Tomorrow night! Still FREE before 11 for all you recessioners. ;)
Stewie's gonna kill it per usual, and said he's got a special set in
store just for [KONTROL]!
Should be another whiz-banger!
Don't fear the rain as the Endup will have several huge tents out.
Hope to see you out tomorrow.
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
[ K O N T R O L ]
minimal techno + avant house
every 1st Saturday at The Endup
featuring from Berlin:
STEWART WALKER - LIVE
(Persona . Force Inc . Tresor . M-nus)
Stewart Walker first gained international prominence in the late
'90s with a series of classic releases on Force Inc., Tresor,
Mille Plateau and M-nus which proved to be highly influential in
the development of minimal techno. A decade later he's still at
the top of his craft, touring the globe with his infectious,
emotive live techno stylings and releasing quality music on his
own Persona imprint. Stewart's said he's got a special set in
store for [KONTROL], and we couldn't be more excited or
honored to host this iconic figure in his Endup debut.
and from Munich:
DARIO ZENKER
(Vakant . Harry Klein . Num . Telegraph)
(Esperanza . Soma . Mo's Ferry)
Raised on Michael Jackson and underground hip-hop, Dario
Zenker picked up DJing at age 15, and within a few years
landed a residency at Munich's famed Harry Klein club that he
still holds today. In addition to his ace productions on several
top labels, he is known for his dynamic sets of freaky, organic,
house-driven minimal techno that always keep the crowd
guessing and the dancefloor bouncing.
with special guests:
DIMA (Platform . TeknoKitchen)
ANDRE LUCERO (Fiction . Urban Development)
and [KONTROL] residents:
NIKOLA BAYTALA (S.W.A.T. . Robsoul . Junior Boys Own)
CRAIG KUNA (Platform . ESDJCO)
ALLAND BYALLO (Nightlight . Auralism . Leibe*Detail)
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The ENDUP
401 6th St @ Harrison, SF
10pm - 6am / 21+ / $15 after
http://www.theendup.com
FREE before 11pm!
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[KONTROL] on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/kontrolsf
Flyer front:
http://www.kontrolsf.com/K47/K47F.jpg
Flyer back:
http://www.kontrolsf.com/K47/K47B.jpg
Poster:
http://www.kontrolsf.com/K47/K47P.jpg
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STEWART WALKER
Berlin-based Stewart Walker is a restless innovator. After making a splash
in the late nineties on definitive labels like Force Inc. and Tresor, he’s
had an inestimable impact on the development of current club sounds, yet
consistently chooses the less traveled road: working as live producer in a
world of DJs; injecting emotion into functional electronic dance music;
quietly building a label family of unclassifiable artists on his own
imprint, Persona.
After selling his guitar in 1993, Walker began assembling a synth-based
hardware studio while in university in Athens, GA. Inspired by Jeff Mills’
Live at the Liquid Room he became obsessed with rhythm. A string of
recordings appeared on Matrix Records in Detroit – including the 1997 single
Amphetamine Sulphate – and later on Deepfried (Grand Rapids, MI) and Tektite
(Austin, TX). A year later, his first European release Artificial Music for
Artificial People was picked up by Cristian Vogel's British imprint,
Mosquito, and Walker hit the live circuit. Armed with only an AKAI MPC2000
sampler and a DJ mixer, he did what a DJ never could: move a club crowd with
sounds shaped by his own hands. This original approach was welcomed across
Europe and in Japan as well as his native US.
1999 saw Walker’s debut on Berlin’s Tresor Records with Nothing Produces
Stark Imagery, followed up by the now-classic minimalist experiment,
Stabiles, on Mille Plateaux. These productions proved to be seminal in the
development of minimal techno.
Walker continued to release on labels such as Minus and Force Inc. until, in
2001, he set up his own imprint, Persona Records. Persona released eleven
records in the US culminating in the second landmark album of Walker’s
career to date: Live Extracts (2003). Live Extracts captured the sound and
atmospherics of Walker’s in-club performances and was soon licensed by
Tresor. Persona restarted in 2005, this time in Berlin. Now based in Europe,
Walker performed in every capital and made incursions as far afield as
Australia and Russia. Soon after, he released the downtempo album Grounded
in Existence and a breakbeaty techno EP, Travel Plaza. These releases
showcased Walker’s increasing attention to nuance, dynamics, and melody.
Concentricity, Walker’s fourth full-length, was released in 2007.
===> LINKS:
MySpace (with music samples):
www.myspace.com/stewartwalker
Website:
http://personarecords.com/stewart-walker
Discography:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/stewart%20walker
===> AUDIO:
Stewart Walker - Live in Montreal, 2008:
http://www.personarecords.com/liveshows/StewartWalker_Fricoti_2008.mp3
Stewart Walker - Live @ DEMF, 2002:
http://www.personarecords.com/liveshows/StewartWalker_DEMF2002.mp3
Preview Stewart Walker tracks on BeatPort:
https://www.beatport.com/ja-JP/html/content/artist/detail/5904/stewart_walker
===> VIDEO:
Stewart Walker - Live @ Break & Enter, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg4tLmal-wc
Stewart Walker - Live @ Space:Garage, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_ZfgRTg6o
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DARIO ZENKER
Just in time, the ‘Free State’ of Bavaria has produced a new son to relight
its techno torch. Munich born and raised Dario Zenker is writing his own
chapter in the long story of electronic music from Germany’s dirty south.It
all started with listening to Michael Jackson as a kid, then Dario moved on
to underground hip hop to rile the neighbors.Several visits from the
not-so-friendly neighborhood police later, Dario’s father, a pro audio
engineer, introduced the wunderkind to music programming and imparted the
tools which later consumed him. At 15 Dario started to DJ, and not too long
after he received his club education from the legendary Ultraschall.In 2005
at the ripe old age of 21, Dario landed his residency at Harry Klein which
he still maintains today.2006 saw his debut vinyl release and in the space
following Dario managed to sprinkle his magic chuga chuga dust on some of
the world’s finest minimal techno labels.Whether DJ-ing or playing live, in
just a few years Dario has built up a reputation for freaky experimental
sets which never seem to stay in the same place for too long. Constantly
innovating Dario has never been content walking a straight line with the
crowd. To attempt to put it into words:bomb, duck, cover, swerve, bomb,
swerve, bomb bomb.In 2008 ‘the’ youngin became ‘our’ youngin joining the
hallowed ranks of the Vakant crew with Dario’s split personality ‘Sam Und
Er/Womde!’ EP (VA019). Dario’s thick kink finds a natural home here on the
Vakant deep freak out bus bumping and bouncing the club kids wherever they
need to go. Liberalitas Bavarica!
===> LINKS:
MySpace (with music samples):
http://www.myspace.com/dariozenker
Discography:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dario%20Zenker
===> AUDIO:
Dario Zenker - Live @ Harry Klein, Munich 03.20.09:
http://www.kontrolsf.com/K47/Dario_Zenker_@_Harry_Klein_03.20.09.mp3
Preview Dario Zenker tracks on BeatPort:
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/artist/detail/22682/dario_zenker
===> VIDEO:
Dario Zenker - Live @ Harry Klein, Munich 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888AZ4RUZNg
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ANDRE LUCERO
A veteran of West Coast underground electronic music culture, André Lucero
continues to reinvent himself. From breakdancing in the early 80's to his
present studio efforts, he always kept his focus on beats and sounds of
genres to come. Starting with the earliest electro hip-hop, passing through
time and space to the present and future of electronic music, his selections
are open minded but always have a dancefloor sensibility.
Not being satisfied with spoon feeding or accepting convenience, André has
chosen the paths less traveled. Helping foster the rave scene in Santa
Barbara; playing at the first mega-rave in the US (Raveamerica); releasing
one of the first (if not THE first) underground electronic dance music mixed
CD's (Fusion, Volume 1); his involvement with the seminal San Francisco
techhouse event/DJ crew, Urban Development; to playing with international
legends for Space Children, he has been recognized for decades as a stand
alone talent who brings something special to the lineup. Sharing the decks
with some of the heaviest hitters on the planet, he understands how to rock
a crowd as well as to tell a story. No two sets from André are alike. Each
moment drives the relevance of the music selection. Each moment is unique.
The sound: warm, spacey, funky, soulful techno. Having recently relocated
to Ohio, we are happy to welcome Andre back for a much anticipated second
perfomance at [KONTROL]..
===> LINKS:
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/djandrelucero
===> MUSIC:
Andre Lucero - DJ Promo Mix 2008.1
http://lucerodesign.com/mixes/listen/2008.1.mp3
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