Oscar David Benjamin Powell - better known simply as Powell - produces 80's era inspired electronic music, drawing from the vast environs of post-punk, no wave, and industrial. "The tracks made by the 30-year-old Londoner sweat with a trudging labor, rather than an abandon of dance - but there's still a seam of funk" says British daily newspaper, The Guardian, who recently named Powell one of ten music stars to break through in 2014.
His releases so far, from his debut EP "The Ongoing Significance of Steel & Flesh (including a Regis - that’s Karl O’Connor of British Murder Boys - remix)" and its follow up "Body Music," both for Powell's own London-based Diagonal label, the "Fizz" EP for Liberation Technologies and a remix of Silent Servant for Jealous God, are ideal fits for dark deep basement dance parties.
Berlin-based digital music pub, Electronic Beats adds: "The flinty, off-beat percussion, the notable lack of reverb, his sudden recourse into piercing frequencies, all have the effect of creating a strain of techno that feels as if it’s clenching in on itself, a heaving, feverish clump of muscle and sinew. Body music indeed. But there’s a bone-dry sense of humor too. His own DJ sets have seen the one-time junglist attempt to redraw the rules of what’s acceptable for a techno DJ to play." Note: An artist redrawing the rules is our kind of artist.
Killer quote: "I love DJing in a club,” Powell says. "I love the challenge of playing club music without playing club music and that’s what really excites me: being able to bring records to that environment that would never normally be heard and trying to make them fit together in a way that people respond to.” Well said, sir, well said. Welcome to Detroit.
Powell makes his Detroit debut Friday, March 7 at 1426 Below (1426 Bagley St. in the basement of St. Cece's Pub). DJ support by Justin Carver and Daniel Stolarski (Something Cold / Detroit) and Drew Pompa (We Are All Machines / Detroit). Ten dollar cover charge all night. This event is 21 and up.
This is a We Are All Machines and nospectacle co-production. Meticulous sound output provided by the Audio Rescue Team.
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