Kastil a.k.a. Mario Castillo is a DJ and producer from the Basque Country. Kastil has been around all parts of music, from different genres to working as a journalist and a club promoter. In 2010 he got serious about production and soon created his own Soul Notes imprint. The mix he shares this week is informed by a sense of what makes a set actually work, making the most of the movements from track to track.
Raúl Álvarez (2RB Records)
Berlin based but born in Madrid in the 90’s, Raul Alvarez is a sound engineer involved in different projects during the last years with more than 50 releases on diverse international labels.
Owner of 2RB Records, he’s in a lifetime connection between Madrid and Berlin performing in clubs such Tresor, Sisyphos, Magdalena, Weekend, Ritter Butzke, Chalet, Specka, Maxime, or Pirandello.
Analog and vinyl lover, his sound can’t be labeled. Influenced by the first steps of House and Techno and developed in Berlin through a deeper and mental soul; Raul Alvarez drives his performances into a trip to the past with a experimental and futuristic approach. Adapting dancefloor, drum machines, vintage synths and unexpected harmonies.
Stigr
An awesome Deep Techno set by this French Angers based DJ and producer. Enjoy!
Reeko (Architectural – PoleGroup – Mental Disorder)
The biggest challenge a musician or producer of any musical type or style has to face, whether they like it or not, is to see whether their work can create a path that other artists will follow or lay the foundation for the work of other artists. Juan Rico, the Asturian known within the scene as REEKO, is well aware of this.
Born in Oviedo (Asturias) in 1981, Reeko is a dj who has rapidly attained the recognition other artists have taken a long time to gain. In his case it’s not been a matter of chance or coincidence, but the result of his innate and incredible capacity to be prolific, alongside his obsession for perfection. He marks is his birth as a dj about 1997, but it wasn’t until his first release in 2002 under the Swedish label Emergence that he became known professionally.
There is no need to name all the aliases that Juan Rico has used to release the diverse artistic sensations which flow from him, but these are characteristic which define his personality and are a part of REEKO himself. Producing and performing under different names allows him to concentrate fully on each individual event by devoting himself completely to an idea or style to which he is totally faithful, putting aside for a moment sounds and influences that don’t belong in the particular character which he is mutating into at the time.
The result is a knock out. Under the name of REEKO he has released huge techno productions which have charted and been played by the best djs in the world, right from the first tracks and EPs for labels as reputable as Theory, Main out, Integrale Muzique, Deafmosaic, Inceptive, Rxxistance, Trece Records, Symbolism, Planet Rhythm, Warm up or Palicavonzvreca.
Reeko created Mental Disorder, his “pathological” label/laboratory, in 2003 under which he has released 12 works of ever increasing quality. The latest (The Day After, 2010) received a wonderfully warm welcome as one of the best releases in Hispanic Techno of the year. Artists such as Gennaro le fosse, Pacou, Oscar Mulero have collaborated with his very personal label.
Next came the label Evidence in 2005, where he opens up to his passion for the darkest and sickest part of the human mind. He looks deep within the human psyche where most of us would never go or dare explore. That is where the laconic, aggressive and totally sweeping sound that characterises him stems from. Reputable artists who have published with Evidence are Function, Paul Bailey and Trolley Route, to name a few.
He has received great praise for his collaborations with the Humano project and the Belgian label MusicMan, home of the purest of European techno. During this last decade, his most outstanding performances have been in Awakenings and Monegros 2005, Aquasella, Tresor and his Brazil tour of 2008.
The story so far reaches a climax when Reeko joins the cream of techno: the PoleGroup, formed in 2008. On the frontline of this group is Oscar Mulero, indisputable leader of the darkest Iberian techno, joined by the Asturian duo Exium and the surprising and experienced Christian Wünsch. The most recent addition to this team is Architectural, someone who will give us lots and lots to talk about.
Reeko finds himself, unexpectedly but deservedly, among the elite of Hispanic techno.
Antigone
Antigone is a young Parisian artist at the fore-front of the French techno scene.
His entry into the world of electronic music has been highly acclaimed. With his initial EP Forbidden
Works published by Construct Re-‐form.
Antigone followed his debut with the Menace of Species release on Concrete Music, an offering
warmly welcomed by the techno scene.
Up next, Antigone successfully collaborated with his friend Francois X who releases him on his label Dement3d, and they both release the same year a track on the Various Artists Taapion 004.
Tracks like “As I walk to you” for Construct Re-‐Form or his EP “The Day The Sky Fell” (for Indigo Aera) illustrate the hypnotic, melodic and melancholic style of his productions.
This very personal electronic style has guided Antigone through the doors of clubs such as Fuse, Trouw, Corsica Studios, Rex, Tresor, Berghain and awarded him a residency at Concrete.
His meteoric ascent and the warm reception to all his productions make Antigone an emblematic player in the French Techno scene.
In 2016, he released a track on PoleGroup (Compilation Unknown Landscapes Vol. 3 mixed by Exium), did a remix with Shlømo for AWB (Taapion Records) , then released « We Move As One EP » in collaboration with François X on Dement3d, and the EP Saudade on Token Records.
DISCOGRAPHY
2011
-‐ Forbidden Works (12″) | CONSTRUCT RE-‐FORM
2012
-‐ Surround The Silence (Antigone Remix) Birth of Frequency |CONSTRUCT RE-‐FORM 2013
-‐ The deadly Games Of Gamma (12″) | CHILDREN OF TOMORROW
-‐ Forbidden Galaxy (12″) | ARS MECHANICA
-‐ Minotaur EP (ANTIGONE REMIX) DETECT AUDIO | RETROMETRO
-‐The Astral Traveller (12″)|CONCRETE MUSIC
2014
-‐ As I Walk To You (12″) | CONSTRUCT RE-‐FORM
-‐ Artifax (Antigone Remix) Stasis | SYNCROPHONE RECORDINGS
-‐ The Day The Sky Fell In Ep (12″) | INDIGO AERA
-‐ A Function Of Time (Antigone Reconstruction) Binny |CLFT
-‐ Soetsu Yanagi I / Ii / Iii Locked Grooves | RONDE
-‐ The Quiet In The Land, Various Artists | TAAPION
-‐ Shaban (Antigone Remix) Sev Dah | TECHNO GIPSY
-‐ Dilip (Antigone And François X) Ligovskoï | DEMENT3D RECORDS
-‐ Blank Slate, Various Artists Berlin_Paris 1.0 | RECLAIM YOUR CITY
2015
-‐ Cantor Dust, TOKEN 53 | TOKEN
-‐ Remix pour Stephen Brown | INDIGO AERA
-‐ Remix pour Synthek & Audiolouis |NATCH RECORDS
-‐ Remix pour Shlømo, Wolfskuil Ep | TOKEN
2016
-‐ Unknown Landscapes Vol 3 -‐ MIXED BY EXIUM | POLE GROUP
-‐ Antigone & Francois X, We Move As One |DM3D011 | DEMENT3D
-‐ Saudade EP | TOKEN59| TOKEN
-‐ Remix for AWB, Celestial Longitude EP | TAAPION 005 | TAAPION
Contact booking : juliette@concreteparis.fr / Contact promo : charlotte@concreteparis.fr
Martn
I haven’t been able to gather any further information from this Germany-based Swedish DJ so far. Check this amazing set out:
Flowrescence
Flowrescence is a DJ and mixing project with a sharp focus on providing dynamic listening experiences by means of careful track arranging.
The style is not limited to a certain music genre, but instead embraces various genres with particular abstract characteristics: overall aesthetics, dark atmospheres and luminous accents.
Pär Grindvik (Drumcode – Semantica)
Pär Grindvik has been a central figure in the Swedish electronic scene since the 90s having released music across a plethora of acclaimed electronic labels, including a string of hits on his own Stockholm LTD imprint as well as Drumcode, with frequent collaborator Hardcell. Pär’s recent output has seen him contribute music to labels such as Semantica, Marbacka, Sinister and Dystopian.
Pär Grindvik has been a central figure in the Swedish electronic scene since the 90s as record store owner, label manager and producer. In his artistic career Pär has released music across a plethora of acclaimed electronic labels, including a string of hits on his own Stockholm LTD imprint as well as Drumcode, with frequent collaborator Hardcell. Pär’s recent output has seen him contribute music to labels such as Semantica, Marbacka, Sinister and Dystopian.
Founded in 2002, Stockholm LTD began as an outlet for singles and EPs from Swedish artists with a focus on releasing timeless electronic music. It has since developed into a hallmark for finely crafted electronic music from a range of international artists.
Over the past two decades Pär’s involvement with the electronic music community has branched out across the globe. Openly passionate about supporting underground talent, Pär works closely with an ever-expanding repertoire of labels and artists.
As a DJ Pär tours the world, transporting his deft and uniquely dynamic DJ sets to techno fans internationally and on a weekly basis. His worldwide popularity as a performer stems not only from his skill and versatility but also as a result of the energy he puts into every performance. It’s this combination that enables him to bring the heat to the best clubs in the world.
Check out his set at the Bacchanale Festival in September 2015 and enjoy:
Aphelion (Subspec)
Rhys aka Aphelion watched a hazy glow emerge through heavy clouds one early morning in Northern Spain. At the same time, Oscar Mulero effortlessly filtered thunderous rhythms that bounced off the mountains for festivalgoers to absorb. Being present for the visual and auditory splender of this moment birthed the idea for the project Aphelion.
With only a decade of selection and less than 50 gigs there’s a lot more to be learned by this emerging artist. He’s an amateur in production and has had one single (as re_Click w/ RAFH) that was remixed by John Massey, Rennie Foster & Jay Zoney on Subspec Music (Vancouver).
Aphelion recently relocated to NYC from his home of Canada. So far in 2016 he has put his creative energy into studying production and developing a mixing style that is ready to share. Now that the style is ready, his focus will be on playing out and production.
Francesco Visconti a.k.a. VSK
Francesco Visconti a.k.a. VSK
Perc Trax / Modularz /
Consumer Recreation Service /
Power Vacuum / EarToGround / Complex Adaptive Systems /
Planet Rhythm / Genesa /
New Rhythmics
Francesco Visconti, better known as VSK, is an Italian Techno DJ and producer, born in Rome in 1986 and based in Berlin. He has got familiar to different forms of Techno, his style ranging from a sound usually very hard and dark, often with industrial influences, to a very different one, deeper and more mental, both still easily recognizable as coming from the same mind.In 2010 he and his friends Conrad Van Orton and Vilix started their own label “Consumer Recreation Service”. Over the years he has relesed eps on many other important labels such as Perc Trax, Modularz, Power Vacuum, New Rhythmics, Planet Rhythm, Ear To Ground, Sonntag Morgen, Complex Adaptive System and Genesa.
