Martin Buttrich - Meeting Dave Dish

Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint on many big ticket artists, notably receiving a Grammy nomination for a Tori Amos remix in 2003. Such diverse musical horizons are rare. While other prolific artists may have slowly watered down their music, Buttrich’s star has risen in diametric opposition. His vision has become more and more condensed, more and more crystallised. Flipping and puncturing grooves in a live setting is a snap for him, and he’s entranced audiences at festivals like Time Warp and Creamfields, at temples of boom such as Fabric (London), Womb (Tokyo), Cocoon (Frankfurt), Panorama Bar (Berlin) and Amnesia (Ibiza) and at worldwide Desolat Experience parties with Loco Dice.

Buttrich’s journey into electronic music began in clubs in Berlin and Hannover at the dawn of the ‘90s, when post-Summer of Love-Europe began to swing to its own hypnotic, machine-like groove. At 18 years old he began experimenting with production as X-Rotation (with Daniel Bross), which led to the projects Rhythm Assault, Sounds of Life and Phunk Diggazs (with engineer Andy Bolleshon).

Buttrich began a notorious collaboration with his then co-worker at Peppermint Jam distribution, Timo Maas, in the mid-‘90s (they worked the telephones together). After setting up his first studio in the basement of the Peppermint Park studio building, the partnership led to over 100 co-productions and remixes that included Madonna, Muse, Fatboy Slim. Josh Wink and Green Velvet. Buttrich has produced funk legend Bootsy Collins, while switching the patterns for artists including Tom Jones, Kelis, Moloko, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Yello, War and Roger Sanchez. His Azzido Da Bass “Dooms Night” remix with Timo Maas hit the UK top ten charts.
 
All the while he created an impressive library of beats and collected an arsenal of music production equipment for his studio in Timetools, a studio complex founded in 1997 in Hannover with a group of musicians. Buttrich is happy with the subtle crunch of an SP-12 sampler and the ‘smoky’ vibe of his analog mixing desk – adding a bass guitar or other instrument when necessary. But he’s not above having fun with a laptop either: approaching music programs as if they were video games. He doesn’t rely on any one machine or music composition technique, and his array of outboard gear is mouth-wateringly state of the art.
But he never loses touch with the gritty, human side of music, and the environments that it is played in.

Another key musical partnership, with Loco Dice, begun in 2002, undoubtedly inspired Buttrich to delve deeper into the musical histories that first lured him towards after-dark melodies. In a short space of time they’d built up a deep discography creating an era-defining sound in the process. They spent more than half a year living in New York in 2006/2007, with half of Buttrich’s studio set up in a rickety hideaway in Brooklyn that looked out over Manhattan’s vistas. Between late night production sessions and snowstorms, their Desolat label came to life.

Having his debut solo album Crash Test released on Desolat in early 2010, Martin Buttrich is taking his vision to the road, fusing wild imagination with solid musical architecture, cherry-picked inspiration with true perfection of his musical craft. 

Since then constantly on tour, in 2011 Martin Buttrich still has dropped a remarkable collection of music - productions like “Fire Files” EP on Desolat or remixes for Marco Carola and Lee Curtis amongst others.

Currently based in LA, Martin Buttrich is working on his second artist album and a jazz project called The Stoned Autopilot.

Stay tuned.

FIESTA? : discjockeyjei@gmail.com


Hey everyone, 

I'm Jason and I love making people dance but I like to say: I am more dancer than DJ.

I was born in Colombia and I'm influenced by a strong latin culture, especially by dance and joy.
I moved to Spain and it was in Madrid in 2019 (at the “Paraiso” festival) when I discovered electronic music. I was captivated by the musical variety and above all by the fact that the dancers were focused on the music and respected everyone who wanted to get on the dance floor. This took me back to the parties at my grandmother's house in Colombia, where everyone was welcome, endless dances between people who met for the very first time and a magical shared joy.
Since then the curiosity appeared very smoothly and little by little I was getting into the electronic culture.
I had the opportunity to have my first gigs in Madrid and some raves in Tenerife that led me to develop a deeper curiosity which made me move to Berlin. 
Now Berlin is giving me a new and fresh musical knowledge, where I love to go dancing and discover new artists, new ideas of how to make a set and how to make people dance.
That's my only goal.

Experience:

27.09.2025  • HUGS, Berlin
30.08.2025  • Memories Paradise, Komrad Radio Show, London
21.06.2025   • Fête de la Musique, KALLE, Berlin
06.06.2025  • Skalar Festival, Helenesee (Brandenburg)
17.05.2025   • Serpiente Cósmica, ÆDEN Berlin
16.04.2025  • Mix & Selecta x Leontinoi UNDRGRND
28.09.2024 • Komrad Radio x Zarabat, Berlin
09.08.2024 • LUFTIKUSS Festival, Vienna
20.04.2024 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Madrid
09.04.2024 • Backside Radio, Berlin
21.12.2023 • (P)Re.Set, Madrid
09.12.2023 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Madrid
02.12.2023 • WOBE, Madrid
14.10.2023 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Berlin 
08.07.2023 • Rave, Vienna 
05.03.2023 • (P)Re.Set, Madrid
03.03.2023 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Madrid
10.07.2022 • Re.Set, Madrid 
22.05.2022 • Vivir Sabroso x Serpiente Cósmica,  Lavapiés Madrid
01.05.2022 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Madrid
01.04.2022 • Serpiente Cósmica x Guacamayo Tropical, Madrid


(*)Also countless hours making people dance at afters, private parties, weddings, birthdays, spontaneous opportunities just because I had the usb in my pocket and even one ping pong tournament...