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.

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It’s not all about the music: it’s the vibe, it’s the joy, it's the feeling of all the people expressed through celebrating. The flow, the groove, the energy and most of all the togetherness.
Go lose yourself, and in that, feel again what it means to be alive.

Dates:
01I10I2022 Club Paula Dresden w/ Miyagi
14I08I2022 Fuchs*TeufelsWild / Dittersbach
31I07I2022 SimSalaBoom / Menkendorf
22I07I2022 - 24I07I2022 Camp Ahoi / Hagenwerder
25I06I2022 Rooftop / Elbhangfest Dresden
30I07I2021 - 01I08I2021 Camp Ahoi / Hagenwerder
10I07I2021 Schiff Ahoi / Dresden 
15I08I20 Club Paula / Dresden
18I07I20 Piratennest 
11I07I20 Schiff Ahoi / Dresden
27I12I19 B2B under the christmas tree @ Pumpenhaus Dresden
14I12I19 Quetschkommode @ Büro Paul Fröhlich Dresden
06I12I19 Pumpenhaus Dresden
03I11I19 Paul's Garden @ Büro Paul Fröhlich
17I08I19 Rooftop / Dresden
06I07I19 Schiff Ahoi / Dresden
15I06I19 BRN / Dresden
02I03I19 Under the Horst / Dresden
12I01I19 Schiff Ahoi Winternest @ Horst / Dresden
15I12I18 Hutznobnd @ Büro Paul Fröhlich Dresden
10I11I18 Elektronic under the Ground @ Horst / Dresden
06I10I18 Schiff Ahoi / Hamburg
15I09I18 Paul Fröhlich Garden / Dresden
21I07I18 secret
07I07I18 Schiff Ahoi w/ Gorge (8bit) 
09I06I18 Büro Paul Fröhlich / Dresden
29I12I17 Under the Horst / Dresden
16I12I17 Hutznobnd @ Büro Paul Fröhlich
21I11I17 Horst / Dresden
11I11I17 Paul Fröhlich Garden / Dresden
13I08I17 Sonntags Open Air 4/4 / Dresden
06I08I17 Paul Fröhlich's Elysium @ Büro Paul Fröhlich 
08I07I17 Schiff Ahoi Dresden w/ Dave Dinger (Kater Blau)
20I05I17 Rooftop / Dresden
22I04I17 tba
19I11I16 Büro Paul Fröhlich Closing
29I10I16 Paula Dresden w/ Thomas Lizzara
07I08I16 Ruhestörung Open Air Dresden
09I07I16 Schiff Ahoi Dresden w/ Dilivius Lenni
07I05I16 Ozon Pforzheim
22I04I16 SYRUP @ Paula Dresden w/ Dave Echo

These mixes are all done live and I publish what I record so they aren’t all perfect, never delete a mix because of a bad choice. Just a bit of fun.