K1971 Podcast

K1971 PODCAST - HELENA GALLARDO The influence of his father, together with an inborn love and restlessness for music, took Helena to become a sound engineer and work as a post-production sound designer. This, plus her taste for terror films and touching sounds, helped her give shape and define the sound which makes her unique. Backed up by lives full of energy, emotion and strength, and by emphatic sets influenced by Detroit’s techno, the Birmingham sound and the experimental sounds of IDM.In 2010 she joined the roster of Magnum Bookings what channeled her career to performances in the best clubs and festivals.As far as production is concerned, after publishing in different netlabels as Pong Musiq , Elektrodomesticos II , Geometric FM, etc... she has made several remixes for featured artists as Tadeo, Stendhal Syndrome, Cora Novoa… At the present time she is involved in the development of her own record label/ artistic platform: "Silent Signal" , wich aims to raise awareness of the power of music to make a better world, through social assistance.Parallel develops different projects under pseudonyms; “Forbidden Zone” and “Background Noise” . In addition to running the hit radioshow: “Genesis”, with Tadeo, which airs weekly on “Vicious Radio” . After years of musical career, she's still trying to keep one foot in the underground and not be swayed easily. For her, music has always been and will be emotion , strength and feeling, far removed from the concept of industry attributes and market.

K1971 PODCAST - MICOL DANIELI (030 Recordings - Rome/Berlin) 030 is the number that identifies the area of Berlin, the city in which the label was founded. 030 was born in this creative city of dreams, stories, ideas and projects.Full of contradictions, hot and anarchic but at the same time cold and disciplined. This is not a point of arrival, but a journey, with the purpose to become a label which follows the underground scene and aims to bring the dark techno sounds of new and well known artists to every dance floor.A travel “on the road” between the dancefloor and sounds from all over the world where the goal is not the destination but the journey itself.030, where the number 30 ‐ according to the cabala the symbol of beauty – here stops to be the number that identifies a specific location and becomes the symbol of imagination, with a suitcase full of dark and refined sounds wanting to release talented artists on the international scene and with the intention of writing a new story.

K1971 PODCAST - RYOGO YAMAMORI Ryogo Yamamori was rising star techno music scene.he was exposed to the sounds of such as artist Marshall Jefferson,Josh Wink,Green Velvet,Jeff Mills,Derrick May,Undergroud Resistance,early 90`s. in 1999, he starts making his solo tracks,his tracks began to appears in magazine DJ Charts around the world. in 2011, he starts his own label 951beat in tokyo, after only a few releases gained heavy industry support from DJs such as Dave Clarke,DVS1,Drumcell,...just to name a few.it has over 80 original production work on torque,slap jaxx,IIIegal Alien Records and more he's first album is coming out on Slap Jaxx 2014.he`s also established techno artists such as Angel Alanis,Detroit Grand Pubahs vs. Space DJz.he was getting perform at air in Japan,Octagon in Korea,America,New Zealand and Canada.

K1971 PODCAST - DJ TUTTLE DJ Tuttle was born in 1972 in Nancy. At an early age, DJ TUTTLE plonged himself into the sounds of 70’s discofunk and 80’s New Wave. At only 14 years of age DJ TUTTLE played his first gig andof 17 he became DJ resident in his first club, the SCALA of NANCY, where he started programming the first sounds of newbeat and hiphouse. At the same time he started composing songs on the computer and with the sampler. In 1990, he created a techno program, which he taught for the first time within a school. At the same time, he travelled back and forth to Frankfurt, Brussels and Lille looking to extend his disc collection and exploring the legendary clubs such as Bocaccio and Dorian Gray. In 1994, he moved to Lille in the north of France, where he met DJ ADOLPHE (USA IMPORT), who was a famous disc jockey during this period. DJ Adolphe helped DJ Tuttle to get bookings for several rave events and clubs in France and Belgium. During this time he also released his first single with STEELWORK records (USA IMPORT). He met ZZINO the label manager of RELOAD records during one of his gigs. He listened to his tracks and got him several contracts with several famous labels such as RELOAD-SUBSOUND-futur FRONTIER which includes names such as Sven Väth, Dave Clark, Pascal Feos and his now close friend DJ CHICH. In 1998, DJ TUTTLE became resident in the L’USINE and more gigs followed in France and other countries doing DJ LIVE SETS in clubs like the REX CLUB FR, LA COVA ES, LE RACHDINGUE ES, GOLT MILK FR, GOLIATH CH…… During this time, he created his best ever discographie and played at numerous big name events. Recently he signed a contract with the label A.PAUL (NAKED LUNCH et PARALLEL 125) also with TORZTEN KANZLER’s label (TK RECORD) working together with his good friend DJ CHICH. It is with pleasure to announce that they have also strated uop a new label called “ MODULHERTZ REC ” with sounds coming from Detroit. (Detroit Chicago).

K1971 PODCAST - MOGANO Mogano is the moniker under which Marco Berardi, electronic music producer and imprint, started his musical project around 2010. The name ”mahogany” re-calls both the percussive and string-generated nature of his music as well as his profound fascination for ancient musical practices and nature as source of knowledge. After growing up as guitarist into different kind of musical projects, he began in 2010 to perform as Dj into clubs around Dub/Dubstep and Techno contexts as well as more performative ones and to develop a synergic activity with the visual artist Andrea Familari FAX and the sound designer Drøp (aka Giuseppe Bifulco), which is now signed under the name of Arboretum, their cooperative platform and record label for Audio/Video experiments where he works also as head-imprint and curator.

K1971 PODCAST - TAKAAKI ITOH Techno hit Japan hard in the early 1990s. Surprised, Takaaki Itoh was quickly impressed and intrigued with this new sound. The unique style of beats revealed the gateway to a new world of underground music in Japan - something he had never heard before. Surprise slowly gave way to addiction when Takaaki Itoh was exposed to the sounds of such artists and labels as Underground Resistance, Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Hardfloor, Sven Väth, Harthouse, Warp and Rising High. This was his sound, and deciding he just couldn't get enough of it, in 1994 Takaaki began to organize his own techno parties in his home of northern Japan. By providing a fantastic lineup, his parties quickly became a success.In 1996, having decided that it was time to start making his own tracks, Takaaki Itoh emerged to purchase the vital instruments to begin production. After sending out three finished projects to various labels, Electracom UK was fortunate enough to put Takaaki's first material out. This moment was something he will never forget, as he was finally able to hear his own music on vinyl. Several releases followed with Electracom as his tracks began to appear in magazine DJ charts in well known DJs from around the world. In 2000, Takaaki Itoh made his European debut in Slovakia. People recognized that he had his own style. His Japanese style of techno was pure, unique and underground - nothing that had been heard before in Europe. His reputation and popularity quickly spread all over the continent. He was becoming recognized as Japan's most underground and respected techno DJ.As of 2001 he was getting offers to perform at large clubs and festivals all over Europe, including Cosmic Trip and Svojsice in the Czech Republic, The Darkside in England, MTW in Germany, Awakenings and Reactor in Holland, Mayday and Sziget in Hungary, La Real and Code in Spain, Boomerang in Slovakia, Projekt in Belgium, as well as events in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Serbia. Slovenia.. Promoters wanting him, party people loving him, Takaaki Itoh took the next step and started his own label Wols. Passion led to success and Takaaki became recognized as the top of the next generation of techno music.By 2005 Takaaki Itoh has released over 50 original productions on many different european labels like Sheep, Tsunami, Warm Up, Theory, MB Selektions, Integrale Muzique, etc. He’s also developed a reputation for remixing globally established techno artists such as Gennaro Le Fosse, Oscar Mulero, Christian Wünsch and more to come. His demand is rapidly growing beyond his Asian and European roots, to places like South America, Australia, the US and Canada.

K1971 PODCAST - MADALBA Techno as social phenomenon is her motto. Always trying to keep into the deepest heart of the Techno sound, making of it a lifestyle. Traveling around the world, lerning anywhere and from everyone. Berlin and Detroit are now her homes. Madalba, was born in July 1985 in Bari/Italy. Since she was very young her interest in different musical cultures such as house and dance trends of the moment spread through rock and punk, leading to Techno and club-culture. At 22 she approaches the local scene as dj-girl with numerous performances in the club circuit in collaboration with some of the most renowned local promoters. The musical experience gained over the years brought her to start djing only with vinyls building up a strong reputation as underground Techno dj, allowing her to play in clubs such as Tresor, Abount Blank, Mikz and Tacheles in Berlin where she basically lives. In September 2011 she moved to Detroit where she played in the most popular clubs such as The Works, Exodus, Old Miami in collaboration with the friends Dj Seoul and Tom Linder of Detroit Techno Militia.This travel has definitely and radically changed is approach to the Techno concept, wich she cosiders more a social phenomenon and a means of complaint then simply a musical genre. Since January 2012 she is resident of the party Homopatik in About Blank, Berlin.

K1971 PODCAST - HECTOR OAKS Born in Madrid, lives in Berlin. A young artist who is enjoying a lot of success both as a DJ and as a producer.  Hector Oaks continues to increase in recent years by releasing on KEY Vinyl / Quant Records / Sonntag Morgen and Par Recordings ... many other projects are on the way.

K1971 PODCAST - WUNDERBLOCK Wunderblock is an electronic music project from Moscow, Russia. Three masterminds met up to create something new, all adding their different spice to the soup. Michael Teploff is known from the beginning of 2000's for his Ill Doggy releases on Salo Records, Berlin, and as one half of Multipliar project (the other half being Anton Kubikov a.k.a. SCSI-9) on the infamous Cologne imprint Trapez. In 2008 Michael has teamed up with the producer/multi-instrumentalist Igor Ivanov and DJ Vladimir Kochenov to push his own limits.The result coming out of this creative pool is not only proof of outstanding handicraft skills, but also the combination of several disparate sources of influence, far beyond the expected minimal heroes. Pioneer composers within art music as well as film scores and visual artists have all played an indirect role in forming the Wunderblock sound - an eclectic mix of minimal techno, house and dub with a touch of ambience and a jazzy feel. The use of not only synths and drum-machines, but also live instruments like acoustic and electric guitars, live percussion and wind instruments, adds to the organic flavour.Wunderblock Records is a brand new label from that team. In 2013 after some releases on different labels and experiments with styles - from techno and house to jazz and ambient - Michael Teploff and Vladimir Kochenov decided to start their own label, with more underground, techno and dub sound.The term of Wunderblock is related to the concept by Siegmund Freud from his work “Notiz uber den “Wunderblock” (1925). Freud regarded the Wunderblock as a perfect metaphor for the process of recording memories. According to Freud, the mind records memories continually receiving stimuli and transferring traces of that information to the unconscious to be stored as memories.This podcast has been recorded by Michael Teploff exclusively for K1971 Podcast.

K1971 PODCAST - KEN KARTER Ken Karter was born as a musician and classical pianist. Already when he was a child he was passionate about technology and electronic music. When he got introduced to the world of Djing, he started to appreciate the techno sounds and decided to start a career as a DJ/ producer. At the same time he continued his studies in music, devoting himself to the production as Sound Designer and Sound Engineer. Recently, he started his own label ‘Kript’ that is focused on a specific mix of radical electronic sounds and techno. In the meanwhile, Ken Karter continued important collaborations with well-known classical musicians.