Subdivision floor
Tareth
Dr A Cut
Dean Rodell
Cooh
This Stakahnov of electronic music has been first made a lasting impression on the hard drum’n’bass stage under the Cooh name, with which he has released since 2005 an non-stopping series of EPs on such prestigious labels as Position Chrome, PRSPCT, Yellow Stripe or, of course, Burn The Machine-associate Subistenz, the whole thing crowned by the recent “Rebirth” massive double album.
Counterstrike
Counterstrike has taken the drum’n’bass scene by storm since 1998 with their combination of techstep, metal and techno. Proving that there’s more to South Africa than political turmoil, dirty hip-hop and science-fiction movies, this duo has quickly made a name for itself with its mixture of very hard sound and dancefloor-packing beats.
The Sect
Growing up hooked to the bleeps and breaks of The Prodigy and Londons pirate radio stations, Blade and Virtua followed the development of Jungle to Drum & Bass, eventually finding themselves drawn to the futuristic output of labels such as Underfire and Renegade Hardware – and in particular, the techno-edged Konflict sound. Meeting through friends in the late 1990s, they have been producing Drum & Bass together ever since.
Cause4Concern
That every cause has an effect is common knowledge. For Optiv, CZA and StuC4C, the cause is drum & bass and their effect is both indelible and undeniable. Known collectively as Cause 4 Concern, the crew formed together back at the start of 1999, when Optiv was affiliated with Aspect Records and CZA & Stu C4C were working for Vinyl Distribution.
Current Value
Berlin’s Current Value (Tim Eliot) represents the forefront of the underground DnB scene, and is a rapidly emerging force in the harder, more techy end of the Dubstep spectrum. His forward thinking production combined with a highly technical approach to music and lean, tight arrangement, makes for some of the most instantly recognisable music currently released.
Surgical floor
Deathrave Crew
In 2011 Dr.Wichtig and DJ Crashzkitt created the Deathrave Party: A place for people that live dystopia, a dark and postapocalyptic place with ruins and gas masks. The music is a combination of Industrial, Noise and Techno catching that spirit.
Since August 2012 this monthly event at Subland has found a big community of crazy people and opened the doors for other underground scenes also. Fans of Hard Techno, Hardstyle, Electro, EBM and DnB are raving together until the bunker doors reopen in the early morning.
Poordream
Exploring a wide range of experimental electronic and acoustic music such as IDM, breakbeats, ambient, cinematic and experimental sound art and composition, Poordream masterfully blends both ‘real’ sounds and field recordings with digital textures and atmospheres in order to synthesize a unique mixture of world music and contemporary electronic music.
Huron
…there is a lot to appreciate and enjoy in Huron’s music: his sharp, precise beats, his glitchy arrangements from which a lot of well known producer could learn a few things, or his emotional and very humane atmospheres.
Stormfield
A DJ with 16 years of experience under his belt, Stormfield’s sonic influences are rooted in the early 90’s strains of electronica and abstract techno like LFO, Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre. Taking on board the early junglism of Photek and Source Direct, he later carried these influences proudly through other forms of music like electro, dubstep and hard breakage.
Diasiva
Diasiva is the collective efforts of two Burn The Machine regular talents: Mads Lindgren (Monolog) and Simon Hayes (Swarm Intelligence). The duo combine a love for obscene, high-octane sound and ten-tonne sub.
Joining the crazy electronica and obsessive drum’n’bass of Monolog with Swarm Intelligence’s adventures in dense noise and glitch, Diasiva sees both musicians focus on the dancefloor, the bass and the grittiness.
Electric Kettle
Electric Kettle is both a example and an oddity in the breakcore scene. Starting off as one of the pillars of France’s Peace Off labels in the early 2000′s, Matthieu Bourel came out with a rather sparse but long-lasting output in which he mixed the everything-goes, hard party tunes and complex structures of breakcore with sharp, fast and uncommon tones.
DEFCE
Their first premier in the audio realm, DEFCE announces the release of their upcoming album, “Subdermal.” A deep-seeded appreciation for the emergent and subtle nature of techno, applied to the quantum detail of drum and bass production, has yielded a highly expressive body of sound best characterized as “drumcode.” Drumcode seeps into the landscape of dark electronic music, morphing the shadows of its predecessors and coating the future with its nuclear strata.
Fausten
Diving into Fausten’s music is a guarantee for a deep, encompassing journey, all the more in combination with the twisted artwork and the very “adult” live videos used during this act’s live shows. It is not devoid of humour (we’re dealing with experienced musicians who know how to crack a joke in their darkest moments), but it is most importantly the highly rewarding combination of heaviness, darkness and details.
Burn The Machine is a festival dedicated to hard drum’n’bass, dubstep, breakcore, techno and experimental music taking place every first week-end of November in Berlin, Germany.
We also burn robots.Early-birds tickets are now available. Act fast and get yours:
-at Deck20 in Berlin (Jungstr.18, Friedrichshain)
-online through the Ad Noiseam store:
http://www.adnoiseam.net/store/burn-the-machine-2013_p4157.htmlLine-up being made official little by little.
