Time to clean the dust off your record players kids, there is a shiny new vinyl coming to town by non other than Cabanne, without doubt one of the most skilled house and techno artists of our time! Jean-Guillaume Cabanne owns a solid education as a Jazz musician and used to hold the guitar in various Paris underground funk bands.

He now has a solid 10 year experience as a DJ and live musician, touring around the world’s most reknown clubs and occasionally participating in improvised jams with Ark, Thomas Brinkmann, Daniel Bell, Audio Werner and most notoriously the Narod Niki live project initiated by Ricardo Villalobos. Cabanne also likes to engage in group activities, most noticeably with Ark as Copacabannark, with David Gluck as Ultrakurt or with John Thomas for his Blackstage project.

Berlin, March 29th, 2011

The event ‘Melodiami‘ stands for a musical collective with the approach to present a conclusive concept on and next to the dancefloor. Therefor it took not only to spot the right location, which was definitely found at the Levee (the Ex Bang Bang Club) here in Berlin, but also to support artists and well known producers.

That’s why it’s a pleasure for us to present to you the American producer Someone Else. As his love for minimal techno solidified by 1998, Sean teamed up with Jay Haze and Bjoern Hartmann, and together they launched the ‘Tuning Spork’ label. While making dance music with field recordings became more and more his shtick, Sean grew close to Kate Iwanowicz (a.k.a. Miskate) and Sylvain Takerkart (a.k.a. Fusiphorm), and together they launched the ‘Foundsound’ and ‘Unfoundsound’ record labels. To this day, both labels continue to gain increasingly more recognition while offering a unique facet to the modern-day minimal scene.

Over recent years, Sean’s production skills have been garnering respect among internationally renowned DJs and labels alike, as reflected by his massive discography of releases and remixes for labels like ‘Musik Krause’, ‘Tuning Spork’, ‘Foundsound’, ‘Mo’s Ferry’, ‘Microcosm’, ‘Nummer’, ‘Kickboxer’, ‘Sender’, ‘Alphahouse’, ‘Roman-Photo’, ‘Level Non-Zero’, ‘Mule Musiq’, ‘Hello? Repeat’, ‘Revolver’, ’31337records’ and many others. This was accompanied by extensive world touring, and he was voted as one of the best live acts of 2006 in Groove Magazine. Sean continues to spin and play live all around North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Russia and elsewhere — including Fabric in London, Yellow in Tokyo, Rex Club in Paris and Panorama Bar in Berlin.

Another great artist we invited is Sven Laux, who’s career started in 1998 by creating music using simple computer programs and his first keyboard. In 1999-2000, electronic music became his style of choice and since his passion for sampling and looping tracks constantly grew he began to create his own special sound.

He has released and remixed on several labels like ‘Archipel’, ‘SpontanMusik’, ‘Multi Vitamins’, ‘Tropic’, ‘Mischievous Musique’ and ‘Leporelo’ just to mention a few. His current album on ‘Microcosm Music’ gained huge international respect and another album is going to follow soon on 31337records. In 2008 he started a new project, called ‘Offtopic’. Under this moniker he presents a very special non-dancefloor oriented sound, created by nothing more but pure improvisation.

Additional musical excesses are being provided by Jama from the Bar 25 family, Marc Pick and Coco who are an inherent part of the Berlin Dance culture with their ‘Betriebsfeier’, and many more.

Line-Up:

Someone Else (31337records, Foundsound / Berlin)
Sven Laux (31337records, Archipel, Microcosm / Berlin)
Subjunk (31337records / Berlin)
Jama (Bar25 / Berlin)
Coco (Betriebsfeier, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Marc Pick (Kammerflimmern, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Paul Primus (Melodiami, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Fabian Drews (Melodiami, Shovania / Berlin)

Berlin, March 29th, 2011

Saturday, April 2nd 2011; 11:00 pm – 04:00 am (CET) :

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Berlin is famous for its music – and where do we enjoy the music? In Berlin’s clubs! TwenFM brings the club to your home and will present you this time some of the DJs for the Melodiami party at Levee next Saturday 9th April.

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Paul Primus (Melodiami, Kreis.Studio)
Fabian Drews (Melodiami, Shovania)
Subjunk (31337records, Melodiami)

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Jean-Guillaume Cabanne owns a solid education as a Jazz musician and used to hold the guitar in various Paris underground funk bands. Cabanne really got over to electronic music with two EP’s for Logistic Records in 1997 in collaboration with John Thomas. He had discovered electronic music in the beginning of the 90′s and was already active in the house and techno scene in Paris, helping to promote events and occasionally working the lights at the famous Rex Club. In 2000, he is given the opportunity by the Logistic team to set up his own sub-label Telegraph, exclusively dedicated to the music he stands for. In the meantime, he also releases on a few other groundbreaking

Today we unleash upon the masses our second vinyl record ‚Australia EP‘ by our dear friends Easy Changes! The duo is known for their creative minimalistic style with lots of field recordings mashed up into funky rhythms. Yet again they continue to provide their unique symbiosis of rhythmical patterns with the world of mysterious sounds and dark moods. The core of their music has continued progression, like a story being told with multiple scenarios between the past, present and future life.

Traveling and touring has influenced the artists and gave them lots of inspiration, which keeps coming back in the beautiful form of music. The Australia EP has three original tracks on vinyl and one digital bonus track. A1 is a mighty club track that builds up with lots of different and nicely arranged elements wrapped into a cloud of reverbs and delays on top of rhythmic percussions and massive subs.

We finally did it: We proudly present to you our very first vinyl by none other than Mr. Sean O‘Neil aka Someone Else, the mastermind behind Foundsound records! Known for his awesome releases on various labels and for filling dancefloors all over the world, he delivers a cool club track called ‚Zebra Talk‘. Driven by a heavy, minimal beat, this track offers freaky, distorted vocals, spooky breaks and enough tension to keep the crowd moving. We also provide you with some great remixes: The first one by Miskate is a more linear approach to the original track, featuring loads of percussion and neatly arranged breaks surrounded by massive reverb.The second remix is by the Argentenian producer Omar Salgado. A groovy new bassline and full of deep variation, this track moves into a different direction. Last but not least our Japanese friend Den comes up with a perfect DJ tool, only available on the digital release.