Greetings all, apologies for the bulk email. February and March are great month's for checking out some exciting sounds from the Force Inc. and Mille Plateaux abode. Check below for a city near you and feel free to contact myself with any questions.
"With the Frankfurt-based Mille Plateaux label now enjoying wide US distribution, making the imprint's records not only more accessible but a lot more affordable, it seems as though the roster is also becoming more diverse, effectively making it the most forward-looking electronic label in the world."
- tim haslett CMJ MONTHLY, 2/2000
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SUTEKH (Force Inc., Belief Systems, Cytrax, Tektite)
friday 2.18.2000
(sub)tonic
107 norfolk st (rivington, delancey), nyc
open 9pm. SUTEKH post mid(dle)night
no money needed for questions answered
wednesday 2.23.00 phoenix landing, cambridge (w/ STEWART WALKER)
Sutekh is definitely one of Force Inc.'s most exciting additions to the label. His new 'Miasma' EP (FIM182) has been embraced internationally, and undoubtedly his April 4th, Force Inc. full-length debut 'Periods Make Sense' CD/2LP shall establish Sutekh as a leading US techno artist. Sutekh's list of DJ credits is extensive -- as a resident DJ for Static, one of San Francisco's longest running underground weeklies, he has played alongside artists such as Neil Landstrumm, Alexi Delano, Morgan Geist, Low Res/Crank, John Tejada, and Matmos.
"On Miasma, Sutekh delivers in finestyle, tackling the house aesthetic with cool and precisely engineered layers of rhythmic mystery and suspense." - heath hignight, URB
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KIM CASCONE (Ritornell / Mille Plateaux, Raster Musik, 12k)
TAYLOR DEUPREE (12k, Ritornell / Mille Plateaux)
saturday 2.19.2000
empty bottle (BIN presents)
1035 N. WESTERN AVE. * CHICAGO, IL
open 10pm, $8 dollars
Kim Cascone is likely most recognised for founding the legendary SF label, Silent as well for his music contributions to David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart projects. He has also recorded for labels Raster Musik and 12k. Recently Kim Cascone recorded the second installment of his blueCube() triptych for Mille Plateaux sub-label Ritornell entitled 'Cathodeflower',100% computer generated compositions that successfully worked to restoring electricity in a more pure form to the creation of sound art.
"(Cathodeflower is) mesmerizing in it's tonal variations and body quaking depth"
- daniel chamberlain, URB
Taylor Deupree has long been a well recognized and regarding figure in the US electronic music scene. Founder of the excellent 12k label, his microscopic sounds have helped pave the way for developing minimalist electronic music in the US. Expect new releases from him on 12k and Raster Musik plus his debut release entitled '.n' on Ritornell, to be released mid - April. '.n' further explores the realm of microscopic sounds and holds inspiration from the ideas of nanotechnology.
Taylor Deupree's '.n' will be released mid-April on Ritornell / Mille Plateaux
Kim Cascone's 'Cathodeflower' is available now on Ritornell / Mille Plateaux
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CARSTEN NICOLAI (noto) - Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux
prototype 1 (music: noto, visuals: raster-noton.de)
friday 2.25.2000
peter b. lewis theater, guggenheim museum
1071 fifth avenue, nyc - 8pm
http://www.guggenheim.org/calendar.html
CARSTEN NICOLAI - known as NOTO- is currently travelling round the world as an digital artist doing performances, exhibitions in NY, Japan, at Documenta, and many other venues. He also runs the label RASTER MUSIK, which released the respected 20 to 2000 series. The soundworks of CARSTEN NICOLAI confront the listener with the dichotomy between electricity and electronics. Electronics come prepacked, electronics readies electricity for the marketplace, and commodifies its power through ever proliferating infinities of electronic goods. NOTO's music or better sounddesign is an attempt to restore electricity in a more form for the creation of sound art. alva.noto is creating self - replicating and evolving systems which attain levels of great complexity. NICOLAI's soundpatterns are based on impulses and sinewaves; calculated processed into sound structures. prototypes is based on laboratory work, free research, it is a minimal micro-environment. NICOLAI uses electronic sound and visual art as a kind of hybrid tool to create his own microscopic view of creative processes. The message is the code, and the laboratory is the platform for sound research. Digital 'faults', impulses and sinewaves are organized into loops or patterns and without the traditional mediators of electricity such as synthesizers or drum machines, these loops or patterns drift between the speakers like sonic Rorschach splots.
alva.noto 'prototypes' shall be available mid-March on MILLE PLATEAUX
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STEWART WALKER (Force Inc./Mille Plateaux, Tresor) - LIVE
(w/ KIT CLAYTON & CHESSIE - Dropbeat)
tuesday 3.7.00 - New York (Mercury Lounge)
wednesday 3.8.00 - Providence, RI (Brown University)
thursday 3.9.00 - Amherst, MA (Hampshire College)
friday 3.10.00 - Cleveland, OH (Speaking in Tongues)
saturday 3.11.00 - Iowa City, IA (Rotation)
sunday 3.12.00 - Chicago, IL (Empty Bottle)
monday 3.13.00 - Columbus, OH
thursday 3.16.00 - Detroit, MI (Motor) w/o Chessie
Stewart Walker has definitely been one of techno's most talked about newcomers over the last year. His impressive 'Stabiles' full-length on Force-Inc./Mille Plateaux/Tektite evoked a ingenious new balance between club and minimalism - listening music with groove. Do not miss this opportunity to check out three of America's most innovative electronic artists that continue to sculpture new essense in music.
'Meditated, focused and extremely well-crafted electronic music' - ron nachmann, XLR8R
'...a gift from the gods; (Stabiles) perhaps one of the most ambitious and audacious electronic full-length records of the year' - tim haslett, URB
'Walker does for minimal electronics what Brian Eno did for ambient music' - CMJ MONTHLY
'...(Stabiles) shows it is possible to be artsy without alienating the dancefloor set.' - ben ewy, MIXER
'Stabiles' is now available in your local record store.
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JON BERRY PR
n. american contact for:
Force Inc., Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Position Chrome
631 e.11st. #22, nyc 10009 ph/fx 212 353 2656
http://www.force-inc.com http://www.mille-plateaux.com
ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN!
NOW . 2000:
FORCE INC. - Jake Mandell, Exos 'Eleventh'
MILLE PLATEAUX - Ultra-Red, Clicks& Cuts v/a:
new vinyl: FT4 - SCSI9-9, FIM182 - Sutekh,
MP76 - Pluramon "reservoir" ; remixes by Christian Vogel, Chris Daniel, Thomas Brinkmann, Pantytec
FEBRUARY 22.2000.
MILLE PLATEAUX - Ihan 'Iota'
FEBRUARY 29.2000.
FORCE TRACKS - Mathias Schaffhauser
RITORNELL - Autopoieses "Live A Noir"
MARCH 2000.
MP - Vladislav Delay, Alva.Noto, GAS, FIM - Twerk, RIT - Dean Roberts
PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!
Jon Berry <JBERRY@nyc.rr.com>
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