Association pour le Bateau Genève

ANDRI (CITYFOX) / CH –live-
Even before he was sweating in the clubs with the record case, he experimented with the program
"Music 2000" on the Playstation. Such a studio dinosaur was still served about the television. About "Reason" he came to "Ableton LIVE" with whom he has been working in the studio since the first
version. With an education in audio engineering he generated samples of everything: Soundtracks,
CDs, Accapallas towards to ambient noises using Field Recorders.
Starting in clubs such as the "Dachkantine" still under the pseudonym "Knallkids" he fully focuses
from now on as a solo artist on his live sets. With his first release on the label "Slutfunk" he is
becoming a solid party anchor in the Zurich club scene.
Quickly, Andri is notorious for his energetic performances throughout Switzerland. He stroke on
enthusiasm after a few gigs abroad. His experiences are especially effective at the "BAR25" closing
party: "Feeling, mood, people – pure magic! I make music exactly for this atmosphere." He carried his
audience onto a multi-sensory trip on the cultural universe of the "Fusion Areals" – the dream palace
for each rising artist.
Thanks to his EP "The Change" he finally landed on he international dancing floor. The disc record
counts as brilliant sound work at DJs and music experts alike where his talent literally spills over into
the room. Musical thinkers such as Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin are aware of the enormous
energy, which the disc record unfolds on the dance floor. In the near future Andri will sprinkle some
more musical pearls with releases on "Cityfox" and "Highgrade".
His sets are distinct arrangements and they are constantly pointed with freaky samples and varying
rhythm. Deep but always funky bass lines cause constant thrust and driving beats are accompanied
by. Andri uses continuously vocals and hall-effects. He varies them sometimes short to long and
flavours it with dirty and sometimes clean beats. The gross contrasts make up the unique soaring
tension of his productions and live sets.
"Groove is the lubricating oil between my musical imaginations and the musical reality on the dance
floor. This energy exchange is the fuel cell, which the story about my music can be told again and
again with."
Those who book Andri get not only rocking live sets from a convinced party freak but a compact
dance floor story with sexy deepness factor.
http://www.myspace.com/andriknallkid

JACQUI (MINISHAKE) / CH
Funky disco in my suitcase and love in my head, I took off from Zambia in the 80’s and landed slap
bang in the middle of “farmer” Switzerland. However ready I was for the challenges all young
mothers and eager homemakers face, I was totally unprepared for the chilly “polite” Swiss attitude
towards foreigners. The sheer force of the ensuing culture shock knocked me to my knees where I
stayed for almost 10 years.
Single again, my African soul was still craving human warmth and friendship, and then I went to my
first Acid Techno Party, and in somewhat wander, stumbled into Electronic Music.
Hungry for this exciting new sound the techno world had so generously revealed to me, I soon found
myself in a continuous search for parties, scouring flyers, in the quest of the acceptance of complete
strangers united in one common symbiosis of emotion released by a perfectly placed beat (you ALL
know exactly what I’m talking about), friendly, wonderful people.
I went to every rave or party I could find then fate made sure I did the Electronic Music booking for
the VeauDoux Club in Monthey, Switzerland for 5 years. Slowly but surely, in a rather haphazardly
fashion, I got to know more and more people involved in the making of these dreams (also a hell of a
lot of very weird people but we won't go into that now ;) and the trap deliciously closed in on me
when I bought my first pair of Technics.
One day in the late 90’s, a friend rang up and asked for advice regarding the sale of a track that he’d
never gotten paid for, and that was when I realised that people were always asking me that sort of
professional advice. Unfortunately was a case of the blind leading the blind - my total ignorance was
scary and it dawned on me that all those complex questions could be answered if all those directly
involved could come together in the same room, meet each other and let natural communication
do the rest. So, the idea of EMCS was born (Electronic Music Convention of Switzerland) uniting Swiss
collectives and professionals of the industry by involving them all in a common, knowledge-sharing
project. Due to a million reasons I can identify now in retrospect, the event proceeded to become probably one of the greatest financial catastrophes in Swiss event history.
Broken and beaten, I was about to sell my turntables and my soul to a “real” job when I was invited
to be resident Dj in the tiny cellar of an old jazz club and La CauseTek was born. To my amazement I
discovered that I could in turn make people happy, all those Hiiihaas! and smiling faces got me
hooked. Now I play wherever someone will listen. I am still not able to earn enough to only Dj but I
hope that I will be able to soon. I am not a spring chick and so in a few years I will have to stop (or
maybe I’ll make parties in old age homes) but for now music keeps me on a ball and chain. I have
started producing and hope to contaminate you with a beat virus soon!
My Mom was simply mad about music and we would sing our hearts out while she played away on
the piano in bars and clubs in Africa (Zambia) as children. Our repertoire included anything with a
groove from The Eagles, Dusty Springfield, Dina Ross and the Supremes and Barry White. My first
electronic experiences were wide and varied (tried out everything from House to Jungle and Drum
and Bass) before falling in love with plain old Techno. Claude Young, Rush, Adam Beyer and Marco
Carola, Ben Long, Surgeon & Jack de Marseille were my first really "lights in the dark". Then I got
tired and swerved to Dark Electro (Neil Landstraum & Co) before being swept off my feet by the love
of my life - MINIMAL (House, Electro or Techno). Akufen was a revelation with his exciting clicks'n
cuts. Mathew Herbert with his mesmerising vocals intertwined with tight groove and direct sampling.
Now, when I am asked to decribe the sort of music I play, I answer "Anything that you can do the
minishake to, with a glass (NOT a plastic cup ;) of wine in my hand. The double bounce is where I
come from. Today Markus Fix, Lemos & Kreon, Marco Carola, Pan Pot, Pheek, Magda, Villaobos,
Digitaline, & Audio Werner are only a tiny sample of what gets me all hot and flustered! :)
http://www.myspace.com/jacquilalablablatek