Code DXB (located at Soho Garden) presents Defected! on Friday 25 October 2019!
Oliver Huntemann
Myths abound in the north when it comes to techno ground zero, and they refuse to go away.
Oliver Huntemann is one of a handful of children of the north who, for what seems like an eternity, add an element of credence to the mythology. He does not, of course, live in a snowy forest or at the edge of the polar oceans.
The sun does, on occasion, shine down on Hamburg.
Nevertheless, there is a tendency towards hypothermic reduction in the rigorous efficiency of the Huntemann oeuvre. Images of cold storage warehouses, desolate heavy plant sites and bluish flesh are not entirely misplaced.
Shards of German Engineering glimmer in his music, laced with persuasive logic, gruesome Darwinism. What remains: what works.
In “Brighter than the sun“, the English music theorist Kodwo Eshun depicts the birthplace of Kraftwerk, Dusseldorf, as the “Mississippi Delta of Techno“.
Huntemann’s tracks may well have dragged themselves out of the same primeval soup, but it was the far north which fired them with the necessary steel for clubland. The resulting creations are linear, free of fancy, charmingly direct.
One particular London arbiter of taste sought to label the nature of his skeletal sound as “bare and striped back to the metallic core“ – whereby Huntemann’s reduction does not end in thin minimalism, it draws attention to the core itself.
Less is more to the max. The only luxury is a little dirt.
Whilst hordes of German producers and DJs set their satnavs for Berlin, Oliver Huntemann chose to head back home.
His epicenter is, and will remain, the north. Hamburg, to be exact. This is where he produces his music and it is from here that he sets out into the world, thrilling the populous with his DJ sets.
Rebūke
If you want to arrive with a bang, you can’t do much better than Rebūke.
A project forged in the white hot atmospheres of the Irish underground club and rave scene has ushered in the most exciting new artist in years.
A DJ and producer creating something new and genuinely exciting. A soundclash of house, techno and rave (yes, rave) records from the early 90’s melded together to create that elusive thing – an original sound of his own.
His Track ‘Along Came Polly’ has been a game changer. A twisting, turbo charged rattlesnake of a track that sounds like nothing else, it was exclusively in the hands of Jamie Jones who played it all summer 2018 to rapturous reactions - and a viral response on social media.
Besieged with requests and signed to Hot Creations, it rocketed to the top of the Beatport charts on release and stayed there for a month - including two months at the top of the tech house charts.
It was 2018’s final Essential New Tune for Pete Tong on Radio 1. Rebūke has been an ever present on the station’s playlists ever since, gaining constant rotation from the likes of Mistajam, Annie Mac, Danny Howard, Monki - not to mention his own exclusive hot mix for Tong himself in February 2019.
His follow up ‘Jump Ship EP’ on Dirtybird, snapped up by Claude Von Stroke and featuring ‘The Pipe’ topped the Radio 1 Dance chart for 2 weeks and again went top 10 on Beatport widening his fan base even further and lauded by everyone from Adam Beyer to Diplo, Jamie Jones to Fisher. As a result, Danny Howard named him as one of his 3 Future Fire stars for 2019.
His Rebūke/rave series caused a major stir with reimagined versions of rave era classics such as ‘Bombscare’ and ‘The Tape’, gaining glowing reviews from A list DJs. Its led directly to an official remix of Xpansions ‘Move Your Body’ on Shadow Child’s Food Music, again play listed across the board on Radio 1 and charting highly on Beatport.
Describing his sound itself is pretty easy for Rebūke. “I love house, techno, and old rave records. I’ve got a deep, almost obsessional interest in the Italian, Belgian and UK records from the early 90s and I try to bring that into my productions. It’s really about capturing the dirt and energy of the records of that time and fusing it with modern house and techno that I love too. That’s definitely what appeals to me.”
Timings:
Friday 25 October 2019 from 11pm to 4am.
Price:
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