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BPX 014EP
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Detroit selector, producer, and label owner (Pure Sonik Records) DJ T-1000 lands once again on BPitch Berlin with The Dirrty Underground EP, a dirty, percussive and pounding back-to-basics techno four-tracker. DJ T-1000 aka Alan Oldham is a central figure in techno history. Detroit born and based in Berlin, he began his career in the early '90s with Underground Resistance, and is a prolific producer whose music has appeared on many labels including BPitch and Tresor. Behind the scenes, he runs legendary Detroit labels like Generator, Pure Sonik, and Detroitrocketscience, and also works as a graphic artist and illustrator, producing iconic cover and merch artworks for Djax-Up-Beats, +8, Transmat and many more. On The Dirrty Underground EP, Oldham utilizes the timeless techno fundamentals -- pummeling hardware percussion, tight loops, and chopped humorous samples, resulting in tracks quite different from his usual fare. "Clitfuck" and "Think You Can Handle It" are a pair of fast and loose hardware jams inspired by Ellen Allien's recent sets. As the name implies "I Love It In My Acid" is a murky, tunneling acid weapon, and "I Fucking Love Berlin", with its raw, sleazy groove, pays fitting homage to the Detroit-Berlin axis.
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PURE 018LP
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"Chicago: After a seven year layoff during which massive changes in recording and distribution rocked the music industry, Detroit-born, Chicago based techno label Pure Sonik Records is getting back into the arena! Our first new project: Johnny Gambit 01: The Prodigal Son original soundtrack. Back in 1987, a young Alan D. Oldham (the future DJ T-1000) produced his first widely-released indie comic book, called Johnny Gambit. At the same time, Oldham's childhood friend, Derrick May, was producing his first twelve inch record, Nude Photo, on his Transmat label (for which Alan did the artwork). Why not put the comics inside the records, asked May. From that basic idea, two legends were born. Johnny Gambit the comic book was featured in the first ever article about Detroit techno in London's The Face magazine (1987). The article, titled 'Seventh City Techno,' was named after Gambit's fictional city. Years later, future minimal legend Dan Bell, inspired by Oldham's comics, asked if he could use the Seventh City name for his own label, and Oldham himself segued into the techno business, eventually touring, producing and releasing under the pseudonym DJ T-1000 for Tresor, Submerge, Inzec and his own Generator and Pure Sonik Records labels as well as doing artwork for Djax, Astralwerks, +8, New Religion, Seventh Sign, Digital Soul and many other labels. Cut to 2009 and the talented Oldham's gone back to his roots as an illustrator, as well as a Detroit techno producer, creating a graphic novel, fullcolor label art, and the accompanying soundtrack! This vinyl collector's version of the Johnny Gambit soundtrack features eight tracks, like the oldschool LPs. But don't worry -- each side is less than 15 minutes for the hottest cut possible."
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PURE 017CD
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"The follow-up to 1999's Progress album on Tresor Berlin, Neutra (named after 1950's west coast avant-garde architect and Frank Lloyd Wright contemporary, Richard Neutra) finds producer/composer Oldham again committing his worldwide DJ travels and life experiences to music, ranging from full-stereo, DJ-friendly, bangin' techno ('Neutra', 'Karma 2') to moody ambience ('Cold Sleep') to his first drum-and-bass experiment ('The Five Fighting Styles of the Four Elements') to industrial ('Contempt'), all packaged in a provocative and professional manner, as you've come to expect from Pure Sonik."
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