Gaspard Augé (27) en Xavier de Rosnay (24) vormen de Franse band Justice. Sinds hun naamloze debuutalbum in 2007 worden ze gekatapulteerd tot rocksterren en zijn ze in rap tempo de wereld aan het veroveren met hun overweldigende sound en kenmerkende optredens met een enorm verlicht kruis.
After his summer smash hit "Napolitanzer" together with Fokko Versloot it was time for Beatfreax to ask him to do a mix for our podcast. And here it is! An awesome mix with tracks by e.g. Nils Number, Dimitri Andreas, Lopazz and of course the man himself.
Vrijdag 30 januari gaat het hek weer van de dam; Full Spectrum gooit de deuren van Tivoli De Helling open voor haar eerste editie van het nieuwe jaar! Met een behoorlijke vleug Worcester saus, komt zij deze keer met flink wat Brits vlees op tafel.
Sander Kleinenberg keert met zijn ‘This Is’ concept terug naar Paradiso. Na een zeer succesvolle ‘This Is Paradiso’ in 2008 was het voor beide partijen niet meer dan logisch om het niet bij 1 keer te laten.
Born in 1978, Björn grew up in the Mannheim/Heidelberg area in south-western Germany. Before getting involved in electronic music, the little German was rockin' out as a drummer in a punk/speed metal band and a jazz combo.
After a move to Munich in the mid-90's, B. got involved in the PC-demo scene and ran a BBS system for song-swapping. Working under the alias "G-Sus", B. was a member of various tracking crews like HBE, PP and CN. He also began to collect studio equipment and to buy vinyl. By 1996, B. was DJing regularly at local parties.
In 1997, B. moved to Philadelphia, USA, to attend the University of Pennsylvania. His DJ-career in America was relaunched after hooking up with the 611 Records crew. For the years to follow, he would go on to play everything from small lounges to big raves on the East Coast on a regular basis. Around the turn of the millenium, B. started Tech Support - one of Philly's first techno crews which still thrives today.
By 2000, B. had teamed up with Jay Haze and Sean O'Neal and launched the minimal tech-house label Tuning Spork. In addition to releasing underground vinyl, Tuning Spork also organized a series of well-known monthly and one-off events, along with now-legendary loft afterparties. B. has hosted and played alongside DJs and producers such as Richie Hawtin, Daniel Bell, Jeff Milligan, Dinky, Kero, Adam Marshall, Tomas Jirku, Falko Brocksieper, Mia, Brett Johnson, Shawn Rudiman and others.
In 2002, B. graduated from U Penn with degrees in Communication, Digital Media Design and Computer Science. Together with Jay Haze, B. relocated to Amsterdam, NL, to work on Contexterrior Media, an umbrella company controlling the labels Tuning Spork, Contexterrior, and Future Dub. Additionally, B. conceived of and designed the netlabel textone.org, which releases free minimal music by established artists and new faces under a creative commons license. Since the move to Europe, B. has played gigs in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Poland. In November 2003 he went on a seven date, three week tour of Japan.
With a move to Paris, 2004 brings another change of course for the nomadic artist. B. is currently channeling his energies away from vinyl production into esoteric computer science research and the promotion of digital content publishing. While DJing regularly in Paris alongside new collaborators Duplex 100 (Popular,Trenton) and Ptoile, outside bookings will only be entertained for worthwhile causes. In the fall, B. will return to the United States to start a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University, collaborating with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
Musically, B.'s early releases reflect a fascination with the rhythmic and melodic structures of Cologne innovators Joerg Burger (the Modernist) and Mike Ink. Newer material plays with quirkier, more idiosyncratic rhythmic complexity while maintaining accessible elements to entertain the dancefloor. As a counterpoint to challenging assemblages of sound snippets, B.'s compositions often provide a continuous harmonic sublayer of more traditional synthesizer lines. The alias "Starch Boy" was chosen for lighter, tongue-in-cheek material. Under the name "map king" B. is now also charting abstract listening-oriented territory.
