In addition to his extensive touring all over the world, Ivan Smagghe has held residencies at Bugged Out, Fabric and Robert Johnson. Whether playing on his own or back to back with the likes of occasional partner-in-crime Andrew Weatherall, his sets have been described as genre-defying and visionary. Earlier as a member of Black Strobe and nowadays as half of It's A Fine Line, Ivan has been creating original material and remixing artists such as Superpitcher and The XX. We caught the London-based Frenchman for a quick chat right before his gig at Nolla on Saturday.
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Kirjoittanut Mikko Anisimoff / 18.11.2011
As the weather gets gloomier, it's time to brighten it up with a former Café Del Mar resident. In addition to his sunset sets in Ibiza, Horse Meat Disco, Fabric and Harvey’s 39 Hotel in Honolulu are just a few of the places Phil Mison has played during his 20-year DJ career. The man is also known as a recording artist with his Cantoma and Reverso 68 projects, and just compiled the latest volume of the superb Originals series on Claremont 56.
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Kirjoittanut Mikko Anisimoff / 08.11.2011
Instead of a traditional interview (there's a recent and advisable one on Resident Advisor), we asked Todd Terje to list five of his current favourite tracks – something we might hear at this Saturday's fish & chips & dance party. Click the song titles to listen!
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Kirjoittanut Mikko Anisimoff / 02.11.2011
Known as one of France’s foremost electronic musicians, Joakim will play a DJ set at this Saturday's Beamhill 25th Anniversary After Party. His fourth album Nothing Gold was released in September and constant remix and production work keeps the guy busy in addition to running the Tigersushi label. We reached Joakim for a quick chat about his latest and forthcoming projects.
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Kirjoittanut Mikko Anisimoff / 26.10.2011
This Saturday Nolla's decks are taken over by a rather influential character. Athanassios Christos Macias, better known as Ata, started playing records in the late 80's. In the 90's, he established three labels – Ongaku Musik, Klang Elektronik and probably most notably Playhouse, which released classic albums and singles by Isolée, Ricardo Villalobos and Blaze to name but a few.
For more than a decade, he has been running a club called Robert Johnson by the river Main in Frankfurt. Besides Ata himself, DJ's playing at the 250-capacity venue include everyone from Villalobos to Seth Troxler and from Prins Thomas to Andrew Weatherall. The club has also a great label of its own called Live At Robert Johnson – H.R. Boss by Lauer released on the label is probably one of the most played records in Helsinki this year.
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Kirjoittanut Mikko Anisimoff / 20.10.2011