Aucan

AUCAN (Africantape)

Black Rainbow -Tour 2012

Combining principles of experimental rock, dubstep, and downtempo, AUCAN created a unique live-electronic style, energy, and experience. Since their DNA EP they started to fully combine synthetic electro basses with real drums being one of the first bands ever playing a deep electronic set with a rock attitude.

"Black Rainbow", their third release, is characterised by a more refined hypnotic dub. This album brought them to collaborate with some of the most relevant independent international dubstep/IDM/hip hop artists on several remixes and featurings (among which Scorn, MCDalek, Shigeto, Niveau Zero, Spex MC former Asian Dub Foundation, Robot Koch, Broken Haze, Ambassadeurs) included in the "Black rainbow remixes" album that will be released in April 2012.

Beside being a band, Aucan work in a music studio producing and working on their own recordings, artworks and remixes, pushing their music worldwide through independent labels (based in EU and JAP) and free internet downloads ("Black Rainbow" scored over a 100 thousand downloads in the US during October 2011).

Since 2009 the band played over 300 concerts across Europe. They shared the stage with Placebo, Matmos, Antipop Consortium, Tricky, Fuck Buttons, Steve Aoki, Dinosaur Jr, Crookers, PVT, Sole and The Skyrider band, Ramadanman, Black Heart Procession, Lars Hornveth, ZU, DJ Food, Architecture in Helsinki and others.

CAMERA:

They are young. They are German. They play in Berlin. Three conditions that might be enough to be something in the European music scene. No CD releases to date. You find them playing in parties, in the subway or in the Berlinale . Basically you find them in every cool place where the cool people of Berlin are supposed to be. You check their list of concerts and you can see, the band enjoys playing live. In fact they are an anti-studio band; their persona is based on an improvisational we-can-play-anywhere attitude.

Three members – guitar, drums and keyboard- and two speakers, all members stand, and the letters (C A M E R A) are pasted as stickers on nearby walls. They always look like they’re ready to move. As with many other bands, the well thought out gimmick is there too, behind the music. But they still look absolutely fresh, like a garage band playing in a corner. In an ideal world you would call them, bring them to a park and make a little neighborhood party. In reality, you need some permission or a day when the police are really, really busy. They are WE ARE CAMERA and they make noise.

Hypnotic, repetitive, solid noise. Much guitar but not too much, an absolute lack of interest in showing off how good they are as musicians. Maybe they are not. What they give you is a constant presence of drums, the rhythm the variations and the progressions. A bit of Yo La Tengo, a bit of Joy Division with the added intensity of electronic music.

(Posted by World-Wide-Pop - Ignasi Vargas Surroca, June 22, 2011)

& Genys (Lowvibe) DJ-Set

Genys is from Lithuania, the head of Lowvibe and has been active since a long time as DJ, producer and live performer. He has been in Berlin since more than a year and works as sound designer at Bitwig during daylight. Though he is strongly in love with bass music, his taste isn't limited to it. In the Berlin scene you could hear his sets at parties such as "We Want More Bass", "Dub Der Guten Hoffnung", "Impulse", "Bassfieber" and others. Genys is also hosting the Lowvibe radioshow on Twen FM, which is being aired on the 4th Friday of every month.