TEA is now 2 years young and to celebrate 24 months of internet rambling and obsessive blogging comes a 3 hour set from TEA Commander in Chief James Manning.

TEA began as blog focused on sharing what we believe to be good music written in a professional manner. So far TEA has interviewed close to 40 acts including luminaries such as Surgeon, Marcel Dettmann, Norman Nodge, Adam X, Dan Curtin, Redshape, Terrence Fixmer, Xhin, Lucy and Perc as well as up and coming artist Tom Dicicco, AnD, Markus Suckut, Milton Bradley, James Kumo and Ed Davenport.

TEA also runs a successful podcast series which has so far seen podcasts from HMC, Rødhad, AnD, Zadig, Subjected, Tom Dicicco, Adam Rivet and Northern Structures.

TEA is responsible for Xhin and Lucy’s inaugural Australian tours and has hosted other parties with Robert Hood, Marcel Dettmann, Jay Shepheard as well as booking local acts The Carter Bros, Tornado Wallace, Mic Newman and Francis Inferno Orchestra to play at various venues around Australia.

TEA’s 2nd Birthday warm up duties are of course entrusted in TEA’s warm up specialist Daniel Filipovic, who’s formidable ability to woo an entering crowd with his dub laden precision is of absolute perfection. James Manning will have the floor from 12 where instead about writing about TEA’s favourite releases he will be playing them, expect anything from beatless avant garde records to pummelling mid nineties Downwards releases to hands up house. TEA also introduces the worldly Nic Tuohey, who’s encyclopaedic knowledge and taste making qualities come courtesy of stints living in London and Berlin and Los Angeles.

TEA would like to thank all who have supported us in the past and we look forward to a forward thinking and expressive night of detached music.

LINKS

http://www.teaandtechno.blogspot.com/
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?327046
https://www.facebook.com/events/248260305245725/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Aeon/31434157221

Sikander is a collaboration (some say “misadventure”) between sound-designer and crate-digger Pradip Sarkar, classically-trained musician Prem CJ, and visual artist Paul Rodgers, aka Arnold “Eye” Irons - three men with very diverse backgrounds and experiences.

With Sikander, they blend their influences, ranging from experimental sounds, ambient electronica, krautrock, industrial, South Indian classical, Central and South East Asian music, to Detroit techno, dub-tech, acid-house, and UK Bass.

Cinema for the Dead is Sikander’s debut EP, proudly released on Melbourne’s Pinksilver Net imprint.

It features 3 tracks written in the manner of film score, from the early Detroit-influenced opener, Trojan Hound - an ode to the era of Sergio Corleone’s spaghetti westerns to Tiger Muffin, with its funk riffs and fuzzy guitar samples, owes its influences to 1970s Blaxploitation and Bollywood.

The sounds of industrial machinery and 80’s science-fiction led to the conception of the moody Machine Dreams.

Tracklisting:

01:: Trojan Hound
02:: Tiger Muffin
03:: Machine Dreams

Download Complete Release (inc. Artwork & Press Release):

[psnet018] Sikander - Cinema For The Dead [ Volume 1 ]

Mastering: Danny Bonnici

Artwork: Benjamin Holmes

Co-presented with Haul Music, Hand Made Acid, Chameleon Recordings, Text Book Music, Smash Bang Records and Pinksilver, Shop Local showcases Melbourne’s best electronic labels and the next wave of producers.

Training the spotlight firmly on the youngsters, the electronic music media continue to uncover a deeply multi-faceted network of labels and producers.

Many have operated successfully on the global stage for several years while remaining relatively unknown at home.

Shop Local plumbs the rich connections within this complex fraternity to present an inside perspective on the local electronic scene as it evolves.

Pinksilver will be represented with a rare dual live set from Markojux & Lance Harrison on the evening.

LINKS

http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/Whatson/Music/mmw/Program/ConcertsDJs/KUBIKMelbourne/Pages/7b392313-fcc6-4781-9fdc-64ec556ea176.aspx
http://kubikmelbourne.com
http://kubikmelbourne.com/artists/pinksilver

After wooing audiences with celebrated DJ sets and Stroboscopic Artefacts showcases at Berghain, Corscia Studios, Sonar and Melt! Festival, September of this year will see Lucy aka Luca Mortellaro tour Australia for the first time. His style of DJing has rapidly become known for its use of deeply dubbed textures layered betwixt lucid IDM expressionism and techno functionalism - a style too elusive and angular for any one genre.

Associated with a certain kind of techno—loud, visceral and exactingly scientific, Lucy is never one to shy away from the peak time, although equally in his element playing the ecstatic after hours. Lucy manages to refuse the obvious and satisfy dancefloors’ appetites for the unexpected.

In 2009 Lucy established the pioneering Stroboscopic Artefacts imprint which has since garnered international attention and emerged as one of the most exciting and forward thinking labels in electronic music. Stroboscopic Artefacts’ ‘compressed dub’ approach towards production and mastering has instantly lauded any SA release as “buy on sight” due to the introspective, extreme and experimental way in which its artists approach their music.

Local Support Dj’s
Andrew Till & Simon Slieker B2B Set (MACHINE)
Daniel Filipovic (PINKSILVER MUSIC)
James Manning (TEA)

Pre-Sale Tickets $20 (+ Bf ) Available at:
www.moshtix.com.au
1300 GET TIX (438 849)
On your mobile www.moshtix.mobi
All moshtix outlets: Direct Link: Lucy
Ministry of Style (Brunswick St, Fitzroy) & Alley Tunes (Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn)

LINKS

http://www.stroboscopicartefacts.com/lucy.html
http://www.stroboscopicartefacts.com/
http://www.facebook.com/StroboscopicArtefacts

http://www.teaandtechno.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/machineaustralia
http://www.facebook.com/machinelabel

Spiritual and pulsating. Impulsive and sensual. These words only begin to describe the debt EP of Berlin’s Nadja Lind and studio partner Helmut Ebritsch together as Klartraum, in the form of the ‘Downunder Dub’ EP on Pinksilver Digital.

Known for their work on their own label Lucidflow in addition to releases on Darkroom Dubs & Soma Records, ‘Downunder Dub’ delves into dubby sonic soundscapes with a dash of emotion and nostalgia.
The title track ‘Downunder Dub’ delivers subtle, dubby synths amongst a gliding bass drum entwined with vocals that emerge from deep with your sub consciousness.

‘India’ is a 17 minute journey into your inner emotions and back again. Equally art as it is music; ‘India’ is full of rich, complete sonic soundscapes that take the listener deep into the abyss then back again. In a world of very disposable music, ‘India’ is a rare diamond that shines brightly.

The EP is supported by remixes from Pinksilver’s Markojux & Trinity & Beyond. Markojux’s re-touch of ‘Downunder Dub’ retains the dubby synths of the original but adds a more sinister touch to the remix, straddling the finer elements of dub house vibes.

Trinity & Beyond’s remix of ‘Downunder Dub’ puts the focus back on the dreamy synth line as it glides effortlessly throughout its journey, again with a heavy emphasis on the more dubbier strains techno.
An EP for connoisseurs of avant-garde house & techno.

Tracklisting:

01 – Nadja_Lind_-_Downunder_Dub
02 – Klartraum_-_India
03 – Nadja_Lind_-_Downunder_Dub_(Markojux_Remix)
04 – Nadja_Lind_-_Downunder_Dub_(Trinity_&_Beyond_Remix)

Mastering: Danny Bonnici (www.liquidmixes.com)
Artwork: Ben Holmes

Available from August 19th exclusive to Beatport

Klartraum is German for the stage of lucid dream, when you become aware that you are dreaming and are able to manipulate your surroundings.

Driving deep into the subconscious, their music envelopes and surrounds its listeners creating a world in which just like a dream, things are never as they seem. With an aquatic fluidity and warm, wave like pulses, their music gently lulls you into this trance like state, allowing accepted structures to become contorted and morph into something entirely new.

Klartraum happens when Helmut Ebritsch (Hatikvah, Soma Records, Morris Audio, Baalsaal) and Nadja Lind (Darkroom Dubs, Out Post, Gastspiel)’ve come together to explore their musical urges. Both as a studio double duo and burgeoning live act they are bringing an entirely unique edge to their performances and output by taking their flowing techno to a deeper, spiritual level.

Since finding each other in 2006 through a producer website the Berlin based pair have stamped their unique mark on electronic music, finding favour with some of the world’s top DJs. On the dance floor this translates to epic live shows where the pair’s energy and connection brings them closer to the crowd, inviting dancers into their world.

In the studio they free their subconscious through harnessing the immense wealth of knowledge to found in spiritual teachings. The creative processes start with a Ho’oponopono cleansing and Eft Session then with their equipment Midi-synced their sound is crafted through lightening quick jam sessions.

The fluidity of their tracks reflects this process where two minds and bodies let their musical ideas evolve and merge together, constantly refining and pushing their own boundaries during this intuitive process.

Nadja’s intensely chaotic energy is bound by a natural continuity and progression in her work, resulting in tracks that tease and twist, leading the listener blindfolded through lush instrumentals and challenging soundscapes. This is regimented by Helmut’s skills developed through 20 years in the production game. These natural traits are often blurred as the pair grow as individuals with the teachings learnt through the universal language of music.

The highly personal approach is an organic process that allows tracks to grow naturally both in the studio and when it is shared with the floor. The tracks bump and groove with an assertive hypnotism, with strange understated sounds making perfect sense in Klartraum’s cohesive musical environment.

Naming tracks after psychological patterns (Ignorance, Dissociation, Fantasy Bond, Pain Relief), spiritual experiences (All Dimensions, Inner Sky, Beyond Illusion, I Don’t Know) and threading the voices of spiritual teachers and Zen masters through their work, Klartraum seek to bring the compelling wisdom and courage of people like Rudiger and Anette Nehberg, Steven Wolinsky, Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber to wider audiences through their art. The duo are truly adding another level of expression to electronic music.

In the moment when strangers are surrounded by and pulsating to the same rhythm, Nadja Lind is in her element. Her deeply spiritual take on life that is reflected in her DJ sets and productions, Nadja believes that music is the one language everybody knows and feels immediately. Striving to harness this is her muse.

Spinning her debut set on New Year’s Eve 2003, her prowess on the decks has taken her across Europe as well as to the US and India, including the Space Ibiza World Tour in 2007, to the million people Zurich Street Parade and the International Film Festival in Venice.

The impulse of life through music has given Nadja the strength in her convictions to form production duo/live act Klartraum with partner Helmut Ebritsch. In 2008 the pair founded their own label Lucidflow to push artists that they truly believe in, as well as their own productions.

Fascinated by the balance of dark and light her formative introduction to music saw Led Zeppelin, Slayer and Metallica all favourites before she was drawn to the unity of the dance floor. Now focusing her energy into deep, tech and minimal house, Her formidable production CV includes Darkroom Dubs, Outpost, BBE, Gastspiel, Lucidflow , We Love Space, Ministry of Sound, Parquet, Absurd Records, her own Imprint Lucidflow and many more.

Already breaking through to wider audiences, her remix of Gez Varley’s G11 was voted into the Groove Magazine’s TOP10 remixes of 2008 alongside Dubfire, Carl Craig, Joris Voorn and DJ Koze, while her own Pancake spent weeks at No. 1 on Beatport’s Ministry of Sound Top Downloads.

Nadja is constantly looking to bring disconnected people together through her music,

inspired by house and techno’s primal ability to create unity through a thumping kick drum. Creating a positive vibe that transcends a dark room filled with beats, she looks to fill her floor with smiles and empathy, an experience not just musical but of self discovery. From playing block flute and acoustic guitar as a child, in December 2010 she performed her first solo live Set at Berlin’s notorious Maria Club.

Part of the Berlin scene that inspired her to drive the 666 mile route from Manheim before she moved to the city, the endless inspiration that the German capital serves up has fueled her creativity, allowing her to explore many sides of her artistic self. The desire to find people on the same musical tip caused her to leave her native Rhineland, with a label, solo DJ gigs and as one half of Klartraum, she has rarely looked back.

Pinksilver Music celebrates its all-Australian Twenty4 compilation release with a selection of the country’s finest up and coming and established artists at Brown Alley.

Featuring 24 slices of avant-garde house & techno over three parts, the Twenty4 release delves into deep, moody house through to quirky minimal house & techno with artists such as Deepchild, Jamie Stevens, Mike Buhl, Craig McWhinney, Steve Ward, Markojux & Thankyou City, to name a few.

Focused on delivering quality music & infamous label parties, Pinksilver teams up with Brown Alley over 2 rooms to showcase a night of local talent all of whom are featured on the compilation.

Our primary aim with this event is to not only showcase our world class local talent but to appeal to a more community minded , local attendance support base, for we believe it is vital to the growth and development of Melbourne’s house and techno scene. We hope you support this concept.

Live Acts & DJ’s on the night:

Markojux (Live)
Thankyou City (Live)
Mike Buhl (Live)
Closer Apart (Live)
Lance Harrison
Daniel Filipovic
Andy Hart
Darius Bassiray
Jon Beta
Hargin
Craig McWhinney
Trinity (Syd)
Lorenzo

For $10 Guest list please email guestlist@pinksilver.net

Twenty4.

Pinksilver presents a selection of Australia’s finest up & coming and established artists with the Twenty4 release. Featuring 24 slices of avant-garde house & techno over three parts, the Twenty4 release delves into deep, moody house through to quirky minimal house & techno with artists such as Deepchild, Jamie Stevens, YokoO, Craig McWhinney, Steve Ward, Markojux & Thankyou City, to name a few.

A celebration of Australian talent and a gift to underground music connoisseurs across the globe.

Part 3 of the Twenty 4 release charters the more uncompromising elements of techno, with a scattering of Dubstep elements. The release kicks off with Deepchild, these days plying his trade frequently across Europe in arenas such as Berghain. His track ‘Onsen Dramas’ delivers a trademark kick & groove together with an intense use of vocals that leave the listener to their imagination. Pinksilver stalwart Markojux presents ‘On The Run’, a wicked journey deep into the night, a chase between dark elements on the run and noble elements forever a half step behind.

Craig McWhinney delivers us ‘M-99’, a no-nonsense journey into murky dancefloor dynamics, sweeping through the more desolate and dubbier elements of techno. Mike Buhl’s track ‘Record Of Discussion’ forges a dry and relentless path with a looping yet dynamic blend of hats & reverb synth lines, a track that tips its hat in the direction of Detroit’s finest.

Forty6&Two enter the fray with ‘Dihedral’, complete with rolling basslines & drums as it thunders its way through its path, leaving no compromises in its approach and its destruction. Adelaide’s Phildo gives us ‘Unsound’, a track with a clever and devastating use of diverse sounds that rumbles its way along, perfectly made for big festival arenas.

Hargin’s ‘Rattle’ is a wonderful voyage into techno space, not with a floating pod but more akin to a powerful rocketship, complete with signature rolling basslines and shuffling hats as it tears its way through the stars. Completing Part 3 of ‘Twenty4’ is Melbourne’s Mike Callander with his unique take on sonic acoustics on ‘6.5 Minutes With A Hand On It’, ditching the 4/4 time signature in favour of a more esoteric approach to close the Twenty4 release.

Tracklisting:

01 – Deepchild – Onsen Dramas
02 – Markojux – On The Run
03 – Craig McWhinney – M-99
04 – Mike Buhl – Record Of Discussion
05 – Forty6&Two - Dihedral
06 – Phildo - Unsound
07 – Hargin - Rattle
08 – Mike Callendar – 6.5 Minutes With A Hand On It

Available from July 1st exclusive to Beatport

Twenty4.

Pinksilver presents a selection of Australia’s finest up & coming and established artists with the Twenty4 release. Featuring 24 slices of avant-garde house & techno over three parts, the Twenty4 release delves into deep, moody house through to quirky minimal house & techno with artists such as Deepchild, Jamie Stevens, YokoO, Craig McWhinney, Steve Ward, Markojux & Thankyou City, to name a few.

A celebration of Australian talent and a gift to underground music connoisseurs across the globe.

Part 2 explores the quirkier elements of house & techno, from Michelle Owen & Deepchild to the grittier & denser sounds of the underground from the likes of Uone & Steve Ward.

The opening track from Berlin resident Michelle Owen ‘Riff Raff’ showcases minimal funk and playful acid undertones while featuring the exquisite vocal talents of fellow Berliner & ex-Sydneysider Deepchild, followed by Nick McMartin with ‘Run Away’, a track full of striking and varied sounds, always moving and but never stagnating.

Canberra’s Biggie & Anjay deliver us ‘Ying Yang’, heading into a tougher 4/4 sound packed full of bouncy basslines and a salient synth hook that carries throughout the track. Melbourne’s Closer Apart follow-up with ‘Macro One’, a track that reveals itself as a low-slung groove, with a touch of sensuousness to boot.

Uone picks up the pace on this release with his tech-house number ‘For The Beep’, a probing excursion into funky dancefloor dynamics. Darius Bassiray & Jon Beta deliver ‘Meet Me In The Dunnies’, a rolling groove that is absorbed by a dreamy use of pads & synths, which together with the track title itself sounds rather ominous.

Steve Ward, a Pinksilver favourite and co-owner of Chameleon Recordings, delivers ‘Downtown Shutdown’ which delves into subterranean territory with its spirited use of reverb and vocals. Closing out Part 2 of ‘Twenty4’ is Perth’s Richard Parker, committed Pinksilver foot soldier, with ‘Anagram’, showcasing his unique and complete production skills with a track that has its roots in techno but creates its own sub-genre. We’ll leave you to decide what it is.

Tracklisting:

01 – Michelle Owen – Riff Raff feat. Deepchild
02 – Nick McMartin – Run Away
03 – Biggie & Anjay – Ying Yang
04 – Closer Apart – Macro One
05 – Uone – For The Beep
06 – Darius Bassiray & Jon Beta – Meet Me In The Dunnies
07 – Steve Ward – Downtown Shutdown
08 – Richard Parker - Anagram

Available from June 10th exclusive to Beatport