🔥that is Fire🔥 Mark and Jamie 💯💣

The Owleon

When Will We Meet Again

Coming through as a producer in the early 2000's, nothing much seemed normal. The whirlwind of 90s dance music innovation had given way to a lack of focus, with increasingly innovative and accessible technology making the sounds heard on dancefloors more eclectic but at the same time the parties had started to feel less inspired, as if it were too hard to keep hold of the magic that had swirled around us for the last 10 years.

Against this backdrop, Mark Hawkins immediately stood out by how grounded he was compared to most of the space cadets floundering with their musical calling. Watching one of his staggeringly raw live sets, ripping up the floor with a combination of jacking Chicago house and bare bones techno was to see a pragmatic idealist carving out a unique space, unashamed to reference his inspirations with humour and bombast.

It was perhaps inevitable that Mark’s boundless spirit would see him push through the barriers of the UK’s more experimental audiences to gain greater presence with his entrance to a more underground House sound. Releases followed on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams and Clone before arriving on Houndstooth, blending House and Techno in a way that reached for the sky even while their roots were clearly planted firmly in the ground. Whilst always tough-as-painted-nails, the music progressed from being identifiable through its keen rawness to displaying increasing sophistication.

During a lost year that’s been anything but normal, it’s no surprise that Mark has dug deeper, gathering his influences and ideals into a more experimental, yet relevant and cohesive whole. The Twelve tracks on this new album represent a blossoming of Mark’s creativity; freed from the constraints of immediate dance-floor delivery they explore new territory, rampaging over a landscape of electro-funk, body-rocking house, experimental electronica, euphoric pop, and reflective chill out all underpinned by his accomplished melodic sensibility.

Lead single from the album from the old ways and into the new is ‘Let It Slide’, his second collaboration with Jamie Lidell (following 2018’s “We Should Be Free”) that tears up the rulebook. Beat’s stumble and stutter, resolving in angular B-boy grooves while the bass line sounds like it’s being slapped out by a P Funk-addicted robotic jackhammer. In its sheer disregard for musical conventions, it reprises Lidell’s previous work with Cristian Vogel in their genre-destroying freakbeat combo, Super Collider, and perfectly sums up an album that challenges what ‘normal’ from now on should be.

The New Normal

PREMIERE : Mark Hawkins - Let It Slide feat. Jamie Lidell

Upcoming vinyl on Kontra-Musik. Out in september. 
Get it at www.clone.nl

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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/shonen-bat
Track: Sayonara
Label: https://soundcloud.com/laforgemusique
Format:, Digital, LP
Release date: 23/9/21
Purchase: https://laforgemusique.bandcamp.com/

La Forge Musique thrilled to announce the release of it's resident Shonen Bat’s first album. Following his involvement in label compilations and a few brief incursions across the Channel for thier friends at Corrupt Data (see his EP “Shades of Disruption”) and GODDEZZ (see V/A “ON+ON+ON”), the 28-year-old producer from Reims eventually reaches the mark of the long-form, with flying colours indeed. In “Infinite Disorder”, he deftly conjugates techno influences, breakbeat, global club and electro with his distinctive rhythmic signature as well as outstanding futuristic aesthetic.
In twelve tracks, Shonen Bat demonstrates perfect mastery of sound design and narration in a fifty-minute opus with strains of solar punk, which resonates both on the dancefloor and your couch. An intertwinement of celestial voices, luxuriating pads and synthetic waterfalls with sharp beats and distorted bass precedes moments when the producer playfully stretches time with more ambient phases, before going for it again.
Among the top-flight tracks, you will find an ethereal anthem in “Artefacts”, speedy techno in “Western Nylon Fields”, and feisty breakbeats in “Automata”.
In this emotional roller coaster, the album constantly takes us back and forth between melancholy and euphory. Despite this duality symptomatic of our times, “Infinite Disorder” is undeniably a record of boundless optimism, at times bitter but always radiant. Take it as a kind of journal of a young raver who’s found his way through the philosophical values of a global rave culture, without borders, and humanistic.
“This “Infinite Disorder” represents all that inner turmoil I’ve experienced during the lockdowns. The idea was to process these complex, sometimes violent emotions into a beautiful, singular musical object.” - Shonen Bat

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PREMIERE | Shonen Bat - Sayonara [La Forge] 2021

Nullptr does what he does best and drops 4 beautiful, deep and soulful electro bombs on klakson!

https://clone.nl/item67000.html

B2. Nullptr - Reunion

Digitizer - Computer Controlled (Electro Machine)

The "American Dance Music Vol. 1" compilation, featuring the track "Reality Is A Sound (Share Power Mix)" by @savile, will be out on October 27th through @argotmusic. More info: bit.ly/Sargovile

American Dance Music Vol. 1

Info

Savile - Reality Is A Sound (Share Power Mix)

Minor Science - Volumes

https://samodj.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-next

You Are Next

Ming

@phobhorecords
@matteocoffetti

Hypnotecho’O is Pho Bho’s second release made and arranged by Matteo Coffetti, the label’s co-founder along with Federico Spini.

The record’s distinctive feature is its original fusion between ethnic samples beaten by violent kicks and sharp snares from the rawest techno. What it generates it’s a unique rhythm-flow ideal for the dancefloor.

The collaboration with Filippo Zenna is the result of the two artist’s anxieties and fears over a past that is no longer here and a tomorrow that strives to come.

Pre order

*PREMIERE* Matteo Coffetti - Cosmic Roll

Dj Booking & Inquiries : lesyeuxorange@gmail.com

Next ==>

28/01/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad LYO / 10 Years Party! w/ Lauer, Younger Than Me, Lydia Vilas etc...
04/02/2023 @ La Péniche Mécanique, Strasbourg
10/02/2023 @ Control Club, Bucarest (Rumania) 🇷🇴
18/02/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
24/02/2023 @ Selecto, Paris
03/03/2023 @ Casa Pompi, Merida (Mexico) 🇲🇽
04/03/2023 @ Vagalume, Tulum (Mexico) 🇲🇽
05/03/2023 @ SundaySunday, Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽
11/03/2023 @ Bar Oriente, Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽
12/03/2023 @ SundaySunday, Guadalajara (Mexico) 🇲🇽
17/03/2023 @ Sai-ko, San Miguel (Mexico) 🇲🇽
18/03/2023 @ Zodiac Festival, Leon (Mexico) 🇲🇽
19/03/2023 @ Kokoro, Queretaro (Mexico) 🇲🇽
24/03/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
31/03/2023 @ Petit Prince, Paris
07/04/2023 @ Minus Eden, Skopje (Macedonia) 🇲🇰
15/04/2023 @ L'International
29/04/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
30/04/2023 @ Disco Disco, Paris
06/05/2023 @ Mazette, Paris
13/05/2023 @ Sakral Festival, Kilowatt, France
19/05/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
28/05/2023 @ Athens (Greece) TBC 🇬🇷
03/06/2023 @ KulturA, Liège (Belgique) 🇧🇪
16/06/2023 @ Insula Festival, France
17/06/2023 @ La Marbrerie, Montreuil
30/06/2023 @ Sacré, Paris
15/07/2023 @ Terrazza, Barcelona 🇪🇸
22/07/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
20/08/2023 @ Mazette, Paris / Amour sur Seine 
23/09/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
28/10/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
25/11/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad Grand Format + Guests
15/12/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad


Past Gigs : 
Paris => Cabaret Sauvage, Trabendo, Rex Club, Badaboum, La Java, Mazette, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, La Prairie Du Canal, Petit Bain, Nexus, La Madrague Festival, Palais de Tokyo, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Silencio, ZigZag, La Clairiere, Wanderlust, Nuits Fauves, Double Vie, Pamela, Virage,  Le Monseigneur etc...

France => Calvi On The Rocks, Cabourg Mon Amour, We Love Green, Sarcus Festival, Tres cool Festival-Deauville, Highfive Festival-Annecy, Briques Rouges Festival-Lille, Bains Numeriques Festival-Enghien, Macadam Nantes x2, Lieu Unique Nantes, Le Sucre Lyon x3, Le Terminal Lyon, Le Petit Salon Lyon, Iboat Bordeaux x3, Chapiteau Marseille, 1988 Live Club Rennes, Gare Saint Sauveur Lille x2, Ostra Nancy, Grenoble Campus, La Bobine Grenoble, Angers, Nuit Blanche Saint Denis etcetc...

Europe => London x4 , Manchester x3, Leeds x2, Edinburgh, Berlin x3, Hamburg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm x2, Copenhagen, Geneve x4, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich x4, Bern, Lucern, Madrid x2, Ronda, Barcelona, Porto, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Vilnius x2, Palanga, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow etc...

PREMIERE : Mark Hawkins - Let It Slide feat. Jamie Lidell

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