The Following Aesthetic Reasons

032c is a bi-annual contemporary culture
magazine at the intersections of fashion, art and politics. Finding the new
in the old and the old in the new,032c invites leading and emerging
creatives to collaborate on mono-thematic issues. It has been considered
to be "dedicated to the celebration of ideas" by i-D, "revue ultra-pointue"
by French Vogue, or simply as "the Berlin magazine that propogates an
aesthetic of brutal elegance" by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "The
magazine fuses art and architecture,literature, urban studies and fashion
in ways", states New York Times, "that can make one forget how depressing
a visit to a newsstand has become."
032c is internationally distributed to selected art bookstores, fashion
boutiques and newsstands. The magazine has been exhibited at places such
as London Design Museum, Colette (Paris), GAS (Tokyo), The Pineal Eye
(London) and the 3rd Berlin Biennial. The 16th issue is chillingly called
"Post-America", although it might as well be called "Post-NYC" because
apparently the only bookstores that carry the mag in the entire USA are in
NYC. I'm not surprised, just mildly bemused. Anyways, this is what you will
find in the 16th issue. I'll be picking it up when I'm in America, oh
excuse me New York, over Thanksgiving holiday.

16TH ISSUE
"Post-America", Winter 2008/2009

INSIDE: "A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed." JOHN GRAY tells Hans Ulrich Obrist about the political and financial unrest in the "Post American Age;" STEVEN MEISEL reveals fashion's cruel and beautiful in a rare interview (plus a seven-page foldout madness of all his Vogue Italia covers); Wes Jones illustrates Dubai and the effects of superabundance; artist STURTEVANT tackles copy, copyright, and the ready-made; architect Jürgen Mayer H., and artists Ralf Ziervogel and RothStauffenberg form a cluster of 3-4 FANTASTIC GERMANS (with 032c's Architectural Digest visit to Mozambique's Grand Hotel gone bad); Photographers Max Farago and Alasdair McLellan bring on "THE NUDES;" and so much more on 246 pages.

D €10 EU €12 US $20

Bodytonic Podcast
November 11 2008. More jacking techno than Berghain 02.


I love Techno Belgium
November 15 2008. Liveset from Bruges (it's in Belgium). No tracklist.



Berghain 02 Mix
June 09 2008. Charting new territories in the deep dark...

01 tobias. – Balance
02 Norman Nodge – Native Rhythm Electric
03 Pied Plat - Double Trouble
04 Planetary Assault Systems - Kat
05 Tadeo - Reflection Nebula 056n (Substance Remix)
06 Risqué Rythum Team - The Jacking Zone
07 Samuli Kemppi – Vangel
08 Kevin Saunderson - Just Want Another Chance
09 Clatterbox - Press On
10 Redshape - Plonk (Original Mix)
11 Shed – Warped Mind
12 Tadeo - 4
13 Kate Simko - She Said (Ryan Elliott Edit)
14 Deetron – Let's Get Over It (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
15 T - Mo #1 - (previously unreleased)
16 Radio Slave – Tantakatan
17 Luke Hess - Believe & Receive (Shed's Deepanddubbydub)
18 Strand - Zephyr

In 2008, Marcel Dettmann has seen his stock rise exponentially. He has done a handful of remixes (Scuba, Substance, Deetron, Len Faki, etc.), produced the moody MDR04 EP and shared record space with Pigon on their dual release Kamm/Plain (on Beatstreet). It's not that these accomplishments are prolific, it's that they are prophetic. Outside of the studio, Dettmann is a resident at Berghain, possibly the best club in Berlin. He is part of OstGut Ton Records, presently one of the most widely admired in technoland. He is best friends with Shed. Basically, he is homecoming king and we admire his crazy-square jawline from a distance...a distance especially expansive for those of us in the USA, for whom the internet is our best chance to get close to whatever revolution in electronic sound is happening in Berlin, the now (I can't exactly say new) hub of techno. That having been said, Dettmann is not shy to name classic Detroit house and techno among his influences; his particular brand is dark, jacking and with powerful restraint. The Berghain 02 Mix was huge this summer and was called "a defining moment in techno" by Resident Advisor. The newer Bodytonic mix is more jacking techno and I added the I Love Techno Mix from Belgium for the sake of comparison.

Finally, we got word that Shed had a good time at his US debut in Boston, and so Dettmann is being booked in Boston early next year. Look forward to THAT, why doncha ;)

At the beginning of the year I downloaded the You Very Mix by Margaret Dygas and was transfixed by it. As it turns out (I have been hoarding all of her mixes since then), Dygas has her own style of minimal techhouse with stripped down, isolated grooves which are smooth and hypnotic. Moreover, I was singularly excited when I found out from Little White Earbuds that she has a two track EP just newly released. See You Around and 37 to 7 are both up on her Myspace page. Co-produced by the venerable Tobias (Freund), the See You Around EP is a long, arrhythmic tunnel of rather experimental, but nonetheless catchy, undulating beats (and distorted voices, guitar strings, drones, clicks, bangs...). Philip Sherburne called it one of the most significant releases of 2008. (More on this article later)

Finally, a friend of mine told me a little story about how he met her:
"she probably wouldn't even remember this but years ago, she was a makeup artist in nyc and worked on a friend's film that i was an extra in. she was super beautiful and cool and she was talking to me about how into music she was and how she was going to get turntables and do more music stuff. now she's like really doing it."

It's a small world, especially if you like techno.

My radio show The Following Aesthetic Reasons is on tonight from 7-10PM on 90.3FM (in Boston and surrounding cities) or you can stream from anywhere, live, at wzbc.org

I'm going to try something new...Since my show is 3 hours long, I can't always play new tracks straight off the dancefloors of Berlin...I'd like to introduce a mix of the week for 30 minutes to an hour of showtime. I'd especially love if talented DJ's around Boston would come in and DJ with me live! Please contact me if you're interested, or comment here and I'll contact you.

Thanks for listening!

Pictured: Fashions from Sweden based company, Odeur

It's like window shopping, only the windows are the kind on your laptop. The "Temporary Showroom" is a platform for European based fashion designers to show off their collections sans catwalk. Selected brands exhibit their work and although we still need to hunt them down to buy them, the designers at Temporary Showroom are exceedingly brilliant (and adorably European).

There is actually a Temporary Showroom Berlin, located in Berlin/Kastanienalle, which is a combination of a fashion showroom and a direct customer point of sale. At Temporary Showroom Berlin “temporary” refers to the limited period of time offered by Temporary Showroom to present new designs in the Temporary Showroom Berlin- gallery atmosphere. The presentation of the collections in Berlin is limited from 2 to 6 months, including, in cooperation with the designer, the individual composition of the room.

I definately adore the concept and the fashions. Odeur is sadly not in the US, but maybe we can be inspired by the profiles and odd shapes that they are known for...

Floris Regoort & Jasper Lowik are the Dutch duo behind Rauwkost. Their debut Ep, Trump It, released on ThirtyOneTwenty, was widely lauded and has been played in sets by Ricardo Villalobos, Raresh, etc. The three tracks on Trump It were all quite different, part groovy dancefloor and part moody minimal--which could mean interesting dj sets from these two. They are slated to spin at the TimeWarp Festival in Holland later this month along with this lineup of shining stars:

Ben Sims, Benny Rodrigues, Bo, Nijs en hun denkbeeldige vriendje, Darko Esser, Dimzen, el Locco, Federico Molinari, Ilario Alicante, Johanna Mercker, Johnny D , Joris Voorn, K.Cee, Karotte, Laurent Garnier, Marco Carola, Miss Monica, Moonbootica, Olivier Weiter, Pedro aka Petre Inspirescu, Phonopunk, Raresh, DJ Remy, Rhadoo, Sandeep, The Disco Boys, Two EM, Unders, Warren Fellow, Wesdex, Jason & The Argonauts, Loops

Their next production output will be with Kompass Records...


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Guido Schneider is largely known as one half of Glowing Glisses (with vocalist Florian Schirmacher, on Poker Flat), and for having created many wonderful remix productions. Under the moniker “Motoguzzi”, Guido remixed Easy Woman, which is based on a track remixed by Musik Krauses’ Robag Wruhme. This was released on the first compilation of Berlin’s legendary Berghain Club (Ex-Ostgut), mixed and compiled by his friend Andre Galuzzi. Nice minimal tech-house, this mix is two hours long (and in my opinion, stronger in the second half than the first).