A collaboration from the Berlin residents will appear on the next Jurassic-themed Novel Sound 12”.
Marcel Dettmann brings his MDR label mates Answer Code Request and Anthony Parasole to fabric on March 7 and we have a double pass to the event plus a whole load of fabric CDs to give away.
The techno kingpin will release a double-vinyl collection of previously unreleased tracks in March.
The techno titans will contribute a track each alongside one from label owner Anthony Parasole on the label’s next 12″.
I’ve seen Dettmann play overtime to an empty club of 15 brave Australians (including bar staff) on a cold Thursday night in Adelaide. I’ve had him outlast me at Berghain, I’ve witnessed him power through 10-straight-hours of 130BPM techno with Ben Klock, and I just saw him play back-to-back with Luke Slater at this year’s Dekmantel Festival. If there’s a DJ I can trust to helm two turntables, some CDJs and a mixer, it’s Dettmann. With the future of the mix CD uncertain, it’s nice to know there are still DJs out there with the ability to rustle up excitement around the release of one. Fabric’s storied series has become the mix CDs main faculty, and Pangaea’s complete thrust into techno music and Move D’s housier edition have kept fabric’s tin packaging in production for another successful year.
We have two doubles passes to see Marcel Dettman play at Fabric on August 30 and copies of his fabric 77 mix to give away.
The 77th edition of Fabric’s long-running CD mix series will arrive in August.
Right now, does the world want another Marcel Dettmann album? It’s been three years since Dettmann’s affirming self titled LP landed on Ostgut Ton, so the thought, mention or moot of a follow up is a timely one. But this begs the question: will Dettmann II be a case of the difficult second album, and where can he go from here? When it comes to techno, there’s no one currently defining the genre as much as Dettmann. The famed DJ recently proved his music isn’t only limited to the dancefloor – or ambient interlude – by teaming up with Âme’s Frank Wiedeman to produce three operatic sound-scores for MASSE, a production the Berlin State Ballet ran in conjunction with Berghain.
The Berlin-based techno figureheads come to London’s Village Underground on August 10 – win a pair of tickets here.
The Berghain resident and Stroboscopic Artefacts boss are the next to contribute to Bleep’s techno series.
Amsterdam label Dekmantel has enjoyed a slow but steady ascent to recognition, but with just 11 releases in three years – excluding last year’s 5 part anniversary series – they prove that it is better to release music that you feel than feel you have to release music. Overseen by Thomas Martojo and Casper Tielrooij, the label’s rise has been assisted by the fact their informal roster is populated by producers who also perform for them at their events.
Marcel Dettmann serves up two remixes for Vakula’s Vedomir alias on Dekmantel.
Levon Vincent and Marcel Dettmann will be appearing at Fabric on Saturday March 9, and we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader.
Benjamin Damage will release his debut solo album, Heliosphere, in February 2013 on the Modeselektor-helmed 50 Weapons imprint.
Berghain figurehead Marcel Dettmann will return to Ostgut Ton with the Range EP, his first release on the Berlin club’s in-house imprint this year.
A second round of remixes of Luke Slater’s seminal “Function 4” release under the Planetary Assault Systems guise will feature Marcel Dettmann, Lucy and Shifted.
Last year we revealed that a distinguished list of techno producers had been commissioned to remix Mancunian producer Trus’me: now you can hear the results.
It is ironic that just as Marcel Dettmann appears to be branching out from the Ostgut stable, through his mix for Music Man and now this EP for 50 Weapons, he comes out his purest, most refined techno record yet. No one is suggesting that the Berghain resident has split with Ostgut or is neglecting his own MDR label, but it is an undeniable fact that no matter what he releases on, classic 90s techno influences form a key part of his musical DNA.
This is audible on “Duel”; functional yet subtle, it owes a debt to the loopy techno of the 90s, caught somewhere between Mills’s Purposemaker releases and the UK variant it spawned, as a dense, filtered groove rolls to a backdrop of tight claps and insistent riffing. This being a 2011 release, the tempo is slower than the records it is influenced by, with the drop in bpms lending “Duel” a mushier, groggier feeling.
“Deluge” on the other hand, is far closer to its source material. A wiry, squelchy serving of minimal techno, it recalls Dan Bell in pared back, 7th City mode, while its jarring, jack-knifing central riff is every bit as visceral as Robert Hood. Irrespective of where he’s putting out music, the purest sounds are at the core of each Dettmann track.
Richard Brophy
Fresh from a storming set at last weekend’s Amsterdam Dance Event, it has today been revealed that Berlin techno deity Marcel Dettmann will release an EP on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons imprint.