Intrepid Skin returns with its most outspoken, outlandish release yet. SPFDJ’s tastemaking imprint is proud to introduce ‘Glitzer Vs Hass’, the debut release from German artist, Valerie Ace. 

Unrelenting but utterly charismatic across four tracks, Ace blends her lived experience intertwined with today’s increasingly complex politics of club culture with a thirst for experimentation, unpicking and subverting the strains of toxic masculinity that still run deep through contemporary culture. This is first-rate dancefloor discourse with little room for chin-stroking.

‘Hyper Hyper Dancy Hardcore’ submits to the ridiculous promise of its title with a breathless finale that showcases Ace’s ability to deliver function and pure fun. Leaving a strong final impression this Rotterdam-rooted hardcore anthem provides all the thrills but thoughtfully dispenses with the macho bullshit, its central vocal constantly shifting in pitch and context. 

Driven by the energy and outrageousness that has come to define her scene, yet smartly subverting and experimenting with it, ‘Glitzer Vs Hass’ sees Valerie Ace enter the contemporary techno landscape with passion, humour and much-needed sonic resistance.

@IntrepidSkin @SPFDJ

Valerie Ace - Hyper Hyper Dancy Hardcore [SKIN005]

I uploaded the first hour of the opening set I played for @voxnoxberlin earlier this year. The recording starts with some ambient because this was the time the club actually opened and as soon as there were people on the dance floor I brought in some beat. To be honest, it was not the easiest job for me to maintain a more laid-back pace yet an interesting tension throughout the whole set, in the genre of harder techno the temptation is far too big to just shoot out one banger after the other. But still, the job of the opening DJ is to open the night and to leave space for things yet to come, it made me realize how much fun that can be as well. Somehow it means to limit yourself, yet there are suddenly much more possibilities to experiment! You can explore more deeper sides of your genre, let everything flow into each other way longer, weave a dense web of textures, play with dynamics in different ways than just up, up, up. This set was a really interesting experience for me, where I felt i was growing as a DJ, so I decided to share that with you. Sadly, the battery of my recording device died at some point, so the rest of the 3-hour long set will only continue to exist in memory. Cheers!

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Caniche @ Voxnox July 2022 (Opening Set)

Spotify link:  https://open.spotify.com/track/0lFIf9iq6olVx5ZmQaoPDX?si=e41babf582534223

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DAVE ERA - Infinite Journeys

Buy the EP on Bandcamp: https://chimegarlands.bandcamp.com/album/im-sorry-i-couldnt-make-you-feel-how-the-drugs-made-you-feel

Credits:
All songs written, recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by Benjamin Guenther 

Track #2 co-written by Charlotte Grafweg 

Vocals on track #2 by Charlotte Grafweg

Did I? (feat. Parasites In Love)

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Caniche @ Tresor Berlin, 18.01.23 (Opening Set)

Billie Eilish - You Should See Me In A Crown (Valerie Ace Remix) *FREE DOWNLOAD*

This is an excerpt from my closing set @tresorberlin in August 2023, which lasted a joyful 5 hours. I altered the last track, so it can play out, that was not the actual ending. Have fun and shout out to everyone who was there! <3

Caniche @ Tresor Berlin, 16.08.23 (Closing Set)

Lucidia (Piano Math Demo)

An Ambient Symphony I recorded at the Gallery Opening of the Leeremptyblank exhibition in Vienna in September 2020. It's a collection of my favourite works by amazing experimental music artists.

Caniche as Sensitive Blob (Ambient Alias) - Leeremptyblank Gallery Opening

Producer, Artist & DJ

Chime Garlands aka Benjamin learned to play the piano & the drums when he was a kid. After playing in numerous bands, he discovered the world of electronic music in 2011 and taught himself how to produce his own tracks.
One year later he started to release his ﬁrst tunes under the moniker 'Nimanslin'. He got signed by different labels in 2013 and released several Drum & Bass and Ambient albums.
In early 2015 Benjamin decided to start something fresh - he wanted to redeﬁne himself as an artist by changing his name to 'Chime Garlands'.
Benjamin explored the genres of House, Techno, Industrial, Acid & Trance and implemented them into his own work. 
His focus is the connection of organic sounds and electronic soundscapes. 
The ambivalence of raw, energetic elements and melancholic chord progressions is something he carried with him - and with every step as an artist. 
He describes his own music as 'dancy, fierce, melancholic and everything in between'.

Booking: benjaminguenther@artisnocompetition.de

Did I? (feat. Parasites In Love)

Chime Garlands

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