One of Iowa’s cornerstone techno promoters, producers, deejays & iconic inspirators. For 16 years Matt has been rocking the system both on the road & at home in Iowa. When he takes to the stage there’s no denying the fact that he blatantly performs with the sole intent of fueling a passion for groove that he embraces with 100% conviction & dedication. He’s had the pleasure of playing alongside some of the biggest techno players on the planet & has held his own while leaving Iowa’s mark on the global techno circuit as somewhere that is absolutely NOT to be overlooked. Locally, he’s at the forefront of a movement, leading with torch in hand… Nationally, he takes to a bigger stage with the means to completely steal any show.
As a producer, his initial debut was released on Chicago’s Zuvuya Recordings label with partner & good friend Mustafa Avdic leading to a spotlight on Music Man’s ‘I Love Techno 2007’ compilation mixed by none other than the legendary Dave Clarke. A few years later Dustin Zahn featured his own rework of their ‘Them Crocks’ stormer on an Enemy Recordings remix EP released digitally as well as on vinyl. His original tracks & remixes have been signed by Klientele & Giant Squid while as the head of his own Solar Cathedral Recordings digital imprint he’s put out 19 releases featuring artists from all over the globe. His original tunes have received plays & support from all corners of the world while being hammered in front of some of the most well versed techno aficionados on the floor. While DJ’ing is Matt’s strong suit, he plans to accelerate his studio efforts in hopes of releasing more original music over the course of the upcoming years.
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For our next Blank Code podcast, it’s our pleasure to present Humanaut artist Paul Fleetwood. Paul is an contemporary techno and house DJ from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and co-founder of Humanaut and production assistant to Pittsburgh’s VIA.
Humanaut is a professional freelance production and DJ crew which has set its sights on creating a standard for up-front, forward-thinking music and events in Pittsburgh since its inception in 2006. Humanaut has built upon measurable success to represent Pittsburgh’s finest talent in house and techno music, and continues to showcase the world’s most renowned professionals in the industry, while maintaining a well respected standard in event production and taste. Enjoy this week’s mix by Paul Fleetwood.
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This week’s podcast comes to us from Black Asteroid. Black Asteroid is the brainchild of Bryan Black. Bryan started his career as a sound designer for Prince. While working with Prince at Paisley Park Studios, Bryan learned and honed sound and production skills which inspired him to start his own band. Bryan moved to London England and launched a band called MOTOR. The first MOTOR demo was quickly signed to Novamute. After 2 singles, MOTOR were catapulted to the top of the techno world, sharing stages with Daft Punk and Kraftwerk at major festivals, and later embarking on a World tour supporting Depeche Mode in 2009. In early 2011, Bryan decided to start Black Asteroid to showcase an exciting new sound.
You can catch Black Asteroid in Detroit this weekend at Scene.13
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This week we are happy to have NYC based techno duo, Dos Lokos. This recording was extracted from when they played for Twice as Proper earlier in June and exemplifies their mixing style, played in a Brooklyn warehouse at 7am. Dos Lokos is the staple act of the Erratic founders and resident DJs, Jason T. and LoKKoTRONN. They specialize in creating unique techno events in New York City and have a genuine passion towards DJing, where they feed off the energy from the crowd as well as from each other.
Since the inception of Erratic in 2011, they have worked with a diverse range of talented artists, which, across their events and acclaimed podcast series, include the likes of Perc, Pfirter, Inigo Kennedy, Makaton, and Ness among many others. You can catch them playing live this upcoming Saturday at the Blank Code Records Showcase at the Sullivan Room in NYC along side Drumcell, Luis Flores and Project 313. For now enjoy this week’s podcast by Dos Lokos.
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Victor Martinez is the owner of Psychoskunk Recordings, Producer, DJ and sound engineer, but also a reference in northern Spain about techno music, getting to play in several European cities like London, Leeds, Barcelona, Madrid. With a career that spans over a decade Victor has developed a unique and personal style and can be seen in particular dj sets that venture through the many subgeneres of electronic music. Victor has worked for foreign labels: Sect records (London-UK), Pohjola (Sweden), Shapeless (Italy) Etichetta Nera (Italy) Subsequent (Argentina), UTCH (Chile), D-Reflection (Netherlands), Lycaon (Spain) and various national Net-Labels.
Being faithful to his style and philosophy, Victor is in a continuous evolution betting for new sounds and new dimensions in the techno scene and bound to evolve in various fields of contemporary creation, as the soundtrack for the documentary (Thaidina música en el desierto) or several short films, trailers, commercials making off. His records and productions are regularly charted and played the likes of: Oscar Mulero, Claude Young, Luke Slater, Marcel Dettmann, Chris Liebing, DVS1, Xhin and many more. Nowadays, he explores a new project with the a.k.a “Error Etica” which has the essence on the deeper side of life. Experimental, deep and dark sounds, departure from the hard rhythmic on behalf of way of understanding techno now a days, a sound carefully crafted and skillfully developed.
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, an interest in electronic music seemed only natural for Gabriele Schwarz aka Gabi. As a talented singer and pianist from a young age, Gabriele built her musicality upon a foundation of music theory, technique, and diligent practice. Upon discovering the underground techno scene Detroit had to offer as a teenager, she found a pair of cheap turntables and taught herself to mix vinyl.
Inspired by the minimalistic micro-house sounds of the city, Gabriele began expanding her love for electronic music to include a wide array of genre and talent. With such a diverse range of musical interest, her sets can fluctuate anywhere from progressive to minimal, finding her niche in melodic techhouse with a deep feel. Gabriele has come far since her debut in early 2011: her Detroit residencies currently include A U X E T I C, Cultured Citizens, and Detroit label Mintec Musik. Her involvement with the Girls Gone Vinyl project began in 2011 and has since connected her with many female dj’s and producers around the world. As she evolves into a producer herself, Gabriele now goes solely by her nickname, Gabi (pronounced Gāh-bee).
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Today’s mix comes to us from local Detroit DJ/Producer Kero live at Abducted in Chicago’s Primary Night Club on March 9th, 2013. With over 20 releases on some of electronic music’s most celebrated and innovative labels such as Bpitch, Ghostly International and Shitkatapult and most recently Touchin’ Bass as well as his own critically acclaimed Detroit Underground Records, Kero has established a reputation for his unrepentantly brash, yet cultivated compositions and unforgettable live performances, most recently, alongside notables such as Speedy J, Ken Ishii and Funkstorung. Furthermore, he has established himself as a leader within the growing pack of electronic music producers successfully infiltrating contemporary art circles world wide.
His innovative approach to music, graphic design and video production feeds on the detritus of popular electronic culture, creating a montage of fleeting musical and visual experiences that are paradoxically critical and enamored with contemporary culture. Drawing on his experiences as a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Kero conducts visual and aural investigations that are concerned with ideas of the diametric and intermediary. Subsequently, the ephemeral nature of electronic culture, the “rave” experience and aesthetics offers a microcosm to explore similar elements in popular culture. The result is music that blurs genres from hip-hop to the most rarified of techno experiments, video art which stirs faint recollections of print and televised media, and a design language that has ingrained itself upon the most celebrated electro-cultural market in the world.
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Today we are giving you a live recorded mix from our recent Movement Electronic Music Festival after party “Interface 42 l Scene 10”, by Blank Code artist Altstadt Echo. He is a writer, producer, and DJ currently based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He has an upcoming EP on Blank Code, entitled The Rail Yard EP, featuring two original tracks paired with two remixes. He is also currently planning an event series “I AM NOT TO BE TRUSTED“, held at The Necto, in Ann Arbor, MI, in association with his techno journalism website DubMonitor.com.
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This week we have one of the most promising up-and comers in the burgeoning NYC club scene today, Justin Schumacher. Justin’s sound has caught the ear of many active headlining artists from DJ charts to reviews and remixes. His music has been released by a number of techno labels such as Gotham Grooves, De-Konstrukt, Ill Bomb Records, Frakture Audio, Teggno Records, 069 Techno, Mile End Records, Kynatix, Assimilation Recordings and many more.
Follow Justin’s sounds on Beatport and Soundcloud. For now enjoy this exclusive Blank Code podcast by Justin Schumacher. Thanks for listening.
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