It is 3:47AM eastern standard time in Detroit, and Sherard Ingram is smoothing out the microscopic kinks in his latest composition. While the focus of his finessing would not be audible to the average ear, his consistent drive to weave a distinctive techno masterpiece is the thread that has captured the attention of alternative audiences worldwide. Whether he is sharing his unconventional techno offerings with crowds in Berlin, Madrid, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris, London or at home on U.S. soil; the deep and authentic roots of this electronic visionary’s music are undeniable.
For Ingram music and passion are interdependent. Nothing inspires him more than creating a sound experience that resonates so real, that it challenges social and cultural boundaries and moves people to explore perspectives beyond the mainstream. Ingram’s collaborations with electro pioneers such as Anthony Shakir, Kenny Dixon and Carl Craig has contributed to his solid presence in the world of techno music for close to two decades. With more than three dozen releases and appearances under the critically acclaimed names Urban Tribe, Mystic Tribe A.I., Drexcyian DJ Stingray and DJ Stingray, Sherard Ingram is an electronic artist, DJ and producer who’s footprint continues to expand across Europe and North America.
The release of the early techno classic Covert Action on Retroactive (Reissued on Planet E) and Urban Tribe’s debut album The Collapse of Modern Culture on Mo Wax sparked much interest in his work. Since 1999 Ingram has toured internationally playing in numerous cities across Europe and further afield. In 2008 he formed the label; Micron Audio Detroit to release the work of fresh, upcoming talent from across the globe. The label’s first release Next Wave featured the debut release of innovative, young artist’s such as Belgium's, Mariska.
It is not by imitation, but by remorseless innovation that Sherard Ingram has been known to create matchless electro sound encounters.
Claude Young wants to live in a world where every artist is free to express themselves without being boxed into genre specific categories.
As a composer, his work has been used by BBC Radio 4 (UK) & Sony Playstation (Japan). As a DJ he has mixed compilations for !K7 (Germany), Sony Music Entertainment Japan & Jeff MIlls Axis Records (USA) to name just a few. He's remixed records for Kevin Saunderson / Inner City, Carl Craig, 4Hero, Sven Vath & many others. He's one half of the techno live / DJ act Different World with his good friend Takasi Nakajima.
When he’s not writing music or touring, you can find him enjoying everything his newly adopted home town of Portland, Oregon (PDX) has to offer, from live music to independent cinema, hanging with close friends, or taking in dinner and a movie with his partner / collaborator Trisha.
His last full length solo album entitled "Celestial Bodies" (physical copies available in Japan only / digital world wide) was praised by media outlets including a rather fine review up by UK magazine Data Transmission.
His main focus in 2015 and beyond is to release more music independently through his website & to collaborate with live musicians & visual artists on a regular basis.
Avalon Emerson is from the desert. While she currently lives in Berlin, the music she produces comes from the dreamlike expanse and abstract textures of the Sonoran landscapes of Arizona. Her journey has taken her from that sunbaked state to the contemporary dance music mecca via a long stint in San Francisco, where she cut her teeth as a DJ in the city's storied warehouse party scene. In her DJ sets and productions now, she offers a timeless narrative that reflects a passion for the sound design of new wave, the futurism of techno, the soul of American house and the exuberance of rave. Though she's built up steam in 2015 from multiple sets at Panorama Bar, and globetrotting all around Europe and North America, she's just getting started, and continues to outdo herself with original productions released on labels like Shtum, Spring Theory, Icee Hot, and her own DJ tool edit pool, the Cybernedits series.
Rick Wilhite's position within the ranks of his Detroit peers and amongst the city's respected house music heritage is impressive. Learning the trade from scratch, Wilhite went through the experience of being a record buyer as well as a record dealer with his own store (Vibes – New and Rare Music), worked on the other side of the fence as a producer and editor for labels like KDJ, Stilove4music and as part of the infamous Three Chairs collective (Kenny Dixon Jr., Theo Parrish and Marcellus Pittman being the other members). Rick has also worked alongside peers and pioneers Derrick May and Juan Atkins, recorded as DOC, Tech-12, Working Mixx or The Godson, and has always been a mover and shaker behind the scenes. But on top of all that, he is notorious for being a DJ. One that still carries and loves vinyl, one that knows past, present and doesn't shy away from the future, and most of all a DJ that knows what a party could and should be.
A dominant force on the Brooklyn underground scene, Ariana is known for tough, stripped-back techno and groovy, acid-flavored sets. She has been a busy DJ and event producer since 2006 and in that time has shared the decks with many international stars including Marcel Dettmann, DVS1, The Hacker, Legowelt and Marcel Fengler.
Based in NYC since 2011, she holds two monthly residencies: JACK DEPT. NYC at Bossa Nova Civic Club is a top event of the notorious hotspot that's focused on an acidic house party vibe featuring standout DJs and producers from across the burgeoning American scene. The mighty UNTER afterhours pushes the harder edges of techno and in just a year has proven itself to be a highlight of the late-night circuit.
Raised in Buffalo, New York, her early experiences in the industrial and rave scenes of rust-belt America shaped her outlook on dance culture. An ardent supporter of the underground, she was a key figure in developing the electronic music scene in Boston, Massachusetts from 2007-2010.
Since the last half of 2015 Ariana has enjoyed a growing tour schedule including noted appearances at POP Montreal, VIA Festival in Pittsburgh and the ascendant Sustain-Release festival in upstate New York. In 2016 she has appeared in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brazil and recently completed a US tour stopping in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Los Angeles and San Francisco. This summer she will tour Europe for the first time.
Ariana is a unique character on the US scene guaranteed to bring a high energy show that lights up dance floors with an undeniable spirit.
Crawling out from under the bed of email burned daily into his retina display, Gingy is ritualizing the shreds of a life well Techno’ed (somewhat), for one night only, again, until next month, for realsies tho.
Feel your mindjaw drop as he knob-tweaks the chav sublime, rekindling the primordial rhythmic bonds that matchmake your fluid mem-brains. 100% live and direct, repatching the love of your life into your life of love.
As a youth, CL spent her days practicing Czerny drills and late nights exploring college radio. Her curiosity for new sounds beyond the deeply isolated and extremely disciplined classical world has led her on a journey through diverse styles like post punk and shoegaze and acid house, a journey she's still navigating today. Her love of musical communities inspired an early interest in radio, which soon blossomed into a passion for DJing.
Nowadays, CL channels this stronger-than-ever fervour for creating musical collages into her monthly TRP show, Work In Progress, where she highlights the best and weirdest in underground electronic music produced by women. She also devotes her energy to producing immersive nightlife experiences, bringing the same attention to curation and representation as she does to the pacing and movement of her DJ sets.
Reflecting her classical background and a diversity in taste, CL's sets have been praised for their versatility and dynamic restraint. Her affection for both the dreamy and the nightmarish has led to bookings at the legendary Smartbar in Chicago alongside Discwoman's Umfang and Freakout Cult's Jayda G, a residency at Bambi's, and 6am warehouse raves in Buffalo and Montreal. She has, in a short amount of time, shared the decks with acclaimed figures of the underground like Matrixxman, Lena Willikens, Soichi Terada, Aurora Halal, Christina Sealey of Orphx, Palmbomen, Project Pablo, and Huerco S.
For CL, nothing inspires her more than sets that traverse the spaces in between hard vs. soft, loud vs. quiet. Let's meet somewhere along the way on July 9th.
In the Infinite Poolside series, Brigitte Bardon't (aka Kristel Jax) re-records full albums or mixtapes so that the listener hears them as they would sound in or at a swimming pool. The series was inspired in part by the mixtapes of DJ Screw.
"the all-inclusive resort of avant-garde music" - Jason Doell
Since March 2015, Infinite Poolside has had a home as a monthly radio show on TRP (Toronto Radio Project). On each show Jax also appears in character with commentary as Brigitte Bardon’t. Mixtapes with commentary can be heard on TRP’s Mixcloud archives.
On the Infinite Poolside blog, Jax writes prose about swimming pools and Drake: http://infinitepoolside.tumblr.com/
At the Power Plant, Infinite Poolside will go live by the lakeside for an ambient 3 hours as part of It's Not U It's Me. Jax has previously performed and installed with Infinite Poolside at The Great Hall (Long Winter, for Infinite Poolside's one year anniversary), and various Toronto venues.
Hudson Alexander is a Toronto-based producer/DJ who spent his formative years spinning at after hours parties and on college radio in his hometown of Winnipeg. Since relocating to Toronto he has become a staple of the Bedroomer collective, releasing tracks with both them, and Seattle’s Hush Hush Records. On his TRP show, Hudson aims to maintain the late night, smoked out vibes of the marathon after hours house and techno sets he became known for at home, but with a more atmospheric, experimental edge that the absence of a dance floor allows.
Dustin Good —
Large musical background across different styles, studied in Jazz, love breakbeats and records, sample chopping, etc. Rhythm is always No. 1! Produced lots of hip hop and have been performing live imrovised electronic music very regularly for the past couple of years. I have been involved in music education in many different ways as well.
Butr —
Wide music interests and slightly genre obsessive at times. Started collecting gear and records at age 17. First sampler was a emu sp 1200. Then got 12’s became a turntablist playing hip hop. Produced Solo projects and many other different musical projects including film/tv for the last 20 years. Huge Gear collector and synthesizer weirdo.
Dustin Good + Butr: Live techno project using all hardware and performing while leaving lots of open spaces for improvisation and movement where necessary.
Resident of the fog machine haze. His youth is bound by hatred. Fueling the fires of dissent with antagonistic noise.
Deep-dive technocapitalist stimulation & industrial-grade graphic corruption and augmentation.
Edna King’s music resists categorization in the best way possible — it’s something even she herself has a hard time with. Instead, it is perhaps served best by descriptive words versus genre classification. Raw. Atmospheric. Emotive. Stirring. And unexpected, even for King herself: “I think I can go as far to say some of the tracks on [my latest] EP are more or less the antithesis of what I’ve been a part of making up to this point.”
