Robots pre DOMINIK EULBERG & ADA Live PA, Thu 27th @ CIELO

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Posted by nickac on Jul-11-2006 20:24:

Robots pre DOMINIK EULBERG & ADA Live PA, Thu 27th @ CIELO

Thursday July 27th
ROBOTS presents
DOMINK EULBERG Traum Schallplatten, Cocoon, (Cologne, Germany)
with live machine music by
ADA Areal (Cologne, Germany)

And DJs
NICK AC & DENNIS RODGERS

@ CIELO (18 Little West 12th Street)

www.wearerobots.net
www.dominik-eulberg.de
www.areal-records.com

Tickets:

$10

Etherea Records, 66 Ave A, NYC, 212.358.1126
Halcyon, 57 Pearl Street, DUMBO, Bklyn, 718.260.9299
OtherMusic, 15 E 4th St, NYC, 212.477.8150
Satellite Records, 359 Bowery, 212 995 1744

$18 at the door

DOMINIK EULBERG - This marks Domink's first US appearence. One of the big new names in electronic music. He started playing at the age of 15, and saw his first album �Flora & Fauna� reach 3rd and 5th place on German recaps of 2004. He was also nominated for the German Music Awards in the categories �Best Remix� and �Best Newcomer� the same year. Now two years on he has cemented himself as one of Germany's prize exports, remixing and producing countless hits on labels such as Cocoon, Traum Schallplatten, Trapez and Raum...muzik. Known for delivering music as much for the mind as the body, this performance promises to be one of the standout shows of 2006.

ADA � Known for her stunning live performance, the genre-crossing romantic rocker girl makes a welcome return to Robots after last years debut in Canal Room with Superpitcher and Metope. Her song writing ability and knack for fusing beautiful melody with tough 4/4 bass drum kicks and raw analog sounds was perfectly captured on last years hit album Blondie: a haunting sexy groovemonster! Known for her adoration of real analog sounds and "synthesizers with buttons" ADA�s live set is one of the real treasures of Cologne's vibrant electronic scene.

NICK AC & DENNIS RODGERS - legends living in their own time. these two pioneers helped bring electronic music to the world and unlocked the secret behind why dancing on stage is an art reserved for good looking girls only.

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-11-2006 20:49:

shouldn't it say "july" and not "june"?

Posted by Groundhog Boy on Jul-11-2006 20:52:

quote:
Originally posted by dcctnycprincess
shouldn't it say "july" and not "june"?

The date's wrong, too (under flyer). My guess is that he copied some of the text from the Solvent thread since the ticket vendors and some other info are the same.

Posted by babyvsrhino on Jul-11-2006 20:53:

quote:
Originally posted by dcctnycprincess
shouldn't it say "july" and not "june"?

And "27th" instead of "22nd"

Posted by PvDoBseSSioN on Jul-12-2006 02:09:

this is all f*cked up isn't it

Posted by bobba lou on Jul-12-2006 04:15:

stfu and just go!

Posted by PvDoBseSSioN on Jul-12-2006 04:27:

quote:
Originally posted by bobba lou
stfu and just go!

sorry i'll b @ cream at amnesia that day

Posted by Dekan on Jul-12-2006 07:28:

Glad to be coming home to some great shows... Ill be there

Posted by nickac on Jul-12-2006 09:07:

quote:
Originally posted by babyvsrhino
And "27th" instead of "22nd"

Good one! thanks

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-12-2006 13:20:

really, really looking forward to this night

Posted by bobba lou on Jul-12-2006 16:16:

quote:
Originally posted by PvDoBseSSioN
sorry i'll b @ cream at amnesia that day

ibiza is played, but enjoy

Posted by winston on Jul-13-2006 05:09:

nice, Eulberg's first U.S appearance, it had to be the NYC robots of course. I might go, even though it means gettin on a plane.

Posted by Dekan on Jul-26-2006 01:51:

YO Nick

List is already closed on a tuesday....

Really want to get on it.

Let me know?

Posted by nickac on Jul-26-2006 03:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Dekan
YO Nick

List is already closed on a tuesday....

Really want to get on it.

Let me know?

Robots MB list has already reached it's limit, but there are still tickets left in the outlets:

Etherea Records, 66 Ave A, NYC, 212.358.1126
Halcyon, 57 Pearl Street, DUMBO, Bklyn, 718.260.9299
OtherMusic, 15 E 4th St, NYC, 212.477.8150
Satellite Records, 359 Bowery, 212 995 1744

Or there's full admission at the door..

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-27-2006 19:35:

bump

Posted by Groundhog Boy on Jul-27-2006 20:39:

Da soap and I will be there. Anyone else but Kristin definitely coming?

Posted by vtec junkie on Jul-27-2006 21:08:

quote:
Originally posted by bobba lou
ibiza is played, but enjoy

When were you there?

Posted by bobba lou on Jul-28-2006 06:30:

hearing shit reports from raver friends of mine. villas being broken(happen to Fanciulli) into, over priced drinks, no lists, and just shit crowds now. I'll pass. I personally dont think i would be interested in being their for too long, i much rather go to sonar 2007 or wait til they come to miami for SONAR MIAMI 2007. lots of changes for WMC/MMC coming up.

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-28-2006 15:44:

quote:
Originally posted by bobba lou
hearing shit reports from raver friends of mine. villas being broken(happen to Fanciulli) into, over priced drinks, no lists, and just shit crowds now. I'll pass. I personally dont think i would be interested in being their for too long, i much rather go to sonar 2007 or wait til they come to miami for SONAR MIAMI 2007. lots of changes for WMC/MMC coming up.

i've only heard positive things about ibiza. too bad that your friends have had a bad time, but you have to expect to have high-priced drinks - no lists doesn't bother me - and from the videos that i have seen posted at dc10 the crowds don't seem so bad. but i'm sure if my place was broken into i wouldn't have ANYTHING good to say about ibiza either.

anyway - last night was really, really fun! i didn't get there until around 12:45 so i didn't see much of ada, but her live pa sounded good. dominik came on and the place was packed - surprised that cielo would be packed on a thursday and that for an unknown dj - but he dropped all of the minimal bombs, but also threw in a lot more tech-house tracks - the music sounded so good on that sound system - very clear and you could hear all of the nuances of the music - some of his transisitions were a little rough, but he had the place dancing and jumping until around 3 or 3:30 or so and then the closing dj came on.

audiojack - robots sounded great!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Groundhog Boy on Jul-28-2006 15:56:

Music was really good last night. Christina was in the mindset to close out, but I was already pretty wiped out and knew today was going to be rough, so we left around 2:45. It was good to see SidMl show up unexpectedly.

It was probably the most crowded I've seen Cielo on a Thursday, especially after 2 when a lot of people usually leave. Also, they cut down the tree in the smoking patio outside. It was really weird how open it seemed as a result.

Posted by knittybone on Jul-28-2006 16:29:

Posted by SidMl on Jul-28-2006 18:25:

I decided to stop by around 1am instead of going home like the good boy I am.

As always, Cielo was great but a little crowded. Dominik was totally rocking the place. You could find just enough room to dance and I was making full use of it. I was out of there by around 2.30.

As always, it was a pleasure seeing GHB, Zest and meeting dcctnycprincess for the first time.

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-28-2006 20:15:

quote:
Originally posted by SidMl

As always, it was a pleasure seeing GHB, Zest and meeting dcctnycprincess for the first time.

ditto - nice to meet you too - didn't realize you were SidMl -

Posted by dcctnycprincess on Jul-31-2006 16:47:

review in nytimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/a...b.html?ref=arts

Techno Minimalist for Anti- Minimalists

By KELEFA SANNEH
Published: July 29, 2006
It was Thursday night at the nightclub Cielo in the meatpacking district, and a team named We Are Robots was giving a dance party. We Are Robots promotes what its members call �minimal house, techno and electro,� and the word �minimal� is crucial.

To cultish listeners around the world, �minimal� describes a constellation of electronic tracks that tend toward the sleek, the empty, the meticulous, the abstract. Instead of a wailing diva or a barrage of samples or a hummable tune, you get clicks and gurgles and smudges, slowly decaying or mutating. There�s a hint of snobbery, too: if a D.J. is playing this stuff, that means the club probably won�t be full of cheap cologne and sugary cocktails.

But at this We Are Robots party, the sound rattling out from the speakers could hardly be described as minimalist. The culprit was Dominik Eulberg, a D.J. and producer from Bonn who takes a mischievous pleasure in toying with minimalist conventions. He began his set around 1:30 a.m., with a furious selection of frenetic techno tracks, using cross-cut rhythms to reach a series of blaring, rhythmless peaks.

The crowd, which included both music geeks (who knew what they were in for) and casual clubbers (who couldn�t possibly have known), responded by alternately dancing and staring at the booth. Up above the dance floor, a shaggy blond guy was fiddling with his equipment and, from time to time, swigging Champagne.

Mr. Eulberg�s debut album, �Flora & Fauna� (Traum Schallplatten), was released in 2004, but it was his 2005 double-CD mix, �Kreucht & Fleucht� (Mischwald), that helped win him a following, albeit a tiny one, in the United States. In a review for the indie Web site Pitchfork, Philip Sherburne called it �a guide to the Now Sound of clattery, post-minimalist German techno.� Throughout the two discs, Mr. Eulberg delights in emphasizing sounds that might once have seemed off-limits: snarling bass lines borrowed from acid house and triumphal keyboard lines that evoke progressive house, the populist genre that minimalists once loved to hate.

You can hear that impulse in Mr. Eulberg�s own tracks, too. In a single from 2004, �Die Rotbauchunken vom Tegernsee� (Traum Schallplatten), the beat suddenly drops out to make way for a weird, fluttery break and a brief, manic drum solo. He�s interrupting himself.

On Thursday night Mr. Eulberg was joined by Ada, a producer from Cologne who has perfected her own playful style; you can hear it on her excellent 2004 album �Blondie� (Areal), which includes a lovely, hazy house version of �Maps,� by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. (All these CD�s are available in the United States from forcedexposure.com.) Ada played live � that is, using electronics, not records � and she found a different way to edge away from minimalism: her sharp, squelchy tracks sometimes sounded like pop songs in (deep) disguise.

In this context, Mr. Eulberg�s attack seemed even more severe. He knows how to get listeners to focus on a small detail in a noisy track: the way a repeated clang slowly changes timbre, for example. And he loves playing with size and scale. He often superimposes small events (like that mutating clang) on big ones (like an abrupt shift in rhythm, or an overwhelming siren sound that comes out of nowhere). As you dance, you get the dizzying sensation of hearing two kinds of musical narratives at once.

Certainly Mr. Eulberg didn�t invent these techniques, and the best minimalist D.J.�s put together sets full of drama and mischief. But while Mr. Eulberg hasn�t completely abandoned the minimalist tradition (it�s not as if he plays anything so obvious as a song), he has a knack for exposing its contradictions.

By 3 a.m., he had shifted from prickly techno to something grander and mellower. He would introduce big, glacial synthesizer melodies, and then, just as the tension was building, the beat would cut out for a few bars; the dancers found themselves moving to something that wasn�t there. In a way, these late-night records were as disorienting as the cacophonous techno records that had come before. Mr. Eulberg was doing his job: making sure everyone had a hard, dazed night.