T.L.O.Y. Marcel Dettman (Sun 17/02)

THE LIKES OF YOU
presents
MARCEL DETTMANN
(Ostgut Ton, MDR, Berghain Resident, Berlin)
3 hour set

There’s no real definition of a good techno track – you just feel it, character, soul and a kind of hypnotic, industrial feeling. – Marcel Dettmann. 2013

“Digital music…it’s like toilet paper, I use it then throw it away” Marcel Dettmann 2011

Marcel Dettmann

Ruff, rugged and raw. Mentioning Marcel Dettmann as well as his feeling for and vision of electronic music, his way of dealing with it, is impossible without these attributes. Whether you take his DJ sets (Marcel has been made a resident DJ at the old Ostgut and also at Berghain from the very start), Dettmann’s productions for the self-conducted MDR label, his remixes for the likes of Fever Ray, Junior Boys, Modeselektor as well as Scuba, or if nothing else his debut long player for Ostgut Ton into account, all the various contrasts and distinctions that come with it are manifested in these qualities.

Techno as Marcel Dettmann defines it, is neither a movement without history nor wistful nostalgia. In the hands of the Berliner, the well-known game of hi-hats, bass lines and kick drums draws its tension and momentum from a historically grown tradition and the conscious decision to break the
rules. Reformation and solid construction outplays the use of any gimmicks.

Dettmann pours Detroit’s oil into European engines, puts British bass music under the control of Chicago’s very own Jack, cuts classics with abstract nuances and connects yesterday with tomorrow and today.

In the unrelenting manner of a great DJ, he generates moods and connections that are age- and classless, but never irrelevant or tasteless. Marcel Dettmann links up the art of improvisation with careful preparation and finally gives techno some of its often painfully missed serious physical constitution back.

Doors Open: 8pm
With support from: AllState
Presales: $25+B.F. from Moshtix http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/the-likes-of-you-presents-marcel-dettmann/63322