RAWMATROID SHOWCASE CHRONICLE
On Thursday the 14th of August at A Coruña the official presentation of the spanish Rawmatroid netlabel took place. With 5 releases already published in the last 5 months, their members wanted to present in public both, the published and the ones that will appear in the coming months in the netlabel catalogue. The chosen artists for this event were Kebiin, Frances Lerouge, James McConaghew and Pablo Honey, the three producers and the cover designer that participated in the second reference of Rawmatroid Club (“El niño” by Frances Lerouge). Each of them did an individual set.
Republica Sonora was responsable for the organization of the event. Well-known to bring to A Coruña djs and producers like Alexander Kowalski, Mike Shannon, Tadeo or Expander, they located the three members of Rawmatroid at the new Sala Fox, a club that represents electronic music in the Galician city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_8Aub1Sc-A
James McConaghew was chosen to begin the party. Faithful to the predominantly melodic style that characterizes his productions, he offered a progressive-house set based on netlabels references, mixed up with live improvisations of rythmical effects and loops. One of the main tunes of James’s set was “El mejunje de la vida”, the newest tune by Boris Balkan, that will be released in september on Rawmatroid Club.
As James’s session went by its style was filled with more electronic sounds. He was preparing the crowd for the battery of rigid and forceful sounds that Kebiin kept in its laptop. At 3:30 am the last track from James was fused with the intro that Kebiin had arranged to initiate his live. The next hour was a constant succession of defined basses, powerful bases and rhythmic synths. Whether by the quality of its sound or by the production of its tunes, people enjoyed the dose of quality techno-minimal.
Exactly 60 minutes after Kebiin appeared at the decks, Frances Lerouge started his dj set. This last set was the perfect complement to the night that Rawmatroid had arranged, because it knew to combine the new tracks of Rawmatroid with other tunes known by the crowd. Among the pertaining ones to Rawmatroid catalogue it is possible to highlight “Irascible” by James McConaghew (rwclub001) or the advance of some of the tracks than will be in his next ep “Glisandos, letras e arranxos” and “Estar en casa”.
His set, dynamic and emotive, was gaining power with the course of the hours. I was near 7 am and the crowd that filled the club, was thankful to the 4 Rawmatroid artists because of the delivery and good “feeling” that had impregnated the atmosphere during the night.
Pablo Honey was the video jockey in charge of the visual part, developing a very personal and elaborated video live that contributed adding colorful and dynamism to the event.
The result; Rawmatroid already has in mind a new celebration although without a defined location.
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Download Kebiin Live
Tracklist Kebiin Live @ Nueva Sala Fox
01. Intro
02. Al Fondo (A la Izquierda)
03. Al Fondo (A la Derecha)
04. Relajandonos
05. Untitled
06. Untitled
07. Frances Lerouge – El Niño (Kebiin ‘alternative’ remix)
08. Esto es el fin.
RAWMATROID SHOWCASE
The first Rawmatroid party will come next Thursday night at Disco Fox in A Coruña (Spain). There, three of our artists will be acting : Kebin, Frances Lerouge and James McConaghew, who will do two mix sessions and one live set.
During the night could be heard the new references that will be released in autumn.
FRANCES LEROUGE “El niño” [rwclub002]
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Frances describes his tune like “a portrait from my past, a small number of flashback frames as a regression. I usually feel like a child, perceiving and wanting to express and be heard like him. All we were is also what we are now too.”
His track contains an elementary base, with a great synth in the middle. The final product is unforgettable.
The second track of the EP is the Kebiin remix. This version of “El niño” keeps de original essence of the track adding melodic and funky elements to it, such as a powerfull bassline, glitch percussion, colourful pads and fx’s.
The basic structure it’s very similar to Frances Lerouge‘s original idea but oriented to the club dancefloor. The bass joins the percussion to keep you dancing while the pads raise and suddenly all elements stops to let you feel the original melody.
The James McConaghew´s track is diferent concept from the original. James has made a trance-minimal version with epic strings and an uplifting progression. The song starts with a soft intro that contains the original melody synth. Then become the rithm, and the melody raise again. It´s the perfect tune if you want to do a brake at the end of your set.
The EP contains an ID tool for dj sets, produced by Frances Lerouge.
The artwork has been designed by Pablo Honey.
Tracklist:
- El Niño (original mix)
- El Niño (Kebiin mix)
- El Niño (James McConaghew mix)
- ID Tool
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