KonZept Maus After 3 packed weekend events in Tokyo & 2 much talked about back room sessions at clubs Unit & Air, KonZept Maus' is the art meets music club event of choice. Oft imitated and rarely beaten, KM's mission is to create an organic, evolving & interactive meeting point of art, music & fashion for trendsetters & scene leaders in Tokyo. Since it began almost 3 years ago DAVE TWOMEY's event has gone from strength to strength in the last year considering especially the last sellout event in October and its success since KM artists were added to the mix at Dave's YUK @ Womb events. A chance for creative, artistic & active minds to come together & stimulate each other by sharing & presenting their ideas through whatever medium they choose, be it live act or performance, art or fashion show, etc. Finally to dance the night away to the backdrop of mind opening, forward-thinking music & visuals.
SPECIAL GUEST FROM PARIS + PAUL RITCH AKA HANDYCRAFT // PARIS, FRANCE + Get Physical Music / Resopal Schallplatten / Minisketch / Kickboxer http://www.myspace.com/paulritch
Paul Ritch has taken the minimal scene by storm this last year. After no more than a year after his first release the young Frenchman from Paris has already played top clubs such as CITY HALL BARCELONA, REX PARIS, FUSE BRUSSELS & GOA ROME and has released tracks on GET PHYSICAL, RESOPAL & MINISKETCH as well as on KICKBOXER under his Handycraft alias. Right now one of RICHIE HAWTIN's favorite artists, his very popular 'Winter Ceremony' track on Resopal not only found its way to the front of Richie's record box but at the M_nus party in May ripped the La Foret venue apart when he dropped it 4 tracks into his set. Other fans of his productions include some of todays hottest DJ's and producers ANJA SCHNEIDER, ADAM BEYER, DAN GHENACIA, JONA, DJ T, MANDY, DAVID SQUILLACE, MARTIN EYERER, MARKO NASTIC & DJ MISJAH. With his still momentum gathering WINTER CEREMONY EP on Resopal Red & FORTUNA track on the GET PHYSICAL MIAMI SAMPLER plus 2 releases forthcoming on Get Physical Paul is looking more & more like the future hero: his sparse, intricate, funky, latin-influenced & electro-led alike, pacy rhythms are helping lead the evolution of minimal towards some seriously fun territory.
昨年ミニマル・シーンに怒涛の勢いで飛び出したフランス出身のPaul Ritch、初リリースより一年も経たない内にCITY HALL BARCELONA, REX PARIS, FUSE BRUSSELS 、GOA ROMEなどのヨーロッパ中の著名クラブでプレイ、リリースに至ってはGET PHYSICAL, RESOPAL、MINISKETCHとKICKBOXER (Handycraft名義で)などのレーベルより作品を出している。あのRichie Hawtinが絶賛するアーティストの一人であり、彼の「Winter Ceremony」(Resopal)はRichieの大のお気に入りトラックとして5月のLa Foret MuseumでのM_nusパーティーでRichieが掛けた4つ目のレコードでフロアもこのレコードで大きく盛り上がった。Richie以外にもあの ANJA SCHNEIDER, ADAM BEYER, DAN GHENACIA, JONA, DJ T, MANDY, DAVID SQUILLACE, MARTIN EYERER, MARKO NASTIC やDJ MISJAHなどのオオモノアーティストがPaulのリリースを好んでかけている。未だにその勢いも止まる気配を見せないResopal RedのWinter Ceremony EP、GET PHYSICAL MIAMI SAMPLERのFortuna、同レーベルよりさらに2つのリリース予定とPaulの今後がかなり期待されている。ニューヒーローのPaulのまばらで複雑渇ファンキーなラテンサウンドを取り入れた独自のミニマルミュージックは、これからのミニマルと言える。
- RELEASE OUT - PAUL RITCH : NORDBAHNOF EP ( MINISKETCH ) RITCH & COLLINS : FORTUNA EP ( GET PHYSICAL ) PAUL RITCH : SAMBA EP ( RESOPAL 40 ) PAUL RITCH : HIGHER EP ( PARADIGMA 002 ) PAUL RITCH : WINTER CEREMONY EP ( RESOPAL 43) COLLINS & EYERER : MANIFESTATION ( PAUL RITCH REMIX ) HANDYCRAFT : LE BAL MASQUE EP ( KICKBOXER )
- FORTHCOMING - PAUL RITCH : JUNE EP (GET PHYSICAL) & MONOMACHINE (PAUL RITCH REMIX)
GUEST LIVE PERFORMANCE + PIKA PIKA "LIGHTNING DOODLES PROJECT" + 光によって作り出される残像で描くアニメーションです。今回のKonzept Mausでは,PIKA PIKAのLIVE PERFORMANCEをおこないます。いくつもの画像からひとつのアニメーションが出来上がるまでのすべての過程:1コマ1コマのイメージ、そして最後にすべてのイメージをループでつなげて出来上がるパラパラ漫画のようなアニメーションを全てスクリーンに映し出し、観客の目を釘付けにすること間違いナシです。当日はLIVE PERFORMANCEの最後に観客のみなさんにglow stickを配りますので、ぜひ会場のみなさんにもパフォーマンスに加わっていただき、PIKAPIKAの楽しさを体感・体験していただきたいとおもっております!PIKAPIKA performance by TOCHKA (Takashi Nagata and Kazue Monno) http://tochka.jp + RITZ
PIKA PIKA is penlight animation written and created on the fly. Each image is first drawn with penlights, then connected together with subsequent others to make almost instant animation. They project the whole procedure on the screen during the performance. The Pika PIka film was awarded at the Ottawa Animation Festival and has been shown in numerous places all over the world. It also won an award in animation at an art festival organized by the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan. At Konzept Maus as at other events ther audience will get a chance to be part of the performance. TOCHKA is a creative unit by Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno. They've been pika pika'ing for about two years. They are also well-known VJ's. RITZ is a live painter who joined Tochka to work on Pika Pika one & a half years ago.
VISUAL ART
+ HEAVENS FIELD (Crossmountain Nights) - MULTI-PROJECTOR VJ + + BPM 2007 (YUK / Konzept Maus) - MULTI-PROJECTOR VJ + + MARKO645 - MARK OXLEY PRESENTS YUK @ WOMB EXHIBITION + + MAI NAKAWZAWA - MISC + + RRRRRRR - WRITTEN WORD & MORE +
+ BOB ROGUE (Textone / Dirty Works / Miniscule.TV) + + RENNIE FOSTER (F Communications / Dirty Works) +
"YUK" LOUNGE
SPECIAL GUEST + KIKIORIX (Adrift / Ladies & Gentlemen) + + TAMAKI (YUK) + + JASON SAINT (Hi Fi) + + QUREA (Plus Tokyo) +
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PAUL RITCH FORTHCOMING GIGS JULY 06 SWITZERLAND, RESOPAL 07 BLAU CLUB 13 JAPAN / OSAKA 14 JAPAN / TOKYO 25 IBIZA UNDERCLUB 28 FUSE BRUSELAS
AUGUST 03 SOLIBA CLUB, MALLORCA 04 SWEDEN 10 SPAIN 11 SPAIN 18 FAMA FESTIVAL - SPAIN 25 AMSTERDAM / MOJO.NL
SEPTEMBER 01 ZURICH / TROPEO DAVIDE 14 COSTA RICA / S. AMERICA 15 SANTO DOMINGO / SA 16 EL SALVADOR / SA 21 COLOMBIA / SA 22 COLOMBIA / S.AM 29 HOLLAND / ROCKING
The Berlin-based label Get Physical Music is run by a true collective - six people who have been active in the electronic music scene for a long time.
Only recently, Get Physical was voted fourth most popular label in the 2004 Groove Magazine readers’ poll (“National Label”).
Acting under the collective moniker M.A.N.D.Y., Bodmer and Jung are best known for their remixes of Silicone Soul, Röyksopp, Galleon, Mambotur and the Sugababes. Current remix projects include Freeform Five’s “Strangest things”, „Come into my kitchen“ by Joakim and Seelenluft’s „You come along“. To date they have released three records on Get Physical under their own name. As co-producers they are also behind M.A.N.D.Y. & the SUNSETPEOPLE as well as Chelonis R. Jones.
The two inseparable friends have been whipping up a frenzy at most of Germany’s best clubs and festivals and also an increasing number of venues abroad. Among others, they are part of the resident line-up of Frankfurt’s Monza Club as well as Berlin’s foremost party haven Weekend.
Booka Shade are Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, production masterminds behind most of the Get Physical releases (including all records and remixes by M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T., Sunsetpeople, Chelonis R. Jones and, naturally, their own output). Since the mid-90s Merziger and Kammermeier have released a wide variety of projects on prestigious labels like R&S (Degeneration), Harthouse (Synesthasia), Touché (Booka Shade) or Tommy Boy (Oakland Stroke).
Their first album „Memento“ was released in late 2004.
Together with production colleague Peter Hayo they have been running their own production company and studio for over 15 years and apply their wide range of talents not only to the realm of electronic music, but also to a large variety of other productions.
Thomas Koch aka DJ T. is the founder and publisher of Groove (est. in 1989), a music magazine available in all German-speaking countries. As an author Koch has contributed to a wide variety of books on music (a. o. “Localizer 1.0” and “techno”).
In addition, he co-founded the Frankfurt-based Monza Club and, as “DJ T.”, has been moving the German club scene since the late 80s – among others Koch held residencies at seminal clubs like the Music Hall, Dorian Gray, XS, The Box, U60311 and Spectrum/MTW. Nowadays, he can be spotted at Monza events or his current residencies at 50 Grad (Mainz) and Room 106 (Darmstadt) as well as many guest appearances in Germany and abroad.
Four years ago DJ T. released his first record together with Steve Bug („Monsterbaze“) on the latter’s Pokerflat label. The last few months saw the release of remixes on Naked Music, 20:20 Vision and Yellow Productions.