Üritus: Agoria, Monoloc, DkA live and Maxim Lany

Üritus: Agoria, Monoloc, DkA live and Maxim Lany

▦ Agoria (FR, Sapiens)
www.soundcloud.com/agoria
▦ Monoloc (Official) (DE, Dystopian)
www.soundcloud.com/monoloc-smallroom-music
▦ DkA live (BE, Hot Creations)
www.soundcloud.com/dka
▦ Maxim Lany (BE, Lany Recordings)
www.soundcloud.com/maximlany

Sébastien Devaud, aka AGORIA, entered the world of electronic dance music at a peculiar moment in time. Unlike the first generation of techno producers, he’s too young to have been actively listening to early 80’s electronic pop by groups such as Depeche Mode or New Order. But unlike younger DJs and musicians, he’s been exposed to house and techno more or less since the start of these genres. Agoria started out as a DJ himself, quickly followed by organizing his own parties together with a group of friends (who also gave Séb Devaud his artist moniker loosely named after Agora – the title of their party series, meaning “meeting place” in ancient Greek). He started producing and releasing his own tracks in 1999 and first gained international recognition with a series of 12´s on Pias recordings in 2002, which were followed by the acclaimed album Blossom a year later. Since then, Agoria has released tree more long-players The Green Armchair (2006), the soundtrack to Go Fast (2008), Impermanence (2011) ; all showcasing Agoria’s talent for creating deep, stripped-back, melodic, techno tracks. Recently, Agoria has released several EP on some of the most celebrated techno labels (Innervisions, Kompakt, Hotflush) and has remixed artists such as Moby, New Order & Metronomy. At the end of 2016, he launched a new label (Sapiens), that premiered with his most recent hit single, « Up all Night ». Nowadays, he is working on his 5th album and experiments in other arts spaces : Cinéma with the Film director Jan Kounen (he also plays every year at the Cannes Films Festival), sound design with Nicolas Becker (Gravity & Phlippe Parreno's team) and contemporary art. www.facebook.com/agoriaofficial

Given his releases on some of techno music's most prominent labels, many will already be familiar with MONOLOC. Growing up in Frankfurt, the German native spent his earlier years emerged in the city's punk scene. Only around the age of 16/17 did he become interested in electronic music, inspiring him to start mixing records at birthday parties and bars around the city. Production didn't come until several years later: set on making the music he was playing out, he hired out his first studio space and spent the ensuing six years searching for his own sound before sharing a string of releases through 2008 and 2009. “It was the first time I had showed my work to anyone,” he says. And this proved only to be the start: having become friends with Chris Liebing's CLR crew, he went on to release several EPs and his debut LP on the label, quickly rising to acclaim through his brooding, sophisticated blend of house and techno. This was, he says, an invaluable period in his career during which refined his both his style and sound as a producer and a DJ. Slow to start, perhaps, but further releases came quickly: having relocated to Berlin in 2014, he captured the attention of Dixon and Âme who included his "Flaneur" on the Innervisions Secret Weapons Part 7 EP; since then, he's continued to add to an impressive discography, sharing music through Hotflush before dropping a poignant, leftfield LP on Rødhåd's Dystopian in 2016—a captivating release that marked an evolution in his sleek and punchy sound. It was termed a “jewell” in the Berlin label’s “crown” by Mixmag. More recently, he contributed a track to Tale of Us' Afterlife compilation. As a DJ, too, he continues to impress with his driving and lo-slung selections. Having only started touring in 2010, he now performs at some of Europe’s leading festivals and clubs — including, among many others, Melt, London’s Fabric, and Awakenings. In addition to this, his ongoing affiliations with the above labels make him a regular guest at Afterlife and Dystopian events. www.facebook.com/Monoloc-Official-201082819932424

Since 2000, starting out of DkA, several side-projects such as 'Brussels Pony Club', 'Comute' or 'Kelket' have already been realized, highly appreciated, signed and finally released by various labels such as Lift Your Head Up, Blank Slate or Paranoid Dancer. Beeing inspired by Hiphop-, 70’s Funk - and Jazz music, DkA tends to merge all this influences whilst maintaining a solid minimal tech and deep house feeling. For serveral years now, the belgian producer DkA is traveling all over Europe in order to perform in clubs such as Watergate, The Zoo Channel, Kater Holzig, Sisyphos, Ritter Butzke, Prince Charles, Badaboum, Machine du Moulin Rouge, Fuse, Labyrinth, Spartacus or Café d’Anvers. Recently, DkA released some several solo EPs on label such as Amselcom, Bruxsel Jardin Records, Play Label Records, Bade Records; several remixes on Sender, URSL, Raw Roots and he also presented a project achieved in collaboration with Igor Vicente on Mobilee Records, Get Physical and Hot Creations. www.facebook.com/DkAprod

MAXIM LANY is one of the great Belgian DJ’s, but has long since moved past the Belgian borders. Staying true to his roots, Maxim is still living and working in his beloved city of Ghent, where he made his first DJ sets with the records owned by mum and dad. Lany is famed for his tightly mixed adventurous sets, in which fat bangers and odd-ones out get an equal share. It’s his very own universally acclaimed sound, which not only made him a household name, but also led to starting his own label and having the creative freedom to do what he wants. That is the key here, because Maxim is at his best when he is completely unleashed. www.facebook.com/maxim.lany

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