After some time without much productive output into your favorite music stores I am now proud to announce a new release: available from the 24th of May on Nice Try Records: Guess me. Listen to the preview, feedback always very welcome!
This Friday comes another edition of my audioasyl special guest series. I am very much looking forward to play with Nader, one of Zurichs first and finest. DJing since 1994 and playing live since 1998, Nader was one of the main figures of the well remembered Dachkantine. Today, he is mastering the skill of turning Traktor Pro into a real live act by mixing and matching four decks with unprecedented skill, also incorporating live looping and recording. Nader is also producing, releasing on labels such as Neustadtmusik, BuyYouSellMe, Empro Music and Muenchen. He has played in every club of Switzerland at least once, as well as in numerous locations all over Europe. His party labels in Zurich are a guarantee for a night out full of fun, funk and fancyness. Tune in this Friday, from nine to eleven!
Tomorrow it’s time again for another show on audioasyl.net, this time live from the birthday party of our beloved radio station itself. Yes, audioasyl.net has turned nine years some weeks ago! Listen to me and my special guest manuell maschinell from 21-23 and then join us later for the audioasyl clubnight at Friedas Büxe. As always, you will not regret it.
With me tomorrow is my friend Manuell. For almost two decades now, Manuell has been honing his musical skills with record players, mixers and less obvious instruments for music reproduction. While doing classic vinyl or tractor-based mixes as “manuell”, he also plays a more live-oriented set using controllers, drum computers and the other odd piece of equipment under the name “manuell maschinell”. In this configuration he explores what is possible with the means of modern technology, gaining distance from regular DJing and indulging in the possibilities of realtime sampling, looping, tinkering, layering and filtering, thereby creating his own plot lines or even his own music. Currently, Manuell is moderating the radio show Active Beats. Together with his guest artists he pumps out electronic music live into the ether over Winterthur and Berne as well as into the internet. Just recently he joined the the team around the legendary unicorn parties in Zurichs club Cabaret.
Tune in live tomorrow from 21 to 23 at audioasyl.net.
The recording from my session at Nice Try Record’s Ear&I opening session is now available on youtube. Really nice visuals and a busy man with a mask. Enjoy! The next stream takes place this thursday, with Mr. Kaizen and his tooth of wisdom, do not miss it!
Please note: due to some first-time-related technical difficulties the sound starts after a short time into the video.
By the way, a new liveset of mine is online at soundcloud. Enjoy!
Next Thursday there will be something special: Sarna from Nice Try Records is starting with a new event, serving you finest electronic music via the internet and also directly into your ear. There will be a broadcast to listen to and invitations for the more inclined. But I will let him speak for himself:
“Ear & I attempts to bring together as much different artforms as possible and stream it to your place at the time it’s happening. The concept is based on the performance of electronic music, flanked by a performance by a writer and / or a painter, actor, dancer, pantomimic, sculptor or a video-performance taking place at the same time. Both performances will be transmitted by several cameras and live directed by a video artist on the spot to make this become a true live streaming experience”
Masks in the design of my controller will be provided to hide the faces of that part of the audience that does not want to be streamed to the web. Therefore I will be playing, dancing and taking a drink at the bar, all at the same time. Great.
The whole thing will take place on the 8th of March, so tune in at www.nicetryrecords.ch and enjoy!
Tomorrow (yes, it’s Thursday already) there will be the next edition of my ongoing audioasyl special guest series. Experimental as they come, MRZ is next, a passionate performer with a predilection for the rough spot in the sweetness. MRZ alias Mority Wettstein is a multimedial talent: he has scored as musician, producer, programmer and visual artist. He just released his first album on Nice Try Records. Beside his solo dancefloor project MRZ, he is engaged in numerous projects especially in a experimental field. My favorite so far is the electronic orchestra compact flash (and Pro Helvetia likes it, too).
This time we will exchange the coziness of my studio with the exciting tingle of a new location in Zurich: MRZ’s and my performance will take place from 21h-23h at Freischützgasse 3, a promising new venue right next to the Kaserne. Later, Rino, Nader, Jestics, Knut, Dada and Die Perlen der Südsee will be rocking the place. Don’t miss it.
There is an interview about me and my controller now on youtube, courtesy of the Ableton User Group Zurich aka modul8tor. I give some insight into how my setup works and what I think is important when performing EDM live. The viedo is the first one in a new series of features, really looking forward to hear more of that and have some discussion on the stuff that we do.
Next Friday (aka not tomorrow) I will be performing solo again, to try out my new set. It made a first appearance at Cabaret last Saturday. I loved it, I hope you will like it, too. Some mellow grungyness included. As for the older sets with special guests, every one of them is now on soundcloud. Enjoy and give feedback!
P.S.: The button “Buy” is a bit misleading in the soundcloud player below, it actually links to flattr.com. So go on and buy us a … no, gin and tonic, please.
This month’s show on audioasyl.net will feature yet another guest, yet another one I am especially looking forward to. Dada has a background as a graduated piano player and music producer with a special interest in experimental and melodic minimalistic dancemusic. He is working strictly with a hardware-setup, which will be a nice contrast to my digital rig. He is an important activist in the Swiss electronic Jam-Scene, organising smaller and bigger Jam- Sessions in Zurichs most important Clubs. Also an active producer, Dada has released tracks on labels such as Nice Try Records and lala Music. Do check out his soundcloud page.
As a live act, Dada always fascinates me with his sets, wandering on that driving border between the well-received and the uh-am-I-ready-for-this. Never too shy to challenge his audience, but always present and always ready to get you lost in music.
