MOTOR live! August 4th

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Friday, August 4th, Dethlab teams up with Ghostly/Spectral, smashing Vault and Sex & Sedition together for one monstrous affair.

BLOOD AND OIL

featuring: MOTOR (live) + Brian Aneurysm

with residents: Ryan Elliott + Dethlab

OSLO

1456 Woodward Ave, Detroit MI

10pm | 18+ | $10

Dethlab presents: MOTOR live! (NovaMute, London/Paris)

At the turn of the year we find the MOTOR duo of Mr. No and Bryan Black both firmly in the driving seat of their metallic, rust-coated rocket car. Not content with laying waste to clubland last year with the monstrous ‘Stuka Stunt’ and ‘Sweatbox’ singles they are now set to release their debut album, Klunk. Preceded by the single and album opener ‘Black Powder’, MOTOR are bracing themselves for a head on crash into the spot light this year with extensive worldwide tours, a revved-up three piece live show and the dancefloor muscle to deliver where it hurts.

Mr. No comes from the industrial wastelands of Paris, and Bryan Black from Minneapolis yet being truly international they met and formed in the smoky basements of Camden, London where Mr. No was playing drums and Bryan was watching on in awe. Bryan Black was seminal pop star Prince’s sound designer and programmer at Paisley Park Studios in the late 90s before setting off to London to pursue his own musical projects whilst Mr. No arrived in London in 1989 with a mission to turn drummers into drum machines.

The duo have remixed the likes of Marilyn Manson, Throbbing Gristle and most recently, Depeche Mode as well as remixing the theme song for the final Godzilla film, Final Wars, in a collaboration with Felix Da Housecat. The MOTOR duo are also known for their work under the alias XLOVER whose album, Pleasure & Romance, was released on DJ Hell’s Gigolo Records last year and their multiple collaborations with Felix Da Housecat include co-writing tracks off his last LP Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever as well as producing tracks for Princess Superstar and Japanese rock god Atsushi Sakurai.

After releasing a string of raw, bold and innovative singles including the massive ‘Sweatbox’, MOTOR will soon unleash their debut album, Klunk. Packed with dark menacing grooves, corrosive industrial drumming and the pioneering spirit of acid house, Klunk locks into a swirl of techno-strobed hedonism and doesn’t let go.

Official MOTOR web site here

Mute web site here

Watch MOTOR Live in Paris

Watch the Black Powder video

preview/download the Black Powder single on iTunes here

Ghostly International presents: Brian Aneurysm (Spectral Sound, London)

Bernhard Pucher has had nearly 10 years’ experience as a DJ, and his productions as Brian Aneurysm have appeared on labels such as Poker Flat, Sub-static and his own Iron Box imprint. Additionally, he has recorded under seveal aliases, inlcuding Confutatis and Echopilot which found release on Morris Audio Citysport and Traum Schallplatten.

Originally an Austrian, Pucher has lived in Texas since the late 1990s, where his musical palette has grown to include industrial and hard techno, the influences of which permeate his releases and his DJ sets alike. Having been exposed to the sounds of minimal house by a friend, he has been releasing his own music since 2002.

Spring 2005 brings Brian Aneurysm to Spectral Sound for the Das Element Des Menschen 12”. The title track builds on mechanical bursts, slowly becoming a dominating tech-house beast as a palpable, dark intensity pours from the speakers amidst the clanks and bass line whirs, making for a surefire dance floor destroyer. It is the most confident statement yet from Mr. Pucher, and an auspicious glimpse of what’s to come.

Brian Aneurysm official site here

Spectral Sound web site here

Listen to a clip from Das Element Des Menschen here

with Vault / Sex & Sedition residents:

Ryan Elliott (Spectral Sound, Detroit)

Upstart Detroit DJ Ryan Elliott has gained notoriety over the past few years by programming sets that are as well crafted and sophisticated as they are danceable. From ice cold minimal techno to summery house beats, Elliott has played both big rooms and martini bars with equal success. As a DJ, Ryan is adept in the late night hours, finding the balance between heavy floor tracks and elegant crowdpleasers. Utilizing three decks, multiple audio sources, and outboard effects are par for the course, and Elliott employs them with the utmost skill to keep crowds engaged.

With a fervent interest in the emerging international techno scene, he is a walking dictionary of artists, labels, and releases. Elliott held his Tuesday night events at Ann Arbor’s Goodnight Gracie with Matthew Dear from 2002 to 2004, bringing back energy to the city’s nightlife. Ryan Elliott was also asked to be a resident at Detroit’s weekly Untitled alongside Dear, Tadd Mullinix, Mike Servito, and Derek Plaslaiko. In 2005 he began a new residency at Detroit’s Oslo, and created a stellar 33-track mix for the 2xCD edition of the Spectral Sound Vol. 1 compilation.

Dethlab (Dethany+Doyle, Detroit)

The hyper-productive duo with a history for being two steps too far ahead for their own good, Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle seek to define "the new black" with their Dethlab project, connecting the dots between trends in music, fashion, design and culture: mashing Ballardian reality with a romance for the glory days of postpunk and the cyberpunk future promised by Blade Runner. Like a modern day McLaren and Westwood, Doyle and Shorb are obsessive consumers, creators and curators of all things dark, innovative and beautiful... often with tongue firmly in cheek. Dethlab have brought artists such Vitalic, Solvent and Kill Memory Crash to their residency at OSLO, have performed with the likes of T. Raumschmiere, Chemlab and Ectomorph, have facilitated antics such as tea parties and period costumed croquet socials in abandoned factories, and have used nearly as much fake blood as GWAR since the project's inception one year ago.

Holding an MFA from Cranbrook, New York area native Bethany Shorb has dabbled and excelled in disciplines ranging from sculpture, to fashion and graphic design, to photography, to multimedia and music. She has performed around the country as Toybreaker and a member of seminal noise band God and His Bitches. As founder of Cyberoptix, she has designed a vast catalog of innovative couture, including the costumes for Skinny Puppy's 2004 world tour. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Make and Industrial Nation.

After living in New York during the rise and fall of both the dot-com bubble and electroclash, designer, lecturer, curator and obsessive blogger, Michael Doyle moved to Detroit and promptly co-founded the Dorkwave collective. Doyle coined the name and concise manifesto, "music for freaks", after one impropmtu night DJ'ing with Rob Theakston at the legendary UNTITLED parties. His design work can be seen everywhere from auto show exhibits and museums to record covers, and his group blog Burnlab.net has been a favorite bookmark among taste makers for more than six years.

Dethlab's "Deth, FX and 666" treatments have turned the tamest of electro and microhouse records into thundering gnarz anthems, and their extensive collections of French electropunk and Belgian EBM records have both inspired and frightened audiences from Noir Leather fetish balls to the 2006 Movement Festival. The duo describes their sound as "the devil's disco", and lists a combined "ten years of art school" as their primary influence.

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Detroit is only one of four headlining dates before MOTOR tours with Nitzer Ebb in September!