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Speaking In Code: DVD and soundtrack
Amy Grill’s long awaited electronic music documentary Speaking In Code will finally hit the streets on March 12th as a DVD after nearly a year of screenings at film festivals and music events such as New York’s CMJ, San Francisco’s Documentary Film Festival, and Boston’s Independent Film Festival.
The film has changed a fair bit since the private screening I attended in Barcelona during the city’s annual Sonar festival in June 2008, although the dedicated director insists it’s all for the better.
If you haven’t heard about Speaking In Code yet, read my initial review here. For a taster, watch the exclusive video clip below which features David Day interviewing Richie Hawtin at Pollerwiesen in Koln - this particular clip was axed from the final movie.
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Life, death, and Ripperton’s beautiful garden
A dancefloor is a garden of humans. Its sun is music, its flowers are people, and its main business is sex and death. Beauty is merely a byproduct.
But no one wants to talk about death - not in the garden, or on the dancefloor - so Swiss producer Raphael Ripperton helps us think about life and its fragile beauty, through his debut album ‘Niwa’, which means ‘garden’ in Japanese.
Through isolated moments of bliss, serene interludes of melody, and samples from the world around us, Ripperton has carefully crafted a lucid and thought provoking house longplayer that took the best part of two years. It is his brave attempt to describe the impermanence that we all face.
With so few dance producers, or artists for that matter, willing to face the subject of death, it is the inclusion of corporeality tracks like ‘At Peace’ and ‘Random Violence’ that push the album towards something profound.
Yet when I catch up with Raphael Ripperton, in his house in Lausanne, Switzerland, I am surprised to hear the voice of a man with unbounded cheerfulness.
He chirps and giggles his words, like a tipsy Frenchman on a bike laden with garlic. Hardly a dark angel. Then again, have you ever met an unhappy gardner?
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20 years on, Secret Cinema still strong
Mahatma Ghandi once said, “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.” Jeroen Verheij aka Secret Cinema![[a]](http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif)
hasn’t laid his life on the line for world peace, but he must know a thing or two about self-belief and dedication.
For 20 years, the Dutchman has worked tirelessly behind the European techno scene, and remained, for the most part, in the shadows, perfecting his craft.
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Black History Month: Larry Heard and house music
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we produced this audio interview with one of Chicago’s house music originators, Larry Heard, a producer and DJ who has released house music for over 25 years.
He was responsible for some of house music’s most important moments, including 1988’s ‘Can You Feel It’, and proto-acid gems like ‘Amnesia’ and ‘Mystery of Love’.
Yet despite his mammoth discography and the wealth of house classics he is responsible for, Larry Heard hasn’t once lost touch with the demands of the ever-evolving dancefloor - his 2007 opus ‘The Sun Can’t Compare’ is widely considered to be one of the best house tracks of the noughties.
We sat down with Larry Heard to find out more about his earliest house music memories, his musical influences, and the technology that started his lengthy house music career.
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Album of the Week: Danton Eeprom ‘Yes Is More’
Danton Eeprom is having a busy day, in what is surely his most successful ever month as a recording artist.
“I’ve done about 10 album of the month interviews so far and the reaction has been pretty amazing,” he says, as the throb of London traffic and the pitter patter of rain upon the city streets punctuates his rushed sentences.
The conversation stops, as he asks for directions. “Gotta turn left up there love, then cross over and do a right,” replies a faceless lady.
Danton jumps back on the line, “Sorry about that, I’ve just come from the Russian embassy to get my visa, and now I’m off to another embassy.”
We continue. “I was kind of wondering how it would go down as this album is quite diverse and pretty different to what I’ve done before,” he says.
That is probably the understatement of the year.
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Label Profile: Dial Records
Dial Records is an apt name for a label that constantly changes sound.
When Hamburg flat mates Peter M. Kersten and David Lieske started their imprint in 2000, they hoped to create something without musical borders.
A decade later that wish is a reality, but they still plug away nonetheless. Dial Records![[l]](http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif)
continues to be a home-from-home for some of electronic music’s most unconventional, and some would say intelligent, sounds, including Pantha Du Prince’s deep house experiments, Efdemin’s understated house and techno flourishes, and Pawel’s melodic excursions.
It is also a place for its co-founders to release their own music. Kersten’s emotionally-charged deep house and minimal techno as Lawrence or Sten, has given Dial an eager following, and Lieske’s own Carsten Jost received plaudits back in 2001 for his album ‘You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows’.
But there is so much more to Dial then mosaic club cuts. From piano concertos, to sugar-laced pop, ambient breakbeat, and sonically sparse soundscapes, Dial offer a rich 360° view of electronic music.
As the label gears up to celebrate its 10th anniversary in March, we sat down with its co-founder Lawrence aka Peter M. Kersten to find out more about Dial Records, its early beginnings, and its greatest releases.
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Album of the Week: Riva Starr ‘If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade’
Drunk on lemonade, high on life, Stefano Miele aka Riva Starr is the kind of person you want at a party. His energy is infectious, uplifting, and a wee bit cheeky.
From last year’s droll Balkan anthem ‘I Was Drunk’, to the reefa-tribute ‘Dance Me’, silly samples, and entertaining viral videos, this Naples-born DJ and producer is a positively charming buffoon.
Small wonder then, that the name of his debut artist longplayer (our Album of the Week) comes straight out of the book of American optimism. ‘If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade’ he jests, presumably before necking another shot of limoncello.
“In Naples we also have this saying, and it basically means, if life gives you scares you have to develop on them,” says Miele, from his flat in Shoreditch, East London. His English isn’t perfect, but his thick Italian accent charms away the flaws.
Black History Month: Jesse Saunders and house music
If you met him in 1977 aged 15, in his red gym shorts and blue basketball shirt, if you saw him carrying a box full of records with his headphones around his neck, if you heard him talk about DJing, disco, and some strange music called house, you’d never have believed that he would help change the world.
And yet that teenager created the first ever house music record in 1984, set up the first house record label, was the first house artist signed to a major label, and was the first house DJ to enter the Billboard music charts.
He became known as the very “originator of house music” and in 1997, he was honoured by Chicago’s Mayor Daley with an annual celebration on July 17th in his and the Pioneers of House Music’s name.
Throughout February we’re celebrating Black History Month by interviewing some of the most important black electronic music pioneers and contributors, and we’re proud to have him as our first interviewee.
Ladies and gentleman, please stand for Jesse Saunders.
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Album of the Week: Pascal FEOS ‘Terra Bong’
It is 1984. In a quiet street in the small German town of Bad Nauheim a 16-year-old kid frantically destroys an encroaching line of pixelated alien spacecraft on a Space Invaders machine in a noisy video arcade.
“Hey Pascal, wanna make some money?” says a voice behind him. It’s the Italian man who runs a small club opposite. “I asked your dad and he said you can come work for me if you want.”
“Sure, what will I be doing?” the kid asked. “Oh, just playing some music for my customers. Come, I’ll show you how.”
The boy went with the man, who showed him his record collection and DJ equipment, and soon he was playing records for people on a dancefloor.
“It was at that small club that I discovered what it truly means to be a junkie,” jokes Pascal Dardoufas, now 42.
A quarter of a century later, Pascal is still a DJ, and as Pascal FEOS, he’s considered one of the original fathers of German techno.
His fourth solo album ‘Terra Bong’ has just been released, and it is our Album of the Week.
We spoke to Pascal FEOS in Frankfurt about his new record, his earliest club memories, and techno history.
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Weekend Weapons…Kiki
It’s a Saturday night in Berlin and a sweet smiling Finnish DJ named Joakim Ijäs steps up to the sweaty decks at the Watergate club that overlooks the River Spree.
Before he drops one beat, the heaving dancefloor knows what to expect. His rich and gratifying sophomore album ‘Kaiku’ released last year, cemented everything that he had done before.
Darkly optimistic techno and sweetly evil melodies on Berlin’s Mood Music and Bpitch Control have won Kiki many fans, not least because he’s as consistent as they come.
You can always rely on Kiki to get the dancefloor to move and think, so we asked Finland’s most loved techno export to share eight of his current favourite Weekend Weapons.
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