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skkatter — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:51:57 +0000

Well hello there everybody! I'm DJing this Saturday (the 17th of July 2010: The Year We Make Contact) in my regular haunt, Dr. Pong, Eberswalder Strasse 21, Berlin, Germany. I'll be starting at about 10pm and the music will go on 'till the break of down, or until I die from overheating or both, or neither. It's complicated!

I'm also DJing at Kleine Reise on the 30th of July, advance warning there, save the date and don't be late.

Wika wika wika

skkatter — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:29:34 +0000

Hello! I'm going to be DJing at The Bernard Shaw, Dublin, Ireland this Saturday (the 26th of June) with the incredible Nic James at the Toejam night. I first met Nic back in 2003 while he was running a night called Nylon with Famous Eno in a club called Traffic (now called The Twisted Pepper). Nic and Eno asked me for a mix back then with a view to having me play their club and according to Nic my mix was the only one they ever listened to all the way through! :) (I think that's a good thing?) Anyway Nic asked me for a new mix this time so I recorded the one below for him. It's all under 115 bpm and is a mix of old electrofunk, freestyle and some weirder Skam Records-ish stuff thrown in for good measure:

skkatter - Shawfunk 2

Tracklist:
1) Boards of Canada - Oirectine [Warp] + Mantronix - Fresh Is The Word (a capella) (pasted together before mixing, slightly cheating!)
2) Ultramagnetic MCs - Ego Tripping [Serious Records]
3) Gescom - Mag [Skam]
4) Luke Vibert - LFO [Warp] (Yes it is Luke Vibert doing his version of the classic LFO track)
5) Boards of Canada - Nlogax [Skam]
6) Two Live Crew - What I Like [Fresh Beat Records]
7) Warp 9 - Master Of The Mix [4th & Broadway]
8) Harlequin Four's - Set It Off [Jus Born Records]
9) Autechre - Inhake 2 [Warp]
10) Byron Davis & The Fresh Krew - Now Dance [4 Sight Records]
11) Rock Master Scott And The Dynamic Three - Request Line [Dominion]
12) Jellybean - Sidewalk Talk [Dominion]
13) High Fidelity Three - B-Boys Breakdance [Cutting Records]
14) Brothers Plonk - Shoot [Black Label]
15) Warp 9 - Nunk [Prism Records]
16) Elecktroids - Mystery World [Warp]
17) Imperial Brothers - We Dub To Scratch (Be Bop Scratch Mix) [Streetwave]
18) Her Bad Habit - Do [Citinite]

Drop down to the Bernard Shaw if you're in Dublin next Saturday! I'll probably be heading in to catch the end of Alden Tyrell in The Twisted Pepper afterwards if all goes to plan!

White Russians

skkatter — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:12:06 +0000

I'm playing at the Kleine Reise cocktail party this Thursday (the 13th of May): http://www.kr-club.com/

"Free before Midnight, 5 Euro after!

Pakalolo Soundlab (Berlin, Venezuela)
PCL (Berlin)
Skkatter (Dr. Pong)
Patrick Reddy ( Kleine Reise)

Pakalolo Soundlab come down to the club on this rather Tropical Thursday, brining a taste of the beach with them to herald the start of the Berlin summer (come on sun, come on!). So, arm yourself with one of our world famous cocktails and head down to the dancefloor - but no sunglasses, ok?

PCL is a Berlin-based DJ, who impressed us with his recent balearic mix. Get another cocktail there!

Skkatter has been playing quality music ever since we've known him (thats way back in Dublin days, dontcha know?). He seems to know every track in the world ever made, so expect only the best. His favourite cocktail is a Mojito (unconfirmed).

Patrick 'Rimshot' Reddy will be rewarding the early-comers with the sort of delectable cuts that only such a debonair gent could provide. Needless to say - he loves cocktails..."

DJDJDJDJDJD

skkatter — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:05:41 +0000

Bit late notice but I'm DJing in my local Dr. Pong tonight from 10pm-ish until they throw me out. Directions on their website, seeya down there!

Should be green not yellow

skkatter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:05:01 +0000

Bit late notice but I'm playing at this tonight:

"St. Patrick's Day at Kleine Reise
Spreewaldplatz 8
10999 Kreuzberg
Berlin
(U1 Gorlitzer)

A load of deadly Irish lads having a laugh celebrating their favourite day with a load of deadly Irish DJs playing all day and night.
Italia 90' on the big screen and you ain't cool unless you wear your green!

Music from da lads:
Dara O'Neill (Kleine Reise)
Patrick Reddy (Kleine Reise)
Peter Power (Kleine Reise)
Jay Alexander (Kleine Reise)
Foxx (Kleine Reise)
Mano Le Tough(Mirau, Internasional, Passion Beat)
The Drifer(Passion Beat)
Stephen Hennelly (that's me in case you didn't know)"

I won't be there until about 8pm due to work unfortunately!

B-Day Electro H'Action

skkatter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:49:38 +0000

It's my birthday on the 14th of March (same date as Einstein's, E to the MC squared!) so to celebrate I'm DJing in Dr. Pong (Eberswalder Strasse 21) this Saturday night (the 13th, unlucky for some!) playing Mantronix, Man Parrish and other electro artists whose name have "Man" in them somewhere.

Also my friend Serge will be playing too, probably when I get too drunk and fall over. It's free in as always and there's a table tennis........er........table there so you can play that too!

I'm DJing this Saturday, Warp Records tunes all night

skkatter — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:05:41 +0000

I'm using the name "Splitradix" nowadays for some reason. It's easier to spell correctly than my old name! Problemchild is a friend of mine who designed this poster/flyer! It's a Warp Records special night, we'll only be playing tracks that have been released on Warp. Hope to see some of you there. Dr. Pong is on Eberswalder Strasse 21, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.

f(x) where x = your love

skkatter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:02:34 +0000

Last night I braved the Arctic Berlin winter conditions to see Jimmy Edgar play live at Berghain's little sister venue: Berghain Kantina. This was a joint venture with the Killekill club and Leisure System, alias N>E>D who runs the Littlebig booking company.

A good crowd made it out despite the snow, ice and minus 10 degrees C. Voltek and N>E>D appeared to be doing some kind of back to back DJing on laptops, mixing classic LFO track "Mentok 1" along with Autechre ("Pen Expers" and something off the Untitled album I think), Luke Vibert - "House Stabs" and lots of other interesting tracks I didn't spot.

Jimmy Edgar hopped on his own MacBook Pro at about 1:30am, starting off slow but funky and then ramping up to his signature "Midnight Star crossed with Dopplereffekt" style electrofunk. Playing live keys on a Moog Rogue and jumping on the mic every so often, he played quite a bit of either new music or old stuff I didn't recognise. Some of it was along the lines of his more experimental Private 1/3 and 2/3 on Semantica, but it was mostly the "Prince in the year 3000" sounds that got the crowd going, including the vocal version of the new "Function of Your Love" single and a personal favourite of mine "My Beatz". Hopefully he'll get more of this released in the near future! Here are some videos I took at the night:

Update: Jimmy Edgar has just uploaded a recording of this set over here: http://www.play.fm/event/killekillmeetsleisuresystem1. People don't even need to leave their homes any more! :o

Ping

skkatter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:09:13 +0000

I'm DJing at Dr. Pong this Friday the 5th of February. It's located at Eberswalder Strasse 21, Berlin and I'll be playing all the usual skkatter favourites (Midnight Star mixed with Dopplereffekt all night long perhaps!) Drop down and say hi if you're around. It's free in as always!

12 inches of pleasure

skkatter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:02:20 +0000

Recent record purchases:

1) Arabian Prince - Innovative Life: The Anthology (Stones Throw)
2) Phantom Slasher - Skullvolley (Noid)
3) The Son Of Cybotron - Lost n' Found EP (Dbass)
4) Ideograma / Acid Future Overdose - Exobiology (Semantica)
5) Various Artists - Archive Series 01 (Direct Beat Archive)
6) Patrick Adams - Phreek (Phreek)
7) Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - Frictionalism (Rush Hour) [Four vinyl disk collection of all his classics!]
8) Jimmy Edgar - Private 2/3 (Semantica)
9) Marco Bernardi - Switches, Drawers And Washing Machines (Frustrated Funk)
10) Autechre - Oversteps (Warp) [this is a pre-order, I haven't actually got the vinyl yet)
11) - 16) Balkan Vinyl Colour Series, a subscription service where they send me out one new record a month, check out their website: http://www.balkanvinyl.com/