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Inga Mauer is the new kid on your block. Coming from St. Petersburg, Russia where she is a resident DJ in the famous club (Stackenschneider) she is now gaining attention in Europe.

Inga Mauer

It is not a unique image in Berlin: An old building, full of graffiti and street-art, which seems to be a dull and boring building during the week transforms into a crowded place during the weekends. The Berlin club About Blank is defenitely one of the best examples for a building with two different faces. About Blank is one of these more silent clubs which made a name in the last couple of years. Even the real Berliners like this club, especially for it’s non-commercial style and the raw looks. When you pass the club during the week you will not expect a lot, but in the weekends you will find long lines and great parties here.

About Blank

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Brixton club Phonox looks to be kind of a big deal for south London nightlife, and in fact London clubbing as a whole. After the team behind acclaimed nightspots including XOYO, The Nest, the Old Queen’s Head and the Blues Kitchen franchises purchased the site of former Brixton club Plan B when it shut down, they wasted little time in transforming it into Phonox. The club has a similar feel to both XOYO and the Nest: a sleek, dark dance cavern with plenty of space for dancing, and the programming leans very much towards the leftfield side of dance music – don’t expect cheesy ’80s nights here, it’s quality, underground house, techno, disco and bass all the way.


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Bad Manners 6

What

Philipp Gorbachev

POLINA

Remix the Box

5th New Century - Inga Mauer Mix

// Divided Love //

"Electronic music is unique in that, whilst it has an immediate effect on the body, the culture surrounding it has the ability to run deep into your life. Whenever I'm in a club, I want to give myself up to music. This is the very thing that excites me the most. Witnessing a DJ create an atmosphere in a room from the ground up takes patience and effort from everyone present but when the pivotal moments hit, your watch stops ticking." 
 
It is this thinking which motivated and inspired the making of Daniel Avery's entry into the treasured DJ-Kicks series. Across its 78 minutes the mix creates a hypnotic space focusing on "music by some like-minded souls" from the outer reaches of techno. It is a mix concerned with the idea of taking a collective breath and allowing records their own space.  
 
"The music that always hits hardest is what I'd consider to be unreal, something that sounds like it comes from another place entirely and moves at its own pace. I want to create those moments where opening your eyes on a dance floor becomes difficult. When the outside world is nothing more than a distant thought." 
 
The mix also features three new original Avery productions including a track from Rote, a project with BleeD boss Volte-Face. It follows three years' worth of studio experimentation in-between a life spent on the road touring the enormous success of debut record, Drone Logic. Released on Erol Alkan's wildly psychedelic Phantasy label, reviews were unanimous in praise: "A mesmerising debut" (Mixmag); "In a league of its own" (NME); "Exceptional" (The Times); "One of the finest techno albums of the year" (The Quietus); "Underground dance music with this much ambition hasn't been heard in quite a while" (Resident Advisor); "Avery owns this space" (Pitchfork); "A benchmark for so many other dance albums to aspire to" (Dummy).  
 
Its success was furthered by the fact that Drone Logic didn't really fit expected templates of what a dance record today should sound like. There are no set piece vocals; when voices emerge on tracks, they are invariably disembodied, odd. And as distortion whips across techno-based backing tracks, it splices modern club music with the kind of sounds that forward thinking guitar bands might conjure up. The result was a wholly compelling, gloriously transcendent album and one that continues to strike a chord with new listeners.  
 
Coming off the back of 2012's much-lauded FABRICLIVE 66 compilation, many of Drone Logic's early demos were first tested at the London clubbing institution. Whilst Avery claims that his music is affected by every stop on a relentless tour schedule, one that has cemented his position in Resident Advisor's "Top DJs" poll for several years straight, his debut was a record very much conceived in fabric. It seemed natural, therefore, for his residency to be taken one step further with Divided Love, "a semi regular gathering and a chance to present acts who are doing something special; music for the mind..." 
 
The night, now expanded across Europe and beyond, has already played host to the likes of DJ Nobu, Helena Hauff, Voices From The Lake, Xosar, Kassem Mosse, Dopplereffekt, Answer Code Request, Lee Gamble, Voiski, Factory Floor and Objekt to name a small handful. Furthermore, a distinct line can be drawn between Divided Love and the double album of carefully curated remixes that followed Drone Logic: New Energy. Featuring reworks from Rodhad to Powell, Silent Servant to Roman Flugel, Perc to Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve, it stands with the DJ-Kicks CD as yet another testament to the strength of the current state of affairs in underground electronic music, borne out of one of its most original talents.

Best Inga Mauer Songs of All Time - Top 10 Tracks

Best Inga Mauer Songs of All Time - Top 10 Tracks

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