You know Dirtybird for dropping basslines and creating smiles on the dance floor since January 2005.

The fun family vibe of the Dirtybird label can be traced back to a free event started in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. This new kind of house music went against the smooth vocal house that was popular at the time and derived its influences mostly from hip-hop, drum n bass, and American funk. The free outdoor BBQ party was very rough around the edges but eventually became legendary amongst the people of San Francisco. This event was also a very influential factor in the decision by Claude VonStroke to start the record label in 2005.

Today, Dirtybird has offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has expanded into events and tour production. As it grows, the brand continues to expand beyond music into merchandise, licensing and artist management. In 2015, Dirtybird launched the inaugural Dirtybird Campout festival, which has been dubbed “Summer Camp For Adults”, and Dirtybird has been recognized from their achievements by being awarded "Underground Label of the Year" at the International Dance Music Awards, “Label of the Decade” by Mixmag, “Best North American Label” by DJ Mag, and Billboard’s "Top 5 Independent Dance Labels".

Andreas Henneberg has made a name for himself as a DJ, label manager and producer of great repute, with a sonic fingerprint that is easily recognisable yet hard to define. Since starting out in the 90s, he has put his name to over 140 releases that operate somewhere between Techno, House and Minimal and always explore unfamiliar sounds in unique new ways.

As well as being the founder of his own label Voltage Musique (with friends Daniel Nitsch, Marquez Ill and Stefan Schuldt) which turns ten years old this year, Henneberg has also made himself at home on influential imprints like Ideal Audio, Confused Recordings, Herzblut and AREAL and is a key part of the Plantage13 family. He doesn’t only produce under his given name, though, but also explores a number of other styles of music as The Glitz (with close friend Mr. Daniel Nitsch), Cascandy and Hennon. Whatever he puts his name to, though, you can be assured that it comes from a place of deep understanding and appreciation that too few producers have in the modern age.

Given the amount of music Andreas has produced over the years, it’s no surprise he is also an in demand ghost-writer for many established artists, helping them to realise their ideas and putting to good use his year’s of priceless studio know how.

As well as all this, the Berliner is also a respected mastering-engineer and DJs on a regular basis at clubs all over the world, spinning knowing blends of House and Techno that not only make you dance, but also make you think. It all started for him at seminal clubs like Tresor and at the very first Berghain/Panoramabar, so his sense of history and class as a DJ is unri- valled, with his sets never failing to leave lasting marks on those that hear them.

Sometimes I play music @ VodkatroniK and TALES party

Eqipe nasce dall'idea di un gruppo di amici con la passione per la musica. Il comune gusto per un certo tipo di musica elettronica li porta in poco tempo a condividere situazioni e ad unirsi sempre di più, fino a decidere di intraprendere un progetto, con un marchio da proporre, uno stile in cui riconoscersi. Lo scopo è quello di interagire con le diverse realtà locali e non, come già accade in molti casi, con l'intento di organizzare e collaborare ad eventi musicali.&nbsp;

Andreas Brunner is a producer from Austria who produces heart-adapted techno music. He has made his personal task to follow the call of honesty in order to get a feeling of life. And so he hopes to communicate this with his music.

Powerful sound that moves the audience.

No matter if you produce music in a studio or in the dj booth: Djs and producers aim at moving the crowd. With this concept in mind, Andreas Brunner constantly strives for pushing his music.

Within the past few years Brunner has already played in many renowned clubs throughout the globe such as the “Spartacus Club” in Marseille, the “R19” in Berlin and all across the Austrian federal states as for example Tyrol, Salzburg, or Vienna.

At the age of fourteen he teamed up with his brother and founded a cultural club with the intention of bringing about change in the Austrian music landscape. There they tried to create a platform for less known artists to present their music. Three years later, after having already played and organised numerous events, Andreas Brunner has gotten himself a perfect sound system and computer on which it was finally possible to create and compose HIS sound.

In 2011, both brothers were nominated for the Austrian Newcomer Award. Since then his productions have made it into the top charts. The duo “Microtrauma” showed their support and so Andreas took the fourth place in the FAZE magazine dj poll.

First official vinyl releases followed on Leutral Records (Leipzig) with international headliners such as Alexander Kowalski, Heiko Laux, Justin Berkovi, Estroe, Matt Star and Patrick Kunkel.

Next step: featured albums on the music platform Beatport.

After focusing merely on playing around with sounds for a longer period of time, more releases followed. His debut album was released on the Berlin-based record label “Maripoza Records”. Andreas Brunner made Techno unique and outstanding by creating a totally new music genre. There was no name which could represent his style and so he coined the genre “Hearttechno”. It was all about creating Techno melodies and beat constructs which were catchy and would not let go off of you. Futuristic sounds which were not only produced for the dance floor but could also easily be used for the purpose of background music in documentaries.

Andreas Brunner used to work with the software sequencer FL Studio. There he was able to edit audio material in real time, and compose tracks with samples, synthesizers and external MIDI devices. Apart from that, he was capable of modifying audio files which he incorporated in his sound collages later on. Today, Brunner expresses his idea of electronic music mostly on Ableton but also Cubase.

...so go on a short voyage of discovery in the music from Andreas Brunner.



Irish producer and performer based in Berlin making various shades of techno and house since 2002 on labels like Maeve, Ovum, Delsin, Cocoon & Kompakt.
Bandcamp: http://chymera.bandcamp.com/

Also releases synthesizer based, ambient epics as Merrin Karras on A Strangely Isolated Place.

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