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 9 hrs 43 mins ago / 1 CommentBarbara Preisinger and Daniel Bell are set to welcome Yossi Amoyal to their Deeperstill party this month.
Known for his minimal techno productions with Arnaud Le Texier, the Israel-born but London-based DJ has a hand in running both the Sushitech and Pariter labels. Club-goers should expect a set of deeper fare from Amoyal that's in keeping with the night's manifesto.
Bell and Preisinger's monthly party now takes place at Berlin's Privatclub, which is a cosy 200 capacity space in the Kreuzberg district. Both artists will join Amoyal on the bill, so the night will be an ideal opportunity to catch Daniel Bell playing in such intimate surroundings.  Jan 15 Deeperstill With Yossi Amoyal, Privatclub, Berlin 1 Comment 11 hrs 12 mins ago / 19 CommentsRecent RA podcaster and mix album poll winner Marcel Dettmann will be coming to New York later this week to DJ at Public Assembly's Friday night techno shindig, The Bunker.
The night, which has been a weekly staple of New York nightlife for five years, will be transitioning to monthly starting with the event—which also boasts Dial Records deep houser John Roberts in a supporting slot, performing a live set. As always, Bryan Kasenic and Derek Plaslaiko will play the role of residents and Eric Cloutier is also scheduled for a front-room slot for the party which promises to go until 6 AM—a full two hours longer than normal.
We caught up with one-half of the Bunker crew, Bryan Kasenic, in advance of the night to have him further explain why the night was slowing down to a monthly and to find out what's next.
How long have you been involved with The Bunker?
I got started with The Bunker in January, 2003. Mike Wolf and Timeblind threw a party for three years called Polar Bear Club on Friday nights at subTonic. When Mike decided to leave the party, Timeblind asked me to come on board, and we renamed the party The Bunker. I had always loved the subTonic space, frequently attending Polar Bear Club, Radical Anxiety Termination (later called Phonomena) and the Broklyn Beats Barreled nights.
Why did you get started with it in the first place?
I was doing a radio show on WNYU at the time, and throwing a weekly experimental ambient/downtempo party called Undercity at the original Halcyon space in Carroll Gardens. I was really frustrated with the radio format, as I was completely obsessed with the more interesting techno and house music coming out at the time (Perlon, Playhouse, etc), and desperately wanted to be playing at a regular DJ gig with a dance floor, not sitting alone in a radio station studio.
In the early years of The Bunker, it was not strictly a dance party, as we regularly brought in ambient, downtempo, IDM and different eclectic DJs and musicians, but I still had many opportunities to play dance music later in the night, and I was in heaven. So basically I started The Bunker because the opportunity to throw a weekly party on Friday nights at my favorite venue in the city kind of fell into my lap.
Why are you deciding to make the party a monthly?
There are many reasons for this. For one, I need to save more time and energy for other creative projects that should be seeing the light of day soon. Throwing a weekly party takes a tremendous amount of time and energy, and after six years, the weekly effort is really wearing me down.
Another reason is that the electronic dance music scene in NYC is a completely different, much more competitive beast in 2009 than it was when we started the party as a weekly in 2003. At that time, there were only a few parties, and everyone seemed to go to all of them. The Robots guys had started their weekly, Kevin McHugh occasionally threw a Micro Mini party, and of course, Tronic Treatment on Monday nights was a real staple and had been for years (massive respect to all three of these crews, by the way).
It really felt like NYC truly needed a weekly techno party, a place for the community to come together and celebrate the music we were all so excited about. Currently, there are so many promoters pushing this music in NYC, all fighting for the same very limited number of fans. I feel like right now the best thing I can do to contribute right now is to pool all of my resources and throw one incredible Bunker party a month.
So mainly, I feel that putting a lot more time, energy and promotion into one party each month will ensure that every Bunker is a can't miss experience that won't be taken for granted. Every lineup will be amazing, I'm bringing in a new sound system that will have to be heard to be believed, and we will be going to 6 AM instead of 4 AM. I want to make the party a lot better, and it's just too much to tackle on a weekly basis at this point.
Looking back, what was your favorite Bunker night of the past year?
In May of this year, Daniel Bell was working on getting together his live set of classic DBX material for a world tour, and needed a place to do a practice run in front of a crowd. He asked if he could do it at The Bunker, and of course I was honored. The set was mindblowing, and I think we were the only intimate venue on the planet that hosted it.
 Jan 09 The Bunker feat Marcel Dettma.., Public Assembly, New York 19 Comments   11 hrs 42 mins ago / 4 CommentsNext month sees the release of the second Round Black Ghosts compilation, which rounds up the best of last year's techno-friendly dubstep releases.
With Scuba's Sub.Stance club nights at Berghain and releases on Hessle Audio and Apple Pips being mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, it seems apparent that there is a growing connection between dubstep and the German capital. The Round Black Ghosts series serves to highlight this ongoing synergy, highlighting some of the best productions that have caught the ears of the A&R at Stefan Betke's ~scape label. Betke (aka Pole) has again compiled the release with help from fellow Berlin residents Barbara Preisinger and Tim Tetzner, who have all been championing this sound in their sets for the last couple of years.
Peverelist, Untold, Ramadanman and Martyn all contributed to the first Round Black Ghosts, and they appear again here. Kode9's propulsive remix of Badawi's "Den Of Drumz" marks his debut for the series, whilst Scuba, TRG and Kontext also contribute productions for the first time.
Tracklist
01. Peverelist & Appleblim - Circling
02. TRG - Ghetto Romance
03. Zed Bias - The Cauldron (Instrumental)
04. Scuba - Bleach
05. Pole - Alles Gute
06. Martyn - Vancouver
07. Ramadanman- Blimey
08. Untold - Yukon
09. Kode 9 vs. Badawi - Den Of Drumz
10. Martyn - Natural Selection (Flying Lotus' Cleanse mix)
11. Kontext - Blinkende Stjerne
~scape will release Round Black Ghosts Vol. 2 on February 13, 2009. 4 Comments 16 hrs 13 mins ago / Post a commentDubby house masters Swayzak will kick off the new year by looking backwards: The duo of James S. Taylor and David Brown are set to re-release their 1998 album Snowboarding in Argentina.
The album, which was put out in two different versions in the US and UK, has been edited and remastered by the boys to reflect the original vision for the album. That means that we lose tracks like "French Dub," "Skin Diving," "Cone," "Blocks" and gain "L.O.9.V.E." and "Evil Dub" in the process of hearing what went on in their bedrooms when they were busy spending their weekends with their "2MB Akai Sampler, Atari Computer, a cheap drum machine and a couple of analog synths"—as they tell it—in an effort to make a record that could allegedly fund their dream vacation, a snowboarding trek in Argentina.
Tracklist
01. Speedboat
02. Burma Heights
03. Low-Rez Skyline
04. Fukumachi
05. L.O.9.V.E.
06. Evil Dub
07. Bueno
Swayzak will re-release Snowboarding in Argentina on February 17, 2009. Post a comment  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 / 7 CommentsStephen Hitchell, one-half of the acclaimed duo Echospace, will go solo early next year under the name Intrusion with a full-length entitled The Seduction of Silence.
Hitchell has always been regarded as the dub lover of the two, and he is set to indulge that side of his musical personality here with vocals by Paul St. Hilaire on two of the album's nine tunes. The island vibe runs throughout Seduction even when vocals aren't present: "Montego Bay" reportedly is "packed with low-end punch, shuffle riddims and a rockers vibe," while "Tswana Dub" features "Augustus Pablo-style melodicas." Considering RA dropped a coveted 5/5 mark on the latter when it came out in August in 12-inch form, we're hoping that Hitchell can maintain that level of quality throughout.
Tracklist
01. Montego Bay
02. Angel Version (w/Paul St. Hilaire)
03. Tswana Dub
04. Intrusion Dub
05. Seduction
06. Reflection
07. Distant Twilight
08. A Night To Remember
09. Little Angel (w/Paul St. Hilaire)
Echospace will release Intrusion's The Seduction Of Silence on January 20, 2009. 7 Comments  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 / Post a commentSusanna, of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra fame, will continue to find her way sans the magic early next month when Rune Grammofon puts out her second full-length under her first name. The album is called Flower of Evil.
As has been the case with her biggest successes, Susanna will be primarily doing the covers thing with takes on Thin Lizzy, Prince and ABBA. We haven't heard the results, but we're guessing that they have once again been transformed into the haunting elegies that made her take on Dolly Parton's "Jolene" such a memorable track. As always, she'll be bringing Norwegian producer Deathprod, AKA Helge Sten, along for musical support. Sten, of course, has been responsible for the spare ambient backdrops that have colored in the spaces between Susanna's voice. This time, though, it looks as though Susanna has also brought a new friend along: Indie stalwart Bonnie "Prince" Billy duets with her on three of the 14 tracks.
Tracklist
01. Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy, w/ Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
02. Can't Shake Loose (Agnetha Faltskog, written Russ Ballad)
03. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Sandy Denny)
04. Vicious (Lou Reed)
05. Without You (Badfinger, w/ Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
06. Dance On (Prince)
07. Joy and Jubilee (Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
08. Janitor of Lunacy (Nico)
09. Changes (Black Sabbath)
10. Wild Is The Will (Original)
11. Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
12. Goodbye (Original)
13. Forever (Roy Harper)
14. Lay All Your Love On Me (ABBA)
Rune Grammofon will release Susanna's Flower of Evil on January 5, 2009. Post a comment  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 / Post a commentFresh off their healthy showing in RA's top labels of 2008 poll, Diynamic will kick off its weekly night at the Kunkun club in Hamburg in January.
The label is calling the shindig "Saturday I'm In Love," a nod to their recent compilation of the same name. But they'll mostly be bringing in artists that have not put out anything on the label. First up? Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts will bring his fiery live show to the 250 capacity venue on the 10th, with sets also promised by Smallville head Julius Steinhoff and Diynamic main man Solomun on that particular night, while future guests are set to include the likes of Lawrence, Jackmate, Miss Fitz, Motorcitysoul and Âme—further pushing the city's deep house credentials. Jan 10 Diy Club Opening Jan 17 Âme, Solomun Jan 24 Jackmate, Lawrence Post a comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 / 6 CommentsThe Whitest Boy Alive return next year with a fresh full-length, entitled Rules.
The group, headed up by Kings Of Convenience singer and DJ-Kicks compiler Erlend Øye, started out as an electronic project before the members decided to strip things back to purely live instrumentation. After previously releasing their own unique brand of melancholic funk on Kitsuné, Modular and Smalltown Supersound, the band have decided to put out their latest effort on their own fledgling Bubbles imprint.
The album will follow up their well received 2006 debut Dreams, and takes its title due to the fact that each and every track describes a different rule. No word yet if one of those rules is "make a hit single," but we do know that according to the band that this time around they've taken a more organic approach to recording, with all of the tracks being recorded live with no overdubs or additional effects.
Tracklist
01. Keep a Secret
02. Intentions
03. Courage
04. Timebomb
05. Rollercoaster Ride
06. High On The Heels
07. 1517
08. Gravity
09. Promise Less Or Do More
10. Dead End
11. Island
Bubbles Records will release Rules on March 3rd, 2009. 6 Comments  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 / 1 CommentAfter conquering China for Christmas, Simon Baker is going even further afield from his UK home for the New Year.
The DJ/producer will spending early January in between Sydney and Melbourne, playing on consecutive weekends to fans of his tech house stylings. Baker, of course, had a 2008 worth remembering with his track "Plastik" getting a Turkish rework from Todd Terje and a track of his own signed to Cocoon. That's why we expect the man to be in a celebratory mood once he hits Oz for his smattering of dates on the continent as he plays some of his upcoming tunes and favorites from other producers.  Jan 01 The Hot Barbeque, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne Jan 01 Official Hot Bbq After Party.., Roxanne Parlour, Melbourne Jan 01 Spice Afloat, Lady Rose, Sydney Jan 03 2009 Official Bake-Off feat Simon Bak.., The Cross, Sydney Jan 10 Simon Baker, LadyLux, Sydney 1 Comment
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