New Release : KiloWatts : Six Silicates : Free download!

KiloWatts
Six Silicates

1) Jade
2) Emerald
3) Amethyst
4) Zircon
5) Quartz
6) Kyanite

Free to download : Donations greatly appreciated!

Visit kilowattsmusic.com/six for more info...

Mix : Somnia mix MP3 download

Here's the Somnia label showcase mix from Fluid Radio last week. This mix includes tracks from every Somnia release, including two from my upcoming release. Enjoy!

01) Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness
02) Emanuele Errante - Fecunda
03) Motionfield - Horizon
04) Evan Bartholomew - Leaving Behind Our Memories
05) KiloWatts - Rode Falls
06) Bluetech - A Delicate Mystery (New Life Mix)
07) Motionfield - Childhood Playground
08) Emanuele Errante - Primo Tema
09) Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Resurface
10) Juxta Phona & offthesky - Dark Matters
11) P.Laoss - D.I.V.E.
12) Juxta Phona & offthesky - Trust & Roullette
13) Evan Bartholomew - Descending Deeper In Search of The Timeless
14) KiloWatts - The Moment Just Before Dawn

www.hybridized.org/sets/636

Show : 3/29 (Sunday) : Somnia Records Showcase on Fluid Radio

Tune into Fluid Radio online at 2pm EST tomorrow (Sunday) to hear a Somnia Records showcase mix I recently put together representing past, present, and future material from Somnia Records.

www.fluid-radio.co.uk

Sun 29th 2pm EST - Somnia Records Showcase Mixed by KiloWatts

Somnia
'Music For The Spaces Inbetween

Somnia is an independent music label releasing ambient, electronic, minimalist, modern classical, electro acoustic, and "other" recordings. The goal of somnia is to create music that values art above marketing, passion above product, aesthetics above excel documents, and a focus on individual expression over playing it safe and fitting things into nice little genre boxes. Sometimes art needs to exist for a short period of time, and fade away in order to have meaning. in an age of mass proliferation of data, where any bit of information is accessible from anywhere at any point in time, we are interested in providing a forum for something "hand made", that cant be duplicated en masse. Every somnia release is special. special music, and special packaging, special love, special ideas, and special intention put into every single piece of art/music we construct.

Track List:

01) Evan Bartholomew – Secret Entries Into Darkness
02) Emanuele Errante – Fecunda
03) Motionfield – Horizon
04) Evan Bartholomew – Leaving Behind Our Memories
05) KiloWatts – Rode Falls
06) Bluetech – A Delicate Mystery (New Life Mix)
07) Motionfield – Childhood Playground
08) Emanuele Errante – Primo Tema
09) Evan Marc + Steve Hillage – Resurface
10) Juxta Phona & offthesky – Dark Matters
11) P.Laoss – D.I.V.E.
12) Juxta Phona & offthesky – Trust & Roullette
13) Evan Bartholomew – Descending Deeper In Search of The Timeless
14) KiloWatts – The Moment Just Before Dawn

Mixed by KiloWatts

www.somniasound.com

Show : 3/21 : The Immerse Tour in DC

7pm - 11pm
BeBar
$10
18+


KiloWatts (Gaian Mind, Native State Records - Philadelphia) - www.myspace.com/kilowatts
Aligning Minds - (Aleph Zero, 88 - DC) - www.aligning-minds.com
The Great Mundane (Psymbolic - Chicago) - www.myspace.com/thegreatmundane

Curator: Kelly Towles
Graphic Design Showcase: Jefferson Lui, John Whitlock, Ege Celengil
Photography: Karlo Gesner
Projections: Gabe Dewitt
Performance: Mavi
Painting: Cargo Cult
Fashion: Jon Wye
Theme: Cosmic

+Free givaways from Livid Instruments!

Background context on The IMMERSE Tour:

Utilizing the mediums of sound and imagery, the IMMERSE Tour showcases the harmony of universal music and motion graphics.

Living in an era of instant information accessibility, sensory overload and the virtual rather than the actual, humanity is IMMERSED in a paradox between nature and technology. Perhaps though these opposites are symbiotic and not adversarial. Thus enters KiloWatts, Aligning Minds, the Great Mundane, and Psymbolic Visuals.

Through sonic and visual wanderings, an IMMERSE night will take attendees on an adventure that converges at the nexus of everything, celebrating life, death and the happenings between the two. As artists choosing to incorporate, express and promote these concepts, the tour is in a position to IMMERSE others in a coordinated, impactful experience that will create a powerful ripple-effect of awareness and inspiration.

Interview : Openlabs : Making Music Remotely

I recently did an interview for Openlabs about the art of making electronic music remotely.

"As technology continues to make strides, more and more artists are finding themselves left alone in their studios; while endless piles of gadgets replace people, and become an artist's sole source of inspiration. Where there were once groups of artists discussing the levels on the bass line, there are now lonely sound engineers, pushing buttons and sliding faders. But it doesn't have to be so solitary. Working remotely, while not a new phenomenon, is becoming progressively easier and producing better quality music."

Read the full article here: is.gd/n7gy

Show : Feb. 26 : Plush, with MAETRIK

02.26.09- Feb. 26th 2009

MHYH and Harmonious Discord present Thirst Thursday's with VERY special guests:

KiloWatts (Gaian Mind, DirtyBird, Thoughtless, Native State, Harmonious Discord) *LIVE PA*
www.kilowattsmusic.com/
www.nativestaterecords.com/
www.hdrecordings.com/

At the forefront of innovation is an artist that has made splashes in every major electronic medium over the past 6 years. Be it breaks with his remixes of Eve Falcon and The Carbon Community as well as a collab project named Skeetaz; Downtempo/Trip Hop with his latest full length release on Native State; Tech House with releases on OM, Dirty Bird, and Thoughtless; or his wildly popular glitch-pop band alongside German guitarist and songwriter Vanek with the release of their second full length “Focus and Flow”. His cutting edge sound is testament that in the near future James will be a heavy force in the electronic music community.

and

Maetrik (Triebstoff, Dirtybird/Mothership, Tic Tac Toe)*Live/DJ*
www.ironboxmusic.com/
www.tictactoe-records.com/

Eric Estornel, under the names MAETRIK, MARIEL ITO, PLAEX, and simply ESTORNEL - has been contributing to his musical world around him since 1993. Eric has always searched for the future of electronic dance. Not being confined by rules of styles or genres is most important to Eric, as he makes his way through a political and fickle industry.

Cuban born and raised, Eric has always been around music. His father was a salsa enthusiast, and at a very early age Eric along with his older brother and younger sister were put into dance lessons learning all types of Dance. They all 3 soon shared the dream of becoming professional dancers and choreographers. Although a very talented dancer, Eric was always a little more fascinated with the art of musical composition and began experimenting with different acoustic and electronic instruments. In 1991 at the age of 13 Eric discovered a local Radio show in Dallas, Texas called Edgeclub that featured popular electronic dance of the time including Techno and Electro. Quickly Eric grew infatuated with the electronic sounds and intricate percussion and grew more and more fascinated with the Dj culture and Production side of the industry.

By 1993 Eric was experimenting with mixxing music using old turntables and tape players, and soon was able to save his money and buy a pair of the famous technic 1200s. Not long after Eric became a major vinyl junkie and techno enthusiast with a broad knowledge and love for all forms of electronic music, not just techno.

By 1995 Eric was a known and respected young DJ in Dallas, when he really turned to the production end of things, collecting and toying with different cheap synthesizers and drum machines. And by 96 he was already developing his unique blend of techno, electro, and breakbeats. Fast foward to present day, Eric with all of his different sudonyms has gained the respect of Djs, Artists, and music Enthusiasts worldwide. His Discography under the sudonyms Maetrik, Mariel Ito, Plaex, and Estornel - shows his production versatility and always evolving electronic sound.

Alongside resident Bonehead and Sean Anderson

$5 bucks all night long to see international talent!!

Plush is located at the corner of 7th and Red River
21+ w/ ID

www.dallasdancemusic.com/forum...x.html

New Release : Voodeux : Bones EP

www.mothershipmusic.com/voodeu...ton-key

Artist: Voodeux
Title: Bones EP
Cat-N°: MSHIP015
Format: Vinyl
Presales:December 10th 2009
Release date: February 14th 2009

Like the alien skull that adorns its cover, Voodeux’s Bones EP is certainly from another place and time. Picking up where their 2007 The Curse EP left off, sonic madmen Tanner Ross and Kilowatts have refined and sharpened their signature sound into 1,000 needlepoints, bound directly for the back of your neck. This is techno for a horror movie set in deep space. Reach for Bones if you have a crowd peaking and you want to rip their heads off. Burly slabs of bass rain down like Easter Island statues, while relentless crystalline atmospherics splinter endlessly towards the horizon. Skeleton Key is no less ominous, broadcasting its spidery main theme over an ever-evolving, increasingly paranoid chord sequence. Once the kick drops back in, the chords frost over with a layer of ice, smashing through the frame with all the subtlety of a yeti attack.

New Release : KiloWatts : Love On Saturn :: Thoughtless Music

It's the dawn of a new era – not only is there a new President in the White House, but Beatport has also launched their freshly retooled interface: version 4.0! The fully remastered digital download site features over 50 enhancements that include some of the most popular user-requested features. To celebrate this confluence of historic events, Thoughtless Music presents...

KILOWATTS
Love On Saturn
TLM018

Philadelphia's James Watts is back in action: following his releases as one half of Mothership's Voodeux, he continues to develop his distinctive Thoughtless sound with playful grooves, twisted melodic structures and plenty of spacey effects. Defining a new hybrid of techno and house all his own - with influences ranging from intergalactic jazz to visionary funk - this collection might just be enough to make you fall in love, regardless of the planet you're on...

01. Love On Saturn
02. Polar Orbit
03. Hyperion Hustle
04. Hyperion Hustle (In Retrograde)

"Amazing release as always from KiloWatts. I seriously don't know which track is best for me - the whole thing is fookin retarded. I do know I'll give each track a try. Great job, Thoughtless!" - Maetrik (Treibstoff, Mothership)

"Thanks for such amazing music - the Love On Saturn EP is beautiful and full of funk. KiloWatts is defenitely taking house, funk, techno and other styles into new places - we will be playing this EP constantly for a long time, that's for sure!" - Signal Deluxe (Eintakt, Brouquade)

"All pretty solid freshness here - quirky goodness galore! 'Hyperion Hustle (In Retrograde)' is my sorta jack-joint. Fantastic, jackin'-IDM! I'll be playing this for sure - it's gotta turn heads big time." - Deepchild (Future Classic)

"Quite like this release. Fresh & slightly twisted, boppy tunes. My fave is 'Hyperion Hustle (In Retrograde)'." - Tyler Stadius (Fabric)

"Nice EP. Great sound design and attention to detail." - Alland Byallo (Nightlight, Liebe Detail)

"What I love most about KiloWatts is his continuous inventive progression and attention to sound design. All four tracks on this release showcase that talent to move and warp sounds while silky funking bass drives the dancefloor." - Limacon (Pokerflat, Resopal)

"'Hyperion Hustle' is great - definitely going to play this one." - James Teej (Rekids)

"This EP is awesome! Every track is superb. Right up my alley. Definitely be playing this out." - Andrew Duke (Cognition Audioworks)

"Solid EP. Really feeling 'Polar Orbit'. Beautifully deep with rich, sublime synths." - Jamie Kidd (Metalogic)

"This EP is excellent - as usual, KiloWatts steps up to the plate with flawless programming and superior musical construction." - Ben Goodwin (Archipel)

Take a listen and buy it now exclusively on the brand new Beatport at: beatport.com/label/thoughtless+music

thoughtlessmusic.com
myspace.com/thoughtlessdigital

Gig : Seattle December 30th : Best of Bass @ Neumo's

Decibel, Starborne and LiveNLove proudly present...

BEST OF BASS

Part 1 of a 2 evening event happening December 30th and 31st at Neumos

Featuring performances from several standout artists from the 2008 Decibel Festival and one highly anticipated Seattle debut!

The Seattle debut of.....



JESSE ROSE!!! : DJ
www.myspace.com/jesseroseandcontent
Berlin : Get Physical / Dirty Bird / Made To Play
Jesse Rose is currently one of the most in-demand electronic music artists around the world, with seemingly every festival and club on the planet wanting a dose of his delicious Berlin-based bass-driven sound. This pioneer, producer, remixer, DJ and label owner of Front Room Recordings has been making music for over fourteen years and is now an established trend-setter, taking his place amongst the most popular and famous producers in the international electronic music community. Headlining the “Best of Bass” night at the Decibel New Year’s edition, Rose will bring his funk-lined, hyphy electro-house to Seattle for the first time ever, dropping his playfully dirty beats, twisty sound, and chunky bass on our waiting ears and dancing feet. His track “Forget My Name” will be released on vinyl December 15th, but after the impending Decibel show there will be no chance of that- the sound of Jesse Rose will be tattooed on your eardrums for eternity.





KILOWATTS : Live
www.kilowattsmusic.com/
Philadelphia : Native State / Thoughtless Music
KiloWatts, otherwise known as James Watts, hails from the States and plays bass-heavy breaks, down tempo, and techno that will open your mind with beats like a sack of bricks. Performing all over the U.S. and in Canada at festivals and dance parties, KiloWatts makes creative use of drums, scratches, and glitches to fill his music with a unique potency that takes listeners to the moon- and leaves them there. His new album Ground State on Native State Records is a barrier-breaking set of mind-jams that insist you reawaken the divinity within yourself and find the energy that connects you to the universe- not hard when you are on the moon.

An ever-growing list of projects and collaborations exists. Skeetaz, with breakbeat cohort Bil Bless brings hard-hitting digital glitched-out psychedelic funk. His collaboration with singer Peter Van Ewijk is a mystical ride with vocals and guitar, nested atop edgy electronica. With Tanner Ross, an eerie style of dark techno is born under the name Voodeux for Dirtybird’s techno sublabel Mothership. Fellow Philadelphian MC Amagine delivers consciousness-driven motifs in their digital glitch-hop project called Super Galactic Expansive.





DERU : Live
www.myspace.com/iamderu
Los Angeles : Ghostly / Merck Records
LA-based ambient glitch-dub-hop pioneer Deru was one of the surprise favorites for many at the 2008 Decibel Festival’s Ghostly International showcase at the Baltic Room, bringing his unique style to the traditional electronic merging of warm melodic structures with cold, precise rhythms. His is the sound of condensed isolation; the music your brain might make to survive when you are locked in a feeling of loneliness in the middle of a crowd of half a million. In contrast to the sparse and scattered sound of others in his IDM arena, Deru’s sound is delicate and dense, packed with energy and infused with deep, thumping bass. His third album, Say Goodbye to Useless, is scheduled for release in early 2009 and will no doubt deliver more of the atmospheric, fractured sound that forward-thinking music lovers around the world have come to embrace.





novaTRON : Live
www.myspace.com/novatron
Seattle - Innerflight
The sonic wizard that exists on this Earth as novaTRON is a designer of musical experience that defies all categorization. An animal like no other, novaTRON creates completely original beats that are improvised on the fly on the Tron Box, a self-constructed constellation of audio hardware that includes KORG’s EMX, ESX x2, KP3, KP2, Koassilator, and a Roland SP404. The music born from the marriage of the mind of a mad scientist and the Tron Box is a unique symphony of breakbeats, a reality twisted into a science of experimentation that combines to form an aural experience that can only be lived in the present. NovaTRON’s organic live sets capture the ephemeral nature of art and existence and strap it down with a thick layer of bass before letting it go on it’s way out to the world and into your body. His beats take you on a trip through multiple realms of reality with a professor of phunk at the helm; his music is created of the dance floor, by the dance floor, and for the dance floor. NovaTRON is a master of the moment who continues to push the limits of electronica with each and every new set.





SEED : Live
theseed.tk
Seattle - LiveNLove
SEED is a killer drummer and producer from Seattle whose sound can be classified somewhere in the space between the genres of Jazzchestral Glitch-Samba, Ballet Ghettotech, and Transcendental Elevator Music. Representing local music collective LiveNLove, seed will be performing live on Ableton along with the jazzy vocal talents of Greer Sullivan and the smart rhymes of E@5E_95 for this year’s micro dB New Year’s party. Expect dubby trip-hop infused with experimental jungle, and look for this newcomer to continue expanding minds on the dance floor as he pushes his eclectic electric noise to greater heights with deeper meaning.




VIDEO ACCOMPANIMENT BY:

SCOTT K. JAMES : Video
thenowdevice.com
Seattle : The Now Device



PREMIUM SOUND PROVIDED BY:

www.dynacord.com



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TICKETS / VENUE INFO
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$15 Presale tickets are available at Moe Bar, Rudy's Barbershop and online through:
LINK--->ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/nc...nkID=twspok


$30 Discounted joint tickets for both December 30th & 31st* are also available online at: ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/nc...nkID=twspok


*see "DIRTY DANCING : NYE" thread for more details:www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthr...did=131728)


Doors open at 8pm / 21+

*Visit www.dbfestival.com or www.myspace.com/decibelfestival for more info

@ Neumos
925 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA
www.neumos.com

Gig : San Francisco NYE : Subterra

TANTRA ROOM : PsyTrance

Painkiller live and DJ sets (Nutek Records - Barcelona, Spain)
Earthling live and DJ sets (Spun Records - Ibiza Spain)
Earthtone [Earthling + Chromatone live] (Neurobiotic Records - Ibiza, Spain)
Chromatone (Nano Records)
Liam Shy (Tantra)

Mackie Fusion Sound by Tantra
Visuals by Dr. Paradise (paradise2012.com/neo/index.html)
Decor by SpaceShaping (www.spaceshaping.net)

KNOW : AUDIO TECHNO ROOM

Worthy (dirtybird)
Justin Martin (dirtybird)
Christian Martin (dirtybird)
Mozaic (Raindance/ Nexus)
Forest Green (forestgreen.org/ cute fang recordings)
Majitope (Symbiosis/ Lowpro)
oro Toro (Friends and Family/ rEvolution)
Jeff Richmond (Coda)

Sound by Know:Audio
Lighting by Radiant Atmospheres
Decor by Marin

SYMBIOSIS SPACE

Marty Party (Pantyraid)
Kilowatts (Native State/ kilowattsmusic.com - Philadelphia)
JHz (TCR / Kilowatt / Record Records)
Mimosa (Muti Music)
Morphonix (Vapervent Records)
Savage Journey (The Savage Henry)
The Flying Skulls (Lowpro)
Bogl (Symbiosis)
MIHKAL (Conoisseur Collective)
Lux (aka Rodman)

Sound by Know:Audio
Lighting by Radiant Atmospheres
Decor by SpaceShaping and The Connoisseur Collective

KOINONEA / AMBIENT MAFIA CHILL AREA

Kilowatts (Native State/ kilowattsmusic.com)
Outersect (Koinonea/ Heart\'s Eye)
Chlorophil (Six Degrees/ Interchill)
Redstickman (Ambient Mafia)
Cumulus (Word of Mouth)
J.C. (Epiphany of Sound)
Betsy-La (Koinonea)
Saturnia (Cosmic Leaf Records/Phoenix Family)

Sound by Koinonea
Environment by The Ambient Mafia and Koinonea

www.subterranye2009.com