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Since Connie’s last episode on AirDrop’s Podcast last March (AirPod Nº5 Connie - Matte on the Beach), the girl has been rocking many dancefloors worldwide. Well, first she came to get it down in Buenos Aires, where in the space of three days she played in three major spots “de la escena porteña”, with Fase Miusic Sender, Sr. Replicante and Nico Purman at our Extracto party!

After Argentina, its in Canada that Connie went to lay down some beats in June on the occasion of the fabulous Piknic Electronik. Each year the Picnik, invites an amazing line up of artists to play on the week ends and in the warm summer open air. This year already featured appearances by Zip, Guillaume Coutu Dumont, Sety, Mathias Kaden, Thomas Melchior, Josh Wink, Loco Dice, Mathew Jonson and of course Connie!

(Be on the look out, as Piknic goes on til the 28th of September with more goodness coming up - Jennifer Cardini, Pig & Dan, Tony Rohr… - and concludes on a huge fest with the man himself, Claude VonStroke and and and…. Kevin Saunderson !)

In the middle of all her travels, Connie even finds some time to satisfy her NYC home public, like a couple days ago when she opened for Holger Zilske… But no wait ! No time ! She has to leave to Greece to play with Jeremy P. Caulfield, Miss Fitz and K.atou as part of her reSolute residency with Elon… Well I think we all got it by now, Connie is a busy busy lady ! In this edition of AirPod, she gives us a mix entitled Horny Music: an hour of the weird-sounds-filled, jumpy and funky mini-tech that only she has the secret. The mix is full of unreleased gems, some which apparently, might never see the light (such as the opening Alka_Rex track)… Enjoy!

Oh oh oh ! Wait ! I nearly forgot the most important !! We are honored, privileged, walking on air, on a high (…) to officially announce that Connie’s first production will be released as part of the new volume of our Extraction compilation series ! KEEP OUT, all I am allowed to say, is that this ish BURNS!

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We are very happy to celebrate our Tenth AirPod with a special guest:

Lunatik has been creating and interpreting electronic music for over a decade. Whether via energetic and diverse DJ sets, or his eclectic live show, the elements of sound and space are translated into a unique sonic signature.

Hailing from the indie-music mecca of Omaha, Aaron utilizes the ethos of independence in relation to his techno compositions. Whether by building custom synth patches or embarking on quests for field recordings, Lunatik’s work can embody concept while maintaining dancefloor functionality.

With a host of releases on forward thinking labels such as Leftroom, Kassette, and Communique along with maintaining his label Wreckless, Lunatik has managed to maintain a constant state of engagement. The culmination of his 2008 work will be released as his first artist album on Leftroom sub-label Leftout.

The color of sound : vibrant and subdued. Analog vintage digital intangibles. Minimal axioms reflection of maximums. Sound found and creations created. Reality debated participation abated. In favor of myriad sonic flavours.

And we are also happy to announce that Lunatik will be playing at our next function!
Its called AIRDROP WARNING SIGN and will be happening on August 8th, at Bar 13 in NYC. RSVP, and come listen to one of the most promising and talented artist this northern part of the continent has to offer. New York City’s Memek will be accompanying Lunatik as well as AirDrop residents Sergio and Paulo

AIRPOD 10 - LUNATIK
PLAYLIST

christoph schindling - redelight - eintakt
rone - spanish breakfast - in fine
bruno pronsato - same faces different names - hello repeat
seuil - detroit candies(lee curtiss remix) - eklo
ricardo villalobos - enfants(tambours)
paul kalkbrenner - bingo bongo - bpitch control
ezio - rivoli - cmyk
sis - orgsa - cecille
todd bodine - back to back - mothership
channel x - dirty laugh(lunatik remix) - kassette
bloddy mary vs sierra sam - black jack - einmaleins
loco dice - tight laces - desolat
marco carola - jackpot - plus8
moritz piske - slipless in seattle(matt stars slipfunk in scattle mashup) - opsm
paco osuna - transheet- plus8
jona - swamp - fumakilla
johnny d - orbitalife- oslo
schneider , galluzzi, schirmacher -albertino - cadenza
andomat 3000 - vertical smile - cecille
broombeck - the clapper - opsm
berovic & leicher - bananerama bar - international freakshow
marco carola - contortionist - plus8
lunatik - alexander supertramp - leftout
suokas - cocktail juice(doudou malicious remix) - multi vitamins
jean claude ades & vincent thomas - shingaling(martin eyerer remix) -
great stuff
stimming & h.o.s.h. - radar -dynamic
donk boys -doozer - frankie
sebo k - far out - mobilee
bukaddor & fishbeck - live is life - my best friend
channel x - freaky pilot - kassette
frankie - stoic - frankie

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Now everyone, listen carefully: this is a very special mix we prepared just for you. Our great friend Clip is one of these rare artists that keep their head on their shoulders, remain humble and discreet … but will turn the spot upside-down with perfect selections, flawless style and personal vision.

Clip has been DJing for the last 9 years, he still regularly plays and has opened for some acts such as Superpitcher or Barem in his homeland of Buenos Aires. His productions merge Tech-House with Minimal, creating original, funny and funky grooves, sometimes including dub structures.

After appearing on our Extraction Compilation as Peter Pan Project, Clip will be presenting ‘Dub Etnic’ in a few weeks, it will be his first release on AirDrop Records and features a very special remix act!

Be on the lookout for the very special 10th AirPod episode!

Playlist

1. Sossa - Pinansa
2. Butane - Mute Solo
3. Mike Wall - Hacienda (Niko Schwind Remix)
4. Fusiphorm - Green chocolate (Koljah Remix)
5. Sossa - Jurassik (Davide Squillace Remix)
6. Mathew Jonson - Marionette (Adam Beyer Remix)
7. Matteo Spedicati - Let Agata Talk
8. Smith & Selway - Total Departure
9. Clip - Uiytkiii

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(IT MUST BE NOTED THAT PAT FONTES IS MISSING FROM THIS PICTURE- WHY? because he is hardcore to the core and had to be back in Boston awake and functional at 10AM in his newly promoted job)

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who made the AirDrop die Ente release party possible, the friends who did show up, the friends who didn’t but tried their hardest, the artists for making the music and coming down to play it, obscenenyc and brooklynvegan for putting out the word and of course Memo from Bar 13 for doing things right.

The night was great despite having most of NYC’s electronic music lovers still under the Detroit spell, most were able to come party for a few hours. The night started off with legendary Pat Fontes who played beautifully and got the dancers warmed up for Sergio Santos who also played great ending his set with Tanner Ross’ die Ente remix, which people definitely started to go crazy to. (A dark video to go with the dark track will be here shortly)

At this point Bar 13 has grown a moving and grooving dancefloor eager to absorb all the music possible. Tanner Ross now steps behind the decks and attacks as directly as possible with his Dirtybird roots and gets people jumping with Justin Martin’s Cicada remix (such a dope track). Then a bit later, he moves on to Mothership, Dirtybird’s other sick label to which Tanner also belongs to, and gets Bar 13 all hyped up with Italoboyz Bahia (aka the John Coltrane shizzie). After Tanner Ross gets everybody even more pumped up, it is time for Soulclap to jump behind the decks.

Soulclap played phucking amazing too! They even played one of my favorite tracks of the moment that I first saw Heidi destroy back at Studio B and then Sammy D at Old Miami in Detroit, Phreaky MF by Mike Dunn. You can listen to it here, but support the artists and get it on beatport (note the spelling). I was also very pleased by the crowd’s reaction to die Ente original which got them all quacking like they should (check it out under releases- hit us up to buy the vinyl in advance).

Huge thanks to the Boston crew for coming down when they needed to be back the early the next day for DOTC (Dancing on the Charles) their outdoor riverside summer party.

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w/ Tanner Ross Remix
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FASE MIUSIC SENDER - DISASTER (LIVE SET)

This is a very special episode, paying honour to Fase Miusic Sender, the Buenos Aires audio-visual quatuor. For this AirPod N°7, we are very happy to present you with two parts, a visual Part 1 with the video clip for Fase’s Missing Keyframes, which appears on our Extraction compilation. This video was EXCLUSIVELY MADE FOR AIRPOD!!! And an audio Part 2 with Fase’s new live set: Disaster! So put all of this amazing content on your iPod and enjoy the whole world of Fase! This is without mentionning that we are dying to officially announce our next digital release! Guess who?? Fase M.S of course, accompanied by a Sr. Replicante remix! How amazing is that… you will tell us very soon!!

Behind Fase are: Gustavo Gagliardo, Leandro Waisbord, Pedro Perelman and Martin Tibabuzo. Fase is a collective founded in the year 2000, that is active in Buenos Aires and works on both end of the audio-visual spectrum. From musical production to visual animation and street-art to VJing, Fase finalizes all-inclusive projects and shows, which create a truly complete realm, allowing it to fully expressing their vision. On the musical side, even if experimentation surrounds a Techno essence, some sounds have been surviving since the very foundation of Fase: Aquatic sounds, clicks and glitches, video-gaming bleeps. Fase keeps the groove as main purpose, using kicks and basses to create melodies coming right from the under layers of the earth, factory sounds and darkness. Detroit Underground and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work can stand as referents to the universe they perpetually share. Fase Miusic Sender plans its live sets to build climates and organically evolving structures. The video sequencing that comes to complete Fase’s world, is solely dependent of, and exclusively adapting to the evolution of the music. Exploring the graphic language, Fase keeps fantasy, synthesis, abstraction and powerful colors as main visual focus. Music expressing visuals, visuals expressing music… The circle is now complete.

www.mundofase.com
MySpace.com/FaseMiusicSender

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The legendary ex-raver, DJ, producer, Midweek Techno host, NuNo Recordings founder, reconverted raver, Pat Fontes has graced us with his latest mix for our new AirPod episode. When Pat gave me the only copy burnt of this mix, he quickly jotted down “Dripples #1″ on the CD, and the name could not be more appropriate. As usual Pat knows techno, you know, the dark addicting melodies type techno, but hey, don’t take my word, listen for yourselves.

The mix features a few of AirDrop’s tracks, some which you already heard, like Franco Cinelli’s banging version of Soulclap’s The Giraffe, and others that you never have… yet! For example, there is Tanner Ross‘ remix of die Ente (another Soulclap original production, coming out this month on 12″), there is also Night Patrol a raw Techno groove produced by 19 years old Frenchman Louis Encontre.

Like the true Techno Mixmaster that he is, Pat blends them with some of the most powerful and trapping tracks of the moment. Opening his mix up with an unreleased track by Japanese producer Den, remixed by Sarah Goldfarb on Mark Henning’s label, Clever Music. The tune is so dirty and bluesy at the same time, it comes right out of the catacombs and I would easily imagine Damian Lazarus going crazy with it. Pat also includes Smash TV-member Holger Zilske’s amazing tune The Birds, which appears on Playhouse’s second to last release.

WARNING Some disruptions in your daily routine might occur when listening to the closing of Mr. Techno’s mix… Enjoy your new break!

Thank you Pat for all the good beats and energy you deliver. Techno Activism still exists and Mr. Techno was, is and will always be part of it.

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PLAYLIST

1. Den - Basement ( Sarah Goldfarb remix ) - Clever Music
2. Butane - I Didn’t Know - Alphahouse
3. Soul Clap - die Ente ( Tanner Ross remix ) - AirDrop
4. Soul Clap - Giraffe ( Franco Cinelli remix ) AirDrop
5. Axel Bartsch & Alex Niggemann - Assign Me - Sport Club
6. Louis Encontre - Night Patrol - AirDrop
7. Adultnapper - Brandy McLeod - Audiomatique
8. Unkown - Unknown - Unkown
9. Maetrik - The Light - Treibstoff
10. Holger Ziske - The Birds - Playhouse
11. Harada - Conscoius Movement - MICRO|FON
12. Trentemoller - Miss You ( Pascal FEOS edit ) - Audiomatique
13. Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Eskapade - Diynamic

DJ Connie is just one of those DJs you should know, follow and respect, just like we do. From being one of the first DJs at minimoo to a residency with the ReSolute parties, she spins around the world and with top names like Guy Gerber, Trentmöller or even at the Sunday School of Degenerates during WMC! Connie is now based in NYC and has spun at every notable electronic music event and venue. We love her fun mini rolling tech party music and have booked her at the Bâton parties in December and January at the Galapagos Art Space. She will be at the WMC spinning at PS14 on the 27th and Blue on the 28th so definitely check her out.

Our praises don’t come without a little music

So here it is, for AirPod N°5 Connie has generously provided us with one of her mixes that we thought would be just right for our podcast. The mix titled “Matte on the Beach” fits us perfectly sipping on our mattes in Argentina. Connie will actually be joining us early April in Buenos Aires…

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Last Thursday I was asked to play at an Artists’ Performance. Basically this means that they needed me to bring a musical vibe into their visual and ethereal world; music and art: the most essential and natural enhancement. Nowadays a party can’t be imagined to be organised without a VJ of some sorts. But playing especially for artists is quite a different feel. Just like a VJ has to adapt his visuals to the DJ’s music, there I had to adapt my music to the vibe of the artists, painting and creating, who in turn were themselves receiving the different sonic waves I was sending them for 6 hours in a row. One of the performing artists even dropped his own recorded sounds of doors creaking, trains passing by, and kids singing on the streets of Buenos Aires over the music. Remember that it’s summer here in Argentina, and the feel is more than tropical (although it has been raining for a week now!) and mixing Microhouse with African Percussions, Peruvian Flutes and Bolivian instruments seemed the most instinctive to do.

Playlist
1. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Salaat Linkuere
2. Roxy Music - India
3. Lawrence - Lady Grey
4. Sian - Apple (Efdemin Remix)
5. Dominik Eulberg - Stelldichein Des Westerwalder Vogelchores
6. Bruno Pronsato - What They Want
7. Kolla Marka - Pachamama
8. Rancho Relaxo Allstars - Cajosiza
9. Kadebostan - Spirit Soldiers
10. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Mederico
11. Jesus Chillon Infante - Alabado
12. Kid Loco - She’s My Lover (Bang Bang Remix)
13. Kaito - One Hundred Million Light Years

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Time has zoomed by for a second! We apologize for not having supplied quality material for a good while now on AirPod! Let us make up for it with this very special performance we are sending to you:

The man in charge today is Lindsay Welsh, who with all his talent and huge Ableton homework, builds crazy levels of energy where he plays. Lindsay was born and lives in Buenos Aires and only appears on certain rare occasions. He plays all kinds of styles, and one thing is for sure: the man makes one with his machine! This episode was recorded during one of his precious appearances, and a very special one on top of that: Pato’s Birthday! (Hence the Birthday Song recorded live at the beginning of the mix!) Enjoy the vibe, the old classics, the house bumpers, the all time hits … ALL MASHED UP!

Stay tuned cause we have a thrilling month of February coming up with Podcasts coming to your computers from all around the world. As always.

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We are still very very happy about the existence of our AirDrop Podcast: AirPod (go to the link to subscribe to it, or wait a few more days to see it come up in the iTunes Store). To celebrate it even further, Episode 2 was given to the young Ira Oksman. Ira lives in Toronto but she grew up in Russia.

She is now 20 years old. Ira Oksman’s first DJ gig was in the age of 15 performing a drum’n'bass dj-set to a small crowd in the place called “Territory” (Moscow). She then continued playing in various Moscow clubs on a weekly basis mainly spinning jungle/drum’n'bass/liquid funk. A year later she joins the widely known Russian DJ’s: Groove and Dan. She had opened a variety of sets for luminary names of jungle/drum’n'bass music such as John B, Brian G, Loxy, Nicky Blackmarket, Ray Keith, etc…

A couple of years down she becomes a regular resident in one of the oldest clubs in Moscow “Garage” and performs there on weekly basis. At that point she also starts moving towards a straight 4×4 beats with increased interest to house music. As her knowledge of house music evolves, she starts moving towards more artist-like minimalist sounding going through the stages of disco soulful house -> deep house -> tribal -> progressive house -> tech house electro -> minimal techno/micro house.

Ever since moving to Toronto, Canada, Ira have had various of gigs around the city in spots like Insomnia, Labyrinth Lounge, Chinadoll, Chelsea Lounge etc… At this point, however, her prime consideration is falling towards the music production/development. As Ira note, her prime goal at this point would be a development of a new concept in electronic music (particularly in minimal techno), which would hopefully make a difference in today’s electronic music scene.

Playlist:

Ozy - Sugar - Sutemos - 2005
1. Dilo vs Gurtz - Moscovitas (Dapayk rmx) - Einmaleins - 2007
2. Marc & Oliver Hain - Laid Back - Logical - 2007
3. Bvoice & Khz - Hippopotanzen (Pheek Remix) - Alley P.M - 2005
4. Sarah Goldfarb - Where’s Didier Lambing ? - Treibstoff - 2006
5. Gaiser - Breathe Here - M_nus - 2006
6. Pan-Pot - Lancelot Von Camelot (Barem Remix) - Einmaleins - 2007
7. Digitaline - Flocon Fraicheur - Cadenza - 2007
8. Bruno Pronsato - Our Holiday Clothes - Hello - 2006
9. Receptor - Siete Vidas ([A]pendics.Shuffle Mis Vidas Locas Remix) - Adjunct - 2006
10. Polder - Numbgum - Remote - 2006
11. Pheek - Magda Had A Little Troll (Gurtz Remix) - Clever - 2006
12. Barem - Cilindro - Foundsound - 2006
13. Nicholas Sauser & Ditch - Of All Of These (VS. Ira Oksman - Bitabruno) - Minlove - 2006
14. Franco Cinelli - f2 (Bruno Remix) - Adjunct - 2007
15. Dominik Eulberg - Ein Stelldichein des Westerwälders Vogelchores - Traum - 2007