Café Seven

Sudo - Sensation (System 7 Remix)

Fri Sept 28th - Cabbage 20th Anniversary, Hebden Bridge, UK
Sat Oct 20th - Café Seven Live, Under The Bridge, London UK
Sat Nov 19th - Shiiine Weekender (with Orbital), Minehead, UK

Café Seven, the new album from System 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy mixes 5 tracks from their chill-out project Mirror System with 5 more up tempo System 7 tunes, and features a System 7 collaboration with Marcus Henriksson (Minilogue / Son Kite) on ‘Million Suns' and a Mirror System collaboration with Ajja on ‘Smooth Operator’.  The album also features some high profile remixes by Steve and Miquette including Sudo’s 'Sensation (System 7 remix)’  and Joujouka’s ‘And Justice Killed  (System 7 remix)’ and a Mirror System remix of Six Degrees Records artists The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society on ‘Cloudface’.

X-Port - the latest album release of System 7 - presenting a unique combination of techno and trance beats and live musicianship. On October 16th 2015 A-Wave Records simultaneously released the full power System 7 X-Port album and the more chilled Mirror System album titled N-Port. This ambitious release plan celebrates the 21 year anniversary of System 7’s seminal Fire and Water dual albums, and presents the full range of Hillage and Giraudy’s work in the field of electronica.

Released March 2015:-  System 7 & Mirror System mini-album N+X - a trailer for the ambitious simultaneous dual album release of System 7's new album X-Port and Mirror System's new album N-Port planned for the autumn. This is a celebration of 21 years since the release of System 7's ground breaking Point 3 Fire album and Water album.

SYSTEM 7 released Out (dbl CD) - on 07-07-14 - The Definitive Single Remix Collection featuring remixes and collaborations by Richie Hawtin / Dubfire / Carl Craig /James Holden / Laurent Garnier / A Guy Called Gerald / A. Mochi / Liquid Soul / Son Kite / Alex Paterson / Voyager / Rovo / Evan Marc / Jam El Mar / Doc Scott

SYSTEM 7's previous release - the Passion EP - really hits the spot, showing that in 2013 they remain on top of their game with their unique blend of trance and techno.

The most recent full System 7 album UP (released May 2011) tips the balance a bit in a more techno and tech house direction, still showcasing the unique System 7 sound with ultra modern production and a feeling of positivity. The album was inspired by time spent in Berlin. The club single, taken from UP, is PositiveNoise, a collaboration with Berlin-based A Guy Called Gerald, and features a new deep techno remix from Carl Craig and a powerful remix from Japanese techno star A.Mochi. PositiveNoise also has great new Japanese animation video clip

SYSTEM 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy have had a strong influence on the birth of psychedelic dance music and it’s journey up to the present, forging a unique and bang up-to-date identity on the genre map, in a space where techno, progressive and trance meet – with a healthy side-element of unique quality ambient chill which is connected and reflected in their sister project Mirror System. 

Since the beginning of the 90s System 7 projects have been marked by a series of high powered collaborations, working with Detroit luminaries Derrick May and Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, The Orb, Jam El Mar, Son Kite among others. System 7’s club singles have had outstanding remixes from the likes of Plastikman, James Holden and Dubfire, whose mix of Space Bird was number one on Beatport’s main chart for 2 weeks in 2008.

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SUDO (Drumcode, Cocoon, Tronic) 
SUDO is a Live act and production team made up of Japanese brothers Isao and Takashi Sudo. Their techno sound is one that they have carefully fomented over the last two decades having first started out playing rock, jazz and new wave. After visiting hotspots like Rotterdam, Ibiza and Berlin in 2012, Isao decided to move his base to Berlin. 2016 was huge for SUDO with his Monogram EP on grammy awards producer Dubfire’s SCI+TEC which became a hit, was played by top DJs on dance floors all around the world, and led to them getting tapped up for many more new releases. These came on MINUS, Break New Soil, Octopus, in turn increasing their notoriety in Europe, North and South America. Gaining support from Adam Beyer, Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier. Following SUDO's 2016 live debut with Dubfire SCI+TEC Showcase OFF Week Sonar, touring India and Australia, and he had big success in famous Cacao Beach in Bulgaria, then, many people on the dance music scene have high expectations of Japan's latest electronic live/DJ act, 
After 2023 is huge for them that released Cocoon, Tronic, then released “Real World EP“ on Drumcode. The track “ Real World“ got the number one spot in Beatport’s Techno (Peak Time / Driving) Chart. As collaboration, they have worked with Bart Skills, Jam El Mar (Jam & Spoon) Ken Ishii. Also They are well aware of that and promise to continue to break new ground going forwards. 

神戸出身の須藤崇と須藤功からなる実の兄弟DJ/プロデューサーユ ニット、SUDO。80年代のパンクロックをルーツとし、共にバンド活動で 音楽キャリアをスタートさせ、ロック、ジャズ、ニューウェーブ、クラッシッ クといった多ジャンルから多種多様な影響を受けるなか、90年代初頭に Sven Väth、Underworldなどのレコードに出会ったことでダンスミュージッ クにのめり込んでゆく。当時テクノトランスと呼ばれていたそれらの音源は彼 らに多大な衝撃を与え、これらの音楽を求め世界中のイベントを旅すること となる。また、当時関西エリアにはこういったイベントが殆どなく、複数の イベントを2人でオーガナイズしはじめる。なかでも98年に大阪・名村造 船所跡で行われた"TELEKTONON"が成功を収めローカルシーンでも注目され ることとなる。後にイベント名を"BLISSDOM"と改名し、関西、東海エリア にてシーンの拡大に貢献していく。
2011年にINDIGO名義でアルバムをリリース。イビサ のLas Daliasや韓国の名門クラブ"Volume"を単独で満員にしたり、ダンスミ ュージック販売サイトのKing Beatのトランス部門で1位を獲得するなど、音 楽制作でも目覚ましい才能が開花するなか、同年にテクノの楽曲制作に特化 したユニット、"SUDO"名義で活動をスタートさせる。SUDOのライブ活動の 中でも特に注目を集めたのは、喜多郎、ブライアン・イーノ、ヴァンゲリスな どの世界的に著名なアーティストたちが演奏してきた天河大弁財天社での数々 の奉納演奏に参加し、その経験が後にSUDOに音楽的にも多大な影響を与え ることとなる。2012年にはロッテルダム、イビサ島、ベルリンなどの滞在をきっかけに、Isaoはその活動拠点をベルリンに移すこととなる。数年の 昼夜を問わない音楽制作とパーティーでのデモ曲のプロモーション活動に明 け暮れるなか、彼らの才能がDeep Dishとしても有名であり、テクノ最重要レ ーベルのひとつである"SCI+TEC"主宰のDUBFIREの目に留まる。15年6月 には同レーベルから"MONOGRAM EP"のリリースが決定。これを機にイビサ をはじめとした世界中のトップクラブでSUDOのサウンドがヘヴィープレイさ れるきっかけとなり、Dubfireは一年以上の異例ともいえる期間彼らのヒット 曲”Invisible Space”をプレイし続けた。その後も、イタリアDeeperfect、 Agile、フランスScander、UKのNight Light RecordsやENTER.Ibiza CD、 スペインのStick Recordings、Selected Records、ハンガリーSet About、 Darkface Recoerdingsなど各国主要レーベルからリリースが続き、ヨーロッ パのみならず、北米・南米・アジア・オーストラリアからの多大な注目を浴び ている。さらにリミックスのオファーをエレクトロニックミュージックの伝 説的ユニットSystem7をはじめ、Alberto Ruiz、Andres Kampo、Gaga & Mateo!、Oscar Aguilera他多数から受け、2018年にはNicole Moudaber、Secret CinemaのレーベルMood Records、Gem Recordsから のEPをリリース。テクノのトップアーティストRichie Hawtin、Adam Beyer やPan-Potらのサポートを受け、世界各国のレーベルから日々楽曲提供やリミ ックス依頼が後を絶たない。またファッションブランドのルイ・ヴィトンや ミズノなどへの楽曲提供とダンスミュージックという枠を超えた活動も注目 されている。 2015年に待望のライブデビューを果たした彼らは、ageHa やバルセロナSonarでのSCI+TEC ShowcaseでDubfireとの共演、オランダの ビッグネームEgbertとのツアー、2018年には世界的に有名なブルガリアのト ップクラブCacao Beachでのギグを大成功させ、ヨーロッパを中心に、日本 人ライブアクトとして世界を舞台にした更なる活躍が期待されている現在最 注目のアーティストである。

MHB,  a guitar player and electronic musician with vision that likes many types, styles & concepts. " Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."  Leonardo da Vinci. That statement can be directly applied to all the different styles and genres of today's modern electronic music. How they all relate and connect to each other and are composed of each other's elements. Enjoy the music and thanks for listening.

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built.In Detroit techno resulted from the melding of African American music including Chicago house, funk, electro, and electric jazz with electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Yellow Magic Orchestra.Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, with Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave being a notable point of reference. Pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Toffler's phrase "techno rebels" as inspiring him to use the word techno to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the aesthetic referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality.In this manner: "techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness".

Stylistically, techno is generally repetitive instrumental music, oftentimes produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note. The tempo tends to vary between approximately 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm), depending on the style of techno. The creative use of music production technology, such as drum machines, synthesizers, and digital audio workstations, is viewed as an important aspect of the music's aesthetic. Many producers use retro electronic musical devices to create what they consider to be an authentic techno sound. Drum machines from the 1980s such as Roland's TR-808 and TR-909 are highly prized, and software emulations of such retro technology are popular among techno producers.

Music journalists and fans of techno are generally selective in their use of the term; so a clear distinction can be made between sometimes related but often qualitatively different styles, such as tech house and trance. "Techno" is also commonly confused with generalized descriptors, such as electronic music and electronic dance music.