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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/

I miss you all

skkatter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:38:13 +0000

New analogue toy in town

skkatter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:23:08 +0000

I'd never heard of these guys before today: Niio Analog. They've got two products up so far, the first is the Iotine Core dual filter/saturator (reminds me of some kind of smoother stereo Sherman Filterbank?) and the second is a stereo saturator, presumably for making your signal a bit more "analogue" by making it go through loads of magic circuits of some kind (you can tell I'm a technological genius). My friend just bought the Iotine Core so I'll report back soon. From the way they misspell analogue I'd say they're American but there doesn't appear to be any address on their website. Nerding their domain gives a P.O. box in Sunnyvale, California!

The Scottish Player

skkatter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:31:06 +0000

Schneider's Buero, Berlin (and probably Europe's) best analogue synth related shop, are currently doing weekly workshops on Thursdays where they have a manufacturer, expert or inventor come in and talk about their latest product, give a demonstration and let you play with it. There's also a few free beers floating around! I dropped in last Thursday to see Ken MacBeth demonstrate his new 3U X-series modular synth and filter, and also the prototype of his X-Factor (not to be confused with the TV show, I doubt Simon Cowell will be buying one of these) keyboard. Ken gave a great technical talk without being too technical, and regaled us with lots of amusing stories from his past mostly involving analogue synthesis of some kind! Then we all went to the bar located conveniently beside the shop for more booze!

This Thursday's workshop features the Haken Continuum controller which will be demostrated by "happy user" Jan-Hinnerk Helms and the Thursday after will feature the Spectralis 2 hybrid synth and will be given by the synths maker Jorg Schaaf. (Sorry Jorg if you're reading this but I can't figure out how to make my Mac keyboard to the German umlaut over the o!)

If you're around in Berlin (and let's face it, pretty much everybody has moved over here now so you're pretty much definitely here) you should drop down as it's really fun and interesting. Niamh "Totally Wired" recorded Ken Macbeth's talk and it should be up on the interweb soon, check back here for a link!

Like an Irish Bar except better

skkatter — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:50:22 +0000

New Irish run club opening in Kruezberg, Berlin: http://www.kr-club.com/
Their opening night is this Friday, free in, can't go wrong!

Boing boom tsch

skkatter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:45:45 +0000

Hey hey! For those of you in Berlin I'm DJing at Dr. Pong this Saturday (the 21st of November, most depressing month of the year!). Expect a mix of all the records I ripped onto my hard drive over the past two years, I really like the new Luke Vibert album on Planet Mu so will probably play at least half of it. Free in as usual, Dr. Pong is at Eberswalder Str. 21 in Prenzlauer Berg! (it's literally 50 seconds walk from my place, handy local!)