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Official and weekly updated podcast from zero'', a digital record store from Berlin and Vienna.
Contains free DJ-Mixes, City Reports, Interviews and features new music from artists like John Tejada, Flying Lotus, Luke Hess and labels like Warp Records, Tartelet Records, M-Plant.
Mostly covering Techno, House, Dubstep, Minimal, Experimental, Electronica, Modern Jazz, Alternative, Disco and Electro.
Find all tracklistings on http://zero-inch.com/blog/Podcasts
The Netherlands' west coast is like an island in time. Nowhere else is the memory of classic house, techno, electro, and disco more fondly treasured and kept alive, nowhere else do these classic dance music styles constantly serve as blueprints for new and exciting productions.
Paul du Lac is a prime protagonist of this movement. The Rotterdam based DJ and producer was recently signed to Clone Records for his enthusiastically received 'Kira / Bingo' and 'Blowback' singles, which featured rough and authentic house music - full of soul, timeless in their appreciation of the genre's past, yet perfectly compatible with modern day dance-floors.
Du Lac has recently started his own label, Data Leak, together with like-minded producer Bas roR. The imprint's first two releases, Data Leak's 'Data Drip' and Bas roR's 'Fixed Purpose' have featured input by veteran Dutch producers Syncom Data and Duplex, and impressively showcased the pair's passion for deep and dubbed-out Detroit-techno sounds.
Another co-production of the two is forthcoming on October 25. The 5-track EP 'Digital Curved Sky' appears under the artist name Relict and combines jacking Chicago house beats with deep house and techno flavours for a release we are very much looking forward to. For his zero" podcast Paul du Lac mixes his way through an inspired selection of contemporary house music. From North America's finest underground producers of the moment, such as Basic Soul Unit, Nebraska, Rick Wilhite & Kyle Hall, to London's Actress and Dresden's hotly tipped newcomer Cuthead, his mix is an exciting journey through the many faces and places of soulful machine music.
Further thrown in for good measure are a number of classics not only the old-school heads will enjoy. With tracks from Jamie Principle, Moodymann, Unit Moebius, and Anthony 'Shake' Shakir, Paul du Lac unites house music's past, present, and future in his one-hour mix. [ More ]
Robots in the house! This week's podcast comes from one of our favourite artists at the moment, Robot Koch, whose production skills have recently led his Jahcoozi project to fame via Ellen Allien's Bpitch Control label.
His prolific solo work, such as his latest 'Listen To Them Fade' EP, has further provided us with some of the most memorable broken beat creations that have met our ears in recent months. We might also add that Robot Koch is widely known as one of the most genial synthetic beings in the entire music industry - when there are no lasers shooting out of his eyes, that is!
Whether you call it Barefoot, Berlin Bass, or experimental breaks - Robot Koch's music plays in a league of its own, fusing contemporary hip-hop, downbeat and dubstep styles. Equally capable of creating all-out party tunes and hauntingly beautiful breakbeat collages, Robot Koch has launched his own label in 2009, Robots Don't Sleep, which is dedicated to his solo output.
He further records for Berlin's hip-hop imprint Project Mooncircle, which will release Robot Koch's new album, 'Songs For Trees And Cyborgs', this Friday.For his zero" podcast Robot Koch has assembled some of the most advanced broken beat tunes past and present, from all-time faves like Prefuse 73 and Dabrye to current hot-shots like Mount Kimbie, Lorn, and Tokimonsta. In true laptop wiz fashion he's also including some more offbeat treats in his whopping 25 track-strong selection, such as Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen's soulful 'Selfish Gene' and the classic 'All Is Loneliness' by Moondog, who has surprisingly become the most frequently featured artist in the zero" podcasts so far! [ More ]
Fifteen million million people make Los Angeles one of the most culturally diverse places on the planet. We talk to three of LA's most prominent electronic music artists, Santiago Salazar, Silent Servant and John Tejada, who share their insights on the ever-changing City Of Angels.
Over its 200-year history Los Angeles has transformed from a small pueblo into a multi-cultural urban sprawl, a melting pot of Hispanic, Asian, and European influences. Known as the 'entertainment capital of the world' for its accumulation of film studios, radio stations, and record company headquarters, the city's music scenes are as diverse as its inhabitants.
From gangster rap and hardcore punk to the city's famous Hispanic Morrissey fans - fervent admirers of every conceivable musical genre and niche can be found in Los Angeles. With seemingly every second rock band of the planet hailing from LA, the Californian megalopolis is first and foremost a rock music city. The West Coast hip-hop sounds pioneered by N.W.A. and Dr. Dre come in a close second though, and electronic music has been gaining ground over the past decade as well, establishing lively scenes for house music, techno, electronica, and various hybrid forms of dubstep and experimental hip-hop.For this week's City Focus on Los Angeles we talk to three producers who have had a major influence on electronic music emanating from California: Santiago Salazar is well known as a member of Underground Resistance, Los Hermanos and Ican, and has recently set up a fresh label, Historiy y Violencia, together with John Mendez a.k.a. Silent Servant, our second guest, whose forward-thinking productions have recently invigorated the dub techno genre via labels such as Sandwell District.
We have further visited LA's tech-house pioneer John Tejada, whose prolific production work has graced the world's finest club music labels since the mid-1990s, and who has been running his own imprint, Palette Recordings, for just as long. Tejada is also one half of I'm Not A Gun, the acclaimed avant-rock/ambient project with guitarist Takeshi Nishimoto, whose fifth album, 'Solace', has just been released on City Centre Offices.
The zero" City Focus podcasts are created by Sebastian Schlachter-Delgado, one of Austria's best known music radio journalists and one of the people behind FM4's popular Friday night electronic music show 'La Boum Deluxe'. Schlachter-Delgado is further part of Vienna's electro-pop group Twinnie and has recently started his own label Kinderkreuzzug.
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Little more than a year has passed since the first Keinemusik record landed on our doorstep and first alerted us to the freshly founded Berlin-based collective. Seven releases later and Keinemusik has by far surpassed our expectations, having become one of the city's most consistent and increasingly prominent imprints for contemporary house music.
The productions and DJ sets of Keinemusik members &Me, Rampa, Adam Port, and David Mayer follow a recipe that is as easy to formulate as it is hard to execute: Combining the functionality and punch of minimal techno with uplifting and soulful house music vibes.
The label's hits like &Me's 'F.I.R' or David Mayer's recent 'Crime' perfectly showcase this approach with distinct vocals - one of the label's musical trademarks - and impressive breakdowns, which have made the tracks favourites with DJs like DJ T., Dan Curtin, Ralph Lawson, and big-time Keinemusik supporters and occasional contributors, Tiefschwarz.
Add to this the label's lovely and highly unique watercolour artwork, produced by Berlin-based artist and illustrator Monja Gentschow, and it's easy to understand the immediate appeal of Keinemusik's releases. This week's podcast has been mixed by two of the main guys behind Keinemusik, Rampa and David Mayer, who take turns at presenting the freshest tracks from their record bag. Recent productions by their close friends, like Re.You, Santé, and Tiefschwarz, take prominent spots, while additional dance-floor bombs are supplied by the likes of Simon Baker, Cesare vs. Disorder, and Little Fritter. [ More ]
August 2010 has turned into a tiny speck in our rear-view mirror, and an autumnal breeze reminds us that a busy September beckons ahead. Time to savour the highlights of the past month in our one-hour Crew Picks podcast! For our Crew Picks each member of our team selects his five favourite tracks of the past month. One of us then applies his best mixing and editing skills to fit as many of these tracks as possible into a one hour mix - not an easy task but one that should guarantee a nicely varied selection of great music. This time around the mixing part has been done by Ike, our label relations manager and acclaimed dubstep producer going by the name of Ike Release.
This month's Crew Picks selection leans noticeably towards the dubstep side of things, featuring the likes of Kode9, Cooly G, SBTRKT remixing Modeselektor, and Kassem Mosse's brilliant contribution to Instra:mental's Nonplus label.
Fans of house and techno should dig this too however, with Arto Mwambe, Ed Davenport and Conforce each having a track in the mix as well. To keep things interesting there's also plenty of music in there which defies easy categorisation, starting with Ostgut's Shed and ending with our newcomer of the month, Balam Acab. [ More ]
What does denoised noise sound like? Richard Eigner's album 'Denoising Field Recordings' does just that - remove the noise from recordings of train stations, church bells, and public spaces, until only abstractions of the original sounds remain.
It is an approach which stands for Eigner's open-minded inventiveness, something that has made the young Linz-based producer one of the most interesting artists in Austria's music scene. The trained session drummer has already worked with artists like Patrick Wolf, Patrick Pulsinger, and Flying Lotus on his 'Cosmogramma' album, and entertains a number of his own projects just as diverse.
Besides running the Wald Entertainment label, Eigner is part of Ritornell, a two-piece electro-acoustic jazz band comprised of him and pianist Roman Gerold, which debuted with the album 'Golden Solitude' via Berlin's Karaoke Kalk imprint last year. The duo's fusion of glitch electronica and film noir jazz vibes has been met with wide-spread acclaim, and work on a second album will commence in September.
Currently Eigner is busy setting up the sound art exhibition 'Expedition Sonar' together with Karin Fisslthaler (fellow Austrian musician Cherry Sunkist), which will open in Linz's Lentos Museum this Friday, August 27. For this week's podcast Richard Eigner supplies a moody trip through the sonic world of Ritornell. The mix starts out with Matthew Dear's 'Honey', off his brand-new 'Black City' album, and glides through pieces by Pantha Du Prince, Alva Noto, Vladislav Delay, ISAN, Lali Puna, and Ø. Exquisite ambient electronica for endless summer evenings. [ More ]
Guy Gerber and Dor are our two illustrious guests in this week's edition of our City Focus, but as always the real star of the show is the city they are from: Tel Aviv.
Israel's seaside metropolis is known as a 'city that never sleeps', its famous beaches and bustling nightlife attracting 1.5 million visitors each year. It comes as little surprise that most electronic music from Tel Aviv is both an expression of the city's modernity and its perpetual sunshine. Artists like Chaim and Shlomi Aber have achieved worldwide success by combining contemporary minimal techno with light-hearted pop music influences in their highly regarded production work.
Shlomi Aber's label, Be As One, serves as a home base for many local artists such as Gel Abril and Itamar Sagi. Influences of Detroit techno and house can further be found in the idiosyncratic productions of Yoav B, who crafts a unique sound on his releases for Delsin, and whose work we give special attention to in this podcast.
Our first guest to share his insight on his home town this week is Guy Gerber, possibly Tel Aviv's most widely recognised techno artist. Active as a producer since 2002, his track 'This is Balagan' became a dancefloor anthem in 2006 via the mighty Cocoon imprint, and Gerber has gone from strength to strength ever since. His labels Supplement Facts and Supplemental are highly productive outlets for the music of both Israeli and international artists.
Our second guest this week is Dor, for many years promoter of Tel Aviv's 'Cheap Friday' nights, which brought many German artists like Efdemin, Carsten Jost, and Pantha Du Prince to Israeli shores for the first time. Since 2008 Dor has been living in Berlin, where he has been curating Dial Records' house-focused sub-label, Laid.
The zero" City Focus podcasts are created by Sebastian Schlachter-Delgado, one of Austria's best known music radio journalists and one of the people behind FM4's popular Friday night electronic music show 'La Boum Deluxe'. Schlachter-Delgado is further part of Vienna's electro-pop group Twinnie and has recently started his own label Kinderkreuzzug.
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On the occasion of next week's Pomelo party, hosted by Killekill in Berlin's infamous Berghain Kantine, label head honcho Lodig a.k.a Lok44 steps up to drop a hot and heavy contribution to our podcast-series.
Starting to DJ in the early 90ies, Daniel Lodig soon became one of the driving forces of Vienna's emerging techno-scene, making a name for himself thanks to his exceptional DJ skills. Throughout his career, Daniel Lodig released records for New York's Tension Records, Munich's Kurbel label and of course on his very own Pomelo imprint, which has been going strong for more than 17 years now.
For Podcast #008, Lodig deftly navigates through an impeccable selection of mostly dancefloor material - some classic, some destined-to-be classic. Beginning from the hazy depths of cuts by Actress, Urban Tribe and Madteo, into the raw, punishing back-to-back onslaught of Drexciya, Marcel Dettmann, and Alex Cortex, Lodig displays a technical ability and a rich sense of history cultivated from his nearly 2 decade-long dedication to this music.[ More ]
With a hot and busy month of July behind us, it is once again time for our zero" crew picks.
For our crew picks each member of our team selects his five favourite tracks of the past month. One of us then applies his best mixing and editing skills to fit as many of these tracks as possible into a one hour mix - not an easy task but one that should guarantee a nicely varied selection of great music.
This time around mixing duties have been taken over by our store manager Philipp, a gifted DJ and producer of exquisite house music tunes in his secret second life. Unsurprisingly his mix therefore leans towards the house music side of things. Highlights include must-have new tracks by Âme, Soul Clap and Kris Wadsworth, while diversity is ensured by Peverelist's new single and Shakleton's brilliant revamp of Moderat's 'Rusty Nails', which has finally seen a proper digital release this month.
Fresh new talent is featured with tracks by live techno-jazz crew Brandt Brauer Frick and Swedish shooting star MRSK, but the old school is done justice as well with Mood II Swing and the classic 'Let Your Body Talk' by Ace & The Sandman (a.k.a. Virgo) as a lovely closing track. [ More ]
Hugo Capablanca is one of the busiest names in Berlin's crowded party scene. Hailing from a small village in Spain, Capablanca set up shop in the German capital six years ago, charming the city with both his intimate knowledge of rare 70s disco music and his insatiable taste for partying in style.
He took up a residency in Berlin's legendary Rio club, where he hosted his own 'Cash Money' nights. Since Rio's closure in late 2007, Capablanca brought his vintage record collection to countless venues in Berlin and abroad. His 'Tausendisco' nights have become a favourite with the Berlin in-crowd, attracting guest-DJs like Optimo, Todd Terje, and many others.
In 2008 Capablanca started his own label, Discos Capablanca. Its debut release, 'Jungle' by Grackle, a.k.a. New York's Speculator, included a remix by Düsseldorf's elusive Unit 4 and became a big favourite for neo-disco fans. On the label's second release, he brought together Whirlpool Productions' Eric D. Clark and Chicago's DJ Traxx for 'In A Daze', a classic slice of jazz-inspired acid-house.
Hugo Capablanca's latest project is Los Massieras, dedicated to the art of editing vintage underground disco with his partner in crime, David Ducaruge of Sex in Dallas. Their first EP, 'Boogity Boogity Boogity', released with a lovingly animated video, received rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork. Its follow-up 'Better than Italians' just hit the stores and continues the duo's exploration of 70s experimental rock and disco crossover sounds. Despite the good-times-guarantee of his parties and DJ sets, it would be a grave mistake to file Hugo Capablanca as yet another run-of-the-mill retro-hit DJ. In fact he is quite the opposite: A passionate crate digger and disciple of the artistic and free-spirited musical vision of people like Arthur Russel and Walter Gibbons.
His podcast for zero" is consequently no party set, but an inspired collection of rare musical gems, old and new. The musical journey leads from the neo-cosmic disco of Maxxi & Zeus, over spaced-out jazz by Moondog or the Moritz von Oswald Trio to the sparkling synth sounds of Oneohtrix Point Never, offering plenty of new music to discover for all but the most knowledgeable listeners. [ More ]
Copenhagen's electronic music scene has been on a steady rise over the past decade. Conveniently located half-way between Norway's neo-disco hot-spot Oslo and the German techno capital Berlin, Copenhagen has been drawing on influences from both of these cities.
Add to this one of Europe's largest rock music festivals, taking place every year in nearby Roskilde, and what you get is a perfectly diverse music scene. Take artists like Tomas Barfod or Trentemøller: the former responsible for both disco-punk outfit WhoMadeWho and techno label Tartelet, the latter equally famous for his dancefloor bombs and post-rock songs.
The diversity doesn't stop here. Acts like Efterklang or Dub Tractor combine acoustic instruments with electronica, offering unique takes on experimental indie pop. Artists such as Mikkel Metal and Resoe uphold the grand tradition of cold and spacious dub-techno, and when a young producer of minimal house like James Braun drops a pristine dubstep track on a release called 'Oi World This is Copenhagen', it's a perfect testament to the city's open-minded musical climate. For our City Focus on the Danish capital, we talk to two key figures of its electronic music scene: Martin Swanstein, better known as Martinez - certainly the city's most prolific producer of house music. His well over 40 releases have graced a wealth of international labels, and his acclaimed new album 'The Paradigm Shift' has just been released via Moon Harbour. Our second guest this week is Kenneth Christiansen, owner of the renowned Echocord label family, one of the people behind Copenhagen's most famous techno club, Culture Box, and part of dub-techno production outfit Pattern Repeat.
The zero" City Focus podcasts are created by Sebastian Schlachter-Delgado, one of Austria's best known music radio journalists and one of the people behind FM4's popular Friday night electronic music show 'La Boum Deluxe'. Schlachter-Delgado is further part of Vienna's electro-pop group Twinnie and has recently started his own label Kinderkreuzzug.
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Manager of the mighty Shitkatapult label, DJ, promoter, and producer of extraordinary electronic music - Daniel Meteo is a man of many vocations, all of which he follows with the heart and passion of a true music lover.
Daniel Meteo hails from the West German industrial town of Essen, but has been living in Berlin for the past 15 years, where he quickly became an integral part of the city's booming electronic music scene. In 2000 he founded his Meteosound imprint, dedicated to diverse explorations of electronic dub sounds. He further started the project Bus, together with Tom Thiel of legendary ambient outfit Sun Electric.
The fruitful collaboration yielded two albums for Pole's ~scape label, a perfect outlet for the pair's abstract hip-hop and downbeat productions. In 2006 Meteo released his debut solo-full length, 'Peruments', a dubbed out masterpiece, crossing over low-slung grooves with influences from deep house and minimal techno.
Hooking up with Apparat and T.Raumschmiere, Daniel Meteo united the three labels Shitkatapult, Musick and Meteosound under the umbrella of Random Noize Musick, for which he took over label management duties. This did not keep him from producing music however, and numerous EPs for Karaoke Kalk and Meteosound were followed by his acclaimed second album, 'Working Class', released on Shitkatapult at the end of 2009. With his zero" podcast, Daniel Meteo invites you to discover highlights and rare gems from the vast Random Noize Musick catalogue. His mix includes some of his own current productions of fragile dub-house, hints at jacking acid and techno, before taking it deep into dub territory with his and Thomas Fehlmann's adaptation of Sun Electric's 'Toninas', leading to the experimental soundscapes of T.Raumschmiere's Shrubbn!! project. Cool music for summer listening. [ More ]
The third edition of the zero" podcast series starts off another monthly category: the zero" Crew Picks.
From the insurmountable wealth of new releases every month, each member of our crew selects his five favourite tracks. One of the DJs and producers in our team then creates a mix from as many of these tracks as possible - quite a challenge considering the different musical tastes of our crew.
Each Crew Picks podcast should therefore provide a varied and worthwhile listening experience, as well as guide you to some new and undiscovered gems. Leaning towards dub-techno and deep house this time, our first Crew Picks podcast includes some of the definite highlights of recent weeks. It starts out with 'Cocoon Dark Dub', Moritz von Oswald's surprising contribution to Cocoon. From there it moves on to 'Oblique' by one of our favourite new producers, Mano Le Tough, continuing with Move D's brilliant new remix for Thomas Fehlmann and plenty more new tracks by the likes of Jimmy Edgar, A Made Up Sound, SIlent Servant, Robert Hood, and Nicolas Jaar.
Responsible for the mixing part this time around is Clara, who looks over marketing at zero" and records for Agoria's famous Infiné label going by the name of Clara Moto.[ More ]
For over 15 years Patrick Pulsinger has been doing things his own way. From free-jazz experiments to producing pop acts, Pulsinger has never been taking the easy route throughout his career. Neither has he made it easy for his fans to love all his diverse productions in equal measure, but entirely worthwhile for those broad-minded enough.
Pulsinger has started his career in the early 1990s, recording harsh abstract techno for labels like New York's influential, though short lived, Vortex Records and eventually for Cheap, the label he founded together with long-time partner Erdem Tunakan in 1993.
Just as a booming techno scene began to embrace harder and harder techno sounds, Pulsinger & Tunakan turned the dial in the opposite direction: Tracks like iO's 'Claire' and 'Libre', or the Pulsinger/Dorfmeister co-production 'Citylights Pt II' pioneered the fusion of jazz and techno, turning the heads of people far outside the techno scene, such as James Lavelle, who signed 'Claire' to his pioneering trip-hop label Mo' Wax.
The milestones of Pulsinger's career are almost too numerous to mention. His debut solo album 'Porno' from 1994 is certainly one of them, as is his free-jazz deconstruction 'Easy To Assemble. Hard To Take Apart' from 2002. Both these threads have been picked up again lately with the joint project of Pulsinger and bassist Werner Dafeldecker, dp-S, continuing the exploration of experimental jazz sounds and his latest solo album 'Impassive Skies' showcasing his continued love for cutting edge techno. As could be expected from a broad-minded music lover such as Patrick Pulsinger, his zero" exclusive mix shows off his eclectic and acquired taste. From the experimental sounds of Suicide's Martin Rev and electronica hot-shot Karsten Pflum to dubstep by Ital Tek and Ramadanman and Detroit techno by Arne Weinberg and Redshape, this is a highly accomplished and original selection.[ More ]
Our first podcast focuses on the ever diverse Cologne, which has been a centre for new and exciting trends in music ever since the 1950s. It was the city where Herbert Eimert started his 'Studio für Elektronische Musik' and was home to composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. In the early 90s, when electronic club music arrived in Germany, it fell on a very fertile ground in Cologne, making it known for its unique take on minimal techno, combining principles of electronic music with German folklore. The specific Cologne flavour of minimal was most prominently pioneered by Wolfgang Voigt (a.k.a Mike Ink) and his Kompakt, Profan and Studio 1 labels, along with producers and labels such as Mathias Schaffhaeuser and Trapez. It would however be short-sighted to reduce the 'Sound Of Cologne' to minimal techno alone - the brilliant deep house of Andy Vaz's Yore label also hails from Cologne, as do diverse indie-electronica projects like Mouse On Mars, Popnoname and Von Spar.In this inaugural issue of our podcast, Ralph Christoph, Music Embassador and the man behind the Cologne-based C/O Pop Festival, talks about the early days and the arrival of electronic music in Cologne. In addition, Andy Vaz gives us a great overview on the ever-changing face of Cologne's music scene and the city's atmosphere.
The zero" City Focus podcasts are created by Sebastian Schlachter-Delgado, one of Austria's best known music radio journalists and one of the people behind FM4's popular Friday night electronic music show 'La Boum Deluxe'. Schlachter-Delgado is further part of Vienna's electro-pop group Twinnie and has recently started his own label Kinderkreuzzug.
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