MUTEK MX Edición 15

LAO (MX) - @Lao
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)

WHO: Producer Lauro Robles
STYLE: Tribal, Global Bass
RECENT WORK: fake dói (2019), Bájalo(2019), Guaya Remix (2019), Solo (2018), Time to Waste (2018), Talk (2018), Protective Core EP (2017) 
LABELS: NAAFI Records, Extasis Records

Under his alias LAO, producer and DJ Lauro Robles gets carried away with drum & bass, rap, and reggaetón in something that he himself calls “Batido Oscuro.” As a key member of NAAFI, LAO has led some of the most authentic expressions of Mexico City nightlife in recent years, supporting an intense collective euphoria that overflows from clubs, parades, and festivals. For Edition 15, LAO present his live performance for the first time.

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MUTEKLIVE171 - Lao

NATHAN FAKE (UK) @nthnfk

WHO: British producer Nathan Paul Fake
STYLE: Atmospheric tech-house, experimental downtempo
LATEST: Sunder, (Ninja Tune, 2018)
LABELS: Border Community, Ninja Tune

With the release of the EP, Sunder (Ninja Tune, 2018), Nathan Fake arrives at year XV of his career with his sound in full form. Implacable techno makes its way between the ethereal and emotional density of ambient and lo-fi that have characterized Fake since “The Sky was Pink”, a 2003 track devoted to DJ sets by James Holden. Fake’s discography is a kaleidoscope, each installment of which shows new forms and nuances in a combination of hard rhythms and dreamy textures. Performances, either live or as a DJ, transform into ceremonies uniting dance fans of Boards of Canada, Seefel, and Fennez with fans of The Field, Squarepusher and the most clinging of techno-heads. Six years after its presentation at MUTEK.MX Edition (2012), an exciting reunion awaits in November, with Fake as part of the Ninja Tune roster after performing one of the most outstanding acts at summer festivals like Dekmantel, Green Man and Roskilde.

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MUTEKLIVE172 - Nathan Fake

Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce (US + MX) 

WHO:  Producers @AMAZONDOTCOM Stella Ahn (Los Angeles) and @sietecatorce Marco Polo Gutiérrez (Mexicali)
STYLE: tribal, dubstep, global bass, glitch, IDM  
RECENT WORK: Teardopz EP (Nostro Hood System, 2018) 
LABELS: SUBREAL

International Tribe / Siete Catorce Starting at the age of 22, Siete Catorce is the alternative project of producer and experimentalist Marco Polo Gutierrez. Through initially taking inspiration from new cumbia, the artists sound began to form a unique and signature style, with a mesh of tropical rhythms and intricate drum works. Taking influences from the techniques of dubstep, drum n bass, and footwork (to name a few), Siete Catorce has quickly scaled the ranks of Mexico’s electronic music elite.

With releases on labels such as Cocobass, Naafi, Enchufada, and Hypermedium, the Mexico native also produces under the alias Den5hion, an airy and lugubrious portrayal of dubstep, with influences from the likes of Burial and Sin Amigos. For his International Tribe mix, the Mexican artist explores the realms of tropical rhythms with experimental, glitchy and killer cuts.

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MUTEKLIVE173 - Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce

Microhm & Milena Pafundi (MX + AR) 

WHO: Artist and producer Leslie Garcia (Mexico) and visual artist Milena Pafundi (Argentina)
STYLE: Ambient techno, live A/V
LATEST RELEASE: Inmaterial Energy Waves by Microhm, Eternal Night, (Static Discos 2018) by Microhm

Microhm is but one of the sonorous pseudonyms of Mexican artist, Leslie García, known for her work in the media arts as part of the collectives, Interspecifics and Astrovandalistas. In the world of experimental electronics, she’s released work as LogarDecay on labels like Umor Rex (Mexico) and HayleTapes (France). With Microhm, García has developed electronic music that derives from influences like new wave, noise, and techno, and from a perspective of abstraction complemented by improvisation sessions. These make for an always-changing and dislocated live act. The debut EP, Eternal Night, is to be edited by the Mexican label, Static Discos.

Milena Pafundi is a transdisciplinary artist based in Buenos Aires. She works in audiovisual media across live performance, installation, theatre and dance. She also brings a profound interest in social issues, human rights and gender advocacy to her creations, working freelance in cultural projects related to art and technology and as a video journalist. She founded the Articiclo Collective and teaches visual arts from a gendered perspective.

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MUTEKLIVE174 - Microhm & Milena Pafundi

Gaspar Peralta (MX) - @gasparperalta
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)

WHO: Producer and composer Gaspar Peralta (Tijuana)
STYLE: Ambient, Neo Classical, Experimental
LATEST RELEASE: Entre el clamor a coro de las estrellas del alba LP (Static Discos, 2018)

Pianist, Composer and Sound Artist, Peralta’s work has developed through multiple practices; free improvisation, composition, electroacoustic music, experimental music, and sound installation. As an instrumentalist, he specializes in the interpretation of polyphonic works and contemporary music. His first LP, Entre el Clamor a Coro de las Estrellas del Alba, was recently released by Static Discos.

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MUTEKLIVE175 - Gaspar Peralta

Marcel Dettmann (DE) - @marceldettmann
Saturday November 24, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: German DJ and Techno producer, Berghain resident and staff from the record store Hard Wax
STYLE: Hard Techno, Dub Techno y EBM Techno
LATEST: Test-File EP
LABELS: Ostgut Ton, Marcel Dettmann Records, 50Weapons

Dettmann is one of the definitive figures of contemporary German Techno. One of the most iconic performers to grapple with the current standing of Techno music, one needs to review all of the experiences that have placed Dettmann in this position as the spokesperson for the German dance scene. From his first experiences as a record seller in the former East Germany of the late 1990s, to being the go-to representative of Berlin's legendary Hard Wax record shop, he was also resident DJ at the famed club, Berghain. Dettmann has been there at every key moment in the history of German Techno.
Crude, hard, and with no sense of the taboo, Dettmann's mystique is still always shrouded. A living force of the vertical, direct, brutal aesthetic that's proved transcendent around the world, he's been chosen to remix Moderat, Junior Boys, Fever Ray, Ellen Allien, Clark and even the emblematic Laibach in the era after industrial music. His mixes for labels like Fabric, Music Man, and Berghain, are proof of the versatility that always arrives and crushes, upward, with an authentic aesthetic that's timeless and guided by a practical intuition flowing ever forward.

MUTEKLIVE176 - Marcel Dettmann

Bioluminik (MX) - @bioluminik
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producers Liz Gómez & Ivonne Valdez (Mexico City)
STYLE: Dark ambient, deep atmospheres, live A/V
LATEST RELEASE: Currently working on their debut EP for next year.

In 2015, producers Liz Gómez and Ivonne Valdez began a creative online exchange which resulted in their first sound works; glitches and hybrid textures to form soundscapes inspired by paintings and drawings. After some invitations from festivals, and a few successful encounters between coding and electronic music, they created Bioluminik, the alias under which they’ve focused on the creation of their own experimental narratives. With remixes of artists like Nima Ikki and deep conceptual pieces in audiovisual formats, Gómez and Valdez have taken a transdisciplinary approach to the aesthetic universe of Bioluminik, inspired mainly by the nature and aesthetics of error, and influenced by space music, drone, and dark ambient.

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MUTEKLIVE177 - Bioluminik

Robert Lippok (DE) - @robert-lippok
Saturday November 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: German producer Robert Lippok, founder of To Rococo Rot.
 STYLE: Minimal Pop, Abstract Kraut, Experimental Glitch 
LATEST RELEASE: Kubus (2019), Applied Autonomy (Raster-Norton, 2018) LABELS: Raster-Norton

Robert Lippok's sonic explorations and musical work channel and transform the rawness of his roots in the Industrial and Post-Punk scenes of East Germany and the newly unified Berlin, where he co-founded iconic bands Ornament, Verbrechen and To Rococo Rot. Converting all the baggage and energy into solo work resulted in broad body of work which draws that strength back to its most architectural and abstract forms. In Applied Autonomy (Raster Media, 2018), his first new release in seven year, Lippok takes a high modular technique toward a true "static frenzy", a vanishing point at which the work acquires the energy which transforms works with all the new layers and tones, and which progresses works ultimately toward their true autonomy. Under this principle, Lippok added collaborations with Luca Gutierrez on the art and visual aspects, and with Klara Lewis on the track "Samtal", a dual exploration of nearly fifteen minutes that extracts the sound of "applied autonomy" and juxtaposes the creative energies of both Lewis and Lippok.

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MUTEKLIVE178 - Robert Lippok

Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto pres. Bilingüe (MX) - @isaacsoto 
Saturday November 24, 2019 - NOCTURNE 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producer Isaac Soto and visual artist Cirrina Lab STYLE: Live A/V LATEST RELEASE: Bilingüe, Audio Visual Performance

In Bilingüe, the creative languages of producer Isaac Soto and biologist and visual artist Inés Gutiérrez come together from Gutiérrez’s Cirrina Lab. Both artists take naturalistic sampling as a pivotal part of their creative process: Cirrina Lab extracts images of microscopic living beings live, and transforms them into hypnotic, forceful animated pieces. Soto collects field recordings to fuse them into downtempo tracks replete with texture. And from this shared dynamic, Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto have generated an audiovisual range that swings between harmony and abstraction: a micro-macro cosmos of image and sound that reveals itself in the immersive experience. Among recent releases from both artists, highlights include the Cirrina Lab video clip for "All hands" from AMNL PRNT, and Soto’s EP,  El mítico manzano newtoniano (The Mythical Newtonian Apple Tree), with which he launched VAA, his recording label.

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MUTEKLIVE179 - Cirrina Lab & Isaac Soto

Prurient (US) - @prurientofficial
Friday 23, 2018 - NOCTURNE 1 (Fábrica)
WHO: Producer Dominick Fernow aka Vatican Shadow, founder of Hospital Productions
STYLE: Doom, Electronics, Dark Ambient
LATEST: Rainbow Mirror (Hospital Production, 2017)

Hospital Productions has been one of the most relevant gears within the world of experimental noise in recent years. Home to Kevin Drumm, Silent Servant, Ron Morelli, Merzbow, Dedekind Cut and dozens of others, it's where Dominick Fernow, the label head, developed his most notable project, Prurient. 20 years in, Prurient has found refuge within every variant of darkness, from industrial noise, to visceral vocal attacks, and even an exploration of dark meditative places. Fernow summarizes his style as “Doom Electronics” which start with the powerful and destructive dynamic of the dark side of the avant-garde and always avoiding touching bottom in their vertiginous falls. It leaves space for a contemplation of both texture and often suffocating frequencies.

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MUTEKLIVE180 - Prurient

Avalon Emerson (US) - @avalonemerson
Saturday November 24, 2018 - Nocturne 2 (Fábrica)
WHO: Composer, DJ and producer Avalon Emerson (San Francisco, based in Berlin)
STYLE: Abstract textures, euphoric techno atmospheres
LATEST: 'Whities 013' y 'Teenage Birdsong' (Avalon Emerson Scrub Jay Remix)
LABELS: Ghostly/Spectral Sound, Whities

MUTEKLIVE184 - Avalon Emerson

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