Date / Saturday, 16 July 2011
Time / 10pm - ???
Venue / Lava/ 4134 lancaster avenue philadelphia pa
Cost / $10
Line-up /
Christian Bloch, Craig Sopo, Rudy Kardos, Deache
Promoter /
rizumu, BSP
Prior to his 2002 move to Detroit, Christian Bloch ranked among the Denmark elite with his soulful yet minimalist hard techno. Born and raised in northern Denmark, his DJ skills are legendary in the history of techno parties in Aalborg. Bloch has played the world-renowned Tresor club in Berlin and also the 2001 Roskilde Festival, alongside talents including Super_Collider, Plaid and Slam. Bloch’s passion infiltrates his widespread talents, ranging from Berlin dub, classic Detroit style, gritty and textured German beats to an English minimalism like no other.
Bloch has released on Deep Night Essentials (Andy Vaz - sub-label of the acclaimed Background Records), LL Records (Pacou), and Tresor. Other notable releases include Funque Droppings (Bloch’s own label), Canada’s Restructured Records and several smaller labels. Producers such as Pacou, Damon Wild and Sean Deason have remixed Bloch’s techno and his sounds made it onto Ricardo Villalobos’ “Love Family Trax” mix cd.
Sopo-
Building on a dj career spanning over 10 years and originating outside Detroit, Craig Sopo made the logical jump to producing in 2008. While most people shouldn’t bother, we’re glad he did.
Craig quickly established himself with a flurry of releases over the past 2 years under Baltimore’s only techno label, More or Less, also providing a craftyremix of Outputmessage’s (Ghostly/Melodic/More or Less) critically acclaimed Mirrors release which dropped in April 2009 (Less 003).
In between creating tracks and face melting at dj shows he also runs half of the More or Less imprint. Look for several upcoming releases during the remainder of 2009 and 2010.
His musical selection runs from Detroit electro and ghetto-tech to acid house and techno and has played alongside many Detroit luminaries. This will be his third trip back to Philly, first stop was at the famed Halloween Rizumu show with Suburban Knight in October 2005, reprise was in early 2009 with Derek Plaslaiko and Vacuum.
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