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4.14 Avaland w/ Josh Wink, Acquaviva, Freestylers
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This Saturday at AVALAND we have a mash up of electro, breaks & techno that will be sure to keep you techno fans here til the late hours of the night with a line up of Josh Wink, Acquaviva & the Freestylers (dj set) on the main stage along with AVALAND's residents, Droog. Local techno crew Droid Behavior host the terrace with Billy Dalessandro along with a solid cast of supporting dj's Jason Emsley (Droid), Robtronik (Compression) & Darius (Deepermoods)
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JOSH WINK
Josh Wink has always run ahead of the pack, as a DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. In 1990, Josh met up with a kindred spirit, fellow Philly jock, King Britt whose interests also include rap and acid jazz. Pooling their interests and blending their differences, the duo waxed E-culture's "Tribal Confusion" for respected New York based indie label, Strictly Rhythm. The record was a surprising commercial success and established both DJs as artists to watch on the global dance music scene.
After forming Ovum Recordings as an independent label in October 1994 with partner King Britt, Josh recorded the cult classic "Liquid Summer". He went on to release singles for a wide variety of revered European labels ranging from Belgium's R & S to England's XL. He also began remixing for Moby and others.
1995 was an especially good year for Josh. He scored 3 consecutive European smashes - all out of his modest 16-track bedroom studio - which unquestionably took dance music to a dizzying plateau. First came "Don't Laugh" - recorded as Winx and issued via Nervous Records - where Josh took a minimal techno beat and looped an incessant sample of a whacko laughing his head off. It was a stroke of sheer genius. The single broke down international language barriers and eventually sold more than 500,000 units.
Invitations to spin at prestigious nightspots all over the world have been pouring in since, but as his career has progressed, he has stayed true to his roots, never selling out and always maintaining his integrity, always coming home to his beloved Philadelphia.
http://www.ovum-rec.com/
ACQUAVIVA
It's no longer a secret. Arguably one of THE hottest DJs and producers around, John Acquaviva breaks through at number 22 on the dj Mag Top 100 worldwide music fan poll!
To date, John Acquaviva's combined audience has surpassed 2 million people during his years behind the decks. Total dj gigs and appearances amount to more than 5000 since his first significant dj residency in 1982 at Notes in hometown London, Canada.
Starting off as a clubber and fan of dance music in the final days of Disco during the late 70's, John turned his passion into a life's work and commitment. Growing with the evolution of new wave, industrial, post-punk and hip hop through the 80s, his eclectic taste and nightclub experience was the foundation for him to become an integral part of club music history in the 1990s. The next logical step was to start a record label. That phase began when he started the hugely influential and now legendary techno label Plus 8 records with Richie Hawtin going from strength to strength ever since.
A pioneer of new music and ideas, John was one of the first people to take notice and embrace electronic music's digital future at the dawn of 2000. First, John got involved with and championed Final Scratch as a new way for DJs and artists to work, present and play club music. Following its success, John subsequently took another big step and helped launch Beatport.com, which has established itself as the club music aficionado's go-to shop for dance and electronic music.
http://www.john-acquaviva.com
http://www.myspace.com/acquavivadj
FREESTYLERS
The Freestylers are the dancefloor sensation of the new millennium, a fast moving, electro-rocking monster movie that is going to hit your house like a tidal wave, and wash all your preconceptions out of the door.
Freestylers attack your feet first, as the world discovered when the band's first album, We Rock Hard, hit the rocks. A blast of sheer sonic exuberance nailed to the phattest beats and rhythms around, "We Rock Hard" has already been proclaimed one of the dying centur's most dazzling, dizzying explosions, 13 songs and one long party and 500,000 sales later the band are about to drop their stunning new Album.
Freestylers producers Aston Harvey and Matt Cantor got together in 1993, through talking about the music they were into electro, breakbeats, Afrika Bambaataa and the whole old school hip hop culture. But it wasn't long before they took their obsessions into the studio, running off what would eventually become the Freestylers’ first U.K. single, "Drop The Boom" - – initially released on the small Street Plastic label pre- Freskanova. Like Matt says, "we plunder samples like no man's business."
"I read interviews with other people... and it sounds like they're producing albums which have nothing to do with what they're really about. I can honestly say this is exactly what we're about. The final criteria for our records is, can you go mad to them? Can anyone dance their ing ass off to them? They can. They will." The Freestylers are taking the Freestyling ethic into the 21st century. The net is to be widened bringing more people into the fold.
http://www.myspace.com/freestylersmusic
BILLY DALESSANDRO
The Detroit-Berlin axis gets a lot of love, but what about sweet home Chicago? The birthplace of house may not be the center of the dance music universe these days, but the sounds that made the city famous -- notably the squelch of the TB-303 known as acid and the rhythmic bag of tricks known as "the jack" -- are being revitalised by a new breed of German revisionists, lead by the label Resopal Schallware.
Born out of the ashes of the seminal German minimal house label Force Tracks, Resopal, is home to old school revisionist Jackmate, students of house Luomo and D. Diggler, as well as any number of squiggly acid revival tracks. Resopal is also home to Billy Dalessandro.
Who? Listen to his records and a good guess might be that Billy Dalessandro is the nom-de-plume of another German Chicago-infatuated househead -- but you would be wrong. Dalessandro is actually the real deal -- he actually lives in Chicago!
With tracks picked up by DJs as different as John Digweed and Matthew Dear, Dalessandro's sound is not easy to pin down, but as his acidic Dalessandro vs. Gaiser 'Come With Me' doubleheader makes clear, here is a producer with a respect for the sounds of his hometown but with an eye on the future.
http://www.myspace.com/billydalessandro
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