The industrial techno that Blawan and Pariah pump out as Karenn has an intrinsically physical nature to it. That's a result of both the analogue equipment the duo use to make music and of the setting in which it seems destined to be played at. Whether gully warehouse raves really still exist on a widespread level is rather inconsequential, but it's impossible to avoid that venue as the ideal place to hear Karenn play music. There are no bathrooms, security or ventilation in Karenn's world and we're all the better for it. The drugs your taking are probably bunk, but [...]
Om to uger gæster en af Englands mest interessante, elektroniske navne Culture Box i København. Boddika a.k.a. Alex Green spiller lørdag den 23. februar . Samtidig udgiver han her i februar en compilation på sit eget pladeselskab NonPlus+ med talenter som Four Tet , Pearson Sound , Martyn og Kassem Mosse . Jeg giver min varme anbefaling plus tanker om jord, kød og rå musik med på vejen. Boddika & Joy Orbison – Mercy (Baddika’s VIP) [...]
Poco a poco se van añadiendo nombres al cartel del Sónar, que empezamos adelantando aquí. Bien, este año, Sónar posiblemente sea el festival de los contrastes más bestias, no nos [....]
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2012 belonged to the British. Especially, two blokes who went through a rapid process of acknowledgement and respect around the world - Blawan and Pariah . This is not to shed less light on the others featured in this list, for 2012 offered such a curious mix of development of techno and house into different directions. Several artists belonging to a wide range of labels had releases which will undoubtedly transcend 2012 and echo on into the future. Some will already be known to most of those who read this, but there are a few [...]
ARTIST: Tensnake Estamos hablando del crack. 2012 no es que haya sido un año excesivamente prolífico para el genio Tensnake, pero sin duda ha tenido repercusión y algunas gotas que han [....]
Cada año empieza y se acaba con un largo número de novedades musicales. Cada vez más y cada vez es más clara la necesidad de un filtro. A veces ese [....]
Det er lidt tid siden, jeg har haft ren elektronisk musik på programmet. Senest skrev jeg om Rihanna , hvilket jo var en slags sjældenhed her på bloggen. I dag vil jeg komme de elektroniske hoveder i møde med en liste over ti udgivelser fra de seneste par måneder, som er absolut nødvendige at tjekke ud. Burial: Truant/Rough Sleeper 14. december Godt, lad os starte med en ep, der røg på gaden for blot et par dage siden [...]
Full of drop forges, repetitive bleeps and crushing distortion, Pariah (real name Arthur Cayzer) and Blawan (real name Jamie Roberts) have reunited as one of the heaviest acts in the current resurgence in techno, Karenn. By no means hardcore, these two take the spirit of acid and Detroit techno and put it through a Cabaret Voltaire-style blender. Their debut collaboration 'SHEWORKS0012 sent everyone pretty batty last year and now they're back with an equally spine-shattering (seriously, my back is really hurting right now) blend of rattling synths and full-bodied bass [...]
Release due on the She Works The Long Nights imprint
(photo by David Huser, zweikommasieben ) During the last week Karenn – the collaboration project between UK-techno masterminds Blawan and Pariah – were artists in residence at Südpol | Musik Tanz Theater in Lucerne for preparting their new live set. Before its premiere on Saturday zweikommasieben organized a producers talk with both on Thursday evening at Südpol club. In this podcast from Radio 3FACH you hear several parts of the talk and 4 (massive) tracks off [...]
It would appear that the accessible Techno band wagon is in full swing now, thanks to Boddika & Joy Orbison's hugely successful 'Sunklowun' releases. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this bass inspired techno sound is being embraced by other artists. Upon listening to Pariah & Midland's latest collaboration you would be forgiven in thinking "Boddika & Joy Orbison" rip off, as one reader commented on FACT magazine's recent post. Untitled 1 contains that unmistakable clunking industrial pad and high hat combination, whilst Untitled 2 is a sea of ominous [...]
Jun 24, 2012, 4:00am
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Découvert avec son premier EP « Detroit/Falls » et confirmé par la suite avec le six titres « Safehouses » , Pariah fait parler de lui a nouveau en signant trois titres sur le fameux label belege R&S . « Among Those Metal Trees » ouvre l'EP avec trois minutes d'ambiant composé de nappes codéiné et de voix ralentit qui rappelle un peu les ambiances présentées par le nord américain Clams Casino . Le titre éponyme nous pousse au retranchement d'une UK Bass sombre, lancinantes qu'on verra particulièrement bien [...]
A heads up that on Saturday 9th June i'll be down in London at The Horse & Groom playing some tracks at the behest of Gohan and his atemporal Peur Bleue blog/clubnight . Alongside us will be Alex McKeown and Kolour . Expect some great music and plenty of drinking. Onto a mini playlist. The inimitable, intense sounds of Blawan and Pariah as Karenn. Not much comes even close. Karenn - Chaste Down ( buy ) [...]
It' safe to say that Mary Anne Hobbs was a very busy lady on XFM over the holiday season. Not only did she play all the best tunes of the year, she also lined up some of the best mixes we heard in 2011. Hopefully you will have already checked out the Scuba mix from last week and lets just say this one might even surpass it. Karenn is the combination of producers Blawan and Pariah from the R&S records stable. Both these [...]
Karenn Mix - Xfm 24/12/11 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud. Results here are just super big...
Karenn Mix - Xfm 24/12/11 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud UK producers Blawan and Pariah teamed up as Karenn last weekend for a new mix for Mary Anne Hobbs' XFM program. I discussed Blawan's style progression a few weeks back when the track "Shader" surfaced, and with this new mix, we get even more insight in to the hotly tipped producer's influences at the moment. His new duo with Pariah takes the more industrial [...]
A pesar de ser grandes amantes del cotilleo, no estamos hablando de un affaire amoroso. Hablamos de la vuelta de los sonidos más duros del techno inglés, bajo el prisma de [....]
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