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Not your typical techno artist

Belgium's Peter Van Hoesen has never been that typical techno artist. Although considered as one of the genre's tastemakers he is someone who sculpts sounds for many different environments - the club, the home, the gallery or museum. He does so with a true sense of personality. On his own label Time to Express he releases textural compositions and he also records to great acclaim as Sendai alongside Yves de Mey. In performance terms, Peter lays down dark and arresting techno sets as well as captivating, story-telling live musical journeys. Peter currently resides in Berlin.

Peter Van Hoesen

A new institution for the arts based in the heart of East London's, Canning Town. Home to music and creative studios and a 500 capacity state-of-the-art performance space.


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Canning Town

Human is born from the need to recover the medium-sized club, designed to live a more human and comfortable experience around electronic music. A space to accommodate the entire cultural flow linked to this particular universe, through content, not only musical, but also other artistic disciplines.
 
Human wants to return to the roots of shared experience in the natural habitat of dance music: the club. The pandemic has reminded us how important – and necessary – it is to be able to enjoy live music, to the detriment of the omnipresent “streaming”. Human is living an experience together, returning to the human and its social nature. Going back to the roots of the club as a meeting place for an audience of different generations but with shared concerns. A space where you can enjoy music in the best conditions, encouraging attention and creating an environment where new consumption habits meet old ones.
 
Culture will be an essential part of Human, in a multidisciplinary way, beyond the purely musical proposal. The digital art agency Landscapes will be in charge of commissioning installations from artists from all over the world as well as a digital art gallery distributed by the club. We will also have a regular schedule of visual artists.

Human is born from the need to recover the medium-sized club, designed to live a more human and comfortable experience around electronic music. A space to accommodate the entire cultural flow linked to this particular universe, through content, not only musical, but also other artistic disciplines.

Human Club

This industrial-ish space in Tower Hamlets was indeed used to operate as a working pickle factory, but after being used for foodie pop-ups and exhibitions in 2013, Oval Space have fully revamped the intimate venue as a club and live music space. Expect an alternative and esoteric programme, and be ready for leftfield but thoroughly banging DJ sets from underground heroes and mind-bending arty bands.

The Pickle Factory

Cambridge Heath

Razzmatazz is without any doubt one of the most popular clubs amongst both locals and the internationals.  Located in the Poble Nou district of Barcelona, in a unique building associated with the city's industrial landscape, Razzmatazz is arguably Barcelonas one and only super club.
 
Razzmatazz has 5 different club rooms, all with their own bars, housed in one vast warehouse-style building.  Each room is so distinct, you'll feel like you could be in your own club all night. If you choose to venture out of one room, you could find yourself lost in a maze of confusing corridors and hot, heavy dancefloors. 
 
Razzmatazz offers you differing types of music and atmospheres. Downstairs you will find the Indie Rock area, upstairs the techno and two more chill-out spaces with pop and electro music. Each new week, Razzmatazz incorporates the emerging and upcoming musical trends fresh hot on the scene into its band programmes.  When you walk into the rooms you'll find new bands and DJs, placing Razzmatazz firmly as one of the key nightlife players on the independent music scene.
 
Razzmatazzs programmes promote combinations and cultural mixes of nationals and internationals and have included exhibitions, celebrity appearances, galas and even movie shootings and publicity stunts!  Razzmatazz is innovative and is designed for a very demanding clientele. This club is ideal to celebrate any kind of event as the multi-space transforms according to the needs of every individual client and their event.
 
Razzmatazz has hosted of a lot of concerts of bands and artists like Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferndinand and The Gossip, validating its high calibre.  

Razzmatazz is without any doubt one of the most popular clubs amongst both locals and the internationals.  Located in the Poble Nou district of Barcelona, in a unique building associated with the city's industrial landscape, Razzmatazz is arguably Barcelonas one and only super club.

Razzmatazz

Parc i Llacuna del Poblenou

Apolo is one of the oldest dance halls in Europe and a national and international reference music venue. Its origin dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and its transformation has always been linked to the transformation of Barcelona, building an important part of the DNA of the city and its people.

Located in the heart of the Paral·lel avenue, a nerve center of the cultural scene of the city and also a link between el Raval, el Poble Sec and Sant Antoni, Apolo was born as an amusement park. Since then, it has hosted a ballroom, a bingo, a professional skating club, a nightclub... until becoming the concert hall and nightclub that it is today.

Apolo is the preferred destination for the most diverse audiences, and every day of the week it hosts club sessions, concerts, cycles and other musical events in Barcelona. Heir to the club culture, it embraces all kind of music genres: rock, pop, indie, house, techno, disco, reggae, jungle, dub, dancehall, drum’n’bass, funk, reggaeton, trap, hip-hop among many other styles, the list is endless.

More than 13,000 groups and 7,000 DJ and producers have already come up on the stages of Sala Apolo, La (2) and La (3), representing both the most popular proposals and the newest emerging trends. International outstanding artists such as Coldplay, Tindersticks, Interpol, Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Fall, Iron & Wine, The Hives, Rufus Wainwright, Mark Almond, Superfurry Animals, Justice, Alboroise, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailers, Laurent Garnier, Ellen Allien, Dj Rush or Maceo Plex, y nacionales como La Pegatina, Txarango, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, La Mala Rodríguez, Green Valley, Rapsusklei or John Talabot.

In parallel, it is committed to new talent and the promotion of new projects through the LAB, a platform dedicated to ideas, learning, technology, activism and artistic expression, and its own annual band contest, Bala Perduda.

Recently, the venue has expanded its activity with the appearance of L'Estudi, a creation, production, and dissemination of audiovisual content space for any type of initiative, which also includes training in music production and music business (Aula Apolo), and has created the Apolo Symphonic Orchestra, a km 0 orchestral recording project.

In 2018, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Apolo with special programming throughout the year, the premiere of the documentary La Juventud Baila, directed by Marc Crehuet, and the publication of the historical book 75 años sin parar de Bailar, written by Eva Espinet.

Apolo is one of the oldest dance halls in Europe and a national and international reference music venue. Its origin dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and its transformation has always been linked to the transformation of Barcelona, building an important part of the DNA of the city and its people.

Sala Apolo

A 30-year-old icon of Berlin's clubbing scene and a huge influence on the country's techno culture, Tresor was originally located in the vault of a department store in East Berlin. After some years of difficulty, it reopened in 2007 in a 236,000-square-foot abandoned power plant. The new digs carry on its techno revolution tradition: The derelict space of the factory, complete with a state-of-the-art sound system and red lighting, is an ultra-intense experience for even the most passionate clubber. It includes three interlinked floors play house and electronic music, while an almost-100-foot tunnel leads to the main dance floor.

Tresor

Mitte

You can’t miss Village Underground thanks to the four brightly coloured, graffiti-covered tube carriages, now artists’ studios, perched on its roof. The recycled Jubilee line carriages, and accompanying shipping containers, accommodate a community of artists, writers, designers, filmmakers and musicians. Village Underground is housed in a renovated turn-of-the-century warehouse primed for everything from concerts and club nights to exhibitions, theatre, live art, and other performances. Music-wise, indie, electronic, experimental, hip-hop and much more besides could potentially feature on any given night at Village Underground. Shoreditch High Street, Old Street and Liverpool Street stations are the nearby transport hubs.

Village Underground

Shoreditch

Life Performance

Subjects from the Past

"In twenty years of activity as a DJ I still can't realize the real social utility of what I'm doin', but I have seen the therapeutic function..." - Donato Dozzy

In recent years Donato Dozzy has emerged as one of the leading contemporary techno DJs. He has developed a strong following for his distinctive tripping, hypnotic take on techno music. Ignoring fads and trends, Dozzy's approach to electronic music - both as a DJ and as a producer - is based on a deep understanding of what has come before him. Being introduced to Disco, Italo, Reggae, Dub and other forms of electronic music at an early age, he first began exploring DJ'ing in 1983 under the mentorship of a DJ from Bari, called Maurizio Laurentaci. By the late 1980s he was discovering techno and acid with his friend Leo (now producing house music under the name Lerosa). 
 
Despite his love for electronic music, he continued his studies, eventually graduating from the University of Rome with a Doctorate in Politics. This education, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of music, later earned him the nickname of "The Professor". In 1999, he began an ongoing residency at the famous Brancaleone club in Rome, where he further honed his skills as a DJ. In 2001, he was as part of the band, The Kitchen Tools, which were signed to Virgin records and had some commercial success in Italy. 
 
This was not enough to satisfy Dozzy, and in 2004 he moved to Berlin. From 2004 to 2006, Dozzy held a residency at Panorama Bar, where extended sets at the end of long nights of partying allowed him to further develop his slow-burning, hypnotic groove. 
 
A watershed moment in his career came in 2007 when he was invited to play at the Labyrinth festival, an outdoor electronic music festival in Japan. While 2007 went well, its main purpose was laying the foundations for his return in 2008, when Dozzy would play the closing set at Labyrinth. It would prove to be a turning point for Dozzy, as he played one of the most memorable sets of techno that had ever been witnessed at the festival. This set went on to be podcasted by mnml.ssgs and Donato's popularlity grew exponentially. 
 
Since then, Dozzy has quickly developed as a producer and a DJ, since playing at many of the most important clubs around the world, such as Berghain and Fabric. He has become popular not only for his DJing, but also because of his distinctive productions: like his sets, they explore the trippier side of acid, techno and ambient. In 2008, after experimenting with his first label (Dozzy Records), he started Aquaplano, a label that has quickly gained a cult following for its limited pressings and high quality mix of ambient and techno. He has released on a wide range of other labels, including: Mental Groove, Curle, Time to Express, Mule, Further, and Prologue. 
 
In 2010 he completed his debut album, "K", which received high praise. He played live for the first time at the 2011 Labyrinth festival as Voices from the Lake (with Neel). Much like the music he plays and produces, Donato Dozzy is in no rush: developing slowly, moving further and deeper. Having found considerable success as a DJ and producer, Dozzy is not searching for fame or hype, he just continues to look or those special transcendental moments that can be created through electronic music.

Donato Dozzy

Talis / Into The Red

Talis

Opal Balance EP

Opal Balance

Her music arise from an idea, which she develops and threads through her own sounds: Emotional, extravagant, charismatic, cinematic, sometimes poetic. Her music strives towards "infinity" between origin and development. Here, timeless possibilities sounding out from the zeitgeist.

Since 2004 she released 2 album´s, 10 EPs, 3EPs coproduced with Donato Dozzy, Gabriel Ananda or Paul Brtschitsch and 4 remixes for labels like Prologue, Semantica, Telrae, Hypnus or Time to Express.

2012 she composed her debut "Distanz" for a music theatre with orchestral instruments. The combination of electronic elements and instruments enrich her world of musical ideas. PULSA:RE, a combination of a DJ Set and new music with an ensemble, developed in cooperation with the composer Brigitta Muntendorf.

Her dj sets and mixes filtering to track down deep and authentic musical developments amongst the mass of music and records without forgetting the gems of the past. With the participation of musical sources, Cio D´Or mirrors the new in the old andvice versa, immersed in the deep grammar of music - leaving this again and allow the sound to live, to resonate now and on through times. She is a dramatic advisor in her style techno and electronica.

Cio started 2001 as a resident dj in Munich´s former cult club Ultraschall. Later she established herself consistently on national and international floor´s with her emotive, almost magical sets. She doesn´t play music, she lives it.

Already in childhood, Cio D´Or felt the sounds and tonality of many different instruments. At the age of 17, she was playing in a 7 man-strong Jazz band; at 21, she founded her own dance duo with self-developed choreography, which she first off compiled with classical music (i.e. Bartok, Strawinsky, Bach). With this work, she discovered her first access into electronic music, through Brian Eno and David Byrne.

During the Eighties, Cio D´Or lived in Berlin, where she completed her training in Contemporary Dance and Ballet; learning, among other things, the discipline of keeping time that her works portrays. Engagements in art, theatre and film followed.



Best Peter Van Hoesen Songs of All Time - Top 10 Tracks

Best Peter Van Hoesen Songs of All Time - Top 10 Tracks

Upcoming Events

1. Subjects from the Past

2. Talis

3. Opal Balance

4. Menta - Peter Van Hoesen Remix

5. Terminal

6. Vertical Vertigo

7. Hyperion

8. Axis Mundi

9. Trim the Facts

10. Purity Death Spiral

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