A bunch of people have emailed me recently asking for some of the mixes that were hosted on this blog throughout the years. As I mentioned already before, all posts prior to February 2011 are gone. Anyway, here's what I was able to recover from the archives: Rhythm & Sound - Live at P.S. 1 Warm Up, NYC (2006-09-02) ( D/L ) Mountain People DJs - Live on Rundfunk FM (2007-08-04) ( D/L ) Daft Punk - Live at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn, NY (2007-08-09) [...]
A bunch of people have emailed me recently asking for some of the mixes that were hosted on this blog throughout the years. As I mentioned already before, all posts prior to February 2011 are gone. Anyway, here's what I was able to recover from the archives: Rhythm & Sound - Live at P.S. 1 Warm Up, NYC (2006-09-02) ( D/L ) Mountain People DJs - Live on Rundfunk FM (2007-08-04) ( D/L ) Daft Punk - Live at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn, NY (2007-08-09) [...]
A bunch of people have emailed me recently asking for some of the mixes that were hosted on this blog throughout the years. As I mentioned already before, all posts prior to February 2011 are gone. Anyway, here's what I was able to recover from the archives: Rhythm & Sound - Live at P.S. 1 Warm Up, NYC (2006-09-02) ( D/L ) Mountain People DJs - Live on Rundfunk FM (2007-08-04) ( D/L ) Moodymann - Live on Gilles Peterson Worldwide (2007-10-11) ( D/L ) [...]
The final hurrah for Ann Aimee's Inertia compilation sees four modern techno heavyweights add their exclusive sounds to the fold. Recent album stars Skudge are as economical yet efficient as you'd expect with their booming 'Pollution,' before Conforce designs yet more lush sounds with his deep technoid cut 'When It Appeared.' Restless Romainian Cosmin TRG confounds expectationst again with his rusty, rolling cut 'Plaisir Interdit' before Fachwerk co-founder Sascha Rydell gets a little spaced out on his kinetic and melancholic effort, 'Rainy Days'. Stand out on its own, but peerless when paired with the other three parts, Inertia 4 ends [...]

Vor Kurzem erst durften wir Kassem Mosses Live-Set aus dem Boiler Room im Stadtbad Wedding noch einmal nachhören. Jetzt ziehen die Macher des Multimedia-Party-Projektes nach und offerieren das gleiche Paket mit dem Namen Redshape darauf. Der man with the red face spielte eine knappe Stunde ein wie immer beseeltes Set aus rohen House-Anleihen und warmen Techno-Skizzen, das einem selbst beim Schreibtisch-Rave noch kalte Schauer über den Rücken jagt. Am elegantesten zuckt aber immer noch Mister Redshape himself, wie man hier sehen kann.

Die multimedial operierende Londoner Partyreihe Boiler Room ist ein überaus ambitioniertes Projekt, das langsam aber sicher seine Krakenarme über den Ärmelkanal in Richtung des europäischen Festlands streckt. Vergangene Woche sendete man aus dem Stadtbad Wedding mit einem sehr erlesenen Lineup, bestehend aus Redshape, Jimmy Edgar, Objekt und Kassem Mosse . Das Live-Set von Letzterem gibt es jetzt zum Nachhören und -sehen . Laut Veranstalter ist das allererste Bürgerpflicht: "Kassem Mosse rocked up to Boiler Room with enough equipment to give a small African township fresh water for a year. [...]

Jasper Goodall , "Desert Mirror" [ Present ] ( buy vinyl ) ( buy mp3s ) There has been a focus on purist techno and house in recent years, but most of the resultant output is utterly derivative of white-knuckle Millsian fury, Downwards industrialisms or classic j-j-j-jacking Chicago tracks. Redshape doesn't fit into any of these narratives, preferring to draw on the deep techno sounds of Detroit as a starting point; but unlike many of his new school purist peers, the masked one [...]

Photo by Markku Lahdesmaki [ Laid ] ( buy vinyl ) I'm never quite sure what goes into an artist's decision to start a new alias. Some reserve certain monikers for certain labels, others tie these assumed identities to different sounds. Palisade is a new production name for everyone's favorite red-masked techno superhero, Redshape, and yet it doesn't sound like a particularly big departure for him sonically. Best defer to the man himself here: so what? Regardless of whether [...]

At the start of this month, Poker Flat released the great compilation Forward to the Past featuring big name artist's such as The Revenge, Sasse, Deetron KiNK & Neville Watson and more. This techno number is from Berlins Redshape and it's slowly becoming one of my favourites out of them all. If you can't read what the cover says, the whole release was actually mastered the way on analog tape, and I've heard some of these tracks out in the club lately and the production really is off the hook. [...]

[Kontra-Musik] (buy vinyl 1 / 2 / 3 ) (buy mp3s tk) The Swedish producer Andreas Tilliander has long been a shapeshifter in electronic music. Under numerous names, he's been instrumental in the development of "clicks & cuts" with Mille Plateaux and ambient IDM under the Mokira name. After being nominated twice, he won a Swedish Grammy for his album World Industries in 2005. His reach extended into mastering and running a label, both under the name Repeatle. His brand of richly layered, thick electronics carries over in [...]
Steve Bug が主宰するレーベル Poker Flat Recordings のコンピレーション・ アルバム。The Revenge, Steve Bug, Martin Landsky, KiNK, Neville Watson, Sasse, Polus [SHOW-B & Jan Krause from Beanfield], TJ Kong, Deetron, Redshape 等のトラックを収録
ジャーマン DJ / プロデューサー DJ T. のサード・アルバム The Pleasure Principle のリード・シングル。 自身のレーベル Get Physical Music よりリリース。Nick Maurer [Greens Keepers] をフューチャー、Art Department, Redshape リミックス収録

Seit seinem großartigen Debüt-Album " The Dance Paradox" vom letzten Jahr, für das er sich viele seiner Drum-Sounds von Ben Lauber, dem Schlagzeuger von T.Raumschmieres Band hatte einspielen lassen, gibt es ein spezielles Redshape Live-Set mit Drummer, in dem die bratzigen Moog-Rülpser seiner rohen Techno-Tracks vom tribalistisch-rockigen Live-Gedrumme intensiviert werden. Unser Mix des Tages ist ein Mitschnitt von einer Show in Bern aus diesem Jahr, komplett mit verzücktem Jubel-Geschrei des Publikums. Wer mitjubeln möchte, kann sich das Set hier runterladen. PS: Demnächst erscheint auf Delsin eine neue Maxi vom Maskenmann Redshape mit dem [...]

Redshape - Paradox Dubs Growing up in East Germany Sebastian Kramer a.k.a. Redshape had been profoundly influenced by Detroit techno (that can't be right?) But thankfully for all of us it is. He always made a point to make his music stand alone and for something when he got in his studio to work. Most of what surrounded him at the time was tranced up and drugged out drivel. So he set out to cut up his techno his way and to hell [...]

[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Oh man this first preview of the new Brian Eno's LP on Warp Records has me geeked, have a listen above, it grows into a bit of an educated punk kids dream. Deep techno wizard Redshape is always on my radar, I prefer his singles over any other material, if you ever want to hear someone holding down the early melodic Detroit sound than look no further than this man. Brooklyn's Pandatone glitches out on a [...]

Redshape have been on top form lately with some brilliant remixes of Martyn and The Black Dog and his debut album "Dance Paradox" appearing towards the end of last year. Keeping things moving along though we get this cracking double 123 on Present. Over the 6 tracks you get the usual Redshape quality house and techno with smatterings of acid and enough beats to keep most dancefloors moving. It's final track "Drama" that stands out above the rest for me though, with it's doomy hook line leading along a nice dark [...]
To these ears at least, Redshape's debut album was one of the best techno long players of '09, so the appearance of Red Pack so soon afterwords is a pleasant surprise. While not intended as a follow-up to The Dance Paradox , this double pack performs an equally important function, neatly encapsulating the disparate dance floor styles that now fall under the masked one's widening palette.

Seems my review of Redshape for Junkmedia is up. Masks have a long and distinguished history in the arts, from Japanese kabuki and the Commedia dell'Arte right through to DOOM , and, um, Slipknot . The latest beau of the masked ball is techno producer Redshape , behind whose slightly unnerving red plastic visage allegedly hides a Famous Techno Producer In Disguise. Whether this is true or not, it'd seem to be a win-win situation for the [...]

Or maybe in this case a machine took over my soul and that is where the conspiracy started. Aldus Boris Bunnik in een interview over zijn debuutalbum Machine Conspiracy . Techno is een ontmoeting tussen die geluidgenererende machines en de mens. Producerend als Conforce vormt dat alvast de kern. De melodieuze techno op het album blinkt uit in subtiliteit. Sfeermakende tracks voor een feestje met connaisseurs of gewoon voor op je koptelefoon. Conforce is misschien wel het stille broertje van Carl Craig en Redshape. Luister [...]