If there´s a name on the electronic scene that you must check up on from time to time, that´s Ellen Allien. Because she´s always up to something and that something rarely is anything like what she´s done immediately before. Which means that even though she´s a regular at our country, with every visit, she´ll bring something different to share with us from the DJ booth.
That happens because, to put it simply, Ellen does what she pleases. More than by a sound, she´s defined by a healthy denial of categorization, by her attitude and by the passion which she brings to what she does in music. And that is a guarantee that even if you don´t like a particular track of hers, or the latest release on her label BPitch Control, you never doubt the belief that was put into it, and you also know that whatever comes next risks being absolutely fabulous. Her last LP, ´LISm´, from back in 2013, was essentially ambient, beatless for 90% of it´s length, but her most recent EP, ‘Turn Off Your Mind´, is essentially pure acid-techno. A set of hers can be a top-of-the-line industrial techno maelstrom, but the next can be a joyful dose of sunshine house. And who can really define BPitch Control with any other label other “independent”, in the purest sense of that word? Some of Allien´s protegés, like Modeselektor or Paul Kalkbrenner, became near popstars, but at no moment did that mean cheapness or selling out. And there´s also this : Ellen Allien seems to have the gift of prescience, which anticipates tendencies months or even years before they happen (who remembers an “embryonic” Ben Klock doing releases on BPItch Control as far back as 2003?)
Summing up, forget all you think you know about Ellen Allien, because the only thing that´s for sure is, if she likes it, she plays it. Other than that, clean your slates and leave preconceptions at home, but don´t stay home, just bring two wishes: to dance and to dream. She´s already warned you, turn off your mind.
- Nuno Mendonça
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