Jimmy Asquith founded the well-renowned label Lobster Theremin in 2013. Since then the label boss has established three imprints including; Mörk, Distant Hawaii and Tidy Bedroom, as well as a respected distribution service used widely within the electronic music scene, and a physical record shop based in Hackney, East London.
In December of 2012, North America’s oldest independent venue, Smart Bar announced the The Black Madonna as a new resident, along with Derrick Carter and Frankie Knuckles. Within a year, she became the club’s first ever Creative Director in its three decade history, bringing a decidedly anti-establishment philosophy to her curatorial style.
When it comes to house music there’s been something of a renaissance in New York City these past few years, and one of its main advocates is Levon Vincent. As a club- goer, he cut his teeth during the pre-Giuliani New York heyday, where a vibrant scene was helping to push the elegant sound that would become known as NY house forward – and Levon witnessed it all first-hand.
“Fiction and fact blurs as we cross the threshold with the 24-year-old musician, who’s catching the ear of Björk and Aphex Twin” – Read the whole article about the scottish producer Lanark Artefaxs Live-Show on DazedDigital here!
We can’t wait for Laurin Schafhausen, the head behind our soundsystem to heat up the PLUS Floor upcoming saturday! Read his interview with Groove Magazine here.
https://soundcloud.com/laurin-schafhausen/live-at-electronic-lounge-forum-bielefeld-11042015
“I think I play music in the best way I can when absorbing the energy that surrounds me. Obviously, the energy in a club at 5 am is different to the one when enjoying tracks while spacing out on my sofa in wintertime.
James Baldwin once wrote, “Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.” Embracing a diligent work ethic, a spiritual mindset & a self-taught mastery of dancefloor devastation using little more than a pair of turntables, Josh Wink has worked hard since 1990 to become one of the world’s most in demand purveyors of experimental, electronic, danceable music.
He´s the Techno punk, the wanderer between the worlds: Berlin DJ and producer Alex Ridha, better known as BOYS NOIZE, made his DJ debut at the age of 15, taking a teenager´s love of house and techno to a global scale.
Heart, emotion and passion instead of pure functionality – these are Tama Sumo’s DJ characteristics in a nutshell. She started out in 1993 at Drama bar in Berlin / Kreuzberg, one of the first bars to ever feature its own DJ at the weekend and an important hang out for the scene before going to the clubs.
“One night in April back in 2011, Roman Flügel was behind the decks at Horst Krzbrg, a now-defunct Berlin club. Standing over six feet tall, he was relaxed, moving from side to side while adjusting his headphones with one hand.
Daniel Miller is the founder of Mute, launched in 1978 with his own 7” single – ‘Warm Leatherette’ under the name The Normal.Since then, Mute has grown from Miller’s one-man operation into a global group of companies and today, as ever, Miller remains heavily focussed on Mute’s creative output.
FIT Siegel, otherwise known simply as FIT, has quietly risen to become a pillar of the Detroit underground. Siegel studied production under the tutelage of “Mad” Mike Banks at Submerge (aka the Underground Resistance HQ). His debut record “Tonite,” was released on Omar S’ FXHE label in 2012.