“I was always fascinated by the musical spirit of Detroit. During my teenage years, Model 500 was already one of my favourite outfits hailing from the motorcity and I remember the day when I came home with the Deep Space LP and listend to it in full for the first time as if it was yesterday.
Skee Mask’s second album just came out this week. It’s a beautiful trip through different moods and tempos with a very personal sound. Thank you Skee for this masterpiece and thank you all for the great support so far!
– Zenker Brothers
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This album is a foundational influence and inspiration for me. It was also one of the first records i ever bought, I remember that I found it at a flea market alongside my first Lenco turntable and listened to it hundreds of times in my adolescence.
At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a futuristic music which welded the more cosmic side of Parliament funk with rigid computer synth pop embodied by Kraftwerk, Atkins blurred his name behind aliases such as Cybotron, Model 500 and Infiniti, to release many classics of sublime Detroit techno.
Skee Mask’s endless search and fascination for fresh music channeled into his own vision of sound, drawing from techno, jungle, IDM and broken beat. Enjoy the ride through his second album, a detailed experimental universe of glitchy downtempo spheres and flourishing breakbeat soundscapes, interspersed with a delightful portion of jungle patterns and acid funk.
Avalon Emerson is from the desert. After cutting her teeth in San Francisco’s vibrant warehouse party scene, she currently lives in Berlin, while the music she produces still gets shaped by the dreamlike expanse and abstract textures of the Sonoran landscapes of Arizona.
With his self-titled debut album on Blackest Ever Black last year, Bristol-based DJ and producer Pessimist set an exclamation mark in both, the d&b and techno scene. Across ten ice-cold and avowedly futuristic tracks he seals his status as one of the most innovative producers at the moment, amalgamating exquisite monotone quality with deft rhythmical swerve.
Despite its overly high production quality, where every little bit of noice is placed at its perfect frequency/place this album has a very raw energy. It doesn’t try to be music for the dancefloor although it partly works very well at the right moment.
A true innovator in the pantheon of popular music, Kevin Saunderson recorded some of the most trailblazing techno to come out of the Motor City. His influence runs deep, through both adopted hometown of Detroit, and electronic music culture as a whole: as one of the Belleville Three, the high school trio which also includes Juan Atkins and Derrick May, he irreparably changed the face of electronic music; on his KMS imprint he put out a slew of genre-defining classics; and with Inner City, he gave it some of its most memorable tunes.
We’re excited to welcome World League with Chris Liebing and Steve Bug at Blitz this weekend. They will be joined by Munich house ambassador René Vaitl and our local heroes Glaskin.
Chris doesn’t need any introduction, being one of techno’s figureheads per se.
Shortly before Maceo Plex visits us at Blitz this week, Miami born artist delivered a formidable new mix for the fabric compilation series. Starting his career as a DJ in 1993 with house and Detroit techno, his present day style rather tends towards deep opaque bass lines and lush soundscapes.
Frameworks Festival established itself as platform for new musical positions on the border between structure and abstraction. It aims to offer artists from different European subcultures a space to pursue unconventional and innovative ways of independent music. We look forward to exploring the boundaries of pop and abstract music on our handcrafted VOID sound system for three days.