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  Todd Sines

  New York City · 2 bookings since Oct 2024

  “Inspired by early electro-pop and hip-hop like Art of Noise, Herbie Hancock & Whodini, Todd Sines began creating music in the late 80’s, ranging from post-punk and industrial to techno and house.”

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  Inspired by early electro-pop and hip-hop like Art of Noise, Herbie Hancock & Whodini, Todd Sines began creating music in the late 80’s, ranging from post-punk and industrial to techno and house. He swapped his bass for an analogue synth in 1991, and thus began a lifelong gearlust of all things tactile and analogue. While at The Ohio State University, he was the last student to study modular synthesis under former Stockhausen student Dr. Thomas Wells, the author of the seminal 1981 study "The Technique of Electronic Music" (Schirmer Books) [who helped him launch Analogue Heaven, the world’s first analogue synthesis focused electronic mailing list, 23 years and running.] His experimental yet melodic techno and stripped-down house music caught the ear of Carl Craig and Daniel Bell, who helped him release records on the Planet E, 7th City and Peacefrog labels in the mid '90s. Over the last two decades he’s worked with and remixed Yoko Ono, Alexander Robotnick, Robert Owens, Paul Randolph, and Sal Principato of Liquid Liquid, while his globetrotting live performances and DJ gigs have been featured in art spaces like MoMA PS1, Creative Time, the Wexner Center for the Arts; festivals like Movement, Roskilde, and Sonar, and clubs like London's Fabric and Berlin's Berghain, Panorama Bar, and Tresor. Twenty-plus years into his career, his recording studio still features a nearly all-analogue hardware environment, with tape machines, sequencers, synthesizers, and many DIY / home-brewed instruments, all the better to help him conjure a future-thinking sound from times past. From the flat fields of Ohio to the concrete jungle of New York, Todd Sines' environments; real and virtual, have served as inspiration for his unique, hybrid sound. His post punk, industrial, and hip-hop upbringings, filtered through an obsession with analogue and early digital technology, resulted in stripped down electronic funk; before minimal was mnml - it was just effective. Through his techno band, Body Release, with key Ohio players Titonton Duvanté, Charles Noel [Archetyp] and Mike Szewczyk, they dabbled in early rave sounds before embarking on their own paths. Todd's introduction in early 1993 to Detroit's Carl Craig and Daniel Bell resulted in seminal releases with Peacefrog, Planet E and 7th City by year end. Catching the ear of Richie Hawtin, "boiling point" was featured on his debut mix CD in 1995 on Mixmag. Soon after, releases on Andy Vaz's Background Records and Titonton's own Residual brought his sound to house and techno aficionados worldwide. Since his move to New York in 2003, he's worked with a variety of other artists, including !!!, Death in Vegas, Liquid Liquid's Sal Principato and Apollo Heights; he's remixed Alexander Robotnick, Paul Randolph, Robert Owens, Moonstarr, Adam Marshall, Lanoiraude and more. With his new material with Natacha Labelle on Frankie, he pushes the boundaries of house music, and with the resurrection of his .xtrak alias on YORE, his return to jackin' minimal funk reminds people of where it all started. His new studio will yield another layer to his established track record, now forging new trajectories in post-punk, no-wave and experimental indie rock.
  SoundCloud ↗Discography ↗
  Techno on 45, Minimal on 30, Tech House on 21 and House on 18. styles on their catalogued releases

  Released on Bogen Konzept Recordings (1) and HELIC.AL (1); their RA profile also lists Peacefrog, Sunday Best, Frankie Rec, Planet E and 6 more. labels on their catalogued releases and on their RA profile

  often with 19:00 Nicky Bagels, 20:00 Dngrhndz, Crew Called Self, none of them here that night

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  Max Watts

  Detroit · 14 bookings since Dec 2023

  “Max Watts is the visionary force driving Limited Network, a record label and DJ crew born in Nashville, now based in Detroit.”

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  Max Watts is the visionary force driving Limited Network, a record label and DJ crew born in Nashville, now based in Detroit. Max has cultivated LN into a beacon of timeless musical expression under the guidance of legendary mentors such as Mike Banks, BJ Smith, Bridgette Banks, and the revered Submerge Distribution camp. With a commitment to releasing music of consistent quality, LN's ethos centers around a crafted blend of innovation and tradition. Selecting with an archivist taste beyond his years, and mixing it with an urgent spontaneity, Watts is a promising face of the new-old-school.
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  Their RA profile lists Limited Network.

  Recently at BASEMENT, public records, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with Bookworms, Akua, Juana, none of them here that night

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  Kimyon

  New York City · 9 bookings since Dec 2023

  Their RA profile lists InHouse Records, Metroplex, Cryovac Recordings, Raw Waxes and 1 more.

  Recently at public records, Jupiter Disco, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with MYKEY, JUULZ, Gogo, none of them here that night

• Sugar

  3 bookings since Dec 2023 · 8 Ball radio crowd

  Recently at BASEMENT, Bossa Nova Civic Club · often with x3butterfly, Schacke, Fast Forward Night, none of them here that night

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