Border Community @ ME.006 Rendez-Vous, Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France : 28th June 2012
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 @ 15:27 [Go to Article]
Paris is next in line for the Border Community treatment on June 28th, when the lovely people from Mercredi Production's ME.006 Rendez-Vous city festival have invited us to host a Thursday evening in the Cabaret Sauvage former circus space in the city's Parc de la Villette.It all kicks off promptly at 8pm with a special guest live show from one of our favourite Parisians, the cuddly, cute and completely cosmic synth-and-sax maestro Etienne Jaumet on loan from local label Versatile for the evening to lend his esteemed support to the Border Community cause. An early doors stage slot is also the optimum way to experience the particle collision of the kate wax live show, coupling her bewitching voodoo vocal incantations with a stylish set of interactive algorithmic light projections onto the human canvas that is kate wax. It then falls to Welsh mystic wesley matsell to pick up the pace with a DJ set of transcendent proportions (as witnessed on this recent mini-mix for Swedish playmates Studio Barnhus), building up to the big guns of fuzzy analogician fairmont's tasty boundary blurring indie-electronic synth-and-vocal stew. Finally the baton is passed to Norfolk smasher Nathan Fake to give his latest greatest laptop goodies a thoroughly noisy public rinsing, before boss-of-us-all james holden wheels out the finest in music-for-dancing-to to hold the dancefloor masses enraptured right through until the break of dawn.
Individual tickets for the Border Community contribution to the ME.006 programme are on sale now priced at 24 Euros, but be sure to check the Digitick site for the full list of festival pass options, as well as consulting the ME.006 Rendez-Vous website for the full lowdown on the festival's five days of musical pampering that also features the likes of Laurent Garnier, Francois K, Modeselektor, Magda, Soul Clap, John Talabot, Nina Kraviz, Damian Lazarus, Rone, Lazer Sword, Marc Houle, Troy Pierce, Chloe, Superpitcher, Clement Meyer, Mlle Caro and Addison Groove.
Border Community Australian Tour with luke abbott, fairmont & avus : 23rd & 24th March 2012
Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 15:40 [Go to Article]
Australia is long overdue a fix of the Border Community good stuff, which is why come March we're sending three of our brightest Commies down under equipped with the finest in music-for-dancing-to, as luke abbott, fairmont and avus make their collective Australian debuts as part of Border Community's first ever Australian tour.Norfolk's premier synth nerd luke abbott will be taking the lush organic textures and pagan hypnotics of his Holkham Drones debut for their first Ozzie airing, buffaloing the dancefloor into submission with his own idiosyncratic take on the electronic brief. Canadian troubadour fairmont will also be making the journey down under for the first time with a live set stuffed with the premium produce from his ten year plus career, where his expanding list of Border Community anthems (his most recent Velora EP contains no less than 4!) rub shoulders with the future delights of releases yet to come. Finally, providing his most able DJ support to this live act doubleheader is the UK's acid house obsessed avus, leaping upon this welcome opportunity to stretch his DJ legs overseas, with all of his latest greatest avus Moog workouts (including the afro-kraut-tastic Poppy EP) stowed safely for the journey.
First stop on Friday 23rd March is Melbourne's Brown Alley, and then on Saturday 24th the trio head on up to Sydney's Chinese Laundry. See the Novel tours website for more details.
Border Community Italian Showcase with kate wax (live band), luke abbott (live) & james holden (DJ) : 15th - 17th March 2012
Thursday, March 15th, 2012 @ 16:26 [Go to Article]
By popular demand we are finally bringing the full Border Community experience to Italy this March with a 3 city x 3 artist tour featuring live shows from kate wax (live band) and luke abbott topped off with our noble leader james holden on DJ duties. The tour kicks off at Rome's Lanificio 159 on Thursday 15th March (tickets from Greenticket), before motoring on up to Florence's Viper Theatre on Friday 16th (try Boxol for tickets), concluding in Foligno for one final blowout on Saturday 17th March at the city's Serendipity club (see the venue's own website for ticket details).Packing into a mini van for the experience we have the breathtaking full vocal live show of Swiss songstress kate wax, complete with a typically stylish set of visual projections to fully transport you to the dark musical universe that was unleashed by her Dust Collision album of late last year. Norfolk ruffian luke abbott will also be hitching a ride along with a snapshot of the analogue wonders of his synthtopian home studio, wherein there lurk his finest idiosyncratic anthems like the recently massive dancefloor optimised slow version of Brazil. Last but of course by no means least the inimitable james holden makes up the DJ numbers, layering and daring as only he knows how with a choice selection of Traktor tools that meet with his current conception of music-for-dancing-to.
Visit the DNA Concerti website for more details.
kate wax - Dust Collision (remixes) : Out now
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 @ 16:11 [Go to Article]
The Dust Collision of Swiss voodoo priestess kate wax's recently unveiled album takes its titular inspiration from Switzerland's world-leading Large Hadron Collider, where sub-atomic particles are accelerated into one another, and the subsequent fallout observed for our universal scientific advancement. The first single to be lifted from said album - title track Dust Collision - is a cornerstone of self-producing autocrat kate wax's personal album philosophy, where humans find new lovers through passing encounters in the night, like particles colliding in the LHC – momentary, exhilarating, predatory, intimate and ecstatic. And it is of course entirely fitting that this shiver-inducing anthem to the nightlife experience – a heady concoction of soaring vocals, driving bassline and epic strings – should be subjected to the club-friendly remix treatment upon its single release: Ghostly International's vintage synthesizer guru Solvent turns in an acidic slice of electro-pop that is just sweet enough to expose a tantalising glimmer of kate wax's latent pop potential, but at the same time just sharp enough to spark the obligatory heads-down acid freakout on the dancefloor, whilst Border Community's recent Italian recruits margot take things in an altogether groovier direction with their decidedly on-message take on modern house music, building from a functional blend of rotund bassline, twisted vocals and fidgety blips to quite the melancholy emotional peak. The final slot on the vinyl B-side is reserved for an acapella vocal bounce for the creative DJ's turntablist pleasure, running us through the full gamut of kate wax's playful vocal dexterity to take in looping spoken word performance art, cold wave robotic vocal synthesis, ecstatic other-worldly soaring disco diva, staccato panting and dead-eyed drone-mantra.
The vinyl and digital formats (MP3, FLAC and WAV) will be available from 5th March in all of your favourite stores, from Boomkat, Juno, Rough Trade, Bleep, Zero Inch and Amazon to our own snuggly in-house mp3 boutique. But before all of that, head on over to Vimeo or Youtube right away for another glimpse into kate wax's dusty musical universe, her face emerging out of the cosmic soup of the hand-made music video that accompanies her 'Dust Collision' original to languidly intone: "We are dust, we are lovers, the night loves, heroes like us...".
Border Community NYE @ Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands : 31st December 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011 @ 18:10 [Go to Article]
Our loyal Dutch comrades just can't seem to get enough of us at the moment, and the feeling is pretty much mutual, with the clued up Netherlands crowd remaining one of our artists' favourite audiences to play to. New Years Eve provides the latest welcome excuse for a mass Border Community get together on Dutch soil, when our old friends at the Melkweg have handed not one but two rooms over to our curative control to celebrate the coming of the New Year in style. Welsh mystic wesley matsell is first to kick off proceedings in the main room, providing one of his most able build ups to the midnight hour, the arrival of which is heralded by a special guest DJ set from emotronic posterboy and recent DJ Kicks incumbent Apparat. Our original Norfolk wunderkind Nathan Fake then makes a welcome return to Border Community's Melkweg stage encampment to unveil all of the latest hotness contained within his laptop hard drive, before the trusty hands and luscious musical selections of Mr james holden guide us assertively towards the early hours.
Meanwhile, over in the "Oude Zaal" Amsterdam stalwart Jorn Liefdeshuis gives the dancefloor its first workout of 2012, giving way to the truly awesome synth-and-sax combo of cosmic gatekeeper and special guest Etienne Jaumet. Etienne's recent remix victim luke abbott will also be close at hand to give the crowd the buffaloing they deserve, before the upbeat selections of Miss kate wax in her DJ incarnation bring matters to a most satisfying conclusion.
Advance tickets are available from Ticketmaster at the early bird price of 40 Euros - so don't hesitate!
harald bjork - Bigfield Remixed : Out Now
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 @ 16:32 [Go to Article]
Bigfield Remixed is the final installment from Harald Björk’s album debut Bigfield, out now on his own Kranglan Broadcast label as a limited edition of 300 vinyl copies (from the likes of Juno) and accompanying mp3s (try Boomkat). Three Bigfield-originals are reworked by three of the most unique and brightest shining stars of the electronic music scene: the Swedish club knight Axel Boman, duke of Studio Barnhus and prince of King Koze's Pampa; fairmont, beloved jack and hero from the house of Border Community; and kate wax, sorceress, heroine, duchess, queen. As a B-side bonus the release also includes two original album tracks: Din, the shuffly single which also has a magnificent video, and the 10 minute exploding title track Bigfield.The adventure starts with a modest awakening in the world of fairmont. You want to stay in the warm dreamland but when you finally open your eyes you are standing in a river of love frustration. You try to struggle against these wild, white horses but you lose your footing and get swept away by the tumbling water, the pressure gets too much and you finally lose consciousness. When you wake up you are lost in the loneliest ancient woods of kate wax, woods who happen to reveal dark secrets of wrath, despair and doom. You witness the final Armageddon from the top of a mountain as the night gets darker accompanied by the echoes of doom. Unexpectedly the sun rises again you stretch out after a heavy night’s struggle; was it all a dream, maybe there is a light in the end of the tunnel after all? Suddenly you are feeling comfortable in a car cruising down the streets with Axel Boman. A still weak memory of mellow thoughts rumbles somewhere in the back of your head but it feels great to be back. And on the b-side you have two more songs to write your own adventures for.
luke abbott - Brazil : Out Now
Thursday, December 15th, 2011 @ 13:28 [Go to Article]
Of all the tracks on luke abbott’s rave peer reviewed Holkham Drones debut album, the joyously utopian and eerily enduring Brazil proved to be particularly moreish, even in spite of its less than DJ friendly 165bpm tempo. It now earns a full single release care of a more dancefloor compatible rework by Luke himself, as well as musical eccentrics Gold Panda and Etienne Jaumet's own idiosyncratic takes on the remix brief.The new DJ-friendly 'Slow Version' is something which evolved through the course of luke abbott's forthright live performances over the past year, transposing the breakneck original to an infinitely more danceable and thoroughly road-tested 128bpm, although strangely after a while you barely notice the difference. 'Holkham Drones' main-fan Gold Panda then transports 'Brazil' in a radically and altogether more twinkly direction that nonetheless manages to retain something of the wistful lyricism of the original, whilst solo Zombie Zombie synth-and-sax man Etienne Jaumet's rework is more faithful, but totally cosmic. As a final extra bonus Luke squeezes in new dancefloor goodie 'Grumble', an exemplary slice of buffalo-future-electro which after months of james holden rotations was just itching to be set free.
The MP3s are out there right now, just waiting for your download from our own here online shop or trusty digital partners like Boomkat. The vinyl, like all the best things in life, will take a little longer, emerging into your favourite record shops (like Manchester's Picadilly Records) on 19th December. To keep you going until then head over to Vimeo for the latest addition to luke abbott's bulging video back catalogue: a collaboration with his artist-photographer-girlfriend Katherine Mager and acclaimed young British poet Sam Riviere, which sets Sam's words as the subtitles to snapshots of the British seaside in their "attempt to investigate the invisible connections between people and objects".
Play.me @ Baalsaal, Hamburg, Germany : 2nd December 2011
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 @ 16:11 [Go to Article]
Good times a-coming for Hamburg city when the Border Community circus rolls into town on 2nd December, teaming up with sometime Hamburg resident and purveyor of top drawer electronics laced with a tinge of the orient Gold Panda for a special Play.me event at the Reeperbahn's Baalsaal club.To join the unstoppable Panda for the evening we have dispatched three of our finest Border Community envoys: provider of one of Gold Panda's favourite albums of recent times luke abbott will be stomping out his Holkham Drones standards, bewitching voodoo priestess kate wax will be shining a stylish spotlight on the live charms of her recently unleashed 'Dust Collision' album, and finally lord of the dance james holden and his utopian arpeggios promise to transport you to his own personal third melodic dimension.
An evening of the finest music-for-dancing-to awaits: ensure your attendance by securing your advance ticket from the German incarnation of the Ticketmaster website forthwith...
BLOC presents Border Community @ In:Motion, Bristol, UK : 25th November 2011
Friday, November 25th, 2011 @ 17:34 [Go to Article]
The good city of Bristol will be the lucky recipients of a grand old Border Community showcase this October courtesy of the lovely people from Bloc, who will be hosting the night of 25th November in the annual In:Motion series of autumnal events in celebration of underground music, and have sub-let one room into the care of the Border Community.To take care of all your music-for-dancing-to needs we are wheeling out a four-man dream team, headed up by hedonistic hamster james holden, who is most ably aided and abetted by the Norfolk club destroyer Nathan Fake and accompanied by a rare UK appearance from Canadian fuzz-meister fairmont, whilst buffaloing up the rear our resident analogician luke abbott stomps to his own inimitable beat.
Elsewhere in the skatepark complex dubstep founding fathers Subloaded squeeze a 7-a-side composed of Joker, Martyn, 2562, Illum Sphere, Gemmy, Crazy D, Koast and C-Strike-Z into their tenancy, whilst Jo Hart, Al Tourettes, Placid and Rubin assume their respective positions in Bloc's own self-titled encampment, nestled cosily under the wing of special guest Luke Vibert. Tickets are on sale now priced at £16.50, and do remember to RSVP here.
kate wax - Dust Collision : Out Now
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 @ 18:06 [Go to Article]
Swiss-born self-producing avant-garde singer-songwriter Aisha Devi Enz dusts off her kate wax persona and teams up with Border Community to unveil her long-awaited second album: a bold new collection of dark, unconventional vocally-exhilarating electronic post-pop going by the name of 'Dust Collision' - a reference to the experiments currently going on in Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, where her grandfather once worked.Holed up in the sanctity of her tiny Geneva studio-cave during her baby-making sabbatical, kate wax set about transforming her dark internal turmoil into a coherent new musical universe, whose secrets are now opened up to the outside world with the unleashing of her own musical 'Dust Collision', expanding to reveal her own magically realistic cosmology of witches, demons, dreams and ghosts. The raw feminine power and expressive versatility of her soprano-trained voice is pushed in every possible direction across the emotional spectrum, at times modulated as if it were a favourite synth in kate wax's ultimate act of communion with the machine, and firmly underpinned by her delicately-balanced, finely-honed and perfectly-pitched minimal synth auto-production aesthetic.
The digital files were set free this week, and await your immediate consideration over at stores like Juno, Boomkat and our own online store. The tangible physical copies are set to follow next Monday 28th November, so pre-order your hard vinyl (including digital download codes) and CD copies today. And witness the collision of particles in the flesh at one of kate wax's stylish live performances across Europe, to be announced over the coming weeks.
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upcoming dates
May 26th petar dundov @ Simplon, Groningen, Netherlands
May 27th ricardo tobar @ U60311, Frankfurt, Germany
June 1st petar dundov @ Klub, Bjelovar, Croatia
June 1st kate wax @ ://about blank, Berlin, Germany
June 2nd petar dundov @ Sirup, Zagreb, Croatia
June 2nd james holden @ Free Your Mind Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands
June 4th petar dundov @ Kingsize Club, Kokkino Nero, Greece
June 8th harald bjork @ Ministero, Specka, Madrid, Spain
June 9th james holden @ Rockness Festival, Inverness, UK
June 16th harald bjork @ Hultsfred, H. Hultsfred, Sweden
June 16th james holden @ Vert Pop Festival, Brussels, Belgium
June 22nd petar dundov @ Echo Festival, Makarska, Croatia
June 22nd phil kieran @ White Noise, Max's La Cheetah, Glasgow, UK
June 23rd petar dundov @ Aurora Magic Night, Zvidovici, Bosnia
June 28th wesley matsell kate wax james holden fairmont + Nathan Fake + Etienne Jaumet @ ME.006 Rendez-Vous, Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France
June 29th kate wax james holden @ Transat Festival, D! Club, Lausanne, Switzerland
June 29th fairmont @ Rocker 33, Stuttgart, Germany
June 30th james holden + Nathan Fake @ The Beat Herder Festival, Lancashire, UK
July 1st luke abbott @ Les Siestes Electroniques, Toulouse, France
July 6th petar dundov @ Nasipavanje 2012, Zagreb, Croatia
July 7th petar dundov @ Valkane Festival, Pula, Croatia
July 7th james holden + Nathan Fake @ Pitch Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 8th james holden fairmont @ Piknic Electronik, Barcelona, Spain
July 22nd james holden @ Nation of Gondwana, Grunefeld, Germany
August 4th petar dundov margot @ Nachtdigital 15 Festival, Cavertitz, Germany
August 5th wesley matsell kate wax james holden fairmont + Nathan Fake @ Woodstock 69, Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 10th james holden @ Baleapop Festival Club Night, Ciboure, France
August 11th kate wax @ Baleapop3 Festival, Ciboure, France
August 11th luke abbott james holden + Nathan Fake @ Creamfields Andalusia, Jerez, Spain
August 22nd petar dundov @ Overground Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
August 24th petar dundov @ Kanegra Beach Festival, Umag, Croatia
August 25th petar dundov @ Day and Night Festival - Glaspalast, Sindelfingen, Germany
August 28th james holden @ Sankeys, Manchester, UK
September 1st fairmont @ Whoosah, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
September 1st james holden @ Ps1 Warm Up, MoMa Ps1, New York, USA
September 7th james holden @ Magnolia Parade Festival, Milan, Italy
September 8th petar dundov @ Dimension Festival, Pula, Croatia
September 16th petar dundov @ The Labyrinth, Niigata, Japan
September 17th petar dundov @ The Labyrinth, Niigata, Japan