MICRON with Alex Smoke and Tolga Fidan @ Joshua Brooks MCR 13/05

SHIFT_Manchester · April 13, 2011

Micron and FutureEverything presents... Vakant Records Showcase

with: Alex Smoke (LIVE) and Tolga Fidan (LIVE - Manchester debut)

£5 ADVANCE TICKETS: http://residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?246427, http://######/events/11462318/ or text MICRON to 82028

Micron and FutureEverything have teamed up to present an exclusive Vakant Records showcase featuring LIVE performances from Alex Smoke and Tolga Fidan.

Alex Smoke is a Scottish talent making electronic records that blur together European minimalism, pop structures and emotional strings and pads. He has released two full length albums, ‘Incommunicado’ and 'Paradolia' [soma Records] and a slew of singles and remixes, many of which have arrived on Soma and German label Vakant.

Smoke’s own productions are often described as moody, a reputation he doesn’t shy away from. His debut on Soma was the euphoric ‘Chica Wappa’, described by Smoke as “undoubtedly the most optimistic track I'll ever write. My music will never be this upbeat again.” His wish might have come true: recently Smoke’s remix work on Vakant and especially his reedit of Junior Boys ‘In the Morning’ have focused heavily on melancholic electronica, although Smoke has a noisy, brash side too, evidenced on big tracks such as ‘Meany’ and ‘Brian’s Lung’.

RA page: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/alexsmoke

LIVE set: http://soundcloud.com/alexsmoke/alex-smoke-live-bern-5-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zemQgbjzRLg

Hailing from Paris via London via Istanbul, don’t call our multi-instrumentalist French. Born and raised in Istanbul, studied in London, and relocated to Paris in 2005, Tolga Fidan considers himself Turkish above all else.

Since breaking into the electronic dance music consciousness with his first ever release "Now I’m Weak EP" on Vakant (VA009) in 2006, he has earned the esteem of fans and techno heavyweights the world over in record time. Perhaps even more freaky, his lush and beautifully produced debut EP was created from the most modest bedroom studio means and mixed on headphones costing less than a round of late night drunken kebabs.

Together with Vakant, Tolga Fidan’s bottomless sound, constantly morphing arrangement, and eclectic sound design that somehow points towards the orient have taken him so far in so little time. He makes his Manchester debut at Micron!

RA page: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/tolgafidan

Live set: http://soundcloud.com/vakant/va-podcast-05-tolga-fidans-construkt

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MICRON with ALEX SMOKE and TOLGA FIDAN (Vakant)

Friday 13 May - 10pm to 4am

Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess St, Manchester M1 6NG

FREE before 10.30 / £5 advance tickets* / £4 FutureEverything Delegates / £7 door

* http://residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?246427, http://######/events/11462318/ or text MICRON to 82028

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