4.14 Avaland w/ Josh Wink, Acquaviva, Fre

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This Saturday at AVALAND we have a mash up of electro, breaks &
techno that will be sure to keep you techno fans here til the late
hours of the night with a line up of Josh Wink, Acquaviva & the
Freestylers (dj set) on the main stage along with AVALAND’s residents,
Droog. Local techno crew Droid Behavior host the terrace with Billy
Dalessandro along with a solid cast of supporting dj’s Jason Emsley
(Droid), Robtronik (Compression) & Darius (Deepermoods)

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JOSH WINK

Josh Wink has always run ahead of the pack, as a DJ, label owner,
producer, remixer, and artist. In 1990, Josh met up with a kindred
spirit, fellow Philly jock, King Britt whose interests also include rap
and acid jazz. Pooling their interests and blending their differences,
the duo waxed E-culture’s “Tribal Confusion” for respected New York
based indie label, Strictly Rhythm. The record was a surprising
commercial success and established both DJs as artists to watch on the
global dance music scene.

After forming Ovum Recordings as an independent label in October 1994
with partner King Britt, Josh recorded the cult classic “Liquid
Summer”. He went on to release singles for a wide variety of revered
European labels ranging from Belgium’s R & S to England’s XL. He
also began remixing for Moby and others.

1995 was an especially good year for Josh. He scored 3 consecutive
European smashes – all out of his modest 16-track bedroom studio –
which unquestionably took dance music to a dizzying plateau. First came
“Don’t Laugh” – recorded as Winx and issued via Nervous Records – where
Josh took a minimal techno beat and looped an incessant sample of a
whacko laughing his head off. It was a stroke of sheer genius. The
single broke down international language barriers and eventually sold
more than 500,000 units.

Invitations to spin at prestigious nightspots all over the world have
been pouring in since, but as his career has progressed, he has stayed
true to his roots, never selling out and always maintaining his
integrity, always coming home to his beloved Philadelphia.

http://www.ovum-rec.com/

ACQUAVIVA

It’s no longer a secret. Arguably one of THE hottest DJs and producers
around, John Acquaviva breaks through at number 22 on the dj Mag Top
100 worldwide music fan poll!

To date, John Acquaviva’s combined audience has surpassed 2 million
people during his years behind the decks. Total dj gigs and appearances
amount to more than 5000 since his first significant dj residency in
1982 at Notes in hometown London, Canada.

Starting off as a clubber and fan of dance music in the final days of
Disco during the late 70’s, John turned his passion into a life’s work
and commitment. Growing with the evolution of new wave, industrial,
post-punk and hip hop through the 80s, his eclectic taste and nightclub
experience was the foundation for him to become an integral part of
club music history in the 1990s. The next logical step was to start a
record label. That phase began when he started the hugely influential
and now legendary techno label Plus 8 records with Richie Hawtin going
from strength to strength ever since.

A pioneer of new music and ideas, John was one of the first people to
take notice and embrace electronic music’s digital future at the dawn
of 2000. First, John got involved with and championed Final Scratch as
a new way for DJs and artists to work, present and play club music.
Following its success, John subsequently took another big step and
helped launch Beatport.com, which has established itself as the club
music aficionado’s go-to shop for dance and electronic music.

http://www.john-acquaviva.com

http://www.myspace.com/acquavivadj

FREESTYLERS

The Freestylers are the dancefloor sensation of the new millennium, a
fast moving, electro-rocking monster movie that is going to hit your
house like a tidal wave, and wash all your preconceptions out of the
door.

Freestylers attack your feet first, as the world discovered when the
band’s first album, We Rock Hard, hit the rocks. A blast of sheer sonic
exuberance nailed to the phattest beats and rhythms around, “We Rock
Hard” has already been proclaimed one of the dying centur’s most
dazzling, dizzying explosions, 13 songs and one long party and 500,000
sales later the band are about to drop their stunning new Album.

Freestylers producers Aston Harvey and Matt Cantor got together in
1993, through talking about the music they were into electro,
breakbeats, Afrika Bambaataa and the whole old school hip hop culture.
But it wasn’t long before they took their obsessions into the studio,
running off what would eventually become the FreestylersÂ’ first U.K.
single, “Drop The Boom” – – initially released on the small Street
Plastic label pre- Freskanova. Like Matt says, “we plunder samples like
no man’s business.”

“I read interviews with other people… and it sounds like they’re
producing albums which have nothing to do with what they’re really
about. I can honestly say this is exactly what we’re about. The final
criteria for our records is, can you go mad to them? Can anyone dance
their f**king ass off to them? They can. They will.” The Freestylers
are taking the Freestyling ethic into the 21st century. The net is to
be widened bringing more people into the fold.

http://www.myspace.com/freestylersmusic

BILLY DALESSANDRO

The Detroit-Berlin axis gets a lot of love, but what about sweet home
Chicago? The birthplace of house may not be the center of the dance
music universe these days, but the sounds that made the city famous —
notably the squelch of the TB-303 known as acid and the rhythmic bag of
tricks known as “the jack” — are being revitalised by a new breed of
German revisionists, lead by the label Resopal Schallware.

Born out of the ashes of the seminal German minimal house label Force
Tracks, Resopal, is home to old school revisionist Jackmate, students
of house Luomo and D. Diggler, as well as any number of squiggly acid
revival tracks. Resopal is also home to Billy Dalessandro.

Who? Listen to his records and a good guess might be that Billy
Dalessandro is the nom-de-plume of another German Chicago-infatuated
househead — but you would be wrong. Dalessandro is actually the real
deal — he actually lives in Chicago!

With tracks picked up by DJs as different as John Digweed and Matthew
Dear, Dalessandro’s sound is not easy to pin down, but as his acidic
Dalessandro vs. Gaiser ‘Come With Me’ doubleheader makes clear, here is
a producer with a respect for the sounds of his hometown but with an
eye on the future.

http://www.myspace.com/billydalessandro

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