ELECTRODE
The Attic
New Wakefield St, Manchester
10pm - 3am
£5 before 11 / £6
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BILL YOUNGMAN, the twisted vanguard of experimental
techno and an artist of the promiscuous Tresor Records, is flying over
from Berlin for his Manchester debut appearance. Live hardware set.
Bratwurst!
Biography:
'After years of jazz and classical guitar training, Youngman decided in
'94 to put the strings aside for a bit of electronic dabbling. Being
influenced in instrumental music, drum n bass, hip hop and bleep techno
resulted in his take to be coined "electrostep". In 1995 he met
producer John Selway(Serotonin Records)in which he would release his first ep
in fact entitled "Electro Step". This debut ep displayed Youngman's
hybrid of drum n bass tempo breakbeat chops with the tonalities and bleeps
of classic electro. Youngman started to perform live in New York and
released a couple more ep's for Serotonin.
In 1998 Youngman met Neil Landstrumm(Scandinavia Records,Tresor) and
soon after an exchange of tracks the "zooted" ep was released which
contained innovative cuts that well complimented the Scandinavia Sound. "Bad
Box" ep followed in '99. Landstrumm and Youngman collaborated on
further tracks experimenting with the machines and broken beatboxes and
Youngmans full length entitled "slightly irregular" followed in 2000 for
displaying a wide variety of sonic sculpting and tweaked intensely
percussive break lines. A full length of more downtempo abstract retro space
funk under the alias "audible" came in 2002 on DC recordings yet
showing a complete extreme to feels and composition style whilst maintaining
the electrostep ideals.
Youngman and Landstrumm continue to collaborate combining elements of
their live shows performing a simultaneous live pa ranging from breaks
to floor techno with silly freestyle vocals. At the moment, Bill is
living in Berlin and backing up his live sound with gigs over Europe.
Live Youngman churns out heavy chopped breakbeat / wonky techno
structures laced with glitchy experimental electro and microphone control. '
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Alongside Youngman we have GAZ DONNING, the founder
of closely affiliated Manchester night LEAN, behind the decks at
Electrode for the first time. A victim of the same musical appetites as
Electrode, LEAN's weapon of choice is techno - ranging from the minimal
bleeps and squeaks to the full on wonky stabbing stuff.
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We also welcome back TEUTONIC KABOOM, our sorely
missed favourite female resident. With two tracks on the newly released
'MORTAL COILS' E.P on Data-Trace Records (link below), receiving great
reviews from the likes of Mixmag and I-DJ, this girl is one to watch.
Lurid synthy electro grime, obviously influenced by two horrid years of
residency at one of the filthiest clubs in manchester (the attic).
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Bill Youngman:
Live at GK-Crew meets Tresor Berlin 2004
http://www.fun-in-the-murky.com/Audio/B ... 2.2004.mp3
Live at Yard Leipzig
http://www.fun-in-the-murky.com/Audio/B ... eipzig.mp3
Teutonic Kaboom:
MORTAL COILS E.P on Data-Trace:
http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/techno ... 08116.html
_ [ LINKS ] _
http://www.myspace.com/billyoungman [BILL YOUNGMAN]
http://www.myspace.com/datatracerecords [DATA-TRACE RECORDS]
http://www.myspace.com/getlean [LEAN]
http://www.myspace.com/electrodesessions [ELECTRODE]