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.
Matthew Dear (aka False (Plus and Jabberjaw (Perlon)) has become one of America’s best techno artists in just a few short years. Between his stunning live performances and evolved DJ sets, Matthew has perked the ears of the industry’s best.
Philip Sherburne (The Wire) called his summer 2003 12” releases, EP1 and EP2, “among the best techno records this year.” His debut album under his birth name, Leave Luck to Heaven, is sleek and minimal, containing a pop sensibility and an ambient soul; it was given four stars by Rolling Stone, amongst dozens of other rave reviews and spots on numerous ‘Best of 2003’ lists.
Having toured around the world for much of 2004, Dear followed Leave Luck with the mini-LP Backstroke, which garnered similar praise and served to galvanize his placement amongst the world’s finest minimal electronic producers. As an exploration of a harsher edge, Dear also adopted the Audion alias for the release of the Kisses and The Pong 12”s in 2004, both suffused with massive beats and sawtoothed synth oscillations. On top of all this, Dear will close out 2004 as XLR8R magazine’s “Artist of the Year”, appearing on the cover of the December issue. Through December he is also sharing the stage with K7’s Swayzak during a North American tour that will only serve to widen his devoted fan base.
Matthew Dear will release a new album. The new full-length titled “Asa Breed” is out in June on Ghostly (see tracklisting below!). Before that, Ghostly will release the 1st single, Deserter, on May 8 which will feature a FOUR TET remix and a B-side exclusive to the vinyl. The digital version will have an instrumental version of the FOUR TET mix.
Asa Breed tracklisting:
01 Fleece on Brain
02 Neighborhoods
03 Deserter
04 Shy
05 Elementary Lover
06 Don and Sherri
07 Will Gravity Win Tonight?
08 Pom Pom
09 Death to Feelers
10 Give Me More
11 Midnight Lovers
12 Good to Be Alive
Matthew Dear (aka False (Plus 
and Jabberjaw (Perlon)) has become one of America’s best techno artists in just a few short years. Between his stunning live performances and evolved DJ sets, Matthew has perked the ears of the industry’s best. 
