Spanish techno giants Cristian Varela and DJ Pepo will team up again on November 22nd at Awakenings to close the event with a 2-hour set of Techno with Spanish flair.
Op vrijdag 28 november staat de Studio 80 in het teken van de allesbeslissende strijd tussen goed en kwaad. Om dit muzikale gevecht van een goed eind te kunnen voorzien zijn voor deze editie van Carnivale een aantal superheroes uitgenodigd.
New York based South African, Brendon Moeller has been seriously producing since 1994. His compositions have been released on Francois K's Deep Space Media; Third ear Records, Echocord, Mule Musiq, Eskimo recordings and then some. He records as Brendon Moeller, Beat Pharmacy and Echologist. Dub, techno, jazz, afrobeat and psychedelics are inspirations that appear in most of his music. Whether it be serious dancefloor bizniz, or dubbed out downtempo, his music always possesses a quality and signature that make him the force he is today. He has collaborated with some of the great dub vocalists of our time, namely Mutabaruka, Spaceape, Mikey Dread and Paul St. Hilaire amongst others.
1968 – born in johannesburg, south africa
1978 – piano lessons once a week
1980 – quit piano begin trumpet lessons
1980 – quit trumpet in favor of tennis
1986 – graduate highschool
1987 – attend johannesburg college, major in english, history and art
1988 – form band with friends, play drums
1989 – band breaks up
1990 – graduate college as school teacher
1991 – teaching
1992 – join another band
1992 – band breaks up
1993 – decide to quit teaching career and move to NY to pursue music production
1993 – leave south africa, arrive in NY
1993 - work as a waiter
1994 – buy first drum machine
1997 - get job at CD store in east village
1999 - first track released on smile
2000 - name "beat pharmacy" comes to me while taking a shower
2001 - tracks released on astralwerks and six degrees records
2002 - meet FK
2002 - get married
2005 – debut album released on deep space media
2006 - echologist album released on mule musiq
2006 - daughter born
2006 - 2nd beat pharmacy album released
2007 - 3rd beat pharmacy album released