Adam Stolz has been doing his thing for over a decade. And his new live mix from the Electronic Music Festival in Kona, Hawaii doesn’t disappoint. After listing to it twice this morning, its literally one of those “every track is dope” mixes. A constant hook, with continual hard not to dance to bass lines. I’ve know Adam for almost as long as he’s been at this, and like his new live Mix, he always brings the hot shit.

Adam is inches away from releasing more new tracks, and celebrating the opening of a brand new label called AUTEM in collaboration with a variety of super talents from around the world. Cheers!

” New Chicago based label, Autem Audio, is the brainchild collaboration of five friends: GVK, Sarp Yilmaz, DJ Da, Adam Stolz and Hearthug. All of them internationally acknowledged artists in their own right they have each enjoyed great success on different labels, now they join forces to establish a new fresh platform to release their own music with soul and passion. The concepts behind Autem are to develop each artists individuality and help push them creatively to new levels while still keeping the sound dance friendly with an underground spirit. The focus and attitude will be driven by a backing of quality production and researched sounds, while keeping the feel deep and yet also with a sense of humor. The Autem camp takes pride in their work and wants listeners to enjoy their productions, especially if that means losing it on the dance floor with smiles on their faces.”

In the months to come we’ll be doing an interview with Adam to discuss his career as an Electronic Music Producer, and DJ, along with the goings on with the new label.

Labyrinth 2011 Lineup

September 17-19th, Naeba Greenland, Niigata, Japan

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Labyrinth Line up:

(live)

Atom™ & Pink Elln [Rather Interesting, Logistic: Chile, Berlin]
Voices from the Lake aka Donato Dozzy & Neel [Aquaplano, Prologue: Italy]
Kangding Ray [Raster-Noton: France]
Morphosis [Delsin, Morphine Records: Lebanon]
Tobias. [Ostgut Ton, Non Standard Productions: Berlin]
Function [Sandwell District: NYC, Berlin]

-DJ-

Peter Van Hoesen [Time To Express: Berlin]
Donato Dozzy [Aquaplano, Prologue: Italy]
Function [Sandwell District: NYC, Berlin]
Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium [Soul People Music, Underground Quality: NYC]
Appleblim [Apple Pips, Skull Disco: UK]
Silent Servant [Sandwell District: USA]
So [Mindgames, The Labyrinth, Tri-Bute: Japan]
Hiyoshi [The Labyrinth, Global Chillage: Japan]

About to get back on the plane and go home. Sitting in the Kalamazoo Airport, reflection is a must of course. First off I’m just glad my friends are as down with something and love a culture the way they do. It made the festival easier to enjoy, and a sense of security was prevalent indeed.

I enjoyed the whole trip, and the festival was bangin as they say. We spent most of the weekend at the Underground stage, seemed that was were the best Techno was being played. Especially the minimal stuff coming out of there. I want to write more about it all, and I might later. But I’m pretty tired, I’m sure Detroit is as well.

Highlights from last night were  Monolake, such an inspired artist, literally grinning as he performed. It wasn’t hard to tell he loves what he does. Plus the visual performer was genius, I would have been smiling indeed. After Monolake, we caught the end of Rich, he was playing some amazing house music. From the festival we bounced to the CLR party to see Marcel Dettmann, RadioSlave, Speedy J, and Chris Liebing. Two floors of sound, three floors of fun.

The View From Milner Hotel

Well we’re here, last night we went to the Akufen pre-party at the T.V. lounge, it was pretty cool, nothing stood out as exceptional, well maybe our dancing – lol!!!

Leading up to that we stopped at Cliff Bells for happy hour, five dollar Manhattans will blow the doors off at 4:30. Then we jumped to Cass Cafe, Erin took care of my meal – thanks sister. After the Cass we hit up Bronx Bar and played a ton of music on the juke box, but we left before it played. Some dude was playing Billy Joel. Fun times though, and after the bronx we got dropped off by the hotel. It was amazing, the tigers game just ended and the fire works were bursting bright right over our hotel. I love Detroit, and its much happier then its given credit for. Early in the day Daniel and Erin gave us a tour of their Urban Farm. Daniel’s building a chicken coop, and Erin’s landscape creativity shines right through the overcast. Big ups to them, two of the most inspiring people in my life. On my moral Compass they represent the North. I hope Daniel felt okay going to work at 3am, he’s just a little guy, HAHAHAHA!!!

Lets begin last night… Chilling at the pad waiting for the morning to come, an early flight gets those butterflies going something crazy. Just before bed and after spending a nice evening with my beautiful wife I checked my email, of course I get an URGENT alert telling me my flights canceled , which completely stuck a fork in my plans to see my brother and his groovy family – Let me back up for a quick second – The only reason I’m going to this Festival (its been 7 years) is because my best friend and creator of this site BlakeAndrew is getting hitched, this maybe the one time “the boys” can get together on a big trip before he plunges into the beauty of getting to know his truest friend, the one who will be there when he looks his best and especially his worst.

Don’t think this will look like Hangover 2, well maybe. There’s a cast of characters going that could rival any movie I’ve ever seen. Trust me when I say we’ve done the Hangover thing, we just never stole someone’s tiger. Anyway, so I was able to book a later flight same day. Now I find myself delayed, waiting to see my friend, and go to my sisters place for a delicious home cooked meal. I’m drinking the first beverage that will inevitably be a long line of altering beverages. I’ll keep you posted. The sun is coming out – “Pardon me miss, but could I have another one of those fine drinks you make!

Shit, people are sitting too close while I type this. Some asshole is sitting next to me with his family bitching about his extra large hair gel that was just confiscated. No shit sherlock, you can’t bring giant containers of hair gel on an airplane. The irony is, he admitted after he announced to the rest of us his hair gel was taken, he knew about the 3 oz limit. Homie needs to get his mind straight. I’m wearing headphones right now, these folks think I’m listening to something, but honestly their banter is more entertaining then my itunes folder.

I just came back from the bathroom, and this dude was walking away with my drink, I literally just chased him down in the Knoxville airport Ruby Tuesdays. Everyone was looking at me. Damn it, I miss my wife, she typically handles all the little things, like telling people “he’s not done with that.” Love you Babe!

OUT

The only thing the Movement 2011 schedule or afterparty lineup is missing is a few appearances from the Sandwell District crew. If only this was an event happening in Detroit instead of Berlin I would have my wish (I would actually wish it to be on Sunday the 29th instead of Saturday the 28th as to not disrupt my already secured Saturday Movement afterparty plans.

For this intimate clubnight in Berlin Scorn will play a live set, Function will DJ a solo set and also join Regis for a Sandwell District set. Sandra Electronics will also be making an appearance which may or may not be a solo set from Regis (as it was originally a solo project for he) or he could be paired with a recent Sandra Electronics collaborator, Silent Servent (It Slipped Her Mind’ 10).

Possibly to give you an idea of what you may hear Sandwell District/Downwards have been kind enough to offer a Sandra Electronics, Live in Santa Barbara 2009 free download. A 3:37 sample where the artist(s) for the track are aptly named KARL AND THE CURBCRAWLERS.

The Movement 2011 Schedule has finally been released showing you exactly what stage and time Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival stellar lineup will be playing.

Movement 2011 Saturday Schedule:

In usual fashion, the M_nus crew will be trenching in at the Beatport stage all day. It’s starts and closes with the Hawtin brothers: at Noon Mathew Hawtin with probably set the mood with an ambient set and Richie closes with – well, a Richie set. The rest of the afternoon at the Beatport stage is peppered with JPLS, Heartthrob, Gaiser and Marc Houle – all notably playing live sets.

Highlights for the Twilight_Frequencies crew will be at the Movement Torino stage starting with Cio D’or at 6pm and ending with Monolake Surround at 10:30pm.

Movement 2011 Sunday Schedule:

Truley, it’s all about the Movement Torino stage for Sunday. This is the day and this is the stage. This stage posted some amazing talent in 2010 with the likes of Kirk Digiorgio and Orlando Voorn and they have really amped up this stage for 2011. True techedz could nearly spend all day at this one stage. Highlights include Traversable Wormhole (live) at 5pm, Steve Rachmad at 7:30pm and from there the techno juices continue to flow with Ben Klock at 9pm followed by Marcel Dettmann to close at 10:30pm.

Other notable performances will be at the Vitamin Water main stage with Gaslamp Killer at 10pm followed by the innovators of the Detroit electro sound, who have seen a recent resurgence,  Aux 88 (live) at 11pm.

Movement 2011 Monday Schedule:

Monday for 2011 is really a day to jump around from stage to stage taking in all the different sounds, sights and genres electronic music has to offer. The Redbull Academy stage will showcase some international talent with Scuba at 7pm followed by Little Dragon (live) at 8:30. And everyone has been asking about the Flying Lotus (live) set which will close out the stage for the weekend at 10:30pm.

This would also be a good day to explore the concrete cave Made in Detroit stage for some local flava including Paranormal Tek at 2pm, District 909 (live) at 5pm and Claude Young at 9:30pm. Drumcode boss Adam Beyer will also be closing out the night at the Beatport Stage at 10:30pm. The masses will love the acts on the Vitamin Water main stage as well – starting with Dubfire at 7:30 followed by Green Velvet (live) at 9pm and Fatboy Slim to close out the weekend at 10pm.

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Though the actual Movement 2011 schedule (you know, when they finally tell you what day, stage and time your favorite artists will be playing) has yet to be announced, Paxahau has eluded to a rough estimate on the Movement 2011 lineup page which states the headliners for each of the five stages: Movement Torino, Beatport, Made in Detroit (underground), and Vitaminwater (main stage). (Organized in (roughly) the order I give a shit about)

Movement Torino
	Ben Klock
	James Zabiela
	Marcel Dettmann
	Monolake Surround
	Paul Kalkbrenner
	Venetian Snares

Beatport
	Adam Beyer
	Guti
	Loco Dice
	Marc Houle
	Richie Hawtin
	Victor Calderone

Made in Detroit
	Al Ester
	Aril Brikha
	Bruce Bailey
	Claude Young
	DJ T-1000
	Visionquest

Redbull Music Academy
	Aux 88
	Flying Lotus
	Gaslamp Killer
	Goldie
	MiM0SA
	Skrillex

Vitaminwater
	69 (Carl Craig)
	Fatboy Slim
	Felix Da Housecat
	Green Velvet
	Kerri Chandler
	Sven Väth