DETTMANN | ROTHLEIN

I had the distinct pleasure this past Friday night of sitting on a bench on North 6th in Williamsburg for an inspiring chat about living and breathing techno with Marcel Dettmann. I followed this distinct pleasure with another one: listening to this literal giant of classic jams play straight into one bright, blue Fourth of July morning. You may know Marcel as the dark prince of a dance floor infamous for leathered-up public sex, but I’ll be damned if he didn’t let more than a little sunlight into his grooves this time around. The conversation has been entrusted to Little White Earbuds, so watch that space for our interview in full.

LLC007

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UPDATE

I’ve been pretty terrible about blogging/doing blogworthy things/sitting still for more than five minutes recently. Might I recommend that in the meantime you check out what I’ve been doing for Little White Earbuds?

Forthcoming: new party. Start date: early fall. Anyone have a loft (I promise I will clean afterwards!!!)? Anyone want to recommend a venue with a dance floor and cheap beer?

AND PICK UP THE NEW WIRE DAMMIT! Sherburne does an excellent, inspiring write-up on Moritz Von Oswald and his all-star Trio that will get you hella excited for Vertical Ascent, which is out at the end of next month. I’ve heard it, and if your ears are anything like mine, their little ear-brains will be fucking blown to smithereens.

LLC006: RAEV TO THE GRAVE

As far as I know, there is no true recording of last night’s set at Full Service. Luckily, Momo and I recorded this mix — with a lot of track overlap — two nights before in my bedroom. I’d meant to put this up on Friday as a pre-Raev promotion, but a dude must sleep sometime. Considering that this is supposedly the final Full Service party in this format (sorry to be coy, I really don’t know that much more than you do), it seems almost fitting that this would run as a kind of postmortem on the style Momo and I have developed over our ten-party run: druggy house and technoid anthems, to infinity and beyond!

Raev to the Graev Promo Mix (right/ctrl-click to download)

UPCOMING: FULL SERVICE RAEV X

I usually twiddle my thumbs until a few days before the event to put up a post, but this absolutely can’t wait. The Full Service crew descends on Club Love on May 23 for RAEV X, and we’re looking to make it our loudest, sweatiest, and most glowstick-addled shindig yet. Added bonus (or major bummer, depending on your sleep habits): Mo/rdan returns to the party’s 2am-close time slot, so expect things to get a little filthy (and j-j-jackin’) before the night is finished. Dig it!

In other sweet techno news, I have just joined the writing staff at venerable dance music blog Little White Earbuds! I’ve been a daily reader of that site for quite some time now, so it will be very strange to see my own name pop up underneath a post. If you’re at all interested in reading me blabber on about the sort of music I throw down on mixes here and parties elsewhere, then be sure to watch that space. But the LLC shall live on. Podcast soon, I swear!