We are really proud to announce our guest for the next Just Music Makers night… Gerald Mitchell!

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Here is the second part of the JMM03 podcast by Italian dj, label manager and producer Francesco Stella.
Francesco is the man behind the deep/dub Techno label Eclipse Music, our latest JMM night (#03, here more details) was dedicated to its artists.

We asked Francesco to show us his influences behind the sonic territories of Eclipsemusic. A comment on each track of this podcast is available in italian here.

Francesco Stella – JMM Podcast (part 2)

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Here we are again, finally!
JUST MUSIC MAKERS session #3 finally took its shape…

“Eclipse at the Cube”

Home to big events like the ‘Club To Club’ and ‘Movement’ Festivals, Torino has still got room to host smaller events and push alternative ways to showcase electronic music.

At JMM, our night dedicated to the underground and stimulating side of electronic music, we always try hard, guesting electro live acts in museums or jamming machine-driven techno in rock clubs.

This time JMM discovers the intersections between live electronic music and classical/contemporary dance, hosting a clash of arts in a new, dark venue, aptly named ‘The Cube’.

After having hosted cult and underground acts like Annie Hall, Plant43, Jo Johnson and Vaghe Stelle, the new session is dedicated to the deep side of Techno, with the Turin-based label Eclipsemusic showcasing its artists and new releases.
On the music side we have the new signing to Eclipsemusic, the Barcelona based Edanticonf, plus the label’s deep/tech act Rob.Bardini, Decoside, passEnger+xluve (invited to play at december’s Bleep43 along Surgeon, Dj Pete and Donato Dozzy) and the label’s boss Francesco Stella.
On the dance side, the Paris company Karma Dance Project will perform specific choreographies to some soon-to-be published tracks from the label.

This experimental project will bring together music and dance so that each art form enhances and complements the other, making for a unique experience that will both resonate and captivate the audience..

See you in the Cube!

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This is the first part of the JMM03 Podcast by italian producer Francesco Stella.
Francesco is the man behind the italian label Eclipse Music the very special guest hosted for the upcoming JMM03 night (here more details). We asked Francesco to show us his influences behind the sonic territories of Eclipsemusic. A comment on each track of this podcast is available in italian here.

Francesco Stella – JMM Podcast (part 1)

Download: Francesco Stella – JMM Podcast (parte 1) (click con il destro + ‘salva come’)

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Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

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Nel terzo millennio le parole chiave, anche in musica, sembrano essere quelle che richiamano il ‘collettivo’, la ‘condivisione, la ‘cooperazione’, insomma, le ‘cose fatte insieme’.

Così come è fuor di dubbio che oggi le tecnologie possano permettere alla musica elettronica di nascere nel luogo più lontano rispetto ai posti votati alla condivisione, ovvero nelle camerette davanti ad un laptop, immaginando un mondo virtuale che man mano prende forma attraverso la musica.
Una volta che la musica è pronta, però, si esce fuori e si parte alla conquista degli spazi reali, che siano club, piazze o gallerie d’arte.

Molto vicino alla filosofia di Just Music Makers, il prossimo weekend (4-5 Dicembre) a Torino si terrà un mini festival/happening dove si vedranno i risultati di questo paradosso di creazione solipsista e contemporanea condivisione allargata: TACUMA! è l’occasione per far sì che questi artisti si incontrino, si esibiscano fianco a fianco al di là dei singoli generi musicali e che provino liberamente l’esperienza di condividere il proprio percorso, la propria tecnica, la propria sensazione con gli altri.
Questo è un evento in cui, appunto, estro e creatività andranno in scena sotto una luce differente, quella della condivisione. Ogni partecipante si esibisce in uno degli spazi creati ad hoc al Café Liber, un palco da concerti, un dancefloor e una sala oscura che darà spazio all’immaginario creato dai visuals.

Nella prima serata (sabato 4 Dicembre) gli artisti suoneranno le proprie creazioni; alcuni interventi performativi prevedono inoltre l’utilizzo di sensori, di apparati audio/video e di strumenti di manipolazione sonora (Reactable).
La giornata di domenica 5 Dicembre verrà proposta una versione inedita di ‘jam session’ collettiva, che coinvolgerà una decina di musicisti di diversa estrazione, i quali contribuiranno ad una sorta di orchestra elettronica.
Il frutto delle jam session sarà registrato e in seguito pubblicato su Chew-Z in libero download.

I background dei musicisti coinvolti nella prima edizione sono i più disparati: dai producer coinvolti nel night clubbing cittadino emergente agli affermati rappresentanti della nuova elettronica, dai manipolatori di avanzati strumenti elettronici agli ensemble di musica elettro-acustica.

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Abbiamo rivolto alcune domande a Fabio Battistetti, curatore del festival.

Ciao Fabio, parlaci di ‘Tacuma!’. Come è nata l’idea?
L’idea è stata di Fabio (Cafè Liber), che l’ha poi condivisa con me. Io non mi sono tirato indietro perchè, pur non essendo uno scenester, ho sempre voglia di mettere assieme musicisti di diversa estrazione con differenti obbiettivi in una medesima sitauzione. Torino è indubbiamente una piazza importante per la musica elettronica e mi piaceva l’idea di mostrare il tessuto che c’è sotto a molti successi, la rete di musicisti è molto più vasta di quel che vedi in un club normalmente.

Quindi qual è l’obiettivo del festival?
Mettere assieme i musicisti sotto uno stesso tetto, vedere come producono, come si esibiscono e farli dialogare tra loro e con il pubblico. Qui c’è la possibilià di farlo, perchè vorrei che l’atmosfera del festival fosse la più informale possibile, e la scelta dei luoghi di esibizione va in questo senso perchè non saremo né in un club, né in un locale da concerti, né in una galleria d’arte.
Ma soprattutto sono molto curioso di sentire cosa verrà fuori dalla jam session domenicale, che per me sarà il cuore del festival.

Perchè ‘tacuma’?
Vuol dire “attacchiamo” in piemontese e applicato all’era della computer music ci sta benissimo. E al tempo stesso ha anche un po’ di spirito rock’n'roll.. one, two, tree, four!

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Riassumento:

TACUMA!  4-5 Dicembre presso Cafè Liber, Corso Vercelli 2, Torino.

Per tutti i dettagli e l’elenco degli artisti rimandiamo alla pagina ufficiale: tacumafest.wordpress.com

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Time for some self promotion here.. passEnger (me, one half of JMM crew) has got some new music released!

Turin based Eclipsemusic has just published Black Varian, a 12″ that follows my previous release The Funk/The Fall for the label.

The original version of “Black Varian” was featured on my digital release out on Radiance Records (Venice based netlabel, now closed) back in 2008. Eclipsemusic’s label manager fell in love with it, and now, improved and remastered by Aaron-Carl (Wallshaker, Detroit), Black Varian has finally landed on vinyl, along 2 remixes courtesy of Paul Mac and Estroe.

…good to see how much a track can travel. From its home to Venice, then unavailable after Radiance’s closure, and resurrected to enjoy a trip to Detroit, being mastered there, remixed in Holland and England, pressed in France and now back in his hometown, just on a different physical mean.

..which, of course is available at discogs, rushhour, underground gallery (jp), decks, juno…

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A passEnger track has been included in The Bad Mask EP, published by Tabernacle Records. The label is managed by the Glaswegian guys who throw the “Slabs of the Tabernancle” parties, and the 12″ includes production from various artists that have played at the party. Other tracks included are by abstract techno maestro Arne Weinberg, Ai and A.R.T. publishing artist The Third Man, and John Heckle, who already released on Sula Muse and Mathematics.

Placid Haze, the track included in the record, is a special one for me, glad it finally found a home in such good company.

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Some time ago I co-curated the compilation In Acque Libere, born to support the campaign for the publicity of water in Italy. It contains music from Turin-based artists only, and it’s available for free download at the Torino Sistema Solare web page.

This is the track I provided for the compilation.

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I always found out that there are some minor themes in music, which lead musicians to really express something personal and powerful thru music.
Of course major themes like ‘love’, ‘loneliness’, ‘rage’ and so on are quite standardized and predictable in the way they are expressed.  Some others, a little less common in music, like (the first that comes to my mind) ‘future’, ‘travelling’, and in this case, ‘sun’, are anyway so powerful and specific that the musicians are often “more” challenged to fully express sonically what they perceive from the theme itself.

I’ve always been fascinated by the way the ‘sun’ leads musicians to create warm, suffused, kaleidoscope-like melodies and shining, translucent and psychedelic atmospheres.

So finally I decided to pick the most inspiring sun-related tracks to do a kind of podcast. It is ideally divided into three part: at first, the tracks with most direct relation to it (kind of a morning/rising section) then the “psychedelic/opalescent” section, and finally a more dark/introspective/spacey section that leads to a peaceful conclusion.

Hope you like the work, catch the feeling and of course enjoy the music.

passEnger – The Sun Mix by passEnger

Free Download by clicking the small arrow on the right of the player.

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01.  Herbie Hancock – Sun Touch
02.  DJ Rels – Sunrise
03.  The Politik – Black Sun
04.  Linkwood – Hear The Sun
05.  Caribou – Sun (Jazzy Gentle Solare Mix)
06.  Ulrich Schnauss – Sunday Evening In Your Street
07.  Boards of Canada – Hey Saturday Sun
08.  Ashra – Sunrain
09.  Sinner DC – Sunrized
10.  Annie Hall – Sunday Reflections
11.  Edanticonf – A Night With The Sun
12.  Junior Boys – Under The Sun
13.  Erell Ranson – When The Sun Lies Down
14.  Reggie Dokes & The Kuumba Project – Black Sun
15.  Aroy Dee – Sun
16.  154 – Sun
17.  Soultek – Sunny Day In Montego Bay
18.  Ras G – Sun Behind The Clouds (skit)
19.  Theo Parrish – Suns Of Osiris

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Before the review of the night, we would like to congratulate the guests of session # 1 for their recent exploits: Annie Hall has been called to perform at Sonar, and Vaghe Stelle just played at Dissonanze. Good results for them and great satisfaction for us.

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The second episode of JMM was held on June 23rd in the wonderful area called “Cortile della Farmacia” at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin.

For this occasion we were honored by the presence of two British artists which fit perfectly with the JMM sonic and personal attitude: Plant43 and Jo Johnson. New generation electronic artists, they gather inspiration from the classic world of Techno and Electro stretching those blueprint with newer sonic aesthetics and deep personal sensibility. They also co-founded the Bleep43 resource, whose events hosted artists like Surgeon, Dj Pete, Dj Stingray, Derrick May, Omar S, Convextion, Legowelt and many others.
Simplicity, attention to details and deep immersion into personal and uncompromising worlds were the keys to their live set.

To complete the line up, Branda J opened the night building a tight and personal path with hiphop instrumentals and electronic rhythms from the new generations; then Marco and me (passEnger+xluve) introduced the guests with our machine-driven live set.

Here you can find some videos and pics on the night plus the recording of the three live sets, freely downloadable.

/// Plant43

Download: Plant43 Live @ JMM (right click + save as)

Emile Facey, from London, has published record on cult labels such as Ai Records, Semantica and Cultivated Electronics (Myspace | Discogs).

His live set has been appreciated for its intensity and intransigence, thanks to a cohesive and articulate musical path, built around complex electronic architectures and deep visionariety.

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Download: Jo Johnson Live @ JMM (right click + save as)

Jo Johnson (Myspace), from London as well, caught the listeners with a smooth but intense live set, built around lyrical melodies and emotional urgency, without losing the focus on groove effectiveness.

/// passEnger + xluve

Download: passEnger & xluve Live @ JMM (right click + save as)

An extract from our new live set, more hardware machines and improvisation than usual, same cross-genre pollination as usual.

The youtube channel where to find every JMM video is here: Just Music Makers | Youtube

Thanks to all the supporters, see you next session!

/// JMM

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Previous guest here at the first Just Music Makers night, Annie Hall has just come back from Sonar Festival, where she was invited to dj at the SonarVillage.

She dropped a moody and forward thinking selection, ranging from ambient soundscapes to crunchy beats, from classic hip hop to obscure abstract jams… Check it out!

Download the whole set: Annie Hall | Sonar 2010

Tracklist:
01. Shed – Waved Mind
02. 33 A3 – Hverfandi
03. 33 A3 – Paeling
04. Adam Johnson – Trinity
05. Industruct – Autophonic
06. Flying Lotus – Brainfeeder
07. Nobody Present Blank Blue (Flying Lotus Remix)
08. Vesna – Rack Mode
09. Rekordah – Candy Flossin´
10. Paul White – Ge´Em Up
11. Harmonic 313 – Koln
12. Herald Of Change – Alone
13. Shlohmo – Spoons (Shigeto Remix)
14. Waajeed – Make Doe
15. Harmonic 313 – Word Probems
16. J Dilla – Running
17. Flying Lotus – Maybe He Aint Lying
18. Hudson Mohawke – Just Decided (Feat Olivier Daysoul)
19. Starkey – Ok Luv
20. Check One – Random
21. Ikonika – Yoshimitshu
22. Scuba – Three Sided Shape
23. Fuer.Steps – Lunar Dust
24. Breakage Feat Burial – Vial
25. Starkey Feat Anneka – Stars
26. Shed – Ithaw
27. Roof Lights – Radiance

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