Welcome to our third session!

[ this time with interviews in German and French ;) ]

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Download the BKI-03 show [192kbps MP3 / 3 hours] -> HERE <-!

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BKI-03 with:

Stephan Bodzin [Herzblut, Bremen]

Rodriguez Junior [Leena / F-Com, Brussels]

and of course your showhosts Robosonic [Diskomafia].

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Welcome, Stephan Bodzin!

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“Authenticity is everything - without it everything would appear to be nothing more than a hollow shell”, says someone who has found himself at the centre of the international techno scene since
2006. Stephan Bodzin: the passionate musician from Bremen has become a heavy influence for a lot of producers worldwide. With his album “Liebe ist…” (’Love is…’) Stephan Bodzin has reached yet another high point in his career.

As the son of an experimental musician his musicaljourney was set from an early age; it was only a matter of time before Stephan would fall in love with electronic music. While he composed music for several prestigious European theaters, he discovered his passion for club sounds. His talent was soon discovered and producers such as Oliver Huntemann, Thomas Schumacher and Marc Romboy queued up to work with Stephan.

Due to the unique character of his music, he has established himself as an icon of the international techno scene. Most recently he has remixed songs for well-known bands such as Depeche Mode, Booka Shade and The Knife. His releases can be found on labels such as Get Physical, Datapunk, Gigolo, Systematic and Giant Wheel.

Stephan describes himself as a “melody man” - “after all, it’s the melodies that endure”, he says. The responses to his productions seem to confirm this, as his organic analogue and spontaneous sound is loved in clubs worldwide (DJ Hell himself has dubbed his style as the “Bremen sound”).

After having gained experience with the infamous series Rekorder, which he runs together with Oliver Huntemann and Jan Langer, it was a logical move for Stephan to create his own label which he called Herzblut in 2006. As part of the label-conglomerate Plantage 13, he has found the ideal creative structure for his work within this structure.
“This was a massive step forward”, he explains, “I produce music to share it, and I can experience this great feeling in each of my gigs”.
Stephan’s music is as polarizing as he is, both as a DJ and live artist. “Authenticity is everything…”

Watch out for Stephan’s release “Bremen-Ost”, out NOW on Herzblut!

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Welcome, Rodriguez Junior!

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Not many electronic music producers manage to release award-winning albums, sell shedloads of 12′’s and perform the world over before they hit the big 3-0. Brussels-based French-Spaniard Rodriguez Junior - aka Olivier M - has done exactly that. As a half of French electro act The Youngsters he’s already packed more into his time in the industry than some do over their whole career - and he’s still just 29.

Over the past six years he and his partner in crime have released loads of EPs and remixed tracks of dozens artists.
Their two studios albums - like their singles, released on Laurent Garnier’s label F-Com - won a string of awards and accolades from some of dance music’s biggest names. This success catapaulted them onto the international circuit, giving them the platform to take their electrifying live act to some of the biggest club stages and festivals in Europe, South America and Asia, performing with artists such as The Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack.

Now living and working in the Belgian capital Brussels, Olivier’s Rodriguez project is the product of an almost schizophrenic brand of creativity, and a thirst for the new and unexpected.
Going solo offers something valuable to him: the freedom to experiment, step off the release / gig / release merry-go-round, and break out of the musical “mind-ghetto” that so many great acts end up slipping into.
The Rodriguez alter-ego represents his own productive journey of re-discovery and is getting more and more successful, with releases already lined up on labels like Leena, Giant Wheel and Boxer.
Drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Stockhausen, LFO, Carl Craig, Eric Satie, Kraftwerk or Michel Polnareff, Oliviers’ spirit of adventure translates into music that can’t easily be pigeon-holed.
While his music is all electronic, and put together largely in his own MLab Mk5 studio in Brussels, his music can be leftfield and experimental or rich, melodic and poppy - depending on his mood. Musical freedom is Oliviers motto… we at the Berlin Kreuzberg Institut are looking forward to hear this motto translate into new tracks - coming soon from Oliviers’ studio in Brussels.

Watch out for the new Rodriguez Junior single “Pina Colada”, out in AUGUST on Mothership:

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BKI-03

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Hello friends, here it is… our 3rd vinyl maxi from our album “Sturm und Drang” …

ROBOSONIC “Kaputt in Hollywood”

with DEADSET [Frontroom Rec.] and SANTIAGO & BUSHIDO [Potty Mouth] remixes,

+ a bonus hip hop remix by TROUBLEMAKER [Hollyrock] feat. THE 87 STICK UP KIDS, BABY CASHTRID and MICAH JAMES.

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Promo link [128kbps / MP3 / ZIP]:

www.berlin-kreuzberg-institut.com/UCA-10_128.html

The tracks already got intergalactic DJ - and playlist support by JOHN ACQUAVIVA, RIVA STARR, STEVE LAWLER, STYLE OF EYE, MALENTE and SHIR KHAN.

You too, support this release!

RELEASED 1st July 2008 [vinyl + digital]

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Welcome to our second session!

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Download the BKI-02 show [192kbps MP3 / 3 hours] -> HERE <-!

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BKI-02 with:

Style of Eye [Pickadoll / CR2, Stockholm]

Deadset live! [Frontroom Recordings, London]

and of course your showhosts Robosonic [Diskomafia].

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Welcome, Deadset!

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We said 2007 would be the year of Deadset and it has proved to be just that as both the singles and the album “Keys Open Doors” on Frontroom Recordings have received rave reviews from the press; DJ’s and house music lovers the world over. DJ’s such as Jesse Rose, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Andrew Weatherall and Claude VonStroke have been playing their tracks everywhere to great effect.

The duo formally known as Cass + Mangan have previously remixed the likes of Muse, Miss Kittin, Röyksopp, Tiefschwarz, Justin Timberlake, and the Scissor Sisters. They have had releases and remixes on labels such as Fine, Blu Fin, Souvenir, Made To Play, DirtyBird, Moon Harbour, Wall Of Sound and Tsuba.

Deadset have recently played gigs to packed crowds at Weekend, Watergate and Panorama Bar in Berlin. They have also tweaked out their sound at The Key, The End and Fabric in London to name a few. Recently they have been performing live shows that showcase the tracks from the album Keys Open Doors. Deadset are also a rather accomplished DJ duo and have recently done one of the feted Pod Cast for the Resident Advisor website, which was considered one of the best of 2007…

Cass + Mangan is dead. LONG LIVE Deadset! Their live appearance on Berlin Kreuzberg Institut will sport some of the finest wonky house, addictive future disco, and zippy playful grooves you will find on air… fun guaranteed!

Watch out for the Deadset remix of Robosonic “Kaputt in Hollywood”, out 1st July on Diskomafia!

Click -> Beatport:

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Welcome, Style of Eye!

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Lock up your genres - Linus Eklöw, aka Style Of Eye, is ripping up the rule book with his debut artist album, difficult to describe as anything other than the sort of music that makes you want to call your boss and tell them you’re not coming back to work on Monday.

The Stockholm born and based DJ/producer is making a name for himself in techno, but his productions are essentially a journey through everything from techno to house and elektro via raw percussion and minimal, floaty melodies and downright weird noises.

Both intelligent but jaw-wobblingly satisfying at the same time, Style Of Eye’s productions are testament to the hotbed of talent springing forth from the underground scene. After growing up in a jazz and soul oriented family, graduating from banging pots and pans to a drumkit aged 10, he realised electronic music was his calling after getting his first computer aged 15 and making “weird downtempo dubbeat and trip hop“. DJing upbeat drum and bass followed at 16, and Linus was a firm fixture in the studio before long, developing his unique style of music with releases and remixes on such labels as Classic Recordings, Tiny Sticks and Rabid Records.

His most recent productions on Dirtybird and John Dahlbäck’s Pickadoll label have been immense - “The Big Kazoo” E.P on Dirtybird, was followed up by “The Prophet” on Pickadoll, and the album, out in September 2008 on the same label, will be preceded by his new single “Girls” in May.

As you’d expect from someone who cites influences as diverse as Stevie Wonder, nineteenth century classical composer Edvard Grieg, and Yello, Style of Eye isn’t keen to be pigeonholed. His moniker comes from a desire to put everything out under one name, regardless of what it sounds like… “Since I take in so much different music and put it in a blender I wanted to be able to put everything I see and that inspires me into one project. This album is a huge step from my first release but you can still hear that it’s me“, says Linus.

The album, which features vocals from the likes of Stephen Simmonds and Emmma, comprises Style of Eye’s productions mixed together: “it was a way to make stuff I could use in my sets, which I build around my productions. I guess my gigs are a bit like artist sets in a way, but it’s just me and my vinyl and CDs on stage. The album was almost a year in the making, and felt like the perfect time to try and put things in a bigger perspective rather than concentrate on two tracks. So I wanted to make a dancefloor album but one that could also be heard as one CD, that could travel through different styles, but you could still connect the dots between the first and last tracks“, says Linus.

With a remix for Moby under his belt and a tour in the pipeline, Style of Eye is proof that cutting edge house isn’t Sweden’s only hottest export…

Watch out for the the new Style of Eye single “Girls” out NOW on Pickadoll, ahead of the Style of Eye debut album “Duck, Cover and Hold”, out in September 2008! :

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BKI-02

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Welcome to the Berlin Kreuzberg Institut.

As a brainchild of Berlin Mitte Institut, the BKI brings a monthly 3h DJ and live session to your ears, harddrives and ipods.

Listen to BKI live every 4th Friday of each month online at 3am EST [New York] and 9am CET [Berlin] @ Protonradio,

Los Angeles / Dallas USA :

www.protonradio.com

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Download the BKI-01 show [192kbps MP3 / 3 hours] -> HERE <-!

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BKI-01 with:

Riva Starr [Dirtybird / Kindisch / Snatch, London]

Santiago & Bushido [Potty Mouth, Chicago]

and of course your showhosts Robosonic [Diskomafia].

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Welcome, Riva Starr!

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“We get really deep into the tracks we’re producing, flip them and cut them in so many different ways, all to get the heaviest groove possible”.

The Italian producer based in Ghettotown London first released as breaks DJ Madox. His own tracks and remixes earned him a Breakspoll nomination as best breaks producer and remixer of 2007. While the noisier releases kept rolling, he was also working on a quieter, more contemplative sideline under his real name, the Stefano Miele project. Roots music redrawn as low-fi, downbeat tunes.

The real deal now is his alter ego Riva Starr. Drawing on the Brazilian and Latin rhythms of the Miele project and his own roots, Riva Starr plunders the best in nu-rave, batty bass and beeping, burping synth lines to create a dirty, messy dancefloor affair. His first appearance on Jesse Rose’s ubercoolische Frontroom label with the Thizzle EP led to a release on Claude vonStroke’s pivotal Dirtybird label with the WTF?! EP, followed up by the percussive Latino dreckshouse track La Conga. To come within the next months are a release on the Get Physical sublabel Kindisch, as well as more nasty dancefloor action on his own newly founded label Snatch…

… “It’s not like he has a big trademark bassline, or some sort of analog synth style (although he does have some mad analog synths), instead he incorporates a range of different sounds. It seems like the main thing that ties each song together is just that each one has an awesome hook of some kind. Music is all about having a cool sounding something these days, it’s not about ripping out some big guitar solo, or having a really musically sound piece (how many songs are based around three notes these days, but sound fresh as), Riva Starr is easily on top of all that…” ( - Scatterblog)

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Welcome, Santiago & Bushido !

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“We get really deep into the tracks we’re producing, flip them and cut them in so many different ways, all to get the heaviest groove possible”.

Amidst the countless DJ’s and producers working in the burgeoning Chicago house scene, Santiago & Bushido stand apart from the rest with a blend of heavy house-tinged funk-tech tracks that has given them critical moxie in Chicago and beyond.

Chris Santiago and Tim Bush host the reknowned Jack Fridays, a weekly Friday night residency at Zentra Nightclub, attracting underground house crowds for more than six years. The duo has been creating a buzz as of late, as the “For What” EP on Potty Mouth was released to critical praise and support from dj’s across the globe including Switch, Jesse Rose, and Johnny Fiasco - with their single “Head Trick” climbing the charts on Beatport.com and holding the nr.1 download spot for a few weeks.

Coming in June on Diskomafia [vinyl / mp3]: a kickass Santiago & Bushido remix of Robosonic “Kaputt in Hollywood”.

In addition to belting out club tracks, Santiago and Bushido have been involved with Chicago native Colette’s 2007 artist album Push for OM Records.

One thing about us is we’re not afraid to do a deep track or a totally hardcore track…as long as it works on the dance floor and is pushing the sound forward, it works for us..”

… Let there be JACK ! …

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BKI-01

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