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Dance Beat: Bob Sinclar, Junior Vasquez, Dave Ralph ...French house producer readies sophomore LP, prepares for brief U.S. tour. |
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Bob Sinclar's 1998 club smash, "Gym Tonic," sampled a Jane Fonda workout. (Bernard Benant) |
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French house producer Bob Sinclar (born Christophe Le Friant) will support the Nov. 14 release of his second album, Champs Elysees, with a string of six North American DJ sets beginning Sept. 29 at Transit
Junior Vasquez will celebrate the release of his upcoming mix-CD — the first on New York club Twilo's record label — with an in-store performance on Sept. 26 at the Virgin Records store in New York's Union Square. The world-renowned house DJ, who has a Saturday residency at the club every week, will spin from 7 to 8 p.m. before signing copies of the album, which comes out that day. ... British trance veteran Dave Ralph will release the mix album Live at the Love Parade in October on Kinetic Records, according to his spokesperson. Ralph, who released Tranceport 2 last year, was thrust into the international limelight when he opened for Paul Oakenfold on his 1996 Perfecto tour. ... Señor Coconut, the alias of Germany native Uwe Schmidt (a.k.a. Atom Heart) responsible for the El Baile Alemán album of Latin Kraftwerk covers released earlier this year, will make a rare, free performance Sept. 25 at the Noura Cafe in Los Angeles. Señor Coconut will spin a four-hour set beginning at 10 p.m. More information is available at www.emperornorton.com. No other dates are planned. ... Live electronic-jazz outfit Red Snapper will release their third full-length, Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper, on Oct. 17. Following the dark, moody compositions of their first two albums, 1996's Prince Blimey and '98's Making Bones, which established the London group as leaders of the organic-jazz/electronic-music scene, Our Aim again mixes film-noir textures with psychedelic studio manipulation. Renowned for their intense and intricate live sets, Red Snapper — led by drummer Richard Thair, bassist Ali Friend and guitarist David Ayers — will tour the United States for the first time in support of the album later this year, according to the group's label, Matador Records. ... Paris will host its third Techno Parade, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 16) at the Eiffel Tower. Inspired by the legendary annual Love Parade in Berlin, Techno Parade 2000 will feature dance-music floats traveling east for two-and-a-half miles before arriving five hours later at Porte de la Muette. The parade concludes a week of citywide electronic-music events, including a Ninja Tune audiovisual event at the Georges Pompidou Center and two performances by veteran French techno producer Laurent Garnier. ... Detroit house producer Alton Miller, one of the co-founders of the Music Institute, the city's seminal late-'80s dance club, has released his full-length debut, Rhythm Exposed. Featuring techno-tinged deep-house tracks reminiscent of his singles on Detroit mainstay Planet E Communications, the album is out on the French label Distance Music as either a CD or two-record set. ... Alison Goldfrapp, the Bath, England, singer who appeared on Tricky's Maxinquaye and Orbital's Snivilisation albums, debuts her new duo, Goldfrapp, on the Sept. 19 release Felt Mountain. Recorded last year with composer Will Gregory, the album blends '60s French pop with electronic-influenced classical music. ... Top Detroit ghetto-tech producer DJ Assault (born Craig Adams) will release his first widely available mix-CD, Off the Chain for the Y2K, Oct. 31 on Intuit-Solar Records. Similar to the five volumes in his astonishing Straight Up Detroit Sh-- mix series, Off the Chain presents 83 tracks of blazingly cut and mixed sped-up booty bass with raunchy but instantly anthemic lyrics, including "Ass-N-Titties" and "Same Ho." He released the ghetto-tech template, Mr. Muthafukka, in 1998. ... Electronic-music icons Moby, BT, Paul van Dyk and the Chemical Brothers are among the artists slated for the upcoming Plastic Volume 4, due Nov. 7 on Nettwerk America. Plastic Volume 3, released earlier this year, featured such hits as Hybrid's remix of Filter's "Take a Picture" and BT's remix of Sarah McLachlan's "I Love You." The track listing for Volume 4 is: BT featuring M. Doughty, "Never Gonna Come Back Down" (Hybrid's Breaktek mix); Sasha and Darren Emerson, "Scorchio" (full-length version); Trisco, "Musak" (Wonderland Ave. remix); the Chemical Brothers, "Out of Control" (Sasha remix); Scanty Sandwich, "Because of You"; Brother Brown, "Under the Water" (Faithless remix); Art of Trance featuring Caroline Lavelle, "Breathe" (Cygnus X remix); van Dyk featuring Saint Etienne, "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)" (PVD remix); Azzido da Bass, "Dooms Night" (Timo Maas remix); Moby, "Porcelain" (Clubbed to Death Variation Rob Dougan mix). ... The latest project from Jeff Mills is an electronic soundtrack the techno luminary composed for the futuristic 1926 Fritz Lang silent film "Metropolis," which is due in October on Germany's Tresor Records (a double-vinyl version will be available on Mills' own Axis label). Following closely on the heels of his recent Every Dog Has Its Day release, Mills' Metropolis features 15 new tracks intended to be heard while watching the influential film, whose imaginative visuals inspired the producer — in a statement issued through Tresor, he wrote, "The architecture of urbanism is the most definitive collaboration of intersecting platforms that we as humans have created." ... British producer Nightmares on Wax (born George Evelyn, a.k.a. DJ Ease) will release the next volume in the DJ-Kicks mix series, due Oct. 3. The album, the 17th in the series, is hip-hop-heavy, in a similar vein to recent DJ-Kicks releases by Kid Loco and Stereo MC's. Evelyn includes three N.O.W. tracks — including a new song featuring rapper O.C. — alongside A Tribe Called Quest's "Award Tour," Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics" and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez's "Get on Down." The Leeds, England-bred DJ released Carboot Soul last year, though he is revered for the 1995 downtempo manifesto Smoker's Delight. ... Fatboy Slim will promote his upcoming third album with a show Sept. 15 at the intimate New York club Centro-Fly. According to Astralwerks, the U.S. label releasing Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars on Nov. 7, the performance will be the DJ's last in the United States this year. ... Techno duo Orbital have posted MP3 files of rare soundtrack material on their official Web site, www.loopz.co.uk. "Tx: Nothing (Part 11)" is a segment from the English duo's soundtrack to British artist Nick Waplington's 45-minute film of the same name, which was broadcast July 29 on BBC2 in the UK. According to the site, the track is based on sound effects. Also available are two extracts from the 24-part soundtrack to "The Visit," a 30-minute drama about life inside a young offenders' prison that was broadcast on June 21. Orbital, made up of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, released their fifth album, Middle of Nowhere, last year, and are at work on the follow-up. ... Reclusive drum & bass experimentalist Photek (born Rupert Parkes) will support his upcoming second album, Solaris, with his first U.S. tour, kicking off Sept. 26 at Centro-Fly in New York. According to Astralwerks Records, his U.S. label, Photek is scheduled to DJ Sept. 27 at the Red Jacket in Dallas, Sept. 28 at Club 6 in San Francisco, Sept. 29 and 30 at Fais Do Do in Los Angeles, and Oct. 3 at the Baltic Room in Seattle. Solaris, due Sept. 19, breaks further ground for the producer, including several deep-house tracks complete with vocals and two with Fingers Inc. singer Robert Owens. ... The fourth annual Earthdance global dance party for Tibetan awareness will take place Oct. 14, climaxing at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, with every DJ playing the same song at events around the world. Moby, Underworld and Groove Armada are among the artists featured on Earthdance 2000, the third installment in a series benefiting the charity. Other tracks on the album, due Sept. 26, include Fatboy Slim's remix of Lunatic Calm's "Roll the Dice," Orbital's remix of their own "Style," Underworld's "Kitten," Breakbeat Era's "Bullitproof" and Coldcut's remix of Jim Kelter and Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts' "Elvin Suite." A documentary on the history of Earthdance and its international parties, featuring interviews with Doc Martin and Mixmaster Morris, will be included in a CD-ROM/DVD packaged with the record. A Stateside tour will follow in November. See www.earthdance.org for more information. ... — sonicnet.com staff report |
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