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13 PERCENT 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
DANIEL BELL (Tresor, Elevate, 7th City)
http://www.myspace.com/xdanielbellx
TOBI NEUMANN (Cocoon Recordings, 100% Pure)
http://www.myspace.com/djtobineumann
OSTRICH (Souvenir, 13 Percent)
http://www.myspace.com/nadir_agha
Admission : $20 pre-sale / $25 regular / $30 at the door
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Celebrating a growth in movement for the Montreal’s nightlife, 13 PERCENT is proud to ring in two solid years of forward thinking electronic dance music in the house and techno realm. For their 2 Year Anniversary on May 14th, 13 PERCENT invites Daniel Bell and Tobi Neumann to perform at Montreal’s legendary Stereo Afterhours. Each artist, including 13 PERCENT’s curator Ostrich, will be gracing the decks for their Stereo debut appearance.
Setting out to showcase two prominent visionaries who strive to push the envelope in dance music as well as bridge the gap between old and new school trends. Taking place at a venue, which many call “The Temple”; we couldn’t have chosen a more perfect platform for these two acts to take us on a musical journey transcending time and space. Stereo Afterhours is located at 858 St-Catherine East. As always, 13 PERCENT resident Ostrich ensures warm up duties as the door opens at 1am.
TICKETS
$20 advance pre-sales are available through any Stereo promoter or by contacting [email protected] to schedule a pick up. Tickets are on sale at www.stereonightclub.net , www.wanttickets.com/Stereo , including stores such as: Fly Boutique (1970 St-Catherine West) , Priape (1311 St-Catherine East) , and Off the Hook (1021 St-Catherine West). Otherwise admission is $30 at the door.
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DANIEL BELL aka DBX - No stranger to Montreal, this Detroit legend / Berlin resident headlined the 3rd annual Nuit Electronik alongside the Wighnomy Brothers in 2006 and later performed at Salon Daomé in December 2007. Dan was one of the first pioneers of minimal techno, which in turn lead him in the direction of Richie Hawtin and his infamous Plus 8 imprint.
TOBI NEUMANN - Marking his first Canadian appearance and noticed as one of the leading forces in the German house and techno scene, we are extremely honored to host him at Stereo. His productions for Chicks On Speed, 2Raumwohnung, Miss Kitten and most notably his remix for Dinky’s “Acid In My Fridge” placed Tobi on the map of top-shelf talent to keep an eye on.
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DANIEL BELL
After years of being in bands and producing hip hop music, Daniel had a surprise success with his first 12' released on Plus 8 records while still in film school near Toronto, Canada in 1990. The record was "Technarchy" co-produced by Richie Hawtin and John Aquaviva, and it spurred a move by him to Detroit, Mi. After touring and recording extensively throughout 1991 and 1992, including a 38-date American tour opening for Moby and The Prodigy, Daniel left Plus 8 to start his own company, Accelerate Communications in 1992.
With Accelerate, Daniel released a small string of influential releases. He reduced the Detroit techno sound into funky, streamlined grooves. The formula proved to be successful and helped launch a new minimal aesthetic in techno and house music.
With the overwhelming success of his "Losing Control" single (an international underground hit in 1994), Daniel set up Seventh City Distribution. For the next four years he worked to assist smaller Midwest labels to get distribution in overseas markets. He helped finance the start-ups of several labels including Anthony Shakir's "Frictional" and Dopplereffekt’s "Dataphysix". He also created three new labels - 7th City, which to this day releases cutting-edge techno music, Elevate (with then unknown house producer Theo Parrish) and Harmonie Park (originally with Rich Wade). Daniel also co-owned "Rotate", a record store across the river from Detroit in Windsor Canada for two years.
Because of the workload of owning and operating many ventures his music production ceased for a few years. In 2000 he released his first mix CD with Tresor Records entitled "The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell" and in a surprise move relocated to Berlin, Germany. In Berlin he has developed and promoted new talent for his 7th City label and has quietly restarted his recording career with a series of remixes for a diverse range of artists including, John Tejada, Pantytec, Akufen, and Anthony Shakir. In February 2003 he released his second mix CD "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back" on the Paris-based label Logistic.
As well as producing Daniel has also kept a busy DJ schedule for the past 8 years. He has played numerous major venues throughout the world including Liquid Room/Tokyo, Lost/London, Rex Club/Paris, Limelight/New York, Redno5/Chicago, Nightown/Rotterdam, Nitsa/Barcelona, Tresor/Globus, Weetamix/Geneva, Yellow/Tokyo, Rockets/Osaka, Staples/San Francisco to name a few. Daniel's DJ gigs have brought him all over the world including every major US, German and Canadian city, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy, England, Scotland, France, Finland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands. He currently has a residency at Robert Johnson in Frankfurt/Offenbach.
TOBI NEUMANN
Music has always played a major part in Tobi Neumann's life - from day one. Born and raised in Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany), he grew up surrounded by classical music and soon went on to experiment with the piano and guitar. Moonlighting in a number of bands, his interests shifted to pop music and studio technology; later on, he delved into the tricks of the trade as part of a four-year sound engineering course. Ever since the early 1990s, Neumann has been flexing his creative muscles as a freelance sound engineer for film and TV productions while building up his own sound studios to record and mix bands.
Together with his friends and fellow band members Peter Horn and Martin Probst he went on to write and produce film and advertising soundtracks, strongly influenced by electronic sounds and rhythms, such as Brian Eno's epic, expansive oeuvre. For Tobi Neumann, 1996 proved to be a turning point. At his first ever Berlin Love Parade, he had an epiphany. Immediately hooked on house, techno and club culture, he went out to buy decks, a mixer and a stack of 12-inches, determined to become a DJ. Influenced and inspired by the intensity and immediacy of playing and mixing live, he followed a monthly residency at Munich's Muffathalle (1997) with Flokati, his own weekly spot at the city's legendary Techno club Ultraschall (from 1998). A perennial club scene favorite and Munich's most successful underground house night for many years running, his nights attracted special guests like Ata, Steve Bug, Luke Solomon, Karotte, Hans Nieswandt, Chez Damier and countless other luminaries. At the same time, Flokati served as the best possible proving ground for Tobi Neumann - here, he could fine-tune his own sense and feel of the club's moods and flavours, a skill no self-respecting DJ or promoter could do without. Simultaneously, he was a founding member and producer of art/sound hybrid Chicks on Speed, adding his unique touch to full-blown hits like 'Eurotrash Girl' or 'Kaltes Klares Wasser'. As part of Glove, a production team also featuring fellow producer and musician Thies Mynther, he crafted countless remixes for artists such as Egoexpress, Ladytron and Cocoon's surprise hit 'Drogenkontrolle', in addition to producing a number of albums (Miss Kittin, Chicks on Speed) and a 12" on Playhouse. In 2001, Neumann moved to Berlin where a new flat, new studio and plenty of new friends were already waiting.
In 2002, he joined Sven Väth's artist agency Cocoon, following regular back-to-back sets with Ricardo Villalobos and residencies at the Cocoon nights in Frankfurt and Ibiza (since 2001). His current residencies include Robert Johnson (Offenbach), Weekend and Watergate in Berlin, Cocoon @ Amnesia (Ibiza) and Fabric in London. In 2007, Tobi decided to return to the studio to focus on his latest project 'Sensitiva', a collaboration with Onur Özer which found a home for their first release in March 2008 on Dutch label 100% Pure. |
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