Slick Chick is a 27 year-old disco-freak from Rotterdam. She started playing records about seven years ago. At the time she and her friends were throwing nonprofit parties in dirty warehouses throughout the Netherlands and beyond.
Wanneer Redevice een pionier en levende legende op het gebied van sonische experimenten uitnodigt om te komen optreden binnen de ideale setting van Studio 80 met z’n moddervette sound system, dan weet je zeker dat het voorgeschotelde geluid je niet alleen zal verrijken...
Terwijl de Sint z’n zak met pepernoten leegschudt en onze grote Kerstvriend de arrenslee weer voorrijdt, dropt Arctic Boogie vrijdag 12 december feestelijke acid en oldskool in club Innocent in Hengelo.
Loveland organiseert dit jaar het grootste Oud & Nieuw spektakel van Amsterdam. De organisatie viert de jaarwisseling in Amstelborgh onder de naam ‘Loveland NewYear’.
Berlin I grew up feeling surrounded by the Wall. I lived on the small island of West Berlin. Border controls on Sunday excursions, the rummaging through bags, the military. It was scary. But the quote All quiet on the western front still didnt really apply, as lots of things were happening that wouldnt have been possible anywhere else. The island of West Berlin was a destination for creative minds in search of alternatives. Music was and still is my outlet. Alongside tinkling on the electric organ, teaching myself how to read notes and my jukebox with a collection of singles in my room, my ears were first intrigued by the revolution of Neue Deutsche Welle. It was fantastic! For the first time people were singing in the language you could hear out on the street: Ideal, Grauzone, Nina Hagen pop meets punk. Things happened so fast. Minimal sounds made from machines entered the charts. For me it was Kraftwerks Model that changed everything. I discovered that pop also worked without any frills. My side of Berlin provided a home for the curious, those who were going against the flow. However, it was only when the Wall came down that Berlin became Berlin again the city that lets me breathe. After spending a whole year in London I realized that despite the acid jazzhouse euphoria there, only one place felt like home Berlin, the city of possibilities. Being able to breathe, to drive and walk wherever and with whoever I wanted. And no more borders. I was immediately fascinated by East Berlin, by this atmosphere of curiosity and get-up-and-go. There was room for experiments. Electronic music united East and West. I started to focus on music and art. At first that meant playing the saxophone, learning about fashion, hanging out in rehearsal rooms and taking classes in acrobatics. To finance it all, I worked behind the bar in the Fischlabor, which happened to be the meeting point of the up-and-coming music network. I mixed my first tapes and suddenly became part of the emerging Berlin techno scene, which started out in empty industrial buildings, houses and cellars. Ellen became Ellen Allien. Courage Berlin nightlife. I had my own radio show on KISS FM, worked at the Delirium record store and finally founded my first label Braincandy. It felt as if music had swallowed me whole. With Braincandy I made a serious attempt at releasing the kind of abstract techno I liked best. Id had enough of compromising. Some of it was just the courage to pave my own way. The closing down of the first big Berlin techno clubs was a setback for the scene, though I interpreted it as a sign to get something new going in the midst of disorientation. The party series BPitch Control was a good start. I wanted to hang on to the music, to materialize it, so I founded BPitch Control Records. The parties were no longer just memories, now people could take them home, too. The label was mainly an organ for me and other people who I found talented and worth supporting. To me, BPitch control is glamour, community and exchange platform all at the same time. Productive As a DJ I have always tried to connect genres, styles and audiences. I want to feed people new music and capture their interest. I want to fill the room with sound. And I have always been searching for an acceptance of what exists. We all live in the here and now! And it was that common thread that I wanted to share with the audience. When I DJ, body and music become one, they become brainy. To me, music was always the only way to soar through epic parallel worlds, to relax, to experience excess, to find myself. Music is both my motor and my outlet. As a producer, music is a playback of my emotions and moods. I tease them out of me with alternating technical devices. Music becomes a chronicle, each album is a work from a period of my life, which grounds me after the stress of DJ-jetting. Albums are like diaries. With my first album Stadtkind I wanted to express my close relationship with the city I live in. It was like an explosion. Stadtkind is my homage to Berlin. The testing, work and experimentation with the structures and the sound spectrum of electronic music then became more and more crucial for me. I used my various compilations and remixes to beam myself into the musical cosmos. With my next album Berlinette I processed what I had experienced after the release of Stadtkind. It was like a flash of lightning, I was everywhere and everyone around me was euphoric and supportive. Berlinette illustrates all that and it is also my very personal discourse on what is possible in the world of pop music and abstract sounds. Then I released my third album Thrills. It moves back and forth between constant excitement and playing the ARP 2600 and other analogue instruments. Changing studio equipment keeps the productions flowing. Techno is still what Im about. Its minimal, reduced, deep and rough at the same time. I would say that techno and I have developed together. Sensual In my work, graphics, music, artwork, visuals and fashion merge. Body Dance, space and lust for life overspill. I search for the fulfilling dance. Body, belly and brain start to swing and uplift me/us. Music is the drug nothing else! Travel Travelling with my record case, living out of the suitcase. The hotel is my home. Experiencing new worlds and cultures and accepting them; understanding, how things work in other places. Sharing views and politics. A club unites people without words. Its the music that speaks. Recognizing the beauty of the world and absorbing the otherness. Home is far away and not important. Its the unknown that attracts my attention, and I want to know it! The mix The mix is everything. I push myself to the absolute limit, sweating, and the thrill is that the room will become our room.
03.03.2006 Paris/France We love Ellen
04.03.2006 London/UK Fabric
10.03.2006 Aix en Provence/France Studio 88
11.03.2006 Alicante/Spain Metro Dance Club
16.03.2006 Montreal/Canada Parking
17.03.2006 Chicago/USA Smart Bar
18.03.2006 New York/USA Avalon
31.03.2006 Barcelona/Spain Nitsa
01.04.2006 Berlin/Germany Berghain
06.04.2006 Amsterdam/Holland Paradiso
07.04.2006 Utrecht/Holland Tivoli De Helling
14.04.2006 Naples/Italy Larenile Village
15.04.2006 Cannes/France Pre des arts
16.04.2006 Jesolo/Italy Muretto
22.04.2006 Aix Provence/France Spartacus
I am looking for some of Ellen's other dj sets. Already have the one at Lowlands. So if anyone can tell me where to look...! Also the sets on Beatfreax, for some reason, do not download.
I think Ellen is one of the coolest techno artists around!
I am looking for some of Ellen's other dj sets. Already have the one at Lowlands. So if anyone can tell me where to look...! Also the sets on Beatfreax, for some reason, do not download.
Berlin I grew up feeling surrounded by the Wall. I lived on the small island of West Berlin. Border controls on Sunday excursions, the rummaging through bags, the military. It was scary. But the quote All quiet on the western front still didnt really apply, as lots of things were happening that wouldnt have been possible anywhere else. The island of West Berlin was a destination for creative minds in search of alternatives. Music was and still is my outlet. Alongside tinkling on the electric organ, teaching myself how to read notes and my jukebox with a collection of singles in my room, my ears were first intrigued by the revolution of Neue Deutsche Welle. It was fantastic! For the first time people were singing in the language you could hear out on the street: Ideal, Grauzone, Nina Hagen pop meets punk. Things happened so fast. Minimal sounds made from machines entered the charts. For me it was Kraftwerks Model that changed everything. I discovered that pop also worked without any frills. My side of Berlin provided a home for the curious, those who were going against the flow. However, it was only when the Wall came down that Berlin became Berlin again the city that lets me breathe. After spending a whole year in London I realized that despite the acid jazzhouse euphoria there, only one place felt like home Berlin, the city of possibilities. Being able to breathe, to drive and walk wherever and with whoever I wanted. And no more borders. I was immediately fascinated by East Berlin, by this atmosphere of curiosity and get-up-and-go. There was room for experiments. Electronic music united East and West. I started to focus on music and art. At first that meant playing the saxophone, learning about fashion, hanging out in rehearsal rooms and taking classes in acrobatics. To finance it all, I worked behind the bar in the Fischlabor, which happened to be the meeting point of the up-and-coming music network. I mixed my first tapes and suddenly became part of the emerging Berlin techno scene, which started out in empty industrial buildings, houses and cellars. Ellen became Ellen Allien. Courage Berlin nightlife. I had my own radio show on KISS FM, worked at the Delirium record store and finally founded my first label Braincandy. It felt as if music had swallowed me whole. With Braincandy I made a serious attempt at releasing the kind of abstract techno I liked best. Id had enough of compromising. Some of it was just the courage to pave my own way. The closing down of the first big Berlin techno clubs was a setback for the scene, though I interpreted it as a sign to get something new going in the midst of disorientation. The party series BPitch Control was a good start. I wanted to hang on to the music, to materialize it, so I founded BPitch Control Records. The parties were no longer just memories, now people could take them home, too. The label was mainly an organ for me and other people who I found talented and worth supporting. To me, BPitch control is glamour, community and exchange platform all at the same time. Productive As a DJ I have always tried to connect genres, styles and audiences. I want to feed people new music and capture their interest. I want to fill the room with sound. And I have always been searching for an acceptance of what exists. We all live in the here and now! And it was that common thread that I wanted to share with the audience. When I DJ, body and music become one, they become brainy. To me, music was always the only way to soar through epic parallel worlds, to relax, to experience excess, to find myself. Music is both my motor and my outlet. As a producer, music is a playback of my emotions and moods. I tease them out of me with alternating technical devices. Music becomes a chronicle, each album is a work from a period of my life, which grounds me after the stress of DJ-jetting. Albums are like diaries. With my first album Stadtkind I wanted to express my close relationship with the city I live in. It was like an explosion. Stadtkind is my homage to Berlin. The testing, work and experimentation with the structures and the sound spectrum of electronic music then became more and more crucial for me. I used my various compilations and remixes to beam myself into the musical cosmos. With my next album Berlinette I processed what I had experienced after the release of Stadtkind. It was like a flash of lightning, I was everywhere and everyone around me was euphoric and supportive. Berlinette illustrates all that and it is also my very personal discourse on what is possible in the world of pop music and abstract sounds. Then I released my third album Thrills. It moves back and forth between constant excitement and playing the ARP 2600 and other analogue instruments. Changing studio equipment keeps the productions flowing. Techno is still what Im about. Its minimal, reduced, deep and rough at the same time. I would say that techno and I have developed together. Sensual In my work, graphics, music, artwork, visuals and fashion merge. Body Dance, space and lust for life overspill. I search for the fulfilling dance. Body, belly and brain start to swing and uplift me/us. Music is the drug nothing else! Travel Travelling with my record case, living out of the suitcase. The hotel is my home. Experiencing new worlds and cultures and accepting them; understanding, how things work in other places. Sharing views and politics. A club unites people without words. Its the music that speaks. Recognizing the beauty of the world and absorbing the otherness. Home is far away and not important. Its the unknown that attracts my attention, and I want to know it! The mix The mix is everything. I push myself to the absolute limit, sweating, and the thrill is that the room will become our room.
