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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
2nyte.
tonight this happens. one hell of a party you do not want to miss.
head down early for beers and pizza. the ZOO hit the decks from 7-9.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
berghain gatekeeper.
AS a young punk rocker living in communist East Berlin, Sven Marquardt was forbidden by the police to show his face around Alexanderplatz or any other part of the central Mitte district intended as a showcase of socialism.
That same face, now heavily tattooed with winding vines, thorns and barbed wire, is one of the city’s most famous — and one of its unlikeliest symbols.
Mr. Marquardt is the doorman at Berghain, an abandoned thermal power station that is home to what many consider the greatest techno club in the world. Berghain is to electronic music fans in Germanywhat Bayreuth is to opera lovers, and Mr. Marquardt, 49, is the gatekeeper for the party that begins here Saturday nights and ends Monday mornings.
He was once among the most promising young photographers in East Berlin, and his life as East German artist, post-wall lost soul and present-day club celebrity traces the city’s arc over three decades. “In this time of upheaval, the mid-’90s, one somehow had to find oneself again,” Mr. Marquardt said.
No longer part of the counterculture, the city’s clubs have become a mainstream attraction in Berlin, drawing easyJet planeloads of young people from around Europe and beyond. Berghain, and Mr. Marquardt himself, are a major part of the draw.
Even the city’s tourism agency has trumpeted how at Berghain “people of all sexual orientations indulge in debauchery in the basement dark room,” but warned that “the face-tattooed bouncer, a bona fide local celebrity, commands what is reputed to be the hardest door in Berlin.”
Before his career as the Cerberus of Berlin nightlife, Mr. Marquardt exhibited his photographs in East German galleries and in fashion-magazine photo spreads. But not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he put down his camera for more than a decade, selling shoes during the day and dancing in the city’s semilegal underground clubs at night.
Now he is opening a second chapter in his photography career, having published two books in the past two years, in a return to the public eye that began with an exhibition of photos at the nightclub itself. “I think it was a good opening shot that the exhibition took place in the club that really embodies my life over many years,” Mr. Marquardt said.
His road to renown might have taken years to travel, but he never went far. Berghain is a short streetcar ride from the apprenticeship workshop on Rigaer Strasse here in the Friedrichshain neighborhood where he learned photography in the early 1980s. His style has not changed much either, with an exclusive focus on portraits and a visual language that he described as “very classic, analog, usually black and white and only with daylight.”
Mr. Marquardt was clearly exhausted after traveling to the former East German city of Halle last Friday to present his latest book and exhibit a selection of his photographs. He returned Saturday for his all-night shift at Berghain and was back in the club Monday as cleaners went through and workers took down an exhibition that included his large photograph of a couple costumed as satyrs, shot with prosthetics rather than digitally altered.
White streaks his beard and long hair now, but the grizzled quality adds to, rather than diminishes, the menacing edge to his appearance. In conversation, he is gentle and extremely thoughtful, protesting when told that his appearance had given a woman recurring nightmares.
Yet it could hardly come as such a surprise that he frightens some of the thousands of people who submit to his inspection at the club entrance each weekend. He wears a large metal skull ring on one hand, and one made of a mountain of tiny skulls on the other. His lower lip is pierced twice, and a pointed metal bar runs through his septum. His hands and throat are covered with tattoos, like his face, where if you look closely, a moth flutters among the thorns.
BORN in East Berlin the year after the Berlin Wall was built, Mr. Marquardt spent much of his childhood with his grandparents, who ran a bakery in Prenzlauer Berg. After his apprenticeship, he was mentored by a prominent but socially critical East German photographer, Helga Paris. With her son Robert, his best friend and also a photographer, he joined the punk scene, shaved the sides of his head and began wearing heavy black eye makeup.
This was more of a rebellion in East Germany than it might sound. To be labeled “asocial” was dangerous, and punks disappeared into the prisons of the Stasi, the East German secret police. “When I look back today at pictures from then, we looked so innocent in spite of our spiked-up hair,” Mr. Marquardt said.
He said he was picked up and taken to the police station numerous times, then let go because at least he had a job. But the prohibition from entering Mitte was a significant hurdle, with the artists’ association at Alexanderplatz and the fashion magazine Sibylle on Friedrichstrasse both downtown. He had to find back-alley paths or race from idling taxis to make it to his appointments.
But he was happy in the small underground scene, and chose not to stay in West Berlin when he received a coveted travel visa or leave after the wall fell, as most of his friends did. But his art fell victim to the overflow of change.
“At first I thought, ‘wow, I’ll have the freedom as a photographer to finally do everything that I couldn’t do before,’ ” Mr. Marquardt said. But he was not ready to work as an artist again.
“Friends said, ‘Oh God, poor Sven, he’s standing in a shoe store on Saturdays,’ but I didn’t see it that way,” Mr. Marquardt said. “I didn’t want to look backwards and mourn the time that was gone.”
Mr. Marquardt began in the ’90s to literally transform himself with tattoos. The first was a cross of thorns on his calf. He steeped himself in the techno culture of now-legendary clubs like E-Werk and Tresor.
His first job working the door at a club was for his brother Oliver, a D.J. He proved to have talent for picking partygoers who meshed well and didn’t start trouble, and he began working regularly, eventually ending up at the celebrated club Ostgut. That club was the forerunner of what became Berghain. After Ostgut closed, Mr. Marquardt thought he was done working as a doorman, but he felt the pull to return for this new enterprise in a remarkable space.
“It reminded me of a film set, something that unreal,” he said of the power station, and the soaring concrete ceilings of the former turbine hall in the postwar Stalinist building. With lights flashing, music blaring and dancers posing in their leather fetish gear, Berghain indeed has an otherworldly quality.
He does not like the term bouncer; curator would be more appropriate. He chooses an often surprising — those who are rejected say capricious — selection of people, old as well as young, eccentric as often as beautiful, helping to give the club its staying power.
IT was in 2007 that his exhibition at Berghain, with images based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film “In a Year With 13 Moons,” brought him back into the public eye as a photographer. His first book, published last year, was a retrospective of his works dating to 1984. The second volume, released in March, is called “Savior” and started as a project for the Levi’s jeans company. The growing public attention even landed him on a public television talk show this year, where several panelists indignantly grilled him over whether he would let them into Berghain.
Mr. Marquardt knows he cannot work the door forever, but he has no plans to stop, nor to take another break from photography. He is in the process of organizing an exhibition for next year in a space overlooking Alexanderplatz. He hopes to either hang or project giant photographs on the side of the building. If he pulls it off, the space once banned to him by the state would be watched over by his art.
source: RA
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
soul clap vs phil collins.
wow.
soul clap's HUGE edit of phil collins - sussudio
this epitomises amazingness.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
rebelrave.
love. love. love all the rebelrave vids, have a look at this wolf+lamb centric one.
Monday, August 15, 2011
visionquest.
If last year saw Seth Troxler go into overdrive, flying up Resident Advisor’s DJ rankings, a sharply focused look on the world of house and techno, then 2011 promises to belong to Visionquest, his DJ collective and accompanying label with fellow Detroit visionaries Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss andShaun Reeves, who you can read more about in the current issue of DJmag.
They’re also the latest additions to DJmag’s annual Miami residency at the Shelborne with a poolside party on Friday 25th March featuring Visionquest plus label mates Benoit & Sergio, Footprintz andTale Of Us and special guest Guy Gerber.
We caught up the boys to talk about their recent adventures in Berlin, the ethos behind their new, poppier sound, and THAT video from Miami last year…
For those who haven't yet seen Visionquest play, how do you actually perform as a foursome?
Seth: “Further on we’re developing a live show with interactive visuals for next year. I think the main point to a Visionquest show is creating an atmosphere where people feel comfortable enough to explore the situation as well as themselves.”
Ryan: “We’re also planning to incorporate more of our artists, like Footprintz and Beniot & Sergio, into our live and DJ sets to create a complete night of entertainment, both audio and visual, and most importantly to just have fun.”
The label so far has displayed a deeper, poppier sound than some might have expected of four lads from Detroit. Does this reflect the wider Visionquest sound or is it just the tip of the iceberg?
Seth: “I think the deeper, poppier sound reflect us very much, we’re not typical Detroit artists and have never claimed to be. I think the time period where were all grew up in Michigan reflects our interest musically. Growing up in the suburbs listening to a lot of rock as kids also had a very deep effect on us. When it came to starting a label I think we are less focused on putting out club tracks and much more interested in creating a label without bounds, wanting to create something that transcends underground music culture, with a crossover into art.”
Lee: “The label is not essentially a dance music label; the label is a vessel for us to release music that moves and inspires us and to broaden the scope of what people listen to. Everything we release will have something for the dance music enthusiast but it doesn't start or stop there. We have amazing releases lined up for the year that range from folk to synth pop to forward thinking house and techno. The four of us have been inspired by so many different styles of music that it just seems natural for us to release anything that moves us.”
And how was your recent label launch party in Berlin?
Ryan: “It was such a bomb night. Karm and Matteo (Tale of Us) started with a classy two hours of solid house music and Shaun, Seth and I finished out the rest of the night back to back. There was a great vibe with an amazing crowd that stayed late and Seth kept his clothes on! There were many friends on hand as well. It was a great label launch.”
Seth: “When we came on people were so open to ideas and that’s something that opens the rest of the evening up endless possibilities. Also there were loads of our friends there so it was a perfect way kick off the label.”
As well as artists from the label you've got Guy Gerber playing - what's his affiliation to the group?
Seth: “Guy is a great friend; we hang out a lot so having him play in Miami was an easy choice. The party vibe is going to be off the chain.”
Lee: “Ryan and I have previously released on his label Supplement Facts and I am working on more music with him this year. We all love and appreciate each other’s music and take any chance we can to play together.”
Ryan: “He's a fellow troublemaker, we see eye to eye on a lot of things...”
Seth, it's been a year since we interviewed you at Miami around the pool of the Shelbourne. After the YouTube clip's viral popularity are there any expectations about how it'll affect the reaction you'll get returning there?
Seth: “Ha, yeah I haven’t been able to live that one down. In the end I think it comes down to me not really give too much of a fuck. I think I give less of a fuck now than I did then. We’ve got some surprises up our sleeves. I don’t know if I feel a any pressure about my return but do I feel like I can pull off some heavy prank age.”
source: djmag
Friday, August 12, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Valle Zoo - Way Down EP
01. Way Down
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
July RA chart available
My first in a series of RA charts, more of a deep/disco flavour for this one.
Have a scope and see what you think :)
{enjoi}
Monday, July 18, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Jamie Jones mixes the next Fabric
Jamie Jones has mixed the next Fabric installment, due out in September.
Co-head of the Hot Creations label along with Lee Foss, Jones has seen his stock rise considerably over the past few years, garnering him the #6 slot in the RA DJ poll That's largely down to the pop-inflected house that Jones has begun to peddle more regularly. Fans can expect a large dose of that on Fabric 59, which sees Jones teaming with Foss as Hot Natured on two tracks and plenty of edits from Jones himself as well. Felix Da Housecat, Crazy P and Oppenheimer Analysis all feature as well, the latter of which no doubt adds an old school flavor to the mix.
Tracklist
01. Hot Natured feat. Ali Love & Kenny Glasgow - Time Intro
02. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Metronomy Mix)
03. James Teej - Don't Appear (Redux)
04. Coat Of Arms - Is This Something (Jones Fly Edit)
05. White Lions - DePalma
06. Karen Pollack - You Can't Touch Me (Murk Remix - Jones Fly Edit)
07. Cajmere feat. Jamie Principle - God Sent ('10)
08. Felix Da Housecat - Madame Hollywood
09. Waifs & Strays - Body Shiver
10. jennygoesdirty - Amoureux Solitaires
11. Hot Natured feat. Ali Love & Kenny Glasgow - Assimilation
12. Crazy P - Open For Service
13. Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost Mix)
14. Oppenheimer Analysis - The Devil's Dancers
15. Jamie Jones - The Lows
16. soho808 - Get Up Disco
17. Footprintz - Fear Of Numbers
Fabric will release Fabric 59 on September 12th, 2011.
*taken from RA
Monday, July 11, 2011
Get on it - Secret Society Perth
*Jake James
*Sammy Hallowell
*Tank Top
*Nathan Francis
*Damien Jay
*Zina
Sunday, July 10, 2011
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