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We are very proud to have some of our fellow artists and friends on this line up and also just very eager to see this festival happen. The tickets went back on sale on RA for $60 (+fee), which I think is a pretty amazing deal for a line up like this and in NYC! They also now have VIP tickets selling for $150, with special bathroom access! Now that’s what I am talking about, no more stinky over abused port a potties. Honestly, when I heard minitek was doing a festival, I was expecting steeper prices, but am quite relieved to see that its quite affordable.

Now the minitek website is up and running as well as the “9 weeks” Butane podcast which sounds great and can be downloaded here. They have also kept the venue vail going a little bit longer, but at least have said that there will be two venues, an evening and daytime one (and maybe even a shuttle service between the two)

Despite having a fever, Loco Dice held everything together and played an all night long set in honor of his latest album release 7 Dunham Place. His productions are dope at least 3 of the tracks are total hits like the joyful “La Esquina,” the dirty “Tight Laces”, or his bouncy dance floor killer that is “Pimp Jackson is talking now.” His album is available on Beatport and pretty much everywhere!

As for the night at Cielo, it is increasingly difficult to find a non-meathead infested place in the meat packing district, so our crew of friends had to spend a bit of time chatting outside in time for all the yuppies to leave us with a semi packed dance floor that we could share exclusively with Loco. We forgave him for a few technical missteps and all in all everyone there had a good time and could only speak highly of Dice’s addictive swinging rhythms.

Loco Dice is coming to NYC, with more hype than ever touring for his 7 Dunham Place release and Gregor Tresher is making his NYC debut after being voted best techno DJ by Beatport. It will be a hard pick between the two and in fact one could do both given the distance between the places Hiro and Cielo. Biatch Corp is presenting a strong line up with Derek Plaslaiko, Giovanni, Pito and Karaskilla and have not had a party in a while, so it will definitely be big, since it’s also their Hiro Ballroom debut!

New York will have to wait a couple months before minimoo strikes again with the minitek festival and maybe another season of moo debauchery. They have just finished their second season of minimoo which travelled beyond its birth place to cities far away from the roof tops and old breweries of New York. London, LA and Miami were thankful to receive the crew for one time shabangs.

Over the course of the season, the crew brought us artists like Guido Schneider, Ambivalent, Butane, Paul Ritch, Paco Osuna, Magda vs Konrad Black and Davide Squillace.

As for the closing party, start with the indoor before finishing it off on a roof top after-pre-party for Independence Day. Memek is truly a gem, no matter which headlining artist comes to play, Memek always shines with fresh new tunes and nice finds like Pay For Me by Daniel Steinberg or our newly released Veo Mi Terraza by Fase Miusic Sender (see video below). Butane was explosive, destroying the heated dancefloor till the end before starting up the after with some great tunes, old and new, like Melchior Productions‘ first release on Playhouse, Let’s Go Deep (a real house gem) or Audion’s Billy Says Go. (You can find both on beatport.)

ReSolute # 11: “Under the stars”

Get ready for a new concept for NYC party people. You are used to partying everywhere but on a “ship without a captain”. The party is also 12 to 12 and from the picture sent out by ReSolute it looks like we may see the sunrise along the river.

July 3rd and Independence Day celebrations are also going to be big so save up for that with Damian Lazarus at Love with BLK/ Market Membership and a 48 hour minimoo independence party. More details will come.

Last Friday Night at Cocoliche was one of these nights that you don’t even need to promote. Noone really sent flyers or invitations, yet everyone knew this was it. One of these nights when the club stays packed until 9AM. One that makes you randomly smile when you think about it by yourself in the bus during the week after. Put shortly… an other-worldly night!

The party was hosted at Cocoliche and was organised by Qunita Sol, the Chilean agency that was behind Luciano’s and Ricardo Villalobos‘ revelations. However, this time around it was for Bruno Pronsato and Franco Cinelli to take over the controls of the tunnel.

Bruno and Franco have met and been friends for quite a few years now. In November 2005, they also released the Picaro EP on the German label Milnor Modern, regrouping three bomb tracks featuring their habitual genius programation, dirty vocals on one and irresisitible hypnose on all.

The music on Friday was the best we heard in a long time here. Bruno Pronsato created the most intimate and aestethic environment, playing perfectly with his different rhythm patterns and occasional voices… so seducing. A genuine journey inside the master’s realm.

That was the part for the mind…

… and its when Franco took over the decks and knobs that my feet couldn’t hold themselves anymore! Develloping a clear and flawless old school acid house techno vision, Franco dropped some gems like Tobias Freund’s Street Knowledge, or Luciano’s new version of Inner City’s Good Love… ¡¡¡BOMB!!! Even JayDee’s Plastic Dream was inserted right at the perfect time.

Time, time, time… I completely forgot about that! Great sign! So when I went out of the Coco at 9AM… el mundo se habia desaparecido! Te gusta? … Si! Muchisimo! Gracias Franco y Bruno!!!

Now that summer is here our weekends have been extended to include a sunday afternoon of partying. The minimoo crew has made its summer debut creating a paradise in the skies with a sun deck full of hidden gardens and a nice line up of DJs to keep the crew dancing through the lightning, rain, and carefully planned fireworks. It can be 95° or the middle of a lightening storm, but there are certain pleasures that make it worth getting a little soaked and the increased odds of getting hit or being around when those zeus powered bolts hit (maybe striking a huge water tank or a near by police station).The heat did not stop people from having a good time…

As usual minimoo creates a very personal and private environment for us to a enjoy a strong musical line up which included Poker Flat and Cadenza’s Guido Schneider, Function who is also behind the Sandwell District label (check out the RA interview and feature) and minimoo’s own Memek, who is rapidly turning into one of NYC’s favorite DJs.

It will be exciting to see Memek and of course Guido Schneider perform at Minitek the upcoming NYC electronic music festival, featuring many many more big names, our very own Fase Miusic Sender and more of the Argentine family with a very special debut US live set for Dilo vs Gurtz.

When talking about the roots of the electronic scene in France, few names come to mind. Ivan Smagghe is one of them, Laurent Garnier, Ark, Aurora Borealis, Jennifer Cardini, I:Cube & Gilb’r are some others.

Smagghe has always been THE character though, working for Rough Trade, Paris’ most influential record stores in the day. In 1997, Ivan was a founding member of Black Strobe with Arnaud Rebotini and also producing remixes under Volga Select with fellow Marc Collin.
Here is a snipet of Volga Select’s remix of Black Strobe’s 2000 Hit, Innerstrings.
Both entities to which Ivan belongs to!

Black Strobe - Innerstrings (Volga Select Double Dub) - Output 037 - 2000

Ivan worked at the highly respected Radio Nova, where he hosted the show “TEST”. Out of which came out four eponymous compilation, each one more excellent than the other. More recently we can distinguish two incredible DJ mixes: his Fabric apparition, NËš23, and the Suck My Deck on Bugged Out!, which was followed by Damian Lazarus‘ edition (yes, I keep saying it to everyone, they are my two favourite DJs on this planet !!)

At night and for many years, the place to see him play, as it remained his longest running residence, was the Parisian lesbian club, the PULP, which closed about a year ago. Nowadays, Ivan moved to London… But but but! He is coming for a very special and rare night in NYC! It will happen at Love and it’s organised by the BLK Market Crew (Maximum Respect). This will be Thursday June 12th. I don’t care if you guys have to miss out work on Friday, call in sick, or stumble your way to the office, this is a NO MISS.

To warm you up, why dont you click your way to GetTheCurse.com, a french blog we like a lot and download Ivan Smagghe’s recording of his last set at the Rex, Paris’ legendary club, on April 24th. Its Raw and Dope, as usual. Also be on the look out for Ivan’s new remix of Simon Baker’s “X, Y & Z” track on Leftroom, its amazing and sounds like children jumping from the orphanage’s roof. He did the remix with Mark Ashken and Matt Tolfrey. Here is a preview:

See you at Love!

It started on a sunny sunday and ended on a dark monday. We all lined up eager to board the Queen of Hearts at Pier 40 for a ku-deta & reSOLUTE boat tour of NYC and a special Clink showcase. The lineup was pretty big and brought in some Clink’s biggest talent. Afternoon Coffee Boys (live) was definitely one of the better moments on the boat. Tony Rohr and Tim Xavier, the pirate duo hijacked the boat with there mezmerizing minimal techno beats. O and at one point they played this loop that said “techno,” listen carefully in the video below:

The party came to an end when we reached the pier around 930 after Tony gave the after party destination. Everyone headed to Bar 13 at their own pace. Insideout and Alexi Delano pretty much tagged team it through 1ish with great dynamics between the two and with more appropriate for their dark destroy everything minimal techno, maybe they should start up a duo called “Night time Tequila Addicts”? (just a suggestion)

The only problem with the afterparty, which became apparent after spending time on the dancefloor was that most people truly thought we were still on the boat. I could feel the waves sending me from left to right, even though bar 13 is on 13th and University place, so pretty far from the water. In fact, I would say I got boat sick at Bar 13 and apparently so did others from the reSOLUTE crew (no need to say more)

Moral of the story: Everybody was in a great mood, the sun was shining and the Manhattan skyline really is… blurry, (check out some more of the pics), after parties are fun and wild and, best of all.. there are more boat parties coming (next unmissable one is on June 15th with the Italoboyz presented this time by BLK market membership).

Also keep a look out for the next reSOLUTE party on June 14th, its coming up quick and will be with Pheek (check his interesting blog) who is coming back to play for them after their DEMF party… This weekend will be crazy as well with a variety of options on Friday June 6th from Andrew Weatherall and Adultnapper at Bar 13, roof parties, or also Half Hawaii (Bruno Pronsato & Sammy Dee) with Jan Krueger and JamesPatrick at the Bunker. Then Sunday is another tough choice between the rhythmism party and a minimoo party with Guido Schneider as well…