Plexiphonic
presents
”Electronic’s Disturbances”
Friday 13th February 2004
at Athanor Studio, Brussels
http://www.plexiphonic.com/electronicsdisturbances/
What is « Electronic’s Disturbances » ?
Concept
Electronic’s Disturbances is an electronic music event
which proposes lives acts and dj sets inspired by a concept of a party in
London at Fortress Studio: Scand on 15th august 2003.
There, I recognized in every lives acts and dj’s
sets a surprising variety of electronic’s influences like electronica,
braindance, electro, minimal techno, IDM, and ambient, in a homogeneous and
flowing atmosphere.
It’s this
musical diversity that I would like to present with Electronic’s Disturbances
here in Brussels, Belgium.
For this first event, I invite Multiplex, Andy
Jaggers, Peter Mangalore, Syncotronic, Miyu, Clumsy, and Nos Cauz. Visuals will
also be proposed to reveal the music. For this purpose, Rafaël & Ewo, Antonin De Bemels, Channel:Alpha,
and Olm.e will attempt the experience.
Venue
The venue,
the Athanor studio, is located in the urban center of Brussels. The style and decoration
will be particularly devoted to this kind of party, with a chilly ambience: a
black tunnel at the entrance with small lamps into it, red armchairs, sparkling
bubbles, fruits and sweets for free. All of them especially installed for this event. The particularity of
this place will encourage the contact between people and artists.
More info: http://www.studio-athanor.be/
Website
The
website of this event propose information included in this press folder and
much more (sounds samples, links…).
Check
soon http://www.plexiphonic.com/ for latest information.
Artists information
Music
Multiplex [UK] Live [Toytronic Records, Senton Recordings, Lomrecords]
Multiplex is
brothers Christian and Roland Dormon. Originally from suburban London, they
moved to a small English coastal fishing town in Sussex and made music
initially to offset the boredom. While some inspiration is drawn from the
London club scene, Christian and Roland now live in
Brighton, They note composers such as Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode,
early Human league, Warp records as musical influences.
Multiplex have
evolved to a place where the music is about creating beautiful melodic and
harmonic structures - it's about evoking a deeper feeling through sound. The
pair create their music through a collection of various eclectic musical toys
such as vintage/soft analog and digital synthesizers.
Releases by Multiplex can be found on the influential Toytronic label from London, UK, and on the new English labels Senton Recordings and Lom Records.
Andy Jaggers [UK] Dj [Pyramid
Transmission, Ai Records, Touchin Bass, Outside]
In 1996 Andy
became a music buyer for the now infamous IQ record store in central London.
The store soon became a Mecca for underground electronicia and established Andy
as one of the most respected Electro DJ’s in the capital. Two years later he
hooked up with the Outside Records contingent. These encounters helped secure
future DJ tours of America and established an artistic partnership which has
thrived ever since.
The 90’s bought their own unique underground parties and a residency at the
legendary Heart & Soul parties brought Andy into contact with the likes of
Mr.C and Plus One (now best known for his work with Plaid). 1995 saw Andy’s
first release under the guise of 3 Elements on his own Analogique label, which
subsequently ran until 1998, releasing Electro and soulful Techno.
In 1996 Andy became a music buyer for the now infamous IQ record store. The
store subsequently became a Mecca for underground electronica and established
Andy one of the most respected Electro DJ’s in the capital. Two years later he hooked up with the
Outside Records contingent and these encounters subsequently helped secured
future DJ tours and an artistic partnership which has lasted ever since. 1998
also saw Andy holding down a number of residencies at Technology, Sub Terrain,
Electric Kingdom and Arthrob, all at The End in London. He also organised
parties for IQ Records in an old theatre in London’s West End and promoted
several three day parties in a 17th century chateau in Normandy, France.
1999 saw the sad demise of IQ Records, so Andy decided to set up Pyramid - a
small Soho record shop dedicated to Electro, IDM and Electronica. The following
year saw the creation of the Pyramid Transmissions imprint with label partner
John Cranmer. The two soon started collaborating together on tracks and Andy
also began a long line of productions with Jeff Nagel and fellow Outside
artists.
Since 2000 Andy has held down DJ residences at Perverted Science, Wang and
Scand in London, The Lost Mine in Birmingham and UFO in Plymouth. His DJing has
also taken him further afield to Germany, France, Belgium and the USA, where
he’s played for the Electro Alliance in Miami, E.L.M. in California and Outside
in Charlotte.
On the production side, Andy has been busy releasing
tracks on labels such as District Six, Millennium, Outside, Remote Audio and
Pyramid Transmissions. Look out for future releases on Andrea Parker’s Touchin’
Bass label and forthcoming tracks on Wandering Soul. Also, expect to see plenty
more live performances by ADJ & Pathic in 2003.
More
info: http://www.pyramidtransmissions.com/
http://www.airecords.com/ http://www.andreaparker.info
Peter Mangalore
[UK] Dj [humanshield Record Company]
Disgraced
Aquarium Magnate, Peter Mangalore set up the Human Shield Record Company in
2003 with the profits from a frictionless vaseline-like drug substance from the
future that can be sucked off feathers. Noted by some to actually be 100 feet
tall, Mangalore has played in clubs and parties the world over. It has been
said that when playing records, onlookers have noticed the tendons actually
emerging from his flesh, enforcing crowds to actually breathe through every
orifice at once.
Peter Mangalore is a kind, patient person vowing to donate a percentage of
profits from the Human Shield Record Company (incorporating Mangalore Sugar
Cane Interests) to charity, supporting a race of children living under the
earths crust.
Current playlist involves records from labels such as Pigna, Créme, Over X,
Mental Groove, Ram's Horn, Satamile, Musik Krause, Red Antenna, Nu Groove and
Suction just to name a few. Copies of Human Shield 001 featuring Multiplex,
Legowelt and The Human Shield Sound Cystern members, Ali Renault and Tommy
Walker III are available from www.humanshield.co.uk. Also a Bi-Monthly
clubnight at Jax nightclub in London will be taking off in February following
the roaring success of the first party in December. Any questions, recipes or
hairdressing tips can be forwarded to nekrosalvation@hotmail.com
Syncotronic [BE] Live [aerobic Audio]
Syncotronic has been composing electronic music since he’s approximately 8
years old including of course some breaks necessary for his ears.
After
a release on K.K. Records in 1997, 2 maxis and one album , he reshaped
his sounds to make it more close to electronica, downtempo and braindance. Recently
on the compilation “Synatykal/konk” from new Brussels label “Aerobic Audio” (http://www.muzike.be/~aerobic/) he will present us the new side of his live
act.
Miyu [BE] Dj [boups.com]
Miyu has discovered electronic music in ´92 through
the Detroit and Chicago sounds. Fast, she prefered the chill out atmosphere and
began to buy her first vinyls. Her preferences go to artists like B12, Statis,
Black Dog, Autechre... felty rhythms and stabbing melodies. In 95 she
discovered electro and invites I.F. and Joost de Lijzer at the ex voto. She is
also interested in jungle and more particularly in roots sounds of Congo Natty.
She organizes free parties with boups kru and managed ‘le gazon' at cité
administrative in brussels. She is aslo involved in the boups.com internet
radio.
More
info: http://www.boups.com/ http://www.legazon.be/
http://www.miyu.be
Clumsy [BE] Dj [papigroove.org]
Clement
(aka clumsy clems, dj toe) is based in Bxl since sept 01 and he is not afraid
of any beatz : his mixes from hip-hop to electronica through drill'n'bass,
electro & braindance will demonstrate that he is not so clumsy as his name
would pretend.
clumsy
one of the two souls of the PAPiGROOVE RadioShow on Radio PANIK and got a second
radio show on the internet radio Boups.com : ANTIMYCOTICUM, each tuesday with
Kiol.
More
info: http://www.papigroove.org/
Nos Cauz [be] Dj & Live [unretz.be]
UNREzT.
n. [eng. anxiety, agitation, turmoil, disorder]
[1]
a Brussels based electronic collective originating from Namur
[2]
an uneasy or troubled condition
[3]
a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
[4]
the stirring up of public interest in a matter of controversy
[5]
the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action ; as the sea,
after a storm, is in agitation
[6]
a stirring up or arousing ; disturbance of tranquility ; disturbance of mind
that shows itself by physical excitement ; peturbation
NOS
CAUZ n. [wal. literally "our thing"]
[1]
a recreational organisation originating from Namur and operating all over
Belgium
[2]
one of the founding families of UNREzT.
[3]
the association of DJs St Waffles and the Brownies Factory and producer Xeno
Xeno
XENO
XENO n. [gre. literally "strange strange"]
[1]
a Walloon With Attitude
[2]
a New Beat DJ with residencies at the Borsalino, Kheops and Subway
[3]
a Greek emigrant
[4]
a Drum'n'Bass DJ, resident at the MUzICAL.UNREzT. nights
[5]
an Electronica producer with a forthcoming release on Thin Consolation
Visuals
Rafaël [sp] Vj [plexiphonic.com]
Rafaël
uses photography and video to express the things closest to him: his son, his
girlfriend, his Italian coffee-pot (even though he’s Spanish…).
In
achieving that, he doesn’t mind spending several hours behind his laptop, to
rework every image one by one with is favourite photographic software…
Variations of rhythm, photography experiments, Video and, above all, no sound.
Ewo [be]
Vj & promoter of “Electronic’s Disturbances” [plexiphonic.com]
More
info : http://www.plexiphonic.com/
Antonin De Bemels [be] Vj [unretz.be, Foton Records, Elf Cut]
Antonin is a belgian video and sound artist, born in
1975. Hestudied video art at erg (ecole de recherche graphique), in Brussels,
from 1993 to 1997. In 1998,
he met the american choreographer Bud Blumenthal. Together, they made a
series of three experimental dance videos, the scrub solos, and three dance
pieces incorporating video screenings as part of the choreography. He performs
too as a VJ during electronic music shows. As a sound artist, he made radio
pieces for the radiolab program in 2000, and he created original soundtracks
for some contemporary dance pieces, and for some of his own videos.
More
info: http://periactes.be/antonindb/
Channel :Alpha [UK]
Channel:alpha
is a visual art project, based in the Scottish town of Hamilton, formed in 2003
by designer / photographer Gerald Moore and musician Ian McKnight. Having
organised a successful series of parties by the name of
"Psychoacoustics" since the summer of 2000, the natural progression
was to produce visuals for these events and so channel:alpha was born.
Currently channel:alpha are visual artists in residence at Glasgow's finest
underground techno and electro club, Monox.
“alias
for a subjective view visual project. From my name, and from a camera near my
point of view in the city. A premiere
live experiment with these footage, this project connect the real world with
the one of dreams and memory.” Olivier meunier is an electronic artist,
responsible of the genoflex vj project, part of cimatics.com,and of
lecurie.be.tf artist group.
More
info: http://users.skynet.be/genoflex/
Graphism
Finish Your Meal! [BE]
Flyer
and poster are designed by Nicolas Saez from Finish your meal! (http://www.finishyourmeal.tk/). I have
discovered his talent when looking the design he made for the Panoptica
festival (http://www.panoptic.be/panoptica/).
The girl’s illustration of
“Electronic’s Disturbances” will
also be used to print t-shirts that will be sold at the party. To be complete,
Nicolas Saez is also involved in “Anorak” (http://www.anorak.tk/) electronica project with René Margraff
(alias ckid) .
Special
thanks to
Théo
and Joanna, Philpaint, Lio, Nicoctopus, Nikhoa, Magali, plic :-: ploc, Boups, Soby, Bruno,
Nicolas, Max & Ursula, Marc, Sandrine, Jonas, Olivier, Hyperkut, Genoflex,
Christophe, Céline & Jérome [Zelabo], Pierrot, Francine, Lonely Leno, Philippe, Ju, every
artists, and to all others persons who made it possible…