I make noise and organize it in semi recognizable patterns.

Please send us demos using this webpage. Due to the volume of music that we receive, it is not possible for us to provide feedback to demos. We will contact you if we like it.

In an effort to give something back to the community (and influenced by an interview he saw with Mad Mike of Underground Resistance), Claude VonStroke unveiled a deeper techno label called “mothership.” A large percentage of the label’s proceeds go to a music school for children in Claude’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan.

Spawning from unassuming roots, the name Matt Herdman is one that has been popping up quite often on the radar of many electronic music enthusiasts, and artists alike, in the past year. The “small-town” Canadian knew at any early age that his passion for electronic music was more than a hobby, it was an obsession. This obsession grew into a desire for understanding as he became more and more immersed in what it meant to become a DJ, and ultimately a producer.

Growing up in a town outside of Windsor, Ontario with a miniscule population and an even smaller understanding of electronic music, Matt’s discovery of a sound that was “more appealing and expressive” began to take shape as he approached his late teens. By the time he reached 20, he sought out the tools and skills needed to become an electronic artist, instead of watching from the crowd. Consequently, purchasing turntables and learning to “DJ” didn’t quench his thirst for knowledge; he needed to know exactly how the music was made. Thus, Matt’s true development began as he discovered the technology behind EDM (electronic dance music) and started formulating his own collaborations with his music gear and his newfound love for production. While adding original elements that he had created himself to the music he was DJing, Matt found his calling and shortly thereafter began producing his own tracks. Ultimately, his focus on actually “creating” the music instead of simply “playing” it profoundly shaped the onset of the young artists’ career.

Inspired by artists such as Richie Hawtin, John Acquaviva, Dubfire and Oliver Huntemann, Matt began gaining confidence in his production as he incorporated it more often into his live sets. Interested to know how his work was measuring up to his influences, he sought one out at a local show. Living a short distance away in nearby London, Ontario, John Acquaviva had become a natural barometer for Matt’s progress as an electronic artist. Thus, when Matt slipped John a CD of some of his recent work, it undoubtedly became a pivotal turning point in his career. Impressed by what he heard, John soon asked Matt for additional tracks and signed his first work to one of the most credible electronic music labels in the industry, Definitive Records. With the initial release reaching the Top 100 Chart on the industry’s leading digital download website, Beatport.com, and being licensed to RockStar Games’ “Midnight Club Los Angeles” Matt knew this was no longer the “hobby” it started out to be.

Over the next year, Matt constantly kept up-to-date on the latest technology and various ways to differentiate himself and incorporate more of a “live” aspect into his sets. Using his laptop and controllers, Matt is one of the rare artists that is cognizant of the need to push his sound further. Recently he has performed with aforementioned artists John Acquavia and Oliver Huntemann, as well as acclaimed industry staples, Dubfire, Oliver Giacomotto, Paul Ritch, MSTRKRFT, Deadmau5, Delete (Sergio Munoz) and Anthony Attalla. In addition, he was recently chosen single-handedly by Dubfire to open for his SCI+TEC label party at WMC (Winter Music Conference) 2009. His production can be frequently found amidst the Top 100 Charts at Beatport.com and he is a resident performer at the Boom Boom Room (Windsor, Ontario). Clearly, Matt Herdman is one to watch in 2010 and beyond.

LUTZENHOUSE is the new housemusic 
project of Tobias Lutzenkirchen. 

For now, bookings via: www.lutzenkirchen.com

ATAXIA: The tooth in your jewelry box.
Known for their oddball, reliable rave jams, Detroit based Ataxia is dropping their debut full-length album “Out of Step” in 2022 on acclaimed indie label Life and Death. The album is an homage to their punk roots, with 12 tape saturated dance tracks featuring guest appearances by a handful of Detroit’s most respected house music producers. In addition, the group will be releasing new records on 20/20 Vision and Cynosure, as well as a follow up EP on Life and Death later in the year.

Ataxia has releases on imprints including Planet E, !K7, KMS, Visionquest, Nervous & Leftroom, and their music appeared on recent albums by Carl Craig & Stacey Pullen.

The pair behind the name, Ataxia’s Rickers & Ted Krisko are in constant collaboration with Mister Joshooa, with whom the band founded a vinyl-only record label, My Baby Recordings. Elusive but mighty, the output of the label has made it into the bags of some of our planet’s finest wax proliferators, and has music in their catalog from a strong crew of serious heads.

Their discography features collaborative work alongside fellow Detroiters DJ Minx, Andrés, Norm Talley, Terrence Parker & Merachka, and E Spleece. Remix and edit work of their cuts coming from Delano Smith, Luke Hess, Ryan Crosson & Shaun Reeves, Matt Tolfrey, Ralph Lawson, SIS & Jamie Jones.

Tracks by the duo have been aired on BBC Radio 1, Ministry of Sound, Circoloco Radio, Ultra Resistance, Defected, and a slew of terrestrial stations across the globe.

On the DJ front, Ataxia are hosts of a forthcoming music series on Ibiza based OpenLab FM, hold court as curators on the UK’s Threads Radio, recently recorded a mix of all originals for fabric in London, as well as sets for WWFM, Deep House Amsterdam and Proton Radio. They are 13-year residents at the world-famous TV Lounge and host their regular “Friday Night Machines” party at Detroit’s Marble Bar institution, where Krisko has long resided as music director and booker.

As for their traveling roadshow, Ataxia is part of the Armigé Agency. The group’s standout sets at major festivals and clubs have earned them their reputation as crackshot party starters.

The gig rap sheet includes Movement Detroit, The BPM Festival, MMW / WMC, SXSW, Moogfest, Electric Forest & Burning Man, plus inclusion at carefully curated locales like Pike’s Ibiza, Berlin’s Sisyphos, Smartbar in Chicago, Output NYC, Electric Pickle in Miami, Audio SF & LA’s Standard Rooftop.

In your ear or in your face, despite the strong resume, they let the music do the talking. There’s the information...that’s the post.

Montreal producer. Runs Archipel Musique: www.archipel.cc
Don't send me messages or demos through Soundcloud's messages - because it sucks! 
Email me instead.

Bookings (worldwide)
+ Remix, production, podcast, artist representation, mentoring requests (same email)

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Booking: 
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<a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Octave's Upcoming Gigs </a>Saturday 19 April, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Silent Steps Label Night w/ Yan Cook, Twenty Fourteen, Dortmund, Germany</a> Friday 25 April, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Basic, Pigallion, Paris, France</a> Saturday 03 May, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ DOOR!, Ruigoord Church, Amsterdam (Ruigoord), Netherlands</a> Saturday 17 May, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ MTW Club, MTW Club, Offenbach (FFM), Germany</a> Saturday 07 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Gleis 9 w/ Yan Cook, Gleis 9, Bremen, Germany</a> Sunday 08 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Hartes Rauschen, Grune Rakete, Trier, Germany</a> Saturday 21 June, 2014 <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>Live @ Confused Techno Club, Confused Techno Club, Vienna, Austria</a> <a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/Octave' target='_new'>See the full listing here</a> <a href='http://www.gigatools.com' target='_new'>Powered by GigaTools</a> 
Octave is a Techno artist from France and the owner of "Silent Steps Records".

He grew up within a musical atmosphere and had his first experience with turntables in 2003 and thereafter concentrated more and more on a minimal approach to Techno, and started to produce by himself in early 2007. After his first steps into the techno field with some releases in 2007-2008, he was chosen by Richie Hawtin to take part of the "Sounds From Can Elles" project, and saw one of his track released on M_nus by the end of 2008.

Early 2009, he started to develop his own Live and to play in some clubs in Europe - including Tresor - with fantastic reactions to his sets on the dancefloor.

Fall 2010, Octave creates his own imprint with the label Silent Steps Records, several collaborations came out from this project already, with many talented artists from the Techno scene all around the globe like Drumcell, Audio Injection, Perc, Kyle Geiger, Ryuji Takeuchi, Luis Flores and many others.

Since 2010/2011, Octave has the chance to play a lot of gigs every months around Europe - also in the USA with a tour in April 2012 - and sometimes alongside very good artists like Speedy J, Cell Injection or Perc, including in his own label nights.

These days Octave continues to develop and is constantly evolving. His music combines a deep-rooted foundation of Techno underlined by stirring basslines and grooves, glitch moments, and hypnotic background atmospheres.

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