MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE
At the tender age of 6, Danilo Plessow`s path in music started with playing drums. With his engagement in a school big band in Schwäbisch Gmünd (near Stuttgart/Germany)he found his love for jazz – and from 11 years of age on he started working on his own music using a computer and samples. Being influenced by Jazz, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop and House music, the first results were already released 5 years later on Stuttgarts Pulver Records. Together with Joachim Tobias, Danilo had formed the House/Broken Beat project “Inverse Cinematics”: Seven 12” Records, the highly acclaimed album ‘Passin’ through’ and many remixes and compilation appearances followed. The project was and still is a favorite of some of the world’s most influential leftfield DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Rainer Trüby (with whom Danilo actually proves a productive collaboration), Michael Rütten or Benji B. After several other co-operations and solo projects in the Nujazz vein (Hipster Wonkaz with P.Valentino for Ubiquity Records or solo as Aphro Pzyko for Raw Fusion), Danilo went back to his House music roots with the “Motor City Drum Ensemble”.
This artist moniker refers to his home town Stuttgart, Germany’s very own motor city (w. Mercedes-Benz/Porsche/Bosch a. o.) and obviously is a link to Detroit as well. Taking influences from soul, disco and Detroit/Chicago 90`s house, the new moniker soon became his best known: He released five 12” in 2008, and especially his “Raw Cuts” series made him a shooting star in the deep house scene, highlighted by the internet house/techno bible “Resident Advisor” for whom he did a mix-tape that is soon regarded as one of the best mixes of this influential podcast.
Having blown the world away with his ‘Raw Cuts’ series, released on his own label “MCDE” (run together with P. Valentino), Danilo has made an enormous impact on house and techno. On ‘Juno Records’ the #3/#4 and #5/#6 are charted on top of the all time best-sellers.
His other own label “Four Roses Recordings” has been doing also very good.
Thanks to his remarkable musical talent and overflowing creativity, Danilo has become a sought after and very successful re-mixer as well. With just 25 years of age, he has already released on no less than 24 labels.
No doubt, 2009 was MCDE’s year. In February , Beatport’s team of music experts had put him ahead of the up and coming Deep House artists worldwide. And in the following months MCDE got a growing critical and popular wave of applause due to his amazing, sample-heavy discoish house tunes, delivering the whole ‘deep house’ notion with clarity and vision alongside a definitive style and by keeping the quality levels bubbling over. “MCDE has cultivated a style that is somehow incredibly loose and tight at the same time” and that has made him to one of the most appreciated producers of dance music at its best. With his impressive slew of stunning remixes for the likes of DJ Sprinkles, Steve Bug, DJ T, Tom Trago, Jazzanova, Losoul, A. Lodemann and others, Danilo created deep house master pieces. As well, his estimated podcasts (for RA/XLR8R/Juno Plus a.o.) proved that he understands much more about house than what simply emanates from his mixing desk.
Just as successful as he does with his top-ranking productions he works for the dance-floors as a very popular DJ – just being picked out by the RA-Poll beyond the TOP 50 worldwide (as one of the youngest of course !).So Danilo now hits the road on a regular again to show some of his dj skills, which have brought him all over Europe, the US, Russia, Asia and Australia already.
“Danilo Plessow is still young, but it’s obvious from his 2009 that he has an innate talent for the simple things and will likely continue his run for a long, long time.” – Therefore better watch out, this boy‘s on a mission !
SASCHA DIVE
Sascha Dive has been one of the hottest newcomers in on the house music circuit. The Frankfurt based producer is following up his hyped EPs on Raum Musik and his own Deep Vibes imprint with a superb debut EP for Drumpoet, delivering the percussive track "Annihilating Rhythm" exploring the low end of the frequency spectrum and "DEep" remixed by Samuel Davis. Welcome along to the latest release of Zurich based label Drumpoet Community. Sascha Dive is an upcoming young producer from Frankfurt, Germany. He released already various 12"es on labels like Raum Musik, Alphabet City and his own Deep Groove Records and gained much attention by well known DJs. With DEep he created a huge dancefloor tune which shines in the mix of the mysterious Samuel Davis from Detroit. DEep created a big buzz among DJs like Efdemin, Prosumer, Serafin and many others. The "Annihilating Rhythm" is also a great tool which works extremely well to build an afrocentric moment in a club. It is the sound of the moment, minimal at it's best because it approaches the basic groove of house music and it's really swinging, not like the usual non-sense hopping music which is featured by lots of the big DJs in Techno. We can definitely say that the future looks bright for Sascha Dive. His music has a slightly minimal approach but never forgets the Funk and is taking the whole movement to new levels.
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