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Diesel:U:Music Awards 2007, London Diesel:U:Music celebrated its best year ever in London honouring the cream of international unsigned talent as well as presenting awards to Contribution To Music Award winner Peter Saville and the 4Music Icon Award to the legendary Joy Division. |
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Sonar 2006, Barcelona The 13th edition of the Sonar festival in Barcelona brought together cutting edge of artists from the usual mishmash of styles and sounds the festival is renowned, for 3 days and nights of advanced music. From from disco to dub, funk to freestyle and everything in-between, Sonar once again proved to a capacity crowd why it's reputation has reached the world over.
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Mutek 2006, Montreal MUTEK is a forward-thinking gathering that has made Montreal a premiere point of contact on the international electronic music scene and helped launch local performers such a Marc Leclair (Akufen), Scott Monteith (Deadbeat), Steve Beaupre, and Mike Shannon onto the world stage. Photography by Miguel Legault |
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Dissonanze 2006, Rome Presenting the Italian vision of our musical future, Dissonanze returned for it's 6th consecutive year to a packed event at the magnificent Piazza Dei Congressi. Live and DJ performances were complimented by an experimental audio and video program. Photos by Claudia Gianvenuti & Giovanni De Angelis |
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Club Transmediale 2006, Berlin Challenging preconceptions and joining the dots between music, past, present and future Berlin's Club Transmediale is a music festival that brings together early pioneers with contemporary innovators to present a program of events, seminars, workshops and installations. Photography by Marco Microbi |
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Real Grooves 11 @ Yellow, Tokyo Pokerflat & Audiomatique records head honcho Steve Bug rocked Tokyo Club Yellow until 7am. 1000 people came to witness a master at his craft. Photography by Mark Oxley & Ryu Kasai |
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ElectroFunkRoots @ Milk, Tokyo Another fanstastic event hosted by samurai.fm and the Kazenohito. Lots of live acts, DJs, MCs and artists packed out Milk for a real electro funk night Tokyo style. Photography by Hane & Leslie Kennah |
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Real Grooves 9 @ Yellow, Tokyo John Tejada and I'm Not a Gun (John Tejada + Takeshi Nishimoto) flew in and 932 people packed into Space Lab Yellow in Tokyo on a cool Saturday night in January for what became a huge party that went on until 8am! Check these pictures from the night. Photography by Mark Oxley |
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samurai.fm Sessions 11.05 @ Herbal, London Flying in from the musical village that is fast becoming Berlin, Stewart Walker is best known for his productions on some of techno's finest labels, Tresor, Force Inc and Minus as well as his own imprint Persona. Famed for his blistering live sets at his samurai.fm Sessions debut he once again proved his reputation as one of the most exciting performers of live techno. Photography by Matt Cheetham |
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samurai.fm Sessions 09.05 @ Herbal, London A Guy Called Gerald celebrated the launch party for his new imprint Sugoi Recordings to a packed club for the first samurai.fm Session's UK new bi-monthly saturday night residencies at Herbal. Supported by residents Maxxrelax and Future Sound of Clapton the party was rocking well into the early hours. Photography by Mark Oxley |
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Optronica 2005 Celebrating the point where audio and video performances meet Optronica 2005 was the first festival of it's kind in London championing a new wave of audio visual performances. Taking place at the National Film Theatre and the IMAX samurai.fm launched it's on-demand video service with coverage of event. Photography by Matt Cheetham |
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Sonar 2005 At the forefront of electronic music festivals for over a decade now Sonar continues to excel with both it's programming and it's execution. Taking place from the 16th - 18th June 2005 in the idyllic Catalonian city of Barcelona this three day and night event featured artist and label showcases from across the world. Photography by Matt Cheetham |
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