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Rod B. is undoubtedly one of the new rising stars in the electronic music world with a highlight on the international market. 

Brazilian-born American, Rod B. became involved in the Miami scene, and in 2007, in search of more knowledge and new horizons, graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as a producer and audio engineer for the largest and most reputable audio universities in the world, SAE Miami, affiliated with the Recording Academy Grammy/USA. 

 

He has scored most of his releases in the top of the sales chart of the most important digital music store in the world, Beatport, drawing the attention of the major magazine E-Music Planet.

 

Rod B. was also was featured as one of the hottest names in dance music on DJ Mag UK's February 2011 issue, and in the same year had his music chosen by Carl Cox to be featured in his compilation GU-38, released by the iconic label Global Underground.

 

You can catch him in various parties and clubs around the world, Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Amsterdam, São Paulo...catch him if u can!

 

Rod B. was featured in the line up of relevant festivals as Cream, Ultra Music Festival,Resistance , XXXperience, Green Valley and many more

 

@rodbmusic @miamisessions


 

 

POPOF
 
Hailing from Paris, POPOF is one of the most widely recognized names within the world of house and techno. A former member of cult Parisian free party underground collective, Heretik System, POPOF has since been brought to an international stage with countless tours and a now global fanbase.

In 2009, he was voted Best Newcomer artist at the Ibiza DJ Awards and was appointed four years later official mentor of the Paris Techno Parade 2013's fifteen year anniversary, as a “historical actor and witness of the techno scene in France”. An honor that was shared with ex-Culture minister and techno Parade initiator Jack Lang in front of 300.000 participants.

One of the most downloaded artists in his category, POPOF is in very high demand for his remixes and has worked for famous artists such as Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Moby, BookaShade, Vitalic, Tiga, Maetrik, Martin Solveig and many more. In addition to this he is also behind many official advertisements in collaboration with top international brands.

POPOF has worked with some of the most respected labels within the scene, from early work on Turbo, Cr2 and Mistakes to the launch of his own label Form Music in 2009, Sven Väth's infamous Cocoon outlet, or most recently Kerri Chandler’s Kaoz Theory and Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations imprint.

Through the latter, POPOF released in 2015 his LP 'Love Somebody', a crossgenre album which has received rave reviews by numerous publications and specialized websites. Featuring French singer Arno Joey and rising talent Animal & Me, “Love Somebody” offers a variety of collaborations with many renowned artists. Its two first singles, “Words Gone” (April 2015) and “Going Back” (September 2015) were followed by a string of remixes by some of the industry’s biggest names: Jamie Jones, Luciano, Magda, Kerri Chandler, Eats Everything, Lee Foss, Marc Houle, Oxia & Miss Kittin...

In April 2016, POPOF also released on Kaoz Theory his “One Chance in Three” EP featuring Arno Joey. Founded in 2015 by Kerri Chandler, KT releases feature contributions by some of the world’s most famous house music artists (Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler, The Martinez Brothers, Davide Squillace, Matthias Tanzmann…) June 2016 saw the release of POPOF’s third single from “Love Somebody”, “Lidl Girl”, featuring remixes by the Carl Cox Collective, Kerri Chandler, Magda, Shaun Reeves & Tuccillo. In November of the same year POPOF released a new EP, “President”, on his label Form Music, his first solo outing on his label since the 2010 EP ‘Wax Machine’. The EP, heavily influenced at the time with the undergoing US elections, was widely critically acclaimed and its two singles, “President” and “One Two” were heavily played by POPOF’s peers.

2017 started strong for POPOF, with a sold-out tour in South America, a remix in February for Cuartero on Lee Foss’ label Repopulate Mars and the selection of the track “One Two” for the new Repopulate Mars’ compilation “Repopulate Miami”, released in March.
 
 
General Manager
Ghayath@form-music.fr
 
Press contact
ghayath@form-music.fr
 
Booking agent
Europe / Asia / South America: Edgar@cocoon.net

France: Joran@wartiste.com

USA/ Canada/ Mexico: Hamilton@circletalentagency.com
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._presents_POPOF_live_at_Cocoon_Ibiza.mp3
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 Rod B. bring you the Miami Sessions since 2008 - Miami Underground Movement.

 

Gorkiz is the author of Hit Dont Be Jealous with the duo Chemical Surf. He has performed in major clubs such as Green Valley, Villa 13, Park Art, Bali Hai, Cave. He has signed labels such as Lapsus Music, Toolroom, Kittball, Hotfingers, Bunny Tiger, among others. He has received great names like: Kolombo, Dashdot, Betoko, Vanilla Ace, Demarzo, Sharam Jey, Franz Costa among others. He is currently on the KDB Records label in Berlin and High Pressure Music in Italy.

 

www.facebook.com/gorkizofficial

https://soundcloud.com/gorkizmusic

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._presents_Gorkiz_-_Episode_240_1.mp3
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Rod B. bring you the Miami Sessions - Miami Underground Movement.

 Rod B. bring you the Miami Sessions - Miami Underground Movement.

Dave Wincent  was born in Miskolc, Hungary and have been dealing with music since the age of 12. First started to learn solfege and drums and then tarted play the saxophone.Began taking all this seriously and making it as a dj when was about 14. Playing at small parties and on the local radios.He started make music at age of 16 and It became to take very serius . First  with the computer but later he bought analog and digital synths and gradually more and more expensive and better gear.

 In those days he used vinyls later CDs. Trying very hard to form his own style, he started to perform more shows in Miskolc and in the capital, Budapest. 

First release was in 2010 a EP, since that time his have been released by major labels all over the globe…Dave Wicent definitely is a rising star on the Techno scene from Hungry to the world.

More info:

https://www.facebook.com/davewincentmusic

https://soundcloud.com/dave-wincent

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._present_Dave_Wincent_-_Episode_239_1.mp3
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Rod B. bring you the Miami Sessions - Miami Underground Movement.

 

Cristhian Balcazar, Dj and Ecuadorian producer began his career from very young like Dj to the 14 years and producer to the 16 years 17 years began to play in Lost Beach Club where also there was an opportunity to share booth with great Djs around the world also A Group formed in big festivals of his country like the nature beats, a year of its 18 years in its first international date in Cali - Colombia, Eliptica Club. For now Cristhian seeks to create a solid and authentic sound in his productions and lately taking out an Ep in Happy Collective, Spain, Savia Park Ecuador and 56 Dance Therapy Mexico, a done hot ups and shared cabin with many important djs like Denney, Mr C, Magda, Pillowtalk, Robosonic, Joycd Muniz, Julia Govor, Richy Ahmed, Audiofly and many more...

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/CristhianBalcazar123

https://soundcloud.com/cjbr

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_With_Rod_B._present_Cristhian_Balcazar__-_Episode_238.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:34pm EST

Currently, Rod is undoubtedly one of the new rising stars in electronic music with a highlight on the international market.

Brazilian-born American, Rod B. became involved in the Miami scene, and in 2007 in search of more knowledge and new horizons, graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as a producer and audio engineer for the largest and most reputable audio universities in the world, SAE Miami, affiliated with the Recording Academy Grammy / USA.

Rod B. bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

 

Rod has scored most of his releases in the top of the sales chart beatport and it caught the attention of major magazine, E-Music Planet. In this British DJ Mag, he was featured as the hottest names in dance music in the Feb 2011 issue, and in the same year, he was sighted on one of the biggest compilations, Global Underground sign by Carl Cox - GU 38.

You can catch Rod B. in various parties and clubs around the world, Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Amsterdam, São Paulo...catch him if u can!

Named at major festivals as Creamfields, Chemical Festival, Ultra Music Festival Miami and Brazil, Rio Music Conference, XXXperience, Winter Music Festival at Green Valley and more, Rod recently became a resident of Euphoria Festival, one the biggest festivals in Brazil

Rod also owns the Miami Underground Movement, renowned North American website E-Music, with the biggest names in the scene as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others.

More info:

www.soundcloud.com/rodb

www.facebook.com/RodB.MusicFanPage


Miami Sessions with Rod B. Live @ MINT - Belgrade, Serbia - Powered by MODEL ONE - Episode 236

 

 

 

Currently, Rod is undoubtedly one of the new rising stars in electronic music with a highlight on the international market.

Brazilian-born American, Rod B. became involved in the Miami scene, and in 2007 in search of more knowledge and new horizons, graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as a producer and audio engineer for the largest and most reputable audio universities in the world, SAE Miami, affiliated with the Recording Academy Grammy / USA.

Rod has scored most of his releases in the top of the sales chart beatport and it caught the attention of major magazine, E-Music Planet. In this British DJ Mag, he was featured as the hottest names in dance music in the Feb 2011 issue, and in the same year, he was sighted on one of the biggest compilations, Global Underground sign by Carl Cox - GU 38.

You can catch Rod B. in various parties and clubs around the world, Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Amsterdam, São Paulo...catch him if u can!

Named at major festivals as Creamfields, Chemical Festival, Ultra Music Festival Miami and Brazil, Rio Music Conference, XXXperience, Winter Music Festival at Green Valley and more, Rod recently became a resident of Euphoria Festival, one the biggest festivals in Brazil

Rod also owns the Miami Underground Movement, renowned North American website E-Music, with the biggest names in the scene as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others.

More info:

www.soundcloud.com/rodb

www.facebook.com/RodB.MusicFanPage


Miami Sessions with Rod B. presents Lucas Freire live at Moog Club - Episode 235

Rod B.  bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

 

 

 

Lucas Freire was born in December 1979 in João Pessoa in the state of Paraiba but has lived in Campinas in the state of São Paulo since 1986.
He had his first contact with eletronic music in 1997 …

His professional career as a DJ started in 2000. It didn’t take him very long to show his talent with the decks and his peculiar concern with technique and perfection.
Showing good skills and a lot of hard work Lucas soon started to be a much respected DJ in the Brazilian techno scene.

Lucas Freire plays / produces / feels / lives techno!

Lucas has played in cities all over Brazil and also in countries like Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Holand, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Venezuela and Ukraine.

Among the most important events that he has played at are: A Loca (BR), APOKALYPSA (CZ), APOLO Nitsa (SPN), AQUASELLA FESTIVAL (SPN), AWAKENINGS (HOL), BEATKLINIK (DE), Big Cansil (POR), BLAU Club (SPN), BUTAN (DE), Campari Techno Festival (BR), CEARÁ MUSIC (BR), CIRCUITO (BR), CITY PARADE (BE), Clash Club (BR), Club 414 (UK), Club K2 (HU), CODE@FABRIK (SPN), Cosmo (IT), DANCE VALLEY (HOL), D-Edge (BR), ELECRTOSONIC FESTIVAL (SPN), FLORIDA 135(SPN), FOOTWORXX (BE), FREE YOUR MIND FESTIVAL (HOL), KM4 (BUL), H2ZONE Festival (SPN), KRAFT (BR), LAGOA (BE), Lago.e (BR), LA COVA (SPN), LA LAITERIE (FRA), LA REAL (SPN), LIBERTY WHITE (BE), Lov.e (BR), M25 (PL), Manga Rosa (BR), Moog (SPN), MONEGROS DESERT FESTIVAL (SPN), MONTAGOOD (SPN), Metro Club (SK), NATURE ONE (GER), Club ONE (SPN), Industrial Copera (SPN), PARADA DA PAZ (BR), PARADA DA AME (BR), PRO-JEKT (BE), Q-BASE Festival (DE), ROW 14 (SPN), RUHR IN LOVE (GER), SCHRANZ TOTAL, DOM IM BERG (AT), STRASSE E (DE), TECHCARDIA(BR, SPN), TECHNOFLASH (SPN, )Club Poema (NL), Technobase (AUS), Technolandia (PT), The Influence (BR), THE MOST (UKR), THE QONTINENT (BE), TOR3 (DE), Torn de Nit (SPN), TOXICATOR (DE), TRESOR (DE), TRIVIAL MUSIK 3Y (SPN), TRIVIAL XPERIENCE (SPN), Tunnel Club (ITA), U6011 (DE), Vibe (BR), Club WOM (DE), WOODSHOCK (SLO), CLUB ZORECKS (SPN).

Lucas Freire has been showing his talent doing what he likes to do best!
 
 


Lucas Freire
Contatcts:
djlucasfreire@gmail.com

Bookings Worldwide
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Cel.: +34 651952008
skype: victor.peral.romero

BRAZIL BOOKINGS:
GLIDE TALENTS
bookings@gliderecords.com
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Bookings in South America
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MOBILE: +58 (0) 412 726 8936
 
 
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._Presents_Lucas_Freire_live_at_Moog_Club_1.mp3
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Miami Sesssions with Rod B. presents GIOC - Episode 234
 
 
Resident of Love Sessions party (Rio) and one of the heads behind Rolling Music and 55TRAXX portal. Gioc has consolidated its identity in the national and international   electronic music scene with timeless  tracks  using real instrument sounds and digital synthesizers... House and Techno with a refined touch and influenced by jazz, funk and blues, his sets is a mix of classic and modern leading his listeners to a sonic journey with a lot's of groove and class!
With releases on major international labels such as Cr2 Records, King Street Sounds, Gold Records, Zero Eleven Music, Dance Paradise, among many others, Gioc has received support from important names ...
 


https://soundcloud.com/gioc

https://www.facebook.com/gioclive

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._presents_GIOC.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:44pm EST

Miami Sesssions with Rod B. live at Ultra Music Festival 2016- Miami - Episode 233

Currently, Rod is undoubtedly one of the new rising stars in electronic music with a highlight on the international market.

Brazilian-born American, Rod B. became involved in the Miami scene, and in 2007 in search of more knowledge and new horizons, graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as a producer and audio engineer for the largest and most reputable audio universities in the world, SAE Miami, affiliated with the Recording Academy Grammy / USA.

Rod has scored most of his releases in the top of the sales chart beatport and it caught the attention of major magazine, E-Music Planet. In this British DJ Mag, he was featured as the hottest names in dance music in the Feb 2011 issue, and in the same year, he was sighted on one of the biggest compilations, Global Underground sign by Carl Cox - GU 38.

You can catch Rod B. in various parties and clubs around the world, Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Amsterdam, São Paulo...catch him if u can!

Named at major festivals as Creamfields, Chemical Festival, Ultra Music Festival Miami and Brazil, Rio Music Conference, XXXperience, Winter Music Festival at Green Valley and more, Rod recently became a resident of Euphoria Festival, one the biggest festivals in Brazil

Rod also owns the Miami Underground Movement, renowned North American website E-Music, with the biggest names in the scene as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others.

More info:

www.soundcloud.com/rodb

www.facebook.com/RodB.MusicFanPage

 

Direct download: Rod_B._Live_at_Ultra_Music_festival_2016_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:19pm EST

Miami Sesssions with Rod B. live at Cargo London - UK - Episode 232

Currently, Rod is undoubtedly one of the new rising stars in electronic music with a highlight on the international market.

Brazilian-born American, Rod B. became involved in the Miami scene, and in 2007 in search of more knowledge and new horizons, graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as a producer and audio engineer for the largest and most reputable audio universities in the world, SAE Miami, affiliated with the Recording Academy Grammy / USA.

Rod has scored most of his releases in the top of the sales chart beatport and it caught the attention of major magazine, E-Music Planet. In this British DJ Mag, he was featured as the hottest names in dance music in the Feb 2011 issue, and in the same year, he was sighted on one of the biggest compilations, Global Underground sign by Carl Cox - GU 38.

You can catch Rod B. in various parties and clubs around the world, Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Amsterdam, São Paulo...catch him if u can!

Named at major festivals as Creamfields, Chemical Festival, Ultra Music Festival Miami and Brazil, Rio Music Conference, XXXperience, Winter Music Festival at Green Valley and more, Rod recently became a resident of Euphoria Festival, one the biggest festivals in Brazil

Rod also owns the Miami Underground Movement, renowned North American website E-Music, with the biggest names in the scene as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others.

More info:

www.soundcloud.com/rodb www.facebook.com/RodB.MusicFanPage

Direct download: Miami_Sesssions_with_Rod_B._live_at_Cargo_London_-_UK_-_Episode_232.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:30am EST

Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Luke Hunter Live at Rioma Club Mexico D.F - Episode 231

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

Luke Hunter is an Audio Engineer/Producer/DJ located in Miami Florida.
For Luke “sanedracHUNTER” each and every venue, show and event is taken as a complete experience into sound that maintains the high standard of production and discerning ear that first lead Luke to his love of music.
Both his solo sets and his duo sets seek to find overwhelming sense of connection with the listeners, a thrill from hearing a track for the first time and allowing yourself to drift into an audible journey that evokes thought, emotion, and understanding.

Also half of production/DJ pair SanedracHunter which features Franccesco Cardenas & Luke Hunter. Years of music flow between these two artists but the real synergy takes place when these great minds come together behind the decks or in the studio. Collaboratively Franccesco Cardenas and Luke Hunter fuse as one under the title SanedracHunter and the two have already made a name in Miami and are now expanded to both coasts with Franccesco Cardenas "Sanedrac" in the West in San Francisco and Luke Hunter "Hunter" in the East holding down Miami.
SanedracHunter have been playing together for nearly a decade and have been honored to perform 5 year consecutively at Ultra Music Festival Miami and thru major venues in San Francisco as Harlot and Public Works and in Miami at Treehouse, Space, Mansion, 90.5FM and Klangbox.FM
and TBA Brooklyn, Burningman, and more.

Teaming up in 2014 both members of SanedracHunter and SpinnZinn have launched Typ3 Records a Miami-San Francisco based Electronic label.

Contact Info :

www.facebook.com/LukeHunterMusic

http://www.SanedracHunter.com

luke@sanedrachunter.com

booking@sanedrachunter.com       

Direct download: Luke_Hunter_-_Miami_Sessions_Rioma_Club_Mexico_City.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:54pm EST

Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Gaga - Episode 230

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.
 
 

AGA /Hungary/

1605 Music Therapy // Toolroom Records // Night Light Records // Dark Face Recordings

Gábor Szabó aka Gaga is a Dj, Producer and Label Owner, born in Hungary. After years of experience in clubs, he started in 2009 to create his own beats. Nowadays, he is working with the best digital labels, like: 1605 Music Therapy, Night Light Records, Bosphorus Underground Recordings, Stanch Records, Clorophilla, Futureaudio, Flat Belly, FHD, Substudio, Audio Elite, No-Logik and more. His Minimal, Tech House and Techno productions has entered the Beatport Top 100 several times, as for example his original track "Yeah" is Beatport Techno Top 7, "Rock It" is Beatport Tech House Top 39, "Warner Bros" is Beatport Minimal Top 17 and his tracks are charted by great artists, like: Umek, Richie Hawtin, Sinisa Tamamovic, Mario Ochoa, MinicoolBoyz, Mladen Tomic, Ant Brooks, Juan Ddd, etc ...
Now he is working on his own label Define Records, charted by Umek, Joseph Capriati, etc... and working also his own other label, Dark Face Recordings (played by Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath and many more..)

Supporting and playing his music a many great artists, like: Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Marco Bailey, Umek, Dubfire, Uto Karem, Luciano, Popof, The Junkies, Markantonio, Da Fresh, D-Formation, Someone Else, Cristian Varela, Wehbba, Spartaque, Da Fresh, Sinisa Tamamovic, Koen Groeneveld, Filterheadz, Alex Kenji, DJ Madskillz, Mladen Tomic, Paco Osuna, 2000 and One, Sasha Carassi, Dj Rush, Axel Karakasis, Vladimir Acic, Sergio Fernandez, Mario Ochoa, Gaetano Parisio, Slam, Ant Brooks, Chris Lake, Funkagenda, Alex Di Stefano, Anderson Noise, Amo & Navas, Raul Mezcolanza, MiniCoolBoyz, Hollen, Tony Dee, Tomy DeClerque, Philipp Straub, Paride Saracen, Justin James, Juan Ddd, Ant Brooks, Vlada Asanin, Lilonee and many more ...

He played together with Elay Lazutkin, Hollen, Sinisa Tamamovic, Ahmet Sendil, Andrea Roma, Veztax, Oscar Mulero, Avrosse, Louie Cut, Mark Dekoda and many more..

dj.beatport.com/gaga
www.facebook.com/gagahungary
www.facebook.com/gagaofficialfanpage
@gagahungary
@xgagax
soundcloud.com/gaga-djsets/
www.myspace.com/deejaygaga
twitter.com/gagahun
www.beatport.com/artist/gaga/106536
 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._proudly_presents_Gaga.mp3
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Miami Sessions with Rod b. proudly presents Robert Babicz- Episode 230
Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.
 
 
ROBERT BABICZ - ON A MISSION WITH SOUNDS AND EMOTIONS

a.k.a.
Rob Acid / Dicabor / Sontec / Atlon Inc. / Department of Dance / Acid Warrior / Pumpgun Pro / Colone / Origin / Tannenhof / Twirl / Church Window

Robert’s musical output is inspiring and staggering. A true one-man operation, he writes, records and performs solo; commanding an ever-expanding touring schedule, tailoring the music he creates to the cities he visits. But that’s only part of the puzzle, Babicz's art is comprised of more than just his music. He films everything. Using his music to open doors and build relationships with people in only the way music can, he then records his experiences and interaction on film, both still and moving, later editing the images together as a picture track to his audio. Robert creates short films that capture the emotions, colours and feel of his trips, his music and the people he finds who want to be part of that experience. In turn these then also have an effect on his music colouring his emotive, unique take on electronica with a very human feel.
 
 
Robert Babicz - 1hr Mix - Super Hot Tunes & Unreleased Tracks
 
01. R.Babicz - Shifting Reality
02. Rob Acid - Analog Session 1
03. R.Babicz - Black Lion (Digweed Rmx)
04. R.Babicz - Narcoticsupersoul Dub
05. R.Babicz - One Day We All Will Be Happy
06. R.Babicz - Rave Angel
07. Rob Acid - Analog Session 2
08. R.Babicz - Wonderland
09. R.Babicz - Heat&Love
10. R.Babicz - Centurion (Jody Wisternoff Rmx)
11. R.Babicz - Sea Of Colors (Jamie Rmx)
12. R.Babicz - Pink People
 
www.soundcloud.com/robbabicz
www.facebook.com/robertbabicz
 
Special thanks to Hugh & Robert!
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_b._proudly_presents_Robert_Babicz-_Episode_229.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:25am EST

Miami Sessions with Rod B. presents Deep Cocktail. - MUM Episode 229

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

Rafa Vieira, 51, fashion photographer who always liked electronic music.

He started his career in December 2012, presenting in the Dj Contest Warung Brazil and then in Bali-Hai Dj Contest Brazil.

In April 2013 he created the project called Deep Cocktail, in Curitiba - Brazil.

He already played in major clubs in Curitiba. April 2014 he made a small tourne Europe, performing at Maasmechelen and Mol - Belgium and Bristol -

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_presents_Deep_Cocktail_live_from_Bristol.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:24pm EST

Miami Sessions with Rod B. presents Chris C. - MUM Episode 228

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

Dj, Producer, Label Owner. Its been 4 years since Chris started on his never-ending journey throughout melodic Deep Tech house in space, On a very short time-lapse he quickly climbed up and formed part of the top producers of Ecuador performing next to artists like Andre Salmon, Karate Bycicle and Rogg (The Maniac Crew). Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 16 he traveled to south America with his family and ended up staying there, it wasn’t long till he started attending local shows of minimal tech which was the electronic scene during that time, after two years of going to festivals and listening to music from top artists like: Art Department, Hanfry Martinez, Anthony Collins, Davi, Patrice Baumel, David August, M.A.M, Nytron, Isaac Silva, Siopis, blakkat, Nuno Du santos, Stefano Ritteri, Silky, Re Dupre, Francesca Lombardo, James Teej, Juliche Hernandez… and the list could just keep on going, he got the necessary experience to begin his musical journey. At the age of 19 he met his next-door neighbor Andre Salmon and quickly started learning how Ableton worked, it didn’t take long before Andre and Chris started making music together, while Chris was in med school. After a while, he ended up quitting the career and just focused on music for the love of live.


Setlist:

- Nick Daring - The Black Gisby (Original Mix) - Javier Carballo, M.A.M. - Complementos (Original Mix) - Shlomi Aber - NY Dreamer (Alix Alvarez Remix) - Chad Andrew- Lost in me (Loquace Remix) - Andre Salmon, Chris C. - Ancient Sands (Original Mix) - Andre Salmon, Chris C. - Shes A bird (Original Mix) - Pavel Petrov – Adapt (Original Mix) - Leman & Dieckmann - That Dream ft Avi (Juliche Hernandez Remix) - Nitin - Carbon Bar (Original Mix) - Einzelkind – Dirt Drive (Original Mix) - Nytron - My impressions of techno (Original Mix) - Going Deeper Feat. Blackfeel wite - Claustrophobia (Vitor Munhoz Remix) - Andre Salmon, Chris C. – Behind Us (Original Mix) - Andre Salmon, Jose Wated, Chris C. - No Words (Original Mix)

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._presents_Chris_C._-_MUM_Episode_228.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:38pm EST

Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Tara Brooks live @ Subdistrikt-LA

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement.

In late 2007, when Tara Danielle Brooks put her first needle on a record, she had neither idea nor expectation that her passion for music would soon become her life-long career. She learned on vinyl using her natural ear for music. Through this route, she escaped into the sounds that helped her discover a new meaning to life. Experiencing magical nights at parties & festivals in Southern California, Tara discovered the power to be moved & touched by electronic dance music, causing pure enlightenment. She’s a self-taught deejay who found her destiny: To express creativity through music. 

Tara's passion turned into an addiction, landing her gigs from all over So Cal, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, internationally, & more. Opening & closing for many of the biggest djs in the world, including Plastikman, Green Velvet, James Zabiela, Victor Calderone, Eric Prydz, Erick Morillo, Joseph Capriati, The Martinez Brothers, Sander Van Doorn etc. She plays for Insomniac, The Bpm festival, Wmc Space Miami, Drais LV, Marquee Day Club, & played 4 events during her first experience at Burning Man. She says "It was the most magical, phenomenal, twisted experience of my life, & i've never felt an energy so beautiful before." 

Her heart lies in techno, tech house, deep house, & older progressive, open minded & moved by a more underground sound & feeling. Influences include John Digweed, Victor Calderone, Lee Burridge, Joseph Capriati, Richie Hawtin, Art Department, Guy Gerber, Nicole Moudabour, Gaiser, Dixon, Hernan Cattaneo, & Audiofly. Known for powerful drops, driving rolling baselines, beautiful emotional melodies, & techno with a sexy but dark groove, she focuses on sounds that have the ability to touch her crowd.

Dedicated & addicted to production, she hopes to move you with her sounds, taking you on a unique & special journey, touching u so deeply.

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MIami Sessions with Rod B. proudely presents Sabb - M.U.M episode 220

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement

Few Djs or producers inspire an entire genre with their style alone. Sabb (Sabri Kastrati), has single handedly done such that. Hailing from the capitol of Kosovo, Prishtina, his Deep-Techy-Tribal-Hypnotic grooves have made him an important player in the electronic music scene over the last two years. You can find many of Sabb's releases on some of the most respected and major underground electronic labels such as Audiomatique Recordings, Noir Music, Great Stuff Recordings, Defected, Toolroom Records, Cr2, Definitive, MBF, Connaisseur, Stealth Rec, Monique Musique, Nervous just to name a few. 

Just within the last few months Sabb has been very busy remixing artists like Pleasurekraft,Wally Lopez,Chris Lake, Carlo Lio, Saeed Younan, Wehbba, Gary Beck, Supernova and Hector Couto among others. Only a year after beginning his production carreer,, Sabb's first record release, "Dead Corps", landed immediately on top 100 beatport charts and was released on his own label, SK Supreme Records. So did his last 2 Original Releases "Nasty Girl" Released on Great Stuff Recordings jumped to #8 on Tech House Charts and his "Cowbell Talk" released on his own imprint SK Supreme Records reached #32 and had several plays by Tanzmann&Squillace,Carola,Luciano,Wally Lopez and many more. He's also peaked twice at #2 on the beatport Deep House Charts with "Sax On Wax" and his Summer of 2010 hit, "Ballkanika". The "Ballkanika" release also featured a remix by Mendo (which peaked at #3 on Beatport Tech House Charts) and has been licensed for Toolroom Knights mixed by Mark Knight. 
Wether in a beach party in the United States or in a nightclub in Europe, Sabb's versatile DJ sets are fueled by the spontaneous and subtle nuances of the venue and crowd.

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Miami Sessions with Rob B. proudly presents Dani Lehman - M.U.M Episode 212

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At age 17, when most girls her age were preparing for dinner dates and parental escorts, Dani Lehman was busy trading her only prom dress for a pair of headphones and an electronic dream. Captivated by what she saw as a world driven by a beat with dark emotion, Dani Lehman built her name from the bottom of the underground warehouses of Philadelphia as a teen, to the top of the main room Pacha NYC, Cielo, District 36 and Sullivan Room to Ultra Music Festival in Miami and headlining her first international tour as a young adult. Dani has also been sighted playing along side djs such as Sasha, M.A.N.D.Y., Josh Wink, Adultnapper, Sharam, Avicii and many more. With no intention of stopping, Dani quickly moved her way up in the community and now plans to expand her talents in the studio and throughout the dj world as a whole. As her career continues to grow, Dani remains true to the local spots she loves the most, loyal to but standing out among her peers as a DJ with a strong history and an even stronger future.

Known for her dark sexy groovy bass heavy beats, Dani Lehman is a DJ’s DJ who plays straight from the heart, riding with a personal sense of freedom that only compliments her vastly unique and sophisticated sound. The headphones tattooed on her neck say it all: Dani Lehman as a dj is not just a sound or a name… it’s a way of living Life

More Info:

https://facebook.com/djdanilehman

http://soundcloud.com/dani-lehman


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Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Nytron - M.U.M Episode 208

Rod B. & Mareis bring you the Miami Sessions @ Miami Underground Movement

Nytron is the project formed by producer, arranger and musician Kriptus Gomes with influences of House, Techno and Electro considered one of the best producers in Brazil.
From early on he was involved with the production of electronic music beginning to produce with only 15 years.
His productions are characterized by high technical quality and bombastic tracks, blending into their sets House, Techno and Electro . Performed in major clubs and festivals of the country have their music released by labels:
Tropical Beats, Eleven 11 HZ, Deep House Project (USA), Miami Underground Rec, Tango Records (USA) Synk, Punch Underground, Sick Society, Inminimax, Not for us, 21 Molotov, Voyage Inc, Plan B, Sprout, Diamond Clash, Runnin Wild, PopArt.
 
Having great support National and international Nytron develops contorted vocals in their songs and striking with a footprint always aggressive.
April month released his album "Time Has Come" by TB Records (Tropical Beats), it has already reached the Beatport top 34 Indie / Dance and Nu Disco. Also with the following projects: TEA LYRICS (feat. Flow & Zeo) and ROCKERR (feat. Ricardo Estrella).
http://www.beatport.com/release/furious/1078593

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Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Christian Smith - M.U.M Episode 201

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Christian Smith has been at the top of his game as a DJ and producer for over a decade, but despite enjoying a global reputation as one of the most evergreen performers in his field, times have never been quite as good as they are right now. Born in Sweden, Christian spent much of his youth and early adult life in Germany and America. This exposure to different cultures gave Christian a broader ou
tlook than most 30-somethings, even for a well-travelled DJ more familiar with Star Alliance lounges than home comforts. This open-minded outlook comes through loud and clear in the music he makes and plays. While his roots lie in techno, Christian has never been a purist; favouring instead to flavour the tough, rhythmical music he loves with heavy doses of funk or intersperse the raw energy of his sets with inspired moments of pure euphoria.

2009 has been quite a ride so far, and the signs are all there that this year will be Christian Smith’s busiest to date. Having recently relocated to Sao Paulo, Brazil from Spain, it would have been easy to lose touch with the scene’s beating pulse in Europe. Not so for the man whose recent production schedule reads like a discography wish list. Christian Smith & John Selway’s “Total Departure” on Adam Beyer’s Drumcode label was one of the tunes if 2008. This was followed by three singles for John Digweed’s Bedrock label which were all a massive success in the clubs and retail stores, as were his releases on Dubfire’s Sci+Tec label, Renaissance, and Steve Lawler’s Viva imprint. The Smith & Selway remix of the Kevin Saunderson classic “Rock To The Beat” was another massive success in Ibiza, and there were other superb remixes for Valentino Kanzyani’s Jesus Loves You, Nic Fanciulli’s Saved and Dieb Audio. The end result – over 30,000 downloads on Beatport in 2008.

The second half of 2009 will be dominated by the first in a trilogy of mix compilations for legendary clubbing brand, Renaissance. The release of Christian Smith – Platform in September will put Christian on a footing with other Renaissance acts Sander Kleinenberg, Hernan Cattaneo, James Zabiela and Steve Lawler and provide the continuity for a mammoth 30+ date world tour that will stop off at parties across Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America over the coming months. As a DJ, Christian plays everything between house and techno. Never one for a purist approach, he simply believes that people go out to party. The secret is in the energy that he creates, as witnessed in 2008 at Wire Festival, Tokyo; Brazil’s Skol Beats Festival; Awakenings Festival, Amsterdam (featuring a Smith & Selway live show), Space, Ibiza (with Carl Cox), Ministry Of Sound, London (with Pete Tong); and Fabric’s new uber-cool, Matter alongside John Digweed and James Zabiela.

Honoured as Carl Cox’s “Hero of 2008” and with the success of his productions breeding a renewed energy for studio time, the natural next step was for Christian to re-launch his Tronic label. Kicking off in January with a re-release of the Smith & Selway’s classic “Move!” including chart topping remix from Steve Angello, the label has progressed at a pace to place Christian back at the centre of underground music. Featuring tracks from Umek, Mark Broom, Stryke, Fergie and Psycatron, Tronic has resurfaced with a bang and looks set to track Christian’s personal upward trajectory. Look out for future singles from cutting edge producers including Steve Mac, Ramon Tapia, Jim Rivers and Anton Pieete. With massive crossover support for his music from DJ's across the house and techno spectrum the future looks very certain for Christian Smith. Proof if it was needed that it is possible to reinvent your sound and maintain a position at the very top within the vanguard of electronic music.
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Miami Sessions with Rod B. proudly presents Filterheadz - M.U.M Episode 200

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Filterheadz are best known for their smash techno hits Sunshine & Yimanya as well as their highly energetic DJ performances.

It all started somewhere in the 80’s when brothers Bert & Maarten Wilmaers picked up their first musical instruments. Bert on guitar & Maarten on drums. Influenced by The Police, U2 & Simple Minds they took their first steps on the way to Rock ‘n Roll stardom.... 

Well not exactly. After a decade of hammering away in rehearsal rooms and local stages their dream to become rockstars took a surprising twist. Almost by accident they discovered the groovy rhythms of US House Music, influenced by Roger Sanchez, Masters At Work & David Morales the boys started experimenting with loops and disco samples. Their very first US style house tracks saw the light.

Armed with those tracks, the boys approached Belgian record company Headroom Music who saw the potential and took them under their wings. After a few releases under several monikers, they decided to go with ‘Filterheadz’, with the idea of releasing some more ‘Filter Disco’ records…things turned out slightly different.

Two things happened almost simultaneously. First there was their remix of Minimalistix 'Struggle for Pleasure' that turned out to be an instant classic in the progressive house scene. Prolific labels like Hooj Choons, Platipus, Bedrock, Yoshitoshi and Renaissance stood in line to call upon their remix skills. 

The second, and most important thing: They discovered Techno.

Together with Belgian DJ Tomaz they embarked on a Techno Journey that would eventually lead them to Carl Cox’ Intec where they released their all time classic “Sunshine”. Two years later they would take their signature sound even further and release “Yimanya”, another big hit.

In the mean time extensive tours took Filterheadz to every corner of the globe and placed them high on the bill of events like I love Techno, Dance Valley & Tomorrowland and headlining clubs like Zouk, Womb, Ministry of Sound, Fabrik (Madrid) and so on. 

Their remix engine kept running full steam: Green Velvet ‘La La Land’, Eddie Amador ‘House Music’, Delirium ‘Silence’, Faithless ‘I want more’ and Eric Prydz ‘Call on me’ just to name a few. Further releases like Cartagena & Endless Summer showcased their unique blend of techno beats and melodies. 

The balance started to shift, less Techno & more melodic. Although tracks like “Day at the beach” & “Everything explained” on Sander Van Doorn’s label proved to be successful, clearly something was missing... 

Looking back at their history and inspired by their heroes Marco Bailey & Carl Cox they decided it was time for a change.

The Phoenix rises from the ashes. 2012 not only marks the 10th anniversary of Sunshine and a release of a smashing remix package on 1605. It also marks the return to techno. With a string of new releases on MB Elektronics, Intec, 1605, Respekt & Toolroom. 

Filterheadz are once again ready to rock dance floors all over the world.

More info:

www.facebook.com/FilterheadzOfficial

www.filterheadz.com

www.twitter.com/#!/Filterheadz101

Worldwide Bookings:

simon.p@mainstageartists.com

Tel : 001 239 4376505


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Miami Sessions and Radio Noise proudly presents with Bart Skils- M.U.M Episode 199

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Always one step ahead of the game, Bart Skils has established himself as one of Holland’s most respected and highly demanded techno dj’s. His dj sets are cheered by techno lovers as extremely forward thinking and musically well constructed. His releases and remixes for Drumcode, 100% Pure, Tronic, Break New Soil, Cocoon and Rejected ar

e internationally rated as some of the most cutting edge dance tracks to come out of Holland in recent years. His reputation for tight productions gave him opportunities to work and remix artists and friends like Joris Voorn, Adam Beyer, Christian Smith, Nicole Moudaber, Kaiserdisco and Kollektiv Turmstrasse. With Anton Pieete he also forms the acclaimed techno alliance District One. As one of the main players on Amsterdam’s renowned scene, their percussive take on techno and house music are well loved by many.

Skils’ long running Voltt nights at Paradiso have proven pivotal in bringing Amsterdam’s New School generation together. During the late nineties Skils’ undivided dedication to techno already landed him a residential spot at the infamous Mazzo venue. This was where he promoted his first techno fuelled nights, consistently staging the most futuristic in four to the floor beats. Many techno pioneers made their first Dutch appearances at these legendary nights and Voltt is still widely regarded as one of the leading events in Amsterdam’s internationally acclaimed club scene. His massive outdoor festival “Voltt Loves Summer” is praised by many in the Dutch scene as an absolute highlight of the year; over 15.000 party people attend this yearly happening on an old shipyard in Amsterdam! 

With his residency at his own events, gigs all over Europe and many releases and remixes to be played out on the dancefloor, Skils’ dj star has been rising steadily and is shining bright. Persistently rocking venues and festival sites, he has further underlined his position as one of the country’s most reliable and authorative dj’s. His long lasting experience as a dj and his ability to move effortlessly from deep house to banging techno make Skils a sure-fire crowdmover at any given party.

www.bartskils.com
www.facebook.com/djbartskils
www.voltt.com


Miami Sessions proudly presents with Jackie Dj aka Zero Absence - M.U.M Episode 198

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JACKIE DJ from ZERO ABSENCE

Music was my first love...and still I'm in love!

If you ask him, what is most important in his life...he will answer to you: The Beat, The Drums,

The Bassline...The Rythm of the Heart: HOUSE MUSIC!!!

As long as he can remember he loved music...the Hard Rock of the 70's, the New Romantic Style of the 80's, the Beat of the 90's...in all this years of spinning around he never lost his feeling, always for the next evoluiton step. The reason is maybe that he lived most of his life as a Globetrotter, born in Vienna, growen up in Germany, for short periods he lived in Croatia, Switzerland, Spain and checking out club's all around the Globe as an Partyanimal.

He's DJ career started in 1987 in a small club in Dubrovnik/Croatia, where he played commercial records for the first time. In 1991 his journey took him back to Augsburg/Germany, where he was quickly noticed and regulary hired to play in numerous Club's and Festivals, also in 1993, one sunday morning, he invited some people to a Club in Augsburg just to continue one party – the After Party was born!!! For years was this Club in one basement, almost every sunday morning the last exit for Partypeople! In 1994 he opened his first Club called XTC in Augsburg. After 6 successful years he left Germany and went back to Ljubljana/Slovenia to open a new Club called KRA KRA for students. And in 2002 with the opening of his second Club SING SING he finally discovered he's love for House Music.

One year later he started again to organize After Party's and introduced himself to a larger audience side by side together with UMEK and other important DJ's in Slovenia. The „King of Afterhour“ was born!

From 2005 till 2008 he was resident DJ and promoter of the biggest Club in Ljubljana, called FACTORY,

In 2007 he played for the first time on Ibiza, that year he also celebrated his 40th birtday and 20th anniversary being a DJ together with 30 DJ's and over 1000 friends. The same year he recorded with his production ZERO ABSENCE his first track „ I found a Star“ and produced also a video during the AMNESIA WORLD TOUR 2007 (People from Ibiza). The track became a National Nr.1 hit and after the release for Behold Recordings/Miami he was invited to present the track at 6 gigs during the WMC 2008

Till now he played almost worldwide, from Miami to Ibiza, from London to the island of Pag – the Croatian Ibiza...(Club PAPAYA)...Italy, Turkey, Austria, Spain...etc.

After more then 20 years of playing across the world side by side with the biggest names of Housemusic, 2008 he took a personal break...2011 will be he's year again !!!

Keep on groovin'!

Playlist:

1. Milan Euringer & Tube & Berger - Lovebreak 

2. Hot Chip – Flutes (Tong & Rogers rmx) 

3. Maetrik – Walk alone (Maceo Plex rmx) 

4. Bookashade – Honeyslave 

5. Pig & Dan – Mooshi 

6. Bart Skills – Hold your horses (Whebba remix) 

7. Superskank – Good Times (Olivier Giacomotto rmx) 

8. Eric Sneo & Chris The Voice – Shut up and dance (Pleasurekraft rmx) 

9. Jooris Voorn – Goodbye Fly 

10. Anthony Attalla – Bump Dump Hump (Uto Karem rmx) 

11. The Scumfrog & Sting – If I ever lose my faith (Carl Cox rmx) 

12. Alex Kenji & NDKj feat. Marga Sol – Not that kind of girl (Mike Vale rmx) 

13. Kevin Saunderson – The Sound (Jay Lumen rmx) 

14. Phunk Investigation feat. Schulz – Critical 

15. Tomaz & Filterheadz – Sunshine (Uto Karem rmx)

More infos:

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.vuk

http://www.soundcloud.com/jackiedj

http://www.myspace.com/deejayjackie

http://www.preparty.si


Miami Sessions proudly presents with Andrea Roma - M.U.M Episode 197

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Andrea Roma dj/producer, musician, at age 10 began studyng piano, becoming a composer and arranged for movie soundtracks.
Always attracted by dance music world, decided to move also in this way, began performing as a dj.
Being a musician and composer, started to study of various music softwares and sequencers, and everything resolve around the world of dance productions, and it is here that he wil

l emerged significantly.
Today he is playing around the world, received many awards about his music productions like his most famous HIT track "Deep Fear Rmx", that in 2009 got the No.1 position on beatport overall chart,and soundtrack of many TV SPOT around the world, nominated best track of the year.
Also tracks like "iong", "duracell", "prosciutto", or remixes like "are your kisses dynamite", "daydream" got the top 10 seller chart on the best music stores around the world.

In 2012 Andrea Roma and his track "Pi Pi Pi" (over 3 months No.1 on beatport minimal chart) were nominated like "best track of the year" and "best artist of the year" from clubbers choise on beatport.
He is also the owner of the techno record label "Human Garden Music", and collaborating with label such as Toolroom Records, 1605 music teraphy, Black Hole recordings, Bosphorus Underground, Frequenza Records, etc.. and many of the best artists in dance scene.

Tracklist:
Bazu & Egoism - The Warmest (Original Mix) [Promo]
Tomaz vs Filterheadz - Sunshine (D. Ramirez Rmx) [1605]
Andrea Roma & Mar - Dark Matter (Original Mix) [Human Garden Music]
Stefano Noferini - Bambuka (Andrea Roma Rmx) [Deeperfected Records]
Sebastien Leger - Wesh Wesh Wesh (Format:B Rmx) [Mistakes Music]
Tomcraft - The Noyz (Lissat & Voltaxx Rmx) [Kosmo Records]
Gabriel D'or & Bordoy - Insane Areas (Original Mix) [Pornographic Recordings]
Paolo Mojo - All Night Alright (Manuel De La Mare Rmx) [303 Lovers]
Nicole Moudader - Feline (Original Mix) [Intec]
Da Fresh - Too Late (Andrea Roma Rmx) [Freshin]
Andrea Roma - Baconator (Original Mix) [Promo]
Andrea Roma & Yeso - Rexin (Original Mix) [Promo]

Hertz - Funkster (Original Mix) [Craft Music]

More info:

http://www.myspace.com/andrearomadj
http://www.andrearoma.com
http://www.beatport.com/artists/andrea+roma

WORLDWIDE BOOKING CONTACT:

booking@andrearoma.com

booking@humangarden.co.uk

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Miami Sessions with Marcello V.O.R. @ SUPERAFTER D-Edge, Sao Paulo -M.U.M Episode 196

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Marcello V.O.R. has been an active DJ on the Brazilian scene for the past 15 years. By the impressive age of 16 he was the resident DJ of Brazil's pioneer dance music radio show "Ritmo da Noite", on Jovem Pan FM, one of the most influential radio stations broadcasting live nationwide.

From there on he's been evolving musically every year and he's continued to be booked to play at the some of the most important dance music events in Brazil. In the summer of 2002, he's had his first European tour, playing in festivals in Germany, clubs in Holland and parties throughout France. In the year of 2004, V.O.R moved to London, where he studied Audio Engineering at the worldwide know SAE Institute. Since then, Marcello's been playing all over Europe; from Rimini to Salzbourg, Amsterdam to Stockholm, Brighton to Berlin, Budapest to Barcelona.

During the 2 years of studying he was also resident of the Club Gibus, in Paris. He then located back in Sao Paulo to further his career and has started producing his own music. Since then, his style of tech, deep, disco house with a Brazilian flavour has caught the attention of labels such as Renaissance, Toolroom, SK Supreme, Sprout, Nulogic Rec, Soulman Music, Timbee, Ministry of Sound, Tropical Beats, Inminimax and Lo Kik, to name a few.

His project Velkro, together with Gabe, was a huge succes on the last decade and have been played and charted by the biggest djs on the scene. Now they are back full power, with releases planned for labels such as Kote Records (London) and EletroniqueUK (Manchester) and their collaborations with artists like Flow & Zeo have been played and supported by names like Jamie Jones, Wildkats, Miguel Puente and Bubba to name a few.

More info:


www.facebook.com/marcellovormusic
http://www.soundcloud.com/vor23
http://www.twitter.com/marcellovor
http://www.myspace.com/marcellovor
http://www.facebook/djmarcellovor

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Miami Sessions proudly presents Rod B. @ UMF Radio - M.U.M Episode 195

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Rodrigo Barreto has been involved with the music industry for over 15 years. Between 1996 and 2000 he produced events within the state of Rio de Janeiro. However, it was in the year 2000, when he moved to Miami, FL, U.S.A., that started his passion for electronic music and his career as a DJ really started to flourish. A Brazilian naturalized American citizen in 2001, Rod became involved in Miami's underground scene, playing in small clubs and private parties.
In 2007, Rod searched for more knowledge and explored new horizons by attending and graduating with a degree in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) from one of the largest and most respected colleges of the audio world, SAE Miami, also affiliated with The Recording Academy/ Grammy USA. This significant accomplishment acknowledged Rodrigo's abilities as a producer and audio engineer.
Each year between 2007 to 2009, Rod was specially invited to work in the production of WMC (Winter Music Conference) and Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMW); the largest conference in the world of electronic music. Rod has performed in clubs and parties located in Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, and Rio de Janeiro; and big festivals like Creamfields in Brazil, Rio Music Conference, Chemical Fest, XXXpirence, Green Valley & Ultra Music Festival Miami. He has performed with big names of the international scene as Deadmau5, FatBoy Slim, Above & Beyond, Sander Kleinenberg, Layo & Bushuwaka, Laidback Luke, Jon Rundell, Carlos Lio, Steve Mulder, Anderson Noise, Eelke Kleijn, Dimitri Nakov, Dave Dk, Gui Boratto and others.
Currently, Rodrigo Barreto creates new productions in his studio along with Dj and Producer Re Dupre. Together this partnership coordinates MUR Music(Miami Underground Records), which is supported by various artists.

In 2010 he was invited to sign with Global Underground in the GU -38 –Black Rock Desert Compilation mixed by Carl Cox.One of the most respect labels and compilation.Staying 5 weeks in the roll in the top sales of Techno Charts and the most sold track in the GU Compilation. After that his name was chosen to be on the Fantastic Four (the four hottest name in Dance Music) of February edition of The DJ Mag the most respect Magazine of E-Music.

Rod's music can be found at the top of the charts of Beatport, in the playlist and compilations of the biggest Dj's in the planet like Carl Cox, Eddie Halliwel, and Dubfire, among others. Rod coordinates the Miami Underground Movement website direct from Miami with exclusive sets of Global Dj's such as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others. He performs on 2 weekly radio shows in his native land Brazil; Miami Sessions (his radio show brand) and UMF Brazil and UMF Ibiza-Ultra Music Festival Radio Show.

More Info :

www.rodbmusic.com

www.facebook.com/RodB.MusicFanPage

http://soundcloud.com/rodb

Direct download: Rod_B.__UMF_Radio.mp3
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Miami Sessions proudly presents Radio Noise 500 - M.U.M Episode 194

Pioneer "is one that first opens or discover paths through unknown regions." 

The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is a pioneer in electronic music from Brazil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Noise started slowly, as is the custom in his region, but never stopped to take some steps toward success. 

In 1988, during the explosion of Acid House, started DJing in his hometown. Passionate about the profession, he often said that the role of DJ is move people. Followed by producing their own events from 1992, making room in the state capital for the proliferation of the electronic scene, still embryonic in place. 

There were more than 40 parties produced, many in places like mental hospitals, shopping malls, car dealerships and historic buildings. The "Noise Family" became an institution, since in the event not only Anderson was involved. Mamma Noise, the mother of the DJ in person, was the hostess of the parties. Later Alvinho L Noise was excited with the turntables and boiled the dance floor next to his brother. 

His first CD compilation, "Paralisia Cerebral"was released in 1996, while the dream of producing his own music became reality in the talented hands of Noise. In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" in the "Electronic Music Brazil" the first CD of 100% national of the genre, released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix. 

Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio elétrico "Truck with a mobile sound system" with electronic music in 1999 in Carnabelô Carnival out of season Mineiro, and became mandatory attendance in subsequent years. Without knowing it, acquiring the experience to face an even greater challenge playing on electric trio of singer Daniela Mercury, during Carnival in Salvador in 2002. 

The DJ stand for something besides records, awards, won in 97 "Distinction Underground" by the magazine "DJ Sound." Both times that this category existed in the award, Anderson was the winner. Are there trophies for best producer and best DJ of techno music for the prize "Night Illustrated" Erika Palomino from the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo"; Sparks Trophies, prize won in 3 consecutive years, offered by the newspaper "O Estado Mine "for those who waved the mining scene, so that Anderson had turned into hors-concours. In the year 2003 was highlighted by Cool Awards, awards, in 2004, gave the award for best DJ. 

Anderson's career as a DJ and producer went from strength to strength. He participated in all major national events. At the festival Skol Beats was present in all editions since the first, ending the 2003 edition of apotheosis. Also participating in the electronic music tent at Rock In Rio in 2000. That was the year that his second compilation CD called "Outubro", with some tracks produced by his label "Noise Music". The label started in 1999 with the intention of bringing the world the music produced here, as in his words: "We always bought the music and the gringos gringos do not have any of our. It was music quality produced in Brazil to show to the world. " 

In 2001 he became a resident of the night Headstart at Turnmills club in London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that arose in the pool. While playing outside of Brazil shared the stage with great international names who came to the country. One is impressed with the quality of mining and DJ led out into the world. Carl Cox, one of the best DJs in the world, was impressed with the strength of Anderson Noise the first time they played in Brazil: "Anderson is very talented. He played with me a few times before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They're good - too good to ignore. "In the 2001 copy of the" 2001 TOP 100 DJ Mag ", Cox classified Anderson as the future" DJ Hero. " 

His third CD compilation came out in 2002 to please the Brazilian public. "Noisemusic Compilation 100% Mix Anderson Noise" was released by a major label, bringing all the songs the label Noise Music mixed by Anderson an awesome set list. The album was well received in Brazil and abroad, to the point of calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, owner of Mentor, respected British label, who heard the material and just wanted to release "Do It Yourself" by his label. Noise was also 2002 that launched his radio show, RADIO NOISE, hosted on your site, with weekly programs. 

In 2003, Anderson was invited by DJ Magazine, one of the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music for his fourth CD, "DJ World Series - Anderson Noise." In a series of five records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a continent, made an album with productions of his country. Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America. 

Since then, his international career only grew Noise: participated in international festivals from Dance Valley, Homelands, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock In Rio Lisbon, Nokia Trends, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound. His performances earned him the world the opportunity to play in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Ecuador, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. His songs and albums were released by international labels AFULAB, Audio, Music Circle, disappeared Here, Eukatech, Harthouse, Jericho, Lo Kik, Mentor, Missile, Molecular Pild, Primate, Really Really Big Records, Sleaze, Spectrum & Teggno and ride the world. 

His fifth CD is innovative for the Brazilian public, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04" is the first nationwide electronic music CD recorded live during his presentation in one of the largest festivals of its kind in Latin America. And Anderson's relentless, he released a DVD of the first Brazilian DJ "Brazilian Love Affair", which can follow the national gigs Anderson, the clubs where it is resident. 

In 2005 the TV NOISE Noise created in conjunction with Toro products, with weekly programs, in which the clubs DJ shows, parties and festivals in which plays in Brazil and worldwide. 

In 2006 the second time the DJ ended the Skol Beats, the main festival of Latin America and was considered by DJ Magazine, a top 100 DJ, entering as the No. 79 ranking. 

In 2007 Anderson Noise again put the name of Brazil in the ranking of the top 100 DJs of the world's most popular DJ MAG, this time in the 54 ° position. Also his song "Man-Dog" went on the trail of the film commented, "The Past", directed by Hector Babenco. 

In 2008, the DJ launched nine EPs and was invited by Spanish club La Terrazza to compile its annual CD which had the partnership of German Circle Music label. Noise also re-appear in the Top 100 DJ DJ MAG, this time as 26 of the ranking, being the only Brazilian DJ to keep the list for 3 years and which achieved the best ranking to date. 

In the first week of 2009 Anderson Noise released their second DVD, the "Connection 1969," the first documentary about a DJ basileiro, along with his seventh CD compilations of the "NOISE CONNECTION", all of it with own productions, remixes and unreleased mixes. That same year, participated in its DVD 10 edition of FILE International Festival of Electronic Language. Anderson was also voted the number 1 DJ by DJ magazine in the country BRAZIL MAG 

Also in 2009 Anderson Noise was invited by João Carlos Martins to start the project, Anderson Noise and John Carlos Martins in Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bachiana, which resulted in an exciting concert combining electronic music and classical music in the room São Paulo. 
Currently a resident of Anderson Noise Clash Club (Sao Paulo), Deputamadre (Belo Horizonte) and D-Edge (Sao Paulo) 
For him, there is no limit that can not be exceeded. Thing who is creative and pioneering.

Play list Radio Noise 500

01 DaDa Attack - Awkward Move     
02 Alex Sander - Juntos          
03 Pimp$hit (DF) - Alliance For The Future                
04 Click Box - Black Hoody                
05 Davide Marchesiello - Echos                      
06 DJ Anna - Undercover
07 Anderson Noise - 500 feat. Hugh Burrows
08 Allan Villar - Keep It Goin
09 Sex Shop - Mechanic Mind                        
10 Angelo Fracalanza - Talk About     
11 Nir Shoshani - Revival 21                 
12 Re Dupre - KRZ    
13 Rod B - Voices                  
14 Gustavo Peluzo - Freak Power                   
15 Digitaria - The Rebel
16 Kosheen DJs & dubspeeka - Troll
17 Caiwo - Paradox


Direct download: Miami_Sessions__proudly_presents_Radio_Noise__500.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:16pm EST

M.U.M Presents Miami Sessions with Rod B. live @ Love & Hate - M.U.M Episode 165

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Rodrigo Barreto aka Rod B.


Rodrigo Barreto has been involved with the music industry for over 15 years. Between 1996 and 2000 he produced events within the state of Rio de Janeiro. However, it was in the year 2000, when he moved to Miami, FL, U.S.A., that started his passion for electronic music and his career as a DJ really started to flourish. A Brazilian naturalized American citizen in 2001, Rod became involved in Miami's underground scene, playing in small clubs and private parties.
In 2007, Rod searched for more knowledge and explored new horizons by attending and graduating with a degree in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) from one of the largest and most respected colleges of the audio world, SAE Miami, also affiliated with The Recording Academy/ Grammy USA. This significant accomplishment acknowledged Rodrigo's abilities as a producer and audio engineer.
Each year between 2007 to 2009, Rod was specially invited to work in the production of WMC (Winter Music Conference) and Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMW); the largest conference in the world of electronic music. Rod has performed in clubs and parties located in Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, and Rio de Janeiro; and big festivals like Creamfields in Brazil, Rio Music Conference, Chemical Fest, XXXpirence, Green Valley & Ultra Music Festival Miami. He has performed with big names of the international scene as Deadmau5, FatBoy Slim, Above & Beyond, Sander Kleinenberg, Layo & Bushuwaka, Laidback Luke, Jon Rundell, Carlos Lio, Steve Mulder, Anderson Noise, Eelke Kleijn, Dimitri Nakov, Dave Dk, Gui Boratto and others.
Currently, Rodrigo Barreto creates new productions in his studio along with Dj and Producer Re Dupre. Together this partnership coordinates MUR Music(Miami Underground Records), which is supported by various artists.

In 2010 he was invited to sign with Global Underground in the GU -38 –Black Rock Desert Compilation mixed by Carl Cox.One of the most respect labels and compilation.Staying 5 weeks in the roll in the top sales of Techno Charts and the most sold track in the GU Compilation. After that his name was chosen to be on the Fantastic Four (the four hottest name in Dance Music) of February edition of The DJ Mag the most respect Magazine of E-Music.

Rod's music can be found at the top of the charts of Beatport, in the playlist and compilations of the biggest Dj's in the planet like Carl Cox, Eddie Halliwel, and Dubfire, among others. Rod coordinates the Miami Underground Movement website direct from Miami with exclusive sets of Global Dj's such as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others. He performs on 2 weekly radio shows in his native land Brazil; Miami Sessions (his radio show brand) and UMF Brazil and UMF Ibiza-Ultra Music Festival Radio Show.

More Info :

www.rodbmusic.com

http://www.facebook.com/RodB.Music

http://soundcloud.com/rodb

http://soundcloud.com/rodb

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B._live__Love__Hate_-_South_Beach.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:57pm EST

M.U.M presents Miami Sessions with Flutuance - M.U.M Episode 163

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

The project Flutuance (FTC) came through a partnership between producers and DJs Bruno Mascotte and Leonardo Torha. 
Transiting between the house and techno, through an affinity of sound, the duo soon aroused the interest of the public playing  In major parties and festivals throughout Brazil as Rio Music Conference, Bora Bora World Tour, Paralello Universe, Cachoeira Alta, Soulvision, XXXperience, Chemical Music, Playground, Kaballah and Euphoria.

After years of research in musical production and after attending music school Vila Lobos the duo has grown and matured so releasing the first EP Long Road by the renowned label Attary, ranging Tech Attack figured in the top sales site Beatport. It was so successful that aroused the interest of several record labels around the world and other releases soon does happened.

A vinyl of the project was launched by the renowned label Plasmapool (GER) initiating a major partnership with the Flutuance, which now represents it in Brazil.

In 2009, the project made great strides in his career as remix tracks from big name artists, production tracks in partnership with renowned artists of electronic music, had one of its launch indicates in the Spring guide of the Ministry of Sound, to close the year with a flourish, founded their own label Diamond Clash Records - with major releases in the world of House Music.

The duo often commands lounges of the Diesel store, Cafe del Mar parties and press the curriculum memorable performances at the Morro da Urca (RJ), The Week(RJ), Eazy Club (SP), Privilege(MG), Roxy (MG) and many others.

Nowadays Flutuance is receiving excellent feedbacks and being played by great artists worldwide as: Richie Hawtin, Alex Kenji, Butch, Tim Xavier, Luciano, Mastiksoul, Umek , Koen Groeneveld, Channel X, Paco Osuna, Gregor Tresher, Audiojack and Tim Thaler.

More infos about Flutuance : 

www.listn.to/Flutuance
www.myspace.com/flutuance
www.soundcloud.com/flutuance
www.twitter.com/flutuance
www.beatport/artist/flutuance
www.youtube.com/flutuance

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Flutuance_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:18pm EST

Miami Sessions presents Behind the Iron Curtain with Umek-M.U.M Episode 162

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time. 

Umek - Behind The Iron Curtain - 003 - Tracklist

01. Neuroxyde, Roy RosenfelD - Balls (Roy RosenfelD mix) [Neurotraxx Deluxe]
02. Mark Fanciulli - The Tide (Joris Voorn edit) [CR2 Records]
03. Stereomono, Johan Dreser, Juan DDD - Ant Man [Soundcloud]
04. Bushwacka  - West Side [Olmeto Records]
05. Kernel Key - Modular Key [Form]
06. Jaydee - Plastic dreams 2011 (Koen Groeneveld remix) [Spinnin Records]
07. Jon Rundell - Knick Knack [Intec]
08. Nicolas Cuer, Elyptik Trevors - Androgiine [Ready 2 Rock]
09. Stefano Noferini - Electrik [1605]
10. Umek - Promise Land [1605]
11. Mladen Tomic - Emotions [Definitive Recordings]
12. Ralph Good - The Roots (Belocca's Tribe On The Moon remix) [Hotfingers]
13. Golden Girls - Kinetic [R & S Recordings]
14. Mark Denken - Jack That [binary404.com]

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_presents_Behind_the_Iron_Curtain_with_Umek.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:56pm EST

M.U.M  Presents Miami Sessions with Rod B. - M.U.M Episode 159

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Rodrigo Barreto aka Rod B.


Rodrigo Barreto has been involved with the music industry for over 15 years. Between 1996 and 2000 he produced events within the state of Rio de Janeiro. However, it was in the year 2000, when he moved to Miami, FL, U.S.A., that started his passion for electronic music and his career as a DJ really started to flourish. A Brazilian naturalized American citizen in 2001, Rod became involved in Miami's underground scene, playing in small clubs and private parties.
In 2007, Rod searched for more knowledge and explored new horizons by attending and graduating with a degree in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) from one of the largest and most respected colleges of the audio world, SAE Miami, also affiliated with The Recording Academy/ Grammy USA. This significant accomplishment acknowledged Rodrigo's abilities as a producer and audio engineer.
Each year between 2007 to 2009, Rod was specially invited to work in the production of WMC (Winter Music Conference) and Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMW); the largest conference in the world of electronic music. Rod has performed in clubs and parties located in Miami, Ibiza, South Beach, New York, Puerto Rico, and Rio de Janeiro; and big festivals like Creamfields in Brazil, Rio Music Conference, Chemical Fest, XXXpirence, Green Valley & Ultra Music Festival Miami. He has performed with big names of the international scene as Deadmau5, FatBoy Slim, Above & Beyond, Sander Kleinenberg, Layo & Bushuwaka, Laidback Luke, Jon Rundell, Carlos Lio, Steve Mulder, Anderson Noise, Eelke Kleijn, Dimitri Nakov, Dave Dk, Gui Boratto and others.
Currently, Rodrigo Barreto creates new productions in his studio along with Dj and Producer Re Dupre. Together this partnership coordinates MUR Music(Miami Underground Records), which is supported by various artists.

In 2010 he was invited to sign with Global Underground in the GU -38 –Black Rock Desert Compilation mixed by Carl Cox.One of the most respect labels and compilation.Staying 5 weeks in the roll in the top sales of Techno Charts and the most sold track in the GU Compilation. After that his name was chosen to be on the Fantastic Four (the four hottest name in Dance Music) of February edition of The DJ Mag the most respect Magazine of E-Music.

Rod's music can be found at the top of the charts of Beatport, in the playlist and compilations of the biggest Dj's in the planet like Carl Cox, Eddie Halliwel, and Dubfire, among others. Rod coordinates the Miami Underground Movement website direct from Miami with exclusive sets of Global Dj's such as Richie Hawtin, Magda, Umek, James Talk, Christian Smith and others. He performs on 2 weekly radio shows in his native land Brazil; Miami Sessions (his radio show brand) and UMF Brazil and UMF Ibiza-Ultra Music Festival Radio Show.

More Info :
http://www.facebook.com/RodB.Music

http://soundcloud.com/rodb

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Rod_B..mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:12pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@Row 14, Barcelona, Spain- M.U.M Episode 157

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.  

Playlist:

01. Stefano Noferini – Words [1605]
02. Mario Ochoa, Luigi Rocca - The Passenger [Hotfingers]
03. Dark Matter – Braziliant (Glitter Remix) [Bosphorus Underground
04. Miles Dyson, Aaren San - Zooloo (Pleasurekraft Remix) [Suicide Robot]
05. DJ Madskillz - Carnival Chaos (Format:B Remix) [Formatik]
06. Chris Soul - Get On Up [1605]
07. Filthy Rich - Revival [Toolroom]
08. Kernel Key - Running Away [LCMTC]
09. Sam Paganini - The Baby [Stolen Moments]
10. Jay Lumen - That's What I'm Talking About [Saved Records]
11. DJ Anna - Step it Baby [Lo Klik Records]
12. Nik Feral - D'For [1605]
13. ThreeSixty & Dirty Harris Vs Grant Nalder & Adam Asenjo - Togu [1605]
14. Jason Chance - Life's Groove [Hotfingers]
15. Max Bett - Red Pigs [Different Foot]
16. John Acquaviva, Olivier Giacomotto - Black Mamba [Definitive]
17. Siwell - Rising [Sphera]
18 .Kernel Key - Pucci [Flappers Records]
19. Chris Venola - Feelling Of Love (Danilo Vigorito Remix) [Takos Records]
run out of creative fuel for quite some time  

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_UmekRow_14_Barcelona_Spain.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:50am EST

Miami Sessions with Sasha Carassi - M.U.M. Episode 154 - Miami Underground Movement

Miami Underground Movement presents Sasha Carassi.

Hailing from Italy's techno capital Napoli, Sasha Carassi gained major recognition in 2010 for his outstanding releases on not only his own imprints Globox and Phobiq but also on other prominent labels such as Harthouse, Driving Forces, Sleaze, Respekt Recordings, 8 Sided Dice and Drumcode. With numerous remixes and collaborations with artists such as Joseph Capriati ,Adam Jay, Brian Sanhaji, Spektre and Virgil Enzinger, he has also enjoyed major support from the likes of Adam Beyer, Slam, Fergie, Alex Bau,The Advent, and Alan Fitzpatrick. With no let-up in his busy schedule, 2011 looks set to be another huge year for Sasha Carassi. One of the few remaining dj's still using vinyl decks comnined with a laptop, his dj sets are likened to his production work. With powerful grooves and infectious techno sounds, expect to hear 'Big Room Techno' at its best.

Sasha Carassi | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos

http://www.miamiundergroundmovement.com

Direct download: Sasha_Carassi_MUM.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:57pm EST

Miami Sessions with DJ Yousef - M.U.M. Episode 153

Miami Sessions with DJ Yousef - M.U.M. Episode 153 - Miami Underground Movement

The new decade sees Yousef consolidating his status as an international DJ, Producer, Club Promoter and Music aficionado with ever greater impact. Last year saw him achieve a first, the release of his debut artist album - A Collection of Scars & Situations’ finally laying down on wax a watermark of his effervescent personality. It showcased the different dynamics to his sound as a performer - heavy support from the usual rag tag ensemble of dance music greats; Sasha, Danny Tengalia, Nic Fanciulli, Carl Cox, Steve Lawler, Radio Slave and Nick Curly among them. 

‘A Collection of Scars & Situations’ was more than just your typical DJ led collection of bangers. They are catered for of course, most resplendently by the pulsating tech house monster ‘Legacy’ (bolstered by a superb archaic vocal from Derrick Carter) and the Beyer - esque ‘Equilibrium’. But it’s the haunting electronica of ‘Birthday Thoughts’ and ‘A Moment of Clarity’ that gave the album its gritty edge, two bleak almost dystopian efforts which channel the darker undercurrents of electronic music perfectly, DJs, clubbers and the Music media were universal in the praise. 

“Legacy” was picked up for global single release by Renaissance. It garnered plays all over specialist dance radio worldwide (most notably John Digweed, Carl Cox and BBC Radio One’s Pete Tong), as well the coveted DMC single of the week; it was dubbed “one of the stand out tracks of 2009”. When Yousef was asked to contribute an essential mix from the world renowned Creamfields, he set about remaking the track into the ‘Terrace Edit’, taking the track into a newer and fresher direction (two further ep’s are set to drop for renaissance in 2010). 

It continued the mutual love affair between Yousef and Germany, the hub of worldwide electronic music. He signed two new EP’s to Mannheim’s premier league label Plastic City, and after season long support from Sven Vath, “Come home” was released on the world’s most followed electronic music brand Cocoon. It blew up, cutting across the spectrum of house and techno, making ‘Essential new tune’ on Pete Tong’s Radio One show, with consistent support from John Digweed, Laurent Garnier and of course Vath himself. A certain dj names Sasha fell in love with the composition so much he asjked to remix it, which he has in fine style (out on cocoon in mid 2010). Yousef was then signed to Berlins’ leading DJ agency WILDE for his bookings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while he remains in the hands of Safehouse management for the rest of the world, also home to Carl Cox. 

The international love has never been stronger for Yousef. The first international DJ to play the troubled nation of Syria. Ibiza, with its arcane hedonism and wild party ethos has always served as an adequate stomping ground for his cross genre grooves. And of course he’s back there this year... with a vengeance! South America has also shown a stronger allure for Yousef, with further ground being broken in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil increasing his continental lustre. A recent 6 date tour on Indonesia showed how far yousefs reach is getting. Closer to home, he clocked up his first London Residency by inking a monthly deal at Matter, the brainchild of Fabric impresario Keith Reilly. Matter NYE saw another iconic Yousef DJ set, taking over from Vath at 2am for the inaugural Cocoon party and delivering a three hour onslaught of fierce and brutal house and techno to a 3500 capacity club. 

In 2009 yousef remixed Dj Sneak, Fergie and Tobii to devastating effect. 2010 has already seen an earth-shattering remix of Moby’s ‘Wait for me’ completed, plus his touch gifted to Gilles Peterson’s Havana Band project and new kid “Teva” with yousef’s floor devastating circus rework of “you cant teach this”. He remixed two UK legends (X-Press 2’s ‘Say What’ and Fatboy Slim’s ‘Local Town’, the latter featuring rasp voiced rudeboy Jamie T), whilst Nic Fanciulli and his Saved Imprint continue to show their love, with the aforementioned album’s ‘I Suggest’ out now with the superb ‘Firecracker’ on the flip one of two 2010 ep’s for nic’s imprint. The other “my explanation / dis information” already championed by tong on his rather well known radio weekly as well as support from underground house dons Rebbot and Nick Curly among many others. Further Eps for renaissance and debuts on carl cox’s Intec and seminal (vath started) Harthouse records both follow this year… Of course with a follow up on cocoon too… 

Yousef’s own Circus Recordings also notched up a year of releases since launching in 2008, churning out eight Yousef singles which have illustrated the madness and hedonism of the club he has created. 

Yousefs monthly event celebrated seven years at the apex of Liverpool’s club scene in September last year and he is still pulling line-ups together that makes the accountants balk and the clubbers froth at the mouth. House music at its kaleidoscopic best, heavyweight names such as Laurent Garnier, Luciano, Loco Dice, Dubfire, and Eric Prydz have faced off with the of the young upstarts of the underground like; Jamie Jones, Tim Green, Sebo K and Davide Squillace have been amongst others for debut Liverpool shows.

Oh and they got their thug on with Cocoon, bringing Vath and his imperial hedonism to Liverpool for the first time ever in a scintillating party that peaked on every sensory element. There’s little the club night hasn’t done or booked, and with this year already seeing return slots for John Digweed and Derrick Carter, plus debuts for Heidi, Guy Gerber and the irrepressible groove icon Ricardo Vilalobos, there’s seems little left for them to prove. So, just when things couldn’t peak any further for circus Radio One were looking for a club to host the 500th essential mix party. They considered every major club worldwide, circus was (in the words of radio one) the only choice…. Yousef and his long lasting partner Richard went to work, pulling in Richie Hawtin, Sasha, Aeroplane, of course Pete Tong and yousef himself. A 4 hour live global broadcast from circus in its original 1100 capacity club followed. Circus’ finest hour…? Maybe, we’ve thought that before. 

It’s this process of constant evolution rather than reinvention which has characterised Yousef’s career, and kept him at the forefront of promoters’ thoughts across the globe. And there’s the small matter of him running the London marathon, raising cash for CALM and showcasing his serious edge to the party reputation he’s always encased. Record Label Owner and Internationally renowned club promoter, it’s a far cry from the excess which defined wilder youth, confirming his professionalism and dedication to the acid house dream. 

Whether criss-crossing the globe with his arsenal of varied sounds or impregnating his own individual aural histrionics on wax, Yousef is stamping his identity on dance music and leaving a lasting impression. There’s few who come close in terms of dedication or in the variance of approach, Yousef hits each and every base with alarming regularity. And the best part yet? The journey has only just begun... it’s now a big cliché but, undeniably, but, 2010 really is Yousef’s year.

www.yousef.co.uk
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_DJ_Yousef_-_Miami_Underground_Movement.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:01pm EST

Miami Sessions with Carlo Lio - Miami Underground Movement - M.U.M. Episode 152

Miami Sessions with Carlo Lio - Miami Underground Movement - www.MiamiUndergroundMovement.com

 

CARLO LIO

WWW.DJCARLOLIO.COM

WWW.RAWTHENTICMUSIC.COM

 

 

If music is the Universal language then Toronto Native, Carlo Lio is surely multilingual. It is this universal appeal that has allowed Carlo to speak to so many people without ever having to say a word. His ability to capture sounds and emit them so expressively is a gift. Music has always been a priority in Carlo’s life; anyone who witnesses him gracing the decks can attest to this. Carlo can turn a careful observer into a dancer through the raw emotion and passion in his music. Music is a language; it is a means of connectivity, intimacy and communication and Carlo has brilliantly captured and shared this with his fans.

 

As a DJ, producer: & businessman. His continued efforts both in and out of the booth have paid off. Teaming up with studio partner Nathan Barato to create Rawthentic Music, Carlo has been pounding out numerous quality hits which have received plenty International support.  His unique signature style that’s driven by a relentless, sexy, hypnotic, techy groove is sure to leave you mesmerized. 

 

Carlo has so instinctively tapped into that ‘human experience’ that millions of club goers have sought after and has taken so many on a journey into sound. With his flawless and imaginative mixing and his mind-blowing programming, Carlo preaches a gospel of repetitive beats. His fast, deep pulsing tech-house, or groovy, chuggy minimal are inspirational and he credits his latest sound to two of his most current influences; Mastiksoul, &  Marco Carola 

 

Carlo emulates great confidence and is a strong visionary and leader in Toronto’s club culture. If you have a yearning hunger for the beat, just open wide; Carlo will satisfy your mind, body and soul and leave you salivating for more.

 

 

DJ Bookings & Artist Management: jose@ink-00.com

Production & Remix Enquires: carlo@rawthenticmusic.com

 

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Carlo_Lio-Miami_Underground_Movement.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:24am EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Privilege, Bogota Colombia - M.U.M Episode 151

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time   

Tracklist:

1. Gary Beck - Get Down [Saved Records]
2. Mladen Tomic - Green Cubes  [1605]
3. Uto Karem - Utopolys [Agile Recordings]
4. Koen Groeneveld - Rudder [Toolroom]
5. Umek - Novi Sad (Uto Karem Remix) [Greatstuff]
6. Dean Newton - Kuraitani [Avanti]
7. Christian Smith - The Price of freedom [1605]
8. ThreeSixty - Dominion [Funk Farm]
9. Just'n Toko - Let Me Dig [Under The Groove]
10. Paul Thomas – Wookie [Toolroom]
11. Da Fresh - Once Again [1605]
12. Umek vs PHNTM - Freaks On The Floor [1605]
13. Christian Cambas - Fireball [1605]
14. Hertz & Subway Baby - Shockz [1605]
15. Tetsuya and Ryoji Takahashi - Stereo Injection [1605]
16. Lush - Campanacci - Original Mix [NuZone Gears]
17. Umek & Traumer – She Never Wants To Come Down [1605]
18. Diskoteque - Eat Reverb [Magic Powder Music]

 

quite some time.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_live__Bogota_-_Colombia_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:13am EST

M.U.M & Hotfingers presente "Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare -Hotfingers must haves"(pt_II)-M.U.M Episode 150

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Manuel De La Mare Dj, producer and label owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers.
His connection with music starts at a very early age by experimenting with diverse instruments, ten years ago he began working behind the turntables, quickly developing his own unforgettable style which is the result of the lifetime musical influence. His eclectic production varies between all possible electronic genres, gaining fame among controversial crowds.   
He reaches the worldís hottest destinations from Asia to South and North America, Africa  and spots all over Europe.

He has released music and collaborated with some of the best record labels like Tiger Records, Spinnin, Toolroom, Definitive, Ministry of Sound and many more. With a soaring profile and constantly growing international followers and fans Manuel launched his own labels 303Lovers and Hotfingers back in 2007 along with Alex Kenji and Marshall. The labels has now showed themselves as one of the key names in House and Techno  Music with a never-ending  flow of quality releases which fire the dancefloor.

After all this and an unbelievable number of successful parties his machine was engine-tuned! 

 

Playlist:

01 Shehan & Clausen - Nel Canto Del Mare (Original Mix)
02 Hauswerks - Belly Dancer (Original Mix)
03 Coqui Selection - Afri-K (Original Mix)
04 Blacktron - With Me (Original Mix)
05 UMEK - Card Gamble (F Sonic & Andrew Technique Remix)
06 Luigi Rocca - The Words Of Wine (NDKJ Remix)
07 Vlada Asanin & D-Balster - Stuffed Olives (Original Mix)
08 Wally Lopez & Ismael Rivas - Is Deeper (Original Mix)
09 Nikitin & Semikashev - Masasa (Original Mix)
10 Re Dupre & Rod B. - Manga Rosa (Original Mix)
11 Luigi Rocca - Just Believe (NDKJ Remix)
12 Coqui Selection - Jango! (Original Mix)
13 NDKJ - Fun With My Funk (Original Mix)

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi


M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Space Carl Cox , Ibiza Part 2 - M.U.M Episode 149

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

 

Artist - Title - Track version - Release title - Label

01. Felipe Tropolli - Kaskanu [Pirelli Records]
02.Tube & Berger - Kreidler Flory [Kittball]
03.Spada - The Match [Flash]
04.Sam Paganini - Stratos [Form]
05.Butch - XTC (Riva Starr Cut) [100% Pure]
06.Christian Smith - Opus One [Tronic]
07.Umek - Chase The Moroder [Toolroom]
08.Kaiserdisco - Jaana (Carlo Lio Remix) [Kling Klong]
09.Tomy Wahl – Hundert [BuenaMusica Recordings]
10. Damolh33 - Reedited [Anonima Recordings]
11. Siwell - 2048 [Sphera Records]
12. Christian Fischer - GTX Drive [Definition Records]
13. Ramon Zenker, Harada - Sonic Dust [BluFin]
14. Traumer - Eilema [1605]
15. DJ Tonio - Mondo Sonoro [Definitive Recordings]
16. Spartaque - The Music And The Monkey  [1605]
17. Underworld - Cowgirl (Koen Groeneveld 2010 Bootleg Remix) [Promo]
18. Umek - OMGWTF  [1605]


 

 

 

quite some time.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek__Space_Carl_Cox_night_Ibiza_Spain_Vol.2_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:50am EST

M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents "Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare"-M.U.M Episode 148

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

BIOGRAPHY

Manuel De La Mare Producer, DJ and A&R, also knowed as Sara Galli, After Tea and Combo his alterego project.
With over then 50 releases ranging from techno to house, he is supported, playlisted and charted by many djs around the globe: Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Funkagenda, Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Hernan Cattaneo, John Acquaviva, Joe T. Vannelli, Robbie Rivera, Renè Amesz, Kobbe, Ripperton, Jean Claude Ades, Anthony Pappa, Joeski, Milton Jackson, Jorge Jaramillo (Who Da Funk), Gel Abril, Yousef, Inpetto, Thomas Gold, Tom Novy, Justice and more.

In 2008 he gained 11 beatport top ten in 4 different genres to confirm his eclectic style (ian round - "dancin" manuel de la mare mash plus manuel de la mare d-mash, both rmx in beatport house top ten; sylar - "mellow" sara galli rmx , beatport techno top ten; alex kenji - "ytaca" manuel de la mare rmx and ceeryl - "high flyer" manuel de la mare rmx both in beatport progressive top ten , after tea aka manuel de la mare - "my prerogatives", "okeechobee", "this is warming up" and remix of "lombardi vs Neuroxyde - exagon", in beatport deep house top ten; sara galli and matteo matteini - "confident" featured in beatport deep house top ten).
Including the huge success of his underworld's "born slippy" official cover (2nd in overall beatport chart and 1st in progressive house).

He is the co-owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers Music Labels with Alex Kenji and Marshall and since their launch (August 2007) they have sold more than 50000 units in digital stores; he collaborates also with indipendent and major labels: Baroque, Toolroom, Eye Industries, Omnis, Sound4Group, Universal, Blanco y Negro, ClubStar, Ministry of Sound, Anjunabeats, Warner Chapell.

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Manuel_De_La_Mare_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:23pm EST

M.U.M  Presents Miami Sessions with Phunk Investigation - M.U.M Episode 147

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

From the premier league of Italian Dance Music this duo have been impressing us for years with their top class productions, from their incredible mainstream work with George Michael 'Flawless' and The Ones to their skilfully crafted club grooves and dubs.

Phunk Investigation known for producing and remixing artists such as Way Out West, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Light House Family, Rhythm Masters, Simple Minds, Boy George, Mark King [Level 42], Simply Red, Phats & Small, Angel City, Thrill Kill Kult, Annie Lennox, Faithless, Alex Gopher, DJ Sammy, Hakan Lidbo, Rui Da Silva, Young Punx, Jim Kerr, Roger Sanchez, Scumfrog, Danny Tenaglia and many others.

Their ultimate hits are "Get Up Stand Up" by Stellar Project Essential Miami Tune - UK Top 14 on Ministry Of Sound and France Top 16 on Sony Music and # 1 on Billboard top 100 dance singles airplay with Ultra Records and again " I Like Girls" by Hound Dogs uk top 26 charted five weeks with Sony Music. Spot Miu Miu (Directed By Madonna) Phunk Investigation VS Boy George (Generations Of Love 2008)

Labels: 1605, BluFin, Definitive, Toolroom, Sabotage, Sony UK, Warner, Data (UK), Positiva, Virgin, Ultra (USA), Pink Star...

Supported by: Umek, Dubfire, Paco Osuna, Tocadisco, Mark Knight, Pan-Pot, Marco Bailey, Tomy Declerque, Mistress Barbara, Pete Tong, Roger Sanchez, Carl Cox, Tiesto...

Links: www.myspace.com/phunkinvestigations
Mix Set: http://soundcloud.com/phunkinvestigation/phunk-investigation-mix-set-april-2010
Facebook personal page: http://www.facebook.com/phunkinvestigations
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/phunkinvestigations#!/pages/Phunk-Investigation/73693371789?ref=ts
Phunk Investigation RA: http://www.residentadvisor.net/profile/phunkinvestigation
Phunk Investigation The Dj List: http://thedjlist.com/djs/PHUNK_INVESTIG

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Phunk_Investigation_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:14pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Space Carl Cox , Ibiza - M.U.M Episode 146

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

 

 Umek (Live) @ The Revolution Continues – Space Ibiza


Tracklist:

1.    Matheo Velez - La Toledana [Deep Disco Music]

2.   Damon Jee - Shimo [Definitive Recordings]

3.   Raditz Room – Isaid [Hypnotic Room]

4.   Jonathan Jaramillo - Get Funk [Adverso Records]

5.   Sinisa Tamamovic - Fusion [1605]

6.   Den Ishu - Expand your Mind [Break New Soil Recordings]

7.   Olderic - Monkey Business  [Terminal M]

8.   Anil Chawla - Macho Grande [Suara]

9.   Bass Kleph - Hey Ya [Fresco Records]

10. Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon (Jay Lumen & Umek Hey Baby Remix) [Great Stuff Recordings]

11. Vladimir Acic - Green Love [1605]

12. Chase Buch, Nick Olivetti - Locongas (Jay Lumen ReCreation) [Kling Klong]

13. Ronan Portela - La Kelly [Monique Speciale]

14. Kid Culture, El Mundo & Satori - Gotta Help (Mendo Remix) [ Gruuv]

15. Wally Lopez, Ismael Rivas (aka Riva) - Is Deeper [303Lovers]

16. Stefano Noferini - Ghuroom [Deeperfect Records]

17. Format:B - Dog Tag (Sebastien Leger Remix) [Formatik]

18. Felipe Tropolli - Kaskanu [Pirelli Records]

 

 

 

Direct download: Miami_Sesions_with_Umek_LiveCarl_Cox_night_Space_Ibiza__1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:40am EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik & Andrew Technique-M.U.M Episode 145

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 



F.SONIK   The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy! Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.” It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...F.SONIK

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.”

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...

ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

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"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_F.Sonik_and_Andrew_Technique_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:02pm EST

Miami Sessions proudly presents Dri.K - M.U.M Episode 140

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

 

Do you know DRI.K? 

 “Have you heard DRI.K playing?  Man, it’s amazing!” by Gui Boratto(BR)

“The best female DJ we’ve ever seen playing!” by TICON (SE)

"She stands out from the rest both in and out of Brazil, producing really cool and intelligent work." by Marcelinho CIC (BR)

 

 

Considered one of the most talented DJs of her generation, DRI.K stands out for uniting beauty and charisma with a desirable technique acquired from DJ Scratch Academy in New York. With only 4 years in the profession and a fast moving career, DRI.K performed in many different parties and clubs in South America, United States and Europe, sharing the DJ booth with Erick Morillo (US), Paul Oakenfold (UK), Deadmau5 (CA), Kaskade (US), Claude Vonstroke (US), David Amo & Julio Navas (ES), John Acquaviva (CA), Ticon (SE), Funkagenda (UK), Tocadisco (DE), Miss Nine (DE), Alex Gaudino (IT), Dusty Kid (IT), Laurent Wolf (FR), Yves La Rock (CH), The Flash Brothers (IL), Tino Morgado (UK), Thomas Penton (EUA), Anneli (SE), Gui Boratto (BR), Anderson Noise (BR), Marky (BR), among many other great names.

Besides playing at the biggest nightclubs and some important corporate events in Brazil, DRI.K was present in the best music events in Rio de Janeiro. Some of these events include OI FASHION ROCKS, CHEMICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, CREAM BRASIL and RIO MUSIC CONFERENCE, but she became nationally known for her shooking presentations at Big Brother Brasil 9 and 10, broadcasted live by TV Globo and the TV channel Multishow.

She has also played at some Miami's Winter Music Conference events and at Pag Island in Croatia, one of the most happening summer places in Europe. While touring internationally she played at the following clubs/events: We Love Brasil Pool Party (WMC 2007 - Miami/FL), We Love Brasil at Club Jazid (WMC 2008 - Miami/FL), Opening Cocktail of UC Music (Miami/FL), Great Scott (Boston/MA), The Liberty Bar (Philadelphia/PA), Guitar Bar (Newark/NJ), Mood Lounge (Union/NJ), Chris Michael's Lounge (Woodbridge/NJ), Arena lounge (Newark/NJ), Hell’s Kitchen (New York/NY), Hell’s kitchen (Newark/NJ), Adega Lounge (Newark/NJ), The White Room (BsAs/AR), Kalypso (Pag Island/HR), Exit (Vodice/HR), Crossroad (Malinska/HR) e Magnus (Senj/HR).

DRI.K performs a live broadcast show “Transtronic” every monday at Radio Transamérica FM.  On the Internet, her sets played on Radio Multishow FM/BR, Push Radio/EUA and Beatbox FM/BsAs. One of her sets, the Minipoptech (July/08), won the contest "Leggo My Demo" and was highlighted on the newspaper's radio “The Miami Herald”, in Florida/US.

One of the greatest female breakthroughs in the electronic music scene in Rio, DRI.K is always complimented wherever she goes. Having this DJ in command of the dance floor is synonymous with fun rocked by sexy and compelling grooves.

  

From DRI.K, expect the unexpected!

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Dri.k_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:34pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Space Carl Cox opening, Ibiza-M.U.M Episode 138

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for

quite some time.

Umek @ Space Carl Cox opening, Ibiza, Spain, 06.07.2010 - 60 min


artist - track - version - release - label
1.   Barou - Espoirs Clown - Original Mix - Sui Generiz
2.   Stalot - 124bpm - Original Mix - 124bpm - Bavaria Recordings
3.   Homework - Drivin' - Original Mix - Fissa Tune - Exploited
4.   Jose M., TacoMan - Cause & Effect - Original Mix - Cause & Effect - Attary Records
5.   Paul Schulleri - Held Ohne Krise - Original Mix - Held Ohne Krise EP - Hamburg Aufnahmen
6.   FM Radio Gods - Polyphonic - Original Mix - Polyphonic - Attitude Recordings
7.   Wehbba - All I Need - Original Mix - Full Circle - Tronic
8.   Chris Maiberger - Wake Up - Per Hammar's Soya Remix - Kant Recordings; The Story So Far - Kant Recordings
9.   S.K.A.M. - Zelda - Original Mix - Zelda / Defender - Insert Coin
10. Down Right Rude - Sofia - Original Mix - Azuli Presents Miami 2010 - Club Azuli
11. Sergio Fernandez - Nirvana - Original Club Mix - Samsara EP - Leaders Of The New School
12. Stefano Noferini - Everybody - Original Club - Everybody - Deeperfect Records
13. Matheo Velez - El Alicangaro - Original Mix - El Alicangaro - Attary Records
14. David Jones - Dubby - Original Mix - Dubby - Starlight Unlimited
15. The Glitz - White Line - Andhim Remix - White Line Remixes 2 - Voltage Musique Records
16. Alex Tepper - In, Out, Life - Original Mix - In, Out, Life - Saved Records
17. Mladen Tomic - Before Sunset - Original Mix - Before Sunset EP - Definitive Recordings
18. Steve Slight - Nim - Original Mix - Nim EP - Versuz Essentials
19. Xiaha Troden - Mira Negra - D-Nox & Beckers Remix - Mira Negra - Sprout
20. Barem - Heyday - Ronan Portela Remix - Heyday EP - Foundsound Records
21. Pleasurekraft - Tarantula - Hugo Remix - Tarantula - Eklektisch

 

 

quite some time.quite some time.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveCarl_Cox_opening_Space_Ibiza_1.mp3
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M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Dj Lucca-M.U.M Episode 137

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



Relating to official previews 2009 is the year to become a very difficult one. Recession in europe? A world crisis in economy? Nobody really knows how to call it correctly like it will be. But one thing is for sure. Though people may expect the worst Lucie Kvasnicov・ better known as Lucca by her fans, will expect a highlight in her career.

This tiny and beautiful woman from the Czech republic has played and placed herself into the hearts of her fans throughout the last decade and received much respect from male collegues like Chris Liebing or even Carl Cox who still is one of her favourite turntablist in techno business. All of them estimate Lucca a lot and cherish her style and skills and give her the references a worldwide top-dj does need to have.

Lucca's approach towards the perfect sound has always been accompanied by authenticity and devotion. Firstly captured by the house sound by dj sneak Lucca afterwards seduced herself to the techno vibes from napoli. In this epoque Lucca started to be part in every line up of every essential event concerning this style and was given her own festival organised by her former agency Mersey. As a conclusion she performed at "Live @ Hradhouse 2005" a unique concert which was also released on dvd showing this wonderful location placed in the castle of Boskovica and Lucca as the headliner. But she did not stop changing and created her own sound - the Sound Of Acapulco.

More than five years ago in 2003 it was time for Lucca to launch her own label named Acapulco Records. This move has been considered one of the most important actions for the techno scene among the czech republic which was still developing at this point of time. Releases of Acapulco became the synonym for progressing czech techno and were mentioned in many playlists and dj charts. The relaunch of her label now called Sound Of Acapulco could not knock down her acceptance and did show her skills concerning musical visionary even in a brighter light.

Currently this bright light is being transmitted by her debut album "Reformation" which mirrors Lucca's personal trip through life. It is purely a big exhibition of her personal taste of music and a common production with the german producer Tobias Fiedler. As a special appearance even the famous czech musician Michal Pavlicek provides his guitar riffs on her longplayer. "Reformation" does not only reflect her current life concerning music. "Reformation does sound a little bit like revolution but it is not. Me for myself it sounds slightly to aggressive", Lucca claims in an interview. Moreover her album has been built around the experiences she faced the recent years while travelling and now is the djane's v-card. "Reformation" not just includes her former hit single "Body Dance" it is also packed with twelve new stunning tracks e.g. "Quantum" her personal favourits „Hundertwasser“, „Teleport“ und „Noise Town“ as she says. But Lucca would not be satisfied with her engagement for music if she would not plan to start a new longplayer production starting within the next year. This woman is simply restless.

Meanwhile Lucca is a resident guest in music magazins and an appreciated partner concerning endorsement deals. She recently has been the face of well known manufacturer American Audio and cover act of Raveline Germany's leading magazin for electronic music. She also did a highly acclaimed special mix for this particular issue which was downloaded many many times and shows her well timed presence and knowledge of music if needed. For this reason she has been elected for the forth time in the row "DJ Of The Year" in the Czech Dance Music Awards and still does host her own radio show on Paul van Dyk's Vonyc Radio since may 2008. One of her career dream was fulfilled this year, as Carl Cox invited her to play with him in Space, Ibiza on 11th of August.


Contact:
www.lucca.cz
www.soundofacapulco.com

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_LUCCA_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:52pm EST

M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Matthew Hoag"- M.U.M- Episode 139

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

 

Matthew Hoag

Being anonymous music aficionado, music professional or a sexy Pacha girl, there are two things you really should know about Matthew Hoag: meeting him in person is always fun. Joining him for the night clubbing is a life changing experience. This vivid, cheerful, friendly bon vivant isn’t just one of those guys who want to know everything about the music as an art and the whole business behind it. He’s foremost a really nice person and his works are excellent reflections of his embrace-the-life globe trotting attitude.

The earliest seed that indicated Matthew’s future career is hidden somewhere on the dance floor was his passion for light shows. He became light-operator for the matinees in one of the local clubs already as a teenager. Few years latter he took a job at the local radio station. That’s where he learned how the radio station works, how the program is being put together, he became skillful technician, and he also listened to a lot of music: “I guess this is the main reason why I can’t be put in the box as an artist. I was exposed to all range of commercial and non commercial music. And it was that period when I grew taste for good alternative music and explored even genres such as jazz and blues.”

Meanwhile his career took a big leap forward as he became “illegal” light operator at the infamous Ambasada Gavioli club. This wasn’t his job. Put more precisely: he wasn’t even allowed to come near the console by the boss. But the resident deejays liked his touch and invited him into the booth whenever possible. “I was hanging around to listen to the sets of Valentino Kanzyani. Ambasada was the playground for the biggest names in the game. And Sven Väth was the one that really stood out of the flock: it was his human energy, power of his music, his ability to control the dance floor what ultimately convinced me to become a deejay.”

Although it wasn’t Sven’s or Valentino’s sound that he wanted to follow. “I’ve started with house, explored the progressive and I guess I could be considered tech-house artist nowadays,” summarizes Matthew who as a very versatile and eclectic artist doesn’t brand himself. He broke trough as a deejay when spotted by Valentino Kanzyani at the party in Croatia: “Valentino is one of the biggest figures in my life. He’s my brother from another mother,” likes to jest Matthew about their friendship. “He invited me to join his office, where I’ve got introduced to every angle of label management and music promotion business.” 

2009 saw Matthew kicking the dance floors around the globe, from Columbia to Turkey,from  Spain to Greece, from Germany To Brazil.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with__Matthew_Hoag_-_LiveKanfanar_Afterhour.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:31pm EST

.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik & Andrew Technique Live@Monvi_Croatia Part2-M.U.M Episode 138

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik & Andrew Technique  Live@Monvi_Croatia Part1 --M.U.M Episode 138

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 



F.SONIK   The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy! Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.” It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...F.SONIK

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.”

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...

ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

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"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."


M.U.M & bpitchcontrol proudly Presents Miami Sessions with Ellen Alien- M.U.M Episode 137

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

 

/// berlin berlin ///

berlin – i grew up feeling surrounded by the wall. i lived on the small island of west berlin. border controls on sunday excursions, the rummaging through bags, the military. it was scary.
but the quote “all quiet on the western front” still didn’t really apply, as lots of things were happening that wouldn’t have been possible anywhere else. the island of west berlin was a destination for creative minds in search of alternatives. music was and still is my outlet. alongside tinkling on the electric organ, teaching myself how to read notes and my jukebox with a collection of singles in my room, my ears were first intrigued by the revolution of neue deutsche welle. it was fantastic! for the first time people were singing in the language you could hear out on the street: ideal, grauzone, nina hagen – pop meets punk. things happened so fast. minimal sounds made from machines entered the charts. for me it was kraftwerk’s “model” that changed everything. i discovered that pop also worked without any frills. my side of berlin provided a home for the curious, those who were going against the flow.

however, it was only when the wall came down that berlin became berlin again – the city that lets me breathe. after spending a whole year in london i realized that despite the acid jazzhouse euphoria there, only one place felt like home – berlin, the city of possibilities. being able to breathe, to drive and walk wherever and with whoever i wanted. and no more borders. i was immediately fascinated by east berlin, by this atmosphere of curiosity and get-up-and-go. there was room for experiments. electronic music united east and west.

i started to focus on music and art. at first that meant playing the saxophone, learning about fashion, hanging out in rehearsal rooms and taking classes in acrobatics. to finance it all, i worked behind the bar in the fischlabor, which happened to be the meeting point of the up-and-coming music network. i mixed my first tapes and suddenly became part of the emerging berlin techno scene, which started out in empty industrial buildings, houses and cellars. ellen became ellen allien.

courage
berlin nightlife. i had my own radio show on kiss fm, worked at the delirium record store and finally founded my first label braincandy. it felt as if music had swallowed me whole. with braincandy i made a serious attempt at releasing the kind of abstract techno i liked best. i’d had enough of compromising. some of it was just the courage to pave my own way.
the closing down of the first big berlin techno clubs was a setback for the scene, though i interpreted it as a sign to get something new going in the midst of disorientation. the party series bpitch control was a good start. i wanted to hang on to the music, to materialize it, so i founded bpitch control records.
the parties were no longer just memories, now people could take them home, too. the label was mainly an organ for me and other people who i found talented and worth supporting. to me, bpitch control is glamour, community and exchange platform all at the same time.

productive
as a dj i have always tried to connect genres, styles and audiences. i want to feed people new music and capture their interest. i want to fill the room with sound. and i have always been searching for an acceptance of what exists. we all live in the here and now!
and it was that common thread that i wanted to share with the audience. when i dj, body and music become one, they become brainy. to me, music was always the only way to soar through epic parallel worlds, to relax, to experience excess, to find myself.
music is both my motor and my outlet.
as a producer, music is a playback of my emotions and moods. i tease them out of me with alternating technical devices. music becomes a chronicle, each album is a work from a period of my life, which grounds me after the stress of dj-jetting. albums are like diaries. with my first album “stadtkind” i wanted to express my close relationship with the city i live in. it was like an explosion. “stadtkind” is my homage to berlin. the testing, work and experimentation with the structures and the sound spectrum of electronic music then became more and more crucial for me. i used my various compilations and remixes to beam myself into the musical cosmos. with my next album “berlinette” i processed what i had experienced after the release of “stadtkind”. it was like a flash of lightning, i was everywhere and everyone around me was euphoric and supportive. “berlinette” illustrates all that and it is also my very personal discourse on what is possible in the world of pop music and abstract sounds. then i released my third album “thrills”. it moves back and forth between constant excitement and playing the arp 2600 and other analogue instruments.

in 2006 apparat and i decided to do an album together. we went into appart's studio and had a great time - looking over the roof tops of berlin in winter, playing around on different instruments and synths, trying things out. "orchestra of bubbles" is a really nice electronica album with parts both of my and apparat's style. during summer 2006 we performed our live sets all over the world, played big festivals and were sweating like crazy each time. it was a challenge and an inspiration for both of us.

when i was asked to represent berlin for a dvd for time out i was happy to accept. it's a really cool thing for people who don't know this great city and want to know about it. i show my favorite places and also did a mix that goes along on cd.
fabric has always been my favorite club and i was proud to be asked to do an exclusive mix for them, which has been released in may 2007. beside my different remix projects (f.i. thom yorke, beck, troy pierce, ect.) that was something i really enjoyed doing in my studio.

whenever i have time i do my own fashion. in summer 2007 i already launched my third collection. i like doing fashion design - i like to draw and the choose fabrics. i only do very few pieces, it's all very exclusive and it's more my hobby than a business. music is still my main interest - my love and my life. and it's interesting to see how different equipment and software changes the styles of music all the time.

changing studio equipment keeps the productions flowing. techno is still what i’m about. it’s minimal, reduced, deep and rough at the same time. i would say that techno and i have developed together.

in may 2008 my fourth solo album “sool“ has been released. one single (sprung/its) and other three
remix releases (out, elphine, ondu caress) of “sool“ follow the same year. shortly after my new ellen allien fashion tshirt line **plus** comes out. in september 2008 the jetlag tour together with modeselektor starts.

the year 2009 begins with a very special anniversary: 10 years of bpitch control, 10 years of music, working together, following the idea of acting as a collective, fostering of exchange and
communication, entering new territories and having fun while doing so. actually, this year bpitch control signed many new artists. indeed, i can say that i´m very proud to work together with
so many talented artists.

in january my new ellen allien fashion spring/summer collection 09 came out. this time i decided to launch two different lines: the everyday quartett line and the rather elegant but nevertheless sexy and cheeky mainline. then i started my worldwide dj-tour which brought me once again to japan, the states, mexico
and many other thrilling destinations.

the new ellen allien fashion autumn winter collection 09 came out june. once again i realized two different lines: a jersey line called “city lights“ that consist of dresses and shirts for women and men, rarefied with hand painted accents of neon brushes. the nomadic world i live in, inspired me to think of us all as city indians. the jeans line uses vintage denim to create something new out of the old.
with individual items i want to shape the women´s perspectives. i think we really need to see the world as more playful, more connnected, but nevertheless extending into new horizons.

my new single “lover“ got released at the beginning of september and lots of "happy birthday bpitch control"-parties have delighted us during the whole year. we rocked berghain club in berlin, the melt! festival, the sonar festival, watt club in rotterdam and many other outstanding locations. together with the graphics team “pfadfinderei“ we have been working on new ellen allien visual which have been tested in a couple of clubs and that are developing into something definite step by step.in september my single "lover" (bpc199) came out and i made a remix of uffie/feadz's track “pop the clock“ (edbanger records).
in november i made an ellen allien south america tour with gigs in montevideo, buenos aires, rio de janeiro, belo horizonte, sao paolo, medellin and bogota.

2010: a new decade for a new ellen allien solo album. i took a brief break from playing in clubs in order to concentrate on the production of my fifth solo album together with tobias freund. in january the ellen allien fashion spring/summer 2010 collection called "nightflowers" came out and i made a mix cd for the watergate club (ellen allien mix cd /watergate vol5). in february my 12" "pump" (bpc209) and "the best of bpitch control" for the japanese concept store beams came out. in march i toured through japan (tokyo, osaka, nagoya, okinawa) once again to celebrate bpitch control's tenth annyversary. i continued playing in clubs and festival throughout europe.
in may my new album dust (bpc220) came out. ince again i hav ebeen touring worldwide (usa, singapore, malaysia, australia and europe). along with dust other two 12" were released: flashy flashy (bpc216) with remixes by nicolas jaar and alexi delano and our utopie (bpc220) including the bonus track "searching".


sensual
in my work, graphics, music, artwork, visuals and fashion merge.

body
dance, space and lust for life overspill. i search for the fulfilling dance. body, belly and brain start to swing and uplift me/us. music is the drug – nothing else!

travel
travelling with my record case, living out of the suitcase. the hotel is my home. experiencing new worlds and cultures and accepting them; understanding, how things work in other places. sharing views and politics. a club unites people without words. it’s the music that speaks.
recognizing the beauty of the world and absorbing the otherness. home is far away and not important. it’s the unknown that attracts my attention, and i want to know it!
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the mix is everything. i push myself to the absolute limit, sweating, and the thrill is that the room will become our room.

 

Ellen Allien Tracking list:

1. Jay Haze featuring Laila Tov - I Wait For You  / unreleased
2. Adultnapper - While He Sleeps  / Simple Records
3. Shyza Minelli - Ancient Blessing  / Tuning Spork Records
4. Smash TV - World Wide Wet  / unreleased
5. Shit Robot - Simple Things (work it out)  / DFA Emi
6. N/A featuring Rosina - Fables and Fairytales  / Crosstown Rebels
7. Basti Grub - Will Fine  / unreleased
8. Dance Disorder - Zusammen (Discodromo Filthy Vortex Remix)  / CDR
9. Martin Beume - Slowly But Steady  / Outils Du Connaisseur
10. Late Nite Tuff  Guy - I Get Deeper  / Light Speed Recordings
11. El Mundo & Satori - Jazz Tango  / Catwash Records
12. Ellen Allien - Ever  / BPitch Controlthe mix is everything. i push myself to the absolute limit, sweating, and the thrill is that the room will become our room.

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Ellen_Allien_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:04am EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@Club Lehmann Stuttgart Germany - M.U.M Episode 136

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.
Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

 

02.06.2010 Umek @ Club Lehmann, Stuttgart, Germany - 2010 48

artist - track - version - label
1.   Echo Vacio - Pandora's Box - Original Mix - We Are Genius Recordings
2.   Yan Oxygen - Behind a limit
3.   Challenge by Norbert Gasser - Challenge - Alex Di Stefano Remix
4.   Wally Lopez - Is Deeper - Spartaque Remix
5.   Worakls - Kokain
6.   Phunk Investigation - Acid Slider - Sheff remix
7.   Dualitik - Lokomotiva - DEMO
8.   Hertz - A Voice Of My Own - Original Mix - Underwater Records
9.   Echo Vacio - Candanga
10. Blaz V - Noizzeous
11. Ketto - Bad Resonance - Original Mix - Bosphorus Underground Recordings
12. Alex Di Stefano - Multiverse
13. Miki Litvak - Pollinator - Gary Beck Remix
14. Mikatek - Velocity - Original Mix - Innervate Records
15. Daniel Portman - Pulsive - Original Mix - Unreleased Digital
16. Casting Shadows Without Light - Umek RMX
17. m0h - Wake Up - Original Mix - Weave Music
18. Anthony Pappa - Alex Di Stefano Remix
19. Axel Karakasis - Broken - Original Mix - Remain Records
20. Mike Humphries - Tactical Recon - Original Mix - Mastertraxx
21. The Advent & industrialyzer Remix

 

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveClub_Lehmann_Stuttgart_Germany_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:28am EST

M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare - M.U.M Episode 134

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

BIOGRAPHY

Manuel De La Mare Producer, DJ and A&R, also knowed as Sara Galli, After Tea and Combo his alterego project.
With over then 50 releases ranging from techno to house, he is supported, playlisted and charted by many djs around the globe: Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Funkagenda, Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Hernan Cattaneo, John Acquaviva, Joe T. Vannelli, Robbie Rivera, Renè Amesz, Kobbe, Ripperton, Jean Claude Ades, Anthony Pappa, Joeski, Milton Jackson, Jorge Jaramillo (Who Da Funk), Gel Abril, Yousef, Inpetto, Thomas Gold, Tom Novy, Justice and more.

In 2008 he gained 11 beatport top ten in 4 different genres to confirm his eclectic style (ian round - "dancin" manuel de la mare mash plus manuel de la mare d-mash, both rmx in beatport house top ten; sylar - "mellow" sara galli rmx , beatport techno top ten; alex kenji - "ytaca" manuel de la mare rmx and ceeryl - "high flyer" manuel de la mare rmx both in beatport progressive top ten , after tea aka manuel de la mare - "my prerogatives", "okeechobee", "this is warming up" and remix of "lombardi vs Neuroxyde - exagon", in beatport deep house top ten; sara galli and matteo matteini - "confident" featured in beatport deep house top ten).
Including the huge success of his underworld's "born slippy" official cover (2nd in overall beatport chart and 1st in progressive house).

He is the co-owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers Music Labels with Alex Kenji and Marshall and since their launch (August 2007) they have sold more than 50000 units in digital stores; he collaborates also with indipendent and major labels: Baroque, Toolroom, Eye Industries, Omnis, Sound4Group, Universal, Blanco y Negro, ClubStar, Ministry of Sound, Anjunabeats, Warner Chapell.

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Manuel_De_La_Mare_www.miamiundergroundmovement.com.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:18pm EST

M.U.M  Presents Miami Sessions with King Unique - M.U.M Episode 133
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

King Unique is Matt Thomas, an all round studio junkie and dj with a taste for tripped-out cosmic techno and rough-edged underground house; in a career spanning nearly a decade KU’s distinctive sound has won an enviable global following. A ceaseless schedule of dj sets and festival gigs backed up by relentless studio sessions resulting in scores of records, remixes and radio broadcasts has made the KU sound an instantly recognizable part of the music-life of millions of the world’s clubbers - and a fixture in the vinyl crates, cd wallets and laptops of the world’s most influential djs. Consistently appealing across genres the tracks have been played by everyone from Sasha to Soulwax, Richie Hawtin to Tiesto, and have turned up everywhere from Hollywood soundtracks to mobile ringtones - not to mention countless compilations and mix albums.

Formed in 2001 by Matt Thomas & Matthew Roberts, King Unique hit the floor running, claiming the title of Undisputed Remix Champs by scoring five Essential New Tunes in five months on Pete Tong's "Essential Selection" Radio 1 show. A US Billboard Dance Chart number 1 for the remix of Dirty Vegas’ “Walk Into The Sun”, plus two more solo Essential New Tunes for Matt under his Watkins and Mainframe alter-egos saw KU firmly cement their place amongst the ranks of first-call remixers. The King Unique production touch has been in constant demand since, appearing on more than fifty remixes and yielding some of the biggest dance floor bombs known to man - Underworld's "Two Months Off", The Killers "Somebody Told Me", Planet Funk’s “The Switch”, The Teamsters "Feels Like Love", and Chable and Bonicci’s "Ride".
2006 saw the end of the original duo’s studio partnership, as Matt Thomas took on the King Unique role as a solo artist. The two years since have seen the KU sound taken to new heights with a mixture of euphoric acidic melodies, dark brooding techno vibes and old skool beats. Remixes of Tracey Thorn’s “Grand Canyon”, Gabriel & Dresden’s “Tracking Treasure Down” and an ’08 remix of KU’s own “Sugarhigh” have reaffirmed his status as one of the most versatile and consistent producers of the last ten years.
Most recently Matt has produced a stunning reworking of “Heaven” for James Lavelle’s UNKLE project, as well as remixes for Junkie XL, Paolo Mojo and Miami art-punk fashionistas Organicarma.

The renowned King Unique dj set has made KU a regular addition to the line up of some of the world's most respected clubs and biggest festivals, playing everywhere from ultra-hip blacked-out sweat boxes in Tokyo to euphoric crowds of thousands on the tropical beaches of Madeira. Regular gigs for super-brands such as Renaissance and Ministry Of Sound coupled with an increasingly hectic international schedule has seen Matt racking up enough air-miles for a free trip to the moon, with gigs in Sydney, Osaka, Barcelona, Shanghai, Lima, Bucharest, Auckland, Bogota, Singapore, Chelyabinsk, Malta, Vilnius - just to name a handful from recent months. Since the very first shows Matt has pushed at the cutting edge of the technology revolution that's swept through club culture, taking laptops, new gadgets and studio gear into the booth. 2009 sees the addition of the near mythic Monome controller to the sonic armoury - part track-mangling Ableton controller and part psychedelic light show, lovingly hand built by techno-hippies in the Catskill Mountains.

Playlist:


01. Ripperton “Random Violence” Green
02. Artur Reimer “Unseen Days” Microfreak Records
03. Lights Electronika “Sentimental (Einmusik Edit)” Einmusika
04. Solomun “Cloud Dancer (Manuel Tur's Instrumental)” Diynamic Music
05. Danny Howells “Landing On Planets” Dig Deeper
06. Secret Cinema “Glad Chord” GEM Records
07. Layo & Bushwacka vs. Shit Robot “Fatale Feeling (King Unique
Bootleg)” CDR
08. King Roc & Dimitri Nakov “Jardin Nights” Bedrock
09. Slam “Room 2 (Pan Pot Rave Tool)” Paragraph
10. Tania Vulcano “Teflon (Pig & Dan Remix)” Isgud Records
11. Phil Kieran “Dirt (Psycatron Remix)” Cocoon
12. King Unique “2000000 Suns (John Digweed & Nick Muir Remix)” Bedrock
13. King Unique “Feniksas (Fergie Remix)” Bedrock
14. Donnacha Costello “With Me Still” Poker Flat
15. Suzanne Cianni “Analogue Revolution – Sound Of The Century


Special Thanks to Hugh B

http://www.kingunique.com/
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_King_Unique_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:14pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Alexander Madness-M.U.M Episode 131
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Alexander Madness

“Music is movement, variation, imagination
and eternity. In other words:
the future of sustainable energy. As a
DJ I try to transfer and receive that
form of energy from and to the people
on the dance floor - mixing minimal
techno tracks with electro house floor
fillers. For the rough cases I always
carry progressive and electro tracks
in my DJ bag.”

Alexander Madness (AM) discovered daylight in 1978 in Koper, Slovenia. Already his mother knew that music is going to be one of his main interests: As a kid he always liked to stand in front of roaring speakers. Before diving into the universe of electronic music,
Alexander was listening to rock, pop and all the other genres that are usually popular among the youth.

”I first got to feel the magic of electronic music in 1996, when sounds of fast hardcore hit my ears. Because that kind of music was rare at that time, I soon switched to slower rhythms of chemical progressive.”

In 1998, AM first stepped behind the decks and immediately felt the connection – and it’s still lasting. Like any other DJ he realized that the beginnings were not easy. His first gigs were played at local bars and private parties, but his technique evolved within years, as did his passion for the music.

In the past years he was switching from one e-genre to another until he really got into techno, which he still prefers. He plays mostly minimal/techno and electro/house but in his DJ case you’ll also find progressive and electro tracks.

He has been playing in all the major and recognized clubs, such as Ambasada Gavioli, Lipa, SubSub, K4,The Temple, Fun Academy, Oxygen, Netopir, The Club, The Cube, Playtime, Forest, Tivoli, Arcade, Culture club and many more. He participated also on Final Flash, Fetique-Boutique, Born to be Wild, The way of Freedom and Sound Of Summer events.

Throughout his eight year run and after AM’s guest appearances in numerous venues in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy, AM has also shared the spotlight with some of the industries best DJ’s. Some of his collaborations include artists such as Valentino Kanzyani, Andy Moor, The Filterheadz, Richard Bartz, Len Faki, Bryan Cox, Oxia, Joris Voorn, Matthew Dekay, Seamus Haji, Danilo Vigorito, dA frESh, Mashtronic, Electrixx, Ade Fanton, Virgin Helena, Paul Hazendonk, Petar Dundov, Jamie Bissmire and many more.
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Alexander_Madness_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:49pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@Nikki Beach- Miami Beach-Florida - M.U.M Episode 130

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.
Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.


Playlist:


Umek, Live @ WMC Miami

1  Travelling - Jackspot Remix Felix Neumann - "Brise Records"
2  Raw Track (Shout Mix) - Massimo Di Lena   "Cadenza"
3  Soms - Hermanez  Necotine "Leena Music"
4  Move Your Body - Utku Dalmaz (Chase Buch Remix ) "FHD Records "
5 Lelle / Mentiras - Federico Locchi & UGLH  "Laterra Recordings "
6  Tout Va Bien -  Matthias Meyer (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix) "Liebe Detail "
7  Heyday - Barem (Ronan Portela Remix) "Foundsound Records "
8  Kulunguele - Mijail, Mister K  "Darkside Digital Records"
9  Hipernova - Anna Miranda (DJ Deh Remix) "Ketra Records"
10  Calypso - Round Table Knights vs Bauchamp "Made To Play "
11 Above & Beyond - Mini Mode " Rhythm Royal Recordings"
12 Lovers n' Fighters - Kruse & Nuernberg ( DJ Madskillz Remix) "Noir Music"
13  I Know My Way - Minimorph "Underscore Records"
14  Sofia - Down Right Rude "Azuli Records"
15  Carlo Lio - Giro Tondo "Monique Musique "  
16  Aguja - Kaiserdisco "My Best Friend"
17  Move Your Body - Utku Dalmaz (Chase Buch Remix) "FHD Records"
18  Birpad - Matheo Velez "Blaze Records"
19  Burn Myself -Coyu "Swings Records"
20  Chants - Sollscher Und Siech (Per Hammer Voodoo Rmx) "Beat Theraphy"
21  The Bells - Monotrax "DNW Records"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveNikki_-_Beach_Miami-_Florida_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:32pm EST

M.U.M Presents Miami Sessions Darren Emerson- M.U.M Episode 129 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Darren Emerson is one of the most influential figures in dance music, his 17 year career has seen him work with everyone from Depeche Mode to Jamie Cullum with numerous hit albums and singles as well as music synched to computer games and films.

Arguably best known for his work with Rick Smith and Karl Hyde, Darren joined Underworld when he was 18 years old, the band released three albums: ‘Dubnobasswithmyheadman', ‘Second Toughest in the Infants' and ‘Beaucoup Fish'. Underworld have sold over a million albums worldwide, featured two tracks on Danny Boyles Oscar nominated classic "Trainspotting" and are renowned for their stunning and unpredictable live shows. The hits include Cowgirl, Rez, Dark and Long and Born Slippy – all classics.

2000 saw Emerson leave Underworld and go solo. Although the band had been his passion for 10 years, it was time to branch out; concentrate on his record label and work with different producers. The first collaboration saw Emerson and DJ cohort Sasha produce the Ibiza classic ‘Scorchio'. Two Global Underground compilations soon followed; ‘Uruguay' and ‘Singapore' and the hugely succesfull Underwater Episodes. All proving that Emerson was back to doing what he does best; showcasing everything from deeper house through to jackin' techno cuts. Darren has also remixed tracks for everyone from The Prodigy to Everything But The Girl and Gus Gus.

In 1994 Darren Emerson started Underwater records, initially to release music for his friends, the label has seen releases from Steve Mac, Paul Woolford, Josh Wink, Gus Gus, Joel Mull, Smith & Selway, Paul Jackson, and Tim Deluxe – whose ‘Sirens/ We All Love Sax' and ‘It Just Won't Do' helped put Underwater firmly on the map. In 2003 Underwater was voted label of the year by DJ Mag and continues to go from strength to strength releasing albums and singles from its ever growing and increasingly varied roster of artists.

Darren recently released his third Global Underground compilation 'Bogota'. His debut solo artist album is now finished and will be backed with a plethora of club tracks meanwhile he continues his relentless globe trotting DJ schedule.

Playlist:

impster - treat me right
russ gabriel - prey tell
d'julz -  rotondo
steve hurley - jack your body
m.in - the beat
Acumen - Victory
Maher daniel - dropping the gramaphone
Josh Wink - Everybody To The Sun (Slam)
Ben Ben - Lucy Lu
Darren Emerson - Decisions
Darren Emerson -  Hard4Slow (Xprezz-2)
Darren Emerson & Jamie McHugh - Where We Came From (Patch Park)
Dave Manual - Thunderbolt
Darren Emerson - Hard4Slow (Detone Dub)


Many Thanks to Mr Luke Allen
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Darren_Emerson_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:03pm EST

M.U.M Presents Miami Sessions with Robert Babicz- M.U.M Episode 128

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

Rob Acid, Sontec, Dicabor, Alton Inc, Acid Warrior

Straight out of Cologne in 1993, under the pseudonym Rob Acid, Babicz released his first single Happy Answer on London Records, which unexpectedly became a huge club hit. With the rise of acid house influenced records dominating the charts, Babicz was able to ride high on this new wave of club culture. In addition to becoming an in demand live performer using one of his other names, Acid Warrior, Babicz started to release singles on high profile imprints like Kompakt, Treibstoff and Steve Bug’s Audiomatique, as well as his own label, Junkfood In what Rob appropriately dubs “the rave years” in the mid-nineties, he was already playing all over the world. During this time Babicz teamed up with Mate Galic and psychedelic sonic experiences of every kind followed, which as Rob himself sums up perfectly came as a result of “excessive sound-research and absurd parties… transistor radio and porn films on big screen”. His affiliation with Force Inc a few years later brought a series of more experimental, less dancefloor-orientated works which suggested his theoretical musique concrete roots. By the turn of the new millennium, Babicz was striving for a different sound and thus began a new label, Shortcut. At the same time, he received multiple requests for sound design from hard and software producers, most notably resulting in the presets he produced for Native Instruments. In 2007 Robert released his landmark record, A Cheerful Temper on Systematic Recordings, which expertly moves between electronica, techno, minimal and classic house. Playing ‘live’ has always been a key feature of Babicz’s authentic musicianship; improvising instead of reeling off pre-determined sets has made his celebrated shows unquestionably unique events. He consistently delivers astonishing performances of his own productions built around warm melodies, blissed atmospherics & analogue bass - sometimes jacking, but mostly tripping and always around the foundations of his first love: techno. Consequently, Babicz has more than proven his worth in the world of dance music and his right to the title of pioneer and innovator, whether producing tech house, minimal or acid techno. With the release of Immortal Changes in early 2010, described by DJ Mag as a “marriage of organic groove and glistening electronic melodies” it is clear that Robert Babicz still has much more to give…
Playlist:
Intro r.babicz - remote kiss ( babiczstyle) r.babicz - the sun ( babiczsyle ) r.babicz - dark flower (fever album mix) ( systematic ) g.boratto - i feel ( babicz earth remix ) ( defray ) r.babicz - percofonik ( babiczstyle ) r.babicz - storm lunch ( babiczstyle ) r.babicz - astor (g.boratto rmx) ( systematic ) r.babicz - come closer ( lost babicz mix ) ( systematic ) r.babicz - simple feeling ( babiczstyle )
Special tanks to Luke Allen
http://www.robertbabicz.de/
http://www.facebook.com/robertbabicz
http://www.myspace.com/robertbabicz
http://twitter.com/RobertBabicz
http://soundcloud.com/robbabicz
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Robert_Babicz_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:37pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@Blau Club Girona Spain - M.U.M Episode 127

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.
Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

 

Track List: umek live Blau club Girona


00. Intro
01. Purple Pills - D-Unity (Umek Remix) - "1605"

02. Meat With Blood - Max Bett - "Capsula"

03. Dark Floor - Phunk Investigation - "1605 "

04. Incomings - Tesla (Alex Di Stefano Remix) - "Stereo Seven Plus"

05. Fly By Wire -  Umek RMX  - "Promo"

06. Nova -  Kibz, Dfndr - "Recon Warriors"

07. Fly With Me - Elay Lazutkin - "IBZ Recordings"

08. Day Tripper  - H2 - "Form Music"

09. Nice Guy - Subfractal (Glitter Remix) - "Killing Machine Records"

10. Pere Rem - Tomy DeClerque RMX - "promo"     

11. Silly froggys - electric rescue - "promo"         

12. Russian Railways - Re-Zone & Tesla - "Nervous"

13. Road 66 - Ezio Mariani (Worakls Remix) - "FLAT BELLY"

14. Risvegli - Dyno - "Hell Yeah Recordings"     

15. Something Is Movin - Alex Di Stefano - "Mantide Records"

16. Ragaroo -  Fergie Ragaroo - "Excentric Muzik"     

17. Stop Show -  Totoproto (Joey Beltram Remix) - "Sebian Recordings"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveBlau_Club_Girona_Spain_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:51pm EST

M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Matthew Hoag"- M.U.M- Episode 126

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

 

Matthew Hoag

Being anonymous music aficionado, music professional or a sexy Pacha girl, there are two things you really should know about Matthew Hoag: meeting him in person is always fun. Joining him for the night clubbing is a life changing experience. This vivid, cheerful, friendly bon vivant isn’t just one of those guys who want to know everything about the music as an art and the whole business behind it. He’s foremost a really nice person and his works are excellent reflections of his embrace-the-life globe trotting attitude.

The earliest seed that indicated Matthew’s future career is hidden somewhere on the dance floor was his passion for light shows. He became light-operator for the matinees in one of the local clubs already as a teenager. Few years latter he took a job at the local radio station. That’s where he learned how the radio station works, how the program is being put together, he became skillful technician, and he also listened to a lot of music: “I guess this is the main reason why I can’t be put in the box as an artist. I was exposed to all range of commercial and non commercial music. And it was that period when I grew taste for good alternative music and explored even genres such as jazz and blues.”

Meanwhile his career took a big leap forward as he became “illegal” light operator at the infamous Ambasada Gavioli club. This wasn’t his job. Put more precisely: he wasn’t even allowed to come near the console by the boss. But the resident deejays liked his touch and invited him into the booth whenever possible. “I was hanging around to listen to the sets of Valentino Kanzyani. Ambasada was the playground for the biggest names in the game. And Sven Väth was the one that really stood out of the flock: it was his human energy, power of his music, his ability to control the dance floor what ultimately convinced me to become a deejay.”

Although it wasn’t Sven’s or Valentino’s sound that he wanted to follow. “I’ve started with house, explored the progressive and I guess I could be considered tech-house artist nowadays,” summarizes Matthew who as a very versatile and eclectic artist doesn’t brand himself. He broke trough as a deejay when spotted by Valentino Kanzyani at the party in Croatia: “Valentino is one of the biggest figures in my life. He’s my brother from another mother,” likes to jest Matthew about their friendship. “He invited me to join his office, where I’ve got introduced to every angle of label management and music promotion business.” 

2009 saw Matthew kicking the dance floors around the globe, from Columbia to Turkey,from  Spain to Greece, from Germany To Brazil.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Matthew_Hoag_3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:18pm EST

M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Dri.K"-M.U.M Episode 125

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

Do you know DRI.K?

 

“Did you hear DRI.K playing? It’s outstanding!” by GUI BORATTO (BR)

“The best female DJ we’ve ever seen playing!” by TICON (SE)

“Without cheap tricks but far from being a sound considered difficult, DRI.K showed an untouchable sound sensibility: technique and very sharp trends. And she has a very chic sound, almost blasé, with so much subtleness. Cheers to DJ DRI.K’s Tech House!” by ALEX PALHANO (BR)  

“Number one female DJ in Brazil.” by CHRIS CHREBET (US)

“DRI.K stands out from the rest both in and out of Brazil, producing really cool and intelligent work. I believe that, if she continues this way, we will soon have a TOP DJ representing our country really well internationally and earning her deserved respect in the Brazilian scene.” by MARCELINHO CIC (BR)

Considered one of the most talent DJs of her generation, DRI.K stands out for uniting beauty and charisma with a desirable technique acquired from DJ Scratch Academy in New York (US).

With only 3 years in the profession and fast moving carrer, DRI.K performed in many different parties and clubs in South America, United States and Europe, sharing the DJ booth with Eric Morillo (US), Paul Oakenfold (UK), Deadmau5 (CA),  David Amo & Julio Navas (ES), John Acquaviva (CA), Ticon (SE), Funkagenda (UK), Tocadisco (DE), Miss Nine (DE), Alex Gaudino (IT), Laidback Luke (PH), Dusty Kid (IT), The Flash Brothers (IL), Tino Morgado (UK), Thomas Penton (EUA), Anneli (SE), Gui Boratto (BR), Marky (BR), among many other great names.

DRI.K was present in the best music events in Rio de Janeiro. Some of these events include OI FASHION ROCKS, CHEMICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, CREAM BRASIL and RIO MUSIC CONFERENCE. However, she became nationally known by her two live presentations at BIG BROTHER BRASIL (9th and 10th editions), broadcasted by TV Globo and the TV channel Multishow.

 She has toured internationally where she played at the following clubs/events: We Love Brazil Pool Party during Winter Music Conference 2007 at Carlton Hotel, We Love Brazil Party during Winter Music Conference 2008 at Club Jazid and at the Opening Cocktail of UC Music in Miami Beach, also played at Great Scott in Boston/MA, The Liberty Bar (Philadelphia/PA), Guitar Bar (NJ), Mood Lounge(NJ), Chris Michael's Lounge (NJ), Adega Lounge (NJ), The White Room (Buenos Aires/AR), Kalypso (Pag Island/HR), Exit (Vodice/HR), Crossroad (Malinska/HR) and Magnus (Senj/HR).  

On the Internet, her sets played on Warung Waves/BR, Radio Multishow FM/BR, Push Radio/USA and Beatbox FM/BsAs. She has also participated in live broadcasts on Transamérica FM/RJ, Cidade FM/JF and Vitória University/ES. One of her sets, the Minipoptech (July/08), won “LEGGO MY DEMO” contest and was highlighted on the newspaper’s radio “THE MIAMI HERALD”, in Florida/US.  

One of the great female female breakthroughs in the electronic music scene in Rio de Janeiro, DRI.K never fails to surprise with her amazing sets, which include tech house, techno and deep house. Having this DJ in command of the dance floor is synonymous with fun rocked by sexy and compelling grooves.

 From DRI.K, expect the unexpected!

Web:

http://www.myspace.com/djdrik

http://twitter.com/drikdj

http://djdrik.podomatic.com

Bookings BR: paulosilveira@3plus.art.br

Bookings US: sonia@ucmusicgroup.com

 

Direct download: 01_Miami_Sessions_with_Dri.k_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:49pm EST

M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Stefano Frisoni-M.U.M Episode 124

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

Stefano Frisoni's passion for music started at the age of 12, with House music of course. Suddenly the passion to produce also appeared in Stefano and so in 1997 with his Computer he already started making his tracks. Things changed entirely in year 2000 when Stefano got involved in Techno music. The hard one, played at the Cocoricò in Riccione.

In 2003 Stefano meets Daniel B and another change in Stefano Frisoni's musical history happens. Stefano and Daniel B start producing together under the name of TEAMTEK. Both headed to make bigger things.

In 2007 Stefano starts working with his new partner and friend  Francesco Bonora creating the PUNTO G staff and varoius music productions. In year 2009 Stefano cooperates with different labels untill he worked with EYE records and reached the top 20 in the Minimal chart of Beatport with the song TRIP. POOL 8 records is another label of the group that will see Stefano's productions released in fall 2009. Stay tuned more will happen soon.

Direct download: 01_Miami_Sessions_with_Stefano_Frisoni_3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:47pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Cembrankeller Linz Austria - M.U.M Episode 123

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

DJ UMEK
For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.
In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.
The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.
Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic” (coming in spring 2010), Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveCembrankeller_Linz_Austria_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:53pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik-M.U.M Episode 122

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

F.SONIK   The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy! Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.” It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...F.SONIK

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And its a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler, remembers F.Sonik Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyanis matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.

F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. Weve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks, announces F.Sonik...

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_F.Sonik_3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:40pm EST

M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents "Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare"-M.U.M Episode 121

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

BIOGRAPHY

Manuel De La Mare Producer, DJ and A&R, also knowed as Sara Galli, After Tea and Combo his alterego project.
With over then 50 releases ranging from techno to house, he is supported, playlisted and charted by many djs around the globe: Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Funkagenda, Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Hernan Cattaneo, John Acquaviva, Joe T. Vannelli, Robbie Rivera, Renè Amesz, Kobbe, Ripperton, Jean Claude Ades, Anthony Pappa, Joeski, Milton Jackson, Jorge Jaramillo (Who Da Funk), Gel Abril, Yousef, Inpetto, Thomas Gold, Tom Novy, Justice and more.

In 2008 he gained 11 beatport top ten in 4 different genres to confirm his eclectic style (ian round - "dancin" manuel de la mare mash plus manuel de la mare d-mash, both rmx in beatport house top ten; sylar - "mellow" sara galli rmx , beatport techno top ten; alex kenji - "ytaca" manuel de la mare rmx and ceeryl - "high flyer" manuel de la mare rmx both in beatport progressive top ten , after tea aka manuel de la mare - "my prerogatives", "okeechobee", "this is warming up" and remix of "lombardi vs Neuroxyde - exagon", in beatport deep house top ten; sara galli and matteo matteini - "confident" featured in beatport deep house top ten).
Including the huge success of his underworld's "born slippy" official cover (2nd in overall beatport chart and 1st in progressive house).

He is the co-owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers Music Labels with Alex Kenji and Marshall and since their launch (August 2007) they have sold more than 50000 units in digital stores; he collaborates also with indipendent and major labels: Baroque, Toolroom, Eye Industries, Omnis, Sound4Group, Universal, Blanco y Negro, ClubStar, Ministry of Sound, Anjunabeats, Warner Chapell.

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Manuel_De_La_Mare_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:06pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek Live@ Inbox Ljubljana Sloveni - M.U.M Episode 120

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.

Direct download: Miami_sessions_with_Umek_LiveInbox_Ljubljana_Slovenia_200942_jingle.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:50pm EST

U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Dj Lucca-M.U.M Episode 119

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



Relating to official previews 2009 is the year to become a very difficult one. Recession in europe? A world crisis in economy? Nobody really knows how to call it correctly like it will be. But one thing is for sure. Though people may expect the worst Lucie Kvasnicov・ better known as Lucca by her fans, will expect a highlight in her career.

This tiny and beautiful woman from the Czech republic has played and placed herself into the hearts of her fans throughout the last decade and received much respect from male collegues like Chris Liebing or even Carl Cox who still is one of her favourite turntablist in techno business. All of them estimate Lucca a lot and cherish her style and skills and give her the references a worldwide top-dj does need to have.

Lucca's approach towards the perfect sound has always been accompanied by authenticity and devotion. Firstly captured by the house sound by dj sneak Lucca afterwards seduced herself to the techno vibes from napoli. In this epoque Lucca started to be part in every line up of every essential event concerning this style and was given her own festival organised by her former agency Mersey. As a conclusion she performed at "Live @ Hradhouse 2005" a unique concert which was also released on dvd showing this wonderful location placed in the castle of Boskovica and Lucca as the headliner. But she did not stop changing and created her own sound - the Sound Of Acapulco.

More than five years ago in 2003 it was time for Lucca to launch her own label named Acapulco Records. This move has been considered one of the most important actions for the techno scene among the czech republic which was still developing at this point of time. Releases of Acapulco became the synonym for progressing czech techno and were mentioned in many playlists and dj charts. The relaunch of her label now called Sound Of Acapulco could not knock down her acceptance and did show her skills concerning musical visionary even in a brighter light.

Currently this bright light is being transmitted by her debut album "Reformation" which mirrors Lucca's personal trip through life. It is purely a big exhibition of her personal taste of music and a common production with the german producer Tobias Fiedler. As a special appearance even the famous czech musician Michal Pavlicek provides his guitar riffs on her longplayer. "Reformation" does not only reflect her current life concerning music. "Reformation does sound a little bit like revolution but it is not. Me for myself it sounds slightly to aggressive", Lucca claims in an interview. Moreover her album has been built around the experiences she faced the recent years while travelling and now is the djane's v-card. "Reformation" not just includes her former hit single "Body Dance" it is also packed with twelve new stunning tracks e.g. "Quantum" her personal favourits „Hundertwasser“, „Teleport“ und „Noise Town“ as she says. But Lucca would not be satisfied with her engagement for music if she would not plan to start a new longplayer production starting within the next year. This woman is simply restless.

Meanwhile Lucca is a resident guest in music magazins and an appreciated partner concerning endorsement deals. She recently has been the face of well known manufacturer American Audio and cover act of Raveline Germany's leading magazin for electronic music. She also did a highly acclaimed special mix for this particular issue which was downloaded many many times and shows her well timed presence and knowledge of music if needed. For this reason she has been elected for the forth time in the row "DJ Of The Year" in the Czech Dance Music Awards and still does host her own radio show on Paul van Dyk's Vonyc Radio since may 2008. One of her career dream was fulfilled this year, as Carl Cox invited her to play with him in Space, Ibiza on 11th of August.


Contact:
www.lucca.cz
www.soundofacapulco.com

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Lucca.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:53am EST

M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents "Miami Sessions with Alex Kenji"-M.U.M Episode 118

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

 

Alex Kenji

 

Alessandro Bacci (29), aka Alex Kenji, is an internationally renowned and respected DJ/producer with over 10 years experience of producing, DJ’ing, and performing. As well as ‘Alex Kenji’, he has released records under host of pseudonyms including: Yoshie Chandler, Combo, Green Sugar, HouseLovers, D.L.D., Orange Love, Kaiko, Itchy Bit and many others.

His tracks have featured on the BBC Radio1 Essential Mix and in the DMC US House Chart and playlisted by best dance music djs such as: Tiesto, Pete Tong, Bob Sinclar, JUSTICE, Sasha & John Digweed, Fedde Le Grand, Steve Angello, Tocadisco, Roger Sanchez, Kaskade, Sharam (Deep Dish), Alex Gaudino, Robbie Rivera, Laurent Wolf, David Piccioni, Jason Nevins, Chris Lake, Hernan Cattaneo, Tom Novy, Joe T Vannelli, BSOD, John Dahlback, Inpetto, Jean Claude Ades, Demi, Omid 16b, Desyin Masiello amongst his fans.

His DJ sets offer an impeccable house / tech-house selection ranging from deep grooves to more techno oriented tunes all designed to rock the dance-floor to its foundations. He has performed all over Italy, Canada, Spain, Israel, Australia, Brazil, USA, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, Hungary, the UK, Germany, Cyprus, Belgium, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Tunisie, Portugal and Switzerland such as both resident and headline DJ.

Recently, thanks to the huge success of 2 singles 'A Lot Of' and 'Adelante', he has been featured for 11 weeks on Beatport Overall Top Downloads, selling more than 16,000 units thru the net; as well, licensing them on top notch Cd compilations such as: Azuli Presents Miami Sampler 2009, Eric Morillo Subliminal Summer Sessions 2009.

On February 2009 has been released on Mark Mendes imprint (Starter Records) track called 'UP' reaching on Beatport Number 1 Overall Top Downloads, licensing it again on the best worldiwide compilations.

Outside the club, Alex is co-owner with Manuel De La Mare and Luigi Rocca (Marshall) of 303Lovers and Hotfingers record labels; these brands have sold more than 100,000 units on music web stores, mostly via Beatport since first launching in August 2007.

As well, he has overseen collaborations with both independent and major labels including: EMI (Italy), Universal(GSA), Azuli (Usa), King Street Sounds (Usa), Milk & Sugar (De), Superstar Recordings (DE), Rise Records (IT) and many more.

With over 50 releases, and tracks featuring on more then 10 mix CD’s, Alex is ready to keep you UP on the dance-floor.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Alex_Kenji_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:35pm EST

M.U.M Presents "Miami Sessions with Technasia"-M.U.M Episode 117

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

Technasia Biography

For thirteen years Technasia has created a unique east/west fusion that moves seamlessly from the Paris club scene, to the streets of Hong Kong, to the hippest techno venues in Europe. Founded by Charles Siegling and Amil Khan in 1996, Technasia thrived as a duo for almost a dozen years. Now, Charles has gone solo, taking Technasia into 2010 as a one-man project. Unlike a Hollywood divorce, the parting between Siegling and Khan is truly amicable. Hong Kong-based Khan retired from Technasia to spend time with his young family. “You have to live this scene every single day,” says Siegling, “It’s very consuming, Amil didn’t want that anymore.”

Despite the change, Siegling has always been the ‘front man’ in terms of DJing and performing live, so Technasia is as thrilling and full-bodied a live experience as ever. If anything, Siegling is even more determined to infuse every aspect of Technasia with his utter absorption in sound, the passion born of 25 years engrossed in electronic music. Born in Paris and raised in an 11th century chateau, Charles grew up listening to everything from Depeche Mode to Jimi Hendrix. His music-loving dad even introduced him to early British rave tunes. As a university student he continued his musical education the clubs of Paris listening to the likes of Derrick May and Robert Owens; and taking note of the records Laurent Garnier and DJ Deep played on their radio shows.

In the mid-90s Siegling, who did a degree in film studies, went to check out the Hong Kong cinema scene. There, a mutual friend introduced him to Amil Khan and after they discovered a shared taste in electronic music, Technasia was born. They chose to base Technasia and their record label Sino in Hong Kong because there was no scene there, no record shops, no underground, no infrastructure. It was initially a battle for survival, but the location is vital to the Technasia ethos of music as communication. “Language is THE ultimate barrier,” says Siegling. He strives to overcome the barrier in his own life by picking up languages wherever he goes – he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish and Italian, among others – but ultimately he chooses to communicate through sound. “Electronic music is the greatest language of all. No words, just the vibration, the emotion and the beat.”

Charles has a burning ambition to create music that transcends cultural barriers, and to captivate every audience. The proof of his success is in the list of clubs and festivals Technasia has played. Fans around the globe, from China, to Colombia, to the Czech Republic, know Technasia’s classic anthems including ‘Force’, ‘Oxide’ and ‘Evergreen’. And they know that every Technasia show takes the music to new heights. When DJing, Charles always plays on three decks, showcasing the old-fashioned arts of cutting and scratching. Live, Technasia takes audiences on an unforgettable ride. Charles literally becomes a one-man band, playing keyboards, percussion and acoustic instruments. He even sings. Anything to create irresistible energy and atmosphere. “I want my audience having fun,” explains Siegling. “Not falling asleep, or going off to the bar for a beer.”

The performance aspect of Technasia is complemented by artist albums ‘Future Mix’ and ‘Popsoda’ – which are modern classics. Siegling is also an outspoken promoter of young talent, using the Sino imprint as a launch pad for talent including Joris Voorn, Renato Cohen, Steve Rachmad and young Catalan producer Dosem. He has straightforward criteria for what makes a Sino artist: talent and individuality. Charles is refreshingly direct – he has no patience for industry politics – and he seeks out musicians who have a similar strength of character and clarity of purpose. “I share my knowledge with artists who deserve a push,” says Siegling. “So when they are ready to fly, they can do it on their own.”

Siegling is currently polishing the third Technasia album, due to be released mid-2010, and planning a huge tour which will take the new music to fans around the world. There is 12” single planned for spring, and fans can look forward to remixes from artists including Marc Romboy, Mauro Picotto and Renato Cohen later in the year. Right now, Siegling is in production overdrive: “My neighbours probably see me alone in the studio at 5AM, dancing my ass off!” he jokes. One thing is certain: come 2010, he won’t be dancing alone anymore.


01 - Jerome Sydenham - Deep Fried - UK Promotions
02 - Enzo Siragusa - Himba Raindance - Welt
03 - Dosem - Road To Ebron - Sino
04 - Dapayk Solo - The Little Thing You Do (Niko Schwind Remix) - Stil Vor Talent
05 - Mutant Clan - Sancerre - Terminal M
06 - Gerald Mitchell - Faith - 430 West
07 - Santos - Mariachi Hotel - Crosstown Digital Rebels
08 - Spirit Catcher - Sedona - Systematic
09 - Layo & Bushwacka - Now Is The Time (2020 Sound System Remix) - Olmeto
10 - Jamie Anderson feat. Mr K. Alexi - Cyclone - Mija
11 - Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (Df S Attention Dub) - Objektivity
12 - Wally Lopez - Noche Sin Luna (Coyu & Edu Imbernon Remix) - The Factoria
13 - Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Raw - Musique Risquée
14 - Santos - La Pineta - Crosstown Digital Rebels
15 - Marc Romboy - Talking All That Jazz - Systematic
16 - Lucio Aquilina - Black Elf - Hideout
17 - Mes - Back To Basics (Satoshi Tomiie Mes Mix) - Saw
18 - Gerald Mitchell - It's Possible - 430 West
19 - Roberto Bosco - One - Figure
20 - Steve Stoll - Untitled Loop
21 - Agaric - Nobody Home - We Are
22 - Steve Stoll - Untitled Loop 2
23 - Youknow - Bacata (Technasia Remix 1) - Monique
24 - The Cheapers - Madame Sans Merci - Upon You

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Technasia
Technasia.com
Myspace.com/technasia
Discogs.com/artist/Technasia

Technasia_Press Pics.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/djv2eonyhwz

Sino
Myspace.com/sinolabel
Technorient.com/sino
Technorient.com
Discogs.com/label/Sino

Press & Radio Contact:
Tel: +44(0)7883 364 201
Email: hugo@ukf.net
SKYPE: hughbmusic

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Technasia_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:43am EST

 M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek_Live@Chinese Laundry Australia-M.U.M Episode 116 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.


intro
01. Walter - Andrew Technique (Tomy DeClerque remix) "Sound of Acapulco"
02. Markantonio - Terzo mix  "1605"
03. Technobuse - Dj Cyberx (Synth Tech Mix) "Southside Recordings "
04. Doubleshot - Anthony Attalla Jan van Lier Remix "Slanted house"
05. Smell The Wood - Original Mix Matteo DiMarr " Subliminal Records""
06. Hipernova - Anna Miranda DJ Deh Remix "Ketra Records"
07. Body Work - Francesco Grant ""AFULAB"
08. Costantino Nappi & Micky da funk - The Way We Do "Promo"
09. Wave From The North - Alex D'elia & Nihil Young "Frequenzarec"
10. Rated R - Yotopia "Stereo Seven Plus"
11. Wiwy Edit 1 - Marascia Dusty Kid "Southern Fried Records"
12. Ayahuasca - Promo "Hog o005"
13. Echoes - Piatto "1605"
14. The Music And Me -Voltaxx   feat. Betty Bizzare &  Lissat  "Leaders of the new School"
15. Hypenoise - Audio G8 "Big Big Soundz"
16. Roundhouse Loco & Jam "Promo"
17. Moleculare Damage - Logotech "Ketra Records"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveChinese_Laundry_Australia_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:41pm EST

M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Matthew Hoag"- M.U.M- Episode 115
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Matthew Hoag

Being anonymous music aficionado, music professional or a sexy Pacha girl, there are two things you really should know about Matthew Hoag: meeting him in person is always fun. Joining him for the night clubbing is a life changing experience. This vivid, cheerful, friendly bon vivant isn’t just one of those guys who want to know everything about the music as an art and the whole business behind it. He’s foremost a really nice person and his works are excellent reflections of his embrace-the-life globe trotting attitude.

The earliest seed that indicated Matthew’s future career is hidden somewhere on the dance floor was his passion for light shows. He became light-operator for the matinees in one of the local clubs already as a teenager. Few years latter he took a job at the local radio station. That’s where he learned how the radio station works, how the program is being put together, he became skillful technician, and he also listened to a lot of music: “I guess this is the main reason why I can’t be put in the box as an artist. I was exposed to all range of commercial and non commercial music. And it was that period when I grew taste for good alternative music and explored even genres such as jazz and blues.”

Meanwhile his career took a big leap forward as he became “illegal” light operator at the infamous Ambasada Gavioli club. This wasn’t his job. Put more precisely: he wasn’t even allowed to come near the console by the boss. But the resident deejays liked his touch and invited him into the booth whenever possible. “I was hanging around to listen to the sets of Valentino Kanzyani. Ambasada was the playground for the biggest names in the game. And Sven Väth was the one that really stood out of the flock: it was his human energy, power of his music, his ability to control the dance floor what ultimately convinced me to become a deejay.”

Although it wasn’t Sven’s or Valentino’s sound that he wanted to follow. “I’ve started with house, explored the progressive and I guess I could be considered tech-house artist nowadays,” summarizes Matthew who as a very versatile and eclectic artist doesn’t brand himself. He broke trough as a deejay when spotted by Valentino Kanzyani at the party in Croatia: “Valentino is one of the biggest figures in my life. He’s my brother from another mother,” likes to jest Matthew about their friendship. “He invited me to join his office, where I’ve got introduced to every angle of label management and music promotion business.” 

2009 saw Matthew kicking the dance floors around the globe, from Columbia to Turkey,from  Spain to Greece, from Germany To Brazil.

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Matthew_Hoag_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:38pm EST

M.U.M Presents "Miami Sessions with Joe Roberts"-M.U.M Episode 114
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






Joe bought his first decks after moving to Manchester in the late 90s to pursue the acid house dream.

With a schedule that involved clubbing three nights at week, he was soon running his own night, ‘Milk’ at the New Order owned Dry Bar, while DJing at other clubs around the city and purveying an ADD-ish eclecticism that had been born out of bleary nights watching the young Chemical Brothers at the Heavenly Social.

Moving back to London, he started writing for DJ Mag, alongside a ‘proper’ job, was a founding member of a well-known music website, before the greedy machination of one of its members taught him the value of having a contract (though possibly not written on a napkin), and continued to put on parties in a variety of clubs and bars.

Following a hugely successful warehouse party in East London to mark the momentous arrival of 07.07.07, he began running a new series of nights, under the name ‘No Way Back’, at a grimy all-night pub in Brixton, moving through a series of bigger venues, and playing guest slots at clubs like Trailer Trash and Neon Noise alongside Fischerspooner, until finding himself running the lounge for Chew the Fat! at The End (including, appropriately enough, on 08.08.08).

With a hugely successful room, helped in a no small part by a large old school jungle collection, a job and residency swiftly followed, with gigs alongside Hervé, Tittsworth, Duke Dumont, Riton, Jack Beats, Trevor Loveys, Drums of Death, Raffertie, Reso, Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990, and more, even standing in as a fake Fake Blood to a packed Corsica Studios when the real Fake Blood failed to show. And summer 2009 saw gigs at Glade and Notting Hill Carnival.

Leaving Chew the Fat! to become an editor at DJ Mag, Joe now has a new party in the offing and is currently in the studio with Dan Cat, who reached the heights of Pete Tong Essential New tune under his previous guise of Cheshire Catz.

www.myspace.com/joerobots
soundcloud.com/joe-roberts

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Joe_Roberts_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:42pm EST

 M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents "Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare"-M.U.M Episode 113
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





BIOGRAPHY


Manuel De La Mare Producer, DJ and A&R, also knowed as Sara Galli, After Tea and Combo his alterego project.
With over then 50 releases ranging from techno to house, he is supported, playlisted and charted by many djs around the globe: Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Funkagenda, Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Hernan Cattaneo, John Acquaviva, Joe T. Vannelli, Robbie Rivera, Renè Amesz, Kobbe, Ripperton, Jean Claude Ades, Anthony Pappa, Joeski, Milton Jackson, Jorge Jaramillo (Who Da Funk), Gel Abril, Yousef, Inpetto, Thomas Gold, Tom Novy, Justice and more.

In 2008 he gained 11 beatport top ten in 4 different genres to confirm his eclectic style (ian round - "dancin" manuel de la mare mash plus manuel de la mare d-mash, both rmx in beatport house top ten; sylar - "mellow" sara galli rmx , beatport techno top ten; alex kenji - "ytaca" manuel de la mare rmx and ceeryl - "high flyer" manuel de la mare rmx both in beatport progressive top ten , after tea aka manuel de la mare - "my prerogatives", "okeechobee", "this is warming up" and remix of "lombardi vs Neuroxyde - exagon", in beatport deep house top ten; sara galli and matteo matteini - "confident" featured in beatport deep house top ten).
Including the huge success of his underworld's "born slippy" official cover (2nd in overall beatport chart and 1st in progressive house).

He is the co-owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers Music Labels with Alex Kenji and Marshall and since their launch (August 2007) they have sold more than 50000 units in digital stores; he collaborates also with indipendent and major labels: Baroque, Toolroom, Eye Industries, Omnis, Sound4Group, Universal, Blanco y Negro, ClubStar, Ministry of Sound, Anjunabeats, Warner Chapell.

Special Thanks  to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Manuel_De_La_Mare_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:04pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek_Live@Studio_Martin_Bucharest_Romania-M.U.M Episode 112
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.

intro
01. Walter - Andrew Technique (Tomy DeClerque remix) "Sound of Acapulco"
02. Markantonio - Terzo mix  "1605"
03. Technobuse - Dj Cyberx (Synth Tech Mix) "Southside Recordings "
04. Doubleshot - Anthony Attalla Jan van Lier Remix "Slanted house"
05. Smell The Wood - Original Mix Matteo DiMarr " Subliminal Records""
06. Hipernova - Anna Miranda DJ Deh Remix "Ketra Records"
07. Body Work - Francesco Grant ""AFULAB"
08. Costantino Nappi & Micky da funk - The Way We Do "Promo"
09. Wave From The North - Alex D'elia & Nihil Young "Frequenzarec"
10. Rated R - Yotopia "Stereo Seven Plus"
11. Wiwy Edit 1 - Marascia Dusty Kid "Southern Fried Records"
12. Ayahuasca - Promo "Hog o005"
13. Echoes - Piatto "1605"
14. The Music And Me -Voltaxx   feat. Betty Bizzare &  Lissat  "Leaders of the new School"
15. Hypenoise - Audio G8 "Big Big Soundz"
16. Roundhouse Loco & Jam "Promo"
17. Moleculare Damage - Logotech "Ketra Records"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveStudio_Martin_Bucharest_Romania_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:17pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Andrew Technique-M.U.M Episode 111
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

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"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."

Playlist:

01    Gorge - Bambossa (Nicole Moudaber Gorge-Ous Remix) / Plastic City
02    Basti Grub - El Gitarro (M.in Remix) / Waldliebe Musik
03    Adam Port & Gigi - Enoralehu (Santé Remix) / Liebe Detial Spezial
04    Roger Gerressen - No School Like The Old School (Original Mix) / Wolfskuil Records
05    Hermanez - Marrakech (Noir vs Martinez Edit) / Noir Music
06    Kolombo - I'm On Your Side (Kruse & Nuernberg Remix) / Noir Music
07    &ME - On (Adam Port & Rampa Remix) / Front Room Recordings
08    Matt Star - Hohlkopp (Martinez Remix) / Cray1 LabWorks
09    M.in & Ben Anders - Get On A Freak (Original Mix) / Off
10    Riva Starr - Black Cat White Cat (Original Mix) / Made To Play
11    Henri Josh - Pequena (Original Mix) / Suara
12    Sasch BBC, Caspar - Tomtation (Original Mix) / Brise Records
13    Fabio Giannelli - Apparlas (Slam Remix) / Material
14    Paul Harris and Alex Tepper - Terris (Original Mix) / Rekids
15    Noze - Meet me in the Toilet (Original Mix) / Circus Company
16    Christian Smith & Reset Robot - Elixir (Gary Beck Remix) / Excentric Muzik
17    Reboot - Caminando (Loop Edit) / Sei Es Drum
18    Seth Troxler - Panic, Stop. Repeat! (Paco Osuna Remix) / Spectral Sound
19    Mark Broom - Jackpot (Original Mix) / Saved Records
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Andrew_Technique_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:24am EST

M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Juliet Sikora-M.U.M Episode 110

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement







…This beautiful creature stalks her prey at night. Music is her weapon and beats, her bullets. Trumpet stabs and drum kicks for close-quarters combat. Juliet Sikora is going in for the kill… Elsewhere, you would probably need to jump headfirst off a bridge to experience such an adrenalin rush. But when this young lady is behind the decks, the rush is greater. Don't let her good looks fool you, because she still knows how to control an angry mob. With a flick of the wrist she spins her first disc. The crowd roars in unison and are instantly under her spell. It’s going to be another long night. Born in Strzelce Opolskie in Poland, Juliet has always had a passion for music. She learned how to play the piano at an early age and developed a taste for the electronic side of music while she was still in her teens. After leaving school she took up DJ-ing, organized her own events and hoped to make a career in music, be it behind the scenes or in the limelight. After she obtained a degree in Event Management, it looked like she could either. From Berlin to Miami, club to club and long sessions in the recording studio - This girl never stops. How she even finds time to fit in her day job at a renowned record label, nobody knows. But she does. And like everything else in her life, she does it with a passion that is second to none. This passion is also reflected in her music. After teaming up with Tube & Berger for her first single: ‘Together Now’ released on Opaque Music, she took the German club scene by storm. She went on to produce her own single and released the globally acclaimed ‘Turkish Delight’. This release brought her international fame and a huge fan base with it. Offers started rolling in from all over the world: Istanbul, Miami, London, Berlin, Amsterdam. No matter where she played, she rocked the clubs with her amazing blend of Balearic Deep / Tech House. A lot of remix work followed her fame and the likes of Massimo Santucci, Fuzzy Hair and Cerux and came knocking at her door – even Tube & Berger have hooked up with her again on a new project. New productions are on the way and she’s busy in the studio right now putting the finishing touches to her latest number. All in all, this girl is worth looking out for. Be it for her good looks, or her good taste in music…You never know, she might even be playing in a club near you this weekend!
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Juliet_Sikora_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:35am EST

 M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Secret Cinema-M.U.M Episode 109


Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



After 15 years in the business as one of the leading producers of his time
Jeroen 'Secret Cinema' Verheij is still pushing boundaries. He most
recently took the No.1 position in the Beatport techno charts with his
latest release on Cocoon Recordings ("Shake Ur Tech-Ass”), and has been
ruling playlists and clubs all summer with his massive "Kurzweil”. The
time has now come for Jeroen to broaden his horizons again and thus he will
be launching his record label - Gem Records - in December. To celebrate he
has just finished a brilliant mix which features some very exciting and
exclusive tracks in what sounds like one of the best guest mix sets of the
year.

Tracklist:

01. Peter Horrevorts - Sketch03 [white label]
02. Khainz, Kore - Noise R Us [TB Records]
03. Channel X - Ueforia [Upon You records]
04. Max Sanna - Reach (Mark Broom Remix) [Toolbox House]
05. Norm - Watching You [Le Bien et Le Mal Recordings]
06. Peter Horrevorts - Bloody Hands [GEM Records]
07. Larski - Message [Inminimax]
08. Lars Wickinger - Fuck Them All [FutureAudio]
09. Edit Select - Beneath [edit select]
10. Henry Saiz - Rhinemaidens [Renaissance]
11. Fiord - Zephyr [Sprout]
12. Egbert - DeZelfde Weg [GEM Records]
13. Secret Cinema - Glad Chord [white label]
14. Shinsuku Matsumoto - Lanterns (Kuba Sojka remix) [ROHS]

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Secret_Cinema_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:53pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik-M.U.M Episode 108
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




F.SONIK

 

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy!

 

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.”

 

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

 

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.


F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...F.SONIK

 

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy!

 

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And its a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler, remembers F.Sonik Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyanis matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.

 

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

 

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.


F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque.
Weve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks, announces F.Sonik...

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_F.Sonik_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:06pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek_Live@Awakenings_Amsterdam-M.U.M Episode 107
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.


Intro
01. Umek vs. Ramirez - Hablando "1605"
02. Dennes Deen - Break It Up "MB Elektronics"
03. Kevin Gorman - Insomnia  (Joseph Capriati remix) "Mikrowave"
04. Umek - Destructable Environet ( Loco & Jam remix ) "1605"
05. Alex D Elia & Nihil Young - Aurality (Sinisa Lukic remix)
06. Tom Sawyer - Dictator (DJ Cyberx remix) "Atsuo"
07. Flex - Hydrometrik (Piatto remix) "Italobusiness"
08. Adam Beyer, Par Grindvik - Living Weel "Drumcode"
09. Khainz - Low Frequency Oscillator "Plastic Park"
10. Wehbba and Ryo Peres - Us On Tape
11. Umek - 5
12. Electric Rescue - Astropolis "Skryptom"Division Virtuel"
13. Kemko - One Pirate On The Way "Division Virtuel"
14. Volta, Salvatore Freda - Tiramisu "Area Remote"
15. Christian Smith, Reset Robot - Elixir
16. Secret Cinema - Jazz Me "Cocoon"
17. Gideon - Do Not Leave The Tap Running "Lessismorerecordings"
18. Egor Boss - Tricked (Andrea Roma remix) "Italobusiness"
19. Unknown - Superstrobe
20. Dubfire - Rabid "Sci+Tec"
21. Compact Grey - The Game (Christian Fischer remix) "Definition Records"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveAwakenings_Amsterdam_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:48am EST

M.U.M Presents "Miami Sessions with MARSHALL aka Luigi Rocca "-M.U.M Episode 106
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



About MARSHALL aka Luigi Rocca


Luigi Rocca, Also Knowed as Marshall, is an internationally renowned and respected DJ/producer With Over Then 30 Releases, Mostly Ranging From Techno To Tech House, He Is Supported, Playlisted And Charted By Many Djs Around The Globe. Danny Tenaglia, Tiesto, Richie Hawtin, Dubfire, Ricardo Villalobos, Steve Angello, Funkagenda, Oliver Koletzky, Audiojack, David Amo & Julio Navas and More.

In the last year he gained the Beatport Overall 1st Place with “Swahili Song” And 6 Beatport Top Ten In Tech House, Techno, Minimal and Deep House Genres (“Keep It Real” in Beatport Minimal Top Ten, “Turin Quality Clubbing” In Beatport Tech House Top Ten, “Caribean (Marshall & Libex Rmx)” In Beatport Techno Top Ten, “Something Good” in Beatport Deep House Top Ten, “Black Conga” In Beatport Tech House Top Ten, “Swahili Song” Beatport Overall 1st Place)

Outside The Club, He Is The Co-Owner Of 303Lovers And Hotfingers Music Labels With Alex Kenji And Marshall And Since Their Launch (August 2007) They Have Sold More Than 50000 Units In Digital St
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_MARSHALL_aka_Luigi_Rocca_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:18pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Presents "Miami Sessions with Roman Gertz"-M.U.M Episode 105
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






Who is ROMAN GERTZ...

The Main winner of Global Gathering contest...
The owner of TOPDJ rating award "Best Release" 2008/2009 (2nd place)...
Winner of Urban Wave All Stars competition...
Resident DJ of "Madness TECHNOlogy" parties at "Saxon Club"...

After his 1st year of producing music Roman has successful releases and upcoming production on labels Stereo Seven Plus (IT), Italo Business (IT), Piso Records (UK), Cubism (UK), Physical Gravity (UK), Perfect Groove (UA), Speca Records (UA)

DJ Download wrote:
"Roman Gertz is a fresh talent from Ukraine, he has been pleasing the dance music lovers for over 2 years. And his recent releases on Speca records are gaining big chart success, so watch out this fast rising talent..."

Playlist:

01 Loco & Jam - Code Red (Original Mix) [1605]
02 Roman Gertz - Jam Signal (Original Mix) [Frequenza Promo]
03 Piatto - Evil Live (Original Mix) [1605]
04 Anderson Noise - Deputamadre (Nihil Young & Alex D'Elia Remix) [Sleaze Records]
05 Tomy DeClerque - Planned History (Roman Gertz Remix) [1605 Promo]
06 Squoid & Alex D'Elia - Statler (Original Mix) [Frequenza]
07 Yammy Yammy Toyz & Topspin - Arizona (Special Kind Remix) [Vibra Macz]
08 Soliquid - Taipei Pocok Salata (Dub Mix) [Baroque Records]
09 Khainz - Low Frequency Oscillator (Original Mix) [Plastik Park Records]
10 Roman Gertz - Shadows Master (ThreeSixty & Hauswerks Remix) [Binary404.com Promo]
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Roman_Gertz_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:13pm EST

 M.U.M Presents "Miami Sessions with Francesco Bonora"-M.U.M Episode 104
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Francesco Bonora started his dj career in 1999 at the age of 15 and in 2001, when he was only 17 years old, he started to work in one of the most popular and influential European clubs, Cocorico' of Riccione.
He played in it for 7 years until the end of 2008, and now he is requested to play as a guest in many clubs.
Francesco Bonora started to produce his music in 2006 and in 2009 made 2 hits, "Flute Olenza" on Nulogic and "The Pen" on Frequenza Records, for 2 months in position 3 of deep house beatport top 100, and supported by great names like Dubfire, Tim Green, John Digweed, Mendo, James Blonde, Bastian Schuster & many more.
Francesco actually works for Frequenza Limited, an italian analogic and digital label, with big artists like Thomas Schumacher, M.in, John Lagora, Kolombo, Basti Grub & more..

www.myspace.com/francescobonora
boooking info: frequenzabooking@gmail.com

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Francesco_Bonora.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:02pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Presents "Miami Sessions with Ian F"-M.U.M Episode 103
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)

After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

= = = = = = = = = =

CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.
IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)



After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

= = = = = = = = = =

CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.



Artist management and general contact:

Tracklist:

01. Frankly - Margaret Dygas - Perlon
02. The Playmaker (Dyed Soundorom Rmx) - Alex Celler & Anthea - Freak N Chic
03. Party Faktor - Federico Molinari - Tsuba
04. Lee Style - Andomat 3000 - Diynamic
05. Byzantine - Ethyl & Huxley - Cecille Numbers
06. Llovizna - Francisco Allendes & Felipe Venegas - Cadenza
07. Roots & Culture - Barbarito Capote - Below
08. Revive La Noche - Marcin Czubala - 8Bit
09. Obbatala (Jairo Catelo Rmx) - Nima Gorji - Climatic Sound
10. Fortuna - Superlounge & Alex Niggemann - Strictly Chosen
11. Orange - Deetron - Music Man Records
12. Spanish Voodoo - Kornel Lemon - Cray1 Digital Works
13. Mutation (Two Sety's Circus Rmx) - Butane - Crosstown Rebels

Management:
FLOW:MNGMNT
www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Ian_F_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:16am EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents Miami Sessions with Umek_Live@Monsters Of House Munich-M.U.M Episode 102
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.


Playlist:

00. Intro
01. Slip And Slide - Khainz Remix Thomas Penton, DJ Thee-O  "Tribal Vision Records"
02. Formula - Egostereo Edit Danny, Sandrino Beesley  "Superbass records"
03. Road Trip - Primer Viaje Origi Juan Kue, David Padilla  "Road Trip Recordings"
04. 7 Days - Jose Rosike and Ipagan  "Tema"
05. Temperamental - Manuel De La Mare "Progresive Grooves" 
06. Reset Mastermind - Original Mi Juan Kue, David Padilla "Overline Records" 
07. Tech - Milton Channels Mix Deep Sound "Overline Recodrs"
08. I Like It - Original Mix Autistic "Basilic Records"
09. This Sound - Original Mix DJ Subsonic, DJ Sadock "Turning Wheel Records"
10. Black Coffee - Original Mix D Roland M. Dilly "Trapez"
11. Dyno - graffio "Hell Yeah" 
12. Dollars - Original Vibes Stefano Noferini "Deeperfect Records"
13. Tomy DeCleque - Planned History "Unreleased"
14. Capucine - Abnormal Boyz The Same "Polar Noise"
15. Happy Time - Tomy DeClerque remix "Unreleased"

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_LiveMonsters_Of_House_Munich_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:40am EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Dj Lucca-M.U.M Episode 102
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



Relating to official previews 2009 is the year to become a very difficult one. Recession in europe? A world crisis in economy? Nobody really knows how to call it correctly like it will be. But one thing is for sure. Though people may expect the worst Lucie Kvasnicov・ better known as Lucca by her fans, will expect a highlight in her career.

This tiny and beautiful woman from the Czech republic has played and placed herself into the hearts of her fans throughout the last decade and received much respect from male collegues like Chris Liebing or even Carl Cox who still is one of her favourite turntablist in techno business. All of them estimate Lucca a lot and cherish her style and skills and give her the references a worldwide top-dj does need to have.

Lucca's approach towards the perfect sound has always been accompanied by authenticity and devotion. Firstly captured by the house sound by dj sneak Lucca afterwards seduced herself to the techno vibes from napoli. In this epoque Lucca started to be part in every line up of every essential event concerning this style and was given her own festival organised by her former agency Mersey. As a conclusion she performed at "Live @ Hradhouse 2005" a unique concert which was also released on dvd showing this wonderful location placed in the castle of Boskovica and Lucca as the headliner. But she did not stop changing and created her own sound - the Sound Of Acapulco.

More than five years ago in 2003 it was time for Lucca to launch her own label named Acapulco Records. This move has been considered one of the most important actions for the techno scene among the czech republic which was still developing at this point of time. Releases of Acapulco became the synonym for progressing czech techno and were mentioned in many playlists and dj charts. The relaunch of her label now called Sound Of Acapulco could not knock down her acceptance and did show her skills concerning musical visionary even in a brighter light.

Currently this bright light is being transmitted by her debut album "Reformation" which mirrors Lucca's personal trip through life. It is purely a big exhibition of her personal taste of music and a common production with the german producer Tobias Fiedler. As a special appearance even the famous czech musician Michal Pavlicek provides his guitar riffs on her longplayer. "Reformation" does not only reflect her current life concerning music. "Reformation does sound a little bit like revolution but it is not. Me for myself it sounds slightly to aggressive", Lucca claims in an interview. Moreover her album has been built around the experiences she faced the recent years while travelling and now is the djane's v-card. "Reformation" not just includes her former hit single "Body Dance" it is also packed with twelve new stunning tracks e.g. "Quantum" her personal favourits „Hundertwasser“, „Teleport“ und „Noise Town“ as she says. But Lucca would not be satisfied with her engagement for music if she would not plan to start a new longplayer production starting within the next year. This woman is simply restless.

Meanwhile Lucca is a resident guest in music magazins and an appreciated partner concerning endorsement deals. She recently has been the face of well known manufacturer American Audio and cover act of Raveline Germany's leading magazin for electronic music. She also did a highly acclaimed special mix for this particular issue which was downloaded many many times and shows her well timed presence and knowledge of music if needed. For this reason she has been elected for the forth time in the row "DJ Of The Year" in the Czech Dance Music Awards and still does host her own radio show on Paul van Dyk's Vonyc Radio since may 2008. One of her career dream was fulfilled this year, as Carl Cox invited her to play with him in Space, Ibiza on 11th of August.


Contact:

www.lucca.cz

www.soundofacapulco.com
Direct download: Miami_Session_with_Dj_Lucca_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00pm EST

M.U.M & 303 Lovers Presents "Miami Sessions with Manuel De La Mare" Live @ Warung Waves "-M.U.M Episode 101 BIOGRAPHY

Manuel De La Mare Producer, DJ and A&R, also knowed as Sara Galli, After Tea and Combo his alterego project.
With over then 50 releases ranging from techno to house, he is supported, playlisted and charted by many djs around the globe: Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Funkagenda, Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Hernan Cattaneo, John Acquaviva, Joe T. Vannelli, Robbie Rivera, Renè Amesz, Kobbe, Ripperton, Jean Claude Ades, Anthony Pappa, Joeski, Milton Jackson, Jorge Jaramillo (Who Da Funk), Gel Abril, Yousef, Inpetto, Thomas Gold, Tom Novy, Justice and more.

In 2008 he gained 11 beatport top ten in 4 different genres to confirm his eclectic style (ian round - "dancin" manuel de la mare mash plus manuel de la mare d-mash, both rmx in beatport house top ten; sylar - "mellow" sara galli rmx , beatport techno top ten; alex kenji - "ytaca" manuel de la mare rmx and ceeryl - "high flyer" manuel de la mare rmx both in beatport progressive top ten , after tea aka manuel de la mare - "my prerogatives", "okeechobee", "this is warming up" and remix of "lombardi vs Neuroxyde - exagon", in beatport deep house top ten; sara galli and matteo matteini - "confident" featured in beatport deep house top ten).
Including the huge success of his underworld's "born slippy" official cover (2nd in overall beatport chart and 1st in progressive house).

He is the co-owner of 303Lovers and Hotfingers Music Labels with Alex Kenji and Marshall and since their launch (August 2007) they have sold more than 50000 units in digital stores; he collaborates also with indipendent and major labels: Baroque, Toolroom, Eye Industries, Omnis, Sound4Group, Universal, Blanco y Negro, ClubStar, Ministry of Sound, Anjunabeats, Warner Chapell.

Special Tahnks to Manu & Stéphanie Lazzereschi
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Manuel_de_La_Mare_Live__Warung_Waves.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:03pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Dj Unique-M.U.M Episode 100
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




There is a new generation of Dj's around the world that fans are talking about and Unique is one of them.
Unique made great attention in 2008 when he got invited to share the floor with the house legend Hernan Cattaneo at the infamous Slovenian club Ambasada Gavioli. His set was so impressive that Ambasada Gavioli invited him more times in the same year to rock the floor with Dubfire (Deep Dish), Erick Morillo, Seb Fontaine, Nick Warren and Monika Kruse.
In 2009 Unique got first international gigs in Ibiza and Barcelona and also started producing his first tracks due to release next year.

In his live sets there is always an impressive techno sound with electro and house elements that makes the crowd go crazy on the dancefloor. Get ready to hear more about this great talent in the near future.

Playlist:

01. Dubfire - Rabid
02. Oliver Hunteman - Bloody Mary (Spicy Mix)
03. Hermanez - Blister (Original Mix)
04. Oliver Dahl - Mira
05. Dee Green (aka FDK) - Ghost Break
06. Amir - Mind Trip (Original Mix)
07. Reset Robot - Pig Noise
08. Aneuria - One Foot Army
09. Fergie - Maktub
10. Alan Fitzpatrick - Static
11. A Mochi - Whiplash
12. Len Faki - Death By House (A Mochi Remix)
13. Sour Grapes - Mantra
14. Fever Ray - Triangle Wlaks (Spektre Remix)


Website:   "http://www.dj-unique.com" www.dj-unique.com

Facebook:  "http://www.facebook.com/DjUnique" www.facebook.com/DjUnique

Myspace:   "http://www.myspace.com/unique10" www.myspace.com/unique10

Youtube:    "http://www.myspace.com/djunique10" www.myspace.com/djunique10


Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Dj_Unique_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:00am EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents "Miami Sessions with Umek" Live @ Carl Cox at Space,Ibiza "-M.U.M Episode 99
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.

UMEK / 2009037

01. Umek - Work This Data
02. Loco & Jam - 3am Curfew "Hedgehog"
03. Magitman - Cat Skin "Tribal Vision Records"
04. Danilo Tomic - CowGirl (Marko Nastic & Tomy DeClerque RMX) "Recon Light"
05. Andre Dazzo - Face To Face "ADS Records"
06. Alan Fitzpatrick - Amsterdam "8 Sided Dice"
07. Worakls - Shazam "Boeing Records"
08. Jason Tyler - Apache "MAR186"
09. Ndsa - Papercut "Attitude Recordings"
10. Anton X - Lowis (Da Fresh Remix 2009) "Booster"
11. John Karagiannis, PayLipServic - Surreal Scissors (Wehbba Remix) "TechHeadToolbox"
12. Aki Bergen - Alma De Dios "Noir Music"
13. Aneuria - One Foot Army "Sixteenofive"
14. Loco & Jam - Medusa "Rekluse"
15. Keithy B - Circa "Nighttrain Music"
16. Luis Nieva - Frecuency "Sino"
17. TG (Tim Green), Emerson Todd - Exercise "Cocoon Recordings"
18. John Baga - The Ultimate Fighter "Groovebox Recordings"
19. Mario Ochoa - Kalua "Avenue Recordings"
20. Hector Couto - Arabe (Milton Channels Remix) "Dataworx Digital "




Special Thanks to Marjan,Matthew, Iris & Uros
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_Live__Carl_Cox_at_SpaceIbiza.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:48am EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Alexander Madness-M.U.M Episode 98
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Alexander Madness

“Music is movement, variation, imagination
and eternity. In other words:
the future of sustainable energy. As a
DJ I try to transfer and receive that
form of energy from and to the people
on the dance floor - mixing minimal
techno tracks with electro house floor
fillers. For the rough cases I always
carry progressive and electro tracks
in my DJ bag.”

Alexander Madness (AM) discovered daylight in 1978 in Koper, Slovenia. Already his mother knew that music is going to be one of his main interests: As a kid he always liked to stand in front of roaring speakers. Before diving into the universe of electronic music,
Alexander was listening to rock, pop and all the other genres that are usually popular among the youth.

”I first got to feel the magic of electronic music in 1996, when sounds of fast hardcore hit my ears. Because that kind of music was rare at that time, I soon switched to slower rhythms of chemical progressive.”

In 1998, AM first stepped behind the decks and immediately felt the connection – and it’s still lasting. Like any other DJ he realized that the beginnings were not easy. His first gigs were played at local bars and private parties, but his technique evolved within years, as did his passion for the music.

In the past years he was switching from one e-genre to another until he really got into techno, which he still prefers. He plays mostly minimal/techno and electro/house but in his DJ case you’ll also find progressive and electro tracks.

He has been playing in all the major and recognized clubs, such as Ambasada Gavioli, Lipa, SubSub, K4,The Temple, Fun Academy, Oxygen, Netopir, The Club, The Cube, Playtime, Forest, Tivoli, Arcade, Culture club and many more. He participated also on Final Flash, Fetique-Boutique, Born to be Wild, The way of Freedom and Sound Of Summer events.

Throughout his eight year run and after AM’s guest appearances in numerous venues in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy, AM has also shared the spotlight with some of the industries best DJ’s. Some of his collaborations include artists such as Valentino Kanzyani, Andy Moor, The Filterheadz, Richard Bartz, Len Faki, Bryan Cox, Oxia, Joris Voorn, Matthew Dekay, Seamus Haji, Danilo Vigorito, dA frESh, Mashtronic, Electrixx, Ade Fanton, Virgin Helena, Paul Hazendonk, Petar Dundov, Jamie Bissmire and many more.


September MUM Session - Tracklist:

01. District One - Dubcrystal (original mix)
02. Andrew Technique - Walter (promo)
03. Davy Dee and Dany Rodriguez - Emotion 1 (Dimitri Andreas remix)
04. FM Radio Gods - I Am feat K Star (Lutzenkirchen Remix)
05. Moguai - I Dance You (main mix)
06. Dariush, DJ Da - Violin Land (train mix)
07. Stefano Noferini - Take
08. Markus Lange and Stereofunk - Funkturm (Da Fresh rmx)
09. FIisio Feelkhenson - Lifting (Maverickz remix)
10. Fever Ray - Triangle Walks - Spektre (Vocal mix)
11. Namito - Train to Tehran (original mix)
12. Saimon - Piranha (Virgil Enzinger remix)
13. Wehbba and Ryo Peres - La Taverna (original mix)
 




Artist contact
www.alexandermadness.com

Artist management & booking
FLOW:MNGMNT
www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org



Direct download: Miami_Sessions__with_Alexander_Madness_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:38am EST

 M.U.M   Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Stefano Frisoni-M.U.M Episode 97
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






Stefano from Rimini got into music when he still only 12, by listening to italian dance music and a little bit of house: in the meanwhile it was born the love for making music.

He produces his first production in 1997, by making some dance tracks. In the year 2000 he felt a suddenly upside down, when he first listen to thecno music, thanks to the magic venue in the nearby, The Cocorico' Club, where everything seemed to be different than the other places: it all came to a massive energetic sound!!!!

So in the year 2003 he met my colleague Daniel, a.k.a. CantoDj with whom he started to plan seriously my producer career together. When 2 crazy minds join their forces together, it could only come out a strong and talented project in which his idea and my skills in making music work perfectly together. That's how TEAMTEK was born, a duo project founded by CantoDj and myself.



STEFANO FRISONI DJSET 12-08-09

1- Don Santos - Blorans (Sabb Remix)
2- &ME - +++
3- Deadmau5 - Lack Of A Better Name
4- Dyno - Graffio
5- Oliver Koletzki & Roland Clark - Yes We Can (Umek Remix)
6- Marco G, Amin Golestan - Dagobert (Spektre Remix)
7- Stefano Frisoni - Cocaine (Promo) (Eye Records)
8- Umek - You Might Hear Nothing
9- Stefano Frisoni - El C‡lido Verano (Promo) (Teggno Records)



www.myspace.com/stefanofrisoni

http://it-it.facebook.com/people/Stefano-Frisoni/1177253831

http://it-it.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1177253831

Malito : stefano_frisoni@alice.it
Direct download: 01_Miami_Sessions_with_Stefano_Frisoni_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:19am EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Andrew Technique-M.U.M Episode 96
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

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"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."

Playlist

01. When I Woke Up (2000 And One Remix) / Monika Kruse, Gregor Tresher / Terminal M
02. Preem / Super Flu / Monaberry
03. My Time (Radio Slave's After The After Remix) / Dance Disorder / Eskimo
04. Shazam / Audiofly / Viva Music
05. Hold Home / Santos / Moon Harbour Recordings
06. Krakatoa (Joel Mull's Moodswing Remix) / Skylark / Saved Records
07. Koma Koma / Radio Slave / Rekids
08. Wayoming / Andrew Technique /    Promo
09. Spanglish / Matt Nordstrom, Orlando Villegas / Saved Records
10. Surdo / Worthy / Anabatic Records
11. Jackpot / Mark Broom / Saved Records
12. La Milonga (Chris Soul Remix) /Jenn / Suara
13. Below Radar (Mathias Kaden Remix) / Terrence Dixon / Children Of Tomorrow
14. Burn Myself / Edu Imbernon, Coyu / Great Stuff
15. Sleeper / Jimpster / Freerange Records

Special Thanks To Marjan,Alex & Andrew
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Andrew_Technique.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:22pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"-M.U.M Episode 95

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.





Special Thanks to Marjan,Matthew, Iris & Uros







1 Pueblo - Wehbba Remix Sinisa Tamamovic       
2 dyno - amara 16 bit
3 Softie - Original Mix Reset Robot
4 The Cello Track (Namito Cello Kebab Remix)    Twotrups
5 Xylofrenic - Original Mix     Per Hammar
6 Payser - Uto Karem Remix      Alan Fitzpatrick
7 Bigger Is Better - Original Mi        Charles Gudagafva
8 This Summer - Original Mix    Gideon
9 Black Friday - Julian Jeweil M        Commuter
10 Guacamoli - D-Unity's White De       Olivier Giacomotto
11 Disconnect - Original Mix    Enton Mushi
12 Organised Kaos - Original Mix        Miniminds
13 Umek vs lukic test
14 Liftoff - Virgil Enzinger Remi       Brian Sanhaji  
15 Work It - Fergie Remix       Christian Smith, John Selway
16 Open Wide And Say - Original M       Blain Austin
17 Error - Original Mix Julian Jeweil
18 SVALB02B - A - SKYLARK - KRAKATOA_320
19 X Alarm - Original Mix       DJ Micky Da Funk, Costantino N
20 Take Control - Rpo Part 1 Mix        RPO
21 Stanger (To Stability) - Len F       Dustin Zahn
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_4.mp3
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M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Wehbba-M.U.M Episode 94
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement










DJ WEHBBA bio

Hailing from Brazil, Wehbba is one of the latest additions of Brazil's techno ambassadors.
Dentist graduate, licensed diver and purple belt Jiu Jitsu fighter for almost five years, he could
have just stuck to what he does. But DJing and music is what he really does best.
Rodolfo Wehba had it all: a practice dentistry office, working in two big clinics in Sao Paulo and
becoming a purple belt Jiu Jitsu fighter, but that was not enough, he actually crossed the pacific
ocean all the way to Sydney where he divided his time between teaching english and scuba diving,
participating in diving expeditions at the great barrier reef of northern Australia.
His involvement in the techno scence in Australia inspired him to continue his dream of becoming
a DJ. After returning to Brazil he started collecting wax and participating in events. As a producer,
his main aspiration led him to create his own sound in techno and its subgenres.
In 2004, Wehbba released his first national album titled "Revoltin'" with the support from one of
the most established labels in Brazil "URBR". The success of the album translated in the sales as
it sold out in the first three month of its release. That led Wehbba to perform on one of the biggest
festivals in Brazil: Skol Beats. Since then, his carrier advanced to a new level on a national scale.
In 2005, Wehbba reached the no.6 spot on Beatport for a month on a chart roaming with names
like Valentino Kanzyani, Marko Nastic and labels like Intec.
His other ventures got him to work with reputable names like Christian Fischer, owner of
Definition Records Germnay, DJ Link from Amigos Recordings Portugal, Stephane Signore from
Belgium, to name a few. Establishing his ground, Wehbba went on to release on labels such as
Global Underground, Great Stuff, Get Physical, Jesus Loved You, Primate, Craft Music, Yinyang,
Relic, Concept, Titanium, Amigos, among many others.
In 2006, Wehbba managed to sell out his second release, this time supported by the established
german label "Killa Beat Rec." titled "Flapin' my Pie Hole" including smashing minimal electro
remix by Kiddaz.fm's Dave Shokh. The release drew attention of the big players such as DJ Hell,
Felipe and many others. His constant evolving sound has drawn him a lot of attention from press
and public, as he scales his rythm up and down, with his groovy atmosphere as signature. In
addition, his DJ skills also surpass the realm of standards as his dynamic style allows him to flip
from all kind of techno music which carried him to perform globally on a busy schedule starting
from Europe in early 2007.
In 2009, Wehbba launched his label '82 Recordings' making it the beacon for his musical direction
and a breeding ground for honorary talented techno producers. His first release on his label has
generated thousands of sales and reached Beatport Top10 Techno chart while his contributions to
other labels like BluFin and Tronic are attracting more attention from the big players.


e-mail: info@djwehbba.com 
Website & music: www.djwehbba.com

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Wehbba.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:12pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"-M.U.M Episode 93
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.





Special Thanks to Matthew, Iris & Uros
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_2.mp3
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 M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with F.Sonik-M.U.M Episode 92
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




F.SONIK

 

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy!

 

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And it’s a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. “It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler,” remembers F.Sonik “Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyani’s matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.”

 

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

 

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him – he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.


F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. “We’ve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks,” announces F.Sonik...F.SONIK

 

The name of F.Sonik continuously pops up on the wish lists of electronic music aficionados in the region. Launching career with the Ghettotek live-act, later joining SDJF initiative and Flow Management, he already established himself as an unique deejay who is not afraid of such challenges as combining Slovenia's landmark techno heritage with some progressive spices. He already transferred some of this who-dares-wins spirit in his own productions, Something New (ft. Tomy DeClerque) being the most successful so far. This track, which immediately gained support of Umek and was already played on BBC Radio 1, predicts the series of fresh releases in 2008. So you better watch out for this guy!

 

Aleš Furlan alias F.Sonik became involved in electronic dance culture on account of one very innocent occurrence in his youth. And its a sole fault of his brother that he ended taming the decks, mixers and effects night after night. It all started when he brought home some studio mixer and Akai sampler, remembers F.Sonik Just a few days later I knew I wanted to produce electronic and become a deejay and I was hooked ever since. I started gathering information about the scene, artists, clubs, music and the whole electronic movement. Living on the Slovenian Riviera it was natural to be influenced by Ambasada Gavioli club as I started attending Valentino Kanzyanis matinees and performances of leading electronic artists on the regular basis.

 

It was his friend Alessio who helped him with the first steps: "He was caught by this bug well before me, so he already learned to mix and could thought me a thing or two. I still remember how I use to hang out at his parents house everyday struggling to beat-match the records. And after I started performing he even lent me his records." Shortly after that they teamed up for the live performances. "We've named ourselves Ghettotek. Alessio was mixing the records and I was in charge of putting in some effects. This way I got to perform in most of the hip Slovenian clubs even before my solo career really took off."

 

Thriving on a strong and globally accomplished techno heritage Slovenian electronic scene is still heavily directed by techno. But being influenced by the Global Underground music philosophy F.Sonik dared to go where only a few artists in the region dared before him he decided he will combine the techno heritage with melodic progressive sounds: "Even Umek was there somewhere, but as he was pure techno deejay back then and I was more into progressive stuff, it were the likes of Sasha, Deep Dish and Steve Lawler that have inspired me the most," admits the young artist.


F.Sonik successfully transferred his unique vision of dance music, built on techno and blended with some emotionally rich proggy landscapes, into his own tunes. As a producer he gained the most attention with the track titled Something New, which he produced in collaboration with his musical guru Tomy DeClerque.
Weve connected really good in the studio, so it was a really good feeling when Umek supported our first track including it in his Essential Mix even before it was officially released. That really inspired us and we already work on a bunch of new tracks, announces F.Sonik...


F.SONIK - July promo track list

01 .Boris Werner - Feel Good  / Moon Harbour Recordings


02. Santos - Hold Home / Moon Harbour Recordings 


03. Leon - Negro / Viva Music


04. NDKj, Marcello Conciald - Siyahamba ( NDKj Mix ) / Circle Music 


05. NDKj - Main Course / Heatflow 


06. Mendo, Danny Serrano - Coconuts / Clarisse Records


07. Saeed Younan - Kumbalha / Younan Music 


08. Steve Lawler - Hocus Pocus / Viva Music 


09. Pierce, Jerl - Amourette / Get Digital Music 


10. Oliver Moldan - One Drunk Indian / Prawler Music 


11. Nick Curly - Pujante / Cocoon Recordings


12. Analog People In A Digital Worl - Rose Rouge / Hysterical


13. F.Sonik - Drums Are Talking / CDR 


14. Jenn - La Milonga / Suara



Special Thanks to Marian ,Alex & F.Sonik


Artist management and general contact
:

 

FLOW:MNGMNT
Flow management (Slovenia)

www.flow-management.net

info@flow-management.org

+386 41 234552
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_F.Sonik.mp3
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M.U.M  Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Simone Tavazzi-M.U.M Episode 91
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



He was born in 1983 in Milan. He has been fond of techno music since 1997 and in 1999 he started to go to rave parties,discovering the magic of live sessions, played by sequencers. He immediately bought a drum machine and started to create his first patterns, taking inspiration from French acid techno, Detroit, electro and minimal. At the end of 2003 he expanded his studio, learned to play decks and dedicated himself into productions .In 2004 he played in some clubs and in 2006 he frequented a course for sound engineering and worked together with the Napolitan producer Markantonio in the realisation of the track "Soma" released on Analytic Trail n13 That's what i like vol.2 EP whit Valentino Kanzyani and Joy Kitikonti. during high school he released "tabu ep" on Footlover music a digital label from joy kitikonti,in july 2007 he Graduated as Sound engineer at the "N.A.M." school in milan, later on he released "white ep"on loose records the label owned by rino cerrone with a rmx of markantonio.

Special Thanks to Simone Tavazzi

www.myspace.com/delysidtwentyfive 
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Simone_Tavazzi.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:08pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Miss Sunshine-M.U.M Episode 90

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





Croatian-born Sunshine has always been an electronic music fan and has had great success ever since she started DJing in 1997.

In the beginning she worked on radio show "Clubhopping" (the first show of electronic music in this area) together with dj Loki Masa. Miss Sunshine's first residency was with the popular nightclub "Oxygene", in her home town Osijek, which started in 1999. And she was also a resident in the club "Vega" for 2 years where she played at the serial parties "Drumatica" with the biggest names of techno scene like Bone, Valentino Kanzyani, Jel Ford, Funk D´ Void, Gayle San etc.
Sunshine also appeared on Croatian annual music award, Crni Macak (Black Cat), as presenter for category of electronic music in 2000 together with Dj E-Base.
In April 2006. she joined Tuborg green DJ Academy in Osijek (Croatia) as teacher.


Some of Miss Sunshine's major accomplishments include working in almost all towns & clubs in Croatia, work in Czech Rep.(Fabric, Fleda), Austria (Dom in Berg, Arcadium), Germany (Douala), Slovakia (Radikal), Hungary (Highlander, Kazamata), Macedonia, Romania (Studio Martin, XS, Heat Club, Fashion, Space, Snatch, Zanzibar, Zambara...), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Mlin, Sloga, Hainekeen Inn), Slovenia (Lipa, Sinfonija, Spectrum...) and Serbia (Lifka, Aquarius...).
 
And off course work on some very important festivals like Valkana Beach festival 2002 - official after hour (Croatia), Valkana Beach festival 2003, Exit festival 2002 (Yugoslavia), Sunrise festival 2003 (Croatia), Electro funk festival 2006 (Croatia) and festival with only female djs LADY'S SOUND ATTACK 2003 in Germany.
 
In 2006 Sunshine meets Marko Moree and they are starting project based on techno, minimal and house sound.
They released their debut Ep "The Morning After" in 2007 on Decoded Mini records and remixed Mexican artist Isis Signum on Advanced Synergy rec. in the same year.
Soon they followed with the “Look Expensive Ep” on Irish label Aciitone Records and remix for Sinisa Lukic’s track “Dry & Wet” on Kaseta Music Records.
The remix made quite a big impact and was supported by many respectable dj’s.
As if that wasn't enough, Paul Hazendok requested it for the “Sound Shifting 2.0” studio dj mix that was released on Manual Music, the home of many famous producers like: Umek, Daso, Huggotron, Remute, Jeff Bennett, Tigerskin...
Soon after that they got a chance to do a remix for great Belgian dj and producer, Tom Hades and his “ Cinema Club“ track alongside with well-known Brazilian dj and producer Wehbba. The release was supported by world famous djs like Laurent Garnier, Joey Beltram, Chris Fortier...
More beautiful releases are about to come …

In 2009 she joined Queens of Minimal Techno, a music collaboration with Viktoria Rebeka and Alex Monster. Queens of Minimal Techno events stand for quality electronic music, they are an underground music experience presented across Europe!
Miss Sunshine has worked with some great names such as Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Billy Nasty, Jel Ford, Valentino Kanzyani, Umek, Oxia, Killians, Aril Brikha, Ken Ishii, Christian Smith, Steve Rachmand, La Di Da, Hi-Fi Princess, Lucca, Jean Marie Konne, Timo Maas, Miss Yetti, Mr. C, Slobodan, Corvin Dalek, Bone, Gayle San...

Releases:
Sunshine & Moree – Restraining Myself (Empro)
Tom Hades - Cinema Club (Sunshine & Moree Rmx) (Stolen Moments)
Sunshine & Moree – Look Expensive EP (Aciitone )
Sinisa Lukic – Dry & Wet (Sunshine & Moree rmx.) (Kaseta Music ),
Miss Sunshine & Marko Moree – The Morning After EP (Decoded Mini)
Isis Signum – Destroy the Wall (Sunshine & Moree rmx.) (Advanced Synergy)

Tracks appears on:
Sound Shifting 2.0 - Sinisa Lukic - Dry & Wet (Sunshine & Moree Rmx) (Manual Music)

Future Releases:
Andrew Technique - Twinhead (Sunshine & Moree Rmx) - Render Obedience

http://www.myspace.com/sunshinecroatia


Special Thanks to Marjan & Miss Sunshine


Web: www.flow-management.net
Space: www.myspace.com/flowmanagement
Youtube: www.youtube.com/flowmanagement
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Miss_Sunshine.mp3
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M.U.M &  Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Frack Chiarello"-M.U.M Episode 89
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground MovementDirect download:


Frank Chiarello is a NYC based producer and DJ who has held
residencies at several of NYC's premier underground nightclubs.
His inspired track selection can be heard at top NYC Clubs,
including LOVE, Pacha, Webster Hall, Sullivan Room, Rebel, and
more.  At those venues, Frank has shared the decks with Radio
Slave, Dave Seaman, Nic Fanciulli, Christian Smith, James Zabiela,
Paolo Mojo, and many more.  His productions have recently landed
on Teggno Records with strong suport from label head Lance Blaise
(Tattoo Detectives), crediting Frank with a "fresh sound of techno
with a progressive and minimal edge!".
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Frank_Chiarello_Live__Moonshine_Miami_05_30_09_1.mp3
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M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Marko Nastic"-M.U.M Episode 88

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Marko Nastic’s Biography :


Welcome to the world of Marko Nastic, the leading South Eastern European DJ. In a troubled
Serbia of the 90’s, Marko and his buddies built one of the most vibrant club scenes in Eastern
Europe, the one that inspired writers of Mixmag, The Face, DJ and NME to write accolades many
moons ago. They resisted dark forces of political madness with electronic music and a
celebration of life.
DJing and music were always part of Marko Nastic’s background: even in his pre-teen years he
was fascinated with synthesizers, drum machines and other sound making gadgets. When
techno started filtering through to Serbia in the early 90’s, Marko eagerly entered the scene.
Soon word on a teenage techno prodigy started spreading around town and this energy
channeled into a young & aspiring DJ team called Teenage Techno Punks – all of whom were
under 18, but performing like they were born on the 1210s. Nastic was the leader of the pack;
soon to become the hottest talent of South Eastern Europe’s electronic scene. The queues to
enter clubs in the region on the nights they performed were longer than ever. The word soon
started to spread beyond the boundaries of Serbia.
Just as techno music was becoming popular in Serbia, the Balkan conflict escalated. Marko
admits that he was too young to fully realize the gravity of the situation, but it did have an
impact on his life. “Things were tense, but a lot of it luckily went over my head,” he admits. “It
also meant that buying records then was very difficult and the choice was poor”.
These circumstances shaped and strengthened Marko just like other kids there. The free parties
they threw during those times are still an urban legend in Belgrade.
After the war, the club scenes in neighboring countries became aware of Nastic’s unparalleled
DJing skills and his distinctive three-deck style. Marko has since matured into a DJ who cannot
be labeled as purely techno, house or minimal; he’s all of that, and more.
Marko was a member of the original Recycled Loops crew. After that label stopped, Marko
joined Valentino’s ‘Jesus Loved You’ and started three labels himself, Recon Warriors, which put
Marko on the charts, followed by Recon Light and Traffica.
Also Marko has loads of projects running. For example Space Explorers with Marko Milosaljevic,
Tango and Cash with Kobaya and don’t forget the projects with Dejan Milicevic.
Marko did his first non-European tour in 2002, which started in Brazil. Now he regularly plays
gigs all over the world. Since 2006 he is the author and host of the radio show “Music For Body
And Soul” on the leading Serbian radio station B92.
His authorial album is due to be released.
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Marko_Nastic.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:49pm EST

M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Alex Bau Part 2"-M.U.M Episode 87
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Alex_Bau_part_2_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:21am EST

M.U.M Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Alex Bau"-M.U.M Episode 87
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





What's your credo?

Where are not many dj's of this type - dj's who believed in techno from the first minute, dj's who have experienced techno from the very beginning, dj's who have made techno their own thing, dj's who have created their own unique styles or even more - who have developed one over the years and who's name's are synonymous with that specific sound. alex bau is one of those dj's. at the same time, however, there are some slight differences with this guy. why focus on just one style of music? why only minimal sounds? why only techno? why, if you could have a well orchestrated combination of both?

Is it related to the fact that for alex bau, there was once a time before techno? with thousands of records in a collection that spans through many different types, styles and genres of music, certainly there have been many individual records which have left their own, indelible marks. there's no doubt about that! for instance, alex still does depeche mode nights from time to time, just for fun. but his activities with techno don't suffer at all from that, not in the least! with his 5+ hour sets at his first resident club in his southeast bavarian home area, the "libella", where dj hell also started his career back in the 80's, he achieved the reputation as someone who was totally aware of what he was doing, totally dedicated to it, but also someone who was totally infatuated with it. he hosted his own radio show for over 2 years on a local radio station, still the only techno show in the area. however, after countless gigs at the local clubs the time was deemed to be right to prove that he was also able to play at other venues around the globe. while collaborating with his friend sven dedek, whose productions were mainly released under the moniker's "basic implant" or "electric envoy" on labels lsuch as "fine audio recordings" from chris liebing, their tracks hit the technofloors in a very impressive way. during that time he was also able to collect international experiences behind the decks as sven played live. releases like the "phase edit ep", a highly acclaimed and well sold rework of some nitzer ebb ebm classics, or their work for dave angel's "rotation", justin berkovi's "predicaments" or pascal feos' "pv-records" enabled them to reach a much larger audience. finally, after numerous releases for different labels beside his own "toneman", alex released his debut-album "connected" in late 2004. "connected" immediately drew the attention of many high class dj's such as chris liebing, pascal feos and good groove, just to name a few. the fact that these artists, all of whom were working with different styles, grabbed the tracks from "connected", shows that the name of the album couldn't have been chosen any better.

After starting his own label (toneman) back in 2000, alex also started to work on his solo productions for labels such as chris liebing's "clr" or the montreal based label, "default recordings". montreal can be seen as kind of a gauge of alex's dj activities! within 3 years he was booked in montreal four times and his set from the legendary night at aria from january 2006 was even released as a mix-cd, "live at aria / montreal" so that alex came back months later to perform for the release party, once again a night to remember for the montreal techno movement. at this point in time alex was already booked as the headliner and it was reported by numerous emails and guest book entries that it was hardly a mistake to do so

but it's not only montreal where alex is being booked again and again; there are many other places, which is a good indicator that he seems to be a guy who understands what to do when standing in front of a crowd, someone who is always trying to bring the party to the max. clubs like frankfurt's "u60311", munich's "electric delicate", würzburg's "airport", or the legendary "tresor" in berlin are not only the trademarks of german techno club-culture, they can also be found on alex's gig list. brazil, usa, canada, poland, croatia, serbia, holland or the closer austria and switzerland are some of the tour stops on alex's calender, and no matter where, all over the places people can hear and feel how interesting, versatile and powerful techno can be if you understand how to combine minimal and straight techno as a constant up and down. everything is completely under control while the party is going wild, and that is what alex always goes for.

The fact that alex has become an official artist on the highly acclaimed label "zenit", that he has been the platform for acts like marco carola, adam beyer, the advent, gaetano parisio and many more, is the logical consequence of years of dedicated, hard work in good, high quality techno. techno in its purest form, just as described above, is the goal for alex - whether or not it involves playing or producing. on his current album "credo", minimal tunes go together with peaktime slammers in a way that appears obvious and logical. techno can do a lot, if you let it do so. that's the credo - his credo!

Special Thanks to Alex Bau...

http://www.alex-bau.de/
http://www.myspace.com/alexbautechno
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Alex_Bau_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:12pm EST

M.U.M & 1605 Sessions Presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"-M.U.M Episode 86
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.





Special Thanks to Matthew & Umek
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:13pm EST

M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Presents "Miami Sessions with Ian F"-M.U.M Episode 85
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)

After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

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CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.
IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)



After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

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CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.



Artist management and general contact:

Tracklist:

1. Indian Cowboy (feat. Fire Tongue) - Masomenos - Welcome To Masomenos
2. Soul Digits (Nick Curly rmx) - Terry Lee Brown Junior - Plastic City
3. Show Time (Daniel Mehlhart rmx) - Emmanuel - Get Digital Music
4. Dubcrystal - District One - 100% Pure
5. 123 Yeah Yeah - Willie Graff & Tuccillo - Freerange Records
6. Upright Bass - Anthony Collins - mule electronic
7. Bau Bau - Livio & Roby & George G. - Cecille Numbers
8. Horny - Dop - Eklo
9. Marrakech (Martinez big-band-da-boom rmx) - Hermanez - Miconn
10. Ma Saucisse (feat. SIS) - Masomenos - Welcome To Masomenos
11. Para'Dizer - Reboot - Sei Es Drum
12. Damien's Joint - Julien Chaptal - RemoteArea


Management:
FLOW:MNGMNT
www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org

Direct download: Miami_Session_With_Ian_F_.mp3
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M.U.M & Fade Records Presents "Miami Sessions with"Chris Fortier"-M.U.M Episode 84
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





While many people may claim to know Chris’ sound, with their focus on continually labeling him one thing or another, Chris is equally as focused on his efforts to push back the musical boundaries. It is testament to the man that he continues to develop his sound and musical direction, after all, as the man says himself “I just like to play good underground music, I don’t limit myself.”

It is artists such as Chris Fortier who are inextricably linked to the underground dance music scene that are the genuinely pushing the sound forward. Chris’ determination to continue to push the envelope can be seen in all aspects of his career. Proof of this can be found on his recent triple CD compilation Balance and his recent solo production under the 40oz moniker and his stellar debut artist album As Long As The Moment Exits.

The Balance CD genuinely offers something exciting and underground to the current stale compilation market. Boasting tracks from across the musical spectrum like David Gilmore Girls, Global Communication and Floppy Sounds through to Slam, Matthew Jonson, Rabbit in the Moon and Bent. It is little wonder the CD was name checked for compilation of the year by numerous international press publications.

Under his 40oz production guise Chris has released the several EPs that musically could fit comfortably on labels such as Cocoon, Kompakt or Get Physical. Further remixes of Alexi Delano, Joshua Collins, Lee Burridge, Freaky Chakra and John Selway show Chris’ genre defying sound at it’s underground best. Taking this a step further in 2007, his debut artist album was released to countless plaudits and impeccable praise. Not satisfied with status quo, look for the boundaries to continue to be pressed and pushed with each coming musical excursion.

With a DJ career spanning 15 plus years, he has continually been a crowd favourite, confirmed by his very first residency at the legendary “Aahz” in Orlando through to more recent residencies at The Cross in London and at Twilo in New York. Since a debut European tour in 1997, Chris has gone on to consistently tour the globe behind numerous singles, remixes and no less than 9 mix albums. You can catch him as easily in Tokyo as in Buenos Aires and all points in between on any given weekend.

To those that know Fortier’s history, they know to expect plenty more to come, for those that are just getting initiated, Welcome!


About Fade Records:

Fade Records was created out of necessity in 1993. At the helm is American DJ Chris Fortier. Chris and studio partner, Neil Kolo, needed an outlet to release the tracks they were producing together. With not many options in the States, it seemed obvious to start a label and create the opportunities themselves. The first release was in 1994 called "...For All the People". This track gave them a voice and platform for the future productions. The next three tracks, "All I Got", "Separation" and "So Good" were more highly praised and received heavy support from the biggest DJs out there, including Sasha, John Digweed and Dave Seaman. Equal support came from the USA from Kimball Collins, DJ Icey and John Debo as well as the brand new Mixmag USA (which eventually would be known as Mixer). This great support put the duo on the map and started every label in the UK demanding their talents for remix duties. After several years of building their profile through remixes and the odd single, Chris wanted to re-launch the label in the hopes to help discover and cultivate new talent from America. Steve Porter was the man for this job as Chris discovered him at age 17. With the productions of Steve Porter and others like Derek Howell, Royal Sapien, Funk Harmony Park & Tonepushers, the label is as strong as ever and having great success worldwide.

www.faderecords.com

Special Thanks to Mr Chris Fortier.
Direct download: Miami_Sessions__with_Chris_Fortier_live__Vertigo_Costa_Rica.mp3
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M.U.M & 1605 Sessions  Presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"-M.U.M Episode 82
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.





Special Thanks to Matthew & Umek
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek_3.mp3
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M.U.M & FLOW:MNGMNT Presents "Miami Sessions with"Patrick Zigon"-M.U.M Episode 81
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Patrick Zigon Bio (Cocoon rec.)


Patrick Zigon is hailing from Germany’s beautiful and inspiring city Konstanz at the Lake of Constance, which probably is one of the reasons why he drops such jaunty and fresh beats. Being active in the electronic music scene since 1996, Patrick since then eminently contributes to the establishment and development of electronic music in South Germany as a DJ, producer and promoter.

First own releases promptly showed up in the hard-to-get-in English House scene and in the boxes of international big names. Though Patrick never liked to be pigeonholed, which he perfectly underlines with his productions for labels such as Sven Väths’ Cocoon Recordings, Anthony Rothers’ Datapunk, Puzzle Traxx, Sounderground, Tanzbar, Turbo, Great Stuff, Trapez, Traum, Treibstoff, Kling Klong and Session Deluxe. Especially his remixes for artists such as Guy Gerber, Gregor Tresher, Chris Fortier, Gui Boratto, Martin Eyerer, Extrawelt etc. show his status in the current electronic music-scene.

2005 he created himself his own little Traumraum (the german word for Dreamroom), which is not only the name of his production studio, but also the name of his event series @ venues such as his long-term Stuttgart based resident club Climax Institutes. His current releases and remixes perfectly mirror, for what Patricks name stands nowadays – hypnotic Tech House with good portion of soul.

In September 2008 Patrick Zigon was honoured with the Bodensee Music Award (www.bma2008.de), in the category „Best Electronic DJ“.



Booking contact:
KAI FISCHER
kai@sensational-booking.com

www.patrickzigon.com

  Playlist:

  01.  Patrick Zigon – Jazzmin – Puzzle Traxx
  02. Chris Wood & Frank Leicher – I Feel The Night – Level Non Zero
  03. Discowboys – To The Mountain Top (Two Armadillos RMX) - Dessous
  04. Ali Kuru – Takism Dub - Kailash
  05. Martinez – Blue Lagoon – Moon Harbour
  06. Lauhaus – Ditched - Esperanza
  07. Someone Else – Funny Day Elswhere (Michal Ho RMX) - Foundsound
  08. Tom Ellis – The Factory – Highgrade Digital
  09. Adultnapper – Other People – Crosstown Digital Rebels
  10. Andre Crom & Danito – These Days – Get Digital
  11. Matthias Schaffhäuser & And.Id – Marathon - Ware
  12. Sei A - Solaris Heights – Missive
  13. Salvatore Freda & Michel Cleis – Sassicaia - Cadenza
  14. UES – Somebody Send Me Love - Resopal
  15. Kasper – Untitled One (Tadeo RMX) - Cyclical
  16. Skylark – Krakatoa (Joell Mull RMX) – Saved
  17. A Coyu & Edu Imbernon – El Baile Aleman – Liebe*Detail

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Patrick_Zigon_1.mp3
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M.U.M & Tronic Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Christian Smith Live@Argentina Part 3"-M.U.M Episode 80
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Christian_Smith_Part_3.mp3
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M.U.M & Tronic Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Christian Smith Live@Argentina Part 2"-M.U.M Episode 79
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Christian_Smith_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:14pm EST

M.U.M & Tronic Proudly Presents "Miami Sessions with Christian Smith Live@Argentina"-M.U.M Episode 78

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement\





Born in Stockholm, the DJ/producer has spent the last decade working relentlessly to bring his amalgamation of funky house and tribal techno to a global platform. Although Swedish by birth,

Christian spent much of his youth in Frankfurt, Germany,where his father was stationed as a pilot, and this turn fate played an unexpected role in determining his musical tastes.

It was the early eighties and the music at the time was early electro, soul, funk and late disco music. Groups like The SOS Band, Newcleus, funk bands like Cameo and tracks like Fade To Grey by Visage had a huge influence on Christian. Although his older brother and sister would bring home the dj mix tapes from the big clubs, with music from the pre house days. This is what Christian turned on to.

By the time Christian had turned fourteen, he looked old enough to get into the clubs himself and became, by his own admission, "a manic train spotter." Frequenting Sven Vaths Dorian Grey residency, this club had a big effect on Christian. He went to the clubs for the music and to check out the DJ's.
If Dorian Grey was Smiths introduction to the realms of electronic music, then it would be his experiences in another of dance music's capital cities that would help mould and solidify Christians deeply entrenched love for club music.

Moving to New York in 1989, Christian discovered that, running parallel to its high profile house community, the city that never sleeps also had a thriving techno scene. All the early techno clubs had started in New York, with Joey Beltram at The Limelight and soon afterwards Jeff Mills.

After finishing high school in 1992, Christian moved to Washington DC to study international business at university and, in his spare time started DJing. He never dreamt DJing would become his career. Smith nonetheless started playing at big raves in Washington and Baltimore, spinning to audiences of between 500 and 3,000 people. Lets not forget, this was the early nineties, and his choice of music was somewhat different to his trademark funky techno and house fusion, as it was the hard trance and techno days. He was playing tracks on labels like Harthouse, R&S and Music Man.

Unsurprisingly, given the nature of dance music's loosely defined early nineties status, Smiths first record Overdose as Neuromancer, came out on in 1992 on a label called Music Now, only for the imprint to release a follow up record by none other than BTs Embrace The Future. Back then Christian was already making house infused techno, probably less structured and not as well produced as nowadays.

Indeed, Christians earliest DJing experiences also played a definitive role in his future work, as he first met regular collaborator John Selway in 1993. Selway, who was playing the same rave circuit as Christian at this time was also working in New Yorks renowned Satellite Records store, the place where Smith, who was still based in Washington, would order his tunes from. John and Christian connected musically and therefore decided to hook up and make some tracks and the Smith and Selway sound was born.

In 1994, Christian set up the Tronic label, and, despite releasing three well-received records, put the label on hold until three years later, in 1997. Christian put the label on hold, as he was still a full time university student in Washington. By '97 he felt really inspired by DJing and the music that this prompted him to get working seriously with his label TRONIC. However, on completing his studies, Christian started to go to New York more frequently to collaborate with John Selway. Subsequently putting out collaborative EPs on Dave Angels Rotation label and Primate, Smiths own 1997 release, Goldrush the fourth release on Tronic also caused a serious reaction, this was the point everything took off. Tronic became a popular label and Goldrush got licensed all over the place. It was a really hard disco house tune that DJs like Sneak picked up on and it was also the first time a lot of people reacted to one of his releases. DJs like Carl Cox and Dave Angel, people who were my idols in the early days really supported it. It did so well that every month Christian had to press up more copies!

Back in Stockholm, Smith noticed that the demand for his tightly mixed, three decks DJing had increased and was booked to play all over Europe and beyond. In an interesting parallel development to Christians heightened profile, the latter part of the nineties saw Swedish producers like Adam Beyer, Joel Mull and Cari Lekebusch also attain an international following. From 1997 to 1999, the Swedish sound was really hyped. Christian comes from a different background, from a funk and soul background. A point Christian feels strongly about, and is quick to detach himself from any notions of purism. Adamant that he was listening to house before techno, he also points out that, way back in 1994, when he set up Tronic, he encountered some resistance from his distributors because he wanted to release material that was somewhere in between house and techno. The distributors advised to produce/release house or techno as it would sell better, but something in between wasn’t going to work," Christian feels that history has proved him right. As much as Christian dislikes the term, Tronic was one of the first tech-house labels, music that house and techno DJs could play; Christian calls his style housey techno!

Despite his newfound success, Christian didn't rest on his laurels, and, for rest of the nineties, he focused on DJing, producing and remixing as much as possible. Releasing more EPs on Tronic, Intec and Primevil, the Swedish DJ says that though one of his releases, Vanguard caught the attention and support of BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, he had to keep working as hard as ever. The really big crossover records like Move!, on Intec and the releases on labels like Rotation and Intec opened up his work to a lot of people.

While there's no doubt that Christians distinctive work injected a much-needed sense of funk back into techno, he made it accessible to a wider audience. His DJing is of an exceptionally high standard; Smiths willingness to travel to literally every country in the globe has been another determining factor in his ascendance.

Christian very much enjoys Asia and Eastern Europe as his favorite new places to play in. On a recent South East Asia tour, successful dates were achieved in South Korea, Kuala Lumpur and Ministry Of Sound in Bangkok. Japan is a place were Christian has a large following due to the rocking sets at Womb in Tokyo.

While Smiths releases ensured his bookings continued to soar, the Swedish DJ/producer identifies the release of his first major mix CD, Tronic Treatment as another turning point in his career. Weighing in at twenty eight tracks and recorded live in Australia on three decks, the smooth mix moves from funky house through to dubby, rolling tech-house, into pulsating techno. In fact, as things get faster, his selection becomes more varied, with the brooding electro of Umeks Zeta Reticula, the dark bass powered tones of Adam Beyers Remainings and Deetrons A1 before ending with the deep, Detroit stylings of James Ruskins mix of Metier. It’s one of the most compelling, hand raising, foot stamping interpretations of modern house and techno of recent years, and its no surprise that Christians profile was raised by the mix. His sense of diversity and unwillingness to adhere to one dimension is an ethic Christian believes is inherent in the worlds finest DJs. Christian was most inspired by Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier. Although both DJ’s are quite different what Christian saw in Carl was the ability to mix continuously between three turntables, and create that musical fusion.

Special Thanks to Hugo B & Christian Smith!!!!!!

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Christian_Smith__Part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:16am EST

 M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Andrew Technique"- M.U.M- Episode 77
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

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"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."

Playlist:

1      Snice - Original Mix      Ray Okpara      Oslo

2     01 Analogic Love (Original Mix)     Ismael Rivas & Luis Damora     Suara

3     Who Cares! - Original Mix     Agnes     Eklo

4     Aloo Ma Auzi - Bearweasel's Linear Drum Edit     Dragosh     Viva Music

5     The Swarm - Original Mix     Dualton, Masuki     Elite Records

6     Amelie - Format:B Remix     Butch     Groove Attack

7     So Sexy - Alex Kenji & Sara Galli Mix     Combo     Starlight

8     Circles - Original Mix     Loko     Soulman Music

9     Kamikaze - Sinisa Lukic RMX     Unknown     Unknown

10     Who's Afraid of Detroit? (3 Channels Remix)     Claude VonStroke - 3 Channels remix     dirtybird

11     Vertigo (Ahmet Sendil rmx)     F.Sonik     Evolution

12     73 Tomtom Avenue - Original Mix     David K     Tsuba

13     Korea Tabs - Harry Axt Remix     Holgi Star, Holger Flinsch     Kiddaz.FM

14     Jo The Monster - Agaric Remix     Lemos     We Are Records

15     So Good - Original Mix     Daley Padley, Paul Cooper     Stealth Records

16     London - Original Mix     Adam Beyer     Drumcode

17     Emotion 1 - Dimitri Andreas Remix     Dany Rodriguez, Davy Dee     MB Elektronics

18     F16 - Original Mix     Marco Bailey, Tom Hades     Hedgehog

19     Maki - Original Mix     Anja Schneider     Mobilee Records

Booking contact:
FLOW:MNGMNT
www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org

Marian: +386 41 234552
Alex: +386 51 352111

Direct download: Miami_Sesions_with_Andrew_Technique_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:35pm EST

 M.U.M & 1605 proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"- M.U.M- Episode 76
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.





Special Thanks to Matthew & Umek
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 M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Richie Hawtin"- M.U.M- Episode 75
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Richie Hawtin Biography 
 
Artist, DJ, conceptualist and ambassador, more than anyone else in modern electronic music, Richie
Hawtin has relentlessly proved himself to be a true innovator. The one-man mogul behind acclaimed
Techno imprints Plus 8 & Minus sends signals out all over the world from his HQ in an old fire station in
Windsor, Ontario – just across the border from Detroit Techno City. The signals are constantly evolving, his
Plastikman persona gave Techno a unique face with a series of four ruthlessly minimal albums of skeletal
beauty, while breathtaking festival live sets at Glastonbury and Tribal Gathering helped invent stadium
Techno. His “Decks, EFX & 909” album released on novamute in 1999 expanded the concept of a DJ
mix album beyond the imagination of most DJs. As a pioneering DJ and party promoter he was banned
from entering America for 18 months. Yet this jet-setting international futurist is as at home exhibiting
alongside acclaimed modern sculptor Anish Kapoor as he is headlining a bush rave with Josh Wink
somewhere in Western Australia.
 
More of a decade into his career, it’s no surprise that the every-youthful Hawtin is up to something new.
This time, he’s reconstructing the DJ mix album even further with “DE9: Closer To The Edit”, the
groundbreaking new album set for release on the novamute label in September 2001.
 
His first mix album, for the Mixmag Live series, saw him use extra effects and drum machines as long ago
as 1993, “Decks, EFX & 909” cut laser-style between tracks and now, “DE9: Closer To The Edit”, sees
Hawtin use his sampler to tear the skin and the flesh from the tracks until there’s just a skeleton left, which
he reassembles into a kind of Frankenstein’s robot. The result is a mix album like you’ve never heard
before.
Hawtin describes this unique process “I recorded, sampled, cut and spliced over 100 tracks down into
their most basic components. I ended up with over 300 loops, ranging in different lengths. I started to
recreate and reinterpret each track and then put the pieces back together, as if an audio jigsaw puzzle –
using effects and edits as the glue between each piece”.
 
A classic like Carl Craig’s ‘4 My Peepz’ (under his Paperclip People guise) breathes in and out in less
than a minute, like a lonely spirit lost on the hard drive.
 
“I don’t like mix CDs, everyone’s being lazy, so I gotta do something different,” says Hawtin. “Some people
think it’s about me using some extra equipment – a drum machine and some effects - but it’s a whole
philosophy really. ‘Let’s take it to the extreme, to somewhere that’s it never been before’ “
 
Hawtin believes the whole DJ thing is stuck in a groove. So beyond “DE9…” he is championing a new DJ
system developed in Holland called Final Scratch, with Plus 8 partner John Acquaviva. Dance and
Electronic music is the most technology-based genre of all, but to Hawtin’s frustration it’s still rooted in a
music delivery system developed in the 19th Century: the gramophone record. Even though more and
more DJs play tracks burnt onto CD, vinyl still rules because it’s easier and instinctive to control. Final
Scratch links up to the normal two-turntables-and-mixer set up, but lets you play tracks stored on a laptop
using a special piece of vinyl as a ‘mouse’, or controller. You can access literally thousands of tracks, and
scratch, cut, slow and mix them just like normal records using this special piece of vinyl. It’s nothing short
of revolutionary. As Hawtin enthuses: “It feels and acts like a regular record.” He’s already using Final
Scratch to play unreleased tracks by Josh Wink and Speedy J, and special re-edits of some of
Hawtin’s classics and personal faves.
 
 Born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, on June 4th 1970 Hawtin emigrated with his family when he was
nine to Windsor, Ontario, where his dad Mick still works as a robot technician in the General Motors car
factory (his mother, Brenda, is in real estate). Richie cheekily borrowed his dad’s persona for his house
alias Robotman. His brother Matthew, who shares the Windsor fire station studio complex with Richie, is a
visual artist. By 15 Richie was creeping out of the house to cross the border and go clubbing in Detroit. By
17 he was DJing at The Shelter, a dark basement club where he mixed House and Techno with
Industrial music by Nitzer Ebb and Front 242. He had his own show on Detroit’s 96.3FM – inspired by
a late ‘80s Detroit radio DJ called The Wizard, now better known as Jeff Mills.
 
As a teenager Hawtin, already into Breakdancing and Electro, was stirred by the radically beautiful machine
music being fashioned by Detroit Techno pioneers like Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin
Saunderson. In 1989 he set up Plus 8 Records with John Acquaviva to release their own tracks and
push new artists. They started running parties in Detroit. But far from welcoming them, the tight-knit Detroit
Techno scene initially turned a cold shoulder on the two renegade Canadians.
 
“It pissed a lot of people off because there wasn’t anyone else in the city doing it – it took someone from
the outside to come in and say, ‘Look, wake up,’” Richie recalls. “These guys [May, Atkins and
Saunderson] have left. They’re doing their thing overseas.”
 
Plus 8 began to gather momentum with a richly varied catalogue of hard-nosed, cutting edge Techno
from artists like Speedy J, Dan Bell and Kenny Larkin. Along with the resurgence of Detroit’s
confrontational Underground Resistance, this marked the second wave of Detroit Techno. “We all put
the focus back on Detroit for a while, we didn’t want to make traditional Techno, we were inspired by
traditional Techno. Derick, Kevin and Juan had sent these waves all over the world and we were the first to
feel the rebounds of their ripples”. 
 
By 1993 Richie Hawtin’s Detroit parties had become legendary intense affairs as freaky dancing clubbers
lost themselves in strange, dark warehouses transformed into disorientating warrens by walls of black
plastic sheeting. Inspired by this, Hawtin elected to take Techno one stage further and develop his virtual
Plastikman alter ego: a red and black gremlin that is tattooed on his forearm. He didn’t want a collection
of tracks; he wanted to make an album that swallowed up the concentrated energy of those parties and
spit it back out as something new. An album, “Sheet One” was recorded in a rollercoaster 48 hour studio
session and released on novamute in early ‘93 and was soon followed by the brilliant ‘Spastik’, a single
recorded three weeks later after a long night dancing to Derrick May.
 
Hawtin was already shifting identities like a spy changing roles: his 1992 album “Dimension Intrusion”,
under his Fuse alias, had played a key part in the Warp label’s groundbreaking “Artificial Intelligence”
armchair-Techno series, but he wanted to reach further. He remembered the strange shapes that his
friends threw at those warehouse parties, the different creatures they almost became. “Like plasticine,” he
says. “That was the whole idea of Plastikman, it was all very viscous and pliable and moveable.”
Plastikman wasn’t just a clever alter ego – it was a role for you to try on too. The sound was rubbery and
sparse; its moments of melodic steel arriving unnervingly. The first album, “Sheet One”, played up Hawtin’s
reputation for LSD and was promoted with a free sheet of fake acid tabs.
Hawtin developed a Plastikman live show that still tours the world. Huge audiences at Glastonbury and
Tribal Gathering twitched to its twittering insect rhythms, lost in a soundtrack far freakier than anything else
those events had to offer. In 1994 the second album on novamute, “Musik”, let a little human warmth seep
onto the clattering Plastikman rhythms, but despite its closing robot lullaby ‘Lasttrak’, it was, if anything,
even more discomforting
Just as the little Plastikman gremlin was becoming an international phenomenon, American immigration
officials banned Hawtin from entering America for working illegally. He was barred from entering the States
for 18 months. It was a devastating experience.
 
“My girlfriend lived there and most of my experiences were in Detroit, my friends were there and all of my
musical inspiration was there – and suddenly it was like, ‘See that building over there? You can see your
inspiration, but you can’t go there.’” Now, typically, he believes the ban had its benefits. It was at this point
the Chemicals Brothers and Underworld began to break out of the dance world and into a wider
Rock arena. Hawtin now wonders whether he might have gone further down the stadium Techno route.
Instead, grounded in Windsor, he went back to the studio to reinvent. “When that happened it was the
worst day of my life,” he says now, “and it was one of the best things too.”
 
The next Plastikman project, ‘Klinik’, wouldn’t come together. “I had tried to follow those records up but
there were feelings of pressure at that point,” he says now. Stuck in the studio, depressed, Hawtin set
himself a new challenge and gave it a deadline. He pressurised himself back into action, releasing a series
of ‘Concept’ EPs based on the months of the year. Each release would feature two tracks recorded in one
month only using a set template of sounds. They would be released and then forgotten. The discipline of
producing 24 tracks in 12 months rewired the creative circuits. “It progressed me to a different audience, it
progressed me with effects which came into my sets and it progressed me into more of this spatial
environment I was trying to get to,” says Hawtin.
 
It was the starting point for his last Plastikman album “Consumed”, which replaced the angry black and red
gremlin with dark, abstract sleeve art and the tense rhythms with swathes of bass and melody. Released
on novamute in 1998, it was acclaimed in countries like France – where conceptual artists are traditionally
celebrated. “Consumed” elevated Hawtin to a new status, he was now not just an international Techno
star, but a contemporary artist. Asked to contribute to a French Millennium Exhibition celebrating
different ideas of beauty, Hawtin created a musical installation based around the clicks, hisses and pops of
vinyl – a beautiful sound, he argued, to his generation. The exhibition also featured the work of world
famous sculptor, Anish Kapoor, who Hawtin had long been a fan. In fact “Consumed”’s unique textures
had been inspired by Kapoor’s beguiling, futuristic, curved shapes and the cover art echoed the sculptor’s
famous obelisk. “I was walking around those sculptures and putting my head into some of them. They had
like a sonic quality like chambers of nothingness – and that’s exactly what I was trying to hear. Suddenly I
was able to walk around a physical version of what I wanted to do musically.” Hawtin was also moved by
the mournful purple washes of the late Mark Rothko, which now hang in London’s Tate Modern.
Rothko’s work, says Hawtin, “is very, very subtle, just washes of texture. It kind of gave me a visual
perspective of what I was trying to get out of my head, sonically. On a flat surface.”
 
This is where Hawtin is at now. Constantly touring all over the world and keeping fans updated on his
world wide DJ travels via his website diaries; taking his dad out to dinner with John Peel (a big deal for
his Peel–fan father especially now his son is a huge favourite of the radio DJ); pushing himself to his
creative boundaries and taking Techno with him. Not just to the middle of the dancefloor, but also above it.
 
“The good Techno musicians enjoy having a good time, but can see beyond it,” Hawtin notes. “It’s the
closest to a contemporary art form.” With Jeff Mills providing an installation to the recent Sonar event in
Barcelona, Germany’s Thomas Brinkmann moving from conceptual art into conceptual Techno, and
increasing connections between the two worlds.
 
As Techno and art move closer together Hawtin sees it as a logical part of his constant reinvention. “It’s
about setting a standard for yourself and progressing yourself. Showing people you can do something
interesting that’s more than just dance music.” 

CONTACT INFORMATION
Label/Sales:  Rudy Delgado | rd@m-nus.com  tel. +49 30 405040 345
Press Contact: Meike Nolte | mn@m-nus.com tel. +49 30 405040 355
Tour/Booking: Katrin Schlotfeldt | katrin@clonk.com tel. +49 30 40056892

Special Thanks To Mrs Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Richie_Hawtin.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:42pm EST

 M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Tomy De Clerque"- M.U.M- Episode 74
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Tomy De Clerque

A member of the new generation of Slovenian deejays, Tomy De Clerque grew up in an environment full of promising development in the sphere of electronic dance music. In front of his eyes the local scene has been turning into a globally acknowledged style of techno music in the hands of artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. A natural choice for a guy with talent and ambition was to jump the train – and Tommy DeClerque has road it ever since.
Performing as a deejay since he turned seventeen Tomy DeClerque soon realised that making his own production was essential if he wanted his carrier to really take off. He hooked up with his friend Zox to form the Tomy or Zox duo, and their hard work paid off as their My Desire single received some favourable feedback in Spain, Russia and Mexico. However, it was the Music Makes Me Happy hit single that caught the attention of top artists being remixed by the likes of Mainframe and ATCF, and released on several prestigious compilations, such as Ministry Of Sound, DJ Awards at Pacha Ibiza and Blanco Y Negro Mix. ‘The greatest satisfaction, though, – Tomy says – was when we got set as Essential new tune of the week on Pete Tong’s celebrated Essential selection radio show.’
After parting ways with Fox, Tomy felt that it was time to take a break from a demanding life of producer and performer, before he went on to start his solo career. Searching for genuine underground sound that could revive the authentic feeling of electronic dance music he experienced in his youth Tomy turned to Valentino Kanzyani’s Jesus Loved You label releasing a much praised I Don’t Know. Driven by his passion for teamwork, a lot of his studio work is done in collaboration with his friend F. Sonik. The duo’s first major success was winning VONYC remix competition with a remix of Valentino Kanzyani’s Nueva York, which is also a part of Carl Cox & friends at Space Ibiza 2008 compilation.
He started the 2009 with Umek's nomination as best producer of the 2008. But he is determined to accomplish even more. ‘You’ll hear a lot about me in the future,’ he promises.


Playlist:

1-Surrealistic Whale (Original Mix)
Edu Imbernon & Triumph
Suara

2-Mind Games (Tomy DeClerque RMX)
Jon Rundell
Teggno Records

3-Bounce Cherry (Alexx Iuliano RMX)
Mark Morris
Urbansound Records

4-Twister (Dandi & Ugo RMX)
Andrea Mattioli, Gabriel C
Stereo Seven Plus

5-Ho`z in this house (Tomy DeClerque RMX)
Ariel G
PROMO (Behold Recordings)

6-One 2.3 Four (Popof RMX)
Martin Solveig
Mixture

7-Unintended Maneuvre (Monica Kruse RMX)
Umek & Tomy DeClerque
PROMO (TerminalM)

8-Kung Fu Necktie
Lance Blaise & Rod B.
PROMO (Teggno Records)

9-Afrika (Tribal Mix)
D-Unity
Stereo Productions

10-Loky
Tomy DeClerque
PROMO (HellYeah)

11-Regenerations (Inside Out Remix)
Grunjah
PROMO (Vise Versa Music)

12-Pleasant noise (Original Mix)
Tomy DeClerque & F Sonik
Jesus Loved You

Special Thanks To Marian,Alex & Tomy
Direct download: Miami_Session_with_TomyDeClerque_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:05am EST

M.U.M  presents "Miami Sessions with Pete Heller"- M.U.M- Episode 73
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



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Dance music afficiando Pete Heller is a 'one stop shop of kicking dance beats and modern soul music', and undoubtedly remains to be one of dance music¹s most influential producers and in demand DJs!
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the break
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1989, and Pete had the opportunity to became resident warm-up DJ to Danny Rampling at his legendary London house club, The Shoom Club. It was also at the Shoom Club where Pete met Terry Farley and together with Andy Weatherall, collaborated in his first co-production. The track, 'Raise' by Bocca Juniors, was released on the newly formed Boys Own Records label.Heller and Farley continued to work together remixing and producing for the likes of The Farm and Primal Scream. When the deal with London Records ended, both were instrumental in the formation of the independent Junior Boys Own label and continued to produce their own material under pseudonyms such as Fire Island, Roach Motel and Heller and Farley Project.
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the music
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Pete's impact on the world of dance music has been staggering. As part of 'Heller and Farley' , he has worked both as a remixer and producer, collaborating with artists as diverse as Kylie Minogue, Michael Jackson, Robert Owens, Janet Jackson, U2, Happy Mondays, Lisa Stansfield, aswell as producing the club classic 'Ultra Flava'.

As a individual he has achieved chart success with 'Big Love', and produced club dynamite with tracks such as 'Sputnik' and 'Big Room Drama'. His sought after studio wizardry has provided the opportunity to remix the likes of Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Jamiroquai, to name but a few from the glittering list.
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the mixes
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Pete's most recent and well received mix 'Dirty Grooves' was released on NRK Nightlife series.
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little known fact
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Any questions on quantum theory, Pete's your man! He has a degree in Physics from Manchester University.
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Pete has recently established his 'Phela Recordings' label. The labels has the unmistakeable Heller stamp to it with the recent relesase of Stylus Trouble¹s 'Stellar¹ finding flavour with the scenes biggest djs. With an arsenal of new tracks and Phela remixes the label is set to go from strength to strength in 2005.

Pete Heller – 1 Hour Promo Mix
1 Ultra Flava 2008 Mix1 Heller & Farley Project Defected
2 Lost in Acid - Ausfahrt Mix David Tort Joia
3 Reality Check - Vincenzo Remix Audio Soul Project Dessous
4 The Essence (Jesper Dahlback's DJ Tool 2) Berglund Featuring Krister Linder Soundz
5 Adrian - Jerome Sydenham Remix Shigeru Tanabu Wave
6 A EQD Equalized
7 Split Paul Ritch Quartz
8 Terminate Pig & Dan Cocoon
9 Timing Guy Gerber Cocoon
10 Sabotage New Mix Pete Heller Bedrock



Special Thanks to Mr Hugh B & Pete Heller
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Pete_Heller.mp3
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 M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Aneuria"- M.U.M- Episode 72
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




ANEURIA (Jesus Loved You)

Aneuria is a core member of Jesus Loved You collective, household name on leading labels, clubs and festivals in the Central Europe and Western Balkans and trusty studio sidekick of Ian F and Tomy DeClerque. Lately he is redefining his artistic expression, fusing house roots, Balkan ethno and sounds of nature with techno patterns, taking his productions towards warmer, organic spheres. This refreshment was in sync with the new Jesus Loved You music vision and partly influenced by long studio sessions with Valentino Kanzyani.

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Aneuria is still quite a fresh name on the scene. His earlier deejay performances were all about house but he soon realized that his interests grow deeper in experimental, underground, and not only electronic sounds. One of the first artists that noticed his talent and endless passion for music was his countryman and one of the original techno pioneers DJ Veztax. Without prejudice he backed him up and invited him to join the Interparty crew. Since then he became regular in the clubs and at the festivals in the Western Balkans and Central Europe.

In the early 00’s Aneuria and his then performing and producing partner Mexx founded a Muzika-Eclectica platform. It was designed to spread their sound trough the clubland. Their combos reflected minimalistic approach to groovy techno and were crowned with the success of Los tres puentes, a great summer record that touched the souls and feet of revelers all over the world. Responses from deejays around the globe were excellent and gave him motivation for further work. In that time he also collaborated with Serbian colleague Dejan Milicevic who taught him a lot about music production and still supports him as member of Recon Warriors crew.

Parting with Mexx as a regular combo few years ago, Aneuria focused on defining his own production and deejay style. He builds his sets mostly on repetitive loops, percussions and groove, thus creating tension on the dance floor, driving crowd into frenzy that always ends with some kind of surprise. That allows him to play with audience’s feelings and to build his own story, which is the essence of him as an artist.

After hooking up with creative soul mates Ian F and Tomy Declerque it didn’t take long ‘till he got in touch with their friend Valentino Kanzyani, too. In the early 2008 he joined the Jesus Loved You collective as independent artist, frequently collaborating with Ian and Tomy. Their most successful joint venture so far was Tommy Joy EP. Aneuria’s own Buenoliter was included on Simplicity vol. 1 compilation and he recorded series of remixes for artists such as Umek, Angel Anx, Antoine Caesar, Danilo Tomic and Glorio Veztacci.

Lately he is redefining his artist expression, fusing house roots, Balkan ethno and sounds of nature with techno patterns, taking his sound towards warmer, organic spheres. This refreshment was in sync with the new Jesus Loved You music vision and partly influenced by long studio sessions with Valentino and Ian. The fruits of their labor will be presented in the following months as some of the forthcoming JLY releases. While Aneuria’s next solo releases will be brought to you on labels such as Glorio Music, Recoon Light (Ljubiana EP) and Jesus Loved You (Baronga EP).




Artist general contact & booking:

JesusLovedYou
tina@jesuslovedyou.net



ANEURIA'S TRACKLIST MUM SESSIONS:

1. Livio & Roby, George G. - Invers de palma / CECILLE NUMBERS
2. Anthony Collins, Tolga Fidan - La Cadenze / VAKANT
3. MarcinTzubala - Jedwab / 8 BIT
4. SIS - Sum (Stipe remix) / MITU
5. Madato - Mercado Populare / MOSAIKO
6. Livio & Roby - Tuxedo Band / FUMAKILLA
7. Livio & Roby -  Gorilla / CECILLE NUMBERS
8. Derrick L. Carter - Friends Talk /
9. Kasper - Untitled one / CYCLICAL TRACKS
10. NoiDoi - We love Circoloco / MATERIAL
12. Nima Gorji - Futurism / JESUS LOVED YOU
13. Dejan Milicevic - See No Evil / JESUS LOVED YOU
14. Jimmy, Fer Ferrari - Back to Buenos Aires / SOLID FABRIC
15. Jona - Take 5 / GET PHYSICAL

Special Thanks to Marian,Alex & Aneuria
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Aneuria_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46am EST

M.U.M & Wiked Group  proudly presents "Miami Sessions with SanedracHunter"- M.U.M- Episode 71
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement







Onset 1982, Franccesco Cardenas grew up in Miami Florida constantly submersed in the best of Electronic music. With Nicaraguan roots and musical influences spreading from John Lennon to John Digweed, Franccesco began mixing things up in year 2000 and has been on an endless incline ever since. He has literally covered every corner of Florida from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, Gainesville to Miami, and every space in between.
However for Franccesco it's not simply about the performance but more intrinsically about how the music plays a part in life and experience. His desire to more deeply understand the qualities of sound led him through his engineering foothold at SAE in 2004. Even beyond the studio he's constantly exposing himself to new sounds, multiple genres, events, venues, sights, tastes, anything and everything plays part to influence the musical soul.
Then comes the second half, born and raised in Central Florida Luke Hunter first found his love for electronic music amongst the late 90's rave scene streaming through the state. With a passion for good music Luke set forth at an early age to pursue the dynamics of audio and quality sound. Rising through the ranks of technician to audio engineer and producer, Luke soon completed his bachelors in productions from the University of Florida in 2005. After Gainesville's music scene tapered off shortly after 2001 Luke found himself searching to reconnect and heading south to the heart of WMC territory in Miami Florida.
Luke setup shop reassembling his production studio and began his journey rising in the ranks of the Miami music scene. Each and every venue, show and event is taken as a complete experience into sound that maintains the high standard of production and discerning ear that first lead Luke to his love of music.
Years of music flow between these two artists but the real synergy takes place when these great minds come together behind the decks or in the studio. Collaboratively Franccesco Cardenas and Luke Hunter fuse as one under the title SanedracHunter and the two have been quickly gaining ground in the Miami scene. Appearances on WRGP FM and WVUM FM in addition to guest spots on Proton Radio have sent the duos music across the airwaves and even landed them in DJ booths moving south Florida dance floors in addition to a WMC and Ultra Music Festival 2009 appearance. This month plays host to a special exclusive mix for the Miami Underground Movement.

The Artists will be in Miami WMC 09 @ Doraku Lounge March 26-South Beach-Come and Play Party by Wiked Productions.

Special Thanks To Franccesco & Luke.


Artist Info/Booking/Contact:

www.SanedracHunter.com

Franccesco Cardenas & Luke Hunter

Email :

SanedracHunter@gmail.com

Tracklist:

1. Ailyx (Soundstorm Remix) - Alex Rize
2. Something To Talk About (Original Mix) - Mr.Belk
3. Anon (Original Mix) - Fergie
4. Ring Cadet (Remix) – Ahmet Sendil
5. Outside (Original Mix) – Mutant Clan
6. Stream (Original Mix) – El Carlitto, Chonzales
7. Bangbus (Original Mix) - Jova
8. Message (Original Mix) – Masashi Hisataka
9. El Choquero (Original Mix) – Masaya (CH)
10. Hypnotized (Original Mix) – Elegant Universe
11. Pulling The Trigger (Original Mix) - Umek
12. Last Days (Original Mix) – Carlo Lio, The Junkies
13. Minimal Symphony (Original Mix) - Soliquid
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_SanedracHunter_Franccesco_Cardenas__Luke_Hunter.mp3
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M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Ian F"- M.U.M- Episode 70
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement









IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)

After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

= = = = = = = = = =

CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.
IAN F. 
(Jesus Loved You)



After a decade of successful sound blending Ian F. maintains the status of one of the most fresh-sounding deejays around. Being introduced to the art of music improvisation at an early age and heavily indulging on alternative art as a teenager, he continued to nurse this passion even more after becoming a deejay. Ian F is a member of the Jesus Loved You family, co-founder of Flow Management agency and a long time resident deejay of Ambasadi Gavioli, one of the hottest super clubs in the Mediterranean. He forefronts the new generation of promising young artists that are redefining famous Slovenian techno sound and are heavily supported by artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani. Currently Ian F. spends most of the off-deck time producing music and developing his Flux:ology, which combines elements of different art expressions. After a series of releases and remixes on selected labels in Europe, Asia and USA (Jesus Loved You, Advanced, Pure Substance, Traffica, Mashtronic, Decoded, Vezotonik, Dig:Atel …), he’s dedicated to spread his eclectic art of noise even further in the forthcoming months.
His production was supported by artists such Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, James Zabiela, Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, D Ramirez, Misjah, Wally Lopez, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Andrea Ferlin, Nick Muir, Wehbba, Marko Nastic,  …

= = = = = = = = = =

CHALLENGES: Productions. Live Act. New expressions.
Being obsessed with searching for some fresh stuff all the time, the life of producer is a constant battle for Ian F: “Currently I spend most of the off-deck time developing my own sound under the guidance of my studio guru Tomy DeClerque." Ian F’s recent production Subconscious was picked up by local Apple distributor for a TV commercial and can be heard on the MTV. Some other releases on Tested/Agent Funk, Mashtronic rec., Jesus Loved You (Valentino Kanzyani) and Traffica (Marko Nastić) are scheduled and the preliminary arrangements with some UK and Germany based labels were already struck. “Another intriguing project is Flux, for which I am joining forces with Tomy DeClerque, KayKay and Dave Morgan. Flux is a unique live act, a mixture of live music performance and electronic live act with the addition of other art expressions. It’s very alive. The structure and expression of this project varies all the time as it is under constant development. We’ve already performed in Gavioli and at one open-air party, but a lot of work still has to be put into this project.”

Performing at the parties is just one side of Ian F as a musician. He indulges on combining his passion for music with other art expressions on regular basis. He's no stranger to performing at art and fashion exhibitions, poetry recitals, teaming up with pop artists and rock bands or developing soundtrack for an on-line art gallery. He even produced music and performed with a contemporary dance company at selected venues, including premiere at the 7th Annual Gala at the national theatre, which was broadcasted live on the Slovenian national television.


REFERENCES: Performances. Releases. Collaborations.
Ian F is established artist in the region, performing in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina on the regular basis. His poison is techno & tech-house with expressive warm harmonies and little touches of other genres. As a long running resident of some of the top clubs and events in the north Adriatic region he already performed alongside most of the top techno artists as well as the biggest names in the industry such as Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Tiësto, Steve Lawler, Sasha, John Digweed if we name just a few. He's a resident deejay of Ambasada Gavioli, Fetch the Vibe events and official ambassador of Slovenian Haineken Music events.

Ian F's productions were so far spun and included on track lists and charts by Anthony Pappa, Armin Van Buuren, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Marko Nastić, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani and other established deejays. His artist production and remixes were released on Slovenian labels such as F-Recordings, Annunaki, Vezotonik and Vezotonik LTD, Malaysia based Pure Substance and Red Flux Music, Atel - DigAtel (USA), Mashtronic rec. from Germany, Advanced rec. (UK) and Croatian Decoded and Decoded Mini.

As a member of SDJF initiative Ian helps develop local club infrastructure and platforms to support young artists on their first steps. Another two promising young artists Andrew Technique and F.Sonik are members of Flow Management agency. Currently he’s also spending a lot of time in and out of the studio with a deejay & producer Aneuria.



Artist management and general contact:



Ian F. - Miami Underground Movement exclusive set - March 2009
(Guarana special after astonishment)

1. Damian Lazarus - Moment - Get Physical Music
2. Dyed Soundorom - Con Leche - Freak N Chic
3. Peace Division - Revival - 8Bit
4. Alejandro Vivanco - Nachtstring - International Freakshow
5. Marco Carola - The Tribe - Minus 2:M
6. Noze - You Have To Dance (Mathias Kaden's beatpolka remix) - Get PHysical Music
7. Emad Parandian - Kamanche - Souvenir Music
8. Basti Grub - Oma Vovo - Suara Showroom
9. Marc Romboy, Mr. K-Alexi - Acid Love (D'Julz Rmx) - Systematic
10. Franco Cinelli - Lost In Acid (Mikael Stravostrand Rmx) - Traut Muzik
11. Faut Pas Deconner - Stay Togheter - Jesus Loved You
12. Valentino Kanzyani & Tomi DeClerque - 33 - Jesus Loved You Special 01

Special Thanks to Marian ,Alex & Ian F

FLOW:MNGMNT
Flow management (Slovenia)

www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Ian_F_1.mp3
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M.U.M proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Alex Bau"- M.U.M Episode 69
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





What's your credo?

Where are not many dj's of this type - dj's who believed in techno from the first minute, dj's who have experienced techno from the very beginning, dj's who have made techno their own thing, dj's who have created their own unique styles or even more - who have developed one over the years and who's name's are synonymous with that specific sound. alex bau is one of those dj's. at the same time, however, there are some slight differences with this guy. why focus on just one style of music? why only minimal sounds? why only techno? why, if you could have a well orchestrated combination of both?

Is it related to the fact that for alex bau, there was once a time before techno? with thousands of records in a collection that spans through many different types, styles and genres of music, certainly there have been many individual records which have left their own, indelible marks. there's no doubt about that! for instance, alex still does depeche mode nights from time to time, just for fun. but his activities with techno don't suffer at all from that, not in the least! with his 5+ hour sets at his first resident club in his southeast bavarian home area, the "libella", where dj hell also started his career back in the 80's, he achieved the reputation as someone who was totally aware of what he was doing, totally dedicated to it, but also someone who was totally infatuated with it. he hosted his own radio show for over 2 years on a local radio station, still the only techno show in the area. however, after countless gigs at the local clubs the time was deemed to be right to prove that he was also able to play at other venues around the globe. while collaborating with his friend sven dedek, whose productions were mainly released under the moniker's "basic implant" or "electric envoy" on labels lsuch as "fine audio recordings" from chris liebing, their tracks hit the technofloors in a very impressive way. during that time he was also able to collect international experiences behind the decks as sven played live. releases like the "phase edit ep", a highly acclaimed and well sold rework of some nitzer ebb ebm classics, or their work for dave angel's "rotation", justin berkovi's "predicaments" or pascal feos' "pv-records" enabled them to reach a much larger audience. finally, after numerous releases for different labels beside his own "toneman", alex released his debut-album "connected" in late 2004. "connected" immediately drew the attention of many high class dj's such as chris liebing, pascal feos and good groove, just to name a few. the fact that these artists, all of whom were working with different styles, grabbed the tracks from "connected", shows that the name of the album couldn't have been chosen any better.

After starting his own label (toneman) back in 2000, alex also started to work on his solo productions for labels such as chris liebing's "clr" or the montreal based label, "default recordings". montreal can be seen as kind of a gauge of alex's dj activities! within 3 years he was booked in montreal four times and his set from the legendary night at aria from january 2006 was even released as a mix-cd, "live at aria / montreal" so that alex came back months later to perform for the release party, once again a night to remember for the montreal techno movement. at this point in time alex was already booked as the headliner and it was reported by numerous emails and guest book entries that it was hardly a mistake to do so

but it's not only montreal where alex is being booked again and again; there are many other places, which is a good indicator that he seems to be a guy who understands what to do when standing in front of a crowd, someone who is always trying to bring the party to the max. clubs like frankfurt's "u60311", munich's "electric delicate", würzburg's "airport", or the legendary "tresor" in berlin are not only the trademarks of german techno club-culture, they can also be found on alex's gig list. brazil, usa, canada, poland, croatia, serbia, holland or the closer austria and switzerland are some of the tour stops on alex's calender, and no matter where, all over the places people can hear and feel how interesting, versatile and powerful techno can be if you understand how to combine minimal and straight techno as a constant up and down. everything is completely under control while the party is going wild, and that is what alex always goes for.

The fact that alex has become an official artist on the highly acclaimed label "zenit", that he has been the platform for acts like marco carola, adam beyer, the advent, gaetano parisio and many more, is the logical consequence of years of dedicated, hard work in good, high quality techno. techno in its purest form, just as described above, is the goal for alex - whether or not it involves playing or producing. on his current album "credo", minimal tunes go together with peaktime slammers in a way that appears obvious and logical. techno can do a lot, if you let it do so. that's the credo - his credo!

Special Thanks to Alex Bau...

http://www.alex-bau.de/
http://www.myspace.com/alexbautechno

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Alex_Bau_1.mp3
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M.U.M & 1605 Session proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"- M.U.M- Episode 67
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement







DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.




01. Intro 02. Lollo - Microminitech (Gennaro Mastrantonio Remix) "Italo Business" 03. Gimikk aka Daniel Sanchez - She Luff  "Remote Area" 04. Sergio Costa - Key Gen "Amaze Me" 05. Bodyscrub - Bullshit 2.0 "Overdrive Musik" 06. Miss Jools - La Luna "Mobilee" 07. Pierre Deutschmann - Cougars "Farbenfroh" 08. Eriko Tanabe - Blue Shoes "Titbit" 09. Del Horno - Darkness feat. Mar-C (Kobbe's Voodoo Poison Remix) "Tweekd" 10. Rhythm Code - Where Is Neil "Size" 11. Adam Beyer - Simulated Usage "Figure" 12. Umek & Tomy DeClerque - Reason Reveald "Terminal M" 13. Josh Feedblack & Miniking - Burn Me feat. MJ White (Miniking Remix)"Area 94" 14. Ktodik - Borderline "Fat Sound" 15. Superstrobe - Unique "Karatemusik" 16. Xavi Beat - Cyclic (D-Formation Remix)"Fresco Records" 17. Umek - 2nd To None "Rekluse" 18. Oliver Koletzky - Requiem Fur Die Vernunft (Lutzenkirchen's Max Payne Dubedit) "Stil Vor Talent" 19. Alex Dias - Materia (Wehbba rmx) "Le Club" 20. S.C.A.L. - Sleeper "Yellow Tail" 21. Alex Kenji - Vertigo "303 Lovers" 22. Simon Stokes - Auditory (Abnormal Boyz rmx)"Minibus"

Special Thanks to Matthew , Mark & Umek
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Umek.mp3
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 M.U.M & Fade Records proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Chris Fortier Live @ Crobar Buenos Aires Part 3"- M.U.M- Episode 65
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




THE FADE STORY…

FADE was formed in the summer of 1993 when Neil Kolo, a young studio engineer, introduced himself to Chris Fortier, a young resident DJ at the infamous "Marz" club in Cocoa Beach, FL, and passed on a tape of some of the material he had been working on. Chris, very enthused by what he had heard, expressed his interest in the idea of working together and learning about how to produce tracks of his own like the ones he had been playing up and down the East Coast of America.

The two instantly clicked and a friendship was formed. Two years later, the pair released their first record titled "...For All The People". They Floated a few one-sided promos out to gauge reaction. Meanwhile, a second track was completed, "All I Got". The two tracks were then combined as a double A-sided release, which was the first release on FADE Records, the label that Chris owns and operates. "All I Got" caught the attention of UK duo Chris & James, who helped it get signed to Mushroom Records where James was working as an A & R representative.

In August of 1995, Fade released two new singles, "So Good" and "Separation". The Two Tracks received massive support from some of the biggest DJs around including their biggest inspiration, SASHA. The records became underground hits and quickly sold out. Soon after, Glasgow’s Limbo Records signed the duo for a multi-album record deal in February 1996.

This success opened the door for the boys to move into the realm of remixing. First, they did remixes for friends John Debo and DJ Icey. This gave them more exposure and experience and led to remixes for Stress records and Sony’s S3 label.

The Summer of 1996 brought new challenges. Now they were going to get a chance to work on more vocal oriented songs. One such song was Sam Mollison’s "Cry". When finished, the "Cry" remix set a new standard for Fade and the quality of tracks they could produce. Dave Seaman heard "Cry" and quickly added it to his Essential Mix for England’s Radio 1 FM and his Renaissance Volume 4 mix compilation on Network Records.

With this surge of notoriety, DMC’s Guy Ornadel contacted Chris & Neil to remix Future Force’s "What You Want" for DMC’s Remix Culture. Rising to another level, Fade delivered one of the progressive anthems of 1996 winning Remix and Remixer of the Year in Australia. This gave way to the chance to remix Marathon’s "Movin" and Viola Wills "It’s My Pleasure", two of the guys all time favorite tracks, as well as getting the chance to remix another big influence, BT, for his song "Quark".

1997 saw the boys getting attention from major labels for remixes, as well as writing and producing their own more vocal based material under the guises of Fade and Nutribe. They released their first vocal track with singer Dauby Talles called "No Resolve". This was another pinnacle in their rising careers. "No Resolve" saw heavy play from John Digweed on the Northern Exposure 2 Tour, climbed as high as #12 in the Cool Cuts Chart and has become a Florida club anthem.

1998 saw Chris and Neil further expanding their horizons by doing remix work for more Indie style bands and artists like Sarah McLachlan and Delerium. The Delerium which features Sarah McLachlan on vocals and has been tearing up clubland since the first time heard at Renaissance in Ibiza when John Digweed dropped it at the closing party. Sasha quickly rang up for a copy and the tune soon became an anthem for the pair at every gig including Twilo. It even had Sasha opening and closing his sets with it at Cream and Tyrant. With the rest of clubland searching for it, Delerium debuted and #5 in MixMag Update’s Buzz Chart and appeared on the Northern Exposure 3 CD. This was truly a high point for Chris and Neil in their ever rising careers. 1998 also saw the release of "Sanctuaries" The Fade Records Collection. a collection of work including a number of unreleased remixes and original productions. The CD was released in conjunction with Universal Music.

Throughout ’99 and 2000, the duo worked on their debut artist album and saw the release of their "Silence" remix released in Australia. The record was an instant hit and went to #6 in the National chart and rose to Platinum status (70, 000 units sold) in Australia alone. It also went to #1 in Holland, Belgium and Ireland, with total sales over One Million Units. Also completed was another mixed CD, mixed as Fade, called "Anthems of Progressive House: Limbo Records" and was released in November 2000. Chris made the move to New York City where he now calls home.

During 2001 the pair continued their prolific remix work for new artists Andy Hunter, Lunik (Delerium) and Balligomingo. They have also produced tracks and remixes for established artists like Tiesto and Sarah McLachlan again. For the past 6 years, both Neil and Chris have been concentrating on solo work. One day they may reunite, but only time will tell.

www.FadeRecords.com
 
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Chris_Fortier_live__Crobar_Buenos_Aires_Part_3.mp3
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 M.U.M & Fade Records proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Chris Fortier Live @ Crobar Buenos Aires Part 2"- M.U.M- Episode 64
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



About Fade Records:

Fade Records was created out of necessity in 1993. At the helm is American DJ Chris Fortier. Chris and studio partner, Neil Kolo, needed an outlet to release the tracks they were producing together. With not many options in the States, it seemed obvious to start a label and create the opportunities themselves. The first release was in 1994 called "...For All the People". This track gave them a voice and platform for the future productions. The next three tracks, "All I Got", "Separation" and "So Good" were more highly praised and received heavy support from the biggest DJs out there, including Sasha, John Digweed and Dave Seaman. Equal support came from the USA from Kimball Collins, DJ Icey and John Debo as well as the brand new Mixmag USA (which eventually would be known as Mixer). This great support put the duo on the map and started every label in the UK demanding their talents for remix duties. After several years of building their profile through remixes and the odd single, Chris wanted to re-launch the label in the hopes to help discover and cultivate new talent from America. Steve Porter was the man for this job as Chris discovered him at age 17. With the productions of Steve Porter and others like Derek Howell, Royal Sapien, Funk Harmony Park & Tonepushers, the label is as strong as ever and having great success worldwide.

www.faderecords.com
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Chris_Fortier_live__Crobar_Buenos_Aires_Part_2.mp3
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M.U.M & Fade Records proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Chris Fortier Live @ Crobar Buenos Aires"- M.U.M- Episode 63


Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



While many people may claim to know Chris’ sound, with their focus on continually labeling him one thing or another, Chris is equally as focused on his efforts to push back the musical boundaries. It is testament to the man that he continues to develop his sound and musical direction, after all, as the man says himself “I just like to play good underground music, I don’t limit myself.”

It is artists such as Chris Fortier who are inextricably linked to the underground dance music scene that are the genuinely pushing the sound forward. Chris’ determination to continue to push the envelope can be seen in all aspects of his career. Proof of this can be found on his recent triple CD compilation Balance and his recent solo production under the 40oz moniker and his stellar debut artist album As Long As The Moment Exits.

The Balance CD genuinely offers something exciting and underground to the current stale compilation market. Boasting tracks from across the musical spectrum like David Gilmore Girls, Global Communication and Floppy Sounds through to Slam, Matthew Jonson, Rabbit in the Moon and Bent. It is little wonder the CD was name checked for compilation of the year by numerous international press publications.

Under his 40oz production guise Chris has released the several EPs that musically could fit comfortably on labels such as Cocoon, Kompakt or Get Physical. Further remixes of Alexi Delano, Joshua Collins, Lee Burridge, Freaky Chakra and John Selway show Chris’ genre defying sound at it’s underground best. Taking this a step further in 2007, his debut artist album was released to countless plaudits and impeccable praise. Not satisfied with status quo, look for the boundaries to continue to be pressed and pushed with each coming musical excursion.

With a DJ career spanning 15 plus years, he has continually been a crowd favourite, confirmed by his very first residency at the legendary “Aahz” in Orlando through to more recent residencies at The Cross in London and at Twilo in New York. Since a debut European tour in 1997, Chris has gone on to consistently tour the globe behind numerous singles, remixes and no less than 9 mix albums. You can catch him as easily in Tokyo as in Buenos Aires and all points in between on any given weekend.

To those that know Fortier’s history, they know to expect plenty more to come, for those that are just getting initiated, Welcome!

Special Thanks to Mr Chris Fortier.

www.myspace.com/chrisfortier  

www.faderecords.com

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Chris_Fortier_live__Crobar_Bueno_Aires.mp3
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M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Andrew Technique"- M.U.M- Episode 62
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


ANDREW TECHNIQUE - biography

Be Ray Ya Book Hey, Can't Play the Piano, Luna Park and Fresh are just some productions which recently invested Andrew Technique as one of the hottest young electronic artists in the region. And it's not a small deal if we take in account he's determined to challenge the infamous Slovenian techno heritage and take it to the whole new level. When he's not abusing the decks and comps on his own, Andrew, a protégé of Flow Management and dedicated member of SDJF initiative, performs as a member of Foreplay!, Parallel Fusion (live) and R&A projects. Well, he sure came a long way so far. Especially if we bear in mind he grew up on metal guitar reefs.

"It’s true. I'm an art junkie,” admits Andrew. “When I was a kid people thought I’d become a successful painter, actor, singer or whatever. But it was the music that attracted me the most for as long as I can remember. In business I believe in professionalism and dedication, but when it comes to producing and performing music I indulge in being lead by my feelings. And I’m very emotional. I can get goose bumps or even a tear in my eye listening to some great piece of music. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I do listen to the comments given by my friends and people that I personally believe they are credible critics. I respect good-intended critic, but I got where I am today mostly because I decided so and worked hard to reach some of my personal goals,” summarizes his career Andrej Šarkanj aka Andrew Technique.

Although as a master of his own destiny he almost abandoned his dream not so far ago. “Let’s just say I came to the major life-crossroad and had to decide what I wanted to do with life: I could have ended my music career right there and then or choose to channel all my free-time and energy into production and promotion of my own vision of dance music. It never was, and still isn’t, all roses. But now, that I finally get the positive feedback from the right people I’m happy I decided not to quit," explains Andrew with a tiny sparkle of satisfaction in his eyes. He made some big steps in 2007: he produced bunch of great fresh sounding tunes, his records are now being regularly played by the top deejays such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, some of his tracks were already broadcasted on BBC Radio 1 … But, regarding the strong competition, Andrew is aware that just a few of good releases will not bring him much.  So he doesn’t rest on early successes: "Dedication, sustain quality of releases and a bit of luck are key elements on which I build my future as an artist.”

It’s been more than a decade since he developed a passion for 4x4 beats. “I used to be into guitar music. I learned to play the piano, I joined the garage band as a teenager and I grew up on hard rock and metal,” smiles Andrew on not so distant memories. “During the high school period I came in touch with other genres, widened my musical spectrum and finally turned in totally different direction. I started listening to electronic stuff, learned how the music is selected, performed and produced and in a few years established myself as a tech-house deejay." Although some could label his sound more like unique mixture of minimal, electro and progressive elements. "We leave in a time of genre blending, so it’s hard to label one’s sound, anyway,” admits Andrew. "But those who follow my work do know I’ve always had a strong passion for organic African rhythms."

And how did he get his name? “Andrew was an obvious choice, just a translation of my civilian name. And I choose Technique since I was always very handy with stuff, I still work in a computer shop, MacGyver is a big hero of mine and the name also reflects what I do as an artist.” And the influences: "I listen to a lot of music and I got inspired by a lot of great artists along the way. I try to find something special in every piece of music and all musicians are mentors to me in a way. But the most important influence for me as an artist was and in a way still is our local super club Ambasada Gavioli. It was the place where I was introduced to electronic culture and where I experienced some great performances of leading global deejays.”

Andrew is also known as a “very friendly artist”. He's a member of SDJF initiative that is dedicated to constant development of the local electronic club scene and supporting young artists. And when he's not performing on his own, he abuses decks and comps as a member of Foreplay!, R&S and Parallel Fusion (live) projects: "There were also some others, but this things come and go and only the best stay. The basic idea behind collaborations is to get together with other artists, develop and share ideas or blend genres. And it's always more fun producing and performing music with other people than on your own."

As a producer he gets all the help he needs from his musical guru Tomy DeClerque. He established his name as part of Tomy or Zox combo on the house scene back in the 90's and is now successfully running his own studio that is second home to some of the hottest young producers in the region. Tomy and Andrew debuted on Kanzyani's Jesus Loved You label with the Obala EP in late 2007. Tomy also remixed Fresh which was included in Umek's Essential Mix and released on Circle Records: "Studio is my favorite place for spending free time. I go there most of the days and I try to channel my ideas, thoughts, wishes and feelings into the music." And since he's very passionate guy, there's a truckload of new records with Andrew's name on it planned for release in forthcoming months. "I'm already well established artist in the region, so now I'd like to spread my sound trough the rest of the Europe and elsewhere. There are many challenges I'd like to take, but the ultimate would be performing on another planet. I'm not kidding. I believe this is something I could achieve as an artist, so don't be surprised if you get a postcard from Mars or Venus someday."

Andrew Technique Playlist:

01. Valentino Kanzyani & Tomy DeClerque - 33a
02. Anton Pieete - Last Night
03. Magica - Dosem s remix
04. Hugo & D. Papini - Physical
05. R. Tapia - Mini Jack (Original Mix)
06. Dinamoe - Corner#1
07. B. Sanhaji - Symetria
08. B. Lima - Nicotine (anali rmx)
09. R. Cerrone - Burnt it (j. capriati rmx)
10. F. Grant - True colour 6pm
11. Sylar - Mellow (s. galli rmx)
12. A. Wolfe - The Legendary Bird man 2pm
13. Elia - Shuffle
14. B. Shade - Sweet Lies (j. stevens rmx)
15. Beatmode - On The Up (k. james rmx)
16. C. Liebing - Turbular Chord
17. A. Mochi - Harvester
18. Dualton & Masuki - The Swarm
19. R. Tapia - Morning Funk
20. M. Carola - Pampero
21. S. Lawler & A. Tepper - Doves
22. Pig & Dan - Magic Valley

Special Thanks to Marian,Alex and Andrew

Booking contact:
FLOW:MNGMNT
www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org

Marian: +386 41 234552
Alex: +386 51 352111

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M.U.M & 1605 Session proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Umek"- M.U.M- Episode 61
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.


Umeks Playlist:



01. Intro
02. A. Mochi - Hervester "Figure"
03. Thomas P Heckmann - City Of Sin "Slotmachine"
04. Loko - Johnny Eres Tu "Soulman Music"
05. Alan Fitzpatrick - Mau
06. Elia - Talking Fish "Analytictrail"
07. Kalon - Man Is The Superior Animal (Regis) "Sandwell District"
08. Mario Miranda - Loca Banda "Bosphorus Underground Recordings"
09. Lutzenkirchen - Nutcracker "Stil Vor Talent"
10. Dan Drastic - Slice Of Life (Johnny D Remix) "Moon Harbour"
11. Plus & Minus - Atlantide (Kiko Remix) "Sphera"
12. Nono, Tomoki - Sleep & Dance "Saw Recordings"
13. Umek - 16 Century Japan "Astrodisco"
14. Adam Freemer, Mike Constantini - Dirty City (D-Unity Remix) "Mecha Recordings"
15. Eriko Tanabe - Blue Shoes "Titbit Music"
16. Michael Burkat - Escape From Nowhere "Temper Music"
17. Marco Carola - Bloody Cash "Plus 8 Records"
18. Itamar Sagi - One Million Oaks "Soma Recordings"
19. Astronivo - Anything You Want feat. DJ Zombi (Miki Litvak & Ido Ophir Remix) "Sprout"
20. Johnny DJ - Yawn In The Night (Andy Smile Remix) "Empedo Records"
21. Simon Stokes - Kick Back "Monu Digital"
 


Special thanks to Matthew Hoag ,Mark and Umek

UMEK BOOKING CONTACT:

Tina / Kne'deep Berlin
tina@knedeep.net

Kne'deep Berlin
P.O. Box 41 12 02
12122 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 97 00 23 57
Fax: +49 30 79 78 38 53
www.knedeep.net


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M.U.M & Flow Management proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Tomy DeClerque"- M.U.M- Episode 60
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Tomy DeClerque Bio:

A member of the new generation of Slovenian deejays, Tomy De Clerque grew up in an environment full of promising development in the sphere of electronic dance music.
 In front of his eyes the local scene has been turning into a globally acknowledged style of techno music in the hands of artists such as Umek and Valentino Kanzyani.
 A natural choice for a guy with talent and ambition was to jump the train – and Tommy DeClerque has road it ever since.

Performing as a deejay since he turned seventeen Tomy DeClerque soon realised that making his own production was essential if he wanted his carrier to really take off. He hooked up with his friend Zox to form the Tomy or Zox duo, and their hard work paid off as their My Desire single received some favourable feedback in Spain, Russia and Mexico.

However, it was the Music Makes Me Happy hit single that caught the attention of top artists being remixed by the likes of Mainframe and ATCF, and released on several prestigious compilations, such as Ministry Of Sound, DJ Awards at Pacha Ibiza and Blanco Y Negro Mix. ‘The greatest satisfaction, though, – Tomy says – was when we got set as Essential new tune of the week on Pete Tong’s celebrated Essential selection radio show.’

After parting ways with Fox, Tomy felt that it was time to take a break from a demanding life of producer and performer, before he went on to start his solo career. Searching for genuine underground sound that could revive the authentic feeling of electronic dance music he experienced in his youth Tomy turned to Valentino Kanzyani’s Jesus Loved You label releasing a much praised I Don’t Know. Driven by his passion for teamwork, a lot of his studio work is done in collaboration with his friend F. Sonik.

The duo’s first major success was winning VONYC remix competition with a remix of Valentino Kanzyani’s Nueva York, which is also a part of Carl Cox & friends at Space Ibiza 2008 compilation.
As a young player, Tomy DeClerque has accomplished a lot. But he is determined to accomplish even more. ‘You’ll hear a lot about me in the future,’ he promises.

Playlist:

1      TommyJoy(Original Mix)      Ian F. & Aneurya & Tomy DeClerque      Jesus Loved You

2     Bad Acid - Style Of Eye Remix     Deepgroove     Underwater Records

3     Moment Of Glory - Tomy DeClerque & F.Sonik RMX     Alexander Madness     Promo - Unreleased

4     Ljubav     Marko Nastic     Promo - Unreleased

5     Dandi & ugo     Bantan     Promo - Unreleased

6     Memento - Original Mix     Brian Sanhaji     CLR

7     CowGirl - Marko Nastic & TomyDeClerque RMX     Danilo Tomic     Promo - Unreleased

8     Drugstore Cowboys - Tomy DeClerque RMX     Tatoo Detectives     Teggno

9     2nd To None     Umek     Rekluse

10     Mastermind - Sara Galli 9th Line Remix     Ido Ophir, Gabe     eVapour8

11     Unintented Maneuver - My Master     Umek & Tomy DeClerque     Terminal M

12     Koya Si Ti     Aneuria     Promo - Unreleased

13     El remedio blanco Master     Valentino Kanzyani & Tomy DeClerque     Recon Light

Special Thanks To Mr Marian & Tomy.

Booking and artist contact:

FLOW:MNGMNT


Flow management (Slovenia)



www.flow-management.net
info@flow-management.org
+386 41 234552

Direct download: TomyDeClerque__Miami_Sessions_-_M.U.M_1.mp3
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M.U.M & Teggno Records proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Lance Blaise"- M.U.M- Episode 59
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Lance Blaise has become one of the most exciting new talents in the global dance music scene. His unique blend of electronic, funky, housey, techno elements have often come together to create some floor pounding productions. Lance's vibrant crowd pleasing DJ sets are known to fill floors worldwide, and his releases have landed on a number of different prestigious labels globally, including Intec, Sound of Acapulco, Twisted as well as his own imprint, Teggno Records.

Lance has over 40 releases under the names Lance Blaise, Tattooo Detectives, and Tacopimp. His tracks appear on Intec, Vandit, Teggno, Sound of Acapulco, Rawthentic, Definition, Tech Head, and soon on System Recordings. Starting in 2006, Carl Cox took notice with a track “ETC” in which Cox later signed to his “Carl Cox Space Ibiza CD”. Lance Blaise, under the moniker of Tattoo Detectives followed up that single with his club anthem “Il Salto Fuori”. This track gained massive support by the likes of Paul Van Dyk & Carl Cox to name a few. Cox told Resident Advisor that, "This record is storming" and "Its pumping techno in its fury." Carl even selected it as one of his best tracks for 2006. Later, PVD also commented on his Vonyc show saying “The Ibiza season in 2008 has been inspired by ‘Il Salto Fuori,’ and its all about ‘this dj is f@ckin crazy’ everyone” which is the lyrical quote that Lance Blaise sings on “Il Salto Fuori”. Another single Lance produced under Tattoo Detectives, "She Bleeps N' Bloops", got some notable recognition as it made headlines with URB magazine, and became a top seller on the internet’s most prominent download music store, Beatport. This was just part of his success on Beatport as he had a top selling remix in early 2007 as well with the remix he did of 'Yeehaw Junction' under his other moniler, Tacopimp. Lance’s “Dirty Volume" also gained support, as a regular in Coxy's playlist, and it as also signed to Adam Sheridan's latest CD compilation on Goodgrief.

In 2008, Lance Blaise creeped his freaky minimal techno sound into Beatport's Top 100 breaking into the 30 slot and holding steady for 3 weeks with the release of "Snapback." Again in October of 2008 Lance's remix of Carlo Lio's "Is That So" also broke into the Top 100 of Beatport.

In 2009 Lance Blaise will be releasing numerous EPs and remixes on his own label, Teggno Records, as well as on other well known labels. Lance has already set a touring schedule in Latin America, and also plans on touring in Europe, USA, as well as a summer trip to Ibiza. With proven support from big names like Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, and many other industry leaders 2009 will be another year where Lance Blaise aka Tattoo Detectives will grow into a dancefloor name.

Special Thanks to Lance Blaise


http://www.myspace.com/tacopimp

http://www.myspace.com/teggnorecords

http://www.myspace.com/thetattoodetectives 
Direct download: Lance_Blaise__Miami_Sessions.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Heartthrob"- M.U.M- Episode 58 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




HEARTTHROB Biography
 
Currently one of the brightest stars in the Minus firmament, Heartthrob aka Jesse Siminski
has arrived on the scene with a fresh new take on the minimal sound. It’s not just his ear for a
killer riff that makes him such an exciting prospect it’s also his natural ability to convey a sense of
drama and humour through his music. There’s an infectious energy in his sound that rubs off on
his audiences but it can also be heard in his musical collaborations. Heartthrob brings something
new to the table - be it quirky melodic hooks or twisted vocals - that manages to inspire those
around him to even greater heights.  
 
Growing up in the remote and rural town of Marquette, Michigan, situated about 6 hours North of
Detroit, music was a vital part of his upbringing. Dad played guitar in a number of bands that
regularly practiced at their house and this healthy diet of rock, funk and reggae together with his
older sister‘s obsession with Prince, shaped his appreciation of dance music from an early age.
Erotic City, Laid Back’s ‘White Horse’ and Kraftwerk‘s ‘Tour de France’ are still huge influences
from that time. Jesse discovered techno music around 1996 through a magazine called
‘Massive’ that covered the new rave culture exploding in the Midwest. Plastikman’s ‘Gak’ was
one track in particular that opened his eyes and motivated him to visit his first Rave. Needless to
say, he was totally hooked!  He immediately bought turntables and started looking for
synthesizers to make music, starting out with some retro 70’s gear handed down from his father.
 
Next to studying art and painting, music rapidly became his true passion although it was never
something he seriously considered as a career option. All that was to change when he hooked
up with Magda in New York in 1999 and was immediately taken by her warm nature and
fantastic musical sense. She and Troy Pierce had started working on music and introduced
him to Ableton Live. Shortly after, Richie Hawtin moved into the same building as them, it was
a very natural situation during which this dedicated band of producers and djs began laying
foundations for the future. Since then the learning curve has been steep. Jesse swapped New
York for Paris in 2005 to focus his full attention on production and performance and by his own
admission it’s been an incredible experience. Being invited to use Richie Hawtin’s studio and
remixing Depeche Mode’s  ‘Personal Jesus’ are two major moments that particularly stand
out for him since arriving in Europe however ‘Baby Kate’, the memorable opening to 2006’s
min2MAX compilation is the track that has come to define his sound.  
 
Heartthrob describes his approach to music as “a messy ‘stream of consciousness’ daydream”.
The challenge for him is to make something unique and personal that speaks for itself, regardless
of whether it stays true to form or not. The traditional functionality of Techno music must always
be present but for Jesse it’s all about taking risks and trusting his instincts, which is why his own
particular style is so varied, covering a whole lot more than just glitches, bleeps and sound
effects.  
 
Melody plays a significant roll in his work, often providing the focal point around which the rest of
the track orbits. There is also an inherent darkness to his music but just as it’s always darkest
before the dawn, there’s often an uplifting, cathartic side to it that celebrates the unified spirit and
generates such a positive vibe on the dancefloor. Music also allows him to document his
experiences and with the cast of characters that surround him, inspiration is never far away.  
With tongue firmly fixed in cheek, he often creates fantasy personas that get documented
through vocals or song titles, like a secret tribute and with such an impressive collection of
releases and remixes already to his name (both as Heartthrob and alter ego Vivienne
Projects), it can only be a matter of time before the tributes start flowing back the other way.


Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin
 
http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/ 
Direct download: Heartthrob__Miami_Sessions-M.U.M.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Troy Pierce Part 2"- M.U.M- Episode 57
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Direct download: Troy_Pierce__Miami_Sessions-M.U.M_Part_2.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Troy Pierce Part 1"- M.U.M- Episode 56
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






TROY PIERCE Biography
 
Growing up in the quiet farm town of Muncie, Indiana four hours drive from Chicago and
Detroit, it was hard to ignore the rich sounds emanating from these House and Techno
strongholds. Troy was among the first to pick up on DJs like Derrick Carter, Jeff Mills
and Richie Hawtin and was always out and about at parties in Detroit, Ohio and across
the Midwest. Strangely enough though, he never thought about picking up a pair of
headphones himself, preferring to leave the DJ duties to his friends. This way he could
fully immerse himself in the music, especially the experimental ambient tones of the after
hour chill outs.  
 
This all changed in 1994. He moved to New York to study photography and like every
student worth their salt, blew the remainder of his cash on a pair of turntables. He’d
been toying with the idea for a while and as luck would have it his flatmate was also the
manager of Temple Records so there was an endless supply of quality tunes on hand
from labels like Perlon to satisfy his growing vinyl addiction.  
 
Troy eventually hooked up with Magda at the Detroit Music Festival in 2001, who in turn
introduced him to Mark Houle six months later. An immediate chemistry developed
between the three of them and although Magda was now in Berlin, Mark in Windsor
and Troy in New York they started swapping music files over the net. By the time the
Run Stop Restore project finally crystallised into their debut release in early 2003, Troy
had already moved to Berlin. It was a big decision to leave but somehow New York no
longer offered up-and-coming musicians the same freedom of expression it used to,
while Germany and Berlin in particular was setting new standards in minimal electronic
music production.  
 
Since touching down in December 2002, he’s been letting his music do the talking. As
a relative unknown, it’s never easy staking a claim in a new city, especially one with
such a rich musical heritage but sure enough, through a string of successful gigs and a
mixture of impressive releases on Minus (Run and Slacknoise), Underline (Louderbach)
and Mo’s Ferry Productions, Troy has been attracting the right kind of attention and is
now a regular performer on the European circuit.
 
2005 was the year when it all came good. The release of the Minimise to Maximise
compilation and the accompanying tour left a lasting impression on clubbers at such
centres of excellence as Robert Johnson in Offenbach and the Paradiso in Amsterdam
but perhaps the real turning point came in August at pop.com. All those endless nights
on the road and solitary days in the studio came together in one heart stopping set at
the Watergate club. Taking the game to an expectant crowd including fellow producers
and industry types, his uncompromising mix of minimal house and down beat, funked
up techno announced, in no uncertain terms, that he was here for the long haul.
As a DJ, attempts to categorise his style pose more questions than they answer.
Minimalism in its purest form is a tag he more freely associates with labels like
Consumed - ‘super sparse, difficult and totally out there’. Troy on the other hand, has
developed a dance floor friendly hybrid sound that takes the best from the ‘little
movements and micro trends’ that constantly spring up, helping electronic music to
evolve. It retains the mechanical, futuristic sounds of techno but is slower and less
abrasive allowing him to work between the lines, exploit the space between the beats
and push out into the third dimension that epitomises the Minus sound. 
 
Like his label mates, Troy is a strong advocate of cutting edge technology like Ableton
Live, Final Scratch and sample tools like Cyloop. The ability to shift between these
sound sources offers him unparalleled flexibility as a DJ but the benefits don’t just stop
there. He recalls road testing a new track one night in Berlin, getting the thumbs up
from the rest of crew but then receiving puzzled calls the next day because the track
didn’t sound quite the same – he was of course looping in samples ‘on the fly’ and it
was this spontaneous improvisation that really set the dancefloor alight. Needless to say
these overdubs found their way into the final mix.
 
From a production point of view his tracks normally derive from experimenting with his
Machine Drum or expanding outwards from the dark, atmospheric vocal elements that
play a pivotal role in many of his productions. Inspiration often comes through choice
regarding the effects he uses, rejecting standard, tried and tested settings in favour of
unique percussive elements designed to challenge and intrigue. The result is a montage
of scratchy subliminal textures and grinding beats. It’s edgy stuff driven by dark funky
bass riffs that get right under the skin, the perfect tonic for any after hour as sleep
deprivation starts playing tricks with the mind.
 
As it stands, 2006 promises to be an even busier year than 2005. Having provided the
backbone of their releases so far, Troy will wrap up his work for UK label Underline with
the eagerly anticipated Louderbach LP. Alongside this, his growing status as a remixer
(check out his version of Ellen Allien’s Your Body is My Body) will see him reworking the
likes of Lawrence and Donnacha Costello. There’s also another Run EP in the pipeline
but maybe the most interesting development is the conception of a new label - Items
and Things - together with Magda and Marc Houle which should take flight in the
spring. 
 
If that’s not enough, there’s a full-on, five week Minus tour of the US on the horizon.
Richie, Magda, Marc and Troy will set off in May (complete with monster tour bus) for
what can only be described as a next generation magical mystery tour during which
they’ll take in 25 cities. They probably won’t be stopping in Muncie but it’s a sign of just
how much his stock has risen over the past couple of years and confirmation that a
solid work ethic, positive thinking and a total dedication to the cause always bears fruit
in the end. 

Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin
 
http://www.myspace.com/168585319
http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/ 
 

Direct download: Troy_Pierce__Miami_Sessions-M.U.M.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Paco Osuna Part 2"- M.U.M- Episode 55
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Paco_Osuna_Part_2.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Paco Osuna"- M.U.M- Episode 54
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




PACO OSUNA was born in Barcelona. His passion for music started out
when he was very young, at the tender age of 14 he was part of a regular
crowd at Studio 54, where the most charismatic dj, Raul Orellana, was
spinning Acid House, marking Paco in the way of understanding djing. 
 
In '94 Paco moved to Valencia where he had his first contact with the decks
as a hobby. In '95 Paco made his first dj set as a professional at the ACTV
club, where he gained a year residency. After that, he started playing in
many different clubs including Heaven and Universal. 
 
In the meanwhile he worked in a record shop, where he got access to a
recording studio in which he produced three singles for the label Lucas
Records. In '99 he got a residency at Amnesia in Ibiza. There he had the
brilliant opportunity to be line up with the biggest djs and could learn the
different styles looking to build his own. Amnesia was also the place where
Paco got in touch with the person who most influenced his future as much
personally as professionally, Sven Väth, who soon discovered Paco to be
very talented and introduced him in his Cocoon Booking agency. Paco was
the frist Spanish dj to play for this prestigious agency. 
 
In 2001 Paco decided to leave house music moving closer to Techno. From
then on Paco´s career has gotten better and better, leading him to the best
clubs and festivals in the world and giving him a 'seat' in the techno scene.

Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin


http://www.pacoosuna.com

http://www.myspace.com/pacoosuna   
http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/
Direct download: Miami_Sessions_with_Paco_Osuna_Part1.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Mike Shannon"- M.U.M- Episode 53
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




Tracklist:

1. Guillaume & les Coutu dumonts - Sous D'arbe (Horror inc. remix) - Musique Risquee
2. Andrea Fiorito - Boti's World - Cynosure
3. Monoblock - Charlie es un Mingus - Unreleased
4. Ido Oshkopun - Rangun - Cynosure
5. Adam Marshall - Chord tracking (Mike Shannon mix) - Kuji
6. Mike Shannon featuring Fadila - Bounce your body the box (futurist bounce mix) - KMS
7. Dub Taylor - Sour & Salty - Cynosure
8. Andrea Fiorito - Betty Loop - Cynosure
9. Mike Shannon - Uno para el Sol - Plus 8
10.Mike Shannon - Dr.X - Plus 8
11.Brett Johnson - Space (Basstrumental mix) - Cynosure
12. Chez Damier and Ron Trent - Untitled - KMS
13. John Shananigans - the box is open - unreleased
14. Todd Terry - put your hands up - unreleased #2
15. Reese and Santonio - Bounce your body to the box (Mike Shannon flashback mix) KMS
16. Hearthrob - Signs (Deadbeat and Shannon mix) - Minus
17. Monoblock - Ombu - Cynosure
18. ATOM - prend et mois - rather interesting

MIKE SHANNON BIOGRAPHY 
 
It’s been 10 years since Mike Shannon started making a name for himself on the international techno
scene as a DJ, producer and label owner. Now, having relocated to Berlin from Valencia via Montreal in
2007 he’s about to crown his first decade of active service with Memory Tree, his third full length to date,
and his debut for another notable Canadian export - Richie Hawtin’s Plus 8 Records. Over the years,
Mike has well proven that it’s not just his music that makes him such a valuable asset to the techno
community, it’s his total dedication to the cause. Whether finding him standing behind a record shop
counter or searching out new talent for his labels, it’s always been about bringing people together and
investing in the future of the scene. 
 
Mike first got the vinyl bug at the tender age of 12, buying house and techno tunes at Play de Record in
Toronto and by 15 his turntable skills were already landing him gigs at local underground parties and clubs.
From then on, Mike’s musical world expanded rapidly thanks in no small part to Detroit’s influential WJLB
radio station which turned him on to U.R., Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson - influences that still play a big
role in his approach to music today. To satisfy his appetite for all things Techno, he was soon managing the
orders at Speed Records in his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario where he continued his education;
importing cutting edge sounds from across Europe.
 
Throughout that time, Mike was out DJing and clubbing from Detroit to Toronto, making connections and
building up a solid network of producers and artists, which led to the inevitable formation of his own label
Cynosure in 1999. A couple of years later, he teamed up with Jeff Milligan on the more experimental
Revolver Canada imprint. Both labels have since developed into highly respected and trusted sources,
subsequently raising the profile of Canada’s electronic music scene by providing then unknown producers
such as Akufen and Deadbeat an international platform to spread their distinctive sound throughout the
world. Beyond developing homegrown talent, both imprints continue to invite an inspired selection of
international artists including Pier Bucci, Monolake and Brett Johnson to name a few. 
 
For Mike it’s always been a question of choosing uncompromising artists who possess a unique and original
voice - an attitude that also defines his own work whether recording as John Shananigans, The Sunaj
Assassins or under his own name. There’s a distinctive feel to his music that’s both dark and soulful, that
stays true to his roots while embracing the future and never fails to deliver a flurry of kick-ass, funk infected
beats easily proven by a volley of timeless singles over the years and two previous full lengths. Take 2001’s
Slight of Hand on Force Inc - an album that cemented his reputation as an up-and-coming Minimal Techno
producer and 2005’s Possible Conclusions to Stories That Never End - a collection of chilled-out
Electronica inspired by his musical odyssey throughout Chile in 2003. 
 
Mike’s recent move to Berlin represents the fulfillment of another chapter in his musical career and with so
many influential Canadian producers having taken up residence in the German capital over the last few
years, it’s a chance to hook up with old friends again and start collaborating on new plans and ideas, just
like the old days. Then of course there’s the new album, the accompanying remix projects and the
immediate matter of fatherhood to make 2008 something of a milestone both professionally and personally.
 
Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin
 

http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/
Direct download: Mike_ShannonMiami_Sessions-M.U.M_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:02am EST

M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Barem"- M.U.M- Episode 52
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement





Mauricio Barembuem (a.k.a. Barem) is a young emerging artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a
music student and a guitar enthusiast since the age of 15. By the age of 19, Barem was fully dedicated to
creating electronic music shortly after a trip to Berlin. In 2003, he started djing and performing live sets of
minimal techno. Today, Barem's groovy minimal tracks are based around synthetic samples, analog
rhythmic elements and hypnotic basslines. Also integrating rhythmic nuances of his native argentinian
roots, Barem's work is singularly deep, tracky and heady with a timbral sensibility that is intermittently
harmonic. Meanwhile, his sound continues to evolve while he cleverly maintains his own unique style.
 
In 2006, Barem did extensive world touring throughout Europe, South America and North America. At the
year's end, he was ranked as the #4 "best newcomer" in Groove Magazine's annual reader's poll issue. 
Now that Barem is a household name in the techno world, he will continue expanding his sound while
constantly djing and playing live around the world. For the present and future, Barem takes a step
forward by focusing his music productions to the only two families where he feels a strong connection,
MIinus and foundsound.
 
 
Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin


http://www.myspace.com/barem_ 

http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/

Direct download: Barem__M.U.M.mp3
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M.U.M & Minus proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Magda"- M.U.M- Episode 51

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


With the release of her solo STOP EP on Minus, Magda can finally afford to take stock of a
whirlwind few years that have seen the insatiable demand for her very special blend of house and
techno carry her the length and breadth of the globe.
 
November 2005 and Magda’s set is reaching its climax at London’s Fabric. One moment she’s
pounding the crowd with her very own 48 Hour Crack In Your Bass, the next the hairs on the
back of 500 necks simultaneously stand to attention as the moody chords from Strafe’s all time
classic Set It Off produce a collective gasp of appreciation from the dancefloor. She’s in the
zone, unphased by the raucous response she’s generating. Virtually hidden by the racks of fx
units and monitors surrounding her, she remains a picture of calmness, dictating the play with a
cool hand.
 
It’s easy to see why she’s one of the most exciting prospects to breakthrough in recent years.   
Magda makes things happen. Always has done, always will do.
 
Currently residing in Berlin, a relative stone’s throw from her home town of Zywiec in Poland
considering the nomadic existence of her childhood, she seems to have finally found a city that
mirrors her own attitude to life - no restrictions and certainly no compromise. It’s a philosophy
that also flows through Magda’s music particularly during her after hour sets. The ability to guide
her audience through the dark recesses of contemporary minimalism before delivering them back
safely into the light means her name is never far from the lips of discerning clubbers and fellow
DJs alike.
 
Her family left Zywiec for Texas in 1984 when she was nine before finally settling in Detroit in
1986. All this traveling around from one starkly contrasting environment to another, taught her to
deal with new challenges and to adapt to new situations pretty quickly, lessons that have
subsequently helped her deal with the often hectic life of a touring DJ. Always the outsider, the
concept of ‘home’ was never as straightforward as it is for some. Sometimes though, home isn’t
a physical location, it’s a state of mind and when she first turned up at a warehouse party a
couple of blocks from where she’d grown up in the tough district of Hamtramck, she knew she’d
found it. This initial foray into the Detroit underground culminated in the mind-blowing experience
that was Spastik - Richie Hawtin’s first Plastikman PA. She was hooked. 
 
Within a few months, armed with a cheap pair of belt drive turntables and an unquenchable thirst
for vinyl, she’d moved from one side of the shop counter to the other at the influential Record
Time store and had also persuaded the bar where she worked to put on a monthly techno night
with Claude Young and Daniel Bell. Her enthusiasm was totally infectious and they soon asked
her to warm up for them. In conversation it’s clear to see how much the lack of attitude and
unconditional support from Bell in particular has shaped Magda’s own way of doing things.
 
Then, inspired by her mother’s ‘dark and surreal’ art she decided to study Graphic Design in
New York state but soon realized music was the most natural medium for her self expression.
Nevertheless, this abstract influence can still be found in her music production, juxtaposing as
she does warm, thick swathes of sound with jagged little hi hat patterns, sometimes lazy,
sometimes clinical but always purposeful and expressive.  
On returning to Detroit she met Richie Hawtin at one of the legendary Hot Box parties where a
mutual friend introduced her. It was the first of what turned out to be a couple of chaotic
encounters that eventually led to the invitation of a gig at Hawtin’s 13 Below night. It was there
she first met Marc Houle. Their off-beat humor quickly developed into an unshakeable
friendship and Magda was soon lodging with Marc in Windsor where their musical symbiosis
started laying the foundations for 2003’s Run Stop Restore project together with Troy
Pierce.  
 
By this time she’d already cut her teeth on the main stage, regularly performing at the System
raves in Detroit and as part of the Women on Wax collective. Things don’t always go
according to plan though, and by 1999 Magda was pretty much fed up with the ‘scene politics’
that seemed directly at odds with the feelings she’d first encountered. She took a step back,
followed her heart and immersed herself in the minimal sounds scuttling out of Germany in
particular (i.e Brinkmann, Perlon, Kompakt). The resulting bootleg CD mix - Fact and Friction -
won her a new set of admirers and consolidated her growing relationship with Hawtin, opening
for him at the millennium celebration EPOK and also forming part of an enviable line up at the
Plus 8 ten year anniversary party From Our Minds To Yours. Since then she has become his
sole choice as opening DJ, accompanying him on both European and Stateside tours. 
 
The new millennium brought a host of new digital technology with it, most notably Final Scratch
and when she wasn’t on the road she could be found wiling away the hours transferring Hawtin’s
vast record collection into the digital domain. At the time there were only about ten DJs using
Final Scratch and while others regarded it with suspicion, Magda was quick to see the potential,
re-editing her favorite tracks to further enhance the distinctive flavor of her sets. She shies away
slightly from the ubiquitous ‘minimal’ tag, citing Chicago Jack and Acid as equally significant
ingredients in her sound but whichever way you look at it, she is part of a movement that is
rapidly redefining electronic dance music as we know it. Turntables, laptops, samplers and efx
units now clutter her DJ booth as the wall between traditional DJing and ‘on the fly’ production
starts to crumble.   
 
And so, the Minus train rumbles on, forging a relentless path through new, uncharted territory.
Magda however, remains refreshingly free from the burden of expectation. Genuinely surprised
by the trajectory her life has taken yet deeply aware of the responsibility she has to her growing
army of fans, she faces the future with the same wide-eyed, ‘devil may care’ attitude that has
always accompanied her from city to city, from airport to airport, from disco to disco. A lonely
existence? For some maybe but Magda knows more than most that home is where the heart is. 
 
Berlin is a fickle friend, a city that throws up unlimited scope and unseen perils in equal
measures. A muse to some - spurring them on to new heights of creativity, a vampire’s kiss to
others - intoxicating at first, it eventually sucks them dry, leaving a hollow shell with nothing left
but dreams of what might have been. Luckily, Magda already had something of the night about
her when she arrived in 2003 and, liberated from the clutches of New York’s draconian attitude
to club culture, she took to the Berlin underground like a fish to water. The notorious Beatstreet
afterhour parties got the energy coursing through her veins once more and she immediately set
about reevaluating and redefining her relationship to the music.
 
An intense flurry of activity followed. Together with Troy Pierce and Marc Houle, Magda began
exploring new production possibilities, honing her turntable skills and extending her dj sets in
order to satisfy the insatiable appetites of Berlin’s club kids. The transition was by no means
straight forward, taking both time and dedication but the hybrid sound that emerged, drawing
inspiration from the twin towers of Berlin and Detroit, has gone on to capture the imagination of
clubbers the world over.
 
In this sense, last year’s mix compilation She’s a Dancing Machine represents the first
volume of her audio-biography and sums up the ambition that drives this diminutive figure behind
the decks. Somehow finding the time to throw down an epic 70 track, multi-layered excursion
between the 130 shows she clocked up in 2006 (never mind the afterhours) really cemented her
reputation, topping off a year that also saw her hold successful residencies at Robert Johnson
(Offenbach), Technique (Leeds) and Fuse (Brussels) plus numerous appearances at festivals
around the globe such as Lowlands, Sonar, The Detroit Music Festival and Mutek.
 
Yet despite reaching the enviable position of being able to choose her gigs, there is no room for
complacency. Shouldering the increasing weight of expectation she has come to expect the
unexpected, in fact adversity has often propelled her on to greater things. There’s also a sense of
duty to keep pushing the envelope and this year she’ll be expanding her set-up to incorporate
new technology in addition to the delay pedals and edits that already give her sets their
distinctive flavour. It’s a move that should blur the boundaries between studio production and live
performance even further and will no doubt help formulate ideas for her upcoming album which
promises to be another continuous exploration into deep, dark, minimal disco. 
 
However before that there’s a string of remixes to enjoy for 2007 including Heartthrob’s Baby
Kate (Minus), Gotham Road by Ryan Crosson (Trapez) and Louderbach (Underline). It’s also
worth keeping an eye on Items and Things, the new label from Magda, Marc and Troy that’s
home to their more abstract, off the wall creations. 
 
Someone once said‚ the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Well, Magda
has definitely put in the work although she’s happier leaving the definition of success to others.
The arrival is superfluous. Just like her late night musical excursions, it’s the journey that’s
important and with it the desire to maintain the high standards she sets and feed the creative
hunger within - if that’s also good enough for us, then so be it.
 
Special Thanks to Mr Meike Nolte,Rudy Delgado & Richie Hawtin

http://www.myspace.com/minimalmagda

http://www.m-nus.com/
http://www.plus8.com/
http://www.contakt-events.com/


Direct download: Magda__Miami_Sessions-M.U.M.mp3
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M.U.M proudly presents "Miami Sessions with Dj DRI.K Live @ Cream Brazil 08"- M.U.M- Episode 50



Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



BIO;

A regular in most of the electronic music parties in Rio de Janeiro, her hometown, DJ DRI.K is always surprising with her modern and fashionable style. It's been some years since her first mixes, but only in July 2006 she believed in your talent and turned the hobby into profession and attended a workshop at Scratch DJ Academy in New York/US.
 
In Brazil she has played in several top clubs, such as: Cream Brasil (RJ), Space Ibiza (RJ), Claro Rio Summer PVT (RJ), Privilège Juiz de Fora (MG), The Week (RJ), Fosfobox (RJ), Dama de Ferro (RJ), Club 69 (RJ), Nuth Lounge (RJ), Pátio Lounge (RJ), Hotel Ouro Verde (RJ), Pub Monte Cristo (Niterói/RJ), Pepper's Club (Campos/RJ), Emporium (Friburgo/RJ), Manhattan (Friburgo/RJ), Wall Street (Vitória/ES), Amnésia (Juiz de Fora/MG), Nite Club (Maringá/PR), Car Wash Lounge (Maringá/PR), Nut Club (São José do Rio Preto/SP), Somma Lounge (Anápolis/GO), Bielle (Cascavel/PR), Verão TIM (RJ), Arena Morro da Urca (RJ), ZOOF (Rondonópolis/MT), I Love Electro (RJ), Luxury (Niterói/RJ), A Festa (Hípica RJ), E.Motion (Campos/RJ), Fisiofantasy (Friburgo/RJ), Pink Up! (RJ), Working In The House (Maringá/PR), Lost Girls (Valença/RJ), Original (Volta Redonda/RJ) e Seven 2nd Edition (RJ). Furthermore, she was the only djane who played at the special programming of Wheel Skol during the 2008 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, where also played Mason (Holland), Eric Entrena (Spain), Tom Craft (Germany) and others.
 
Abroad, played at: We Love Brazil Pool Party during Winter Music Conference 2007 at Carlton Hotel, We Love Brazil Party during Winter Music Conference 2008 at Club Jazid and at the Opening Cocktail of UC Music in Miami Beach, also played at Great Scott in Boston/MA, The Liberty Bar (Philadelphia/PA), Guitar Bar (NJ), Mood Lounge(NJ), Chris Michael's Lounge (NJ), Adega Lounge (NJ), The White Room (Buenos Aires/AR), Kalypso (Pag Island/HR), Exit (Vodice/HR), Crossroad (Malinska/HR) and Magnus (Senj/HR).
 
She has also played with: Deadmau5 (CA),  John Acquaviva (CA), Funkagenda (UK) Alex Gaudino (IT), Laidback Luke (PH), Dusty Kid(IT), The Flash Brothers (IL), Tino Morgado (UK), Thomas Penton (EUA), Anneli (SE), Gui Boratto (BR), Marky (BR), Memê (BR), among others.
 
She had two djsets selected for the "Leggo My Demo", party which brings together some of the best house DJs of Southern Florida to listen to the best djset of the month, selected among DJs from all around the world, at The Rooftop Lounge in Miami Beach. At the Internet, her djsets played at Multishow FM/BR, Push Radio/USA and Beatbox FM/BsAs, besides she had her own show 'Electro Emotion' for several months at Agita Net Radio/SP and played live at Transamérica/RJ, Cidade/JF and Vitória University/ES.
 
One of the great female deejays of the scene in Rio de Janeiro, DRI.K never fails to suprise with eclectic and amazing sets, which include tech house, techno, minimal and electro. By adding beauty and charisma to her wonderful sets, she is capable of setting the mood in any party. When she is in charge, you can always expect lots of fun, filled of sexy and involving grooves.

Web:

www.djdrik.net

www.myspace.com/djdrik

Bookings BR:

paulosilveira@3plus.art.br

Bookings US:

sonia@ucmusicgroup.com

Direct download: DRI.K_live___CREAM_BRAZIL_2008.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:12pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... Sweet Beats M.U.M. Episode 49
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 

With only two years of occupation, Dri.k already played in several festivals and clubs in Brazil, Argentina, Europe and the United States. Formed by the Scratch DJ Academy in New York, Dri.k is able to surprise everyone with their sets and their mixes precise grooves. With an excellent musical tastes, can play both a deep house warm up as being at the center of a line-up, mixing in a unique way the Tech House, Techno, and Electro Minimal Tech. Dri.k of, wait for the insesperado!

Marie Bouret victory to all the places she pass, enchants the lovers of electronic music surprising them with her good taste and refined their technique. Besides having passed through numerous clubs and festivals in Brazil, recently made a tour in India, where she played in the cities of Goa, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Strolling by sections of the house, going to the Tech House Minimal Tech, Marie Bouret is a mixture of sounds in perfect harmony in September contagious.

Sets in their soil, Dri.k & Marie Bouret already shared the cabin with large national and international names, among them: John Acquaviva (CA), Funkagenda (UK), Olivier Giacomotto (IT), Alex Gaudino (IT), Dusty Kid (IT), Tino Morgado (UK), Thomas Pentone (USA), Anneli (SE), Eric Entrena (ES), Global Deejays (NE), Dan (CA), Mischa Daniels (NL), Gui Boratto (BR) Marky (BR), Meme (NZ), Leo Janeiro (BR), Marcelinho CIC (BR) and Anderson Noise (BR).

Sweet Beats, the union of two major revelations of the female scene electronics Rio.
 

Special Thanks to Dj Dri.K


http://www.myspace.com/djdrik

http://www.djdrik.net/
http://www.myspace.com/mariebouret
http://www.myspace.com/sweetbeatsbr



Direct download: sweet_beats_novembro_2008.mp3
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Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents Gabriel Ben(Teggno-Tattoo Detectives) live @ Blue South Beach pt2 M.U.M- Episode 48
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Gabriel Ben live @ Blue South Beach Part 2
Direct download: Gabriel_Ben_live__Blue-South_Beach_part2.mp3
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Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents " Gabriel Ben(Teggno-Tattoo Detectives) live @ Blue South Beach@ M.U.M- Episode 47


Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



Gabriel Ben is part of the next generation of techno producers/djs. Gabriel has captivated crowds over the years with his dancefloor unique sound and his vibrant energy. Although GB has been involved in the music industry for well over 10 years, its been only the last several which has allowed him to shine through the ranks and earn him the utmost respect from industry heads. GB also teamed up in 2005 with Tacopimp to form the group "Tattoo Detectives". Together they also created the record label "TeggnO" which started in 2007.

Gabriel began his dj career in 1987 without a source of income, so thanks to his brother who dj'ed at the time, Gabriel was able to get his hands on some equipment. The rest is history! Influenced by a local dj at a skating rink, Gabriel visioned himself in the booth one day playing to a crowd and getting people to move their bodies. Gabriel's love for all music styles grew, especially as he grew older and started visiting nightclubs where house music became his staple. Local pioneering DJ's like Timmy Tee, EC LaRock, Joe Callari, Robbie Tronco, Josh Wink and King Britt all influenced Gabriel Ben early on.

Production has also gone hand in hand with DJ'ing. Gabriel Ben began making original productions in 2002. GB's unique blend of funky, house, electronic and techno elements all come together to create some floor pounding productions. Gabriel's first production Mere Thoughts back in 2002 was immediately noticed by industry professionals. The track was charted number 1 on Sonic Foundry's Amateur Producers site for nearly 3 weeks, which was visited by more than a thousand people daily. Also the track was selected runner-up in the DMC-Mixer Magazine, and Roxio's United States DJ search contest. Gabriel Ben has since worked on and developed a number of original productions and remixes, but it wasn't until 2005 when he caught his first big break.

In 2005, Gabriel Ben asked Tacopimp to do some vocals on his track "In Ibiza" which lead to some excellent reviews from innerphaseny.com & dancemusic.about.com. The track also was charted globally by a few fellow techno industry heads. So quickly after that they teamed up to form "Tattoo Detectives. Their first track together as Tattoo Detectives, "ETC." was signed by the legendary Carl Cox for his mix CD "Carl Cox @ Space Ibiza" which was released by Intec Records in July 2006. Carl told Residentadvisor.com "This record is storming" and "Its pumping techno in its fury." Carl also went on to say the track represented the sounds of his legendary Space parties in Ibiza as quoted in the CD.

The follow up single "Il Salto Fuori"got even more support globally and by the likes of Paul Van Dyk & Carl Cox leading the way. The track charted on Cox's Top 10 for November & December 2006. and was picked by Coxy in his Best of 2006 Global Radio Show which aired 12.30.06. The support didn't stop with Cox. Paul Van Dyk has also been a big fan of the track and also been supporting the Gabriel Ben Exclusive Remix in his DJ sets and on his Vonyc Sessions & Frtiz radio shows. PVD used GB's mix in his "Cream Ibiza CD" which came out in June 2008.

The group's single "She Bleeps N' Bloops" got some notable recognition as it made headlines with URB magazine and BEATPORT, becoming a top seller on the internet’s most prominent download music store. "Like a Bitch" also caught on with industry support, and was charted by DJ Lucca. "Dirty Volume" has gained a ton of support, as a regular in Coxy's playlist as well as signed to Adam Sheridan's latest CD compilation on Goodgref. GB's "Days of Groove" track has also gotten some support globally, and to the likings of Technasia. GB's ep "I Love Music" featured the hits "I Love the 80's" & "Something Wicked This Way" which got plays from the likes of Carl Cox, Jon Rundell, amongst others. All the tracks and releases can be found on almost all the internet web stores including Beatport, Juno, Trackitdown, and Dance Records.

The duo have also been captivating crowds with their DJ sets having played all across the US and globally on XM radio, Vonyc Sessions, Afterhours FM in Lima-Peru, Proton Radio and DJ Lucca’s Sound of Acapulco show in Czech Republic which aired New Years Eve in 2007. The duo was also invited by Cox to open for him at PACHA NY back in October 2007 for 4000 people. Now, they can be heard monthly on their Vonyc Show "TeggnO Sessions" airing every 3rd Tuesday. The duo are also frequent guests Afterhours FM aired in Lima, Peru, every couple of months. You can check the schedule to find out all the dates.

This year will see the release of several brand new singles and remixes from GB as well as Tattoo Detectives. Along with a little more international touring in Europe & Ibiza. With support by Carl Cox & Paul Van Dyk amongst many, talent in the studio and on the decks, Gabriel Ben's name and reputation is growing rapidly in 2008 and beyond...

"If you gotta take a drug to hear the music, then you really ain't down wit the shit from day 1 anyway..."

Special Thanks to Gabriel Ben

For Booking Inquiries:

management@tattoodetectives.com

http://www.myspace.com/thetattoodetectives
http://www.myspace.com/gabrielben
http://tattoodetectives.com/cms/
http://teggnorecords.com/cms/
Direct download: Gabriel_Ben_live__Blue_Lounge_-South_Beach_-M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:37pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... " 1605 Session with UMEK " Resident Dj@ M.U.M- Episode 46

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement










DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound��? and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.

Special Thanks To  Umek and Mr Urban Jeram  

www.umek.si

UMEK BOOKING CONTACT:

Tina / Kne'deep Berlin
tina@knedeep.net

Kne'deep Berlin
P.O. Box 41 12 02
12122 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 97 00 23 57
Fax: +49 30 79 78 38 53
www.knedeep.net
Direct download: 1605_Session_with_Umek__M.U.M_1.mp3
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Miami Underground Movement proudly presents...  Techno legend Alex Bau @ M.U.M Episode 45
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement






What's your credo?

Where are not many dj's of this type - dj's who believed in techno from the first minute, dj's who have experienced techno from the very beginning, dj's who have made techno their own thing, dj's who have created their own unique styles or even more - who have developed one over the years and who's name's are synonymous with that specific sound. alex bau is one of those dj's. at the same time, however, there are some slight differences with this guy. why focus on just one style of music? why only minimal sounds? why only techno? why, if you could have a well orchestrated combination of both?

Is it related to the fact that for alex bau, there was once a time before techno? with thousands of records in a collection that spans through many different types, styles and genres of music, certainly there have been many individual records which have left their own, indelible marks. there's no doubt about that! for instance, alex still does depeche mode nights from time to time, just for fun. but his activities with techno don't suffer at all from that, not in the least! with his 5+ hour sets at his first resident club in his southeast bavarian home area, the "libella", where dj hell also started his career back in the 80's, he achieved the reputation as someone who was totally aware of what he was doing, totally dedicated to it, but also someone who was totally infatuated with it. he hosted his own radio show for over 2 years on a local radio station, still the only techno show in the area. however, after countless gigs at the local clubs the time was deemed to be right to prove that he was also able to play at other venues around the globe. while collaborating with his friend sven dedek, whose productions were mainly released under the moniker's "basic implant" or "electric envoy" on labels lsuch as "fine audio recordings" from chris liebing, their tracks hit the technofloors in a very impressive way. during that time he was also able to collect international experiences behind the decks as sven played live. releases like the "phase edit ep", a highly acclaimed and well sold rework of some nitzer ebb ebm classics, or their work for dave angel's "rotation", justin berkovi's "predicaments" or pascal feos' "pv-records" enabled them to reach a much larger audience. finally, after numerous releases for different labels beside his own "toneman", alex released his debut-album "connected" in late 2004. "connected" immediately drew the attention of many high class dj's such as chris liebing, pascal feos and good groove, just to name a few. the fact that these artists, all of whom were working with different styles, grabbed the tracks from "connected", shows that the name of the album couldn't have been chosen any better.

After starting his own label (toneman) back in 2000, alex also started to work on his solo productions for labels such as chris liebing's "clr" or the montreal based label, "default recordings". montreal can be seen as kind of a gauge of alex's dj activities! within 3 years he was booked in montreal four times and his set from the legendary night at aria from january 2006 was even released as a mix-cd, "live at aria / montreal" so that alex came back months later to perform for the release party, once again a night to remember for the montreal techno movement. at this point in time alex was already booked as the headliner and it was reported by numerous emails and guest book entries that it was hardly a mistake to do so

but it's not only montreal where alex is being booked again and again; there are many other places, which is a good indicator that he seems to be a guy who understands what to do when standing in front of a crowd, someone who is always trying to bring the party to the max. clubs like frankfurt's "u60311", munich's "electric delicate", würzburg's "airport", or the legendary "tresor" in berlin are not only the trademarks of german techno club-culture, they can also be found on alex's gig list. brazil, usa, canada, poland, croatia, serbia, holland or the closer austria and switzerland are some of the tour stops on alex's calender, and no matter where, all over the places people can hear and feel how interesting, versatile and powerful techno can be if you understand how to combine minimal and straight techno as a constant up and down. everything is completely under control while the party is going wild, and that is what alex always goes for.

The fact that alex has become an official artist on the highly acclaimed label "zenit", that he has been the platform for acts like marco carola, adam beyer, the advent, gaetano parisio and many more, is the logical consequence of years of dedicated, hard work in good, high quality techno. techno in its purest form, just as described above, is the goal for alex - whether or not it involves playing or producing. on his current album "credo", minimal tunes go together with peaktime slammers in a way that appears obvious and logical. techno can do a lot, if you let it do so. that's the credo - his credo!

Special Thanks to Alex Bau...

http://www.alex-bau.de/
 http://www.myspace.com/alexbautechno 
Direct download: Alex_Bau__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:47am EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... Rafe Nunes @ M.U.M Episode 44
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement



Rafe started his short but intense road ae road as a house music enthusiastic addict. Then he tried his ideas on producing music, and finally he had the chance to do his turns with his own music as a DJ. Additionally, the new experience as a DJ led him to heavy improvements as a producer.

On a quick rising career, the second remix he ever made, Noa Tylo's "Let's Do It", reached 33º on Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts. This marked the definite proof that Rafe was ready to boost even the most mainstream music, out from his creative mind.

His efforts are, however, completely focused on underground club music. Techy beats on a mix of progressive grooves and solid sequences could define what one will hear when listening to his releases and DJ sets. It's an unique producing style which also shows how he acts as a DJ.

Special Thanks to Rafe Nunes



    
http://www.myspace.com/rafenunes
Direct download: _Rafe_Nunes__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:40pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... Francesco Bonora
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.



TRACKLIST

1)SOLOMUN - SOMEBODY'S STORY
2)PATRICK CHARDRONNET - DAYS LIKE THESE
3)NICONE - UNA ROSA (NICONE REMIX)
4)FRANCESCO BONORA & STEFANO FRISONI - HOPE (PROMO)
5)MARTIN BUTTRICH - I LOST MY WALLET
6)CHRISTIAN PROMMER - AROUND THE WORLD (SOLOMUN REMIX)
7)MARC ROMBOY - KARAMBOLAGE (OXIA REMIX)
8)TIMO MAAS,SANTOS,MUTANT CLAN - KENESAI
9)PIG & DAN - HOPE
10)STEFANO FRISONI - ARTEFICE (PROMO)

Bio:


Francesco Bonora,,was born in Bologna (Italy) in 22/09/1984. He begun to move his first steps into the electronic music wen he was only 14 years old,buying his first consolle. after many appereances in little gigs, finally in 2002, when i was only 17 years old, the great chance came out: he plays at the well known international venue of cocorico' club with others dj's.since then ëtill 2005 his career is rich of satisfactions,working often in many clubs: he continues to play @ cocorico'(riccione) during the one night halloween event and in some other festivities. moreover in these 3 years he gained the chance to perform in several important venues, the like of the ecu club of rimini, baia imperiale, contatto in bologna,burrocacao of faenza, the street parade of bologna,nrg of cesenatico and link of bologna . 2006 was another important step into his career by spinning @ the tuesday events of ìvilla delle roseî (villa titilla) held in summer time; besides that he could also be part of the cocoricoí resident performer, by playing monthly in the titilla section between 2006 and 2007. in 2007 he had many performances with the ìpiricaî crew and the ìpunto gî crew where he is also co-organizer. his sets have always been a mixture of different sounds, from the electro and experimental sound, until the minimal and the hard vibes of techouse and techno, crossing between the different colours of electronic music. in 2008 some of his productions are planned to be out on many labels.. in february 2008 in collaboration with his friend stefano frisoni gave to the light his digital music label "electro g records" www.myspace.com/electrogrecords

OFFICIAL PAGE: www.myspace.com/francescobonora
BOOKING INFO,CONTACT & REMIX: checco_dj@hotmail.it

Special thanks to francesco Bonora
Direct download: Francesco_Bonora__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:54pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Thomas Penton" - Special dj set live in Brazil Part 2 @ MUM Episode 43

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.

Bio:

As one of the first pioneers to introduce house & dance music to his native South Florida, this veteran has been DJ'ing, producing, & releasing techno projects since 1992. Since then, Penton has produced various releases that have fueled the best talents in the world. Penton's productions have been supported for over a decade by Sasha, John Digweed, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, and countless others. Today, he has released over 100 various projects on some of the industries highest respected dance labels, including Perfecto, Armada, System Rec., In Charge, Beatfreak, Stereo Productions, Sutil, Baroque & more. For-more his many past & present productions are featured on numerous compilations from some of the industries largest selling dance labels, such as Euphoria, Gatecrasher, Bedrock, and Perfecto. His style has crossed all borders, from producing a wide range of progressive, tribal, and now electro house releases. His productions have received acclaim press from some of the industries largest dance magazines and online publications.

Penton also heads his own label, Electric Candy Recordings. Running since 2006, the label allows him to focus on a mixture of electro, house & progressive styled projects, with many releases scheduled throughout 2008. The label has feature numerous international artists such as: Thomas Gold, Jerome Isma-Ae, Alex Armes, Sam Stizer (aka Sergio Armes), John C, Kotoswitch, Chris Reece, Tyler Michaud, Gabriel Batz, D6, Nick Galea, David Michael, Peter Presta, Tronso, Martin H., Hernan Serrao, Scott Anselmo, Damien Heck, Santiago Nino, Audio Junkies, Cecil McCarthy and many more. Most projects are out now and receiving massive support worldwide.

Thomas has also been the featured artist at numerous publications & retailers, including www.Beatport.com. And at the beginning of 2007, his release, 'Jacks Funk' topped the sales chart at www.Beatport.com for several weeks. Releases from his label ECR are available now exclusively at www.Beatport.com.

His studio productions also include sample library cds for production studios & artists titled, Essential Drums & Percussion Vol. I. and, Essential Loops & Sound Effects; which has been featured in Future Music Magazine. These two special projects are available exclusively at www.Resonantvibes.com

Bookings:
Thomas Penton
email: info@thomaspenton.com
msn: wisenomad@hotmail.com

PLEASE SEE  WWW.THOMASPENTON.COM & WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJTHOMASPENTON  FOR MORE CURRENT INFO

Thomas Penton
818 S. Grand Ave. Suite 701, Los Angeles, CA. 90017 USA - tel. (954) 638.0957
e: info@thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.myspace.com/djthomaspenton.com

Special Thanks to Mr Thomas Penton.
Direct download: Thomas_Penton_M.U.M-Brazil_Sept__2008_Part_II.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:46pm EST

Miami Underground Movement  proudly presents... "Thomas Penton" - Special dj set live in Brazil Part 1  @ MUM Episode 42
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.





Bio:

As one of the first pioneers to introduce house & dance music to his native South Florida, this veteran has been DJ'ing, producing, & releasing techno projects since 1992. Since then, Penton has produced various releases that have fueled the best talents in the world. Penton's productions have been supported for over a decade by Sasha, John Digweed, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, and countless others. Today, he has released over 100 various projects on some of the industries highest respected dance labels, including Perfecto, Armada, System Rec., In Charge, Beatfreak, Stereo Productions, Sutil, Baroque & more. For-more his many past & present productions are featured on numerous compilations from some of the industries largest selling dance labels, such as Euphoria, Gatecrasher, Bedrock, and Perfecto. His style has crossed all borders, from producing a wide range of progressive, tribal, and now electro house releases. His productions have received acclaim press from some of the industries largest dance magazines and online publications.

Penton also heads his own label, Electric Candy Recordings. Running since 2006, the label allows him to focus on a mixture of electro, house & progressive styled projects, with many releases scheduled throughout 2008. The label has feature numerous international artists such as: Thomas Gold, Jerome Isma-Ae, Alex Armes, Sam Stizer (aka Sergio Armes), John C, Kotoswitch, Chris Reece, Tyler Michaud, Gabriel Batz, D6, Nick Galea, David Michael, Peter Presta, Tronso, Martin H., Hernan Serrao, Scott Anselmo, Damien Heck, Santiago Nino, Audio Junkies, Cecil McCarthy and many more. Most projects are out now and receiving massive support worldwide.

Thomas has also been the featured artist at numerous publications & retailers, including www.Beatport.com. And at the beginning of 2007, his release, 'Jacks Funk' topped the sales chart at www.Beatport.com for several weeks. Releases from his label ECR are available now exclusively at www.Beatport.com.

His studio productions also include sample library cds for production studios & artists titled, Essential Drums & Percussion Vol. I. and, Essential Loops & Sound Effects; which has been featured in Future Music Magazine. These two special projects are available exclusively at www.Resonantvibes.com

Bookings:
Thomas Penton
email: info@thomaspenton.com
msn: wisenomad@hotmail.com

PLEASE SEE  WWW.THOMASPENTON.COM & WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJTHOMASPENTON  FOR MORE CURRENT INFO

Thomas Penton
818 S. Grand Ave. Suite 701, Los Angeles, CA. 90017 USA - tel. (954) 638.0957
e: info@thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.myspace.com/djthomaspenton.com

Special Thanks to Mr Thomas Penton.







Direct download: Thomas_Penton_M.U.M-Brazil_Sept._2008_Prt_I.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:11pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents "Saulo Ferraro "  @ MUM Episode 41

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.

 

 

SAULO FERRARO has as his trademark interact with the audience! He discovered as a producer of events in the decade of 90. The public really was her target. Fond of music, he saw his vocation with the turn tables in 2001, and was quickly improving their technique and ability to make great mixes, together with very good taste and loyalty to the flag House Music. Based on the elements of jazz and rhythm, switching to tech house, and brought with groove, so that the public's soul vibrate with it being comprehensive and exciting with his great charisma.

 

Soon already begin to be part of CAST, the major clubs RIO scene in electronics. Responsibilities of touching the Fosfobox, producing the project Hours House and resident DJ, Black Box, Club Goa, Waxy, Sense, events etinerantes as MAC-Club and Club Radar, dividing the deck with great artists including the Dj Meme, Roger Lyra, Dj Cube (France), Mauritius Lopes, Marcelinho Cic, Leo January, Jonas Rocha, Flow and Zeo, Joao Paulo, Paula Pedroza and others. Its magnetizante and dancing and September, receives influences of aspects of House Music, where the front of trends.

 

Today he is part of Conectrends producer, producing first and only fully-music and conceptual and the city of Niteroi-Rj, and as a resident DJ with this new work has succeeded in transforming the electronic scene in the city.

So enjoy and never let the music stop!

 

Special Thanks to Willian Hunstock and Conectrends Team.

 

Soon www.conectrends.com

Direct download: Saulo_Ferraro__M.U.M_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:42am EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... Skoozbot - M.U.M. Episode 40

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.

 

Brian Connelly (a.k.a. Skoozbot), an Indiana native and Michigan
transplant, has long been interested in the interaction between humans
and technology. This interest has been met in his love of electronic
music, which is made by machines yet fueled by the soul.

   As a DJ over the past decade, Brian has never been satisfied
simply blending two tracks together and has long sought to augment his
mixing by incorporating the limitless possibilities provided by
technology. Endless experimentation with both hardware and software
has helped bridge the gap, but as technology continues to grow, so
does Brian's curiosity for using it to open up new possibilities.

   This blend of the human and the electronic is further explored in
his productions, where Brian aims to re-create instantaneous human
emotions through electronic sounds. Although these snapshots of our
consciousness can occur for just brief moments in our lives, they can
continue on and be further evolved through music.
----
[DIRTY GRUV] Produly welcomes to Miami... SKOOZBOT at Blue September 13th.
+
Piltdown Sound - LIVE PA! (A.Russki & J.Cox)
Marcelo Dos Reis (DirtyGruv)

@ Blue
222 Espanola way
South Beach
no cover
10-5am
And of course a plug for the Sept show and my next release on Plus 8
in early October if you can :)
Brian
Direct download: skoozbot-may08mix.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:46am EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... Alex Dias - M.U.M Episode 39

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


O DJ e produtor Alex Dias está cada vez mais em destaque na cena eletrônica internacional,
tendo suas tracks várias vezes em primeiro lugar em sites especializados, suas produçoes sendo tocadas por ,
nada menos, do que Carl Cox, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell e lançamentos pelo selo de John Acquaviva.

Carl Cox tocou várias vezes em seus sets o remix de Alex Dias da música Blue Monday (New Order)
e ainda as tracks Clover,Materia e Scientifc de produção do DJ.
Sua musica "Materia" foi lançada recentemente no Cd do Club Space (Ibiza)
segundo melhor club do mundo (DJ Mag),e saira tambem no Cd Dance Valley 2008, que foi gravado ao vivo dia 12 de julho 2008,ambos mixados por Carl Cox.
Dentre tantos destaques, seu remix de "At Night" foi tocado mais de 3 vezes pela BBC Radio 1 de Londres
em um dos melhores programas de música eletrônica do mundo , apresentado por Judge Jules (21º DJ Mag)
e sua musica "Materia" por Eddie Halliwell (16º DJ Mag).

Varios de seus releases, ficarão em primeiro lugar no site Juno.co.uk
ADS Records seu label, contém um casting de produtores de peso :
André Dazzo, Bruno B, Dec D, Edson B. ,Ed Jr, Elton D, DJ Mr. Gil, D-Music Com, Gustavo Peluzo, Gustavo Assis,
Paulinho PT,Sandro Search, San Schwartz, Tiago S, Kali, Peppelino, Tirvo, Wehbba, Vegim, etc.

As produções destes artistas estão constantemente no top 100 nos sites de mp3.
Alex ainda faz parte de mais de 12 selos “Gravadoras” de música eletrônica.

Em 2008 entrou para dois novos Labels:
Definitive Recordings de John Acquaviva que contém artistas como:
David Amo, Julio navas, Richie Hawtin, Oliver Giacomotto, Paul Jackson, Mark Mendes, Kolombo, entre outros...

Adult Records da Holanda que contém artistas como:
Axel Karakasis, Spiros Kaloumenos, Marko Nastic, Hertz, Cave, Pedro Delgardo, Boriqua Tribez, Paul Mac, Stephane Signore, Kobaya, Elton D, entre outros...

Atualmente, Alex é residente mensal da Inside Music Bar em Curitiba.
Apresenta-se com freqüência nas melhores casas do Brasil,
mostrando, por onde passa, sua musicalidade e a qualidade com que faz suas mixagens.

http://www.myspace.com/alexdias

http://www.myspace.com/adsrecords

Direct download: Alex_Dias_-_Pedrada_Julho_2008.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:56pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... Leo Janeiro @Tech Joatinga-M.U.M Episode 38

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

 


About Leo Janeiro

Nowadays, Leo Janeiro is considered one of the outstanding DJs in the electronic scene in brazil with all his groovy sets concerning House Music.

From small parties (under the influence of top brazilian DJs, as well as black music) up to nationwide dance floors, Leo Janeiro has drawn his history sharing turntables with international DJs like Carl Cox (UK), Deep Dish (USA), Josh Wink (USA) , Layo & Bushwacka ( UK ) , Booka Shade ( Ger ) , Martin Eyerer  ( Ger ) , Claude VonStroke ( USA ), John Acquaviva ( CAN ) , Pete Tong ( Uk ) and others .

For being a black music party lover, Leo Janeiro was invited to take part in Rio de Janeiros radio station program in 1994. From that moment on, his career has never stopped and he was also been considered one of the main radio DJs.

In 2002, after playing in many clubs and doing lots of gigs, Leo Janeiro was nominated one of the best DJs in Brazil by the Brazilian magazine DJ SOUND and 2007 the best dj scene in Rio . However, little by little his music started to follow other ways: he started flirting with house music and techno that were blowing the dance floors all over the town.

Leo Janeiro has performed full of house music and tech house in most important clubs in Rio , such as Lounge 69 ( Neo ) and Fosfobox ( Bootleg ).

Web:

 

www.myspace.com/leojaneiro

 

Bookings for :

 

3 Plus Talent

www.3plus.art.br

3plus@3plus.art.br

Special Thanks to Mr Leo Janeiro

 

Direct download: 01_Leo_Janeiro-Tech_JoatingaM.U.M_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:53am EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Francesco Bonora & Stefano Frisoni Live @Ville Delle Rose - M.U.M"Episode 37

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Stefano Frisoni Bio;

Stefano from Rimini got into music when he still only 12, by listening to italian dance music and a little bit of house: in the meanwhile it was born the love for making music.

He produces his first production in 1997, by making some dance tracks. In the year 2000 he felt a suddenly upside down, when he first listen to thecno music, thanks to the magic venue in the nearby, The Cocorico' Club, where everything seemed to be different than the other places: it all came to a massive energetic sound!!!!

So in the year 2003 he met my colleague Daniel, a.k.a. CantoDj with whom he started to plan seriously my producer career together. When 2 crazy minds join their forces together, it could only come out a strong and talented project in which his idea and my skills in making music work perfectly together. That's how TEAMTEK was born, a duo project founded by CantoDj and myself.

They year 2007 sees his new collaboration with Francesco Bonora, a close friend of his: They decided to build up a new crew ,the PUNTO G Staff and a new electronic label, which is the ELECTRO G RECORDS Special FRANCESCO BONORA, A.K.A. CHECCO DJ,WAS BORN IN BOLOGNA (ITALY) IN 22/09/1984. HE BEGUN TO MOVE HIS FIRST STEPS INTO THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC WEN HE WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD,BUYING HIS FIRST CONSOLLE. AFTER MANY APPEREANCES IN LITTLE GIGS, FINALLY IN 2002, WHEN I WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD, THE GREAT CHANCE CAME OUT: HE PLAYS AT THE WELL KNOWN INTERNATIONAL VENUE OF COCORICO' CLUB WITH OTHERS DJ'S.SINCE THEN �TILL 2005 HIS CAREER IS RICH OF SATISFACTIONS,WORKING OFTEN IN MANY CLUBS: HE CONTINUES TO PLAY @ COCORICO'(RICCIONE) DURING THE ONE NIGHT HALLOWEEN EVENT AND IN SOME OTHER FESTIVITIES. MOREOVER IN THESE 3 YEARS HE GAINED THE CHANCE TO PERFORM IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT VENUES, THE LIKE OF THE ECU CLUB OF RIMINI, BAIA IMPERIALE, CONTATTO IN BOLOGNA,BURROCACAO OF FAENZA, THE STREET PARADE OF BOLOGNA,NRG OF CESENATICO AND LINK OF BOLOGNA . 2006 WAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP INTO HIS CAREER BY SPINNING @ THE TUESDAY EVENTS OF �VILLA DELLE ROSE� (VILLA TITILLA) HELD IN SUMMER TIME; BESIDES THAT HE COULD ALSO BE PART OF THE COCORICO� RESIDENT PERFORMER, BY PLAYING MONTHLY IN THE TITILLA SECTION BETWEEN 2006 AND 2007. IN 2007 HE HAD MANY PERFORMANCES WITH THE �PIRICA� CREW AND THE �PUNTO G� CREW WHERE HE IS ALSO CO-ORGANIZER. HIS SETS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS, FROM THE ELECTRO AND EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, UNTIL THE MINIMAL AND THE HARD VIBES OF TECHOUSE AND TECHNO, CROSSING BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT COLOURS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC. IN 2008 SOME OF HIS PRODUCTIONS ARE PLANNED TO BE OUT ON MANY LABELS.. IN FEBRUARY 2008 IN COLLABORATION WITH HIS FRIEND STEFANO FRISONI GAVE TO THE LIGHT HIS DIGITAL MUSIC LABEL "ELECTRO G RECORDS"

Thanks to Francesco Bonora & Stefano Frisoni

Myspace:www.myspace.com/electrogrecordswww.myspace.com/francescobonorawww.myspace.com/djprofteam


  Miami Underground Movement and Dirty Gruv presents "Anatoli Russki @M.U.M"-M.U.M episode 36


Saturday-16 Dirty Gruv Presents Techno Encounter of the Minimal Kind @ Indra Lounge -South Beach-Along side with Anatoli Russki,Marcelo dos Reis ,Rod B. And Mr Garfunk



Anatoli Russki (1/2 of Piltdown Sound) - veteran techno djs/producer he has been moving and shaking US dancefloors since mid ’90s. Having DJed at major events from New York to Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and many more, he has also been perfecting his production skills all the while. WMC 2008 is when it all finally came together with release of "Subversion" track. Debuted at several major WMC events it received superb feedback from djs, record labels and party people. Steady punchy minimal techno style, it has since been requested by key minimal/techno djs from all corners of the globe and played at major events in Australia, China, UK, US, Canada, Argentina, Brasil, and Russia! With several new tracks and remixes already in the works, look for his dj/live appearances in a city near you!

Special Thank to Anatololi Russki and Marcelo dos Reis

 MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/redcommibastard 

MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/dirtygruv 




Direct download: Anatoli_Russki__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:15pm EST

  Miami Underground Movement presents... "Christian Smith live @ Barcelona" - M.U.M Episode 35

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."


Swedish citizen, Christian Smith spent the late 80’s years in Germany soaking up the early house and techno sound of Sven Vath. Now based in Barcelona, he has been championing his funky mix of house and techno for more than a decade, playing across Asia, North & South America, and Europe, plus regular slots at summer festivals like UK’s Creamfields, Holland’s Dancevalley, Spain's Monegros and Belgium’s I Love Techno. His music released on a variety of top labels like Renaissance; Josh Wink’s Ovum, Carl Cox’s Intec, Darren Emerson's Underwater, and his very own Tronic, only proves his flexibility in the studio. Similarly on the decks, Christian’s set is a cauldron of chunky grooves with loads of energy, 3 decks and effects. Some of his favorite clubs are: Ageha, Tokyo; Loft, Barcelona; Pacha, Buenos Aires; Arches, Glasgow; and Zouk, Singapore. With a full length Smith & Selway artist album out on Sino in 2007 and massive support from DJ's ranging from Deep Dish to Carl Cox to Richie Hawtin, the future is very certain for Christian to stay on top as one of the leaders in forward thinking dance music.

Special Thanks to Christian Smith!!!!!!




Tracking list;

1.    Matthias Meyer – Tout Va Bien -  Liebe + Detail
2.    Johnny D – Orbitlife – Olso
3.    Joris Voorn – Deep Side Of The Moog – Cocoon
4.    D’Julz – Yo Momo – Intacto
5.    Matthias Tanzman – Crazy Circus (Guido Schneider Remix) -  Moon Harbour
6.    Marc Romboy featuring Blake Baxter – Fly Away (Version 2)  - Systematic
7.    Nic Fanciulli – IDE (Tiger Stripes Main Remix) – Renaissance
8.    Zoo Brazil – Cyris – Sci-Tec
9.    Paul Ritch – Crazy Madness (Luca Bachietti Remix) – Sci-Tec
10.     Hell – The Disaster  (In & Needle Remix) – Gigolo
11.    Tommy Four Seven – Contact (Mark Broom Remix) – Shooting Elvis
12.     Jerome Sydenham – Ebian – Ibidan
13.     Joey Beltram – Energy Flash – R&S
14.     Radio Slave – Grindhouse (Dubfire Remix) – Rekids
15.     Christian Smith & John Selway – Redeye – Viva
16.     Kevin  Saunderson – Rock To The Beat (Christian Smith & John Selway Remix) – E-Levate

Upcoming releases:

Christian Smith - Flyertalk - Bedrock
Christian Smith & John Selway - Updraft - Renaissance
Christian Smith & John Selway - Push Factor - Sci-Tec

Upcoming Remixes:

Kevin Saunderson - Rock to the beat (Christian Smith & John Selway Remix) - E-Levate

Noteworthy Upcoming gigs:
Aug 9th - Loft - Barcelona - Spain
Aug 12th - Space  - Ibiza with Carl Cox
Aug 30th - Wire08 Festival - Tokyo Japan
Sept 27th - Pacha - Sao Paulo - Brazil

for more info and full gig schedule please visit: www.djchristiansmith.com

web:
www.djchristiansmith.com
www.myspace.com/christiansmithdj
Direct download: Christian_Smith_live_at_Barcelona_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:09pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement and KG Miami Recordings proudly present... "Eric Kraffman" M.U.M. Episode 34


M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.

DJ/Producer Eric Kraffman is co-founder of KG Miami Recordings. With the main goal of good music, Eric and Alvaro Garfunk have created an outlet for young and talented producers. They also host the KG Miami Podcast on iTunes.

Eric has traveled the world to experience the energy of the dancefloor.  Feeling vibes in London, Ibiza, Paris, Madrid, Milan, and more, he has come to know what really gets people grooving.  Now based in LA and San Francisco, Kraffman is focusing on his production techniques to bring cutting edge music worldwide. 

Tracklist:

01. Before The Wind - Original Mix Digital Only - Fabrizio Maurizi
02. Get Restless - Jens Bond, Tom Clark, Daniel Dreier
03. Brainstorm - Jackspot
04. Pitch It - Claude Von Stroke Mix - Plasmik
05. 7 - Alex Under
06. Sausage Dog - TRNSSTR
07. Red Light of Dawn - Joel Mull
08. Paris - Oliver Huntemann
09. Snap into it - Audion
10. Cascabel - Anja Schneider
11. Marionette - Adam Beyer Mix - Mathew Jonson
12. The Space Dance - Danny Tenaglia
13. Rekorder 00 - Rekorder
14. Maximal MNML - Philipp Straub Edit - Christopher Groove
15. Against All Odds - Audion
16. Where Is The Love - Lutzenkirchen Remix V2 - Beckers

http://www.myspace.com/erickraffman

http://www.kghousemiami.com

 

>http://www.miamiundergroundmovement.com

 

Direct download: pod53.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:34pm EST

Miami Underground Movement and Dirty Groove  proudly presents... "Dj Misjah "@ MUM Episode 33 M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.

Dj Misjah @Boutique Miami DownTown Friday-July 25th


Dj Misjah Bio:

The name Misjah has been synonymous with quality dance floor productions for over 17 years. An innovator, an inspiration and living legend to many.
It all began in 1991 with releases under one of his alias's "Dyewitness". “Observing the earth”, “What would you like to hear”, “The Future” and “The Masterplan” already put his name on the map of dance floor hits forever. They are still considered all time classics.
  
After these releases, Midtown Records asked Misjah to start his own label for them; X-Trax was born on December 1994. He started producing tracks with the help of some friends: DJ Tim and Jeroen (Groovehead) Artists such as Ferry Corsten, Umek, and Piet Bervoets (Rank1) also had releases on X-Trax Classics from this label include: Trippin' Out, The Club, Special Acid Edition, and of course “Access” which made it to the English charts in 1995.

Due to the huge success of X-Trax he was sought after by such artists like: Josh Wink, Jam and Spoon, Reflect, Format One, Finitribe, Denki Groove, etc to produce remixes for them. 

Misjah has also produced under various artist/project names in different styles of dance music. In 1999 he started another project under the name “AMbassador”. It was under this name that he remixed “Blaze - My Beat”. His remix became a huge club hit and was used in the video clip. It even made it to the English charts.

In December 1999 he stopped doing the A&R for X-Trax. In 2001 he started a new label called ReRun and ReRun Booking's DJ Agency. The agency is responsible for booking some major players in the techno scene such as Hardcell, Trevor Rockcliffe, etc. 

He has released on numerous labels including: Craft Music, Wetmusik, Pocket, Zync, Mankind, Jericho etc. Just to name a few. His records can be found in the record bags of such djs as: Adam Beyer, Sven Vath, Carl Cox etc.
Since his dj career took off in 1994, he has been traveling around the globe continuously to all continents. Playing at famous clubs and festivals including: Dance Valley, Roskilde, Mayday and Nature One, etc
As a DJ, Misjah has his own funky style. His sets contain bits and pieces of almost all styles of dance music from techno to house and from minimal to electro and everything in between. He uses his records as tools, in order to create different sounds and tracks and is known for his flawless mixing on 3 turntables, and 2 cd players.


Special Thanks to Anatoli Russki & Marcelo dos Reis

 MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/dirtygruv 

Direct download: Misjah_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:52pm EST

Miami Underground Movement and UC Music proudly presents... "Dj Rodrigo Viera "@ MUM Episode 32 M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.




RODRIGO VIEIRA BIO :

Born in Brazil, Rodrigo started using his dad's turntable at 5 and the story goes at the age of 14, opens his first mobile DJ company. With 17, his first official gig at Rio de Janeiro's 1 club, Papagaio,to a crazy crowd of 1500 people. Back then, Rodrigo was just beginning his growing and solid career in the Dance music field.

After his 4 years of residency at Club Hipopotamus, he started to be invited to spin at Brazil's top clubs nationwide in cities like Rio,Sao Paulo, Belem, Campo Grande, etc.

A few years later, the result was an international proposal to work in Portugal where he lived for three years spinning at Algarve's 1 club Trigonometria (2500 capacity) and also presenting a daily radio show at top English station Solar Radio. Back to Brazil, Rodrigo started his record company career working for Sony Music as a Dance music A&R.

While his career at Sony was going up, Rodrigo has never abandoned the turntables andkept spinning at parties in many different countries (Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain, US, England).

In 1991 Rodrigo was voted the 1 DJ in Rio de Janeiro by DJ Sound Magazine?s national poll, the most respected in the country.

In 1997, moved to Miami to work with Sony Music's Latin regional office. Since then, Rodrigo has done everything : produced compilations, mixed them, remixed tracks, was executive producer of remixes of artists such as Mariah Carey, Earth Wind and Fire, Wyclef Jean, The Fugees, Shakira and Ricky Martin. Also started to produce electronic artists and has managed the album releases of DJ's such as Roger Sanchez, Fatboy Slim, X Press 2, DJ Rap and Josh Wink in Latin America.

Rodrigo was also the VP of Strategic Marketing and New Media for Universal Music Latin America, handling a electronic music division with partners and distributed labels such as Defected, Subliminal, Ministry of Sound and Soulshine. He mixed many compilations for MoS and was the first DJ ever to mix a Subliminal compilation without belonging to the label's cast. Besides this, has his own production label, Exit 12 Inc. and handles a JV with US based labels Basswalk Records and UC Music Group.

Rodrigo turntables = HOUSE

Can be funky, techy, electro a mix of influences absorbed during his career. He has lived the story of House music in his own veins. From the born of the Chicago House and characters such as Marshall Jefferson and Farley "Jackmaster" Funk to Kevin Saunderson's Sound of Detroit.

From the born of London's Acid House to the Soulful House of Tony Humphries and Frankie Knuckles. From the deepest garage sounds to the progressive days of Sasha and Digweed.

From Mike Pickering's unforgettable sets at Hacienda to Norman Cook's mega parties at Brighton Beach. From Morales to Angelo and Ingrosso. And the list goes on names that certainly influenced him Tenaglia, Morillo, Jellybean, Farina, Sanchez, Levan, Vega and Gonzalez.

He was always there and lived it all.


Special Thanks to UC Media Group And Rodrigo Viera
Direct download: UC_Music_Presents_DJ_Rodrigo_Viera_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:45pm EST

Miami Underground Movement and UC Music proudly presents... "Dj Marcos Carnaval "@ MUM Episode 31 M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.





 About MARCOS CARNAVAL:



Marcos Carnaval (a.k.a. Mark UC) is one of the most respected DJs and producers to come out of Brazil. This acclaimed NY-based executive has produced, remixed and licensed tracks for labels such as Tommy Boy, Ministry of Sound, Star 69 and EMI Japan.

He has won multiple awards including DJ Sound Magazine’s best Brazilian DJ/Producer in 2000/2001. In addition, Marcos’ songs are featured on over 30 (thirty) CD compilations, a movie soundtrack, and 4 solo albums.

Some of his remixes charted on the "Billboard Hot Music / Club Play Top 100" and remained on the "Billboard Club Charts" for more than 20 weeks.

Marcos has played prime time at nightclubs in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, New York, Miami Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at the 2008 edition of the ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Now Marcos is celebrating five years of the creation of his own record label “UC Music” by releasing his 5th album named “UC Beats”.

Special Thanks to Marcos Carnaval

FOR BOOKINGS PLEASE CONTACT:

SAM LAMBERT - MEAN DREAM DIRECTOR

E-MAIL: sam@mean-dream.com

www.mean-dream.com

Usa:
bookings@ucmusicgroup.com
Direct download: UC_Music_By_Marcos_CarnavalM.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:21pm EST

Miami Underground Movement and UC Music proudly presents... M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.

Bio Portuguese:

Fabricio Moraes

Desde pequeno Fabricio Moraes, ja gostava de ouvir musica e dancar. Ao chegar na sua adolencencia  Fabricio comecou a frequentar as matines de domingo , onde ele escutava o legendario  Dj  Andre Luchi que era o residente da fonte Sao Paulo e do Pacha em Campinas e foi assim que Fabricio acabou descubrindo sua paixao por house music.

Fabricio ja sabendo que sua vida seria  ao redor da musica,  resolveu se juntar com alguns amigos que ja tinhao uma certa experiencia no house music os Dj’s Herme e Guto que eram donos da melhor equipe de festa de Campinas e regiao a famosa  “ Alo Volume”.

Fabricio foi ganhado experiencia e confianca no seu trabalho, foi quando teve uma mudanca super radical na sua vida. Ao completer 18 anos Fabricio se mudou para os Estados Unidos, onde  foi recembendo mais influencia sobre o house music quando ia aos clubes escutar Dj’s como Danny Tenaglia, Victor Calderone, Carl Cox, etc…

Hoje  sendo uma figura muito conhecida nos Estados Unidos Fabricio ja tocou em grandes clubes como Pacha Ny, Dolce Nj, Sand Bar e o conhecido Guitar Bar  onde mantem sua residencia  todos os domingos .

Tambem tem paricipado de varios festivais  como:Brazilian and Portugal festival que e convidado desde de 1996 ate hoje na tenta eletronica,WMC 2005, 2006, 2008, Beats and Bands 2006, 2007, We love Brasil 2007 e 2008 e um dos maiores clubes do Brazil Anzu Club em Itu .

Nessa passagem por clubes e festivais  Fabricio teve a oportunidade de tocar com alguns  dos  Dj’s mais respeitados do mundo como: Chuz & Ceballos, Aj Crypt, Marcos Carnaval, Rodrigo Vieira, Mora, Mario Marques,  Leo Janeiro, Marcelinho Cic, Ale Rauen, Dri-k,  Buga, Oil Filter, e logicamente com os legendarios NYC Dj’s: Richie Santana , Peter Bailey, Rob Mirage, Saeed & Palash, Louie Devito, Donny Marano, Jorge Jaramilo e muitos outros.

Fabricio Moraes  decidiu dar mais um passo em sua carreira e fez seu promeiro remix  “ Esquecendo o Passado”. Fabricio tambem estara lancando seu prmeiro single  juntamente com o Dj Donny Marano no mes de Junho pela  UC MUSIC , e tambem estara no cd  “ We Love Brasil “ que sera lancado em Julho de 2008.

Special Thanks to UC Music Group  and Dj Fabricio de Morais

MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/djfabriciomoraes

http://www.myspace.com/ucmusicgroupllc 

Direct download: _DJ_Fabricio_Moraes_-Uc_Music_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:09pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Dri.k" @MUM Episode 29
M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.


Playlist:
Minipoptek | DRI.K for M.U.M.
 
Karen (Amine Edge mix) - Ocsygen
2Quite - Format B
Revox (Justin Martin mix) - TG (Tim Green)
Strangers Cliff (Alex Young Minimalesk Mix) - Johan Ilves
Blast - Florian Meindl
Duracell - Andrea Roma & Alberto Fracasso
Good Old Things (Aneuria mix) - Andrew Technique
Stockholm Marathon - Cirez D
Paperboy (D-Nox & Beckers Remix) - Lutzenkirchen
Magdalena - Stimming & Einmusik
Call & Response - James Harcourt
Bio:
DRI.K | TECH HOUSE, ELECTRO, TECHNO & MINITECH
 
A regular in most of the electronic music parties in Rio de Janeiro, her hometown, DJ DRI.K is always surprising with her modern and fashionable style. It's been some years since her first mixes, but only in July 2006 she believed in your talent and turned the hobby into profession and attended a workshop at  Scratch DJ Academy in New York.
 
In Brazil she has played in several top clubs, such as : Privilège Juiz de Fora (MG), The Week (RJ), Fosfobox (RJ), Dama de Ferro (RJ), Club 69 (RJ), Nuth Lounge (RJ), Pátio Lounge (RJ), Hotel Ouro Verde(RJ), Pub Monte Cristo (Niterói/RJ), Pepper's Club (Campos/RJ), Emporium (Friburgo/RJ), Manhattan (Friburgo/RJ), Wall Street (Vitória/ES), Amnésia (Juiz de Fora/MG), Nite Club (Maringá/PR), Car Wash Lounge (Maringá/PR), Nut Club (São José do Rio Preto/SP), Summer TIM Copacabana Beach(RJ), Arena Morro da Urca (RJ), A Festa (Hípica RJ), E.Motion (Campos/RJ), Fisiofantasy (Friburgo/RJ), Pink Up! (RJ), Working In The House (Maringá/PR), Lost Girls (Valença/RJ), Original (Volta Redonda/RJ) and Seven 2nd Edition (RJ). And was the only djane who played at the special programming of Wheel Skol during the 2008 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, where also played Mason (Holland), Eric Entrena (Spain), Tom Craft (Germany) and other big names.
 
Her sound recognizably 'chic' enabled her to play several times in the Happy Hour that happens on Saturdays at the Diesel Stores, the opening cocktail of Adidas Shopping Leblon, the launch of the collection of Jeans Adidas/Diesel cocktail, Pselda's Fashion Show, opening cocktail of 'Gatos e Sapatos' Expo by Paula Klien, and still, played during the 14 days of the Open Office Cocktails os Rede Record of Television. Furthermore, she develops soundtracks to the fashion brands Afghan and Botanopé.
 
Abroad, played at We Love Brazil Pool Party during Winter Music Conference 2007 at Carlton Hotel, We Love Brazil Party during Winter Music Conference 2008 at Club Jazid and at the Opening Cocktail of UC Music in Miami Beach, also played at the Guitar Bar, Mood Lounge , Chris Michael's Lounge & Adega Lounge in New Jersey, and at The White Room in Buenos Aires/Argentina. In April 2008 did the warm up set for Gui Boratto, the best brazilian techno producer, at Great Scott in Boston/MA. She has also played with John Acquaviva/CA, Memê/BR, Dusty Kid/IT, Miles Dyson/DE, Thomas Penton/EUA, Anneli/SE, among others. August 2008 she is going to play for the first time in Europe and will be back again to the US.
 
She had two djsets selected for the "Leggo My Demo", party which brings together some of the best house DJs of Southern Florida to listen to the best djset of the month, selected among DJs from all around the world, at The Rooftop Lounge in Miami Beach. At the Internet, her djsets played at Multishow FM/BR, Push Radio/USA and Beatbox FM/BsAs, besides she had her own show 'Electro Emotion' for several months at Agita Net Radio/SP and played live at Transamérica/RJ, Cidade/JF and Vitória University/ES.
 
One of the great female deejays of the scene in Rio de Janeiro, DRI.K currently integrates casting of the UC Bookings in the United States and Titattium in Portugal. DRI.K never fails to suprise with eclectic and amazing sets, which include tech house, techno, minimal and electro. By adding beauty and charisma to her wonderful sets, she is capable of setting the mood in any party. When she is in charge, you can always expect lots of fun, filled of sexy and involving grooves...
Special Thanks to Dri.k

BOOKINGS:

contato@djdrik.net

EUA > UC

marcos@ucmusicgroup.com

PORTUGAL > TITANNIUM

djdrik@titannium.com

MySpace URL: 
Direct download: minipoptek_-_dri.k_for_mum.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:28pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Alex D'Elia" MUM Episode 28


M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.

ALEX D'ELIA SHORT BIO

Alex D'Elia is born in Riccione, the main center of the italian club scene... He got his passion for music listening hours and hours of his sis records, leading him to be a dj at the age of 13, and won his first dj scratch competion prize at the age of 15, while was entertaining people in small clubs around his area.a

In the meanwhile Alex's passion for music got so bigger, that drove him to built his first midi home studio in his own small room, and from this “small world” came the idea of his first cut project in collaboration with a close friend: P.F.Z "Love into the Future", released on the famous swiss compilation: DJ Energy Parade. Then he knew Andrea Doria and they have begun a collaboration on very different projects, like Avalone One "La onda del ritmo" (The Rhythm Wave) with Ramirez vocals. Another one was Atlantis Ita "See you in the next life", having a great acknowledgment working with Age One, Dino Lenny's U.K. based label. These records had a big room in clubs and was also published on the Pete Tong and Fat Boy Slim's Millenium compilation. Then Alex have produced many other projects, the most famous one is "Isn't life wonderful?", released on IDJ. The song it went in a short time a big room anthem (mostly in the english clubs) and was immediately published on the Ministry of Sound compilation. Constant experimental research, passion for every kind of music and curiosity for samples digital manipulation drove him to build a personal project called Loose Headz.

In the last few years, he is continued to work close to close, cheek to cheek with Andrea Doria, releasing “Jumping Jack” and presenting the first single together called “Arsenico E.P.” both released on BluFin.

http://www.alexdelia.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/alexdeliaofficialmyspacepage

Direct download: alex_delia_giugno_mix_mp3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:37pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Roy G" - M.U.M. Episode 27

 

M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk.

 Roy G

1.  Kabale and Lauhaus - Shaven Monkey (original mix)

2.  Anthony collins bricolage (original mix)

3.  john spring skychef (dan curtin rmx

4.  cle’ nomads (matthias tanzmann rmx)

5.  d’julz just so you know (2000 and one rmx)

6.  handycraft blast (original mix)

7.  plasmik mindpattern (afrilounge’s deep string mix)

8.  russ gabriel three fifty one (original mix)

9.  bart skils and anton pieete handsome (original mix)

10. Lutzenkirchen paperboy (d-nox & beckers rmx)

11. hideo kobayashi and nagano kitchen no traffic in nagano (original mix)

12. par grindvik do us part (len faki rmx)

ESPERIENZE LAVORATIVE

La mia carriera o se così si può chiamare inizia nel 1996, partecipando ad una gara di dj presso l'allora discoteca "imperiale" di Tirrenia, mostrando delle buone capacità e piazzandomi con un buon terzo posto...

Ma l'approdo vero e proprio con il pubblico di un vero locale nel 2000 come resident all'Insomnia di Ponsacco (PI),lavorando con artisti del calibro di Paolo Kighine, Thomas T, Francesco Zappalà, fino a Gianrico Leoni, Mario Scalmbrin,Frankie Knuckles, partecipando anche ad una data "Syncopate" con i migliori dj della scena musicale italiana e non e collaborando con il gruppo Factory art a varie serate nel panorama toscano.

L'esperienza Insomnia solo due anni ma serve a dare visibilità al mio nome, nonchè a maturarmi tecnicamente.

Nel 2003 alla corte del Kama Kama di Lido di camaiore con il quale viene fuori anche qualche data in Fortezza da basso (FI) e Liberty a viareggio.

Dal 2005 sono free-lance, ho deciso di cambiare genere musicale,passando dalla techno pura (Insomnia), all'hard house (Kama Kama più varie collaborazioni), fino alla deep house ed inoltrarmi alla Tech house e downtempo, con maggiori stimoli dal lato musicale e tecnico, ma cambiando il mio pubblico, cercando palcoscenici più piccoli, ma dove viene apprezzata di più la mia musica.

Attualmente collaboro con il Frau Marleen di Torre del lago (LU) più Freelance.

Ghera Roy

In arte. Roy G.

Nato a. Pescia, il 19/01/1979

Residente a. Pescia,

in via ruga degli orlandi, 79

Cel. 340.6559404 – 392.4339476

e-mail. erregicomunicazione@alice.it

web site. www.myspace.com/roy_g_dj

msn contact. erregicomunicazione@hotmail.it

booking contact www.myspace.com/princessmanagement

                           princessmanagement@gmail.com

 

Direct download: Roy_G.___dj_set__studio_may_08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:09pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Andrea Doria" - M.U.M. Episode 26



 

M.U.M.-Miami Underground Movement brought to you by Rod B. and Alvaro Garfunk. This week M.U.M. brings you Andrea Doria from Ravenna, Italy.

ANDREA DORIA is 33 years old and lives in Ravenna (famous of its Roman mosaics), close to Bologna, in Italy. At the tender age of 8 his father bought him his first analog synth and since then he realized that this sound is going to be part of his DNA. At the age of 16, he began to develop a passion for computers and he became a programmer. At the arrival of the first 8/16bit computer he started earning a living composing soundtracks for videogames, and also for some Italian software companies, simply using the synth processors (SID/Commodore64) and language machine. Since then Andrea's artistic knowledge developed with a powerful influence of some eclectic artists from the seventies like Klaus Schulze, Richard Wahnfried, Chris and Cosey and Edgar Frose. In the 90s he was completely blown away by the house scene and decided that DJing was going to become his career. He was fascinated by the way these DJs alchemists used to mix sounds and cultures at the same time and created such a big interest in the booming Dance scene. In December 2003, Andrea thought that only by having his own record label would help him in being artistically free in his productions,and "Ready 2 Rock Music" was born. A year later, after the huge success of 'Bucci Bag' started to fade away, success reached after a 8 years long collaboration with his friend Dino Lenny, Andrea decided to look into a new direction and find new ways to push his artistic boundaries and took a year off music production and started to get in the field of 3D art visuals, Creative Thinking and Occult Studies. With his new philosophy of life, "NOT ONLY A DJ", Andrea with the AUM brother ANANDA BOSMAN and 432 Hz crew, is researching, promoting and financing the science of sound frequencies and instruments Tuning to reach the perfect alchemical and AUM-harmonic coherent holo-vibe for the human holo-body.

To know more about the Natural Tuning 432 Hz Frequency go to Ananda's website: http://www.akasha.de/~aton/Unidance.html 4

Special Thanks to Princess Management and Dj Andrea Doria

BOOKINGS

Europe: BluFin Records andrea@blu-fin.com

Italy: Princess Management princessmanagement@gmail.com

http://www.myspace.com/andreadoria


Direct download: andrea_doria-love_codes_set-320k.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:45pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Jay Lumen @ M.U.M." - M.U.M. Episode 25

 

Rod-B.,Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement


Jay Lumen… Music is part of his life since his childhood years. He learnt music in a conservatoire for eight years, which provides a good basis to his ambition of making music.

During his schooldays it shown, that he rather turned the compositions of the classical authors to his own style, than he played the original versions of them. Although he learnt to play on a classical instrument – violin – he early recognized that his desire for creative work wasn’t satisfied with this instrument. Immediately he got his first computer, he started to make his ideas to be heard. In the meantime he started to get to know the synthetizator in the way of self-education. As he obtained the more developed technologies and softwares, developed himself with them, he got more and more closer to that sounding in which he felt himself familiar.

Nowdays he is the one of fastest developer new generation DJ/Producers. As producer he has many international releases on many famous electronic music labels just like, Global Undergrond, Baroque, Whoop!, Extrema, Curvve, etc… Also you can find his tracks on more compilations to: GU Mixed2 (Global Underground), Bagrooves: The Black Collection (Seamless / Absolute), Synchronised 2 (Global Underground), Housexy: Summer In The City (Ministry Of Sound) etc… In his other side he has a vocal house project called „Supaflava” what was in the UK Club Chart Top 20 across 6 weeks. The best position of this track „Time In Motion” was 7th there.

In jun2007 the major label Baroque Records asked Jay to make the next album of Baroque Elements series. After more then 6 months intensive work in february of 2008, Jay’s first double album „Baroque Elements 002” is out in the online and offline shops to. You can find the point where the DJ and producer meets when you listen BE002, couse It’s a mixed artist album. Also there is a DJ friendly (unmixed ) version on the second CD. The first feedbacks are really good whereas the promotional version of the album started at 11th place on the British Plastic Music Chart, leaves behind such big names as: „The Orb” or „Martin Solveig”. Also the”Elements Taster EP” vinyl with 2 tracks of BE002 is in the top sellers on juno permanently.

As DJ he made his first party in the basic school when he was 14 years old only. In the beginning he played his favourite tracks from vinyl, but later, following the technical development, he changed the vinyl to using CDs. He builds his sets from the musical basis of house, tech-house, and progressive house. His sounding is featured by dynamic, pulsating grooves as you can hear it also in his compositions and in his sets to.
In these times Jay Lumen plays around the world … just like at last times in Austria, Serbia, Poland,  Egypt, India, England, etc…

Special Thanks to Jay Lumen


www.myspace.com/jaylumen

Booking info:

Agent: Dina Fox
e-mail: tilthdjs@gmail.com


Direct download: Jay_Lumen_-_Metronome_Session_may2008.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:56pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Stefano Frisoni@ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Playlist:

1-Delon and Dalcan feat Oxia - 248km
2-TopCats - Esmeralda (Phunklarique Remix)
3-Rekorder - Rekorder 4.2
4-Kaliber feat Elodie - Is This For Love (Paolo Bolognesi Remix)
5-Alex Di Stefano - Magnolia
6-Alex D'Elia - Biancaluna
7-Teamtek - Taurus (Promo)
8-Lucio Aquilina - Disco Bus (Roland M. Dill Remix)
9-Marascia & Dusty Kid - Attre (Original mix)

Stefano from Rimini got into music when he still only 12, by listening to italian dance music and a little bit of house: in the meanwhile it was born the love for making music.

He produces his first production in 1997, by making some dance tracks. In the year 2000 he felt a suddenly upside down, when he first listen to thecno music, thanks to the magic venue in the nearby, The Cocorico' Club, where everything seemed to be different than the other places: it all came to a massive energetic sound!!!!

So in the year 2003 he met my colleague Daniel, a.k.a. CantoDj with whom he started to plan seriously my producer career together. When 2 crazy minds join their forces together, it could only come out a strong and talented project in which his idea and my skills in making music work perfectly together. That's how TEAMTEK was born, a duo project founded by CantoDj and myself.

They year 2007 sees his new collaboration with Francesco Bonora, a close friend of his: They decided to build up a new crew ,the PUNTO G Staff and a new electronic label, which is the ELECTRO G RECORDS (www.myspace.com/electrogrecords).

....and They're still keeping up with it!!!

Special Tahnks to Stefano Frisoni

Site: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJPROFTEAM
Label: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ELECTROGRECORDS
BOOKING:
ELENA FIORINDO-PRINCESS MANAGEMENT www.myspace.com/princessmanagement
MSN CONTACT: steve@teamsqualoracing.it
E-mail CONTACT: stefano_frisoni@fastwebnet.it

Direct download: Stefano_Frisoni__M.U.M_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:42pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Jackiedj from Zero Absence live @WMC 08-  M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

Playlist:

1. CHRIS BARRATT - Wistlechimes
2. ZERO ABSENCE - I found a Star (Freakteaser rmx)
3. TOMMY DE CLERQUE - I don't know
4. NAGANO KITCHEN - Asama (West)
5. JONA - Manta
6. IDO OPHIR - Schorkel (Fiord rmx)
7. NAMITO - City of gods
8. FUNKAGENDA - What the fuck
9. LUTZENKIRCHEN - Paperboy (D-Nox rmx)
10.MARK MENDES - Hubert is cool
11.PAOLO MOJO - Home
12.CHRISTIAN SOL & PISTOLPUMA - Out your mind (GC Black rmx)

Music was my first love…and still I am in love!
If you ask him, what is most important in his life…he will answer to you: The Beat, The Drum, The Bassline…The Rythm Of The Heart: HOUSE MUSIC!!
As long as he can remember he loved music…the Hard Rock of 70's, the New Romantic Style of the 80's, the Beat of the 90's…in all this years of spinning around he never lost his feeling, always looking for the next evolution step. The reason is maybe that he lived most of his life as a Globetrotter, born in Vienna, growen up in Germany, for short periods he lived in Switzerland, Avstrija, Spain, Croatia. He also loved to check out the Clubs in Europe as an Partyanimal.

He's music career started in 1987 in a small discoteque in Dubrovnik/Croatia, where he played the comercial records for the first time. In 1991 his journey took him to back to Germany (Augsburg), where he was quickly noticed and regulary hired to play the music in numerous Clubs and Festivals, also in 1993, on one sunday morning, he invited some people to one Club in Augsburg, to continue one party, the After Party was born! For years was this club in one basement almost every sunday morning, the last exit for partypeople! In 1994 he played for the first time in front of 3000 people at the WOODSTOCK Revival Festival in Ausburg/Halle 6, spinning records of that time. One year later he opened together with a friend he's first club called XTC in Augsburg. In the year 2000 he returned home to Slovenia.
After his arrival, he continued his comercial path as DJ and owner of KRA-KRA ale-house (bar), until he become a leaseholder of the Sing-Sing Club where he finally discovered his love for Electric Music in 2002.

Two years later he started to organize again After Partys in Ljubljana and introduced himself for the first time to the larger audience. At the After Party of SINDUSTRY 2004, which he organized himself he animated the audience together with DJ UMEK and DJ ALEKSIJ.

In a very short period of time he started to play in Slovenian clubs as DJ, while organizing at the same time some of the significant After Partys as: SINDUSTRY 2004, MEET ME AFTER 2005, VALENTINO KANZYANI, DESYEN MASIELLO, DEEP DISH and similar. On his After Party's he hosted names like: Sharam (Deep Dish), Steve Porter, Frederik (Pako&Frederik), Funk D'Void, Sonique, Toni Rios, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, David Penn, Marko Nastic, Hernan Cattaneo...

Till today he allready played in all the important clubs and Afters in Slovenia (D.Morales After-Club Lipa, 24 h New Year Afterhour Maraton, Ambasada Gavioli, Fun Factory, Lipa, Jukebox, Stuk Maribor, Trust, Yucatan, Impulz, Escape…) and also a lot of important gigs all over the world: MIAMI WMC 2008, LONDON, ITALY, SPAIN, IBIZA, AUSTRIA ,TURKEY and CROATIA (Nightshift Summer Edition-Bale, Beach Club Punta, Radio Krk, Club Papaya (Pag), Summer Closing Festival (Kostrenica), ...). Also he played on some magnificant Festivals like: DISCONAUTICA, WOODSHOCK, PAPAYA MOTOMUSIC SUMMERFESTIVAL...

He played together with well known names in music as: Eelke Klejin, Bob Sinclar, Hernan Cattaneo, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steva Angello, Roman Flugel, Rui Da Silva, Chris Lake, Shapeshifters, The Freemasons, Toni Garcia, Mar-T, Junior Jack, Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, Pako & Frederik, Darren Emerson, Steve Porter, Joe Mama, Aleksij, Eddy F., Davide Manali, Paolo Barbato, Crazy Lemon, MYNC Project, DEF E., Seamus Haji, Sonique, Roby Sartarelli, Miss Jools, Paulette, James Talk, Kiko Navarro, Mark Knight, Steve Porter, Chus, David Penn, Lexicon Avenue, Toni Rios, Sonique, Justin Drake, Silicone Soul, Funk D' Void, Marshall Jefferson, Marko Nastic,…)

At the moment he is the Promotor & Resident DJ of the biggest Club »FACTORY« in Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia and he is working in the studio on his production with ZERO ABSENCE and a new project called: THE BAWANI PROJECT.

With almost 40 years of age and with 20 years of spinning and playing across Europe….he's not going to stop, as long the people will dance to his music!

Keep on groovin'!
Producer, DJ, Musician/Composer, and vocal… Tomy Declerque, Jackiedj, KayKay and Bawani. Four totally different spirits, it turned out, are stronger connected that it would seem at first sight. Diversity is not only good but its sometimes necessary and indispensable. That was the first lession members of Zero Absence and the Bawani Project won. Four people with different backgrounds, life styles and knowledge joined their forces, not only experiences but energy, expectation, wishes, goals, love for music and huge amount of time. First the Zero Absence was born, than the Bawani Project layed eyes on light of the world. Their first release shows they fell for new, fresh electro vibes. I Found a Star was born. The first creation of Z.A. feat Bawani project was more or less very unexpected success. In a week it occured on top 100 Chart on one of central Slovenian radio stations. It started on 33.th place and in only few weeks it rose to the 1. place where it is in the moment (jan 08) of creating first Biography of this artistic group. Critics were fabulous, response of audience enviable. The group performed life for the first time on Amnesia World Tour in leading Club in Ljubljana – Factory, back to back with some greatest artists as Mar T, Micah. Micah having world tour with Mar T honoured them with performing live with them. People loved it. Another success was presentation of I Found a Star on american portal ourstage.com where they reached 1st place among more than 400 entries and made it to quarter – finals. After first live performance I Found a Star was performed numerously in Slovenia, Croatia, Spain and Italy.

A slightly new bit and vibes that carries their first-born is captured in second creation called »Don˙t«.
The biggest sucess for Zero Absence, not only for Jackiedj himself, was to present the track at 6 gigs during the WMC 2008 in Miami.
Forthcoming release at BEHOLD RECORDINGS:

ARTIST: Zero Absence ft Bawani Project
TRACK: "I Found A Star"
REMIXER: 2-Xclusive
Freekteaser
Pako & Frederik
Troy Hall
David Kassi
Nonion Breed
Alex Seda
Liluca
LABEL: Behold Recordings

Special Thanks To JackieDj

Booking Info:
jackiedj@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/deejayjackie
+386 40 557799
+386 31 335288

Direct download: Jackiedj_from_Zero_Absence_-_Live_at_WMC_2008M.U.M.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:45am EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Snake Sedrick live  @ Tilth Hamonies - M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement

He was born on the 6th of January 1980 in Budapest, then he moved to the countryside with his family at the age of ten. His father’s love of music also infected him in his early years. During the primary school years he learnt playing on synthesizer. Then in the age of 15 he got his first computer, but in the beginning he only played onto that, but later he discovered the other possibilities of the computer. In the years about 1996/1997 between the walls of the legendary discotheque Flört, he got to know the music which was embedded his memory forever (Quench-Dreams). He wrote his first musics in the way of Fast Tracker, which wasn’t an acceptable quality at the time. Spending a lot of years with playing music and working hard, his work slowly but surely bore its fruit. By the time he felt himself to be ready to show his works to other people, 5 years has passed. In 2000 he wrote the song “Across the sahara”, wich has also played by Mo Shic and later has been released by Sauna Recordings. Getting enthusiastic on this success he sent more and more tracks to the Israelian artist, therefore in december 2001 Mo Shic asked him to make an exclusive music, what Mo Shic announced on his cd “DJ Mag World Series – Mixed by Mo Shic” in England.

After this publishments, several positive feedbacks, the love and appreciation of the people made him to go further on this way. He made a remix to the Hungarian CHI Recordings, and a common music with Andro, which got the title “She is my destiny” and became the last track of the cd “Progressive Sounds of Budapest – Mixed by Kühl & Monkz”. Later he worked together with Andro, which became the track “Liquid State & Solid State” and announced by the Italian Screen Recordings. In 2005 three of his own bakelites came out the titles of “Alterna”, “Fields”, and “Circular”. In the meantime he appeared on several compilation albums such as “Sog Files”, “Inception”, “Budapest Parade 2003”, “Budapest Parade 2004” and on mix albums of some world famous djs like: Hernan Cattaneo, Andrew K, DJ 19 and Tomas Haverlik.

He has started his dj career in 2003. During his only one and a half year-long career he already has played in whole Hungary. He has played many times on abroad in the Emirates, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and they invite Snake back time to time. In 2005 at the voting of the Partycom Evote, ‘Snake Sedrick & Khans – Circular’ won the ‘track of the year’ title. In the meantime he was continuously making new tracks and remixes, and with his Slovakian friend, Peter, they established the Tilth Music digital label, where he plays an important role as A&R. For the ask of the American Proton Radio, Andro, Yvel & Tristan and Snake Sedrick has started their monthly 4 hour-show, which got the title Indigo.

Between 2005 and 2007 he worked for Tilth Music mostly, and he released 22 tracks on it. The Tilth DJ’s agency started in 2007 september and Snake is one of the artist in it beside Jay Lumen, Add 2 Basket & Belocca.

Special thanks to Mr  Sedrick

International Bookings

Tilth DJ's agency
Dina Fox
+36 30 225 9381
tilthdjs@gmail.com
WWW.TILTHGROUP.COM

Direct download: Snake_Sedrick_Live_-_Tilth_Harmonies_M.U.M.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:10pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Francesco Bonora AKA Checco DJ @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 21 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement




FRANCESCO BONORA, A.K.A. CHECCO DJ,WAS BORN IN BOLOGNA IN 22/09/1984. HE BEGUN TO MOVE HIS FIRST STEPS INTO THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC WEN HE WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD,BUYING HIS FIRST CONSOLLE. AFTER MANY APPEREANCES IN LITTLE GIGS, FINALLY IN 2002, WHEN I WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD, THE GREAT CHANCE CAME OUT: HE PLAYS AT THE WELL KNOWN INTERNATIONAL VENUE OF COCORICOí CLUB WITH OTHERS DJíS.

SINCE THEN ëTILL 2005 HIS CAREER IS RICH OF SATISFACTIONS,WORKING OFTEN IN MANY CLUBS: HE CONTINUES TO PLAY @ COCORICOí(RICCIONE) DURING THE ONE NIGHT HALLOWEEN EVENT AND IN SOME OTHER FESTIVITIES. MOREOVER IN THESE 3 YEARS HE GAINED THE CHANCE TO PERFORM IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT VENUES, THE LIKE OF THE ECU CLUB OF RIMINI, BAIA IMPERIALE, CONTATTO IN BOLOGNA,BURROCACAO OF FAENZA, THE STREET PARADE OF BOLOGNA,NRG OF CESENATICO AND LINK OF BOLOGNA . 2006 WAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP INTO HIS CAREER BY SPINNING @ THE TUESDAY EVENTS OF ìVILLA DELLE ROSEî (VILLA TITILLA) HELD IN SUMMER TIME; BESIDES THAT HE COULD ALSO BE PART OF THE COCORICOí RESIDENT PERFORMER, BY PLAYING MONTHLY IN THE TITILLA SECTION BETWEEN 2006 AND 2007.

IN 2007 HE HAD MANY PERFORMANCES WITH THE ìPIRICAî CREW AND THE ìPUNTO Gî CREW WHERE HE IS ALSO CO-ORGANIZER. HIS SETS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS, FROM THE ELECTRO AND EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, UNTIL THE MINIMAL AND THE HARD VIBES OF TECHOUSE AND TECHNO, CROSSING BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT COLOURS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC.

 IN 2008 SOME OF HIS PRODUCTIONS ARE PLANNED TO BE OUT ON MANY LABELS.. IN FEBRUARY 2008 IN COLLABORATION WITH HIS FRIEND STEFANO FRISONI GAVE TO THE LIGHT HIS DIGITAL MUSIC LABEL "ELECTRO G RECORDS"

www.myspace.com/electrogrecords

Special Thanks To Francesco and Ellen from The Princess Managemant

MOBILE PHONE: +393338437336

HOME PAGE: www.myspace.com/francescobonora

e mail: checcodeejay@libero.it
Direct download: Francesco_Bonora_AKA_DJ_Checco__M.U.M_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:53am EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... " 1605 Session with UMEK " and his new Residency @ M.U.M- Episode 20 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement  and new Resident Dj UMEK 1605 Session.











DJ UMEK

Uroš Umek is internationally acclaimed music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who’ve joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined “Slovenian techno sound? and successfully invested it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

The year 2007 marked the beginning of new chapter in Umek’s music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move for such an established artist as DJ Umek. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he picked up the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his productions are supported by some top dogs in the industry.

Umek recent productions include highly acclaimed club releases such as Overtake & Command, Ricochet Effect, Another Matter Entirely and Faithful Nights, but it were MTV supported hit singles Posing as Me and Carbon Occasions that stirred the most media attention and crossed over to the daily radio stations. Umek’s releases were lately included on the premiere club compilations mixed by artists such as Sander Kleinenberg, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell, John Digweed, M.I.K.E. or Carl Cox. He was amongst the headliners of esteemed summer music festivals such as Primavera, Monegros or Dance Valley and he conquered the South America on the joint tour with Valentino Kanzyani and Marko Nastić once more. And this was only the introduction in the Umek’s year 2008, when he plans to finally present long expected new artist album and his own live band.

Special Thanks To  Umek and Mr Urban Jeram  

www.umek.si

UMEK BOOKING CONTACT:

Tina / Kne'deep Berlin
tina@knedeep.net

Kne'deep Berlin
P.O. Box 41 12 02
12122 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 97 00 23 57
Fax: +49 30 79 78 38 53
www.knedeep.net

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement
Direct download: M.U.M_presents_Umek_1605_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:26am EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Christian Smith Live at Australia @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 19

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."


Swedish citizen, Christian Smith spent the late 80’s years in Germany soaking up the early house and techno sound of Sven Vath. Now based in Barcelona, he has been championing his funky mix of house and techno for more than a decade, playing across Asia, North & South America, and Europe, plus regular slots at summer festivals like UK’s Creamfields, Holland’s Dancevalley, Spain's Monegros and Belgium’s I Love Techno. His music released on a variety of top labels like Renaissance; Josh Wink’s Ovum, Carl Cox’s Intec, Darren Emerson's Underwater, and his very own Tronic, only proves his flexibility in the studio. Similarly on the decks, Christian’s set is a cauldron of chunky grooves with loads of energy, 3 decks and effects. Some of his favorite clubs are: Ageha, Tokyo; Loft, Barcelona; Pacha, Buenos Aires; Arches, Glasgow; and Zouk, Singapore. With a full length Smith & Selway artist album out on Sino in 2007 and massive support from DJ's ranging from Deep Dish to Carl Cox to Richie Hawtin, the future is very certain for Christian to stay on top as one of the leaders in forward thinking dance music.

Special Thanks to Christian Smith!!!!!!

www.djchristiansmith.com

www.myspace.com/christiansmithdj

For Bookings Contact: ---------Phuong @ Technorient : phuong@technorient.com (Europe, Asia)--------- Alex Chaykin @ Am Only: alex@amonly.com (USA, Canada, Central America_--------- Martin Gontad & Cruz Pereyra @ Surface Bookings: Cruz@surfacebookings.com (South America excluding Brazil) --------------Paulo Silveira and Luis Eurico @ 3Plus: paulosilveira@3plus.art.br (Brasil)

For more info. visit ;

http://www.myspace.com/mummiami
Direct download: Christian_Smith_Live_From_Australia_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:50pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... " Dj Joao Paulo  @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 18 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.

Minimal & Tech House


About João Paulo
 
João Paulo had his first contact with eletronic music by the age of 15, at Dr. Smith club. Everyone in town knows for sure the club’s story and its reputation to always bring the main international attractions to Rio de Janeiro. One of the club’s owner was his oldest brother, so, he was familiarized since he was a kid with the dancefloor, which made him become part of that universe.

Ten years after, already grown up and comfortable at the set, João Paulo has ended up by owning the pickups and has become a resident at three carioca parties: Bootleg, Mínima and Loading. With nothing but three years of career, the DJ has already participated of the Creamfields Festival in Rio de Janeiro, the Chemical Music Festival, Paz Eletrônica, Xxxperience 100º edition, Tribe, and has already played at the following parties: Burn Energy Music, Nokia Trends Mob Jam, Tim Verão at Ipanema Beach, RBK Tops, Ballantine’s Impress and Ipanema Stereo Beach 2007/2008, representing Bootleg.

In 2007, João Paulo has gone beyond the national fronteers and played at We Love Brasil, at the Carlton Hotel and at Bass Walk Records, at the club Pawl Shop, during the Winter Music Conference 2007, in Miami. Right after the conference, the DJ left to the south of Brazil, where he opened the project Life is a Loop at the club Warung, in Santa Catarina. Besides these gigs, during the Skol Beats 2007, he was invited to play at Pacha, at the party We Love Sundays.

At this time, João Paulo shared the pickups with great Brazilian names of the electronic music, such as Gui Boratto, Life is a Loop, Mary Zander, Maurício Lopes, Mau Mau, Leo Janeiro, Flow & Zeo, among many others.

Remarkable international artists also share the set with him. In this team, DJs like Fat Boy Slim, Booka Shade, Deep Dish, Tiga, Miss Kittin, Laurent Garnier, Josh Wink, Benni Benassi, Christian Smith, Martin Eyerer, Steve Lawler, Serge Santiago, Thomas Schumacher, Format B, Tim Healey, King Unique, Spirit Catcher, Luke Dzierzek, Tobias Lutzenkirchen are together, just to mention some of them.

DJ João Paulo’s style varies among techno, tech house and minimal. At the beginning, house and electro were the first influences in his sets, basically due to his brother’s sound and also because of the vocals and mixes at that time. In Winter Music, 2006, the DJ met the minimal deeper and fell in love with this music gender. Artists like Format B, Audio Fly and Trentemoller became therefore his big influences. At the beginning of 2007, he incorporated techno and decided to add those beats in his sets. Nowadays, João Paulo doesn’t like to be considered from a specific style and his case goes from house to minimal.

Another big characteristic of the DJ is his big interest in technology, mostly towards to musical universe. João Paulo researches not only music, but also last generation software like Final Scratch, Traktor DJ Studio, Serato Scratch Live and Ableton Live. The result is a vast knowledge of mixing techniques and an increasing number of tools to build songs. And the effect of it, we can see it on the dancefloor.

Special Thanks to JP

Bookings:
REQUEST DJs

Office 55 21 3264.3575
Lou Lou 55 21 9376.6938
contato@requestdjs.com.br

 MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/joaopedroza 

Direct download: Dj_Joao_Paulo_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:04pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Dri.k @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 17

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.


TECH HOUSE, ELECTRO & TECHNO

A regular in most of the electronic music parties in Rio de Janeiro, her hometown, DJ DRI.K is always surprising with her modern and fashionable style. In July of 2006, she attended a workshop at Scratch DJ Academy, in New York. Only a few months later, she played at the first “We Love Brazil? party during the Winter Music Conference 2007 and at The White Room in Palermo Hollywood, Buenos Aires/Argentina. In 2007, she came back to the US for her first official tour and she returned this year for playing at few parties during the Winter Music Conference 2008 and then she goes to New York and Boston, where will be playing with Gui Boratto, the most important brazilian producer of techno, at the Great Scott.

In Rio, she has played in every top club such as The Week, Foxfobox, Dama de Ferro, 69, Nuth, D.Club, Patio Lounge and also at other events like TIM Summer Copacabana Beach and Arena Morro da Urca. She was the only woman playing at Skol Wheel during the Carnival 2008 in Rio de Janeiro sharing the booth with Mason (Holland), Eric Entrena (Spain) and Tomcraft (Germany). She played at Adidas and Diesel Store cocktails and also played in several clubs all over Brazil. Had two of her mixed sets selected to play at the party “Leggo My Demo? (a monthly event that it congregates some of best house deejays from the south of the Florida to hear the best set of the month, chosen between deejays from all over the world) at The Rooftop Lounge, in Miami Beach. Dri.K also had her own online radio show, the Electro Emotion at Agita Net FM.

One of the great feminine promises of the scene in Rio de Janeiro, DRI.K currently integrates casting of the Titattium in Portugal, UC Bookings in the United States and Agência Play, one of the biggest deejays agencies of Brazil. Dri.K never fails to suprise with eclectic and amazing sets, which include tech and electro house. By adding beauty and charisma to her wonderful sets, she is capable of setting the mood in any party. When Dri.K is in charge, you can always expect lots of fun, filled of sexy and involving grooves.


Special Thanks to UC Bookings

BOOKINGS

AGÊNCIA PLAY | (47) 3361.4888

denisejung@agenciaplay.com

EUA > UC

bookings@ucmusicgroup.com

PORTUGAL > TITANNIUM

info@titannium.com

MySpace URL: 

  http://www.myspace.com/djdrik 

www.djdrik.net/


Direct download: Dri.k_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:31pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement presents... "Dave Dk @M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 16 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.


This week M.U.M. brings you the sound of DJ Dave Dk From Germany.

Tracking List:
1   Sascha Funke ­ Mango (Bpitch Control)
2 Basic Soul Unit ­ Tunnels, Sebo K & Metro Remix (Mule)
3 Glimpse & Tolfrey­ Misunderstood Edit (5 Easy Pieces)
4 Justus Köhncke ­ Yacht (Kompakt)
5 Rozzo ­ I Wish I was A Black Cat (Trackdown)
6 Holger Zilske & Dave DK ­ Detox (Dialect Battle)
7 Martin Landsky ­ Cold Eyes Version 2 (Pokerflat)
8 Sascha Funke ­ Double Checked (Bpitch Control)
9 Marc Ashken ­ Root Rot, Shonky Dub Mix (Leftroom Limited)
10 Fanclub Feat. Preocoop ­ Maskcatcher, Holger Zilske & Dave DK Remix
(Baalsaal)


Dave DK BIOGRAPHY http://www.davedk.com
 
DJ & producer David Krasemann, better known as Dave DK has been making
waves in the electronic music scene for a couple of years now, and now starting to
emerge as a serious player. Since the early 90's he was fascinated by the
upcoming techno movement, which eventually led to his own active initiation. 1995
was the starting point for the then 17 year old. Together with a longtime friend,
Dave produced his first tracks and was involved in the organization of
underground techno and house partys, constantly trying to spread and push new
electronic music.  
Searching for new electronic sounds every day and having honed his skills as a
producer in his chosen home Berlin, Dave released his first record on Müller
Records in 1998. His DJ activities had been highly pushed since that time. In 1999
he became a resident DJ at Tresor/Globus club in Berlin, later on also at the
legendary Panorama Bar. Beside his remix productions for Beroshima and
Skiebäck he released records on raum...musik., Decore, Lifetime Music and
Cadeaux.  
As Dave is an open minded person who resents musical limits, he doesn’t want to
be reduced to one style.  His sound simply is the result of different styles that have
influenced him throughout the years. "I have a passion for the wide range between
house and techno as well as pop music and dancefloor stuff of the early 90's",
says Dave.  
Though he’s elegantly juggling a variety of electronic music to create his own style,
in his tracks he often combines tragic melodies with kickin’ grooves that transform
your body into a twisting stampede of electricity, with trademark swing and warm
funk.
The year 2000 can be marked as the first highlight in his career: his debut album  
"sensory overload“ had been released on Müller Records and there were musical
excursions on Cologne’s Television label as well as on the Barcelona based
Regular label. Dave is now currently recording for Moodmusic and also on
Playhouse (a collaboration with Holger „Smash TV“ Zilske) which brings him even
closer to his idea of electronic house tunes.
In November 2007 Dave released his second album „Lights and Colours“ on
Moodmusic.
For Dave DK, music is a model of living in which he’s able to enhance his skills in
order to realise his vision of modern electronic club and home entertainment –
expect more fantastic releases in the very near future. 
 
 
Worldwide gigs: 
  
all over Germany, Japan, Brazil,China, Switzerland, Spain, Holland, Poland, Czech
Republic, Slovenia, Israel, Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, USA , UK, Russia, Finland,
France, Croatia, Hungary, Italy

Special thanks to Dave Dk!!!

More info @ www.davedk.com
http://www.myspace.com/djdavedk 

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement



Direct download: Dave_Dk_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:20am EST

Miami Underground Movement and Kg Miami House Recordings Proudly presents... "Guy Pary@ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 15

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.


This week M.U.M. brings you the sound of DJ Guy Pary From Israel.

Now based in Frankfurt, Germany, Guy Pary is producing cutting edge electronic music.  The city of techno has definitely had an impact on his style although, he's been involved with music much of his life.  He is originally from Israel where he started his journey into sound by playing in bands.  He decided to study in the Rimon School of Jazz and Modern Music.  During his studies he started to write electronic music in different styles like break beat, electro, electronica, big beat, and techno.  He then took several DJ courses and started spinning at clubs in Tel Aviv like; Homan 17, Breakfast, Under, and TLV.  He now plays his own tracks in his DJ sets which take listeners on a journey of sounds, beats, and melodies.  Most recently, he is releasing his debut track -Affair- on KG House Miami Recordings on March 20, 2008. 

Tracklist:

1-Audiofly x-Below the surface
2-Rekleiner - Dos caminos
3-Guy Pary -Night shift
4-Audiofly x- Blink
5-Steve Lawer - Courses for horses
6-Dave Shokh and Pele -Thumbs(Simon Baker remix)
7-Jona&Nutonproject-Ashes&Dust
8-Piemont-Carbonat
9-Dandi e Ugo -Blumera
10-Simon Flower - Shinjuku skyline(Luna city express remix)
Guy Pary:
http://www.myspace.com/oneguymusic
Special Thanks to Kg House Miamihttp://www.myspace.com/kghousemiami

Direct download: Guy_Pary-Tuning_up_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:25pm EST

Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... "Roger Lyra- TRANCESTATION-Vol 1@ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 14

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.


This week M.U.M. brings you the sound of DJ Roger Lyra From Brazil.


TRACKLIST:

1. LUSTRAL - WHEN MY SATELITE FALLS DOWN (TERRY BONES DUB MIX)
2. GIANLUCA MOTTA ft. MOLLY - NOT ALONE (DEADMAU 5 REMIX)
3. MARKUS SCHULZ ft DEPARTURE - CAUSE YOU KNOW (WIPPENBERG MIX)
4. ARMIN VAN BUUREN ft SUSANA - IF YOU SHOULD GO (INPETTO MIX)
5. SANTIAGO NINO - COPACABANA
6. ERNESTO vs BASTIAN - THRILL (REFLECTING IVERSITY MIX)
7. ALLURE ft JULLIE THOMPSON - SOMEWHERE INSIDE (ANDY DUGUID MIX)
8. SIGNALRUNNERS - ELETRIC SHEEP
9. ANTON SONIN & AMX - UNDONE (RANK 1 MIX)
10. TIESTO ft JES - EVEYTHING (COSMIC GATE MIX)
11. JAN JOHNSTON - LET THE WORLD FALL APART (AROUND ME)
12. RANK 1 vs JOHAN MILLER - AND THEN (ORIGINAL MIX)


The start in the end of 80’s was in playground parties, when the tapes recorded from
the radio and a few records bought by his mother opened the gates of a culture that
was only beginning. Always ahead of his time, Roger is one of the most popular and
respected DJ’s in Brazil and the most prestigious DJs in Brazil. The aggressive style is
the trademark of his DJ set with heavy energy sounds, perfect mix that can hypnotize
the crown and a outsdanding carisma.  
 
The full-energy as a performer is real strong in every act of his DJ Set. It is really
thrilling to see him performing live and it’s impossible to be indifferent to him, even
those who do not like his kind of music can get very impressed by his skills with such a
outstanding performance full of technique and emotion. Everything a DJ can do with
deck’s and a mixer it’s just fun for him. His sound is a long trip into a evolution mix
with a unique mix of Trance & progressive, but make no mistake to underestimate his
taste for music and don’t get surprised to listen a bite of techno or Electro during his
set. This man is not afraid of new sounds. His talent as a awesome turntableist is an
extra tocuh and the crowd follows him with every mix, scratch or back-spin. 
In his home country, he is a icon to a hole generation and every week, he reaches
more than 200.000 listeners at his DJ Show at Radio Jovem Pan Fm, the bigest
satellite radio station in brazil. On 2005 he won the as “Best DJ? on the annual
ceremony of the DJ Sound Magazine Awards, the most importat in Latin America and
his performance in big festivals like SKOL BEATS and CREAMFIELDS side to side with
names like Tiesto, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buure, Ferry Corsten, Marco V and many
more worldwide top artists. 
 
All this conection to music also moved him to world of studios, where the DJ can finally
create his own style and sounds. In 1998 he created his digital alter-ego named
BADBLOCK and started to put in the mix his ideas... After a good time of work the
results started to came up and some of these tracks were included in top seling
compilations in the brazillian market. In 2007 he is back to the studios once again and
his new tracks must be avaiable very soon. 
 
His outstanding talent was exposed to the world after his performance for 200.000
people during the Rio Parade in june of 2003, the biggest international parade in Latin-
america. In December of the same year, he also produced and played at the first dutch
event in brazil: Kremlin World Tour was a huge success with more than 5.000 party
people and he shared the deck’s with the dutch DJ’s Don Diablo and Astrid. The next
step in career was to move outside his home country borders, and so he did. During a
his first international tour he reached Europe with huge success on his gig’s in some of
the coolest club’s and events. 
 
The music business is also in his target. The DJ feeling put him in the spot in one of
the biggest companies on the music business: Sony Music. In 2004 he started his own
company, so NRG Music & Management made it ?s first steps. Recently, he just signed
a deal with Maxpop Music to release a series of new products together with Armada
Music, Armin Van Buuren ?s own label and on of the biggest dance labels in the world.
Always conected with the DJ Culture, Roger was invited by DJ Sound Magazine
(www.djsound.com.br) to be a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro and also found some
time to colaborate in one of the most popular websites in brazil (www.riofesta.com.br)
where he makes some music and event reviews, putting on the net his point of view of
the market. 
 
The end of this story is far away from the end, and a new chapter is writen every
night, after every scratch, every mix... It’s time to move forward and break the
brazillian borders and show the world whow long can he go.

Special thanks to Roger Lyra!!!
 
Website: www.rogerlyra.com.br or www.myspace.com/rogerlyra 
 
Contacts & Booking
 
 
Rua Gomes de Carvalho, 1266 Conjunto 33
Vila Olimpia CEP 04547-005
Sao Paulo, SP - Brasil
Tel/Fax: 00 55 11 3044 6603 / 00 55 11 3045 2197
Web: www.3plus.art.br 
E-mail: neg@3plus.com.br
 

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement

 
 
Direct download: ROGER_LYRA___TRANCESTATION_VOL.01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:36am EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Alvaro Garfunk Making Moves @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 13
Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the "Miami Underground Movement."

At an early age in life, music and broadcast took much interest in the mind of Alvaro Garcia. By 1995, the urge to play vinyl combined with a used pair of Technics 1200's took Alvaro by storm. After spinning at many parties and gatherings, he made his way on a local pirate radio station. With this experience he later ventured on to a full studio production at Florida International University. He then attained his own radio show called "The Friday Pulse" which took listeners on a 2 hour journey each week, successfully spanning 4 years. This is where the progressive techno style of “Garfunk? came about. From then on he stretched beyond the airwaves into podcasts, internet streams, and playing live at venues in Miami, Orlando, and Rio de Janeiro.

Alvaro graduated F.I.U. with a B.B.A. only to rediscover his passion for music. To follow his calling, he attended SAE, the School for Audio Engineering. Graduating from SAE Miami proved to be a very challenging and rewarding experience. Recording, producing, and mixing are skills which came into full swing on current projects. Alvaro co-founded KG Miami Recordings with Eric Kraffman and they also published a weekly iTunes podcast which has attained global exposure and recognition. With guests like Timo Maas, Chaim, Phonique, Spirit Catcher and more, the KG Miami Podcast was named “New and Notable? and “Featured Podcast? in the iTunes Germany music store. KG Miami Recordings has been spreading its niche sound and has released tracks on digital distribution sites worldwide.

Special Thanks To Garfunk 

http://www.myspace.com/djgarfunk 

Direct download: Making_Moves-Alvaro_Garfunk_M.U.M.mp3
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Miami Underground Movement presents... "DJ Tim" - M.U.M. Episode 12 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the "Miami Underground Movement."

This week M.U.M. brings you the sound of DJ Tim from Greece.








DJ TIM aka Efthimios Efthimou,is a greek dj/producer that has been in the scene 10 years now.Eventhough his city,Lamia,is small and away from the main music industry like London,Berlin,LA,etc he has made there many steps and has brought many worldwide djs over the last years. Anthony Pappa,Tone Depth,Terry Francis,GPal are some of the names that have visited the decks of Tim’s parties!!!
Also from 2004 Tim was part of Trust Entertainment agency’s roster which also represented Mashtronic,Leama,Kriece,Stel,Presslaboys,Christian Cambas and many other wordwide artists.This opportunity let him play alongside with djs like Luke Fair,Satoshi Tommie,Hernan Cattaneo,Deep Dish,Dave Seaman and others.
Year 2005 found Tim making his first steps into production and the frist ep at Pangea Recordings was a fact.After this, many other releases came and nowadays Tim with his friend Andi Vasilos have original tracks and remixes at labels such as Presslab,Behold,Bug Eyed,Robotronic,Usb,Omnis,Fiberlineaudio,Existence and many many more in addition to his remixes to artists like Matt Rowan,Terry Grant,DJ Lion,Yves Eaux & Leron,Eelke Kleijn,Elusive and many more. Of course, his tracks have been remixed from great artists like GPal,Stel,Presslaboys,Elusive,Dan Welton,BP Zulauf,Nils Noa and others. His music is supported by many djs across the globe not forgetting Hernan Cattaneo who supports occasionally his tracks at his “Metrodance radio show?.
Moreover, Tim has appearances at great radio shows from Proton Radio,Galaxy Fm to Frisky and DI fm and has been guest at many artists show!
“Transport show? is his own radio show at Frisky Radio which is broadcasted with Emanuel Phaz and together are going to bring fresh electronic sounds to the globe.
Finally he is working under alias like Electric Circus with Andi Vasilos and Kostas B.,City Sleep project with his mates Andi and S.Costell and also as Wonderboys alias with Andi and DJ Hassan H who have already releases at Bug-Eyed and Spinifex records.As Electric Circus their first signle signed at Often Gruven records.
The show continues….



Discography:

12's''/digital:
Summer memories (incl.Mindskap.M.Rodriquez & Alex Xs mixes)[Helvetica Noir]**
Liquid love (incl.Christian Cambas,Desert Dwellers mixes)[OMNIS]**
She made magic (incl.GPAL rmx) [BEHOLD]
Sensibility (incl.Jesse Perez mix) [BEHOLD]
Deep madness/Electro-ice (incl.Ariel G rmx) [BEHOLD]
Noone better ep(incl.Dj Fex mix) [ROBOTRONIC]
A room with a view ep [PANGEA]
Deep ocean (incl.Tamer Fouda,Narek remixes) [FIBERLINEAUDIO]
Wired voices (incl.Pablo Roma rmx) [FIBERLINEAUDIO]
Groove nights (incl.Federico Epis rmx) [FIBERLINEAUDIO]
Drum technic (incl.Stathis L mix) [REFRAZED]
Knock the door (incl.Nils Noa mix) [NASCENT]
Snow queen (incl.Python mix) [Second Coming]
Deface [NRG]
Sweet poison [NRG]
Introspective [NRG]**
Voulez-Vous (incl.Stel,Presslaboys,Elusive rmxs) [PRESSLAB]**
Vogue is out [Bug Eyed]***
Mobile disco / Firewire [SPINIFEX]***


Contact:
www.dj-tim.info
www.ruggedbookings.de
www.myspace.com/djtimgreece
www.myspace.com/refrazedmusic (a&r manager)

Direct download: dj_tim__MUM.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:47pm EST

Miami Underground Movement and Behold Recordings  proudly presents... "ARIEL G & JESSE PEREZ@ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 11

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."


TrackListing:

1. Star you Star me: "I Can't Stay"
2. Elektrochemie: "Get Yourself"
3. Three Drives: "Greece 2000 (Matt Samuels Remix)
4. Audiofly VS Paul Harris: "Mescelate"
5. Zero Absence ft Bawani Project: "I Found A Star"
6. Aldo Haydar: "Marisabel
7. Leutzenkirchen & Toby Montana: "Last Night in Vegas"
8. Dousk: "Hammer"
9. Baunder: "Wired Up"


ARIEL G & JESSE PEREZ

The partnership of Ariel G & Jesse Perez is the story of two young DJ’s/Producers from Miami, whose true passion lay in Electronic Music. As teenage acquaintances they quickly realized each other’s talents for remixing and producing quality Electronic Music. This natural bond fueled an interest in both Ariel and Jesse to help each other successfully further their music careers.

For several years Ariel G & Jesse Perez joined forces and began to take weekly Hip Hop gigs at different nightclubs and lounges throughout the Miami area. This made a long night of playing music an opportunity to discuss current (Electronic) projects they currently worked on individually. Around this time Ariel was also launching the first releases from his newly formed Label, Behold Recordings, featuring remixes from Jeff Bennett, Chris Fortier, and Saeed Younan. Jesse was then asked to remix Behold’s new release, and the rest is history.

Jesse Perez became one of the biggest artists on Behold, having almost every track he touched Chart top 40 and Ariel G took on a residency at one of world’s best known nightclubs, Club Space 34. Here he shared the booth with the likes of Sasha, Pete Tong, Sharam, Desyn Masiello, Nic Fanciulli, Sander Kleinenberg, Roger Sanchez, Steve Lawler, Ceballos, Oscar G, and many others. 

Together, Ariel G & Jesse Perez, form a duo that is unique with their experience, knowledge, and appreciation of all forms of music. It is not surprising to hear them push the envelope and drop an original 80’s Classic in one of their live sets to stir up the crowd. In a day where it is hard to depict refreshing new talent, they are at the forefront of the future.

DISCOGRAPHY:

Ariel G & Gabriel Marcos-Aconoserme (Original)                (O Recs.)
                                           Aconoserme (Alexander Orue Mix)
Ariel G-Electric Plague (Original)                         (Behold Recs.)         Electric Plague (Jeff Bennett Remix)
Ariel G-Behold Malfunction (Original)                    (Behold Recs.)   
             Behold Malfunction (Chris Fortier Remix)
             Behold Malfunction (Saeed Younan Remix)
Ariel G ft Monique-Fallen Angel (Original)                    (Behold Recs.)   
                                Fallen Angel (Pobresito Tobito Mix)
                                Fallen Angel (Jesse Perez Remix)
Ariel G-Perverted Dream                            (Behold Recs.)   
Ariel G ft Monique-Rescue Me (Original)                    (Behold Recs.)   
                                Rescue Me (Freekteaser Remix)
                                Rescue Me (Logiztik Sounds Remix)
                                Rescue Me (Jesse Perez Remix)
Jesse Perez-RollerTech                            (Behold Recs.)   
                   Conscious
Jesse Perez-Dance Tonight                            (Esp Musik)
Jesse Perez-Feels So Good                            (Behold Recs.)   
                   The Breaks
Jesse Perez-I Heard It At Space                        (Behold Recs.)   
Jesse Perez-Southern Sunrise                            (Behold Recs.)   
Jesse Perez-Boot Da Da                            (Behold Recs.)   
Jesse Perez-Hello (Original Mix)                        (Behold Recs.)   
             Hello (Alexander Orue Mix)                           
Jesse Perez-Freakin You                            (Behold Recs.)   
                   Techy Shit
                   Someone Like Me (Original)
                   Someone Like Me (Dj Tim & David Kassi Remix)
Jesse Perez-Doctor Doctor                            (Esp Musik)
Jesse Perez-Nice Body Ugly Face                         (Esp Musik)
Jesse Perez-Do You Want Me (Original)                      (Juicy Music)
                   Do You Want Me (Mario Ochoa Remix)
                   Do You Want Me (Willie Morales Remix)
Jesse Perez-Moosie Joosie (Original)                        (Behold Recs.)   
                   Moosie Joosie (Vertical Smile Remix)
Ariel G & Jesse Perez-So Hung Up (Ariel G Mix)                (Behold Recs.)   
                                    So Hung Up (Jesse Perez Mix)
Ariel G & Jesse Perez-For You                        (Behold Recs.)   
            Better On My Own

CONTACT:

email:  arielg@beholdrecordings.com
aim: beholdarielg

email:  jesseperez@beholdrecordings.com


Special Thanks to Ariel G

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement



Direct download: Ariel_G__Jesse_Perez_-_Behold_Records_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:16pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Dj superstar Jelo Live Set" - M.U.M Episode 10

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."



He has remixed pop stars, produced great tracks and performed around the globe. He is known as 'The people's DJ' and one of the fastest beatmatchers live on decks amongst Canadians. A character that is an electronic music kitchen sink that has become a trailblazing influence on the floors, the streets, in people's cars and homes. His live shows are simply dazzling. The DJ known only as Jelo is a leader in North America's electronic music movement and an innovator and ambassador to all things hard and funky in Canada. Since his days supplying the heartbeat of Toronto's dancefloors in Eastern Bloc records to the most obscure clubs in the cozy corners of his Country one thing has become obvious - Experiencing these awe-inspired and interactive sets, regarded legendary by many, is what makes the Jelo experience different than that found with the average DJ.

His straightforward 'take the bull by the horns' approach towards music and performing has kept Jelo amongst the top echelons of DJs in Canada. His style of presentation is unique and bridges the gap between audience and performer. Jelo becomes one with the audience and uses his uncanny abilities to read a floor, any floor, regardless of where he is. The young DJ brought about this awareness of 'new' music that is often refered to as 'banging house, electro, electro house and techno' to be a fashionable asset. Canada had no clue what hit them ! He was the first DJ in the Toronto clubs to usher in Speed Garage, Hard House, Nu Skool sounds and never sticking to one genre. He was constantly mashing things up. An innovator of moving sounds, even Eye Magazine awarded him the prestigious "most innovative DJ" award in their yearly DJ pools. Incorporating the spiciest elements of house, techno, breaks and rock blended with wild mixing abilities gives this DJ the distinction of all-around artist, entertainer, and performer. No stranger to travel he has dazzled thousands in Greece, England, Dubai, Taiwan, Coast to Coast in the USA and every major urban centre in his home country of Canada. There is not one venue that can resist Jelo, big or small, at anytime, anywhere.

Always maintaining the underground cool and respect of his peers Jelo refuses to compromise his musical principles. He exudes the authenticity of someone truly involved in a rhythmical love affair with music. The knowledge of artists and record labels is surpassed only by his natural drive to spread the joy these sounds has brought him. Always learning and always improving, the future for Jelo is guided by an awesome natural intensity, an astonishing musical dedication and a drive to change the world- one beat at a time.

Special thanks To Jelo!!!

FOR ALL BOOKING INFO PLEASE CONTACT alison@mixxitup.com

MySpace URL: 

 
http://www.myspace.com/djjelo

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement 
Direct download: Jelo_Live_From_Maxx_Fish___Whistler_01.23.08__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:27pm EST

Miami Underground Movement presents... "Audio Arq @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 9 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."

Tracklisting:

Michal Ho - Take Away (Original Mix)  (Tuning Spork)

Elektrochemie - Get Yourself (Original Mix) (Get Physical Music)

Son Of Raw - A Black Man In Space - (Original Mix) (Objektivity)

Wollion Harada - Rushhour (Original Mix)  (Blun Fin)

Agaric - Goose Step (Original Mix) (Raum...Musik)

Pryda - Europa (Original Mix)  (Pryda Recordings)

Cost,Doray - Apocalypse (Sebastien Leger Mix) (Serial Records)

Sasha – Who Killed Sparky (Original Mix ) (emFire)

Tiger Stripes – Mad At Me (Original Mix) (Get Physical Music)

Marc O Toll & Criss Source – Showtime (Original Mix) (X.L.R.8.R.)

Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Mark Knight Remix) (Different)

BIO-Portuguese

Aos 21 anos já é um dos maiores e mais carismáticos nomes da cena house nacional. Começou a tocar com apenas 13 e foi acumulando experiências em grandes festas e clubs até chegar ao seu set atual, que combina o melhor do ’’deep,techouse, techno’’  na linha de ‘’120 a 126’’ BPM.

   Sempre tocando para um público refinado e com bom gosto formou um estilo original e altamente agradável, que incorpora as maiores novidades do estilo e grooves inspiradíssimos que conduzem a pista a uma verdadeira “odisséia dançante?. 

Ricardo é hoje uma das maiores promessas do país. Além de demonstrar técnica apurada e extremo bom gosto é jovem e pesquisador incansável de lançamentos e novas tendências. Atualmente é residente nos principais clubs da cena centro-oeste como: Somma Lounge,Fiction Club e House Garden,e tem trabalhado em suas própria produções que vão ser lançadas em breve.

Ricardo Tatoo juntamente com Gustavo Carmona formam o ?udio Arq. ,que acaba de ganhar no fim de 2007 o concurso ‘’ 1 DUB MUISC PRODUCTION CONTEST’’,os produtores levaram o premio de melhor produção categoria techno com a faixa ‘’Light Swing’’. www.dubmusic.com.br/concurso

Já tocou ao lado de grandes nomes da cena mundial,alguns como:

Internacionais:

FlowJob, Perfect Stranger , Felipe Straub,Paul Thomas , Infected Mushroom, Tocadisco,Redanka,Astrix, Frederico Epis, Kane Bligh, Thomas Penton, True to Nature, Xérox e Illumination, Marcos Paz, Rinkadink, Dimitri Nakov, Kore,Gaz James,Jerome Isma-ae entre outros...

Nacionais:

Patife, Tati, Pedrão, Ekantra, Pedro Turra, Ali3nato, Mora, Edu Brussi, Ale Reis, Ferris, Julio Torres, Fabricio Psicodelic,Mario Fischetti, Buga, Komka, Mary Zander,  Renato Cohen, Junior C, Anderson Soares, Leozinho,Gabo, Gu, Ingrid, Paulinho Bogosian,Rica Amaral, Caramaschi,Amnésia, Burn in Noise,Crossover, Rafael Abiramia,Xama,Baphomet,Spavieri,Click Box,,Mex,Marky ,André Pulse,Renato Ratier,Hopper,Rodrigo Paciornick,Aninha,Rodrigo Carreira (Oxyd),João Lee,San Schwartz,Propulse,Hans,Fabrício Peçanha entre outros... 

Residências:

www.clubfiction.com.br

www.housegarden.net

www.sommalounge.com.br

Radio:

www.interativafm.net

Special Thanks to Ricardo Tatoo

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement

 

Direct download: Audio_Arq._-__M.U.M_-_January_2008_DjMix_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:35am EST

 Miami Underground Movement presents proudly... "Dj Superstar UMEK @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 8 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."

UMEK  tracklist

1.    Kiki – Dancing Graffiti (Bpitch Control)
2.    Lars  Sommerfeld – Don't Say Baby (Two Faces Rec.)
3.    Marc O'Tool + Criss Source – Indigo (X.L.R.8.R)
4.    Nicolas Stefan – 080Four (Karatemusik)
5.    Lissan & Stills – Wings (Sic Rec.)
6.    Pawas Gupta – Alicia (Flash)
7.    Jeroen Verheij – Chica-Go (Rejected)
8.    Radio Slave – Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)
9.    Wollion Harada – Metropolitan Fulltime (BluFin)
10.    Soren Matschiste – Last Train (Etui Rec.)
11.    Velkro – BBQ (Lo Kik Rec.)
12.    Davis and May – Take Off And Leave All Behind (Piemont Rec.)
13.    Solaris Heights – No Trace (Popof RMX)
14.    Harvey McKay – Powder From The Gods (Perc Trax)
15.    CrisP – Monohybrid (Circle Digital)

Uros Umek is internationally acclaimed deejay and music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not happen without the support of his loyal peers who've joined him on the production platforms such as Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco, with which they defined "Slovenian techno sound" and successfully it as an important driving force on the global club scene.

He started his journey to the stardome as an excellent athlete, running between two baskets, but it was Euterpe the Muse of music and poetry that paved Umek's life-path. She got him totally unprepared, seduced him with no further notice, so he had no chance of getting out of her treads. He devoted his life, his heart, all of his passion and energy, to the sounds he discovered as a teenager. Pioneering the genre he became one of its most appreciated ambassadors with faithful worldwide audience simply known as The Father (of Slovenian techno).

Sleeping on past achievements was never Umek's thing. So it's nosurprise he decided for complete renovation of his sound and live set performance though being steady member of Top 100 DJ lists for almost a decade. The year 2007 marks beginning of a new chapter in his music career. After spending enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristic sound to the whole new level, he presented new international music therapy called 1605 – Sixteenofive. No doubt this was a very risky move. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he made the right decision at the crucial time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his production is supported by some top names in the industry.


FALLING IN LOVE
"As far as I remember, my first serious contact with music was trough pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Modern Talking, Falco and Yugoslavian singer Daniel, who rocked the Eurosong audience in the early 80's with the infamous hit single Djuli. (Laugh.) My mother is the one to blame. She bought me my first radio which I've listened to 'till exhaustion," apologizes Uros.

He brought his music passion to the next level few years latter, discovering the record button on his first double cassette player/recorder. "That enabled me to start my own music collection. I've recorded songs from Slovenian disco chart program, which presented top commercial tunes on weekly basis. I also managed to get my hands on some rare pirate cassettes with dance and techno tunes, but even few years after Slovenia became independent I didn't really know where to look for that modern electronic sounds that I liked so much. I didn't know anyone who listened to that stuff. Until I discovered Cool Night, specialized broadcast on Ljubljana's alternative student radio station. The Monday evening slot was run by original pioneers of electronic dance culture in Slovenia, Primoz Pecovnik (now boss of indie label Matrix Music), Brane Zorman aka MC Brane of Beitthron and Aldo Ivancic of Borghesia.


HE'LL BURN IN HELL
If there's any symbolism in the beginning of his clubbing career, DJ Umek won't escape burning in Hell for at least few decades: "I've told my mother I'm going to church to attend festive midnight mass on the Christmas night, but I was determined to visit MC Brane's party at Ljubljana's underground club K4 for the first time that night. I was expected to be home at 1 am, but wasn't 'till 4 am, so the curfew was imminent," Umek remembers popping his club cherry.

When the martial law eventually lifted and his mum decided to soften the regime, he found himself dealing with new challenge. He was allowed to go clubbing at the weekends but was expected to be home at 3 am. The trick was, as it usually is, that the first morning bus to his home neighborhood departed from the centre of the city fifteen minutes later. Solving problem wasn't easy, but being young and determined there was no problem for him running trough the half of the city twice a week: "Running few kilometers in the middle of the night after clubbing really wasn't as hard as it seems. I was training basketball at that time, so I was really fit." It's more than a decade since he traded career of basketball superstar for the nightlife debauchery. It would be interesting to see what he could have achieved as an athlete. Namely, he was selected for the junior national team just as he parted from the sports, and some of his former colleagues became key players in the top USA and European basketball leagues.


HE GOT HOOKED
The industrial designed K4 club in the basement of Student's Union HQ in the centre of Ljubljana is still considered to be Umek's resident club, although he's not an official resident deejay anymore. But since his most loyal fans are still gathering there, K4 remains the playground for testing new productions, concepts and sounds. "It's where everything started. This is the place where I've got in touch with first Slovenian electronic projects such as Anna Lies, Clox or Random Logic. Some of those guys were and still are important part of my life. It was Jure Havlicek who ultimately influenced my decision to get involved in professional music production. Gregor Zemljic is mastering all of my tracks. And I've founded my first band Mouse Trap with Uros and Vid, who have opened my eyes and ears to this culture."

It was his friend's Uros home where Umek got in touch with UK based pirate radio stations such as Green Apple/Dance Nation. "We picked up this programs via satellite dish. They played hardcore, breakbeat and techno non stop at the weekend, and even though we were recording it, we never left the house so we would not miss anything!" His friend was also the one who introduced him the Screen Tracker. "It was the very basic 8-bit resolution production tool with four mono channels, but that's how everything started. After I've finally managed to save enough money to buy proper sampler, the outside World ceased to exist. I've became totally obsessed with that box. I've spent up to sixteen hours a day working on that machine."


AND SO HE BEGAN
Although he's established technician, master of three decks and FX performances, it wasn't easy for Umek to get acquainted with those needles and mixers in the first place. You have to bear in mind his home country was part of former eastern block and most of the small clubs could only afford cassette and CD players at that time. "I could only dream of having my own decks in the beginning of 90's. As a single parent my mother could not afford that kind of expense. But I was lucky I've met few guys that recognized the talent in me and gave me the opportunity to start."

Umek was regular at club Palma matinees at that time. He spent most of the afternoons standing in the corner watching deejay mixing records, until one day resident DJ Alf offered him to finish his set. He seized the opportunity, somehow managed to get trough the night and they've agreed he can practice on that decks and mixer for an hour or so before the weekly matinee. "After I've conquered the technique and performed for a few times in Palma, I've got offered opening slot at Aldo's night in K4. It only paid as much to buy one CD, but it was a steady job and I really liked it." It was also the time when he decided to sell his collection of 200 CDs. "It's something I still regret, but it was the only way to earn money I needed to buy vinyl."

In the early 90s buying techno records seemed almost a mission impossible for someone living and working in Slovenia. Closest shop with that kind of music was in Germany, almost 500 kilometers away from Ljubljana. "We heard there are some records shops in Munich. So we've booked the weekly shopping bus, drove to Munich, and found that shops on our own. It wasn't easy but we've successfully finished that adventure. I've only had enough money to buy eight records, but this is how my collection started."


BUILDING THE SCENE
Germany was also the place where Umek got in touch with the rave scene. "It was an amazing experience, when I attended my first Technomania party with 15.000 revelers on seven floors placed in a hangar on the outskirts of Munich. And when I've entered twice as bigger Mayday arena for the first time I knew I want to be in that deejay booth one day. Few years later I was. Although I've thought to myself what the heck am I doing at that commercial masquerade in the backstage, I've changed my mind when I've finally stepped into the deejay booth. I've seen all those kids waving hands and shouting to me as being their god, and I'm sure some of them thought just the same as I did years before them. So, I've just smiled and performed one of the best sets of my career that can still be found on the internet."

Totally hooked on exploding ravemania, Umek and his peers started organizing bus transfers to rave parties in Germany. They were enyoing themselves and they were learning along the way. So it was just a matter of time when they decided to start putting up their own events. "The first one was total disaster," remembers Umek. "We've leased the local fireman's hall for the night but only managed to attract hundred of revelers. We were so broke, we couldn't even afford cleaning lady the morning after." But they could not be stopped by that debacle. They worked their way from event to event, got in charge of small club in the outskirts of Ljubljana and gradually became one of the leading promoters in the country.

"I still remember the illegal rave party we've organized in the countryside outside Ljubljana. It attracted surprisingly big mass of people and one of the main national newspapers reported of the incident, since we were dispersed by the police. And there was the local politician, real smart guy that made us all laugh: he stated that the cows in the nearby village stopped lactating ( i.e. giving milk) because of the stress induced by loud techno music. … No, I'm not kidding. This really was in the papers and can still be found in the archives."


THE BIG BREAK
DJ Umek made his name in Slovenia by hosting some of the best club nights in the country. Clubbing scene in Zagreb, Croatia was much stronger in the beginning of 90s, but it was him and his peers that changed that in just a few years by turning their home turf into most prolific party scene in the whole region. It was also the time of experimenting for Umek. He was mostly known as techno deejay, but loved to play underground house, too, especially at the after parties. And since he had the biggest collection of house records in Slovenia, he quickly became involved in building the house scene as well. At some point he was so much into house, he played four gigs a week, but only twice a month techno set. "I felt really suffocated as an artist with all that house, because I couldn't focus on techno, my main genre. One night at Ambasada Gavioli I decided I won't play house anymore. I grabbed some Chicago house records, pitched them, played really banging set and gave farewell to the club. I've returned to K4 and focus on techno again."

He returned to Ambasada Gavioli the next year, this time as a techno specialist. Since he was treated as the second resident, the favorite of club management always being his good friend Valentino Kanzyani, Umek had no competitive clause and could take bookings wherever and whenever he desired. Meeting top techno DJs from all over the world, establishing new friendships and gathering contacts he started performing at the best venues all over the World. Quickly he assembled crowds of faithful fans from Berlin to Tokyo, making impression as a great technician and programmer, but it was his special blend of music known as Slovenian Techno which has put him on the map as one of the tope names in the genre.

RECYCLED LOOPS
As the founding pillar of Slovenian electronic music scene Umek co-founded his first label in the mid 90s. Absense (and its sub-label Expire) was the first specialized techno label in the region, home to artists such as Umek, Anorak, Random Logic, Brother's Yard or Clox, quickly becoming popular with artists such as Laurent Garnier or Sven Väth because of its unique sound.

But it were the Recycled Loops in Earresistible Musick labels that really established Slovenian electronic dance sound as one of the driving forces on the global scale. The first mentioned joint venture with Valentino Kanzyani was and still is reserved for underground techno releases, while the second serves as a platform for hard, electronic house experiments. "The idea for starting our own label wasn't originally ours. The plan was to launch Next Wave imprint as Ambasada Gavioli offspring. Everything was set up, we've recorded our first record, but then suddenly Valentino terminated his partnership with the club management, and since I was performing there solely as a favor to him, I left too. But we were determined to release our production and decided to start the label on our own. The first release was distributed by Prime and since it sold good they've supported the launch of our own label. The name was picked up as a statement and description for the sound we were promoting at the same time. Namely, that was the time when we recycled old techno loops."

Umek is currently involved in running another two independent labels. He is one of four guys behind experimental Astrodisco project, which is Slovenia's unique answer to "minimal" explosion. The other one is the extension of his new 1605 – Sixteeenofive concept, which was launched in the early 2007 as international platform for promotion and development of new electronic sound structures and approaches to deejay performances. Guy Gerber, Extrawelt, Gregor Tresher, Billy Nasty, Mikkel Metal, Mike del Saar, Matthew Hoag, Alex Long and other artists are already involved.

WANT TO RECREATE?
Although not so known to international crowd Consumer Recreation project played major role in Umek's career and was really important for the progression of Slovenian electronic music scene, which is still developing nicely. The incentive which includes deejays Bizzi, Dojaja, Psiho & Plotz started as a promotion crew behind some major techno events in the country. It became even more important as the weekly radio show and label of the same name were lunched. "The basic idea behind this project was to promote the freshest stuff on the scene. At that time I was already household name in the global techno circuit, so I was sent a lot of promos which we played in our radio show and at the clubs. For example: our radio policy was to never play any record more than once, since we didn't even have enough time to play everything we wanted."

When Consumer Recreation joined forces with Taotech and some other guys Explicit Music was born. It brought the organization part of Slovenian party scene on the whole new level. Big open air festival series such as Meet Me and Sindustry, indoor parties such as EUrora and the string of smaller club nights marked the beginning of new millennium in the whole region, not only in Slovenia. In 2005 Explicit Music was dissolved and Futuristing Music crew stepped into its place continuing the legacy. The productions of FM crew include major annual events such as DiscoNautica gathering, Umek's solo action in Ljubljana's central park Tivoli and The Day of Electronica festival.

The Astrodisco project is original Slovenian answer to "minimal explosion". It's designed as a test-platform for creative multimedia boutique club nights wrapped into futuristic electronic sounds. It builds on the whole club experience, authentic music production, unique décor, exclusive VJ performances and unusual combinations of arts and crafts such as building real moving Astrobots.


LOOK AHEAD
The classic ambient of summer theatre designed by eminent architect Jozef Plecnik hosted Dan elektronike (The Day of Electronica) party, the launch pad for Umek's new project 1605 – Sixteeenofive in May 2007. New international sound development platform is designed to promote live performances of vanguard electronic artists. Gregor Tresher, Guy Gerber, Mikkel Metal, Extrawelt and leading Slovenian producers were hand picked to perform at this event.

The launch of 1605 – Sixteenofive platform marks the beginning of a new chapter in DJ Umek's music career as he spent enormous amount of time and artistic energy bringing his characteristics sound to the whole new level. No doubt this was a very risky move. But it was the only way for him to stay on top of the game. And it seems he made the right decision at the right time: the response to his new vision of electronic dance music from his peers, critics, media and most importantly his fans is great and his production is supported by some top names in the industry.

The third edition of annual Umek at Park Tivoli open air party which attracted more than 30.000 souls was also the right time and place to test the new equipment. On that occasion Umek put in motion his new digital setup. But this is just the beginning of his live performance refreshments that will be presented to the public once his long expected new artists album will finally be released.

Special Thanks To  Umek and Mr Urban Jeram 
 

www.umek.si

UMEK BOOKING CONTACT:

Tina / Kne'deep Berlin
tina@knedeep.net

Kne'deep Berlin
P.O. Box 41 12 02
12122 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 97 00 23 57
Fax: +49 30 79 78 38 53
www.knedeep.net

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement
Direct download: UMEK__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:43am EST

Miami Underground Movement presents... "James Talk @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 7

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."

James Talk - @ M.U.M-January 2008 - DJ Mix

Track listing

1. Nivek Tsoy - Time & Space (Dessous)
2. Vector Lovers - Lateshift (Simple)
3. James Preistley & Dan Berkson - The Source (Martin Landsky Remix) (Simple)
4. Kemistry - City Slang (NRK)
5. Kos - Karalis (Daniel Dubb MIx) (Saved)
6. Jamie Anderson Feat Marlek Alexander - Sunlight (Instrumental Edit) (Om)
7. Valentino Kanzyani & Marko Nastic - Unexpected Cure (WOW)
8. Corrugated Tunnel - One Night In Barcelona (Chymera Remix) (Elevation)
9. DJ Sodeyama - Metascale (Zenit)
10. Kruko - No Hate Allowed (Marko Nastic Remix) (Traffica)
11. Steve Bug - Cru Sauvage (Poker Flat)
12. Scope - Hypnotize Me (Osamu M & Satoshi Fumi Remix) (Outerspace Records)

Aged only 25 James Talk is already one very busy lad. Hailing from the murkiest waters of Southampton, James has already achieved a tremendous amount at such a young age and it seems like things aren't slowing down either. Be it through his DJing or productions, causing mayhem on the world's finest dancefloors with the very best in funky tech and acid house is his specialist subject and it takes no mastermind to realize that Talk is the name and very much the answer.

Rewind ten years and James' addiction to this stuff we call house was already in its infancy. Allured by the acid basslines piercing their way through the sky every Saturday night from nearby fields and warehouses, James soon discovered that his attention was being drawn away from his eight times table and towards the likes of Prodigy and Underworld.

James' fascination rapidly reached new levels when at the age of 14 he purchased his first set of decks, followed soon after by his first DJ gig in a youth club in his home town. With many gigs at student nights soon to follow, these early steps paved the way for James to nurture his unique sound and gain a greater understanding of how to move a crowd.

Fast forward to the new millennium and James decided to try his hand at production with almost immediate success. His first track 'Eggs Are Cute' was signed by Nu-Republic Records, receiving major support from the planets leading DJs including James Zabiela and Sasha. Tracks packed with similar acid riffs and killer b-lines were soon to follow with three of them being instantly signed to Saved Records, following a chance meeting with label boss Nic Fanciulli. The first 'Love That Acid', reached no 10 in the UK Buzz Charts, whilst the other two 'House Rhythm' and 'Get Down', both received critical acclaim from all sides of the dance music press, with the latter appearing on Nic's Renaissance mix compilation. Further praise was given to James in a major interview when Fanciulli uttered just three words when asked who the next big thing in dance music was; "James Talk ' Amazing."

James has continued to work alongside individuals who have helped him advance musically by completing reworks for the likes of Buick Project, Audio Magnetics and Danny Howells, whilst a three track EP, under his Ri-Tek alias, has been signed to Phil Docherty's Pravo Recordings and gained support from the likes of John Digweed, Steve Lawler and King Unique. Recently James has been working with none other than Pete Tong in the studio, with the duo recently completing a remix of Wally Lopez for Pacha Records.

Such productions have also resulted in James' DJ diary fill up rapidly, only furthered by a superb guest mix on John Digweed's Kiss 100 show in February 2005. He has now played all over the UK and beyond alongside luminaries such as Nic Fanciulli, Lee Burridge, James Zabiela and Desyn Masiello and looks forward to upcoming gigs at Godskitchen, Renaissance, Fandango at Turnmills and New Years Eve for High Tide. James will finalise what has been a fantastic year by mixing the next CD in the Thinking Out Loud series, due for release at the end of 2005.

Special Thanks to Mr Talk =)

My Emall:
james@jamestalk.co.uk
My Webite:
www.jamestalk.co.uk
My Record Label:
myspace.com/spokenrecordings
For DJ Bookings contact:
ben@radiusartists.com
For Remix and Production Management contact:
rob@24twentyfour.com
For Spoken Recordings contact:
james@spokenrecordings.com


My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement


Direct download: James_Talk_M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:31pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents... "Marcelinho CiC" @ M.U.M Episode 6

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."









Marcelo Cicchelli aka Marcelinho CIC, Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro, began his career as a dj at the age of 11, playing in small parties, just like most djs.

When he was 15 old years, Marcelinho CIC was invited to play at nightclubs in Rio.At the search of a new musical option he found on Electronic Music his main option, which he dedicates himself today in research and constant keep ups.

His sound follows a very groove line with some funky influences, together with bits of scratches and backs, CIC calls up attention at his presentations.

He was proeminent at the big party in Rio, Rio Parade, playing for almost 100 thousand people; beig well pointed by great names of both nacional and internacional scenes. Nowadays he is part of the event´s official cast.

- Events: XV Pan American Games 2007, Skol Beats, Sp Groove, Acqua Rave 1° Edição, Acqua Rave 2° Edição, Space Live Music 2 ° Edição, Skol Rio, Skol Spirit, Lokal Bier Carnival Geribá, Club U.B, The Influence, Rio Parade, Ballantines GO PLAY, Hertz, Terêfantasy, Armazém Eletrônico, Kremlin World Tour, Ipanema Stereo Beach,Ceará Music, Piauí Pop, Heineken Thirst, Lokal Bier Concept, LG Music Festival, Technodelic, Chemical Music Festival and Tiesto Summer Tour.

- Clubs: Oz Club, Bunker 94, Baronetti, Dama de Ferro, Jump Club. Nova, People Lounge, Hard Rock Café, São Thomé, Melt, Fosfobox, OO (Zero), A Loca (SP), Lov.e (SP), BEC (SP), D-EDGE (SP), Floor (MT), Trend Lounge (DF), Nite Club Car Wash (PR) and Privilege (RJ).

- Broadcast: Eletropan 102,1. Transtronic 101, 3, Detonando Transamérica (SP) e Se Liga na Pan Jovem Pan (DF), Audio Link (Livesets), Atitude no Telhado (TVE), Tribos (MultiShow) e Viva TV (Hungary).

He has played next to artists such as : Tiesto, Christian Smith, M.A.N.D.Y, Valentino Kanzyani, Umek, Marko Nastic, Luke Slater, Misa Salacova,Preach, Marco Bailey, Anthony Rother, Eric Sneo, Tim Taylor, Miss Kittin, The Hacker, Terence Fixmer, Seb Fontaine, Kai Tracid, Secret Cinema, Laurent Garnier, WJ Henze, Hell, Gui Boratto, Murphy, Anderson Noise, Mau Mau, Renato Cohen, Pet Dou among others such as Marky, Patife and Drummagick.

Recently, Marcelinho CIC has been dedicating his time to his productions at his home studio, where he has been producing for at least six years. He works with Logic, Ableton Live and Pro Tools (Mac and PC) softwares. He also does his presentations playing with Serato Scratch Live and effects processors. He also gave speaches at DJ LAB .

During 2005, reached the International Market, with releases through several famous labels such as G-Force Records with the Hit ¨Grove Só Prá Ver¨ being executed by several national and international artists. As a consequence he was invited to participate in other labels such as: Fuck Babe Records (Alexandre Koning), Native Diffusion (Patrick Skoog), Ego Traxx (Budai e Vic) and others.

Remixed the famous Chaka Khan hit ¨I Feel for You¨ wich made him known among the top DJs, being executed in the sets of many artists. All this happening in less than one year, CIC has become known in the International market, showing his work and taking Brazilian reputation throughout the music horizons.

He was invited to play on the most famous Reveillon party on Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro for more than one million people.

His international career began in February 2006,his main presentation was at Mayday Festival and some clubs inside of Europe. There he met many artists such.

Marcelinho CIC is the manager and owner of the Brazilian Label "Audio Family Recordings", distributed by Triple Vision. In Brazil, 3Plus Artist Management & Agency represents the artist.

Enjoy !

» 3Plus Artist Management & Agency (Brazil)
Rua Bandeira Paulista, 716 Conjunto 91/92
Itaim Bibi | CEP 04532-002
Sao Paulo, SP - Brasil
Pabx.: 00 55 11 3073-1615
Web: www.3plus.art.br
Artist Agent:
neg@3plus.art.br

» Bulldozer Media | Publishing
London - UK
Phone.: 00 44 (0) 20 7929 3333
Web: www.bulldozermedia.com
Manager:
edo@bulldozermedia.com

» Audio Family Recordings | DEMOS
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil
Mobile.: 00 55 21 9434-2546
Web: www.audio-family.com
Demos:
demo@audio-family.com

» Public & Press Relations | Brazil
Advisor Press
Tiago Candiani: tiago@3plus.art.br
Pabx.: 00 55 11 3073-1615


For questions or to contact Marcelinho CIC directly use: info@marcelinhocic.com

My URL: myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement
Direct download: Marcelinho_Cic__M.U.M.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:50pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement presents... "Superstar Dj Jelo @3 Decks" - M.U.M Episode 5

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."



He has remixed pop stars, produced great tracks and performed around the globe. He is known as 'The people's DJ' and one of the fastest beatmatchers live on decks amongst Canadians. A character that is an electronic music kitchen sink that has become a trailblazing influence on the floors, the streets, in people's cars and homes. His live shows are simply dazzling. The DJ known only as Jelo is a leader in North America's electronic music movement and an innovator and ambassador to all things hard and funky in Canada. Since his days supplying the heartbeat of Toronto's dancefloors in Eastern Bloc records to the most obscure clubs in the cozy corners of his Country one thing has become obvious - Experiencing these awe-inspired and interactive sets, regarded legendary by many, is what makes the Jelo experience different than that found with the average DJ.

His straightforward 'take the bull by the horns' approach towards music and performing has kept Jelo amongst the top echelons of DJs in Canada. His style of presentation is unique and bridges the gap between audience and performer. Jelo becomes one with the audience and uses his uncanny abilities to read a floor, any floor, regardless of where he is. The young DJ brought about this awareness of 'new' music that is often refered to as 'banging house, electro, electro house and techno' to be a fashionable asset. Canada had no clue what hit them ! He was the first DJ in the Toronto clubs to usher in Speed Garage, Hard House, Nu Skool sounds and never sticking to one genre. He was constantly mashing things up. An innovator of moving sounds, even Eye Magazine awarded him the prestigious "most innovative DJ" award in their yearly DJ pools. Incorporating the spiciest elements of house, techno, breaks and rock blended with wild mixing abilities gives this DJ the distinction of all-around artist, entertainer, and performer. No stranger to travel he has dazzled thousands in Greece, England, Dubai, Taiwan, Coast to Coast in the USA and every major urban centre in his home country of Canada. There is not one venue that can resist Jelo, big or small, at anytime, anywhere.

Always maintaining the underground cool and respect of his peers Jelo refuses to compromise his musical principles. He exudes the authenticity of someone truly involved in a rhythmical love affair with music. The knowledge of artists and record labels is surpassed only by his natural drive to spread the joy these sounds has brought him. Always learning and always improving, the future for Jelo is guided by an awesome natural intensity, an astonishing musical dedication and a drive to change the world- one beat at a time.

Special thanks To Jelo!!!

FOR ALL BOOKING INFO PLEASE CONTACT alison@mixxitup.com

MySpace URL: 

 
http://www.myspace.com/djjelo  

http://www.myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement  
Direct download: JELO_Consume_Smirnoff__Mix.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:10pm EST

 Miami Underground Movement presents... "Glenn Morrison@Jacarei- Live Set" - M.U.M Episode 4 Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."




First off, let us skip the obvious and tiresome formalities that become associated with a traditional DJ biography….Glenn Morrison lives and breathes electronic music. For the last five years he has been immersed in it. As a child he was heavily into the classical piano receiving every prestigious honor, including ARCT by the age of 14, furthermore playing competitively on a national scale. The electronica bug hit him soon after and between studies began to consume his life. He worked for several years at Release Records which aided his career in many ways. While at Release he also assisted other labels with A&R: Twisted Frequency (UK), Babylon Records (France) and DK Records (Holland). Last year he decided to follow his own direction, tired of clichés that labels so readily fall into he set up Morrison Recordings. MR is essentially a collection of forward thinking artists from around the globe which specializes in sublicensing to video/computer games, movies and film scores. Not only has Glenn completed commercial work for Kelloggs, Gain and General Mills, he is currently working with EA Sports, Rockstar Videogames, Sony, EMI, Virgin Music, Mercedes Benz, Motorola, Gain, General Mills along with many others, he has collaborated recordings with 16 Bit Lolitas, Deadmau5, Way Out West, Bruce Aisher, Dana Bergquist and Human Adams. Renowned for “Contact? and “Hydrology? (Mau5trap), “Cosmic Flight? and “Bass Experiment? (Hope), Glenn has recently remixed Tube & Berger's track “The Young & The Wild Ones? as well producing “Blue Skies with Linda?, “Rubberband?, “Circles? and “No Sudden Moves? (Armada). He has signed to the Cloud 9 Publishing Group as well as hosting his ITunes & Proton radio show “Sequence? bringing in DJ guests. He welcomes every form of music as long as there is merit to it. Glenn has had guest mixes on prestigious radio shows such as Ministry of Sound Radio, The Red Zone, Plattenleger, and FG 93.7. To top it all off this musical protégé graduated in Law at the University of Toronto and has just been offered a placement on the Business Management program (MBA) at Harvard University – who says DJ’s don’t have any time in their day…?

Special Thanks to Glenn Morrison

For Booking Information please contact - Abi Blake Farisi Booking Agent Spin Artist Agency 285 Mac Pherson Avenue Toronto - Ont. M4V 1 A4 (t) +1 416 963 0800 (f) +1 416 963 0200 www.spininc.ca Management - David Brady Spin Artist Agency 285 Mac Pherson Avenue Toronto - Ont. M4V 1 A4 (t) +1 416 963 0800 (f) +1 416 963 0200 www.spininc.ca

Info:www.morrisonrecordings.com
       www.glennmorrison.com
http://www.myspace.com/djglennmorrison   http://www.myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement 
Direct download: Glenn_Morrison_-_Live_in_Jacarei.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:11am EST

 Miami Underground Movement presents... "Christian Smith @Club 69-Rio de Janeiro- Live Set" - M.U.M Episode 3

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."


Swedish citizen, Christian Smith spent the late 80’s years in Germany soaking up the early house and techno sound of Sven Vath. Now based in Barcelona, he has been championing his funky mix of house and techno for more than a decade, playing across Asia, North & South America, and Europe, plus regular slots at summer festivals like UK’s Creamfields, Holland’s Dancevalley, Spain's Monegros and Belgium’s I Love Techno. His music released on a variety of top labels like Renaissance; Josh Wink’s Ovum, Carl Cox’s Intec, Darren Emerson's Underwater, and his very own Tronic, only proves his flexibility in the studio. Similarly on the decks, Christian’s set is a cauldron of chunky grooves with loads of energy, 3 decks and effects. Some of his favorite clubs are: Ageha, Tokyo; Loft, Barcelona; Pacha, Buenos Aires; Arches, Glasgow; and Zouk, Singapore. With a full length Smith & Selway artist album out on Sino in 2007 and massive support from DJ's ranging from Deep Dish to Carl Cox to Richie Hawtin, the future is very certain for Christian to stay on top as one of the leaders in forward thinking dance music.

Special Thanks to Christian Smith!!!!!!

www.djchristiansmith.com

www.myspace.com/christiansmithdj

For Bookings Contact: ---------Phuong @ Technorient : phuong@technorient.com (Europe, Asia)--------- Alex Chaykin @ Am Only: alex@amonly.com (USA, Canada, Central America_--------- Martin Gontad & Cruz Pereyra @ Surface Bookings: Cruz@surfacebookings.com (South America excluding Brazil) --------------Paulo Silveira and Luis Eurico @ 3Plus: paulosilveira@3plus.art.br (Brasil)

For more info. visit ;

http://www.myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement
Direct download: Christian_Smith_at_Club_69.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:30pm EST

Miami Underground Movement presents... "Rafael Abi Ramia - Valentina" - M.U.M Episode 2

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."

Track list;


DieMilchstrasse
Big_Trouble
Lost_Memory
MerryGoRound
Positive
CoursesForHorses
Trip_Club_Mix
Negative
Warehouse
Dubfire_Roadkill
(EDX's Acapulco at Night Remix)


Rafael Abi Ramia started his works as a DJ and Producer in 2001. He has a charismatic personality, which is reflected in his exciting live sets and fine repertoire. His musical style is progressive, with influences of electro and minimal. In 2006, he was identified as the best DJ of electronic music from the City of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. Moreover, Rafael Abi Ramia is an events Producer and he writes a weekly column in the Periodical, “O Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro,? about electronic music. Recently, he performed in the Warm Up Fat Boy Slim, and has already played in great parties and clubs in Rio de Janeiro and the USA.

These include Club Goa, Sense Club, E-Nuth, Waxy Electrum, Reveillon Buzios, New Lounge, Black Box, Club Six, Patio Lounge, Sky Lounge, Summer TIM Beach, Miami US WMC 2006, Fellows, and Fosfobox.

He has shared the stage with national and international DJ’s; Roger Lyra, Leo Janeiro, Jario Venancio, Marcio Careca, Rodrigo Ayala, Darren Emerson (Underworld), DJ Jack, Ferris, Rod B., Garfunk and etc…

His DJ influences are Sasha, John Digweed, Sander Kleinenberg, Pete Tong, among others. His next project will be in partnership with DJ and Producer Rod B. from M.U.M (Miami Underground Movement), playing 4 decks and using 2 laptops, MacBook Pro and 2 Final Scratch 2. They plan to present themselves in venues all over Brazil in February and during the WMC 2008 in March in Miami, USA.

 


BOOKING:

abiramiarafael@hotmail.com

55 21 7844-3458

Nextel ID: 55*32*14719

www.myspace.com/rafaelabiramia

For more info. visit ;

http://www.myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement

 



Direct download: Valentina-DJ_Rafael_AbiRamia.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:23pm EST

Miami Underground Movement proudly presents

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the premiere of "Miami Underground Movement."


Rodrigo Barreto, a Brazilian-American, has been involved with music  and events since his adolescence. Between 1996 to 2000, he promoted clubs and produced parties in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It was in the year 2000, when he moved to Miami, that his passion for elecronic music began and his career as a dj.
 
In 2001, he became involved in the underground club scene in Miami, spinning in small clubs and private parties, and frequenting larger clubs, such as Space and Crobar. Rodrigo hás always been influenced by big DJs like John Digweed, Sasha, and Tom Stephan.

In 2007,with much knowledge and experience in the electronic music realm, he searched for additional knowledge and new horizons. He graduated in Audio Technology (Recording Arts) as an áudio engineer and music producer from the reputable school, SAE Miami. He became a member of the recording academy/grammy. In the same year, he was invited to work as an áudio engineer and assisted in producing at the WMC (Winter Mucis Conference) and at the 22nd Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMW), the biggest conference of music electronica in the world.

 Presently, Rodrigo hás been working in his home studo on new productions along side Dj and Producer from Texas,Tim funatik, aka Heizler. Recently, he went on a tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2007 with his new project, M.U.M. Duo (Miami Underground Movement), along with another Miami DJ and Producer, Alvaro Garfunk. An upcoming tour hás already been established and he plans to return to rio in february 2008. This time with Dj and Producer, Rafael Abiramia, with the M.U.M Project 4Decks, using two laptops MacBook Pro and two Tracktor Scratch 3. Besides presenting himself in parties and clubs in Miami.

Rodrigo owns and coordinates a weekly Podcast from miami the www.miamiundergroundmovement.com, , with upcoming producers and global DJ’s, such as Umek, James Talk, Jelo, Christian Smith, among others.

 So enjoy and don’t let the music stop.

Rod B.
Producer/Dj/Audio Engineer:
The recording Academy /Grammy-Member
Miami/Florida-Usa

For more info. visit 

www.myspace.com/rodbmiamiundergroundmovementmum
www.myspace.com/mummiamiundergroundmovement.

Booking:
rodrigo3k @msn.com
rodb-inf@hotmail.com
mum-inf@hotmaill.com
Phone:00**1(954)479.8032

Direct download: Naze-Rod_B._1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:55am EST

 



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