Dear friends,

We are giving away some guestlist spots in this mailout, along with an update on Steve's current news.  We'd also like to let you know that Steve's newest releases on Figure and Get Digital are now available via Beatport, via links below. 

Enjoy the reading and till soon!

Best wishes,

Steve Rachmad & the crew

News...

 
Upcoming shows:

16/10: Technorm @ Nieuwe Nor, Heerlen, NL

22/10: Get Physical @ Click, Westerunie, Amsterdam, NL

31/10: Concept @ Ahoy, Rotterdam, NL

03/11: Radio Drama @ Tresor, Berlin, DE

06/11: Magosto, La Coruna, ES

12/11: Voidd & Steve Rachmad celebrate bday @ Studio 80, Amsterdam, NL

13/11: Fabric, London, UK

19/11: Apokalypsa, Brno, CZ

27/11: Bullitt, Munich, DE

04/12: Time Warp, Amsterdam, NL

11/12: D-Edge, Sao Paulo, BR

18/12: Sala Metropolis, Cordoba, ES

31/12: Kolpinghuis Nijmegen, NL

JANUARY: holidays

05/02: Shift @ Tattingers, Malta

12/02: Ratio? @ Trouw, Amsterdam, NL

Heiko Laux & Steve Rachmad: The Broken Cup EP (Figure SPC)

Catalogue Number: Figure SPC H
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Label: Figure SPC
Format: Digital and Limited 12’’
Distributed by: Intergroove
Web: www.lenseries.com

Out now on Beatport

Title: Figure SPC H - The Broken Cup

A. The Broken Cup (listen here)
B. Politeness Protocol (listen here)

The Boatshow (digital only) (listen here)

Two of techno’s real heavyweights join forces in an extended, spaced out dub session in the next Figure SPC. Heiko Laux & Steve Rachmad present ‘The Broken Cup’. The title track swoops and flutters through deep, aquatically charged minimalism, drawing its power from the bass frequencies up. Accurate, tense and subterranean, its a 10 minute journey into deep, heavy subs and powerful subliminal movements.

Dancing amongst a horde of statically-charged dub melody, ‘Politeness Protocol’ is a brooding track full of textural sonic excitement. Pulsing, phasing and morphing synths combine with pushing drums that carry this momentous slab of electricity forwards. Pure class from two producers who have proved they are capable of magical moments in music.

The rousing pleasurezones of ‘The Boatshow’ are a final treat to complete the package. Heavy, sucking beats surround a darker mission into unknown lands as this similarly solid, drawn out cut makes its form known. 

[SELECTED FEEDBACK]

Dubfire: 5/5
Joris Voorn: Really cool EP! Proper Minimalistic Techno!
Stephan Bodzin: Wowowowwwww!!! Huge release. Politeness for me! Love it.
Adam Beyer: Great production and depth, full support for Steve and Heiko!
Joel Mull: Amazing tracks!!! And Production is the best ive heard in a longtime. Top Quality soundscapes. Love it.
2000 and One: Great EP!

Dave Clarke (White Noise): Favourite tracks are Politeness and Boatshow, will play on radio and if the right kind of laid back club.

Orde Meikle (Slam): Two great artists - 3 great tracks - Slam support - Top label!
Dustin Zahn: Feeling the Deepness of Broken Cup. Far prefer Broken Cup over 2 girls 1 Cup.
Alan Fitzpatrick: These are great, they will smash it.
Craig Richards: I'm a big fan of both people. This makes very little sound great..
Lee Burridge: My favorite promo of the week. Sexy techno. Tracks two and one for me.
DJ Hell: Downloading for Hell.
Samuel L Session: Quality! Will play.
DJ T: Download for T.

Steve Rachmad: Mr. Ed (Get Digital Music)

Catalogue Number: GDM015
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Label: Get Digital Music (Get Physical Music sub-label)
Format: Digital and vinyl 12’’
Distributed by: Intergroove
Web: www.physical-music.com

Out now on Beatport

Tracklist

A Mr Ed (listen here)
B1 Ed UP (listen here)

B2 Strings of Dub (listen here)

Strings of Love (Digital Only) (listen here)

The Netherlands' Steve Rachmad is no stranger to Get Physical, having remixed MANDY vs Booka Shade's classic 'Body Language' under his Sterac Electronics guise back in 2006. The peerless purveyor of tough, grooving and emotionally powerful Motor City-influenced techno now returns to the fold with two tracks for Get Digital.

A hugely respected figure in dance music, Rachmad has been doing his thing since 1985, and its shows in the sheer craftmanship and effectiveness of his work. This is not a producer who wastes time messing around: his tracks are high-charged bombs, built for club detonation.

'ED up' maintains this explosive form, but it's not without subtlety: a fractured soul vocal and dubwise FX draw us in, aquaplaning off the beat before giving way to an effortlessly funked-up synth-bass riff that will captivate any dancefloor, any time. "I would do anything you say," says the voice, as if under the spell of the groove evolving around it. 'Strings of Dub' is a trackier, trancier affair - deep, muscular but dreamy techno, the latest offspring of the musical affinity that Detroit and Amsterdam have shared since the early 90s. Rachmad takes seemingly familiar elements and renders them anew; a true master at work.

Amsterdam Dance Event with Get Physical

This year, the booking agency representing Steve Rachmad, AD Bookings, is again showcasing during Amsterdam Dance Event at Amsterdam's Westerunie. More particularly, on Friday, October 22, 2010. However, in the light of his new release on Get Digital Music, Steve will be DJing in the Get Physical area this time, alongside M.A.N.D.Y., Italoboyz, Catz n Dogz and Djuma Soundsystem.

The rest of the lineup is also quite impressive, with The Advent live, Slam, Joel Mull, Marko Nastic, Heiko Laux, Wouter de Moor and Philip Young in the AD Bookings area, as well as Michel de Hey and Monika Kruse as HEY!.

For the full lineup, check Facebook. Tickets can be bought online at Ticketscript. 

Birthday baby!

After a sold out Voidd weekender in November 2009, Steve Rachmad is back to his homebase to celebrate yet another year gone, yet another year ahead. Voidd, Steve Rachmad and Wouter de Moor cordially invite you their birthday bash, on Friday, November 12, at Studio 80, Amsterdam!

Last year Steve celebrated his birthday with Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Michel de Hey, Wouter de Moor & Gideon Bouwens, and Studio 80 residents. It was a wild, sweaty night, a musical treat! This year, we bring DJ T. (Get Physical) from Berlin, to get your bootie dancing all night long next to Steve. In the back room, check Wouter de Moor and the resident Steady Douglas!

What: Voidd, Wildlife Legends Birthday weekender

Where: Studio 80, Amstel 80, Amsterdam, NL

When: Friday, November 12, 2010

Damage: 12 EUR presale, 14 EUR at the door

Featured on Carl Cox's Ibiza 2010 mix CD

Carl Cox incorporates Steve's remix of Peter Horrevorts' Labyrinth in his Ibiza 2010 mix CD "The Revolution Continues at Space".  On this double compilation appear also artists as Loco Dice, Yousef, Robert Babicz, Moby, Giles Peterson, and Carl Cox himself. Check Steve's remix in his Myspace player.