This month i have a very special guest - studio416.
It is a collaboration between Hendrik Vaak and Sven Elmlund.

Right in the middle of the heart of Berlin, a new project has emerged giving us a fresh breeze of pure and strong electronic music. studio416 genuinely represents a break from daily life – for the listeners as well as for the producers. Being quite active as single artists or with other projects, both musicians use studio416 as their oasis, which they visit from time to time and to which they take us in their songs.

Well, that describes the duo really well - but i think we should head to their very exclusive mix, that includes live cuts and studio tracks.

Enjoy this true studio concert from studio416, exclusively on The Grasshopper Warbler!

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Heron presents: The Grasshopper Warbler 081 w/ studio416

Modular Expansion was founded by George Apergis and has run successfully, since 1998. The name “Modular Expansion” is inspired from the first analog modular synthesizers of which different parts were connected between each-other, forming an expansion.Modular Expansion is a cultural body of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and has to its credit actions with the auspices and financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Athens. Actions such as vinyl releases, art videos and publishing events. He is also a European Design Award holder, Silver Award in 2016 in the category Music & Films Covers. Modular Expansion have events in a lot of European cities and famous places like Berghain, Tresor, Suicide, Sisyphos, Renate, Birgit in Berlin, also in cities like London, Rome, Barcelona, Sofia, Warsaw, Moscow, Tel Aviv and at the most prestigious places in Athens.

Modular Expansion is one of the first teams which started organizing Techno events in Athens in 1998. In the end of the 90s began to host artists from the labels such as Tresor, Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, presenting the Berlin underground music vibe and making techno popular in the Greek capital. Founder of Modular Expansion known as George Apergis performs already in 2002 at the legendary Tresor in Berlin. Counting in his history more than 1000 events and hundreds of guest artists like Adam Beyer, The Advent, Alexander Kowalski, Truncate, Ø [Phase], Schwefelgelb, Yanamaste, Parallx, Philipp Strobel, Psyk, dj Rolando, Monoloc, Drumcell, Brian Sanhaji, Radial, Substance, Vainqueur, Johannes Volk, Funk D Void, Dave Tarrida, Sender Berlin, Kevin De Vries, Subjected and many more belongs in one of the oldest teams in the city of Athens

In 2012 come the label of Modular Expansion Records, with releases and the support of global fame artists which has been the baseline to follow up events abroad and especially in Berlin, with gigs in clubs like Suicide, Berghain, Tresor, Sisyphos and many more. Label roster of Modular Expansion Records includes artists like EMEX, George Apergis, Brian Sanhaji, Alexander Kowalski, Subjected, Insolate, Developer, Truncate, Zadig, studio416, NX1, Johannes Volk, Radial, SLV, Dave Trarrida, Lee Holman, Ray Kajioka, Hommé, Module One, Mikael Delta, Lunatik, Unam Zetineb, Birth of Frequency, Absent, Nadjia Lind, Invite, Moving Thoughts, Alex Retsis, Axel Karakasis, Yotam Avni, Stardice, Scan Mode, Sender Berlin and many more.

Modular Expansion Podcast series were founded in 2013. They have featured a premier list of international artists and have already received widespread recognition, including exclusive sets from artists like Alberto Pascual, Alex Bau, Alexander Kowalski, Alexander Lukat, Arnaud Le Texier, Arweenn, Axel Karakasis, Bas Mooy, Beroshima, Cari Lekebusch, Charlton, Cyrk, Damon Wild, Dave Ellesmere, Dave Tarrida, David Meiser, Denise Rabe, Diego Hostettler, Dimi Angelis, DJ 3000, DJ Hyperactive, Drumcell, Echoplex, Eduardo De La Calle, Electric Indigo, Emex, Emmanuel, Endlec, Funk D' Void, George Apergis, Gez Varley, Hans Bouffmyhre, Heiko Laux, Jeroen Search, Jerome, Joachim Spieth, Johannes Volk, Insolate, Lee Holman, Lego, Luca Agnelli, Luigi Tozzi, Luke Hess, Mikael Jonasson, Moddullar, Neil Landstrumm, Ness, Non Reversible, NX1, Patrik Skoog, Pfirter, Radial, Ray Kajioka, Roberto, Roberto Clementi, Roman Lindau, Sawlin, Sebastian Bayne, Sender Berlin, SLV, Synthek, The Advent, Time Traveler, Truncate, Xarah Dion, Zadig and many more.

German Techno label by Heron & Tim Grothe.

Many times, biographies of techno acts start by singing their praise of an extremely early,
extraordinary talent on synthesizers and other electronic devices.

In Heron’s case, things are different. Because Martin Spittel has been shaped musically since his childhood, the influences were as diverse as music can be.

On one side, there was his grandfather, who played various instruments, and to whom young Martin related closest to and whose influence still lasts until today. On the other side there were his cousins who were not much older than himself, enthusiastic about AC/DC, and band members themselves. Over the course of the following years, he explored the diversity of Black, Death and Trash Metal, EBM and Industrial, right up to Detroit Techno.

Ever since then, Heron's environment served as compensation to ferce parties and expanding his musical horizon. This symbiosis from the love of nature and the musical influences from his early childhood are a direct reflection of Heron’s entire life.

Following the scream of the waders (limicoline birds), he moved to picturesque island Norderney in 2003. There, exploring the island’s national park, he decided to live up to his enthusiasm about nature by going to study landscape ecology at the University of Münster. It turned out: The relocation to Münster was the initial spark for his career; the months in Norderney were inspiration for the name of his label “Limikola” which was founded in late 2008 and enjoyed enormous support by both DJs and fans.

After launching his now very successful °Schaltkreis-parties with four friends in mid-2007, everything went quickly: His first own radio show “The Grasshopper Warbler”, contacts to prominent players like Someone Else and Heartthrob, and finally the moment in early 2008 during the season’s opening at Time Warp, when Richie Hawtin played all three tracks from Heron’s Retro EP. It was merely his second EP, released on a netlabel (Minisome), and it became immediately successful. A knightly accolade.

The journey that Heron started lead to his bombshell track “Welcome to the Adventure Club” that charted in the Beatport charts in 2008, and continued with remixes and releases for Synewave, Supdub, Swap, micro.fon, Prosthetic Pressings and Sleaze Records. In 2010, it culminated with a tour across North America during the summer.

Two years later he released his very first EP on the legendary Detroit label KMS Records, owned by Kevin Saunderson, followed by remixes for Drumcomplex, P-Ben and Chris Gekä, one collaboration project with Inner City's Ann Saunderson and his second solo release „Ride The Pride“. Furthermore he made the step into the Soma family by publishing three solo EPs and an EP with Kevin's son Dantiez Saunderson, as well as he started to release on Florian Meindl's FLASH Recordings.

Bookings: hello@heron-music.com

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Energetic, Combative (Peaceful), Progressive...
 
Even in my twenty-fifth year as a DJ, I am not a single sequence more tired.
Highly frequented, I keep moving forward. And I still experience Techno and House (as a generic term) as enthusiastically as I did in my first hour, when I discovered this still trend-setting music and the changing culture around it. Even today, and for all eternity, it's basic rule number one for me: to connect old teachers as well as new key figures. This shows in my DJ sets at all times and omnipresent.
This journey began for me with key moments like Viva Housfrau (Viva TV) and Stunde Null (Radio NRJ Sachsen). I started working the turntables myself in 1997.
The first record I bought was Daft Punk's Homework LP.
I am delighted and still energetic that in 2022 I will be ...
25 years DJíng Thomas Schubert - Æddicted - Tiefunten (Alter Ego Thom E aka Thom Electronics) !

Thomas Schubert,

has been an integral part of the Chemnitz Club Scene since 1997.
From 1997 until 2019 it was known under its old name 
"Thom E aka Thom Electronics" today he remains with the name "Thomas Schubert".

Very soon he was a Resident of the "Club Achtermai" (Chemnitz).
He was Inspired to Electronic Music already in the early nineties.
Especially Mad Max's and Raik E's "Stunde Null" (Radio NRJ Sachsen) or Sabine Christ's and Mate Galic's "Housefrau" (Viva TV) brought him soon to the Underground sound like House and Techno.  At the latest his first personal visit to the Club "Tresor" (Berlin) was to lay the foundation for his career as a DJ.

His sets have always been very diversified. Beginning with a nice intro, over an increasing descent to a clean outro, he always takes his audience on a wonderful journey.

His heart has always been for classic Detroit and Chicago sound.
You can find everything from House to Techno, Acid, Minimal, Electro or Ambient in his sets.
Other projects are "Tiefunten" with which he used to play the old chill out areas. At the moment he is also behind "Æddicted" and takes up the classic Electro Sound.

In May 2019 I was started with the ESOA Podcast.

Booking Contact: thomesoa@googlemail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thomas.schubert.aka.thomas.schubert.dj/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thom_e313/
To his Podcast:  www.esoa-podcast.com

If you’ve ever come across the word “Limikola” before, you’re either a total geek – or an ornithologist (which doesn’t mean you’re a perverse sicko or religious fanatic or anything, but simply that you are totally into birds). If you haven’t: welcome to Heron’s latest project, his own label “Limikola”.
  
  
  Heron has already achieved an established reputation in the spheres of electronic music. But still, he’s too afraid of stagnation, he needs to struggle against establishment, he’s desperately longing for everlasting electronic evolution. And with this idealistic, evolutionary ambition, the foundation of Limikola was only a question of time.
  
  
  The particular aim of this particular label will be to provide the realms of electronic music with an innovative, exclusive platform for exceptional artists and extraordinary music, combining experimental and artistic freedom with the familiar and comfortable viscosity Heron stands for. So, just like the label’s icon, the wading bird “limicola”, the label intends – to be a little figurative - to wade through the muddy waters of digital publications, foraging for the finest, most exquisite bits … 


After releasing the first twelve catalogue numbers digital only, Limikola turned into a vinyl supporting label during summer 2010, when Heron's one sided EP "Rufus" hit the world of electronic music.

Since then, the subsequent records from Nebes and Someone Else received a huge reputation worldwide and opened the door for upcoming labelshows and a big support in the form of remixers as Troy Pierce, Heartthrob, Niederflur, Miro Pajic and many more.


Até is an innovative DJ, producer, and resident artist with the Velocity collective. Her distinct sound fuses the heavy beats of 90s techno with refreshing, contemporary rhythms and her own powerful vocals. She has released on major labels like Kobosil's 44 LABEL GROUP as a collaboration with Rikhter, on Amelie Lens' EXHALE Records as a collaboration with Salin and her very own vinyl release Salience EP.

Até’s stage presence has captivated audiences across major cities like Berlin, San Francisco, and Tbilisi, where she blends her electronic beats with elements like electric guitar and e-bass. She also plays in the biggest Athenian arenas alongside major artists like I Hate Models, Amelie Lens, 999999999, KIKI, Indira Paganotto, Regal, Ellen Allien, Deborah De Luca, and more. 



Next up: 

19.09 for Vodafone CU - Santaroza square
27.09 Aux Club
03.10 Aux Club w Adiel & Marrøn
18.10 Oddity Club w Aida Arko & Cera Khin
27.10 Umatic Athens