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Past Events:

Basstown and Lauren DeVain Present: AUGUST 25, 2007: BLACKMAGIC

Featuring - Volvox, Justincredible, and special guests:
Dethlab (Detroit)
Gina Turner (LA)

Photos by NickyDigital

Industrial Dance / Hard Techno / Electro Sleaze

Great Scott 1222 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston MA.
9pm - 2am | $7 at the door

JUNE, 16 2007: MOTOR [Novamute, London/Paris] LIVE!
at CAID: 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd., Detroit
10:00 PM | $10

GOUDRON [I.T./Ersatz Audio, Detroit] live
DETHLAB [Toybreaker/Dorkwave, Detroit] DJs
DETRONIK (video installation)

MOTOR's performance last summer has been cited as the best live show in the history of Oslo (arguably even over Vitalic!) We are extraordinarly pleased to bring Bryan, Mr. No and Hugo back to Detroit, to the legendary CAID/Detroit Contemporay space.

"People have this tame image of live electronic music and we go out there and smash things up and spit in your face," states Bryan Black. For the man who used to programme Prince's keyboards as an in house technician at Paisley Park Studios in the 90s [and founding member of H3LLB3NT, Haloblack and XLover] knowingly confirms, "we make more noise than a guitar can make and that's what we enjoy doing." Whilst electronic live acts have merged further into the anonymity of the DJ booth over recent years, MOTOR guzzle petrol, bellow toxic fumes and roar from the stage as all three band members wrestle with vocal duties and (alter) egos over their instruments. Forging live gig energy into the sonic envelope of a club environment has enabled MOTOR to play live 'gig' tours with Nitzer Ebb across America and Europe as well as landmark club venues such as Frankfurt's Cocoon and Paris's Rex and festivals throughout Europe like Pukkelpop and Lowlands.

MOTOR's new LP Unhuman is now out on Mute.

GOUDRON's new EP Stiletto is now out on Interdimensional Transmissions.

April, 13 2007: JAK THE RIPPER
$5 at Bohemian National Home.

TRAXX
COWBOY MARK
BMG OF ECTOMORPH
DETHLAB

Co-produced with our good friends at Interdimensional Transmissions, JAK the Ripper promises to be an all-out bloodfest of evil electro and volatile acid, featuring the one and only Traxx. Expect it to be dark, loud and sinister until the wee hours. Count on selections from Traxx's new label Creme JAK.

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April, 14 2007
Machines That Feel II at CAID with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone [Tomlab, Chicago]
Spectral Mornings [Square Root, Grand Rapids]
Thirty (Over) Thousand [Square Root, Grand Rapids]

DJs Bethany Shorb & Michael Doyle [Dethlab, Detroit]

CAID is located at 5141 Rosa Parks, Detroit, Michigan 48208. Cost : $8

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Cyberoptix TieLab is having an open studio night/trunk show Saturday, April 7th. 8-11pm, Detroit.

Bethany will be debuting the new Whiplash collection and previewing Concealed Weapons pieces for Summer/Fall '07. There will also be a full range of ties, ascots, scarves, jackets, accessories and one-off couture pieces for sale and view. Come for the fashion, drink the wine, eat the cheese - and meat of course, stay for the music (provided by DethLab and Friends) and buy the goods.

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Past Madness

This Saturday night our friend Lauren Hill is hosting a little dance party/birthday celebration for Ayron Nelson and our very own Ms. Toybreaker at the Elks Lodge in Ann Arbor. We're told the space is right out of the 1960s, with all the charms of a secret society rec room - including a mirrored ceiling. How could we turn that down? We'll be playing records along with Stallone (a.k.a. Samion Consiglio) and BMG of Ectomorph. Fun and weirdness guaranteed, everyone is invited and it's free! Map here.

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Art After Dark
First Fridays at the Guggenheim
December 1: Telefon Tel Aviv + Dethlab

9pm - 1am
5th Ave. at 89th St.
$20 cash only at the door

FREE for Guggenheim Members!

Sponsored by the Village Voice. Djs curated by Flavorpill.

Back by popular demand, First Fridays starts again this fall. Don't miss this incredible evening! Enjoy a drink with friends, explore the galleries and listen to some of the best DJs in town, all in the spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building.

Saturday October 28, 2006
PHONO HALLOWEEN- The Junior/Senior Semi-Formal Homecoming Edition

BASTEROID (live) - Areal/Sender - (Frankfurt, Germany)
PLASTIQUE DE REVE - Turbo/Gigolo - (Geneva, Switzerland)
FRANK MARTINIQ - Boxer/Sender/Areal - (Cologne, Germany)
ADULTNAPPER - Superfreq/Halcyon

w/ Resident DJs COWBOY MARK & FUNCTION

Sideroom DJs: DETHLAB!
VJs: Daniel Vatsky & SEEj

Instead of a best costume contest, we’re having a best formal wear contest. Get dressed up, dolled up and put on your suit & tie or ballgown and win fabulous prizes. Grand prize: $500 cash Other prizes include $200 halcyon gift certificate (Don’t hesitate to come in your Halloween costume though... we love you either way.)

Saturday October 28, 2006 - Doors at 10pm
Brooklyn Sugar basement - 289 Kent Ave. at S. 2nd St. - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$18 in advance/$23 at the door
Advance Tickets Available at:
Halcyon: 57 Pearl St. - DUMBO
Other Music: 15 E. 4th St.
Vinyl Market: 241 E. 10th St.
Satellite Records: 259 Bowery

www.enablernetwork.org

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October, 13 2006 - Show Me Evil: Friday the 13th

at Lager House w/ 800beloved, Star and RENTAL
1254 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48226

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Sept 29, Sex & Sedition VIII: One Year Anniversay Party at OSLO with LOWFISH (LIVE!)

10pm | 18+ | $5

featuring:
LOWFISH live! [Suction, Satamile, Hymen, Clone, Ersatz Audio, Ghostly]

with residents DETHLAB:
Bethany Shorb [Toybreaker, Cyberoptix]
Michael Doyle [Burnlab, Dorkwave]
+ friends

Dethlab's Sex and Sedition residency at Oslo has become synonymous with the very best of new dark electronic music: from the first North American appearances of international live artists Vitalic and Motor, to dj sets from favorites such as Kill Memory Crash and Solvent. Celebrate the first anniversary of Sex & Sedition with Suction label co-founder Lowfish, who recently released a new 12" on NY/SF electro label Satamile, and is currently completing his fifth full-length.

samples & more on Lowfish's MySpace

Lowfish is perhaps one of Canada's most prominent electro producers, yet something of a genre melding oddity. His clinical and critical production of tracks are very "new school", yet built from the DNA of early new wave and IDM. The weapons of choice are what they have been from the start: semi-operational analog synthesizers, temperamental drum machines and scratchy recording gear. The name Lowfish came from those weapons of choice and the result, being a production aesthetic that is lo-fi "ish" — Lowfish.

Lowfish has released 4 full-lengths and a stack of singles on labels including Suction Records, Ersatz Audio, Vynalogica/Clone, City Centre Offices and Satamile, with scores of remixes and compilations appearances for respected organizations around the globe including Morr Music, Ghostly International, Turbo Recordings, and even the National Film Board of Canada.

Live? Lowfish has turned out to be a dancefloor menace, with his awe-inspiring mix of modern electro and industrial-strength robo-disco (aka his own brand of precision drum machine electro pop) to the acclaim of audiences across Europe and North America.

This past year Lowfish recoiled into his studio in order to prepare his new material (leaving only to play select dates). Efforts will commence this February with Persuasive Science, a catchy and punishing 12" on Satamile, and a mini-EP on Hymen — Travel Sickness.

Lowfish is the work of Toronto producer Gregory De Rocher, who runs Suction Records with his longtime friend Jason Amm of Solvent. The pair share an appreciation for New Wave and early industrial artists like Skinny Puppy and Front 242, as well as a studio where distorted 808 drum beats and bouncy, melodic analog synth lines are the sounds of choice.

De Rocher has been producing for over ten years and it shows in his music. His work is fresh and distinct, with just enough graininess and noise to offset the lushness of the synthesizer melodies and grooves. On Eliminator, his self-proclaimed brand of "robot music" flows naturally as he takes simple ideas and evolves them in his digital petri dish. It's De Rocher's obsession with sound quality and delivery that sets his music apart from other electronic producers. His tracks exude a maturity in craftmanship, a pure focus, with rhythms and delicate textures that never become indulgent or overstated.

De Rocher was born in Toronto in 1972. Early in life, he was plagued with hearing problems and some of the more crunchy techno found on Warp and Rephlex.

Along with numerous international compilation and remix appearances, Lowfish has released two full-lengths on Suction: Fear Not the Snow and Other Lo-fiing Objects (1999) and Eliminator (2000). Recently, Suction also put out Snow Robots Volume 1 and 2, a retrospective compilation of works by both Lowfish and Solvent, featuring several out-of-print releases from 1997, plus some new tracks by the pair. There is even a Lowfish remix by Germany's Lali Puna. "Subversive Rats" appeared on Snow Robots Volume 1 while "FatBlex" and "Glued Smile" came from the Eliminator full-length.

Meanwhile, "No Longer Accepting Complaints," featuring a dizzingly dirty and hedonistic synthesized bass line, was Lowfish's contribution to Ghostly International's essential robo-electro comp, Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau, a compendium of contemporary electronic artists doing exciting reinterpretations of the classic Giorgio Moroder-inspired austere disco sound. Later that same year, Lowfish recorded the four-song Accident Causer EP for Adult.'s Ersatz Audio label, then returned with another coldly funky collection of chirpy analog stabs, entitled Maintain the Tension. Lowfish is nothing if not a master of textures, and his mad layers of arpeggiated synths over tinny drum machines sometimes suggest the experimental computer music of yesteryear. Despite his obsessive-compulsive fixation on cleanliness and complexity, De Rocher retains a groovy dance floor energy, making Lowfish a brand of intelligent machine music sure to stimulate all parts of your cerebral cortex. [epotonic]

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FREEDOMME 2006 Saturday Sept 16
dance afterparty

BMG of Ectomorph
interdimensional transmissions, detroit

Dethlab
dorkwave, toybreaker

Burlesque Fetish Performance @ 12:30

suggested donation $8 after 11pm
Masonic Temple (500 Temple)
shriner tower entrance (right side)

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September, 2 2006 at IPM Radio Summer Sizzle
Mullitude Studio Complex / New Detroit Radio
24735 Industrial Hwy, Warren, MI 48089
Cost: free!

This year's event and its live broadcast will begin at 12:00 noon EST on Saturday, September 2, and continue late into the night on Sunday, September 3, 2006.

We'll have coolers full of ice and grills full of fire for your use or you can ask one of our BBQ chefs for help. There will be some food, snacks and beverages on hand to get things started and a special breakfast on Sunday morning for those staying over night. Everyone is encouraged to bring along whatever food and drinks they prefer as well - the more the merrier! If you're planning to stay the weekend with us on-site, bring your camping gear and other supplies! Be sure to Check the weather and plan your outfits and extra clothes accordingly.

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Friday, August 4th, Dethlab teams up with Ghostly/Spectral Sound, smashing Vault and Sex & Sedition together for one monstrous affair.

B L O O D _ A N D _ O I L

featuring:

MOTOR techno/industrial LIVE! (Novamute, London/Paris)
Brian Aneurysm acid/techno DJ (Spectral Sound, Barcelona)

with residents:

Ryan Elliott techno DJ (Spectral Sound, Detroit)
Dethlab electro DJs (Dethany+Doyle, Detroit)
10pm | 18+ | $10
OSLO: 1456 Woodward Ave, Detroit MI

Flyer and pre-sale info to come.

Dethlab presents: MOTOR live! (NovaMute, London/Paris)

At the turn of the year we find the MOTOR duo of Mr. No and Bryan Black both firmly in the driving seat of their metallic, rust-coated rocket car. Not content with laying waste to clubland last year with the monstrous ‘Stuka Stunt’ and ‘Sweatbox’ singles they are now set to release their debut album, Klunk. Preceded by the single and album opener ‘Black Powder’, MOTOR are bracing themselves for a head on crash into the spot light this year with extensive worldwide tours, a revved-up three piece live show and the dancefloor muscle to deliver where it hurts.

Mr. No comes from the industrial wastelands of Paris, and Bryan Black from Minneapolis yet being truly international they met and formed in the smoky basements of Camden, London where Mr. No was playing drums and Bryan was watching on in awe. Bryan Black was seminal pop star Prince’s sound designer and programmer at Paisley Park Studios in the late 90s before setting off to London to pursue his own musical projects whilst Mr. No arrived in London in 1989 with a mission to turn drummers into drum machines.

The duo have remixed the likes of Marilyn Manson, Throbbing Gristle and most recently, Depeche Mode as well as remixing the theme song for the final Godzilla film, Final Wars, in a collaboration with Felix Da Housecat. The MOTOR duo are also known for their work under the alias XLOVER whose album, Pleasure & Romance, was released on DJ Hell’s Gigolo Records last year and their multiple collaborations with Felix Da Housecat include co-writing tracks off his last LP Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever as well as producing tracks for Princess Superstar and Japanese rock god Atsushi Sakurai.

After releasing a string of raw, bold and innovative singles including the massive ‘Sweatbox’, MOTOR will soon unleash their debut album, Klunk. Packed with dark menacing grooves, corrosive industrial drumming and the pioneering spirit of acid house, Klunk locks into a swirl of techno-strobed hedonism and doesn’t let go.

Official MOTOR web site | Mute web site | Watch MOTOR Live in Paris here |
Watch the Black Powder video here | preview/download the Black Powder single on iTunes

Ghostly International presents: Brian Aneurysm (Spectral Sound, London)

Bernhard Pucher has had nearly 10 years’ experience as a DJ, and his productions as Brian Aneurysm have appeared on labels such as Poker Flat, Sub-static and his own Iron Box imprint. Additionally, he has recorded under seveal aliases, inlcuding Confutatis and Echopilot which found release on Morris Audio Citysport and Traum Schallplatten.

Originally an Austrian, Pucher has lived in Texas since the late 1990s, where his musical palette has grown to include industrial and hard techno, the influences of which permeate his releases and his DJ sets alike. Having been exposed to the sounds of minimal house by a friend, he has been releasing his own music since 2002.

Spring 2005 brings Brian Aneurysm to Spectral Sound for the Das Element Des Menschen 12”. The title track builds on mechanical bursts, slowly becoming a dominating tech-house beast as a palpable, dark intensity pours from the speakers amidst the clanks and bass line whirs, making for a surefire dance floor destroyer. It is the most confident statement yet from Mr. Pucher, and an auspicious glimpse of what’s to come.

Brian Aneurysm official site | Spectral Sound web site | Listen to a clip from Das Element Des Menschen

with Vault / Sex & Sedition residents:

Ryan Elliott (Spectral Sound, Detroit)

Upstart Detroit DJ Ryan Elliott has gained notoriety over the past few years by programming sets that are as well crafted and sophisticated as they are danceable. From ice cold minimal techno to summery house beats, Elliott has played both big rooms and martini bars with equal success. As a DJ, Ryan is adept in the late night hours, finding the balance between heavy floor tracks and elegant crowdpleasers. Utilizing three decks, multiple audio sources, and outboard effects are par for the course, and Elliott employs them with the utmost skill to keep crowds engaged.

With a fervent interest in the emerging international techno scene, he is a walking dictionary of artists, labels, and releases. Elliott held his Tuesday night events at Ann Arbor’s Goodnight Gracie with Matthew Dear from 2002 to 2004, bringing back energy to the city’s nightlife. Ryan Elliott was also asked to be a resident at Detroit’s weekly Untitled alongside Dear, Tadd Mullinix, Mike Servito, and Derek Plaslaiko. In 2005 he began a new residency at Detroit’s Oslo, and created a stellar 33-track mix for the 2xCD edition of the Spectral Sound Vol. 1 compilation.

Dethlab (Dethany+Doyle, Detroit)

The hyper-productive duo with a history for being two steps too far ahead for their own good, Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle seek to define "the new black" with their Dethlab project, connecting the dots between trends in music, fashion, design and culture: mashing Ballardian reality with a romance for the glory days of postpunk and the cyberpunk future promised by Blade Runner. Like a modern day McLaren and Westwood, Doyle and Shorb are obsessive consumers, creators and curators of all things dark, innovative and beautiful... often with tongue firmly in cheek. Dethlab have brought artists such Vitalic, Solvent and Kill Memory Crash to their residency at OSLO, have performed with the likes of T. Raumschmiere, Chemlab and Ectomorph, have facilitated antics such as tea parties and period costumed croquet socials in abandoned factories, and have used nearly as much fake blood as GWAR since the project's inception one year ago.

Holding an MFA from Cranbrook, New York area native Bethany Shorb has dabbled and excelled in disciplines ranging from sculpture, to fashion and graphic design, to photography, to multimedia and music. She has performed around the country as Toybreaker and a member of seminal noise band God and His Bitches. As founder of Cyberoptix, she has designed a vast catalog of innovative couture, including the costumes for Skinny Puppy's 2004 world tour. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Make and Industrial Nation.

After living in New York during the rise and fall of both the dot-com bubble and electroclash, designer, lecturer, curator and obsessive blogger, Michael Doyle moved to Detroit and promptly co-founded the Dorkwave collective. Doyle coined the name and concise manifesto, "music for freaks", after one impropmtu night DJ'ing with Rob Theakston at the legendary UNTITLED parties. His design work can be seen everywhere from auto show exhibits and museums to record covers, and his group blog Burnlab.net has been a favorite bookmark among taste makers for more than six years.

Dethlab's "Deth, FX and 666" treatments have turned the tamest of electro and microhouse records into thundering gnarz anthems, and their extensive collections of French electropunk and Belgian EBM records have both inspired and frightened audiences from Noir Leather fetish balls to the 2006 Movement Festival. The duo describes their sound as "the devil's disco", and lists a combined "ten years of art school" as their primary influence.

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July 29, at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit:

DethLab presents
"Machines That Feel"
(in association with the LINK Festival)

curators statement:
Machines That Feel is a one evening multimedia exploration of the relationships between humanity and technology, curated by Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle. Machines That Feel proposes that nothing is more purely human than what we create with our own hands and imagination - that technology need not be seen as cold and synthetic, but is in fact our most sophisticated means of expression.

featuring:
• Detroit debut screening of RELINE2, a collection of short films by leading-edge video artists.
• Film featuring robotic instruments created by Cranbrook Designer- in-Residence and performance artist Elliott Earls.
• Live performance by 800 Beloved.
• Live performance by Spectral Mornings.
• DJ set by DethLab, with video by C-TRL labs.

the evening of Saturday, July 29th, 2006
midnight - 4am
The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID)
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd.
Detroit MI 48208
313.899.2243
$5 evening membership fee
Free beer compliments of our sponsors, Budweiser Select and Flavorpill Network

schedule (tentative):
12am: RELINE2
1am: Spectral Mornings
1:45am: Elliott Earls
2:00am: 800 Beloved
2:45am: Dethlab

Much more information about Machines That Feel on the Press Releases page!

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July 21, Sex & Sedition, with Solvent (LIVE!) + BMG of Ectomorph (DJ) + Dethlab

Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001's Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004's Apples & Synthesizers, 2005's Elevators & Oscillators). Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM. Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey (Morr Music), Disco Nouveau (Ghostly International), and Misery Loves Company (Ersatz Audio). His songs have also been licensed to several high-profiles DJ mix CDs, including Sven Vath's Sound of the 5th Season (Cocoon), Dr. Lektroluv's Lektroluv 5 (541), and Death in Vegas's Fabriclive 23 (Fabric London). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop's return to form.

UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop. Solvent currently records exclusively for Ghostly International, and has been touring extensively since 2004, having shared the stage with Adult., Legowelt, Bola, Junior Boys, Matthew Dear, Lusine, Lowfish, and others. [ From ghostly.com ]

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Destroy Your Powercenters

Interdimensional Transmissions is a label that not only releases records, it releases milestones. From the visionary From Beyond Series that debuted I-f's "Space Invaders" to the world, to the early Ectomorph relics that still set the standard, IT leads where other follow. IT label head BMG has been pivotal in the reemergence of electro, from his early trend defining records as Ectomorph to his latest innovations and discoveries released through IT and many other distinguished labels. Today, Brendan performs live laptop DJ sets that fuse many styles (electro, techno, house, disco, italo, synth, acid, rock, etc), providing a seductive context for cutting edge dance music with energy reminiscent of 80s Detroit Radio Mix shows. You might hear him play staples like Prince's 'Erotic City' or Laid Back's 'White Horse' weaved into his own beats. He often collaborates with traditional musicians, leading to impromptu shows with the likes of Ian of Perspects on Drums, Goudron on Synth and Sam from Tamion 12" on the mic. A chance meeting in South Africa resulted in a performance with both Patrick Pulsinger on 909 and Sal Principato of the legendary NYC outfit Liquid Liquid on congas and vox, leading to a lasting artistic collaboration.

Special Download! (with a stellar intro by the unmistakable Adamx). A 7mb mp3 recorded live at Oslo (Cannonball, 2004) - BMG DJ set with Sal P live. grab it!

Sex & Sedition is our semi-monthly residency at OSLO.

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July 13, Curtis Eller + Dethlab, The Lager House

"New York City's angriest yodelling banjo player" Curtis Eller brings his tales of pigeon racing, Coney Island, performing elephants, Buster Keaton and snake handling back to Detroit's Lager House next Thursday, July 13th.

I say this every time Curtis rolls through town, but highly recommended for anyone who enjoys vaudeville antics (he started his career in the circus at age seven), and Weimar Revival and American Gothic music, such as Nick Cave, Dresden Dolls, American Mars, Blanche, 16 Horsepower, Devotchka, Thomas Truax, etc.

Additionally, Dethlab will be curating records in support with what may be perceived by some as a most unusual set. Putting aside the dancefloor rockers in favor of intricate, often melancholy selections from the likes of Cave, Waits, Costello, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Circlesquare and Joy Division, we will be exploring the exact same dark corners of contemporary culture, only without the constraints of the dance club setting. [- Burnlab]

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June 17, Sex & Sedition, OSLO: Kill Memory Crash + DethLab + Stevo

NEW! Listen to a 50 min. Kill Memory Crash dj set. (Real Player Format)

Kill Memory Crash: Spawned from the excessive debauchery and hedonistic revolution that was the mid-90s Detroit rave scene; Kill Memory Crash has emerged from the vacuum of normality armed with their hard-nosed hybrid of techno, industrial, rock, and electro. They have shaken the foundations of electronic music by tearing away at the very boundaries that define it, freely mixing genres and styles to create their own unique blend of Frankenstein Electronic. Now based out of Chicago, a city rich in dance culture history, they continue to voyage deeper into the conscience of the international audience via their acclaimed label Ghostly International.

The year 2005 saw the release of their first full-length effort entitled American Automatic, the follow up to the renowned 2003 EP “When the Blood Turns Black.” Kill Memory Crash's music has received praise from both the public and music industry alike with radio play in over 10 countries including the US, Japan, England, Germany, and Canada. Their "American Automatic" LP received 4.5 out of 5 stars from the All Music Guide and held a top 10 position on CMJ's RPM chart for three weeks.

Kill Memory Crash have remixed renowned musical artists such as experimental beat poet Saul Williams, and the legendary industrial band Chemlab. Various tracks from Kill Memory Crash's catalog have been licensed to CBS's CSI Miami, several seasons of MTV's Real World, and nationally aired sporting events. In between studio sessions, Kill Memory Crash regularly tours the US; bringing their sonic assault to major music festivals like SXSW, Miami's Winter Music Conference, CMJ, Seattle's Decibel Festival and of course Detroit's Electronic Music Festival.

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DethLab is playing three events Memorial weekend with some of our very best friends and biggest influences.

Saturday May 27

DEMF rebel afterparty tradition continues in 2006 with an underground undead dance party from interdimensional transmissions: CANNIBALL

Shake
Perspects LIVE
BMG of Ectomorph
Derek Plaslaiko
Carlos Souffront
Dethlab

+ surprises....

Worldwide debut of Autechre's new video Fermium

OSLO
1456 Woodward (@ John R)

Sunday, May 28

Old School 2!
Buy Presale Tickets!

OLD SCHOOL 2: TECH HEADS ~VS~ RIVETHEADS - A LIVE SHOWDOWN

CITY CLUB | LABYRINTH | STUDIO 54
400 BAGLEY. DETROIT

10PM-10AM. BAR OPENS BACK UP AT 7AM

Monday, May 29
Real Detroit Stage, Hart Plaza.

Here is the line-up for Monday's (5/29/06) industrial showcase, brought to you by Darkcourse Productions:

2-3 pm: F.I.S.T.
3-4 pm: Chris Rohn
4-5 pm: Asrock of The Final Cut
5-6 pm: Kill Memory Crash - live
6-7 pm: DethLab
7-8 pm: Chemlab - live

Video/animation by Phoenix Perry.

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The Fresh Corporation presents: My Friends R Electric

Featuring: The VHS or Beta Deejays (aka KitChaps)| DethLab | and very special guest dj Carlos D!

This will be the official Dtown birthday celebration of Adriel and Carlos D.!

| OSLO, Detroit | $10 | 18+ | 10 - LATE! |

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Vitalic gallery coming soon, thank you so much to everyone for coming out! In the meantime, check our flickr gallery to see a few snaps from the evening.

REAL DETROIT WEEKLY 03.15.06
electrophile
by Amy Hubbarth

If you’re craving more electro, see Vitalic play live at Oslo on Saturday, March 18. Grabbing a date on his first-ever US tour, Detroit’s Dethlab (Bethany Shorb and Mike Doyle) are proud to present one of their personal favorites for a show that is way overdue. See if you can find the two in the “My Friend Dario” music video. Go to vitalic.org for sweet audio justification and the clever music videos. | RDW

Sex & Sedition IV - VITALIC LIVE! March 18th | OSLO, Detroit | $10 | 18+

Vitalic - live in Detroit

Download full size flyer [ here ]

Dethlab is extremely pleased to present Vitalic's first ever live show in Detroit on Saturday, March 18th.

REVIEWS OF VITALIC + OK COWBOY:

"The biggest and best 'fuck you' so far this year to the nonsensical suggestion that dance music is somehow 'dead'". [ Read more at PlayLouder.com ]

"The shadowy European producer specializes in brutalizing electro-techno anthems that are about as subtle as a cement mixer. For DJs worldwide, Vitalic's 2001 cult classic Poney EP became the equivalent of carrying around a defibrillator in a record bag; any lifeless set could instantly be brought back from the dead with it... Listening to it from start to finish is so bracing it's overwhelming; it sounds like what it would feel like to drink six cups of black coffee chased down with a bucket of ice water." [ Read more at The Village Voice ]

"This is an album that leaves you in absolutely no doubt that, at the very least, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the best thing to come out of France since Daft Punk." [ NME ]

“'La Rock' is the sound of imaginary techno-cockroaches itching their way across tinny drum slaps and paranoid skin." [Read more at Stylus Magazine ]

"There's a pleasingly old-school flavour to many of the tunes, thanks to Arbez's refusal to use samples. He simply synthesizes everything, from grungy roadhouse guitar to a sort of stoned-marching-band tattoo, all pulsing with life. And his much-loved voice synthesizer sounds exactly like Gonzo out of the Muppets, which only adds to the fun. " [ Read more at The Guardian ]

"In an interview around the time that his full-length debut, OK Cowboy, was released, Arbez stated that he didn't listen to techno albums "because they are boring"... [ Read more at Allmusic.com ]

"Arbez’s (sampled) guitar-revved tracks are pretty fucking incinerating --– “My Friend Dario” and the city-burner “Newman” wreak all kinds of havoc on the drugged psyche and even the sober one." [cokemachineglow.com]

"Do you know Vitalic? Many already do. To those who love his music, his unique sound, he’s the pleasure provider: the ultimate rush, the greatest high, the invincible metal disco warrior." [ Read more at French-music.org ]

"The rap on techno - that it's mind-numbingly repetitious - couldn't be less applicable to the aesthetic of OK Cowboy. It's dance music all right, but dance music of a variety so ferocious, so exuberant, that actually dancing to it is probably not advisable." [ Read more ar Soundfixrecords.com ]

"With the possible exception of a certain French house duo whose name we won't bring up quite just yet, it's difficult to think of another dance act whose career ascent has been as storybook as Pascal Arbez's. After toiling for years in relative obscurity under the aliases Dima (as good as the name suggests) and Hustler Pornstar (uh, ditto), the Frenchman didn't just draw blood with Vitalic's 2001 Poney EP, he lopped a few arteries. Seriously, it's hard to overstate the response to Poney; of its four tracks, three became high-tide dancefloor staples. Along with the dark, yawning electro of "Poney Part 1" and "Poney Part 2", there was the centerpiece "La Rock 01", still the reigning champion of songs that sound like paper shredders orgying in a wind tunnel.

While everyone from 2 Many DJs to Aphex Twin to Sven Väth was busy corking their sets with one (or two, or three...) tracks from Poney, Arbez was studiously lifting a few PR moves from his contemporaries, first by playing up his anonymity and later by concocting an elaborate backstory that involved a Ukrainian upbringing, animal fur trading, male prostitution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite being offered enough shows to keep him busy until the fall of the Wailing Wall, Arbez chose his live engagements carefully. He applied a similar selectivity to his output, issuing only a few 12"'s and a handful of choice remixes over the next few years..." [ Read more at Pitchfork ]

VIDEO:

Take a look at the new Vitalic video by Pleix. Download here.

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Sex & Sedition III - Dethlab vs. SOLVENT February 24th | OSLO, Detroit | $5

Solvent vs. Dethlab: Sex & Sedition III: There is nothing like causing an insurrection, especially when it involves sex. The gritty Solvent of Ghostly International gets in on the action for the the third edition of Sex & Sedition. Joined by Dethlab residents Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle, this will be an evening filled with New Wave, Electro, EBM and vintage Goth. - LISTD.net, 2.22.06

Solvent is a robot music composer, analog synthesizer fetishist, and co-founder of the renowned Suction Records label. Born in Zimbabwe in 1972, Solvent currently resides in a room full of machines in Toronto, Canada.

Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001's Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004's Apples & Synthesizers, 2005's Elevators & Oscillators). Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM. Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey (Morr Music), Disco Nouveau (Ghostly International), and Misery Loves Company (Ersatz Audio). His songs have also been licensed to several high-profiles DJ mix CDs, including Sven Vath's Sound of the 5th Season (Cocoon), Dr. Lektroluv's Lektroluv 5 (541), and Death in Vegas's Fabriclive 23 (Fabric London). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop's return to form.

UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop. Solvent currently records exclusively for Ghostly International, and has been touring extensively since 2004, having shared the stage with Adult., Legowelt, Bola, Junior Boys, Matthew Dear, Lusine, Lowfish, and others. [ From ghostly.com ]

"Canadian tech-savant Solvent allows the robotic tinkering behind his electro-pop to intuit, flirt, and wink, humanizing his music at a time when too many producers sterilize theirs. [Solvent has] transformed himself into one of the industry's foremost techno-symphonists... After years of shape shifting, Solvent seems to have righted himself on Apples and Synthesizers, which blends classic electro and synthpop with the punchy modernity of fractured, micro-edited beats." 8.0 out of 10. [ Pitchfork Media, USA ]

"Dr. Who basslines, hot synth action, computers talking like people (!) -- this one has everything you've come to expect and demand from a high performance melodic electro synth-pop long-player, and it's even from Canada. Is there anything we can't do?" 9.5 out of 10. [ Vice ]

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Dethlab is very flattered to have been invited to play an industrial set with Asrock of The Final Cut and Strider this Wednesday night at Delux. We'll be mixing old faves like Skinny Puppy and Cabaret Voltaire with new ones like Millimetric and Black Strobe. Should be a ton of fun!

Industrial? Elektropunk? Disco Nouveau? Electroclash V2? Darkwave V3?... The New Black?
Whatever you want to call it.

Black Strobe, Skinny Puppy, The Hacker, Cabaret Voltaire, Tiga, Coil, Adult., Total Body Control, Vitalic, Kino, Millimetric, Soft Cell, Solvent, Tuxedomoon, Alter Ego, Neon Judgement, T.Raumschmiere, Kill Memory Crash, Chemlab, Combichrist, Nitzer Ebb, GD Luxxe, Depeche Mode, Zombie Nation, The Normal, et al.

Dark Course presents: Love is Like a Razor Blade
Wednesday 2.15.06| Delux Lounge | 350 Monroe, Detroit (Greektown)

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The Second Biennial PAS/CAL Christmastime Special

PAS/CAL (live)| DethLab (dj)| Johnny Headband (live)
December 17th | Lager House - 254 Michigan Ave., (Corktown) Detroit, MI
only $6 / doors at 9pm

Expect plenty of festive decor, Christmas cookies and punch, twinkling lights, jingling bells, musical selections spanning decades upon centuries, the Savory and the Sweet, garnishes, trimmings, presents... and all manner of Hors d'oeuveres.

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NEW pictures! Warriors Halloween Party gallery!

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Saturday, Nov. 19: Noir Leather presents SIN - special guest DJ's DETHLAB
Fetish production by Wretched Design, Boston
18+ | 9pm | Diesel | 11425 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck MI

There will be electro run through distortion pedals.
You will buy us drinks.
It will be messy.
There will be rubber.
It will be completely ridiculous.

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"A party of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and on Friday, October 28th, they're gathering at The Warriors Halloween Party at Oslo."

2004 was the inaugural Warriors Halloween Party in New York City, based on the classic 1979 film. Featured djs included Afrika Bambaataa, honorary Dorkwaver and disco god Dan Selzer, and DFA co-founder Tim Sweeny. The gang costumes were ridiculously fantastic. It was by far the largest, most enthusiastically attended event of the season.

For 2005 The Warriors Halloween Party is spreading like a virus to five cities from coast to coast...

DETHLAB is pleased to present THE WARRIORS DETROIT at this month's edition of SEX & SEDITION.

Friday, October 28th
OSLO, 1456 Woodward Ave., Detroit

10pm | 18+ | $5

resident djs: DETHLAB
Bethany Shorb (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches)
Michael Doyle (Dorkwave/Burnlab.net)

with very special guests:
JIMMY EDGAR PRESENTS: CREEPY AUTOGRAPH, exclusive part live/part dj with vocals, pre-launch performance for Jimmy Edgar 'Color Strip' LP release on Warp and new fashion line e fa min.

+ Jon Ozias (Dorkwave / Blackbx) dj
+ Alec Metallic a.k.a. Alec Peterhans (WeRDJ / Rhinoceros Red) dj

you:
Come with a group of friends dressed as your own gang, with your own unique style and gang name.

All gangs will be photographed for the collective Warriors Halloween Party website.

Let's show NYC, LA and the like who's boss in the crazy department.

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Saturday September 24 The Magic Stick 18+ | 9pm | $12

T. Raumschmiere [Mute/Shitkatapult, Berlin]

T. Raumschmiere's moniker is lifted from the William S. Burrough's short story 'The Dreamcops' ('Die Traumschmiere' in his native German) and is the alter-ego of the 'electro-punk' himself, Marco Haas. Having established his own label back in 1997, the superbly titled Shitkatapult, he has gradually gained a global reputation for punk injected techno/electro and been subsequently crowned the king of 'gnarz'. From his Berlin based bunker, T. Raumschmiere has continued to stick two fingers up to the tried and tested, ploughing his own 'stay-anti' stance with the heroic zeal of an electronic Johnny Rotten. From Cologne's Kompakt to Chicago's Hefty label, Marco Haas is now a full long player member of London based novamute and the 'Monstertruck Driver' shows no sign of breaking for hitchers.

Ectomorph [Interdimensional Transmissions, Ann Arbor] Ectomorph have come to destroy your powercenters. The inequities of this system must be leveled. The power balance in your universe is wrong. We have come to right your many millennia of corrupt behavior. Beware! The group has developed a new approach to sound by delivering unique in-the-moment live performances, often with additional avant theater. The frequency of these performances has created a fluid communication of structure and improvisation, based around the core nucleus of BMG & Erika. After years of performing live together, the sound of Ectomorph's recorded work finally matches the fluidity of their live performances. Such performances have taken them around the world, from the Sonar Festival to the Love Parade, from the Knitting Factory to the Empty Bottle.

Dethlab [Toybreaker/GHB/Dorkwave, Detroit] Influenced by a combined ten years of art school and fueled by a steady diet of fine chocolate, quadrouple espressos, bass synths and human flesh, Dethlab's Bethany (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches) and Michael (Dorkwave/Burnlab) play really good records really badly... and look good doing it. With a penchant for thoroughly executed, and often self-parodying theatrics, Team Dethlab have played host to blood orgies, tea parties in abandoned factories and various other misguided uses of seemingly endless imagination and energy. Expect sounds that will move both your ass and internal organs.

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Friday 09.16.05: Dethlab plays at Pure Detroit Design Lab's September fashion opening. Featuring fashions of Samantha Bullock. 8-11pm

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Friday 09.02.05: Goodnite Comrade: The Going Away Party for Denis Baldwin
Flyer Design: Focus Media

Date: September 2nd, 2005 (that's a Friday night!)
Time: 10 PM until Denis falls over dead
Starring: Our Guest: Denis A. Baldwin (and his gigantic ego) M.C: Doc

DJs and other musical types:
- Keith Tucker (Aux88 / Puzzlebox)
- Benji Hayes (Focus Media)
- Darkcube (Detroit Techno Militia)
- Dethlab (Burnlab/GHB)
- Sneak @ Datavibe (.net)
- Stos (Fist Clencher)
- T.Linder (Detroit Techno Militia)

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Electro! Chaos! Anarchy! Hair Metal! Makeout Action! Bad 80s Radio Hits! Blood! Booze!
Free if you love Denis

Location:
The Focus Media Bunker
440 E. Lafayette
Bricktown, Detroit 48226
440 E. Lafayette | Detroit | 10p - Later

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Friday August 26 | Sex & Sedition | OSLO 21+ | 10pm | $5

Punk was trash culture gone avant-garde and/or the avant-garde gone trash, and just as Dada had tried to destroy the institution of art, so the punks seemed bent on destroying the very institution of fashion.

What does this mean in the context of the post-everything 21st century? Find out August 26th.

From obscure, blood soaked side project to what promises to be Detroit's hottest new night in less than a month's time... but what else could be expected when you put together two of the city's most hyper-productive artists and shameless self-promoters? ;)

Dethlab presents Sex & Sedition, starting Friday, August 26th at Oslo. An evening of dark, sexy, stylish music and theatrics that will push the envelope of both creativity and everything you've been told is right and good in the world. Sex & Sedition takes place the last Friday of every other month, alternating with Clark Warner's brilliant new Alpha night.

residents: DETHLAB, dj
Bethany Shorb (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches)
Michael Doyle (Dorkwave/Burnlab.net)

very special guests:
KEITH KEMP, dj
KELLY PINK-O, live/dj

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CHEMLAB vs. DETHLAB: Aug. 10th in Boston

Chemlab will be doing a very special one-off performance at Cambridge's Middle East Club August 10th.
Throughout the 90s, Chemlab blazed a fearsome trail through the Indie music scene, alternately setting then breaking every convention of hard-driven Machine Rock. Their music exploits the chaos found when the oil-slick of digital dance grooves meets the brackish water of the guitar’s sonic-organic roar. Chemlab’s first album, Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar, recorded in 1992 at Chicago Trax studio, quickly became the Machine Rock standard against which future records have been measured. It unleashed a tsunami of rave reviews from magazines as varied as Alternative Press, Raygun, Keyboard and Rolling Stone. The record torched through the charts, trashed dance floors and shoved the band out on endless tours supporting Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Skrew and many others. Chemlab’s next album, East Side Militia, capitalised on the power of Burn Out, four-wheeling Chemlab’s explosive sound through uncharted terrain that mixed hammering dance-rock songs with disturbing ambient nightmares. The last few years have seen Chemlab frontman Jared Louche release a solo record from his decadent new base in London (the critically acclaimed Covergirl, produced by Martin Atkins), collaborate with electro-sex-noise project h3llb3nt (feat. members of Chemlab, 16 Volt, Haloblack/X-Lover, Thrill Kill Kult), spread his solo performance smear all over London, the UK and Europe, and tour the US many times with Pigface. Now suited, rebooted and mutated, Chemlab explodes onto the scene once more with their new Invisible Records monsterpiece Oxidizer, offering up a musical scornocopia that drags Machine Rock deep into the future. Recorded with Jason Novak and Jamie Duffy (Acumen Nation) and long-time Chemlab collaborator FJ (the Aggression), Oxidizer is the perfect synthesis between the aggression of Burn Out and the groove of East Side, all of it channelled through a fractured T-Rex filter.

This one time performance is "not your father's Chemlab" and will feature a new line-up, new takes on old classics and tracks never before performed live.

More details, right from Jared's mouth.

Wednesday August 10th, 2005, Angeldustrial.com presents:

You Shriek
One of Us
Scrap.Edx
Dethlab
18+ |8pm | $10
Middle East Downstairs
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139


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COMING UP APRIL 17, 2009 DETHLAB + BMG [ECTOMORPH] + FRIENDS THE WORKS DETROIT 10PM-4AM APRIL 23, 2009 FIXMER/McCARTHY [LIVE] +DETHLAB THC 9PM-3AM APRIL 25, 2009 DETHLAB DESIGN FOR LIFE MOCAD [BENEFIT SHOW + AUCTION] 7PM-11PM	Past Events: Basstown and Lauren DeVain Present: AUGUST 25, 2007: BLACKMAGIC Featuring - Volvox, Justincredible, and special guests: Dethlab (Detroit) Gina Turner (LA) Photos by NickyDigital Industrial Dance / Hard Techno / Electro Sleaze Great Scott 1222 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston MA. 9pm - 2am \| $7 at the door JUNE, 16 2007: MOTOR [Novamute, London/Paris] LIVE! at CAID: 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd., Detroit 10:00 PM \| $10 GOUDRON [I.T./Ersatz Audio, Detroit] live DETHLAB [Toybreaker/Dorkwave, Detroit] DJs DETRONIK (video installation) MOTOR's performance last summer has been cited as the best live show in the history of Oslo (arguably even over Vitalic!) We are extraordinarly pleased to bring Bryan, Mr. No and Hugo back to Detroit, to the legendary CAID/Detroit Contemporay space. "People have this tame image of live electronic music and we go out there and smash things up and spit in your face," states Bryan Black. For the man who used to programme Prince's keyboards as an in house technician at Paisley Park Studios in the 90s [and founding member of H3LLB3NT, Haloblack and XLover] knowingly confirms, "we make more noise than a guitar can make and that's what we enjoy doing." Whilst electronic live acts have merged further into the anonymity of the DJ booth over recent years, MOTOR guzzle petrol, bellow toxic fumes and roar from the stage as all three band members wrestle with vocal duties and (alter) egos over their instruments. Forging live gig energy into the sonic envelope of a club environment has enabled MOTOR to play live 'gig' tours with Nitzer Ebb across America and Europe as well as landmark club venues such as Frankfurt's Cocoon and Paris's Rex and festivals throughout Europe like Pukkelpop and Lowlands. MOTOR's new LP Unhuman is now out on Mute. GOUDRON's new EP Stiletto is now out on Interdimensional Transmissions. April, 13 2007: JAK THE RIPPER $5 at Bohemian National Home. TRAXX COWBOY MARK BMG OF ECTOMORPH DETHLAB Co-produced with our good friends at Interdimensional Transmissions, JAK the Ripper promises to be an all-out bloodfest of evil electro and volatile acid, featuring the one and only Traxx. Expect it to be dark, loud and sinister until the wee hours. Count on selections from Traxx's new label Creme JAK. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ April, 14 2007 Machines That Feel II at CAID with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Casiotone For The Painfully Alone [Tomlab, Chicago] Spectral Mornings [Square Root, Grand Rapids] Thirty (Over) Thousand [Square Root, Grand Rapids] DJs Bethany Shorb & Michael Doyle [Dethlab, Detroit] CAID is located at 5141 Rosa Parks, Detroit, Michigan 48208. Cost : $8 [ See big poster ] [ See full press release ] Cyberoptix TieLab is having an open studio night/trunk show Saturday, April 7th. 8-11pm, Detroit. Bethany will be debuting the new Whiplash collection and previewing Concealed Weapons pieces for Summer/Fall '07. There will also be a full range of ties, ascots, scarves, jackets, accessories and one-off couture pieces for sale and view. Come for the fashion, drink the wine, eat the cheese - and meat of course, stay for the music (provided by DethLab and Friends) and buy the goods. [ More information ] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Past Madness This Saturday night our friend Lauren Hill is hosting a little dance party/birthday celebration for Ayron Nelson and our very own Ms. Toybreaker at the Elks Lodge in Ann Arbor. We're told the space is right out of the 1960s, with all the charms of a secret society rec room - including a mirrored ceiling. How could we turn that down? We'll be playing records along with Stallone (a.k.a. Samion Consiglio) and BMG of Ectomorph. Fun and weirdness guaranteed, everyone is invited and it's free! Map here. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [ See big ] Art After Dark First Fridays at the Guggenheim December 1: Telefon Tel Aviv + Dethlab 9pm - 1am 5th Ave. at 89th St. $20 cash only at the door FREE for Guggenheim Members! Sponsored by the Village Voice. Djs curated by Flavorpill. Back by popular demand, First Fridays starts again this fall. Don't miss this incredible evening! Enjoy a drink with friends, explore the galleries and listen to some of the best DJs in town, all in the spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building. Saturday October 28, 2006 PHONO HALLOWEEN- The Junior/Senior Semi-Formal Homecoming Edition BASTEROID (live) - Areal/Sender - (Frankfurt, Germany) PLASTIQUE DE REVE - Turbo/Gigolo - (Geneva, Switzerland) FRANK MARTINIQ - Boxer/Sender/Areal - (Cologne, Germany) ADULTNAPPER - Superfreq/Halcyon w/ Resident DJs COWBOY MARK & FUNCTION Sideroom DJs: DETHLAB! VJs: Daniel Vatsky & SEEj Instead of a best costume contest, we’re having a best formal wear contest. Get dressed up, dolled up and put on your suit & tie or ballgown and win fabulous prizes. Grand prize: $500 cash Other prizes include $200 halcyon gift certificate (Don’t hesitate to come in your Halloween costume though... we love you either way.) Saturday October 28, 2006 - Doors at 10pm Brooklyn Sugar basement - 289 Kent Ave. at S. 2nd St. - Williamsburg, Brooklyn $18 in advance/$23 at the door Advance Tickets Available at: Halcyon: 57 Pearl St. - DUMBO Other Music: 15 E. 4th St. Vinyl Market: 241 E. 10th St. Satellite Records: 259 Bowery www.enablernetwork.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ October, 13 2006 - Show Me Evil: Friday the 13th at Lager House w/ 800beloved, Star and RENTAL 1254 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sept 29, Sex & Sedition VIII: One Year Anniversay Party at OSLO with LOWFISH (LIVE!) 10pm \| 18+ \| $5 featuring: LOWFISH live! [Suction, Satamile, Hymen, Clone, Ersatz Audio, Ghostly] with residents DETHLAB: Bethany Shorb [Toybreaker, Cyberoptix] Michael Doyle [Burnlab, Dorkwave] + friends Dethlab's Sex and Sedition residency at Oslo has become synonymous with the very best of new dark electronic music: from the first North American appearances of international live artists Vitalic and Motor, to dj sets from favorites such as Kill Memory Crash and Solvent. Celebrate the first anniversary of Sex & Sedition with Suction label co-founder Lowfish, who recently released a new 12" on NY/SF electro label Satamile, and is currently completing his fifth full-length. samples & more on Lowfish's MySpace Lowfish is perhaps one of Canada's most prominent electro producers, yet something of a genre melding oddity. His clinical and critical production of tracks are very "new school", yet built from the DNA of early new wave and IDM. The weapons of choice are what they have been from the start: semi-operational analog synthesizers, temperamental drum machines and scratchy recording gear. The name Lowfish came from those weapons of choice and the result, being a production aesthetic that is lo-fi "ish" — Lowfish. Lowfish has released 4 full-lengths and a stack of singles on labels including Suction Records, Ersatz Audio, Vynalogica/Clone, City Centre Offices and Satamile, with scores of remixes and compilations appearances for respected organizations around the globe including Morr Music, Ghostly International, Turbo Recordings, and even the National Film Board of Canada. Live? Lowfish has turned out to be a dancefloor menace, with his awe-inspiring mix of modern electro and industrial-strength robo-disco (aka his own brand of precision drum machine electro pop) to the acclaim of audiences across Europe and North America. This past year Lowfish recoiled into his studio in order to prepare his new material (leaving only to play select dates). Efforts will commence this February with Persuasive Science, a catchy and punishing 12" on Satamile, and a mini-EP on Hymen — Travel Sickness. Lowfish is the work of Toronto producer Gregory De Rocher, who runs Suction Records with his longtime friend Jason Amm of Solvent. The pair share an appreciation for New Wave and early industrial artists like Skinny Puppy and Front 242, as well as a studio where distorted 808 drum beats and bouncy, melodic analog synth lines are the sounds of choice. De Rocher has been producing for over ten years and it shows in his music. His work is fresh and distinct, with just enough graininess and noise to offset the lushness of the synthesizer melodies and grooves. On Eliminator, his self-proclaimed brand of "robot music" flows naturally as he takes simple ideas and evolves them in his digital petri dish. It's De Rocher's obsession with sound quality and delivery that sets his music apart from other electronic producers. His tracks exude a maturity in craftmanship, a pure focus, with rhythms and delicate textures that never become indulgent or overstated. De Rocher was born in Toronto in 1972. Early in life, he was plagued with hearing problems and some of the more crunchy techno found on Warp and Rephlex. Along with numerous international compilation and remix appearances, Lowfish has released two full-lengths on Suction: Fear Not the Snow and Other Lo-fiing Objects (1999) and Eliminator (2000). Recently, Suction also put out Snow Robots Volume 1 and 2, a retrospective compilation of works by both Lowfish and Solvent, featuring several out-of-print releases from 1997, plus some new tracks by the pair. There is even a Lowfish remix by Germany's Lali Puna. "Subversive Rats" appeared on Snow Robots Volume 1 while "FatBlex" and "Glued Smile" came from the Eliminator full-length. Meanwhile, "No Longer Accepting Complaints," featuring a dizzingly dirty and hedonistic synthesized bass line, was Lowfish's contribution to Ghostly International's essential robo-electro comp, Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau, a compendium of contemporary electronic artists doing exciting reinterpretations of the classic Giorgio Moroder-inspired austere disco sound. Later that same year, Lowfish recorded the four-song Accident Causer EP for Adult.'s Ersatz Audio label, then returned with another coldly funky collection of chirpy analog stabs, entitled Maintain the Tension. Lowfish is nothing if not a master of textures, and his mad layers of arpeggiated synths over tinny drum machines sometimes suggest the experimental computer music of yesteryear. Despite his obsessive-compulsive fixation on cleanliness and complexity, De Rocher retains a groovy dance floor energy, making Lowfish a brand of intelligent machine music sure to stimulate all parts of your cerebral cortex. [epotonic] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FREEDOMME 2006 Saturday Sept 16 dance afterparty BMG of Ectomorph interdimensional transmissions, detroit Dethlab dorkwave, toybreaker Burlesque Fetish Performance @ 12:30 suggested donation $8 after 11pm Masonic Temple (500 Temple) shriner tower entrance (right side) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ September, 2 2006 at IPM Radio Summer Sizzle Mullitude Studio Complex / New Detroit Radio 24735 Industrial Hwy, Warren, MI 48089 Cost: free! This year's event and its live broadcast will begin at 12:00 noon EST on Saturday, September 2, and continue late into the night on Sunday, September 3, 2006. We'll have coolers full of ice and grills full of fire for your use or you can ask one of our BBQ chefs for help. There will be some food, snacks and beverages on hand to get things started and a special breakfast on Sunday morning for those staying over night. Everyone is encouraged to bring along whatever food and drinks they prefer as well - the more the merrier! If you're planning to stay the weekend with us on-site, bring your camping gear and other supplies! Be sure to Check the weather and plan your outfits and extra clothes accordingly. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday, August 4th, Dethlab teams up with Ghostly/Spectral Sound, smashing Vault and Sex & Sedition together for one monstrous affair. B L O O D _ A N D _ O I L featuring: MOTOR techno/industrial LIVE! (Novamute, London/Paris) Brian Aneurysm acid/techno DJ (Spectral Sound, Barcelona) with residents: Ryan Elliott techno DJ (Spectral Sound, Detroit) Dethlab electro DJs (Dethany+Doyle, Detroit) 10pm \| 18+ \| $10 OSLO: 1456 Woodward Ave, Detroit MI Flyer and pre-sale info to come. Dethlab presents: MOTOR live! (NovaMute, London/Paris) At the turn of the year we find the MOTOR duo of Mr. No and Bryan Black both firmly in the driving seat of their metallic, rust-coated rocket car. Not content with laying waste to clubland last year with the monstrous ‘Stuka Stunt’ and ‘Sweatbox’ singles they are now set to release their debut album, Klunk. Preceded by the single and album opener ‘Black Powder’, MOTOR are bracing themselves for a head on crash into the spot light this year with extensive worldwide tours, a revved-up three piece live show and the dancefloor muscle to deliver where it hurts. Mr. No comes from the industrial wastelands of Paris, and Bryan Black from Minneapolis yet being truly international they met and formed in the smoky basements of Camden, London where Mr. No was playing drums and Bryan was watching on in awe. Bryan Black was seminal pop star Prince’s sound designer and programmer at Paisley Park Studios in the late 90s before setting off to London to pursue his own musical projects whilst Mr. No arrived in London in 1989 with a mission to turn drummers into drum machines. The duo have remixed the likes of Marilyn Manson, Throbbing Gristle and most recently, Depeche Mode as well as remixing the theme song for the final Godzilla film, Final Wars, in a collaboration with Felix Da Housecat. The MOTOR duo are also known for their work under the alias XLOVER whose album, Pleasure & Romance, was released on DJ Hell’s Gigolo Records last year and their multiple collaborations with Felix Da Housecat include co-writing tracks off his last LP Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever as well as producing tracks for Princess Superstar and Japanese rock god Atsushi Sakurai. After releasing a string of raw, bold and innovative singles including the massive ‘Sweatbox’, MOTOR will soon unleash their debut album, Klunk. Packed with dark menacing grooves, corrosive industrial drumming and the pioneering spirit of acid house, Klunk locks into a swirl of techno-strobed hedonism and doesn’t let go. Official MOTOR web site \| Mute web site \| Watch MOTOR Live in Paris here \| Watch the Black Powder video here \| preview/download the Black Powder single on iTunes Ghostly International presents: Brian Aneurysm (Spectral Sound, London) Bernhard Pucher has had nearly 10 years’ experience as a DJ, and his productions as Brian Aneurysm have appeared on labels such as Poker Flat, Sub-static and his own Iron Box imprint. Additionally, he has recorded under seveal aliases, inlcuding Confutatis and Echopilot which found release on Morris Audio Citysport and Traum Schallplatten. Originally an Austrian, Pucher has lived in Texas since the late 1990s, where his musical palette has grown to include industrial and hard techno, the influences of which permeate his releases and his DJ sets alike. Having been exposed to the sounds of minimal house by a friend, he has been releasing his own music since 2002. Spring 2005 brings Brian Aneurysm to Spectral Sound for the Das Element Des Menschen 12”. The title track builds on mechanical bursts, slowly becoming a dominating tech-house beast as a palpable, dark intensity pours from the speakers amidst the clanks and bass line whirs, making for a surefire dance floor destroyer. It is the most confident statement yet from Mr. Pucher, and an auspicious glimpse of what’s to come. Brian Aneurysm official site \| Spectral Sound web site \| Listen to a clip from Das Element Des Menschen with Vault / Sex & Sedition residents: Ryan Elliott (Spectral Sound, Detroit) Upstart Detroit DJ Ryan Elliott has gained notoriety over the past few years by programming sets that are as well crafted and sophisticated as they are danceable. From ice cold minimal techno to summery house beats, Elliott has played both big rooms and martini bars with equal success. As a DJ, Ryan is adept in the late night hours, finding the balance between heavy floor tracks and elegant crowdpleasers. Utilizing three decks, multiple audio sources, and outboard effects are par for the course, and Elliott employs them with the utmost skill to keep crowds engaged. With a fervent interest in the emerging international techno scene, he is a walking dictionary of artists, labels, and releases. Elliott held his Tuesday night events at Ann Arbor’s Goodnight Gracie with Matthew Dear from 2002 to 2004, bringing back energy to the city’s nightlife. Ryan Elliott was also asked to be a resident at Detroit’s weekly Untitled alongside Dear, Tadd Mullinix, Mike Servito, and Derek Plaslaiko. In 2005 he began a new residency at Detroit’s Oslo, and created a stellar 33-track mix for the 2xCD edition of the Spectral Sound Vol. 1 compilation. Dethlab (Dethany+Doyle, Detroit) The hyper-productive duo with a history for being two steps too far ahead for their own good, Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle seek to define "the new black" with their Dethlab project, connecting the dots between trends in music, fashion, design and culture: mashing Ballardian reality with a romance for the glory days of postpunk and the cyberpunk future promised by Blade Runner. Like a modern day McLaren and Westwood, Doyle and Shorb are obsessive consumers, creators and curators of all things dark, innovative and beautiful... often with tongue firmly in cheek. Dethlab have brought artists such Vitalic, Solvent and Kill Memory Crash to their residency at OSLO, have performed with the likes of T. Raumschmiere, Chemlab and Ectomorph, have facilitated antics such as tea parties and period costumed croquet socials in abandoned factories, and have used nearly as much fake blood as GWAR since the project's inception one year ago. Holding an MFA from Cranbrook, New York area native Bethany Shorb has dabbled and excelled in disciplines ranging from sculpture, to fashion and graphic design, to photography, to multimedia and music. She has performed around the country as Toybreaker and a member of seminal noise band God and His Bitches. As founder of Cyberoptix, she has designed a vast catalog of innovative couture, including the costumes for Skinny Puppy's 2004 world tour. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Make and Industrial Nation. After living in New York during the rise and fall of both the dot-com bubble and electroclash, designer, lecturer, curator and obsessive blogger, Michael Doyle moved to Detroit and promptly co-founded the Dorkwave collective. Doyle coined the name and concise manifesto, "music for freaks", after one impropmtu night DJ'ing with Rob Theakston at the legendary UNTITLED parties. His design work can be seen everywhere from auto show exhibits and museums to record covers, and his group blog Burnlab.net has been a favorite bookmark among taste makers for more than six years. Dethlab's "Deth, FX and 666" treatments have turned the tamest of electro and microhouse records into thundering gnarz anthems, and their extensive collections of French electropunk and Belgian EBM records have both inspired and frightened audiences from Noir Leather fetish balls to the 2006 Movement Festival. The duo describes their sound as "the devil's disco", and lists a combined "ten years of art school" as their primary influence. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [ see full size poster ] July 29, at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit: DethLab presents "Machines That Feel" (in association with the LINK Festival) curators statement: Machines That Feel is a one evening multimedia exploration of the relationships between humanity and technology, curated by Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle. Machines That Feel proposes that nothing is more purely human than what we create with our own hands and imagination - that technology need not be seen as cold and synthetic, but is in fact our most sophisticated means of expression. featuring: • Detroit debut screening of RELINE2, a collection of short films by leading-edge video artists. • Film featuring robotic instruments created by Cranbrook Designer- in-Residence and performance artist Elliott Earls. • Live performance by 800 Beloved. • Live performance by Spectral Mornings. • DJ set by DethLab, with video by C-TRL labs. the evening of Saturday, July 29th, 2006 midnight - 4am The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd. Detroit MI 48208 313.899.2243 $5 evening membership fee Free beer compliments of our sponsors, Budweiser Select and Flavorpill Network schedule (tentative): 12am: RELINE2 1am: Spectral Mornings 1:45am: Elliott Earls 2:00am: 800 Beloved 2:45am: Dethlab Much more information about Machines That Feel on the Press Releases page! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ July 21, Sex & Sedition, with Solvent (LIVE!) + BMG of Ectomorph (DJ) + Dethlab Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001's Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004's Apples & Synthesizers, 2005's Elevators & Oscillators). Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM. Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey (Morr Music), Disco Nouveau (Ghostly International), and Misery Loves Company (Ersatz Audio). His songs have also been licensed to several high-profiles DJ mix CDs, including Sven Vath's Sound of the 5th Season (Cocoon), Dr. Lektroluv's Lektroluv 5 (541), and Death in Vegas's Fabriclive 23 (Fabric London). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop's return to form. UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop. Solvent currently records exclusively for Ghostly International, and has been touring extensively since 2004, having shared the stage with Adult., Legowelt, Bola, Junior Boys, Matthew Dear, Lusine, Lowfish, and others. [ From ghostly.com ] [See a large version of the flyer!] Destroy Your Powercenters Interdimensional Transmissions is a label that not only releases records, it releases milestones. From the visionary From Beyond Series that debuted I-f's "Space Invaders" to the world, to the early Ectomorph relics that still set the standard, IT leads where other follow. IT label head BMG has been pivotal in the reemergence of electro, from his early trend defining records as Ectomorph to his latest innovations and discoveries released through IT and many other distinguished labels. Today, Brendan performs live laptop DJ sets that fuse many styles (electro, techno, house, disco, italo, synth, acid, rock, etc), providing a seductive context for cutting edge dance music with energy reminiscent of 80s Detroit Radio Mix shows. You might hear him play staples like Prince's 'Erotic City' or Laid Back's 'White Horse' weaved into his own beats. He often collaborates with traditional musicians, leading to impromptu shows with the likes of Ian of Perspects on Drums, Goudron on Synth and Sam from Tamion 12" on the mic. A chance meeting in South Africa resulted in a performance with both Patrick Pulsinger on 909 and Sal Principato of the legendary NYC outfit Liquid Liquid on congas and vox, leading to a lasting artistic collaboration. Special Download! (with a stellar intro by the unmistakable Adamx). A 7mb mp3 recorded live at Oslo (Cannonball, 2004) - BMG DJ set with Sal P live. grab it! Sex & Sedition is our semi-monthly residency at OSLO. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ July 13, Curtis Eller + Dethlab, The Lager House "New York City's angriest yodelling banjo player" Curtis Eller brings his tales of pigeon racing, Coney Island, performing elephants, Buster Keaton and snake handling back to Detroit's Lager House next Thursday, July 13th. I say this every time Curtis rolls through town, but highly recommended for anyone who enjoys vaudeville antics (he started his career in the circus at age seven), and Weimar Revival and American Gothic music, such as Nick Cave, Dresden Dolls, American Mars, Blanche, 16 Horsepower, Devotchka, Thomas Truax, etc. Additionally, Dethlab will be curating records in support with what may be perceived by some as a most unusual set. Putting aside the dancefloor rockers in favor of intricate, often melancholy selections from the likes of Cave, Waits, Costello, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Circlesquare and Joy Division, we will be exploring the exact same dark corners of contemporary culture, only without the constraints of the dance club setting. [- Burnlab] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ June 17, Sex & Sedition, OSLO: Kill Memory Crash + DethLab + Stevo NEW! Listen to a 50 min. Kill Memory Crash dj set. (Real Player Format) Kill Memory Crash: Spawned from the excessive debauchery and hedonistic revolution that was the mid-90s Detroit rave scene; Kill Memory Crash has emerged from the vacuum of normality armed with their hard-nosed hybrid of techno, industrial, rock, and electro. They have shaken the foundations of electronic music by tearing away at the very boundaries that define it, freely mixing genres and styles to create their own unique blend of Frankenstein Electronic. Now based out of Chicago, a city rich in dance culture history, they continue to voyage deeper into the conscience of the international audience via their acclaimed label Ghostly International. The year 2005 saw the release of their first full-length effort entitled American Automatic, the follow up to the renowned 2003 EP “When the Blood Turns Black.” Kill Memory Crash's music has received praise from both the public and music industry alike with radio play in over 10 countries including the US, Japan, England, Germany, and Canada. Their "American Automatic" LP received 4.5 out of 5 stars from the All Music Guide and held a top 10 position on CMJ's RPM chart for three weeks. Kill Memory Crash have remixed renowned musical artists such as experimental beat poet Saul Williams, and the legendary industrial band Chemlab. Various tracks from Kill Memory Crash's catalog have been licensed to CBS's CSI Miami, several seasons of MTV's Real World, and nationally aired sporting events. In between studio sessions, Kill Memory Crash regularly tours the US; bringing their sonic assault to major music festivals like SXSW, Miami's Winter Music Conference, CMJ, Seattle's Decibel Festival and of course Detroit's Electronic Music Festival. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DethLab is playing three events Memorial weekend with some of our very best friends and biggest influences. Saturday May 27 DEMF rebel afterparty tradition continues in 2006 with an underground undead dance party from interdimensional transmissions: CANNIBALL Shake Perspects LIVE BMG of Ectomorph Derek Plaslaiko Carlos Souffront Dethlab + surprises.... Worldwide debut of Autechre's new video Fermium OSLO 1456 Woodward (@ John R) Sunday, May 28 Old School 2! Buy Presale Tickets! OLD SCHOOL 2: TECH HEADS ~VS~ RIVETHEADS - A LIVE SHOWDOWN CITY CLUB \| LABYRINTH \| STUDIO 54 400 BAGLEY. DETROIT 10PM-10AM. BAR OPENS BACK UP AT 7AM Monday, May 29 Real Detroit Stage, Hart Plaza. Here is the line-up for Monday's (5/29/06) industrial showcase, brought to you by Darkcourse Productions: 2-3 pm: F.I.S.T. 3-4 pm: Chris Rohn 4-5 pm: Asrock of The Final Cut 5-6 pm: Kill Memory Crash - live 6-7 pm: DethLab 7-8 pm: Chemlab - live Video/animation by Phoenix Perry. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Fresh Corporation presents: My Friends R Electric Featuring: The VHS or Beta Deejays (aka KitChaps)\| DethLab \| and very special guest dj Carlos D! This will be the official Dtown birthday celebration of Adriel and Carlos D.! \| OSLO, Detroit \| $10 \| 18+ \| 10 - LATE! \| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Vitalic gallery coming soon, thank you so much to everyone for coming out! In the meantime, check our flickr gallery to see a few snaps from the evening. REAL DETROIT WEEKLY 03.15.06 electrophile by Amy Hubbarth If you’re craving more electro, see Vitalic play live at Oslo on Saturday, March 18. Grabbing a date on his first-ever US tour, Detroit’s Dethlab (Bethany Shorb and Mike Doyle) are proud to present one of their personal favorites for a show that is way overdue. See if you can find the two in the “My Friend Dario” music video. Go to vitalic.org for sweet audio justification and the clever music videos. \| RDW Sex & Sedition IV - VITALIC LIVE! March 18th \| OSLO, Detroit \| $10 \| 18+ Download full size flyer [ here ] Dethlab is extremely pleased to present Vitalic's first ever live show in Detroit on Saturday, March 18th. REVIEWS OF VITALIC + OK COWBOY: "The biggest and best 'fuck you' so far this year to the nonsensical suggestion that dance music is somehow 'dead'". [ Read more at PlayLouder.com ] "The shadowy European producer specializes in brutalizing electro-techno anthems that are about as subtle as a cement mixer. For DJs worldwide, Vitalic's 2001 cult classic Poney EP became the equivalent of carrying around a defibrillator in a record bag; any lifeless set could instantly be brought back from the dead with it... Listening to it from start to finish is so bracing it's overwhelming; it sounds like what it would feel like to drink six cups of black coffee chased down with a bucket of ice water." [ Read more at The Village Voice ] "This is an album that leaves you in absolutely no doubt that, at the very least, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the best thing to come out of France since Daft Punk." [ NME ] “'La Rock' is the sound of imaginary techno-cockroaches itching their way across tinny drum slaps and paranoid skin." [Read more at Stylus Magazine ] "There's a pleasingly old-school flavour to many of the tunes, thanks to Arbez's refusal to use samples. He simply synthesizes everything, from grungy roadhouse guitar to a sort of stoned-marching-band tattoo, all pulsing with life. And his much-loved voice synthesizer sounds exactly like Gonzo out of the Muppets, which only adds to the fun. " [ Read more at The Guardian ] "In an interview around the time that his full-length debut, OK Cowboy, was released, Arbez stated that he didn't listen to techno albums "because they are boring"... [ Read more at Allmusic.com ] "Arbez’s (sampled) guitar-revved tracks are pretty fucking incinerating --– “My Friend Dario” and the city-burner “Newman” wreak all kinds of havoc on the drugged psyche and even the sober one." [cokemachineglow.com] "Do you know Vitalic? Many already do. To those who love his music, his unique sound, he’s the pleasure provider: the ultimate rush, the greatest high, the invincible metal disco warrior." [ Read more at French-music.org ] "The rap on techno - that it's mind-numbingly repetitious - couldn't be less applicable to the aesthetic of OK Cowboy. It's dance music all right, but dance music of a variety so ferocious, so exuberant, that actually dancing to it is probably not advisable." [ Read more ar Soundfixrecords.com ] "With the possible exception of a certain French house duo whose name we won't bring up quite just yet, it's difficult to think of another dance act whose career ascent has been as storybook as Pascal Arbez's. After toiling for years in relative obscurity under the aliases Dima (as good as the name suggests) and Hustler Pornstar (uh, ditto), the Frenchman didn't just draw blood with Vitalic's 2001 Poney EP, he lopped a few arteries. Seriously, it's hard to overstate the response to Poney; of its four tracks, three became high-tide dancefloor staples. Along with the dark, yawning electro of "Poney Part 1" and "Poney Part 2", there was the centerpiece "La Rock 01", still the reigning champion of songs that sound like paper shredders orgying in a wind tunnel. While everyone from 2 Many DJs to Aphex Twin to Sven Väth was busy corking their sets with one (or two, or three...) tracks from Poney, Arbez was studiously lifting a few PR moves from his contemporaries, first by playing up his anonymity and later by concocting an elaborate backstory that involved a Ukrainian upbringing, animal fur trading, male prostitution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite being offered enough shows to keep him busy until the fall of the Wailing Wall, Arbez chose his live engagements carefully. He applied a similar selectivity to his output, issuing only a few 12"'s and a handful of choice remixes over the next few years..." [ Read more at Pitchfork ] VIDEO: Take a look at the new Vitalic video by Pleix. Download here. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sex & Sedition III - Dethlab vs. SOLVENT February 24th \| OSLO, Detroit \| $5 *Solvent vs. Dethlab: Sex & Sedition III:* There is nothing like causing an insurrection, especially when it involves sex. The gritty Solvent of Ghostly International gets in on the action for the the third edition of Sex & Sedition. Joined by Dethlab residents Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle, this will be an evening filled with New Wave, Electro, EBM and vintage Goth. - LISTD.net, 2.22.06 Solvent is a robot music composer, analog synthesizer fetishist, and co-founder of the renowned Suction Records label. Born in Zimbabwe in 1972, Solvent currently resides in a room full of machines in Toronto, Canada. Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001's Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004's Apples & Synthesizers, 2005's Elevators & Oscillators). Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM. Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey (Morr Music), Disco Nouveau (Ghostly International), and Misery Loves Company (Ersatz Audio). His songs have also been licensed to several high-profiles DJ mix CDs, including Sven Vath's Sound of the 5th Season (Cocoon), Dr. Lektroluv's Lektroluv 5 (541), and Death in Vegas's Fabriclive 23 (Fabric London). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop's return to form. UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop. Solvent currently records exclusively for Ghostly International, and has been touring extensively since 2004, having shared the stage with Adult., Legowelt, Bola, Junior Boys, Matthew Dear, Lusine, Lowfish, and others. [ From ghostly.com ] "Canadian tech-savant Solvent allows the robotic tinkering behind his electro-pop to intuit, flirt, and wink, humanizing his music at a time when too many producers sterilize theirs. [Solvent has] transformed himself into one of the industry's foremost techno-symphonists... After years of shape shifting, Solvent seems to have righted himself on Apples and Synthesizers, which blends classic electro and synthpop with the punchy modernity of fractured, micro-edited beats." 8.0 out of 10. [ Pitchfork Media, USA ] "Dr. Who basslines, hot synth action, computers talking like people (!) -- this one has everything you've come to expect and demand from a high performance melodic electro synth-pop long-player, and it's even from Canada. Is there anything we can't do?" 9.5 out of 10. [ Vice ] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dethlab is very flattered to have been invited to play an industrial set with Asrock of The Final Cut and Strider this Wednesday night at Delux. We'll be mixing old faves like Skinny Puppy and Cabaret Voltaire with new ones like Millimetric and Black Strobe. Should be a ton of fun! Industrial? Elektropunk? Disco Nouveau? Electroclash V2? Darkwave V3?... The New Black? Whatever you want to call it. Black Strobe, Skinny Puppy, The Hacker, Cabaret Voltaire, Tiga, Coil, Adult., Total Body Control, Vitalic, Kino, Millimetric, Soft Cell, Solvent, Tuxedomoon, Alter Ego, Neon Judgement, T.Raumschmiere, Kill Memory Crash, Chemlab, Combichrist, Nitzer Ebb, GD Luxxe, Depeche Mode, Zombie Nation, The Normal, et al. Dark Course presents: Love is Like a Razor Blade Wednesday 2.15.06\| Delux Lounge \| 350 Monroe, Detroit (Greektown) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Second Biennial PAS/CAL Christmastime Special PAS/CAL (live)\| DethLab (dj)\| Johnny Headband (live) December 17th \| Lager House - 254 Michigan Ave., (Corktown) Detroit, MI only $6 / doors at 9pm Expect plenty of festive decor, Christmas cookies and punch, twinkling lights, jingling bells, musical selections spanning decades upon centuries, the Savory and the Sweet, garnishes, trimmings, presents... and all manner of Hors d'oeuveres. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW pictures! Warriors Halloween Party gallery! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday, Nov. 19: Noir Leather presents SIN - special guest DJ's DETHLAB Fetish production by Wretched Design, Boston 18+ \| 9pm \| Diesel \| 11425 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck MI There will be electro run through distortion pedals. You will buy us drinks. It will be messy. There will be rubber. It will be completely ridiculous. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "A party of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and on Friday, October 28th, they're gathering at The Warriors Halloween Party at Oslo." 2004 was the inaugural Warriors Halloween Party in New York City, based on the classic 1979 film. Featured djs included Afrika Bambaataa, honorary Dorkwaver and disco god Dan Selzer, and DFA co-founder Tim Sweeny. The gang costumes were ridiculously fantastic. It was by far the largest, most enthusiastically attended event of the season. For 2005 The Warriors Halloween Party is spreading like a virus to five cities from coast to coast... DETHLAB is pleased to present THE WARRIORS DETROIT at this month's edition of SEX & SEDITION. Friday, October 28th OSLO, 1456 Woodward Ave., Detroit 10pm \| 18+ \| $5 resident djs: DETHLAB Bethany Shorb (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches) Michael Doyle (Dorkwave/Burnlab.net) with very special guests: JIMMY EDGAR PRESENTS: CREEPY AUTOGRAPH, exclusive part live/part dj with vocals, pre-launch performance for Jimmy Edgar 'Color Strip' LP release on Warp and new fashion line e fa min. + Jon Ozias (Dorkwave / Blackbx) dj + Alec Metallic a.k.a. Alec Peterhans (WeRDJ / Rhinoceros Red) dj you: Come with a group of friends dressed as your own gang, with your own unique style and gang name. All gangs will be photographed for the collective Warriors Halloween Party website. Let's show NYC, LA and the like who's boss in the crazy department. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday September 24 The Magic Stick 18+ \| 9pm \| $12 T. Raumschmiere [Mute/Shitkatapult, Berlin] T. Raumschmiere's moniker is lifted from the William S. Burrough's short story 'The Dreamcops' ('Die Traumschmiere' in his native German) and is the alter-ego of the 'electro-punk' himself, Marco Haas. Having established his own label back in 1997, the superbly titled Shitkatapult, he has gradually gained a global reputation for punk injected techno/electro and been subsequently crowned the king of 'gnarz'. From his Berlin based bunker, T. Raumschmiere has continued to stick two fingers up to the tried and tested, ploughing his own 'stay-anti' stance with the heroic zeal of an electronic Johnny Rotten. From Cologne's Kompakt to Chicago's Hefty label, Marco Haas is now a full long player member of London based novamute and the 'Monstertruck Driver' shows no sign of breaking for hitchers. Ectomorph [Interdimensional Transmissions, Ann Arbor] Ectomorph have come to destroy your powercenters. The inequities of this system must be leveled. The power balance in your universe is wrong. We have come to right your many millennia of corrupt behavior. Beware! The group has developed a new approach to sound by delivering unique in-the-moment live performances, often with additional avant theater. The frequency of these performances has created a fluid communication of structure and improvisation, based around the core nucleus of BMG & Erika. After years of performing live together, the sound of Ectomorph's recorded work finally matches the fluidity of their live performances. Such performances have taken them around the world, from the Sonar Festival to the Love Parade, from the Knitting Factory to the Empty Bottle. Dethlab [Toybreaker/GHB/Dorkwave, Detroit] Influenced by a combined ten years of art school and fueled by a steady diet of fine chocolate, quadrouple espressos, bass synths and human flesh, Dethlab's Bethany (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches) and Michael (Dorkwave/Burnlab) play really good records really badly... and look good doing it. With a penchant for thoroughly executed, and often self-parodying theatrics, Team Dethlab have played host to blood orgies, tea parties in abandoned factories and various other misguided uses of seemingly endless imagination and energy. Expect sounds that will move both your ass and internal organs. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday 09.16.05: Dethlab plays at Pure Detroit Design Lab's September fashion opening. Featuring fashions of Samantha Bullock. 8-11pm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday 09.02.05: Goodnite Comrade: The Going Away Party for Denis Baldwin Flyer Design: Focus Media Date: September 2nd, 2005 (that's a Friday night!) Time: 10 PM until Denis falls over dead Starring: Our Guest: Denis A. Baldwin (and his gigantic ego) M.C: Doc DJs and other musical types: - Keith Tucker (Aux88 / Puzzlebox) - Benji Hayes (Focus Media) - Darkcube (Detroit Techno Militia) - Dethlab (Burnlab/GHB) - Sneak @ Datavibe (.net) - Stos (Fist Clencher) - T.Linder (Detroit Techno Militia) (photo:xcopy) Electro! Chaos! Anarchy! Hair Metal! Makeout Action! Bad 80s Radio Hits! Blood! Booze! Free if you love Denis Location: The Focus Media Bunker 440 E. Lafayette Bricktown, Detroit 48226 440 E. Lafayette \| Detroit \| 10p - Later ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday August 26 \| Sex & Sedition \| OSLO 21+ \| 10pm \| $5 Punk was trash culture gone avant-garde and/or the avant-garde gone trash, and just as Dada had tried to destroy the institution of art, so the punks seemed bent on destroying the very institution of fashion. What does this mean in the context of the post-everything 21st century? Find out August 26th. From obscure, blood soaked side project to what promises to be Detroit's hottest new night in less than a month's time... but what else could be expected when you put together two of the city's most hyper-productive artists and shameless self-promoters? ;) Dethlab presents Sex & Sedition, starting Friday, August 26th at Oslo. An evening of dark, sexy, stylish music and theatrics that will push the envelope of both creativity and everything you've been told is right and good in the world. Sex & Sedition takes place the last Friday of every other month, alternating with Clark Warner's brilliant new Alpha night. residents: DETHLAB, dj Bethany Shorb (Toybreaker/God and His Bitches) Michael Doyle (Dorkwave/Burnlab.net) very special guests: KEITH KEMP, dj KELLY PINK-O, live/dj +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHEMLAB vs. DETHLAB: Aug. 10th in Boston Chemlab will be doing a very special one-off performance at Cambridge's Middle East Club August 10th. Throughout the 90s, Chemlab blazed a fearsome trail through the Indie music scene, alternately setting then breaking every convention of hard-driven Machine Rock. Their music exploits the chaos found when the oil-slick of digital dance grooves meets the brackish water of the guitar’s sonic-organic roar. Chemlab’s first album, Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar, recorded in 1992 at Chicago Trax studio, quickly became the Machine Rock standard against which future records have been measured. It unleashed a tsunami of rave reviews from magazines as varied as Alternative Press, Raygun, Keyboard and Rolling Stone. The record torched through the charts, trashed dance floors and shoved the band out on endless tours supporting Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Skrew and many others. Chemlab’s next album, East Side Militia, capitalised on the power of Burn Out, four-wheeling Chemlab’s explosive sound through uncharted terrain that mixed hammering dance-rock songs with disturbing ambient nightmares. The last few years have seen Chemlab frontman Jared Louche release a solo record from his decadent new base in London (the critically acclaimed Covergirl, produced by Martin Atkins), collaborate with electro-sex-noise project h3llb3nt (feat. members of Chemlab, 16 Volt, Haloblack/X-Lover, Thrill Kill Kult), spread his solo performance smear all over London, the UK and Europe, and tour the US many times with Pigface. Now suited, rebooted and mutated, Chemlab explodes onto the scene once more with their new Invisible Records monsterpiece Oxidizer, offering up a musical scornocopia that drags Machine Rock deep into the future. Recorded with Jason Novak and Jamie Duffy (Acumen Nation) and long-time Chemlab collaborator FJ (the Aggression), Oxidizer is the perfect synthesis between the aggression of Burn Out and the groove of East Side, all of it channelled through a fractured T-Rex filter. This one time performance is "not your father's Chemlab" and will feature a new line-up, new takes on old classics and tracks never before performed live. More details, right from Jared's mouth. Wednesday August 10th, 2005, Angeldustrial.com presents: You Shriek One of Us Scrap.Edx Dethlab 18+ \|8pm \| $10 Middle East Downstairs 480 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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