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DEMF / Movement 2009 review

I’m not witnessing stadium rock or stadium love, like pop band Metric’s new song depicts in their newest album. No - Instead I’m witnessing stadium techno. It’s Saturday night, May 24th 2009 in Detroit, and Carl Cox is playing some pounding techno anthems to a crowd of fans with their hands in the air, fists pumping, feet moving and heads bouncing. 

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DEMF Movement 2009 Festival wrap-up

There were only 3 Canadian djs on the festival line-up this year....
Kero
Tiga
and Heidi

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Bacala

Stephan Hinz [Audiomatique Records]...

Berliner Stephan Hinz [a] says on his MySpace page: “I really love music from people like Apparat, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Barry White, Rachmaninov, Bela Bartok and so many more.

“It’s a big failure to confine oneself to just one genre or something like that...I try to listen to as much as I can.

“It’s so fantastic and exciting to find something you never heard before or something you heard a long time ago but with other ears.”

As a DJ and radio show host for his own show ‘Dasding Plattenleger’ on Berlin stations SWR DASDING and SR UNSERDING, Hinz listens to a lot of music in addition to producing his own.

Now Hinz has just completed a new EP called ‘Bacala’ on Audiomatique Records. 

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JPLS on his new ‘Combination EP’ for Minus

JPLS [a] made his first Minus appearance on 2006’s ‘min2MAX’ compilation.

He also performed live that year in Detroit for the ‘min2MAX’ launch showcase.

JPLS’ sound is cerebral and heady dub-infused techno that is strictly experimental but dancefloor oriented.

His latest release in September this year is the ‘Combination EP’, which follows his ‘Twilite’ release on Minus [a] [l] (check the EP in the player below).

We like JPLS’ style a lot, so we grabbed him for a few questions.

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Meet the French jesters, dOP

The trio dOP are the latest French sensation, but unlike Justice [a] or Daft Punk [a], or disco house or any other French sound that might come to your mind, dOP sound more like Nôze.

Beatportal grabs Dam from dOP to ask him some questions, but it ends up turning into a joke fest.

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Luca Bacchetti on North American tour

Luca Bacchetti, who released a remix of Paul Ritch’s ‘Crazy Madness’ in June, is set to release another new EP, this one called ‘No Time to Get Back’ on Ovum Records.

Having just returned from a gig at Decibel Festival in Seattle and a holiday in Hawaii, Luca Bacchetti made his return appearance in Toronto during his North American tour on Saturday night.

During Nuit Blanche festival, while Toronto stayed awake perusing art installations in various locations until morning, Luca played to an energetic crowd at Circa night club.

Beatportal caught up with him to hear more about his forthcoming EP. 

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Hot Chip, Sutekh and Megasoid play Pop Montreal

Starting this past Wednesday and running until Sunday October 5th in Montreal, Pop Montreal festival is heating up Montreal.

This festival is being called “the most eclectic music festival in Canada” in one of the coolest cities in the country.

Although fall’s temperatures are dropping, the city will be buzzing with people, bands and a few DJs, as Pop Montreal continues with music, pop art, and film screenings.

Opening the festival, on Wednesday night in Montreal, Hot Chip played a sold out show.

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Misstress Barbara’s Live ‘I’m No Human’ Tour

Last weekend in Toronto Misstress Barbara performed one of the first live performances to showcase the work from her upcoming artist album entitled ‘I’m No Human’ which will be properly released in 2009.

Her live performance at ‘This is London’ featured the band she created to tour with her to play the songs off her new album.

On stage, Misstress Barbara did the vocals and programming, and her new band mates pitched in.

Mathieu Brault was on bass guitar, and Matai Dubus was on keyboards.

Even as a DJ, Misstress Barbara had a strong almost theatrical stage presence.

Her energy levels are high and as a singer she was no less intense than would be expected. 

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Profile: Maus of Montreal - New EP ‘Let Go’

Maus’ song titles are deep and introspective, clean and intelligent, and there is nothing less in the quality of the work that you can expect from her new EP called ‘Let Go’ on Thoughtless Music.

As early as 1999, Maus had already opened for David Bowie, Moby, St. Germain and Roni Size, and now she is backing her impressive DJ career which has spanned the decade with her production skills.

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An interview with the director of Berlin Calling: Hannes Stoehr

Berlin Calling is a melodramatic tragic comedy set in the world’s most recognizable and bustling hub of dance music activity today.

It is brilliantly done as it depicts Berlin’s underground techno scene, with DJ Ickarus at the centre of it all.

He’s engaged in the scene with all of its glory – full of hedonism - dancing, music, sex, and drugs.

To create the film set, real clubs in Berlin were rented out for film shoots.

From Bar 25 and Maria Club, to scenes from Alexanderplatz U-bahn station, the film Berlin Calling certainly makes no disguise of the place, and Berlin is a real character.

Reality is what is aimed at and achieved by director Hannes Stoehr in his third feature length film.

In conversation with Hannes after his appearance and the screening of Berlin Calling during the Toronto International Film Festival, Hannes explained a bit more about the making of Berlin Calling.

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