rip. a remix manifesto

la propriété intellectuelle, ce douloureux problème ...
depuis les début du sample et donc du hip hop, depuis la révolution du peer to peer et de napster on continue à s'empailler la tête sur ce sujet.

je suis tombée par hasard sur ce passionnant documentaire qui résume très bien la situation et montre que plus qu'une question juridique, le copyright est une vrai question politique.

deadline 02 - rmvn [ivan smagghe & roman flugel]

ARTIST : rmvn
FORMAT : digital

TRACK LIST :
1- RMVN: amen aderno.
2- RMVN: uno.
3- RMVN: amen aderno [the eyes in the heat rmx]
4- RMVN: uno [clement meyer rmx]

Kill The DJ happily brings you the first release by RMVN, aka Roman Flugel and Ivan Smagghe.

For those who know (them), it was only a matter of time before these two end up together in a studio : they're not only friends but also share a big piece of musical culture, a love of strange electronics and a refusal of 'club music' conformism. The result of this predestined collaboration could only be unique.

'Uno' was recorded two years ago in Frankfurt, strongly infused by the Robert Johnson spirit. It is a piece of slow burning minimal bleepy disco which stays away from being 'nu' (in the 'sounding old' sense). Ewan Pearson loved it so much that he picked it up for his Kompakt mixed cd a year before its release.

'Amen Adorno', recorded in the It's a Fine Line studio in London, testifies of Roman and Ivan's love for early rave music without being a retro cliche. A mix as undefinable as a vintage Dimitri from Amsterdam set, one will hear italo,breakbeat, epic strings and Nathan Gregory Wilkins even found it quite 'jazzy'.

Remixes come from two more recent additions to the Kill the DJ stable.
Clement Meyer (whose ep for us will be out very soon, including the already much sought after romper stomper') turns 'Uno' into a dark and moody club burner.

'Amen Adorno' is drowned in the swamp by The Eyes in the Heat, a band (yes) lead by Oliver Ho (of Raudive fame). We will talk more deeply about them very soon, but they confirm with brilliance one of the KTDJ axiom : rock and electronics never exclude each other.

Early support from Michael Mayer, Optimo, Ewan Pearson, Geoffroy Mugwump, Tiga and more...

This is the second release (Chloe remixes already available) of KTDJ digital serie.


>>> listen and get this ep here


[they love it and we are happy]

Laurent garnier : hummmm c'est tres tres bon ça -- Yessssss

The hacker : amen adomo est super bien !! full support !!

Jon Berry // Kompakt : me me me like for very long time. excellent collab -
the clement meyer remix is superb. full support from my living room :)

Pilooski: cool release. Uno is the one for me.Support!

Kiki : "amen adorno" tickles some synapses i´ve almost forgot about lately.
already the fact that it kicks off with a breakbeat. and no, i was never into bigbeat, but the early 90´s stuff, like yeah, you said it: dimitri. or renegade soundwave. or... electrifying!
a great, great version by the eyes in the heat as well!

Samy Morpheus : just wonderful meaning full of wondrtracks, excellent !excellent !
+ the rmxs are very cool meaning hot as well....

Miss Kittin : Bah une bombe quoi... ça calme...

Mickey moonlight : i love uno. great!

Pedro "Busy P" Winter : L'autoroute! Moi qui découvre enfin les joies des slots 5am-7am je vous dis merci il n'est jamais trop tard x

Cosmo Vitelli : J'adore ce maxi. Ameo est cool, à essayer, je suis très très fan de Uno, pas forcément facile à jouer mais en tout cas il est magnigfique. Le remix de The Eyes in the Heat est énorme, excellente idée de leur demander. Bravo

Geoffroy aka mugwump : amen adorno est ze bomb.

Matt Walsh Turbo Recordings : Both tracks are great loopy dark disco, i will play both. Really excited to hear more from raudives band and clement is my favorite new producer this year... great pack again

Azoury philippe // stugi : Tout ce que j'aime: épique, aérien.

Scratch massive : best track is the clement mayer remix and the amen adomo. will play it

Get The Curse: I'm a big fan of all the tracks, especially "Amen Adomo" ... Classe

operation deadline

KILL THE DJ - DEADLINE

kill the dj are launching a digital collection of EPs : each month a new release available on beatport.
[don't miss an episode or you won't understand the ending]

- deadline 01 : chloé "one in other" remixes / 21 october
- deadline 02 : RMVN [ivan smagghe & roman flugel] feat clement meyer & the eyes in the heat rmx / 21 november
- deadline 03 : battant ep feat capracapra, jennifer cardini and tim holmes rmx / 21 december
and coming in 2011, krikor, the eyes in the heat, clement meyer and many more

SERIE : deadline 01
ARTIST : chloé
TRACK LIST :
- distant [magda rmx]
- one in other [alex smoke rmx]
- diva [plein soleil rmx]
- one in other [jennifer cardini rmx]
- herselves [issakidis dzir rmx]
- diva [alex smoke rmx]


Chloe's music, especially on her second album One in Other, is a diamond in the rough for remixers. It belongs to the murky waters on the edge of dance music, flirts with experimentation and gives the lucky ones a wide array of eerie material to work with. But her music is also extremely intimate and personal, hence it would be blasphemy to give away such emotions to 'house by the mile' manufacturers.
You can always make cheap bling out of raw gold, many do. At Kill the DJ, we tried to choose artists able to make fine and striking jewellery.

Magda is a long time friend of Chloe's and Kill the DJ and this is a surprisingly welcome late addition to the stable. Like Chloe, she is comfortable on the edge, not afraid of the void. With the help of a strangely catchy broken piano, her rickety version of Distant throws sand in the well-oiled mechanics of minimalism. Perfect, as 'straight' is not very us.

We consider Alex Smoke as one of today's most interesting and singular electronic producers. When asked, Alex first hesitated between this track and One in Other... To our joyous surprise, he ended up doing both... What a spirit! In the Glasgow fog things are rarely what they seem, and the appropriately named Mr Smoke may lead you astray. Thus the hidden beauty behind the industrial corrosion in his Diva and reversely, the lush electronica grown vicious and deadly in One in Other.

While on the subject of vicissitude, Georges Issakidis delivers another backroom burner with Herselves. He does what he does best: slow sleazy house music. Chloe's atmospheric vocals are a breath of fresh air but steadily the druggy sweat takes over. How deep and dark will Georges go in his forthcoming album? The devil only knows.

Jennifer Cardini proves her ever-evolving versatility, fitting in no box except ours. She has recently given us a ravey remix of Battant that will be out soon and here, her guitar led One in Other shows a lesser known pop sensibility.

Last but not least, Plein Soleil (aka Chloe herself and Krikor) have chosen Diva for their dirty funk work out. In quite a tour de force, they manage to melt the epic, almost classical side of the original into an old school, acid tinged belter. The best of both worlds. What more can you ask?


>>> listen and get this ep here.

always distant ?

nuits sonores souvenir.

it was in may 2010, the über cool nuits sonores festival invited us for a kill the dj all day long @ la piscine du rhone. we were there with the whole family: pilooski / jennifer cardini / optimo / ivan/ and chloé for her first live show.

it took us a long time to get the recording of this afternoon and many of you asked for this.
we don't want sytematically give online all the mixes recorded during our parties.
those of you, who are looking for vinyls or recordings so hard knows that rarities are precious.
enjoy it .

NUITS SONORES 2010-KILL THE DJ DAY PARTY-IVAN SMAGGHE by ivan smagghe

vive le smagghe qu'on clame !

A FEW THINGS FROM IVAN SMAGGHE .... A FEW WORDS ...

This object was not meant to exist in solid form. An emanation from Ivan Smagghe's eponymous blog, it was commissioned by French uber style emporium Colette for the Paris spring/summer 2011 fashion week.
Chic 'à part', it expresses both parties true love of music. You have received it as you may share this love and ultimately may spread the word. No seamless DJ mix, these are Ivan's personal versions of personal favorites. He's reconstructed and renamed the pieces, paying homage with gentle manners, sometimes punk disrespect. It's a glimpse at the personal obsessions of the collector: lost classics and forgotten heroes, paying tribute to madness and making justice to overlooked magic, the surprisingly accessible obscure and the incredibly strange mainstream etc... No genre barriers, no chronological fixation, but the anarchy that acquired taste may well be. This collection will not define anything, but may shed a different light on Ivan Smagghe, who some know only a 'techno DJ' (even if a slightly odd one).
The same eclectic effect is given by his work with Tim Paris as It's a Fine Line, a project sitting on the edge of many fences (disco/electro, experiment/dance), or indeed by the multiple directions taken by his soon 10 years old label, Kill The DJ.

Another way to grasp what makes him different would be to attend the two very special 'all night-long' sets he will perform in Paris and London this October. In relation to the latter, a special podcast will also be available online through the Resident Advisor website.

Finally, If you can't make it, no worries, this is only chapter one...
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A few things from ivan smagghe...
1-canal street
2-steel panties
3-it's the bonobo season
4-how understanding my darling
5-dutch rhythm combo-alerta (ISE8 DJ tool)
6-molto molto amore
7-ode to the vigilante
9-two-eyed cyclops
10-quad throw salchow-the unwelcome guest (ISE8 edit)
11-blacholimoney
12-my kind of woman (it's a fine line 7" version)
13-rêve vairon
14-got sand in my boots
15-battant-feverish (ISE8 proto edit)
sleeve design by Jeremie Nuel & Simon Renaud
(contact@atelieraquarium.com)
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http://afewthingsfromivansmagghe.blogspot.com/

www.shop.killthedj.com (your friends may be able to get a copy of this record there)

vive le smagghe qu'ils disent

Vive le Smagghe! The French DJ/producer/label boss turns in a selection of dance floor treats for the RA podcast.

Ivan Smagghe comes from an older school of DJing: Gloriously eclectic, unafraid of a wild jump in tempo, selfishly confident in his crate in the best way possible. It most certainly stems from his days at Rough Trade, educating Parisian record buyers to all manners of electronic (and otherwise) music. Since Smagghe transitioned to DJing and producing full-time, he's been stunningly prolific, churning out iconic mix CDs, guiding Kill the DJ to international prominence and bringing his open-minded sensibility to audiences around the world. For his RA podcast, he spans old and new in a set that you might find him playing at peak-time during his upcoming A Night With... in London. Until...well, we won't spoil it for you.

What have you been up to recently?

Quite a bit actually. We've moved the It's a Fine Line studio, which was quite a piece of work. Analog gear is nice but... We should be getting back to work soon now. In the meantime, I did a solo remix for French label Meant, something I have not done in ages. Also, French fashion emporium have just released a super limited promo CD of edits of mine, some taken from my blog, some not.

How and where was the mix recorded?

At home, involving the usual mish-mash of techniques, from scratchy old vinyl dusted off the shelves to the latest Traktor Plugs from Native Instruments. (Am waiting for the Kontrol S4.)

Can you tell us a little bit more about the idea behind the mix?

An idea? Hmmmm...

Think of it as a machine made out of cables all pulling out in different directions and me just trying to maintain the equilibrium, playing with the tension. I'm not really one for the 60 minutes tunnel, but it still has to have some kind of coherence, if not an "idea" or a theme. Not that simple when you want to have the old, the new, a bit of yours and some of your close guard, the electronic dark disco and the strange rock (I'm quite happy to have included a 140 BPM rockfish ending this time), the straight hypnotic feel and the rickety funk... To make it short, it's about trying to give an idea of yourself in 60 minutes. If that's possible...

You recently started a blog. Why?

It's the best way I've found to do "online" communication, MySpace and Facebook not being my kind of thing. (Some weird fans are doing that for me, even quite badly). Just a bit more personal than the rest... I actually started with two other blogs, for books and movies , then thought about doing it for the music...

We've been told you're into magic. What's your best trick?

Do magicians talk about their tricks? Hmmm... My best one may well be still being around though...

What are you up to next?

I'll be in the States and Mexico for Halloween. Getting back in the studio with IAFL as I said... We are going to produce Battant's second album, As I Ride with No Horse. Also busy with my label Kill The DJ (it's our ten year anniversary next year). We're launching a year-long series of digital releases. First are remixes from Chloe's album by Magda, Alex Smoke, George Issakidis, Jenifer Cardini and Plein Soleil; then there will be a 12-inch by RMVN, a collaboration between Roman Flugel and myself. Remixes of Battant by Capracara and Tim Holmes, a 12-inch by Clement Meyer, etc. Loooooads of stuff.

Download RA.228 Ivan Smagghe

Populette - Populace - Throne Of Blood
Metope - From Druida - Beachcoma
Chloe - One in Other (Acapella) - Kill The Dj
Death In Vegas - Reigen - Virgin
...Cass & Mangan - 808 Matters (Play Late Mix) - Tsuba
Chloe - One in Other (Alex Smoke remix) - Kill The DJ
Superpitcher - Rabbits in a Hurry (It's A Fine Line remix)- Kompakt
Console - Suck and Run (Flight Mix) - Virgin
The Soft Pink Truth - Confession (Nervous Gender) - Soundslike
The Customers - Furious - Elektro Music Dept
Mr Mageeka - Different Lekstrix - Numbers
Melody Boy 2000 - Soundstealer - Dum
Kxp - 18 Hours of Love (Optimo Espcacio remix) - Smalltown Supersound
Jellphonic feat. Zacky Force Funk - 100 Snakes - Clone Crown Ltd
Gigi Galaxy - Lips So Sweet - Teknotika
Exotica Maximus - Paint It Black - Mvm
Quad Throw Salchow - The Unwanted Guest - Tummy Touch

what's the difference between...

this :




and that :




Maybe the same difference as between this :



and that :



that is around 10 000$ I guess...

Jason Edwards is not your everyday robot.

qu'est ce qu'on attend ...

strange fruits

christian marclay.

how to carry your towel and your solar cream to the beach this summer?

the famous hangman is back and ready to follow you.
Perfect to discreetly bring your gun and sunglasses or your last killthedj vynil wherever you want.

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ivan in space

ivan just open a new blog : a few things from ivan smagghe

+++++++++++++

you can also listen a radio show he just did [last week] on the infamous beat in space radio

enjoy .

track list of the radio show :
1. Shawn Daniel Forman - Master Of The Universe
2. - Beach Cowboys (IS Edit)
3. - Eyes In The Center (IS Edit)
4. Superpitcher - Rabbits In A Hurry (It's A Fine Line Remix) - Kompakt
5. Nakion - Arcadia - Tigersushi
6. Aux 88 - Voice Modulation (Anthony Rother Remix)
7. The Sjukt - Ghost In The Machine - Luna Flicks
8. Challenge - Broken Clock - Marketing Music
9. The Eyes In The Heat - Amatuer
10. Chloé - Diva (Alex Smoke Remix) - Kill The DJ
11. It's A Fine Line - Eins Fine Grind - Kompakt

radio killed the dj star

on red bull music academie radio.

On The Floor! - Live at Rex Club, Paris - on june 17th - chloé live aftershow with ata & superpitcher.

Chloé [Kill The DJ, Paris]

Is Paris still burning? If you take a close look at Chloe Thevenin, you rather think that it's covered by a sublime and beautiful layer of ice. Dubbed the dysfunctional family's hypodermic daughter (other members include Ivan Smagghe and Jennifer Cardini), she is among those kind of jocks and producers who don't care for genre barriers, media frenzies or peer pressure. Cutting her teeth as a DJ at the infamous Le Pulp in France's capital, Chloe learned at the petite girl's club how to be discreet, but impeccable and implacable selector. After a while, she put her record case to the test with the seminal mix 'I Hate Dancing' (no, we also don't believe her) that firmly installed the dame on the international jet set circus. With a string of 12s for labels like Karat, Kill The DJ or Bpitch Control, Chloe transferred that aesthetic of microscopic house or technological future pop onto plastic with albums like "The Waiting Room" or "One In Other". You always wondered how music for stalactite caves could sound like? Chloe knows.

breaking a silence

it's been some time now. some time indeed. not ones to spoil anything, let us not get too eager or give too much away too soon...

www.battantfoundahead.blogspot.com

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hang the dj!

backstage pass to party hard on thursday night at L'Alhambra ...

optimo loved our ears

le 25 avril dernier, nos amis d'optimo ont arrêté leur résidence du dimanche soir au sub club / glasgow aprés 13 ans d"activisme. Les blogs et sites anglais débordent d'articles, de déclarations d'amour, de chagrins inconsolables. Histoire de vous donner à jamais des regrets de ne pas avoir bougé votre cul jusque glasgow, voila l'enregistrement de la soirée.
7 heures pour refaire l'histoire du rock, de la house, de la techno et de la musique en général.
7 heures pour voir défiler les 15 dernières années de ta vie .

part1

part 2

part3

part4

part5

cheers to feelmybicep.com & all our love to jonnie & keith.

Attention, ne touchez pas le fond...

radio does not kill the dj star

retrouvez chloé tous les dimanche soir d'avril sur France Inter dans l'émission électron libre

every nun needs..

souvenir...disco shower - hotel room / zurich

chloé. 1°morceau en écoute !

on vous l'a deja dit.
le second album de chloé sortira le 6 avril.
en attendant, un premier titre, le plus pop de l'album : "distant"
chloe- "distant" by killthedjrecords

dans ta face

le 6 avril.
chloé : "one in other"

pédale inside

jeudi dernier, kill the dj night @ rex club.
chloé + ivan smagghe + IF, qui nous a rappelé que porter des moustaches était notre hobby favori.

les 4 premières heures en écoute ici :
de 00h > 1 h (environ) : ivan smagghe
1h> 2h10 : chloé
2h10 > fin : I-F

Kill the dj party-rex club-fev 2010-ivan smagghe+chloe+I-F

pour ceux qui en veulent plus , on ne saurait trop vous conseiller d'écouter et de soutenir le projet radio de I-F :
http://intergalacticfm.com/

jason edwards live for your ears and your eyes

adam love's happy new year playlist

adam love, l'homme carré en noir et blanc voyage beaucoup pour trouver de belles idées pour les artworks ktdj. voila une liste d'expos passées ou présentes, ici ou ailleurs.


August Sander
Fondation Cartier-Bresson - Paris




















Cosmetica Formatica
Caixa Forum - Barcelona












The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600-1700
National Gallery - London


















John Cage
MACBA - Barcelona








Gabriel Orozco
Moma - New York


















Entrisme : Communauté de l'instant
Galerie Agnes B - Paris
























John Baldessari
Tate Modern - London






















Ray Johnson
MACBA - Barcelona














Kendall Geers
Stephen Friedman - London






















Anthony McCall "Leaving with two-minute silence"
Sean Kelley - New York

chloé's happy new year playlist

dj hell 'u can dance' feat brian ferry [carl craig remix] - int° dj gigolo
The Infinites feat. Paul Conboy mark E remix- K7
Fischer & kleber- bleed - souvenir records
runaway- the fire below [original & cosmovitelli rmx] - on the prowl rec
tanner ross & serge santos- space cakes - airdrop records
Icube- Falling - Versatile
krikor & the dead hillbillies 'crackboy' [querelle rmx by plein soleil] - tigersushi
General Elektriks - Raid the Radio [General Agoria remix]
Gesaffelstein - 'je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais' - Zone 1
jarvis cocker '???' pilooski remix
DyE-Cris Tal d'Acier [Logo remix]- Tigersushi
audiojack- kicks for kicks - get physical
gary beck- scandal - variance recordings
Andrade 'day do defeat'- time has changed
telefon tel Aviv [miss Fitz remix] - bpitch