphins swim along the movies I saw was the 1973 cult horror The “I’m surprised at how little club dance music came up in my bow of the boat and realising it was actually Wicker Man — I was too young and it stuck list,” Thomas tells DJ Mag. “Thinking about it, these are the 10 Trevor Horn I was listening to, and not Seal at with me for life. The tenderness of the that hit me hard — mainly from my informative teenage years, all — he was just the husky vocal on top of it. Pentangle-esque folk score stayed with me, when my tastes were just developing...” I couldn’t wrap the headphones over my ears not just because of Britt Eckland’s body hard enough that holiday. I lived inside that double nakedly swaying away to it.”

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SOUNDS LIKE: BICEP, JOY O, DJ DEEON

THREE TUNES: ‘OG THEME’, ‘POLTERGEIST’, ‘INSERT TRACK TITLE’

WHERE NEXT: NAZOMEREN FESTIVAL, HOLLAND — SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

GIVEN THE FACT that we still can’t stop listening to De Sluwe Vos’ pounding new ‘Insert Track Title’ EP on Unknown To The Unknown, we fi gured it’s high time we had a chat with the man himself. Having been working under the alias — which translates from his native Dutch as ‘The Sly Fox’, a name taken from Aesop’s fable The Fox & The Crow — for seven years now, it’s really only been in the last few that Robert Vosmeijer has made his mark, but what a mark it is. Robert’s brand of tough cross-pollinated house and techno has solidifi ed a reputation as a festival favourite, landing Vos spots at this year’s Glastonbury (Genosys — Block9), along with Awakenings, Eurosonic Noorderslag (where he was named ‘best act’ on Dutch radio), and just about every other festival in his home nation. “I love Holland because you can do so many festivals in one day. Sometimes I have, like, seven festivals in one weekend, which is crazy! You are completely broken by the end of the weekend and then you have to go back into the studio and make music as well. But it’s all worth it,” he laughs. Meneer Vos’ obsession with the four-four began at just 12-years-old, with tracks such as Oxia’s high- energy ‘Domino’ particularly peaking his interest during his formative years. Robert is quick to stress, however, that it was the communal power of dance that really swayed him. “I was really interested in how a club or how a certain genre could bring all these people together from different places,” he explains. “If on a weekday everybody is different, the club could [bring them together] with music. That was really inspiring to me.” Now working with a new modular set-up — his UTTU EP in fact being born of his fi rst live recordings with the equipment — Robert has entered a healthy, experimental stage of his career. “I really like analogue stuff right now and the old Italo disco stuff. I’m just exploring a lot of genres right now. I don’t really have a plan for the future,” he says. But with an EP forthcoming on his own Patron Records, plus work from other artists set for the label and an ever-packed DJing diary, it seems the future has plans for The Sly Fox. BEN HINDLE

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CALL SUPER FROM: LONDON, UK

SOUNDS LIKE: PEARSON SOUND, OBJEKT, SAD CITY

THREE TUNES: ‘SULU SEKOU’, ‘MOUNT GRACE’, ‘THE FLUDD’ (AS ONDO FUDD)

WHERE NEXT: DEKMANTEL SELECTORS @ THE GARDEN TISNO, CROATIA — THURSDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER

JOE RICHMOND-SEATON has been responsible for some of the most intriguing, off-kilter and — above all — musical techno of the past fi ve years. Under his aliases Call Super and Ondo Fudd, the north London producer has been hollowing out his own little corner within the genre, predominantly for the Fabric-affi liated Houndstooth label, but more recently for The Trilogy Tapes and Dekmantel too. It could easily be argued that Seaton’s sound extends far beyond the realms of techno, and in a way it has; yet that’s where he’s planted his fl ag, instead seizing the opportunity to decide where its limits lay himself. When DJ Mag dials up Seaton, he’s just arrived in Yorkshire for a family visit; he’s contemplative and considerate in his answers, but confi dent in his own choices (and rightfully so). Seaton isn’t concerned with being defi ned by a sound or label. He simply asks for creative freedom — something he’s found acres of within the Houndstooth model, even designing the artwork for his records. “When we were discussing working together, they said to me that they wanted to be, in their words, an ‘artist-led label’,” he says. “For me, that was an essential thing that I needed from any label that I was going to work with; I couldn’t imagine it being any other way at this stage in my life.” Seaton returns to Houndstooth this month with a new 12-inch (‘Puppet Scene’/’New Life Tone’), and will eventually, he promises, have a follow-up to his stunning debut LP ‘Suzi Ecto’ too. The label’s lack of a distinctive, branded sound is understandably an ideal fi t for Seaton’s own explorative projects. “I used to spend a lot of time in raves and I used to go to art school and I used to see those two things as my life. I don’t feel like I came to music simply from a house music background or a techno background. I guess I want to represent that muddle that I feel in myself in my work, for better or worse... maybe it’s suicide fi nancially,” he laughs. Even Seaton’s pseudonyms break from the norm — they refl ect a singular vision, rather than different aspects of his output. “I’m just creating this world around me which people can enter and get lost in,” he says. “I’m not making it so easy to navigate, but people can navigate it themselves and they can fi nd their own things in it — maybe that they like more than other things — and it has a coherence to it that’s deliberately kind of muddled or confusing, but actually, when you engage with it, and spend a bit of time with it, it makes sense.” BEN HINDLE Pic: CLAIRE CLICHY

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Vital Label

WOLF MUSIC Q&A How did WOLF Music start? “Two house and disco obsessives met, stars aligned, took a chance, started a label.”

What does it sound like? “Pure drama!”

NEVER MIND THE DOOR, this wolf rare disco to obscure slamming techno the label gears up to celebrate seven Who have you released? is very much on the dancefl oor. from deep within their crates. years of WOLF Music with a special “Medlar, KRL, Greymatter, Al Started by two London friends — Stu anniversary release next month, plus Zanders, Frits Wentink, Casino and Matt — in 2009, WOLF Music is An obvious home-from-home for dusty there’s a regular London residency in Times, Bicep, The Revenge, now recognised among the more NY jams and classic Chicago house the offi ng too. Not only that — you Thrilogy, Ishmael, SoulPhiction, established labels of the UK house/ sounds, the label has put out a slew of can catch Stu and Matt aka WOLF Laszlo Dancehall, Session disco scene. A prized source of the timeless gems from the likes of Frits Music DJs warming up the next DJ Mag Victim... to name just a few.” more refi ned aspects of their sound, Wentik, Bicep and Session Victim in Sessions at Egg London with Detroit WOLF’s extended family — made up recent years, while supporting new Swindle and Recloose on Saturday 24th Who’s playing it? of Medlar, KRL, Greymatter — is a DJ talent in the form of Mr. Fries, Ishmael September, where no doubt they’ll “DJs that know what’s up and crew capable of rocking any discerning and co. The releases have continued blow the house down (sorry!)... share a love for real house and dancefl oor, picking everything from to come thick and fast in 2016, as disco have always been very supportive of WOLF. We’ve seen the records being played all GIMME 5 over the world and are delighted (and intrigued) to see how 01. V/A ‘WOLFEP001’ All four tracks had a jazzy skits and restless 05. Mr. Fries far this thing has managed to “Our fi rst release buzz around them, but interludes, it’s proved ‘WOLFEP033’ spread.” featured a remix by The Medlar’s ‘Terrell’ was that house albums need “We’re passionate Revenge of the Brit picked up by a lot of not be solely focused about giving new artists Proudest WOLF moment? funk classic ‘Dancing people. It was also the on the needs of the the platform to release “One... when an album project In Outer Space’ by fi rst release featuring dancefl oor.” music on WOLF and is completed and you see copies Atmosfear. But it’s the the WOLF wording ‘WOLFEP033’ is a good in the stores after months of Greymatter remix of across the top of the 04. Frits Wentink example of that. Early hard work to get them there. KRL ‘Remember Donny’ sleeve, something the ‘WOLFEP019’ last year we played at Two... playing in NYC for the that is still being played label is well-known for “This was our fi rst one of our favourite fi rst time.” today.” now.” release by the relatively clubs, Oma Doris club unknown Frits Wentink in Dortmund. One What’s next? 02. V/A 03. Medlar ‘Sleep’ back in 2013. We knew of the residents that “Plenty of new music, including ‘WOLFEP008’ “The fi rst album we he was an extremely night was a young DJ a double 7” release to celebrate “One of the early V/A released on the label talented producer and by the name of Mr. seven years of WOLF, new 12”s releases that featured and Medlar’s debut was destined to go on Fries, who during the from new artists as well as label mainstays Medlar, album. It’s a sleepy, to big things. It’s great night handed us a CD regulars from the label. Plus a Greymatter and KRL, heart-warming trip to see him start to get of demos. Immediately WOLF club residency starting in as well as Chicago through late-night deep the recognition he impressed with what we London in October; an intimate Damn for the fi rst time house. Littered with deserves in the past 12 heard, the idea of an EP affair for the heads.” on the same record. atmospheric samples, months.” was formed.”

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LAKSA Cheeky Bubblers Spice up your life

Fresh acts rising to the top... WE LOVE A spot of Laksa, be it in the form of a tasty noodle soup or a record from one of the UK’s hottest new producers. Debuting with a three-tracker for MOTIONS Beneath’s Mistry label last year, Laksa House in motions may have kept a low profi le on a personal level — all we know is the enigmatic artist Crossing the shores to the UK in 2014, Canadian is Bristol-born and London-based — yet DJ Brendan Neals, aka Motions, started his caused a storm musically. Titled ‘Draw For rise through dance music’s ranks from his The’, the EP conjures up a strange sense fi rst ever release, on Skream’s Of Unsound of unease through playful, unpredictable Mind label. Now based back in Montreal, he drum-work and the haunting effects collectively works on his label 00:AM, managing of delay. This utterly hypnotic, vaguely to bag his favourite DJs such as Prosumer and madness-inducing sound is continued in Nautiluss to come party in the Canadian city. Laksa’s forthcoming follow-up; written His next is a return to the label that launched after the recent vote by UK MPs to bomb him; the A-side, ‘Makin’ Me Wait’, is a soulful Syria, ‘66 Rebels’ (the name referring banger, ‘A Fool’s Beat’ is powerful melodic to the 66 Labour members who voted in disco, and ‘Solstice Symptoms’ delivers the favour of bombing) offers chaotic layering perfect foundation to warm up any night (think: that perfectly sums up our uncertain atmospheric pulses, melodic beats and plenty times, the artist’s fury boiling over by way of acid). Already playing alongside The Black of an unyeilding percussive crescendo. Madonna, Palms Trax and Lauer, Motions will Gripping, raw and wholly unique — we’re hopefully be returning to the UK in 2017 — be already hungry for more! prepared! SOUNDS LIKE? SOUNDS LIKE? Pangaea, Objekt, Peverelist Audion, Tuff City Kids, Krankbrother

STRÖME Ströme and funky!

Dance music has just got a whole lot more impressive! Starting off as bandmates in the German techno band ‘LaBrassBanda’, Ströme are now poised to conquer the electronic world as a piping-hot new disco(tech) duo. Using a huge modular synthesiser, the pair conjure euphoric kosmische melodica, made of tough drum-kicks, lush lunar harmonics and rubbery synths that are simply just addictive. Their fi rst offi cial EP release on Compost Records, ‘Nr.1’ (out September), offers three tracks of intimate bleepy techno guaranteed to immerse you in a deep, funky hypnotic trance every time you hear them. Their live analogue show is already the next big thing on the German dance scene and there’s an album planned for February. Watch this space!

SOUNDS LIKE? Todd Terje, Metro Area, Jay Shepheard

GENERATION NEXT Detroit’s (new) new wave

Generation Next is the aptly-titled moniker of Tre Strickland, son of Detroit producer Big Strick, who started making entirely analogue music at just 14 before seeing his debut release as an 18-year-old with his self-titled 12” on his father’s 7DaysEnt label in 2013. What has followed is a steady stream of masterfully-crafted deep house cuts on the imprint including 2014’s ‘Nocturne’, last year’s ‘Ender’ and this summer’s ‘Our Time In Different Lives’. Music clearly runs in the family, as Strickland is also the cousin of none other than Omar-S, who the young producer has been working with as well as the likes of OB Ignitt and fellow Detroit youngster Jay Daniel. Alongside Kyle Hall, that group form a new wave of Detroit prodigies making understated house music that follows in the footsteps of Theo Parrish, John Beltran, Marcellus Pittman and countless others, deservedly putting the world’s attention back on the Motor City.

SOUNDS LIKE? Kyle Hall, DJ Qu, Ron Trent

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BEN AUS Wise beyond his years

Despite making his debut releases on Butane’s Alphahouse and Little Helpers labels last year, Tunisian Ben Aus’ sophisticated compositions don’t refl ect an artist at the beginning of his career, already fi nding their way into the record boxes of Anja Schneider, Joris Voorn, Steve Lawler and Matt Tolfrey, to name just a few. Aus returns to Alphahouse in September with his ‘Under Volcan’ EP, a four-tracker of groove- led tech-house cuts made up of intricate percussion, hypnotic sequences, warping synths and melodic sweeps. Chances to see him spin have been limited outside his North African homeland as yet, but a number of solid podcasts indicate that once ‘Under Volcan’ inevitably blows up following its release at the end of the summer, it won’t be long before he’s making waves on a global scale.

SOUNDS LIKE? Joseph Capriati, Paco Osuna, Anja Schneider

GREAZUS Greazy does it

When Vancouver producers HxdB and DJ Cure fi rst joined forces back in 2014 — producing the booming halftime number ‘Sound The Alarm’, which became the offi cial remix contest track for that year’s Shambhala Music Festival — something clicked. Enough so, in fact, that the pair decided to team up permanently under the new alias Greazus, and fun times ensued. Scoring releases for Vandal LTD, Hospital Records and most recently Critical Sound (remixing a track for Redders’ new EP), the duo perfected a roughneck, juke sound, often collaborating with Detroit’s Sinistarr. With their upcoming four-tracker for London label Diffrent Music (titled ‘Greazus <3 U’, of course) the Canadians are stripping back on percussion and pushing bass to the forefront. Militant, ballsy and built solely for the purpose of devastating dancefl oors, this is not one to miss! Time to get greazy!

SOUNDS LIKE? Sinistarr, Fracture, Om Unit

PROFESSIONAL GIGOLO Young gun for hire

Professional Gigolo is the Italy-born, Essen-based producer, known to the taxman as Emanuel Morciano, who has been turning out releases built around spacey synths, shuffl ing grooves and cosmic energy on labels like Hudd Traxx and Isendit over the last 12 months. He returned this summer with his ‘Ligeia’ EP on Steve Bug’s Audiomatique Recordings, as well as an edit of Pino D’Anigio’s Italian disco gem ‘Ma Quale Idea’. The two releases demonstrate his versatility as a producer, ranging from Norwegian cosmic disco to dubby funk- fuelled house. Morciano has built a solid reputation for himself on the decks too, playing alongside a slew of talent from Essen including The Unhottest, Ahmet Sisman, Cramp and Simon Hildebrandt at local venue Goethebunker, as well as warming up there earlier this year for KiNK. His sets ride a line between spacey deep house, skewed tech and warped disco, and suggest the Professional Gigolo name isn’t going to be contained within Germany for much longer.

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MAJORA Major lasers

If you’ve been to a bass house rave anytime in the past few years, chances are you’ve heard a Majora track. Splitting his time between Bristol and Berkshire, 23-year-old Daniel Evans-Jones has honed a sound that’s easiest described as the epitome of UK club music, echoes of UK funky, garage and even drum & bass permeating each track to the core. Dan’s catalogue is a varied one, with labels like Kry Wolf’s Sounds Of Sumo sat alongside Serive and even Tessier-Ashpool, whilst the records themselves have found their way into the bags of the nation’s fi nest, spun by the likes of DJ EZ, Hannah Wants, Dusk & Blackdown and Mistajam to name but a few. With his new rough ‘n’ ready ‘Urges’/’Lint Roller’ EP for Roska Kicks & Snares bringing pure fi re to the fl oor, plus a tour with label boss Roska set for the autumn, Majora is on track to become a... well, major player in 2016.

SOUNDS LIKE? Roska, Conducta, Harry Judda

KOUSLIN Tribal touch

While bass-heavy blends of techno, house and grime are providing a seemingly endless stream of quality tunes at the moment, the increased popularity of hybridisation naturally demands fresh experimentation, particularly from newcomers wishing to make an impact. London’s Kouslin is a producer more than willing to put his own spin on proceedings, planting his feet fi rmly in the club, while keeping his head in the lab. Despite few offi cial releases, he’s garnered key support within the UK underground; his recent ‘Suga’s Drums’ EP for Mdnght — a heady dancefl oor two-tracker infused with tribal rhythms and vox — resonating with tastemakers such as Toddla T and Ben UFO. Continuing in this vein, Kouslin is launching his own label Le Chatroom this month, with a mantra based around open-mindedness. Joining him on the debut release are Galtier and Sheik, resulting in three tracks of carnivalesque, polyrhythmic madness. Ears peeled for this one!

SOUNDS LIKE? Kowton, Batu, Pearson Sound

BILLY KENNY Kenny mix it? Yes he can!

Born and bred in Leeds, British producer and DJ Billy Kenny has been kicking up a storm since moving to Hanover, Germany. Not your typical Berghain-style DJ, the prolifi c producer broke through with 2014 release ‘Work’ and has had recent releases on Dirtybird, including ‘Sweat It Out’ which delivers on slick, heavy-bass house styles. Currently touring the globe in 2016, the rising DJ expertly shapes choppy house sets with a tendency to craftily slip in techno, garage, Afrobeats — even drum & bass — here and there. Billy’s been in high demand too, playing alongside wildly-hyped house DJ, Hannah Wants, at Ibiza Rocks this season and he’s ready to showcase label This Ain’t Bristol, which he’s bringing to Berlin later on this year.

SOUNDS LIKE? Hannah Wants, Justin Martin, Will Clarke

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BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB ‘DISCO CLUB’ (RCA, 1978) Bernard Fevre made some out-there electronic music in the ‘70s, but was relatively unappreciated at the time. Until, that is, The Chemical Brothers sampled one of his tracks, and Aphex-affi liated leftfi eld label Rephlex Records began re-releasing some of his music…

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IN 1978, Bernard Fevre, aka Black Devil Disco electronic music, as electro and synth-pop began PIONEER Club, was given enough funding by his colleague, scoring chart hits on both sides of The Atlantic. Fevre helped pioneer club music as we know it Jacky Giordano, to record ‘Disco Club’, an EP of — Fevre was probably unconcerned by this today. And clubs are part of his musical DNA. at the time — deeply out-there electronic disco development. “Between the 1980s and the But, as an artist, he’s frustrated that electronic tracks, for the appropriately named imprint, Out early 2000s, I didn’t stop making music,” he music is still ghettoised and not destroying more Records. explains. “But it was mostly as a producer for boundaries. “Disco has been the core element of Fevre had been experimenting at the ground other artists or working for production [films electronic music for a long time now. But there’s zero of modern electronic music and, as a regular and commercials]. I wasn’t considering myself still way more to do,” he says. “I regret that Parisian nightclubber, he’d been combining an artist. It was a job,” he explains, before wryly electronic music is mostly used for dancefloors ideas more frequently found in the conservatoire adding: “but better than working in a factory.” and not enough for radio, TV and original with disco beats. To people back-then, his music soundtracks... I guess it’s still evil music to some sounded out of this world and, perhaps not His approach to these different aspects of music people. surprisingly, it failed to make much impression production are very different. “As an artist I “Check out the charts, radio airplays, the on the hit parade. After receiving ambiguous thought that music from the future would be background music on TV... it’s not really avant- reviews, his music could have disappeared inspired by the amazing free-spirit and rebellious garde, experimental or electronic.” entirely, had it not ended-up influencing a culture of the 1960s and ‘70s,” he says. “I had For Fevre, a crucial element of electronic music succession of top level British producers at the images of streets, bulldozers, supermarkets, is the process of searching for the new. An turn of the millennium — much to the surprise factories... a city environment full of life. So my aspiration that is diluted by easy ‘plug and of Fevre, who’d long since hung up his clubbing idea was that [electronic] instruments were great play’ music technology. “Electronic music is an shoes. tools for creating the soundtrack to the world experimental soundscape, creating new textures, Today, far from disappearing, his records — and around me, and inside my head. With a lot of never-heard before harmonies... I spend time tracks inspired by them — are reverberating work, technique and craziness, they were helping creating my own sound. I don’t use the same around the club scene. Amongst those who have me to re-make my daily life in sound.” gear, same presets, write the same songs as fallen under his influence are leading acts such Meanwhile, outside his studio, the world of music everyone else. I make my own spaceship. I need as The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, was starting to catch up with him. The first hints good ears, patience, calm... I don’t think many Justice and Metro Area — to mention but a few. that Fevre might be on the verge of a revival came great records came from famous expensive in 1999, when The Chemical Brothers plucked a studios in the last 30 years. So, basically, I still Fevre’s music arose from humble DIY roots and, sample from ‘Earthmessage’, a track on the ‘Disco do what I did in the ‘70s — I have my own small like many early electronic pioneers, he worked Club EP’, for ‘Got Glint?’ on their ‘Surrender’ LP. studio in my apartment.” in isolation. Until relatively recently, he was also Fevre was typically oblivious to everything, and unaware of the extent of his influence. “I didn’t didn’t even remember his own song. “When I With that small studio, Fevre foreshadowed the know the people that were doing electronic got sampled by The Chemical Brothers, I didn’t music we listen to now. But what is inspiring music back then,” he tells DJ Mag. “I only knew remember the music I had done 20 years earlier. I Fevre for the music of tomorrow? After all, he did French covers of English and American hits. Then had moved onto something else.” Nonetheless, call one of his LPs ‘2043’… I started to listen to jazz, soul music, reggae and interest had been re-kindled in him as an artist. “I was lucky to create things that are still being later-on punk. There was the hit song ‘Popcorn’, used nowadays. And it’s inspiring now to hear which was amazing at the time. And, of course, OVERLOOKED artists that were influenced by my work, and the Star Trek shows. I was also dancing a lot Describing his resurrection as a revival is perhaps call me their grandfather. In [the year] 2043, if to ‘Psyché Rock’ by Pierre Henry and going to missing the point. By and large his music had the world keeps on being violent, I guess music nightclubs. But electronic music was really under been overlooked. And for the vast majority of his would be softer. If we go back to peace, it will go the radar at the time.” new disciples, he wasn’t being revived at all. He more violent,” he says, before smiling. “Anyway, I “My studio was my teenage room, with cables was being discovered for the first time. don’t care, I won’t be here anymore.” everywhere and the heavy smell of cigarette A couple of years passed before a staff member smoke,” Fevre continues, describing what may at Rephlex Records came across a copy the ‘Disco well have been one of the first bedroom studios. Club EP’ in a car boot sale. It had a great cover “These days my studio is a bit more organised. and only cost 20p, so the record was snapped up But it’s a mixture of old analogue and digital, and taken back to Rephlex HQ, where it attracted hi-tech stuff. I’m a man of the present and the the attention of label boss Richard D. James future.” (aka Aphex Twin). Soon it became a fixture in his He’s also a man with a knowledge of the past. DJ sets, with original copies starting to change Musique concrete, the early electronic music that hands for £200. developed in Paris in the 1940s, had challenged With interest growing, Rephlex’s co-founder, conventional music. It provided Fevre with Grant Wilson-Claridge, put in a bid to license the a role model — giving him the confidence to EP. He wasn’t alone — amongst the unsuccessful experiment, despite the mixed reception his bidders was Metro Area’s Morgan Geist. But music received. “Schaffer and Henry [the fathers Rephlex won the license. of musique concrete] were great — they helped me to dare,” he says. “Their music was strong, Rephlex had a habit of putting out releases powerful, coming from nowhere, unexpected and under different aliases. So when the EP was first not arty-farty. Pure sonic magic. It blew my mind. re-released, in 2004, some people assumed it was I started to think the possibilities were infinite.” a front for Aphex Twin or Luke Vibert. This was despite the press release stating that the EP was HINTERLAND “originally released on Out Records in 1978”. But As the 1970s progressed, France became a the fuse had been lit, and Black Devil Disco Club fertile ground for electronic music, with acts had returned as an artist, whether Fevre knew it such as Jean-Michel Jarre and Space scoring or not. international chart hits. But a vast majority Not surprisingly, remix requests started flowing of French electronic musicians, such as Jean- in — some from fans who were now leading music Jacques Birgé, Bernard Szajner and Kas Product, producers in their own right. Demand for his were often operating in a musical hinterland. releases had long outstripped availability, and Fevre was amongst this influential but frequently other re-releases also appeared. Alongside the overlooked group of pioneers. But, with his ‘Disco Club EP’ (1978), three of his library music records still being considered too experimental, LPs — ‘Suspense’ (1975), ‘Cosmos 2043’ (1977) he decided to put this aspect of his career on hold and the ‘Strange World Of Bernard Fevre’ (1977) in the early ’80s — abandoning an LP’s-worth of — were re-released. And a fourth album of his unreleased material in the process. unreleased material, produced between 1976 and Ironically, his decision to dump his Black Devil 1977, is now being released as Orbit Ceremony, on persona coincided with the first real boom in Lo Recordings, this month. djmag.com djmag.com 025

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MOBY, THE JESUS OF RAVE, has written his first book, Porcelain. Spanning 1989-1999, it’s a DJ-biog of epic proportions, spilling the beans on why his heart feels this way. It’s full of vegans, strippers and a heap of ace pictures of him in wigs. Published by Faber & Faber, Porcelain tells a story of New York, when it was still a place where art could happen for anyone. It also pays tribute to the UK’s part in his music career. DJ Mag scooped the low-down on where he’s at with sex, drugs, rock & roll, techno, death metal, religion and veganism... as his, that was a start. If someone is gonna be What’s the album disingenuous they should at least do it in a really like? Have you read The Bible lately, and where are you entertaining way — be it Bowie in The Man Who “I don’t expect with Christ? Fell To Earth, or as Ziggy, if you’re gonna create anyone to play it — “I haven’t — the last time was 1991 and 1992. The a character, make it interesting. Not just a more there’s not a single DJ on the planet that could ever universe seems to be 15 billion years old, so it would beautiful, better behaved version of yourself.” play it. It’s superfast, electronic, but much more be the height of presumptuousness, as someone British 1979 post-punk... it’s not got a title yet.” who’s been around for four decades, to go there. I That’s very appropriate to our social media era. Do don’t know anything, or enough about the universe, you want to do more writing? And you gave up New York for LA... to know who made it. The teachings of love and “Yeah, I’ve been trying to write some fiction... I’m “New York — I got sober, and it’s paradise if you’re forgiveness in The Bible are good stories — every also trying to do 1999-2009, but my story there is drunk, but it’s not such a great place to be sober, spiritual path has something of the divine in it — and fairly clichéd. I found a lot of fame, did a lot of drugs, and I was walking in February by the park with the in the past few thousand years there have been so became a narcissist. So many people have already wind and rain in my face and it was cold and grim, many people fighting to their deaths for the rights written that. Gotta do that in a way that doesn’t seem kinda like how London gets, and this voice whispered of who’s the right god versus the wrong god, I don’t like I’m one of the guys in Guns N Roses…” ‘There are places that aren’t like this’, so I decided to ever want to get in an argument about that…” go to a place I could go hiking, with good weather, Slash’s book is good, though! So it went even more and there’s still a creative community.” The book is super rock & roll — you remember mental after? the strippers’ names, the use of speech clearly “Yeah. A friend of mine was saying that the first book Did you ever meet Bowie again? descends from your ol’ Herman Melville is like 20th century Dickens, not that I’m comparing “In 2000 he moved across the street, we became connections [the Moby Dick author is reportedly a my writing to his, but it’s kind of ‘innocent guy goes friends, went on tour, we ate together, made music, distant relative], but 1989-1999 is pretty blurry? to the city’, and the second book, if I’m able to write had BBQs, waved at each other from our rooftops — “I think I remember everything, but given the it, is more like DMT meets a 12-step programme…” I’m tempted to write a book on that.” fallibility of memory it’s possible I’m delusional. Even through the drinking and drug years, I remember it Where are you at now? Sounds great. In the book, you explain your all, but I might be remembering things badly.” “I’ve become a complete California cliché. I’m sober, confidence in being so righteous is a trait you I’m a vegan, I go hiking, but, especially being a carried through Christianity, and your approach to How long did it take? 50-year-old man, if I was trying to pick up girls, taking down the music scene. Where do you think “A year and a half writing, and six months of drunk in a bar — it’s kinda tragic still doing that. One that comes from? editing. I was dreading the editing part, but it reason I’m sober is self-preservation, but also not “There’s something kinda liberating about not being became compulsive. Because I’d never done it before, hitting on people old enough to be your daughter…” concerned, there’s something cool about not caring I didn’t know if I could. But I started to explore it, whether people think you’re cool or look good. and through reading biographies and memoirs, I felt What projects are you working on? There’s enough disingenuous culture.” if I could hold up each chapter as a bar story then “I own a vegan restaurant in LA, Little Pine, and that was a good start.” that’s kinda demanding. It may be a bad thing, but I So are the days of you doing drugs with strippers don’t make decisions on my career. It’s about making and sex workers over? What did you get from that research? music, and not caring. “If you’re a member of AA in LA, you meet strippers “Memoirs can be self-involved to the point where the “I will do everything in my power to avoid touring. drinking ‘erbal tea. The worst I do is three episodes of reader is expected to be inherently fascinated in the I’m doing an album for October — the entire tour is Game Of Thrones.” narcissism of the writer. I worked on the assumption going to be two shows in LA, and the FYF Festival, that they weren’t interested in me.” because it’s a 10-minute drive from my house and is But Moby, these rumours of AA sex orgies? run by friends. It drives my manager wild; I’m eating “I’m sure they happen — I’ve never heard of one The self-depreciating style you have is mixed with corn-on-the-cob at home and get offered Ibiza directly or been invited. There’s rumoured to be some wayward confidence. What are your fave memoirs? residencies and Vegas. I’ve done Vegas, and played sex cult parts of AA, and people that join 12-step “The one I was most inspired by was The Journals the big festivals, and I love interesting dance culture, programmes aren’t the best adjusted people. I just Of John Cheever; posthumously published, they’re but DJing for a bunch of people doing bottle service? hope people don’t get any more hurt. Honestly, I’m so beautifully aware, uncomfortably honest. If I I don’t want that in my adult life. I’d rather play in my just slighted to not be invited…” could get anywhere near doing a memoir as honest friend’s living room.”

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CULT OF PERSONALITY BJÖRK TALK BJÖRK, queen of electronica, is at the

forefront of the digital Pic: SANTIAGO FELIPE zeitgeist — always. This month, and running until 23rd October, visitors to Somerset House will be able to join her in virtual reality, witnessing Black Lake, the commission from New York’s MOMA directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. It’s also a chance to see inside her mouth, the Aphex Twin-esque piece by Jesse Kanda, and experience her as a giant moth with THE HUMOUR OF ERIK STEIN, singer of S.Y.P.H. ‘Ping Pong und Die Weisse Frau’ masks by artist James abstract romantic synth-duo Cult With Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band Merry. Retrospective work No Name (CWNN), is as dry as a desert, ‘Tropical Hot Dog Night’ features collaborations and his sound takes you to a Hockney Drywall ‘Bel-Air Blues’ with fashion god Nick poolside with Cabaret Voltaire hanging Suicide ‘Dominic Christ’ Knight, and a cool pack around on loungers. Together with Tuxedomoon ‘What Use?’ of directors including Michel Gondry, Spike bandmate, Jon Boux, he’s scored the Gary Numan ‘Films’ Jonze and Stephane Sedanaoui. To tie-in she’s doing a one- soundtrack to Blue Velvet Revisited (out Fat White Family ‘Whitest Boy On The off UK show at the Albert Hall on 21st September, her only 16th October), a fi lm documenting the Beach’ date here since ‘Biophilia’ in 2013. making of the David Lynch classic. The Sparks ‘Angst In Your Pants’ album is available now and features a David Bowie ‘Dead Man Walking’ cast of underground informers... The Nits ‘Schwebebahn’ The Walker Bothers ‘Nite Flights’ FINE TIMES How did the Blue Velvet collaboration John Foxx & Louis Gordon ‘A Room As In Fine Style is a sumptuously come about? Big As A City’” produced book focussing on the ERIK: “So, sometime in 2013 an aesthetics of dancehall art by Wilfred unexpected package lands on my You read biogs a lot — your top fi ve? Limonious. Psychedelic, boisterous, doormat. It’s from my friend, the “I’m endlessly reading music biogs and phat cartoons leak all over the pages, German fi lmmaker, Peter Braatz. The reference books. I recently got a whole in the style that follows down to Major letter says something like, ‘Hey Erik, load of scanned ‘80s fanzines printed as Lazer now from its slack, dubby roots I was listening to one of your albums proper books. Heaven. Top fi ve biogs are: in Jamaica (the book was supported and it’s inspired me to edit a whole new No Such Thing As Silence by Kyle Gann by visitjamaica.com). movie set to Cult With No Name’s music, 45 by Bill Drummond It’s been lovingly created by Al based on all the unreleased footage and The Stranglers: Song By Song by Hugh ‘Fingers’ Newman, with a foreword photographs I shot with David Lynch on Cornwell and Jim Drury by reggae writer, Beth Lesser, who the set of Blue Velvet in 1985’. I think to Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic by discusses the preventative spread myself, ‘I probably don’t get packages John ‘Drumbo’ French of Jamaican comedy due to patois, like this every day’. I also think, ‘Help! Never Known Questions: Five Decades of it not being until the ‘80s that this Who else would be cool for this?!’ That The Residents by Ian Shirley” started to change through the led to us to inviting the suitably electro- spread of dancehall... Al ‘Fingers’ noir Tuxedomoon and John Foxx to also Fave lines of CWNN lyrics: Newman explained how it came participate. The resulting album, ‘Blue “Don’t get to do this often. From various about to DJ Mag: “I’m a DJ and Velvet Revisited’, is released in October different CWNN songs... graphic designer and I’ve collected records since I was very 2015, and gets really great reviews. “Once there was a man/At least that’s small, and I’ve always been fascinated by Limonious’ work, The fi lm takes a few months longer, what I’m told/Inside of a zipped up bag/ but there’s never been anything about him. In 2009, there but is worth the wait when David Lynch Wearing nothing but Schroedinger’s was this one blog by Christopher Bateman, who’d already himself selects it for his own Festival Of clothes… been to Jamaica to start documenting, and I contacted him Disruption, taking place in LA in October “Raise a glass to everything that ties you and he wasn’t getting my emails, then spoke to Beth Lesser, this year. The only other feature fi lm down or pulls your strings… and she said she’d get in touch — so Chris wrote it, I edited being shown is Lynch’s own The Elephant “Serving up breakfast but there’s still no it and designed it with Emery Dash, and we compiled it from Man, and Questlove and Jason Bentley eggs/Instead, they crack a smile… then to now. It was us, and it just grew and grew. Sadly he are DJing, amongst a host of music acts. “Sleaze/They tried to dress it up/But died in 1999, so we had Plenty of other festival appearances for they found out a fuck is still a fuck/Then, to speak to the producers the fi lm should follow, we hope.” as now…” who worked with him and his family — unfortunately What’s your ultimate mixtape? Which artists/painters/fi lms inspire we didn’t speak to him, but “Ultimately, I can never do ultimate. you: hopefully have done him Here’s one that people could conceivably “So artists would be John Stezaker, Kurt justice.” dance to, if not conceive to... Schwitters and Rene Magritte, and fi lms OMD ‘2nd Thought’ would be about any of these three.” ESG ‘UFO’ The Residents ‘Diskomo’ Anything else you wanna mention? Yello ‘The Evening’s Young’ “Cult With No Name have just fi nished Arthur Russell ‘Get Around To It’ recording album number eight. It’s a The Stranglers ‘Bear Cage (12 inch cracker, honest. Coming to an annoying version)’ pop-up advert or unsolicited email near The Art Of Noise ‘Beatbox’ you in early 2017.”

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