As I promised to a handful of readers of the shituationist institute who follow me on facebook , I was about to post something really special today , celebrating the 3rd year old birthday of this blog. I realized recently that the new generation of ravers and contemporary music followers in some point totally ignore the past years of the scene. Therefore i have searched and found few exclusive radio shows on the berlin radio in the beginning of the 90s named dancehall by the well known to older generation of ravers “Marusha”.
Marusha remains in my opinion part of the essential times of the rave explosion , her name will remain connected with the years of rave counter-commodity culture , temporary liberated zones and certainly with the Love Parade. Unfortunately You cant download the files besides the last one which is only 8 min, but you can probably find something by searching on the web. cheers
Dancehall-Sendung at 23.11.1991 DT64 with Marusha … and DJ Dick.
Dancehall” Sendung at 9. November 1991 with Marusha and Blake Baxter zu Gast im Studio. Release date: Nov 9, 1991
dancehall with Marusha and nightmares on wax05.10.1991
The guys from 29th November Films made an nice video to the recording of the great live-set The Marx Trukker played at Suicide Circus in Berlin some weeks ago.
Derrick may is part of the first generation of acid house/electronic music , rave producers and djs, when the free parties movement was rising in Europe and USA. He is probably one of the most remarkable producers of that age till our days, therefore I will try to write few information concerning his history as well as publishing bellow some of his dancefloor killers who made under the name Rhythim Is Rhythim in the late 80 s also as mayday in the 90s.
May born in Michigan/Belleville , went to the high school with Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson commonly known as the belleville 3. May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed techno by Atkins.In fact May’s career oficially started with the release of a record called “Nude Photo” (co-written by Thomas Barnett) , which was absolutely a great motivation for the Detroit music scene.
Derrick May counts loads of good releases , most of them still shake the dancefloors around the world. He was releasing his stuff under the pseudonym , (as we also mentioned before) rhythim is rhythim and mayday in the late 80s , beginning of the 90s. Actually you can find many of his tracks available online.
As Rhythim is Rhythim or Rythim Is Rythim
“Nude Photo”, 1987
“Strings Of Life”, 1987
“It Is What It Is”, 1988
“Beyond The Dance”, 1989
“The Beginning”, 1990
“Icon” / “Kao-tic Harmony”, 1991
As Mayday
“Sinister” / “Wiggin”, 1988
As Derrick May
Derrick May: Innovator, 1996
Derrick May: Mayday Mix, 1997
Next weeks , I will try through this blog to list/archive some of those infuential artists of the acid house history and why not an article for the whole music scene that time. Actually it seems that the majority of the blogs and electronic music journals today are focusing on the contemporary scene , ignoring all of those great stuff of the past years of electronic music.
Last Friday it was time again for the (almost legendary) Acid ist Fertig Party at Suicide Circus in Berlin. This time among others, there where L.A. Williams, one of the inventors of House-Music from Chicago and our beloved Marx Trukker, one of the Shituatonist Institute´s favourite artists in Berlin playing.
After a quite bumpy warm-up set by Maciej Szalonek from the Futura-crew, L.A. Williams started to play at about 4.00 in the morning. It was really nice to see and hear him mixing and I think I´ve never seen a DJ before, who was controlling and acting with the crowd, like he did. He was selecting an nice mixture of some old acid tracks and pure peak-time techno, cheering up the dancers by creating tension with putting down the music sometimes, screaming and doing wild scratching. He also was throwing most of his vinyls directly into the audience, which was another thing I´ve never seen before. Unfortunately L.A. Williams was playing at the same time as The Marx Trukker, who was doing an unbelievable Live-Set in the garden of Suicide Circus, while the sun was getting up. So I always had to switch between the floors, to check out both of them least a little bit.
After The Marx Trukker, I danced a little bit to the nice set of DJ Flush, who was playing more housy then I expected him to do and later went home very happy and very tired All in all it was an very nice party especially as I didn´t enjoy the last Acid ist Fertig Party with Tyree Cooper and Blake Baxter that much, this time it was really great again.
You can check out on interview with The Marx Trukker, we had some time ago here and listen to the recording of the Live-Set he played below:
Just one day left untill the Institute Party in Berlin and we are all really excited about it. This time we collaborate with the guys from the action comitee for neuronal enhancement (A.K.N.E.) and the party will take part at both floors of marvellous Levee-Club, which has become one of my personal favourite clubs in Berlin so far, because of its wonderful atmosphere and the damned good speakers there. We will feature some exhibitions and video-screenings by young Berlin artist as well as some stuff by Institute-members from Athens and decoration by Totalumbau, who allready did a great job at the first A.K.N.E.-Party last year at Raum18. As musicians we invited some of our favourite Live-Acts and Dj´s ranging from more experimental stuff to highly danceable housemusic. The opening of the upper floor will be done by Affaire Zweifuss, who you may remember from the artist-feature or his exclusive-mix, we had on the blog. He will be followed by Dr.Nojoke, who plays an special 2h-Clikno-live-set and has prepared a lot of new, unheard stuff for the Party. After the Doctor, The Marx Trukker will start playing one of his unique, analog Acid- live-sets. You can check an interview we had with him some months ago here. The next one will be Funkenström, who is well known for catchy, housy live-sets and his great releases on the Netlabel Symbiont-Music. Then its time for Wesenberg, a young upcoming Live-Act, with an fresh and seducing sound somewhere between Minimal,House and Dub. After him B.Wurst & Schlendrian Klimperbeat from A.K.N.E. and the Berlin Shituationist will play some afterhourish Techno, for those who left and close down the Party. The floor downstairs will be opened by Manuela Mayoral from Spain, who established in Berlin very fast with her nice Dj-Sets ranging from Vocal- & Jack-House over Disco untill Broken Beats. After her Neulich Irgendwo from Potsdam will take over the turntables with his unique blend of Disco-House and Oldschool-Classics and will be followed by Bastian Kurzweil from the Dienstagswelt-crew, who is known for his crazy, uplifting Techhouse-Sets. So far thats all I can tell you about the Party. I hope to see you all there, spending an great powerraving night with the Berlin Shituationists !
Armando Gallup , 15 years after his death of leukemia in 1996 , remains one of the topest artists in electronic music history. Armando is definitely one of those most important early contributors to the acid house and electronic music development.
The afro Cuban(origins) dj and producer lived in Chicago US. Chicago one of the American metropolis, where house music was emergent in the 90s. Armando Gallop can easily considered as one of the most influential artists of Chicago as well as within the history of electronic music . He counts a number of good tracks(singles) , often defined as “killers” , furthermore some of them became big hits both in the US and UK such as the “151″ and “land of Confusion”. Armando together with Mike Dunn were also the founders of warehouse and musique records in 1988 , two well-known labels to the people who followed or were part of the acid house movement in the late 80s , certainly responsible for the genre’s development.
Instead of production Armando rather focused on djing especially the years 92-94 at Chicago’s warehouse. Armando released only one full-length album , the legendary “one world one future” in 1996 on play it again Sam records , actually few months before his death. Currently some of his fans and the community people in Chicago are putting efforts to keep Armando’s memory in public consciousness as well as save his recordings which many of them Im afraid are already lost. You can read an extend article concerning the life and music of Armando by Terry Matthew for 5 magazine of Chicago . “5″ is magazine concerning house music with recent updates (February 2011) from his life , creativity years , his recordings etc.
Even if Armando is dead , hopefully his music will remain alive. Basically many people still think that his music is inspiring , few months ago for instance I was at a party and suddenly I recognized that the dj was playing couple of his tracks together with Jeff mills and so on. Some of those tracks you can find bellow this brief presentation article dedicated in the memory of a legend , the legend called Armando Gallop.
151 ( probably one of the best acid house tracks ever made)
Land of Confusion (acid house-Label-Westbrook Records catalog#:AG – WB 4 format vinyl 12″ US 1988 mixed by Armando Gallop)
From the album ONE WORLD ONE FUTURE on Radikal Fear 1996
Because we had allready seen Blake Baxter twice at Suicide Circus and always enjoyed his sets and the Club very much as you could read in the earlier reviews, we decided to go to see the Prince of Techno again this Friday. This time together with the Prince of Hip House – Tyree Cooper and the Killekill-Resident Dj-Flush, who is known for his hard oldschool techno sets.
After an nice housy warm-up set by Jochen Otto , Tyree Cooper started playing at about 2.00. Starting with some old Jackhouse-Classics, he was moving on from House to Disco and Techno- Classics, but somehow without any concept in his mix and with hard problems in syncing his timecode-records, which was one the reasons why we didnt enjoy his set very much. An other reasons was, that he was constantly putting down the music for shouting out, that he is the House-legend Tyree Cooper, which as i suppose everybody knew allready. But he got my sympathy by non-stop rolling and smoking big Joints, which may could be a reason for playing such an confused set At 4.00 it was time for Blake Baxter to start. As always he was playing an awesome set on 4 decks, combining rare acid-house classis with some progressive and jacking stuff, creating an sweat-coursing, energetic atmosphere. The only thing I personally didnt like was, that he dropped an strange swing-techno track in the middle of his set, which really didnt fit and was unsettling the audience a little bit. After Blake Baxter Dj Flush started to play at about 6.30, but for my taste he was a little bit to hard, so we decided that its time to go home, after listening to his set for about 2hours..
All in all, I have to admit, that I allready experienced better partys at the Suicide Circus and especially Tyree Cooper was disappointing me, because I would have expected him to be way better, but maybe it just wasnt his day or he wasnt in the best mood.
Today many of us are planning to spend a lot of money as a response to the discussions and debates concerning the brainwashing called financial crisis . Every year this day , millions of the wasted European youth/techno community kids are searching for a good party to change the year , therefore I consider useful to give you a clue what the most of the people of the several shituationist contacts are planning for tonight. As a positive surprise we have a lot of new contributors to this blog which means an increased number of information regarding events in Europe.. yooo! special thanks mates. This time events are announced here from the following places: Athens , Milano , London , Berlin , Leeds UK . enjoy what ever you are going to do tonight..
- MILANO
Sven Vath in Milano tonight! Actually a friend will be there and send us a report afterwards. The event will take place at east end studios.
- London
A f@#$%n fabulous night at Cable: Bermondsey St London SE13JW (5mins walk from London Bridge Tube Station) promoter WANG
A boring super expensive night in Athens at Blend as usual.. no highly recommended but it seems the only good event besides Astron bar (which I love at the new years) and the psychedelic trash events (with the same line up every year)
- Berlin
Berghain – Ostgut Ton Nacht 01.01.2011 (Saturday)
01:00 – 05:00 DJ Pete (Hard wax)
05:00 – 09:00 Ben Klock (Ostgut Ton)
09:00 – 14:00 Marcel Dettmann (Ostgut Ton)
14:00 – 19:00 Marcel Fengler (Ostgut Ton)
19:00 – 23:00 Fiedel(Ostgut Ton)
23:00 – 03:00 Ryan Elliott (Ostgut Ton)
individualusername says: forget about the sold-out techno-mainstream yuppie party at berghain. Tonight theres the 15th aniversary of Back to Basics. This year at marvellous Horst Krzbrg , where the first Berlin Djs and founders of the Tekknozid and the X-tacy Dance Project ( first Tekkno-Parties in Berlin ) Wolle XDP, Roland BPM, Dj EZH and one special guest gonna turn back the time, with strobos, lasers, the famous Magic Bassline Soundsystem as well as all the technohouse classics from 1989-1992.Party starts at 23.00 and ends at 13.00/14.00 and is strictly announced for not being an N.Y.E. Party.
All in all it was an very nice party especially as I didn´t enjoy the last Acid ist Fertig Party with Tyree Cooper and Blake Baxter that much, this time it was really great again.
At 4.00 it was time for Blake Baxter to start. As always he was playing an awesome set on 4 decks, combining rare acid-house classis with some progressive and jacking stuff, creating an sweat-coursing, energetic atmosphere. The only thing I personally didnt like was, that he dropped an strange swing-techno track in the middle of his set, which really didnt fit and was unsettling the audience a little bit. After Blake Baxter Dj Flush started to play at about 6.30, but for my taste he was a little bit to hard, so we decided that its time to go home, after listening to his set for about 2hours..
. Every year this day , millions of the wasted European youth/techno community kids are searching for a good party to change the year , therefore I consider useful to give you a clue what the most of the people of the several shituationist contacts are planning for tonight. As a positive surprise we have a lot of new contributors to this blog which means an increased number of information regarding events in Europe.. yooo! special thanks mates. This time events are announced here from the following places: Athens , Milano , London , Berlin , Leeds UK . enjoy what ever you are going to do tonight..
