Floorplan ‘Victorious’ Summer Tour 2016

With Floorplan returning this summer as a father-daughter duo, Robert & Lyric Hood are set to blaze their disco, funk, soul and gospel styled house across the world’s dancefloors.

Launching their ‘Victorious’ tour on the eve of the release of their second album they aptly kick off in the sun-drenched El Monasterio, Barcelona during Sonar. The pair then take across Europe from festivals such as The Peacock Society Festival in Paris, By The Creek Festival, Utrecht and Movement Festival, Croatia to clubs such as Globus (Tresor) Berlin, Mixmag Live in London, HYTE at Amnesia (Ibiza) and Resident Advisor in Lisbon before finishing at Fuse meets Kompass in Gent, Belgium.

Victorious is released 17 June on M-Plant.
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FLOORPLAN SUMMER 2016 TOUR DATES

16.06: Detroit Love at El Monasterio, Barcelona, ES
17.06: Globus room at Tresor, Berlin, DE
24.06: Resident Advisor In Residence at Lux, Lisbon, PT
29.06: HYTE at Amnesia, Ibiza, ES
01.07: District 8, Dublin, IRL
09.07: By The Creek Festival, Utrecht, NL
13.07: Encore at Le Petit Salon, Lyon, FR
14.07: Mixmag Live at Village Underground, London, UK
15.07: The Peacock Society Festival, Paris, FR
16.07: Nice to Be, Napoli, IT
20.07: HYTE at Amnesia, Ibiza, ES
22.07: Tramelines Festival at Hope Works, Sheffield, UK
29.07: Movement Festival Croatia, Tsino, CRO
31.07: Delete at Gwdihw, Cardiff, UK
05.08: Komiks at Strojirny Warehouse, Prague, CZ
11.08: Sunkissed, Oslo, NO
14.08: Fuse meets Kompass, Gent, BE

ROBERT HOOD DATES MAY – AUGUST 2016

20.05: Moogfest, N. Carolina, USA
21.05: Loft 613, Los Angeles, USA
22.05  RBMA Festival NY Last Night A DJ Saved My Soul (as Floorplan), New York, USA
02.06: Anfiteatro delle Cascine, Florence, IT
03.06: Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille, FR
04.06: Weather Festival, Paris, FR
18.06: Kozzmozz at Vooruit, Gent, BE
25.06: A Summer Story Festival, Madrid, ES
02.07: Suma Beach, Istanbul, TR
23.07: TBA, Berlin, DE
30.07: 303 at The Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool, UK
06.08: Rotterdam Rave Festival, Rotterdam, NL
07.08: Dekmantel Festival, Amsterdam, NL
12.08: Medusa Sunbeach Festival, Valencia, ES
13.08: DGTL Festival, Barcelone, ES

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Feature: Mark Barrott’s Insomnia In Deepest South America

The first of his new monthly column’s for the Ransom Note…

A memoir from the International Feel boss…

I’ve been thinking about what to write about in this column for a few days and had kind of settled on the weird little idiosyncrasies (or foibles if, like my mother, you’re Barnsley mental,­ don’t ask) of everyday life (well my life) and out of nowhere as I was falling asleep last night, I remembered my period of insomnia in Uruguay a few years ago (obviously, great timing on the cusp of never never land, but still…)

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Mark Barrott’s latest EP can be heard in the player below. The next release as part of the Sketches For An Island series is expected later this year.

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Pioneering Groningen house label Ballyhoo Records to relaunch

Eclectic house boogie techno label run by Thee J Johanz to relaunch this month.

Johanz Westerman (Irdial, Djax-Up-Beat, Ballyhoo) a pioneering musician and artist popular in Indian Electronic circles as a close collaborator of the late acid house pioneer Charanjit Singh, talks at length with Kenneth Lobo about Charanjit Singh, the magic of Groningen, Babla’s Disco Dandiya and his self-styled Ballyhoo record label. Read more here and check the previews here in the players below. Welcome Ballyhoo Records!

Move Your Butty, Kambo & Vivian to be released in May and June.

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Watch the video for Beranek’s “Dra Te Hælvete” (Acid remix av Todd Terje)

The latter compatriot joins Terje for the first in a new series of Dansbar releases from Olsen that aims to highlight “the lost history of Norway’s disco underground.” First under the spotlight is Dra Te Hælvete from Beranek, which was released as a 7″ on Mind Expanding Records in 1981 and seemingly spent six months bothering the Norwegian pop charts after being banned by national TV/radio channel NRK.

Dra Te Hælvete out now on Olsen Records

 

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Petar Dundov Talks His Top Tips to Zagreb

The Croatian DJ local spills the beans on where to eat, sleep & party…

To celebrate the release of Petar Dundov‘s fifth artist album entitled ‘At The Turn Of Equilibrium’, the talent producer and DJ has put together a wicked guide to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, especially for DJ Mag travellers. A stalwart of the Croatian underground scene and a fine purveyor of sophisticated melodic techno, Dundov has been on our radar for over a decade — trust us when we say, this guy knows a thing or two about the best spots in his hometown!

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You can listen to his new album via SoundCloud below.

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Artist Spotlight: Luke Slater’s Planetary Funk 22 Light Years Tour

Being quoted by FACT Magazine as one of techno’s most consistent and respected practitioners, Luke Slater has been instrumental in reinvigorating the techno landscape for the past two and a half decades:

“With hundreds of official releases and remixes over twenty years under a slew of conceptually distinct aliases, Slater’s signal-to-noise ratio is unmatched among producers of similar prolificacy, forming a discography that doubles as a definitive guide to techno’s halcyon beginnings and future fractures. Whether making an art of mangled metal as Planetary Assault Systems, churning out breakbeat choons under a variety of aliases in the early 1990s, mastering atmospheric techno as The 7th Plain, or proving his chops as an A&R with the formation of Mote-Evolver in 2006, Slater’s career is a tangled web of releases that are rarely staid, exceptionally focused, and continually riveting. The adoption of various aliases wasn’t just a form of artistic evasion or obfuscation. Each project seems individually detailed to certain emotional or functional needs, diverse and embracing variety without stepping on the toes of some other names’ output.”

2016 sees Slater add another string to his bow in the form of the Planetary Funk 22 Light Years Tour, which will bring together some of his contemporaries to curate a string of nights celebrating the 22 years since he released the first volume of the legendary Planetary Funk series. There will also be a special release to commemorate this hypnotic distance. Watch these pages for more details Lukeslater.com / Facebook / Twitter

Stream clips from part 1.

Tracklist
A1 Dungeon (Ø [Phase] Remix)
B1 Gated (Ben Sims Edit)
B2 Dungeon (P.A.S. 1997 Original)

Mote-Evolver will release Planetary Funk 22 Light Years Series – Part 1 on May 27th, 2016.

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