Stacey Pullen - Any Which Way (Martin Buttrich Red Mix)

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.

🖋️ zehlendorferdiscosquad@gmail.com
Founders of https://soundcloud.com/disco-futurismo

Upcoming:

15.11.2025 Disco Futurismo @ JK
12.12.2025 Disco Futurismo @ Crack Bellmer
13.12.2025 Rosa, Greifswald

Past:

09.10.2025 Disco Futurismo x Acide Technotheka @ Renate
21.09.2025 Strandiphos, Berlin
20.09.2025 Private, Berlin
19.09.2025 Disco Futurismo @ Crack Bellmer
08.09.2025 Mystic Creatures Festival
21.08.2025 Disco Bizarre x Disco Futurismo @ Klunkerkranich
03.08.2025 Schallmauerfall Festival
24.07.2025 Mit Dir Festival
09.06.2025 Jimmy Kniffel
07.06.2025 Studio 54 @ Wurzelfestival
30.05.2025 Disco Futurismo invites: LIFTED @ Crack Bellmer 
21.04.2025 Strandiphos
24.01.2025 Crack Bellmer (2 Yrs of Disco Futurismo)

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2024

31.12.2024 Anomalie, Berlin
30.12.2024 Renate (Disco Futurismo x Acide Technotheka)
25.10.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
05.10.2024 Jimmy Düppel, Berlin
02.10.2024 Mena (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
08.09.2024 Strandiphos, Berlin
23.08.2024 AVA Club (Biscotti Disco Affair), Berlin
25.07.2024 Klunkerkranich (Disco Bizarre), Berlin
21.06.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
09.06.2024 HIVE Festival, Ferropolis
08.06.2024 Zurück zu den Wurzeln, Niedergörsdorf
05.04.2024 Crack Bellmer (Disco Futurismo), Berlin
22.03.2024 Aeve, Berlin
09.03.2024 Sisyphos, Berlin
01.03.2024 Waschhaus, Potsdam
13.02.2024 Süss war gestern, Berlin
11.01.2024 Renate, Berlin
06.01.2024 Kater Blau, Berlin
04.01.2024 Zu Mir oder zu Dir, Berlin

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2023

31.12.2023 Sisyphos, Berlin
22.12.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
24.11.2023 Alte Münze, Berlin
16.09.2023 Bredouille Bar, Berlin
15.09.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
01.09.2023 Evolution Festival, Garlin
13.08.2023 Buschtanz Festival, Tutow
05.08.2023 Sektor Evolution, Dresden
29.07.2033 Kater Blau, Berlin
27.07.2023 Renate, Berlin
15.07.2023 Feel Festival, Bergheider See
16.06.2023 Meeresrausch Festival, Peenemünde
02.06.2023 Birgit, Berlin
01.06.2023 Renate (Garten), Berlin
06.05.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
15.04.2023 Kit Kat Club, Berlin
11.02.2023 Christa Kupfer, Berlin
19.01.2023 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
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2022

02.09.2022 Evolution Festival (Planet B)
26.08.2022 Waldrauschen Open Air, Potsdam
05.08.2022 HIVE Festival (Lost Cabin)
16.07.2022 Feel Festival (Nest)

Born and raised in the early nineties in southwest Berlin, these two did not yet know that their paths would once cross one another. 25 years and plenty of DJ-Gigs later, they stood next to one another at a Home Party in Zehlendorf. The circumstances were not the best: really old CDJs, an extremely small DJ booth and another Covid-lockdown about to occur. However, they had a bag full of cosmic tunes, their Disco-finger on lock and a Rhubarb-Prosecco-Mixture filled in their glasses. Since then, the two have been drifting around weightlessly between Cosmic-, Dark- and Astrological Disco.

In the last couple of years the Zehlendorfer Disco Squad has been playing at Festivals such as the Feel Festival, Meeresrausch- and Wurzelfestival. 2023 has seen the rise of their new event series "Disco Futurismo" and regular gigs at renowned clubs such as Sisyphos, Kater Blau, Renate (Berlin) or Sektor (Dresden). Lets see where the cosmic journey takes them in 2025!

Espacio para compartir un poco de mi sonido…