The next installment of our flagship Berghain event brings home some of the sharpest electro flavours in the universe today, legends and future pioneers rubbing shoulders, Leisure System style.
Since his Variations EP in 2010 on Turbo, the name on everybody’s lips is Gesaffelstein. Taking some production tips from his Parisian contemporaries and running off into the darkness like a madman, the result is a pure distillation of evil, reckless brutality carried out with calm surgical precision. Using just the raw elements of bass, snare, hi hat and synth, Gesaffelstein works his own technique of electro-alchemy to create something far heavier than the sum of its parts. Not the soundtrack to Armageddon, rather the dark future that follows. Yes, we are excited.
After many years, a dream is about to be realized – bringing an ultra-rare live performance of Arpanet to Berlin for the first time ever! Heinreich Müller (the mind behind Drexciya and Dopplereffekt) has been consistently pushing forward the boundaries of electro since the early 90′s under many mysterious aliases, releasing on Rephlex, Underground Resistance, Tresor and other luminary labels. As with the Dopplereffekt performance at our 2nd Birthday, we have little idea what to expect, but one thing is certain – it will be unlike anything seen or heard before.
Aside from all that, there’s another reason we’re celebrating. April 9th see’s the release of LSR003, a personal, IDM-infused bass-heavy trip into the inner workings of our resident Barker (aka Voltek, Barker & Baumecker). Armed with a drum machine and a bag of unreleased bangers, Sam will be finishing off the night with one of his now infamous and genre-crossing closing sets.
Tying everything together in style, we’re bringing back one of our favourite DJ’s and part-time Leisure resident Rob Hall (Skam, Gescom), and the original Warp DJ N>E>D will be kicking off the night with his Berlin-via-Brighton electronic agenda.
In the meantime, why not show some love on the event page here.
We have good news and bad news today… The bad news first: Due to a problem in the production plant we only got word of our distro today, that the release date of Barker’s new EP has to be pushed. The new release date (vinyl/digital) is April, 30th! Hit up your favorite record store and pre-order our little gem!
The good news: Meanwhile you can entertain yourself with this mix, that Barker recorded exclusively for Mary Anne Hobbs:
Barker was invited to play an exclusive set for Mary Anne Hobbs’ Saturday night show on xFM. Being big fans of her work ever since her Radio1 days, we are pretty excited about it. Tune in on Saturday, 7pm on http://www.xfm.co.uk/onair/djs/mary-anne-hobbs!
We are extremely proud to announce that we will host Boiler Room on Thursday, 29th March!
Clark will debut his new live-show, Addison Groove will celebrate his album release, Kuedo will blow our minds with a very special dj-set, Emika will bewitch us with her performance and our very own DJ N>E>D will showcase our understanding of great EDM. Spread the word and join us online!
CLARK (live)
KUEDO
ADDISON GROOVE
EMIKA (live)
DJ N>E>D
Broadcast from Stattbad Wedding, Gerichtstr. 65, 13347 Berlin (S/U Wedding)2000 – 2400 (CEST), Thursday 29th March 2012
Please note the event itself is now by invitation only, you must be on a guest list to get in.
Everyone else, you get to watch amazing music, free, live, online.BROADCAST URL: http://boilerroom.tv/live
Leisure System is finally coming to one of the most exciting and fascinating cities of the World: Moscow! In collaboration with the SAVE Festival, taking place at Arma17, the Leisure System crew will take over the Bar17 stage for a night of electronic music dance extravaganza! The Leisure System showcase marks a premiere both for Jimmy Edgar, who is presenting his new visual live show in Moscow for the first time ever, and Objekt, who visits the Russian capitol for the first time. They get supported by the core of the Berlin residents, Barker, Puzzle and Area Boy and Leisure System Records artist Pixelord.
Format: Double sided 12″ vinyl, packaged in a colour coded glossy inner sleeve inside a matt finish full-colour standard outer sleeve with custom die-cuting.
After being being around for over three years with their Berghain residency in Berlin, the Leisure System collective comes with the second release of their newly found label. While the first release was an atmospheric and soulful take on UK-influenced electronic dance music by Russian producer Pixelord, the second release crosses the ocean and comes with a simple agenda: Providing the soundtrack for a rave of epic proportions.
Responsible for the bass assault this time is San Franciso based producer Eprom. After releases on labels like Warp or Rwina and with one of the biggest tunes of 2010 („Shoplifter“) in his books, Eprom returns with nothing less than a 12“ full of peak time anthems.
The A-side track, „Feldspar“, builds up a nearly unendurable tension throughout its intro, leaving the traditional trails of simple and mix-friendly build-ups and exploding into a cathartic tempest of screaming synths and bass. A track like a 140-bpm wrecking ball, made for rewinds and dancefloor freak-outs.
The flipside, „Psycho“, brings the speed down, but keeps up with the raw energy of the 12“. It plays around with a straight-forward 808-driven hip-hop beat, a bouncing 80s electro bassline and a rough 8-bit melody, making it sound like something that a modern-day Alan Howarth could have written, if part of Snake Plissken’s mission would have been to rave.
Instead of varying the same idea over two sides of a 12-inch or being functional (and easy forgettable) dj-tools, the 12-inch shows different, unique sides of a gifted producer. It’s also proof that the minds behind the Leisure System collective are eager for pushing the boundries of rave-music, while keeping the spirit of traditional dance music labels alive.
Following up the HuGe 3rd anniversary event in September, Leisure System returns to the Berghain with a stunning line up of edgy dance music specialists to throw down a party like no other:
DJ Funk
Nathan Fake
Actress
Ikonika
Barker (dj)
DJ N>E>D
The next Leisure System will be the 13th party and the 3rd Birthday, taking over both Berghain and Panorama Bar in a monumental celebration of electronic dance music, new and old.
We’re very proud to welcome the pioneers of UK acid house dance music 808 State for a special Panorama Bar DJ set. Formed in 1987 in Manchester, the band have just realsed their Blueprint compilation and remain one of the most important dance acts of all time. Also from UK dance heritage we bring the oldschool jungle techno legends 2 Bad Mice for their first ever appearance in Berlin! Their most famous releases for Moving Shadow in the early 90′s set the scene for England to become the home of breakbeat rave music.
From the future, we invite Africa Hitech – aka Warp’s Mark Pritchard & Harmonic 313 who’s recent ‘Out In The Streets’ has become one of 2011′s biggest club tunes. Space Dimension Controller will bring his cosmic synth house to Berlin once more. Numbers label main man Jackmaster will play an extended set in PBar. His recent Fabric mix shows his legendary style of combining classic underground tunes with new dance music. Blawan is the hot new R&S signing causing a stir with his 303 infused garage techno. We’re excited to invite for his first gig in Berghain Berlin based techno producer – Objekt. Hot Flush new ‘digital house’ act and one half of Lazer Sword Lando Kal will get the party moving. Berlin party boy and all round house music don Hrdvison will be the last thing you remember….
Your trusted residents Barker & N>E>D will be joined by new team members Area Boy & Puzzle to keep the floors jumping from start to finish,, whenever that will be!
