Liverpool-Alcatraz 2nd Birthday - Fri 2nd Feb - Neil Landstrumm

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Alcatraz 2nd Birthday
@ The Cavern Club
Mathew St Liverpool
Friday 2nd Feb
£6 on the door
9pm-3am

Neil Landstrumm

Plus Residents
Bill Heckle, Binny, Sam Baron, John 'HeK' Demonic, Mike Holmes

Landstrumm's body of work spans from 1994-1998. He has recorded for some of the most influential labels in techno including Tresor, peacefrog, Scandinavia, Mosquito and Sonic Groove building up an extensive discography. His own imprint, Scandinavia, now enjoys worldwide recognition for being one of the few labels still innovating in the field of techno and design. During 1994 in Edinburgh, Scotland both friendships and working relationships were formed between a group of artists provided the infrastructure of what was to unfold.

The up front and heavy Sativa club provided the focus of creative attention between Neil, Tobias Schmidt, Shandy and Dave Tarrida providing them with the opportunity to develop their unique Live performance and Dj-ing skills. During this forming period the distinctive "Landstrumm Peacefrog sound" was created which debuted on four Eps and one LP in 1995. Strong ceonnections and EP releases were also made on Christian Vogel´s Mosquito label in Brighton and Adam-X´s Sonic Grooove label in NYC .

In 1996 the assocation began between Scandinavia and Tresor with the first LP release marking a strict departure from the more Chicago based Peacefrog style. "Understanding Disinformation" tested the new Bass Techno sound citing both influences from classic Detroit techno and the more abstract Sheffield Bleep techno. Metallic soundscapes, sub-bass and stark beats set the Bleep-tone of the three Lps to follow.

"Bedrooms & Cities", a narrative of the worldwide DJ excursions, displayed a more atonal song structured style again building on the UK Bleep movement from the early 1990´s. Bass lines, low and punding combined with swinging raw DMX rhythms, researched sounds, electro thips and zaps gave Landstrumm his best selling work to date pushing the distinctive Scandinavia logo into new domains.

Landstrumm after being granted a USO1 artist visa relocated the label and studio to Brooklyn, NY in August 1997 in order to experience the inner city urban culture.

The 3rd release in this series "Pro Audio" is a project completed entirely in Brooklyn, NY. Heavily designed and manipulated sounds created using an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 1400 and BIAS Peak 1,64 provide him with fresh raw media for sonic experiments. Landstrumm uses Bit-rate decimation and SFX Machine techniques to provide grainy and subsonic grooves within a constantly moving structure. "Pro Audio" illustrates the shift from swinging Jack-Trax to `Sound design for the Digital Territory. Razor sharp scissor hats, sub-funk bass and rolling hip hop structures display the influence of NYC's HipHop culture into his musical output. "Pro-Audio" contains pieces recorded over the whole year and re-edited and processed in May 1998. The album will be available in September 1998.

[billalcatraz]

Alcatraz 2nd Birthday
@ The Cavern Club
Mathew St Liverpool
Friday 2nd Feb
£6 on the door
9pm-3am

Neil Landstrumm

Plus Residents
Bill Heckle, Binny, Sam Baron, John 'HeK' Demonic, Mike Holmes


Starting his professional career in 1994 Neil has released music on several international electronic labels and also worked in the motion graphics field with MTV, Rockstar Games and The Magnificents. To date Landstrumm has released 5 Experimental Electronic albums, 1 Art-Rock-Blues-Beat album, several 12" singles and remixes on labels ranging from Peacefrog, Tresor, Sonic Groove Mosquito, to his own imprint, Scandinavia. Neil has collaborated with Cristian Vogel,
Si Begg, Mike Fellows, Bill Youngman and Tobias Schmidt the best know of which is Sugar Experiment Station.
He is native to Scotland but has recently spent 6 years living in New York soaking up Brooklyn and Queens best in lifestyle, culture and music.

2005 sees Neil at the head of a successful creative factory called Scandinavia producing and releasing music,
motion graphics and television Ids and a print-based clothes label. New and uncharted music territories are currently being navigated.

Essentially a live artist, Neil has built his reputation on uncompromising live performances world wide with shows most recently at Unit–Tokyo, Rex-Paris, Tresor-Berlin and Electrowerkz-London.

Bass-Tech beats, Grime, Electro-Techno, Broken-Beat, Miami bass, beat throw downs or dirty swing style-lets stop the pigeons with their holes and get on with the real deal.. Landstrumm creates his classic stomach pumping bass,
metallic and melodic clangs and odd funky percussive swing lines live and in full effect. Whistle crew where are you?

This isn't some laptop-noodle performance. It's live electronics at its very best.

2000 small dogs couldn't be wrong.





updated profile - apologies