Dusty Melodies. @ Культ

Место: Культ
Адрес: Яузская, 5, м. Китай-город, Таганская
Телефон: 917-57-06

DJ DSL (G-Stone, Austria)
Epik Soundsystem (Epik Sounds)
visuals by Komotsky

Стефан - замечательный человек, любящий свою дочь и собирающий для нее наших чебурашек из мультика, который она очень полюбила, случайно увидев где- то на германском телевидении. Он же - DJ DSL, один самых талантливых и техничных ди-джеев на всем белом свете. Его собственный альбом увидел свет на ультимативно респектабельном независимом лейбле - G-Stone. Его версия всем известной вещицы "поп-корн" или "мелодии спортлото"  снова облетела клубную сцену и была в плейлистах большинства ди-джеев, играющих party rockin' style,  обретя вокал и название "Happy Bear". 19 летний стаж и бесчисленные чемпионские ди-джейские титулы, постоянная практика и по-прежнему забитое до предела расписание. Мастерство Стефана не тускнеет с годами, напротив ... Наверняка Вам известно, что многие заблуждаются, думая что ди-джеи делают ремиксы и "обработки" :) во время выступления. Это неправда для 99.999 % процентов ди-джеев. Они просто ставят определенным образом пластики, выбраннные ими с любовью из океана хорошей и плохой музыки. И все же в 0.001 %  случаев они правы...  DJ DSL берет пластики и в реальном времени(!)  отбивает ритм с одной из них и вставляет сэмплы и отрывки из другой. То есть рождает музыку у Вас на глазах, которым Вы не можете поверить, глядя на его руки. Практически, чтобы играть полный сет ему достаточно двух пластинок. И такой случай известен, когда он разогревал DJ Krush на большем фестивале в Вене несколько лет назад. Krush просто не мог играть после Стефана, дабы не терять лицо. В Культе тоже будет полный сет, правда Стефан возьмет с собой полную сумку пластинок :) И нам с Вами будет что послушать и на что посмотреть.

а здесь биография  артиста с сайта http://www.g-stoned.com

Some years ago, trip hop was still the dernier cri, DJ Krush visited Vienna. Expectations ran high, but Senor K. was about to be blown into nothingness - by an support act. A certain DJ DSL doin something rarely encountered: making music with his hands, splitting hip hop atoms with ease. None of the locals was surprised, they had seen this guy do other outerworldly things before.

But most spectacular: all his achievements are made in the absence of odd turntable trickery and standard vinyl exoticisms. It?s about timing and discreet interventions. This force is a quiet one. The most raw and basic hip hop ingredients are used to cook up not your average b-boy jam, but a universally accessible groove. Accessible, not because this is some odd pop conspiracy vs. rap, it is a perfect dislocation of the well known, a musical virus that affects and mutates the microstructure, leaving body and meaning of hip hop intact: transcending the format within the format. It sounds all new and smells like victory. What a break from the european standard of doctorin' the hip hop, either shockfreezing it into artificial purism or trying to make it more "interesting" by bleaching, thinning and the addition of funny noises. Even our G-Stoners are not entirely innocent here.

DJ DSL's take on hip hop might as well be one of the few profound and lasting Europe ever had. On account of this he should have been a global player ever since, but he is an essentialist by choice and heart. while the herd changed taste and direction every friday night, DJ DSL over the years remained a reliable bullshit-detector. Nothing is more misleading than the full version of his nom du guerre, DSL, originally Stefan Biedermann, had picked some 15 years ago in typical old school tongue-in-cheek fashion: D. for DJ (that makes two in the end), S. for Super and L. for "Leiwand", a viennese slang-term for something beyond excellence.

In fact, he is a man of straightforward understatement, full of dry wit and humor, who easily will give you a damn good expertise on why it?s better to hang out in your favourite coffeehouse, rather than pursueing a popstar-lifestyle. Accordingly his vita can't be filed under "career".

After starting in the mid-eigthies with lonesome turntable hometraining, winning local
dmc-dj-competitions and a short stint with his brother's trashdisco chartrocket 'Edelweiss', he joined 'The Moreaus' a freaky outfit of hopeless idealists alongside Peter Kruder, Dub Club's Sugar B and Uptight's Rodney Hunter. After recording an album Austria definitely wasn't ready for, the bubble went bang and DJ DSL back to his old coffeehouse routines. He had to be pushed and pulled back on the scene. An era of legendary DJ-sessions supported by the mc-ing of Sugar B under the monicker 'Swound Sound System' followed. A truely impressive tribute to the low-key-great-fun-hardly-making-any-money side of things. When DJ DSL was voted "Best DJ" by influential german mag Spex in 1995, he again quit the business. He never liked that much attention.

Hadn't the beat-addict come back this fine album wouldn't be around. DJ DSL even managed to transfer his unique mix-style into production. As an avid member of the "Mark the 45 King" school of break-buddhism, he gives seriality and repetition in hip hop a new meaning. Tunes, that have house-track lenghth, loops that rotate like gyros, breaks, that break themselves. Rich musicality never overruling the idea of hip hop: a deep fertilization of the groove. In Austria, a fabric called 'Loden' is made by the peasants of the alps since the middle age, yet it?s a high tech product. Wool cloth is fulled, mangled and compressed tediously by hand to achieve a felt-like fibre structure in order to be light and breathable as well as warm and waterproof. Ready to be worn under rain and snow, in winter and summer. Just like DJ DSL's garments; durable for life.

by Werner Geier

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