Electronica

Download, Tracklisting & mehr Infos: http://bit.ly/1pbSknX

David Augusts aktuelle „Epikur EP“ (IV 50.III) ist bei Innervisions erschienen und bei www.mutingthenoise.com erhältlich.

Groove Podcast 28 - David August (Innervisions 50 Mix)

This was my second time playing at Wax Treatment in Berlin. The night is based around Dub Reggae in its many forms, so I had that in mind during my set and kept returning to Dub & Reggae throughout my set. 

The way music sounds on their Killasan soundsystem (which they install in the club especially for the night) is indescribably beautiful. Unfortunately, this recording is just a pale representation compared to the experience as it was on the night. 

As the soundsystem is set up facing the DJ, I was able to play without using monitor speakers, so I was able to experience the sound in the same way as the audience. It's wonderful to see every time at Wax Treatment that the crowd very naturally turns to face the soundsystem, rather than the DJ. Just the way I like it.

Some very dear friends were at the club that night, some of whom had never heard me DJ, or had ever experienced electronic dance music in that way before.

The way the music sounded on the Killasan soundsystem was a perfect introduction for them.

A C - Journey To Satchidananda
Shina Williams and his African percussionists - Agboju Logun
Rhythm & Sound w/ The Chosen Brothers - Mash Down Babylon
On Unit - Prawn Cocktail
Emmanuel Jal - Kuar (Olof Dreijer remix)
Zomby - Godzilla
RSD - Sugar Plumb instrumental
Martyn - Broken
R-A-G - Rage
Surgeon - Atol
Surgeon - Coaster
Paul Woolford - Let It Go (Kommonazmuk & Appleblim remix)
Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana
Blawan - Lavender
Peverelist - Dance till The Police Come
Surgeon - Transparent Radiation
Chasing Voices - Acidbathory
Oscar Mulero - After All
RSD - Pretty White Light
Lone - Explorers
Martyn - Suberbia
The Tuss - Rushup I Bank 12
Taz - Future Funk
Ed Chamberlain - Synthia (Surgeon remix)
Surgeon -  Right Road To Dubland
Scuba - Ruptured (Surgeon remix)
Inigo Kennedy - Obsidian
Surgeon - Sleep (Ultra Violet)
RSD - Over It
Love Joys - All I Can Say

Surgeon - Wax Treatment, Berlin 29th May 2011

An unreleased mix from the Dog in the Fog EP (SFT015)

Dog in the Fog EP is available June 12th, 2012 from Software Recording Co.

www.softwarelabel.net

Oneohtrix Point Never w/ Roger Robinson - Replica (Falty DL Remix)

out now on Rough Trade! - see Beatport, Juno, Boomkat, et al.


Warpaint - Undertow (Night Plane Remix)

MIA - MATANGI Mix for Kenzo

A mix I did for Clash Magazine at the end of last year. Here's the original post and interview:
http://www.clashmusic.com/features/clashmusic-dj-mix-podcast-djrum

Track list:
Laurent - Wind in the trees
Maurice Ravel - Gaspard De La Nuit / Le Gibet
Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans [Polydor]
Ore - Rise [unreleased]
King Tubby & August Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown [Yard Music]
Jacob Miller - Baby I Love You So [Yard Music]
Augustus Pablo - Ah Jah Dub [Yard Music]
Susumu Yokota - The Dying Black Swan [Skintone / Lo Recordings]
Chaba Fadela - N'Sel Fik [Supersound]
ESG - Talk It [Soul Jazz Records]
Aphex Twin - Ruglen Holon [Warp Records]
Darling Farah - Grace [Civil Music]
Skudge - Wonder Stories [unreleased]
DjRUM - Arcana (Do I Need You) [unreleased]
Royce Wood Junior - Jodie (DjRUM remix) [unreleased]
Peter Van Hoesen - Inspection In Solitude [Time To Express]
Inigo Kennedy - Obsidian [Token]
Maurice Ravel - Kaddish
Darling Farah - Division [Civil Music]
Xhin - Drawer (Original Mix) [Apotek]
Tim Hecker - No Drums [Kranky]
Marc Z - It's Easy
Deft - Illicit Fantasy (fLako Remix) [unreleased]
Quasimoto - Bad Character [Stonesthrow]
Flying Lotus - Getting There (feat. Niki Randa) [Warp Records]
Tim Hecker - In The Air iii [Kranky]
ASC - Defiant To The End VIP [unreleased]
DjRUM - Mountains pt.3 [2nd Drop Records]
Chris Watson - the forest path. meallan na ceardaich
DjRUM - Thankyou (edit) [unreleased]

Photograph by Oliver Clasper 
http://oliverclasper.com/

Soundtrack To An Imaginary Movie Mix for Clash Magazine 320

Born in 1988, Ben Socrates is a versatile musician with a career encompassing as a concert pianist and experience in the field of contemporary improvisation, jazz and electronics. Ben is the recipient of numerous prizes including the Clifford Benson and Robert Headley prizes for solo performance, the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Prize and the Founders Prize for accompaniment.

Alongside his solo career, Ben’s interest in collaboration has led to his involvement in a number of innovative projects. These have included work with both emerging and established composers, theatre and contemporary dance companies, installation artists and musicians from an array of disciplines.

Ben completed his postgraduate studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2011, with a scholarship from the TCM Trust, alongside support from the Osbourne Charitable Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The South Square Trust, The Funtington Music Group and the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust. Ben studied under renowned pianist and composer, Douglas Finch. He has performed in masterclasses to acclaimed teachers including Aaron Shorr, Deidre Doyle, Jonathan Plowright, Deniz Gelenbe, Christine Croshaw, Martino Tirimo and Eugene Asti.

Ben has always pursued a keen interest in classical song, performing in many recitals of German Lieder, French Art Song and Russian Romances. He is also a keen supporter of contemporary music, and was recently invited to give a masterclass on modern piano repertoire at Sevenoaks School in Kent. He collaborated with composer Soosan Lolavar on a new work for improvised piano and electronics, entitled ‘Black Dog’, which went on to win the John Halford Prize for Piano Composition at its premiere last year.

Ben’s interest in collaboration extends to interdisciplinary art. In 2012, he launched Field Song; an interactive ‘sonic sculpture’ which was created with a team of installation and technological artists. Field Song, which features a generative score composed by Ben himself, won the Ideas Tap Innovators Award and was exhibited at the More Than Words Festival 2012 in conjunction with BBC Radio 4.

In July 2012, Ben featured on a tour of France with pianist Matthieu Esnult which was widely covered in the national press. Together they staged an acclaimed new interpretation of Ravel’s La Valse, arranged for two pianos with a unique new choreography that merged musicians and dancers.

Ben has performed at venues including the Southbank Centre, Old Royal Naval College Chapel and Chichester Cathedral, and at venues throughout the UK and France. He has also organised and performed recitals in support of charities, such as a piano concert  in that raised money for the victims of the Japan tsunami in 2011. 