Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint on many big ticket artists, notably receiving a Grammy nomination for a Tori Amos remix in 2003. Such diverse musical horizons are rare. While other prolific artists may have slowly watered down their music, Buttrich’s star has risen in diametric opposition. His vision has become more and more condensed, more and more crystallised. Flipping and puncturing grooves in a live setting is a snap for him, and he’s entranced audiences at festivals like Time Warp and Creamfields, at temples of boom such as Fabric (London), Womb (Tokyo), Cocoon (Frankfurt), Panorama Bar (Berlin) and Amnesia (Ibiza) and at worldwide Desolat Experience parties with Loco Dice.

Buttrich’s journey into electronic music began in clubs in Berlin and Hannover at the dawn of the ‘90s, when post-Summer of Love-Europe began to swing to its own hypnotic, machine-like groove. At 18 years old he began experimenting with production as X-Rotation (with Daniel Bross), which led to the projects Rhythm Assault, Sounds of Life and Phunk Diggazs (with engineer Andy Bolleshon).

Buttrich began a notorious collaboration with his then co-worker at Peppermint Jam distribution, Timo Maas, in the mid-‘90s (they worked the telephones together). After setting up his first studio in the basement of the Peppermint Park studio building, the partnership led to over 100 co-productions and remixes that included Madonna, Muse, Fatboy Slim. Josh Wink and Green Velvet. Buttrich has produced funk legend Bootsy Collins, while switching the patterns for artists including Tom Jones, Kelis, Moloko, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Yello, War and Roger Sanchez. His Azzido Da Bass “Dooms Night” remix with Timo Maas hit the UK top ten charts.
 
All the while he created an impressive library of beats and collected an arsenal of music production equipment for his studio in Timetools, a studio complex founded in 1997 in Hannover with a group of musicians. Buttrich is happy with the subtle crunch of an SP-12 sampler and the ‘smoky’ vibe of his analog mixing desk – adding a bass guitar or other instrument when necessary. But he’s not above having fun with a laptop either: approaching music programs as if they were video games. He doesn’t rely on any one machine or music composition technique, and his array of outboard gear is mouth-wateringly state of the art.
But he never loses touch with the gritty, human side of music, and the environments that it is played in.

Another key musical partnership, with Loco Dice, begun in 2002, undoubtedly inspired Buttrich to delve deeper into the musical histories that first lured him towards after-dark melodies. In a short space of time they’d built up a deep discography creating an era-defining sound in the process. They spent more than half a year living in New York in 2006/2007, with half of Buttrich’s studio set up in a rickety hideaway in Brooklyn that looked out over Manhattan’s vistas. Between late night production sessions and snowstorms, their Desolat label came to life.

Having his debut solo album Crash Test released on Desolat in early 2010, Martin Buttrich is taking his vision to the road, fusing wild imagination with solid musical architecture, cherry-picked inspiration with true perfection of his musical craft. 

Since then constantly on tour, in 2011 Martin Buttrich still has dropped a remarkable collection of music - productions like “Fire Files” EP on Desolat or remixes for Marco Carola and Lee Curtis amongst others.

Currently based in LA, Martin Buttrich is working on his second artist album and a jazz project called The Stoned Autopilot.

Stay tuned.

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01.01 Amber - Goa, India
09.01 Beach Shack Culture - Rockwaves, India
11.01 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
16.01 Beach Shack Culture - Rockwaves, India
17.01 Off the Moon - Kochi, Kerala, India
24.01 Klub Hermis - New Delhi, India
25.01 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
01.02 Rise of the Phoenix - Mauritius 
13.02 Beach Shack Culture - Rockwaves, India
15.02 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
27.02 Wigwam - South Goa, India
01.03 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
10.03 7 Chakras Teaser - Orion Goa, India
14.03 Holi - Rockwaves Goa, India
15.03 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
16.03 Arambolized - HoC Goa, India
22.03 Amber - Goa, India
23.03 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
29.03 Purge - Chandigarh, India
06.04 Bloom in Green - Pebble Bangalore, India
12.04 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
19.04 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
09.05 Kafka Tempo & Monstera - Oslo, Norway
17.05 Psyworthy - Portugal
23.05 Stockholm, Sweden
24.05 Gothenburg, Sweden
29.05 Klangkulisse - Schwerin, Germany
30.05 Studio Horst - Essen, Germany
06.06 Mo:Dem Festival Teaser - Mexico
14.06 CDMX - Mexico
25.06 7 Chakras Festival - Italy
05.07 Konfusus Kollektif - Belgium
19.07 Ikigai Festival - Canada
02.08 Ozora Festival - Hungary
09.08 Mo:Dem Festival - Croatia
18.08 Bucht der Träumer Festival - Germany
28.08 Gaggalacka Festival - Germany
05.09 Mystic Creatures Festival - Poland
13.09 Sub.Version Festival - France
20.09 Altered - Marseille, France 
26.09 Vortex - Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
03.10 Polyester Klub - Oldenburg, Germany
04.10 Tempest Südpol - Hamburg, Germany
17.10 Kafka Tempo Night - Aarau, Switzerland
15.11 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
19.11 The Bass Theory at Loft - Goa, India
29.11 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
06.12 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
12.12 Klub Hermis - Delhi, India
27.12 Amber Bar - Goa, India
31.12 Vortex NYE - Rockwaves, India

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03.01 Vortex Goa - Rockwaves, India
13.01 Rockwaves, India [Broken Breger]
13.02 TBC - India
01.08  Ozora Festival - Hungary
02.08 Ozora Festival - Hungary [Broken Breger]
08.08 Mo:Dem Festival - Croatia

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Goa-based Breger is not one to sit still. As the owner of https://soundcloud.com/Kafka-Tempo and co-founder of https://soundcloud.com/Copycow and https://soundcloud.com/Beatplantation Festival in Germany, he has spent 20 years supporting underground culture. His music has appeared on labels like Zenon and Soupherb, with standout releases including Hippies in Danger. With three LPs and hundreds of tracks, he moves between minimal and raw techno, always carrying a dark and groovy edge. His love for psychedelic elements is evident in his productions and continues to inspire.

In his sets, Breger keeps things unpredictable, blending improvised sounds and samples to break away from repetition. He shifts freely between live and DJ sets, adapting on the fly. After a busy summer of gigs, he will spend the winter months in residency with the beach collective https://soundcloud.com/VortexGoa.

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https://soundcloud.com/BeachCow [Downtempo]
https://soundcloud.com/DarkMonday [Psy]
https://soundcloud.com/Extra-Mind [Vortex Techno]
https://soundcloud.com/Falling-Cows [Minimal]
https://soundcloud.com/MusicMeditation [Ambient]

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