Pics from last BERLIN w/ Perc, May 2, 2009

KONSTRUCTURE 001

label boss oliver dodd has big plans for the new label with some big releases already in the works for 08 and a full plate for 09. oliver kicks the label off with a rampage into the deep dubby world of minimal. techno dance floor vibes that will make you shake your ass are now available at fine record stores near you and available 10/21 at beatport, and now at the shop on the konstructure web page big support from many of the usual suspects. check the web page for upcoming news updates. also see links below......... konstructureSPACE JUNO ROCORDS sign up for the membership list at the right on the main menu bar and get a free promo only track here !!!!! PUNCTURE my favorite track on the release is called black stone. check out the sample below. SAMPLE

richie @ demf .... dropping oliver dodd track

!!! richie played escalator's and elevator's !!!!!! bombs away

Featured Mix: The Lady Foursquare "Hollerback" (recorded 2005)

An emerging voice at the vanguard of house, electro and techno, the Lady Foursquare's production work as The Riveter has put her work in the sets of luminaries ranging from Felix da Housecat to Donald Glaude, Bear Who?, and many more. In 2006 she migrated to Chicago and turned her full focus toward the music industry. Now working solo and with Angel Alanis, The Lady Foursquare has flowered as a producer, having been most recently selected to rework the upcoming Funk Monkeys release, "Remember the Time" alongside Sebastien Leger and Billy Dallesandro. She also appeared as a remixer for Punisher’s “K.O.” on the Uppercut label. With five releases in 2007, including a remix for the Dust Traxx Chicago Re-Edit's series, and many more slated for 2008, nothing is slowing down. Her work with her Backbreaker imprint appears on the popular Source compilations next to names such as the aforementioned Sebastien Leger, Paul Woolford and the Soundshift label. The Lady Foursquare was known first as a DJ, with inimitable aggressive technical flare, incredible energy and turntablist trickery. She quickly found praise from a wide range of artists, opening for Felix da Housecat (Rude Photo), Matthew Dear (Ghostly International/Minus), DJ Skribble (Bad Boy), Paul Johnson (Dust Traxx Chicago), Nigel Richards (611 Records) and Derek Plaslaiko (Spectral Recordings). In 2003, her reputation as a top regional touring DJ and the popularity of her widely distributed turntablist house DJ mixes led her to represent UFO Jeans for the United States in a 2003 tour. Her mix "Let Me Show You Love" was downloaded over 10,000 times and will shortly be met with a follow up "Let Me Show You Love II: I Love Haters" in 2008, featuring much new and unreleased material of her own. In addition to her production and remix work, you can also find the Lady on the road (occasionally tagging with Angel Alanis) and in her new home of Chicago where she's rocking crowds alongside acts such as Motor and Dirtybird. In her spare time she A+R's two labels and serves as the director for the GrooveMedia Group, which controls the digital catalogs of hundreds of top artists and labels on Groovesource. As a result of her professional work, she was chosen to speak on two panels for the 2007 Winter Music Conference on the topics of digital distribution and the online dance market with other representatives from Ghostly International, Perfecto and AOL. She has recently made waves with a critically-acclaimed remix of DJ Pierre's "Tha Dance," now available on Beatport.

Though we normally give you your fix of techno and minimal mixes, we wanted to give you a dose of The Lady Foursquare's now classic (and widely distributed) mix, "Hollerback," which mixes Chicago house classics with modern electrohouse and tech-house and a few deeper house delicacies with just a touch of techno for good measure, displaying Foursquare's raw energetic talent and impeccable ear for funky flavor. She'll be visiting Nashville for this upcoming edition of BERLIN on February 2, 2008.

Click here to download this now classic Midwest mixset.

Posted by DJ Woody

ARTIST PROFILE: Camea

In just a short time, Camea has gone from being one of the few lonely souls pushing the minimal and micro-house sound in the United States to one of the matrons and ambassadors of its phenomenal wave around the globe. She runs two of minimal techno's top labels, Clink & Klickhaus, and works along side many of techno's hottest voices today, among them Tony Rohr, Tim Xavier, Elon, Insideout, Matthew Dear, Alexi Delano, Pan-Pot, and Ambivalent (with whom she shares one of online's hippest radio shows covering the gamut of minimal techno today, The Nerd Tank). Her sound has been described as "Seattle cool meets Brooklyn edge...a funky-sexy blend of groovy house and techno-pop, a little bit dirty and a lot danceable" (DJ List) and certainly she has managed to garner a wide ear for a new techno sound, making it hip and giving it a starlet in the process. A classically trained piano and clarinet player, her productions have been featured on her own Clink and Klickhaus labels, as well as Spectral and LTD400 (w/ Tim Xavier), and her remixes are also featured on M_nus, Tora Tora Tora and Einmaleins.

Though she has recently moved to Berlin, she has made a distinct mark on the "new" New York techno scene, playing at the best parties and venues there, among them Avalon, Cielo, Wolf & Lamb, Bunker, APT, Minimoo and Crobar. She will be touring the U.S. again soon, but has upcoming performances in cities around the globe, including Bogota, Rome, Stuttgart, Zurich, Brussels and Berlin.

You can check out her Summer Meet Winter Mix 2007 by clicking here.

Posted by DJ Woody.

italian stallionz

the italoboyz are tearing up dance floors everywhere. the sounds they produce are quirky and superbly unique. Italoboyz releases appeared on some of today’s most influential minimal house/techno labels [Einmaleins Musik, Treibstoff, and Safari Electronique] and made a strong impression on the scene in 2006. i play their tracks almost everytime I mix (at home or live). so, when I came across this set from Kama Kama (camaiore, Italy),I was fairly excited. after I listened I had to share because this set is the heat. looks and sounds like it was a sick night.......wish I could have been there !!! look....... listen........ this set is friggin wicked posted by shawn e

Get a lobotomy

The origins of modern psychosurgery are to be found in the last decades of the 19th century, when science was beginning to understand how the human mind and behavior could be mapped out into the anatomical features of the brain. A German scientist named Friederich Golz, doing experiments with the surgical ablation of neocortex in dogs, reported in 1890 that when the temporal lobe were removed, animals were more tame and calmer than the unoperated ones. This inspired Gottlieb Burkhardt, a physician and supervisor of an insane asylum in Switzerland, to perform in 1892 an operation to remove parts of the cortex of six schizophrenic patients which had hallucinations and became very agitated because of this. Some of his patients actually became calmer after the surgery, but we don't know whether this was a direct effect of the surgery (two of them died). Burkhardt was opposed and criticised by the medical authorities of his time, so that very few psychosurgeries of this kind were carried out in the next 40 years or so. The situation changed again when several experimental laboratories in the USA started to make amazing discoveries about the role of the temporal and frontal cortex in the control of emotional behavior and aggressiveness. In Yale University, in 1935, a scientist named Carlyle Jacobsen made observations on the behavior of chimpanzees after damaging their frontal and prefrontal cortex by means of a lobotomy ( "lobe cutting"). One of the animals, who was aggressive in certain situations before the surgery, became very calm and manageable. This happened without apparent loss of other mental functions such as memory and intelligence. One of Yale's experimental neurologists. Dr. John Fulton had also removed completely the frontal lobes of two chimpanzees, hereafter he was unable to provoke a form of experimental neurosis in these animals. Because of this Fulton was to become one of the scientific pillars of the proponents of lobotomy in the United States.

it is also a wicked label based out of Miami. host to a sweet list of talent, you should def check the tuens out. the discog offers a wide selection of quality tunes. here are a few of my favorites on this label.

Habersham - SOng of the liZard - fine cut bodies remix addictech sample

Rob Dowell -I could be Wrong - speculum is infallible mix addictech sample

Phil K and Lance Musgrove - Lost Sunday - Kriece remix addictech sample

check them out here: LOBOTOMY

buy em here: addictech Beatport

Posted by Shawn Egan