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.

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.

From The Take Away Shows:

“I was frustrated. Frustrated with years of playing in too many bands as both a drummer and a pianist, tired of the usual procedures, bored with the label talk… I set out to make music on my own. I dabbled in electronic music, but found it way too technical for my poor brain; I recorded solo multi-instrumentalist music, but left it aside after realising I’d never be able to play my songs live, unless I had a band…again.

It was only after having suffered a 48 hour workshift as a runner at the wrong electronic music festival, being bitten by hordes of African jellyfish on the Spanish coast and later driven home by a shaky ex-inmate, that the distress and sheer extremity of my physical condition allowed me to encounter my epiphany: make music without instruments…

I quickly recorded myself improvising and only after having pressed the Stop button did I realize this was the best music I had ever done. Soon, I bought myself a loop pedal and started to rehearse my new found vocal compositions in Madrid’s metro station of Tribunal. After that came the gigs, the album, the festivals…

Let’s quickly fast forward to three years later. A guy who calls himself Vincent Moon gets in touch and dares me to repeat the venture while roaming the streets of Barcelona, something to which I was initially reluctant to do, since the technical issues aroused by having to perform while walking made it look impossible. But it was this challenge, as well as the extremely tight deadline imposed (thanks Vincent…), that made me tick… Being used to my static food pedal connected to a PA system, I had to improvise and come up with a mobile setup of some sort. In came the handheld delay pedal, the cheap battery-operated amp and the microphone, all connected via my backpack: et voilá, the 21st century one man band.”

“KUSF was a non-commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California and owned by the University of San Francisco. From 1963 until 2011, the station broadcast at 90.3 FM MHz. On January 18, 2011, the station’s longtime free-form eclectic student-run format was abruptly dropped from the 90.3 FM frequency following the announcement of the station’s sale. That same day, the University of Southern California announced a deal with Entercom Communications to acquire the call sign, programming and intellectual property of longtime classical music outlet KDFC-FM, and began airing the station’s programming on the 90.3 FM frequency (as well as on also-acquired KNDL) later that same day.”  - Wikipedia

08-11 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-12 Gothenberg, Sweden – Way Out West Festival
08-13 St. Malo, France – La Route Du Rock
08-14 Leicester, England – Summer Sundae Weekender
08-15 Helsinki, Finland – Flow Festival
08-19 Lausanne, Switzerland – For Noise Festival
08-20 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
08-21 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-22 Groningen, Netherlands - Noordenzon Festival
08-28 Leeds, England – Leeds Festival
08-29 Reading, England – Reading Festival
09-03 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into The Great Wide Open
09-04 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic
09-05 London, England – Offset Festival
09-09 Lille, France – Radar Festival
09-10 Berlin, Germany – Berlin Festival
09-11 Somerset, England – End of the Road Festival
09-12 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-14 Guelph, Ontario - Ebar ^
09-15 Ottawa, Ontario – Babylon ^
09-16 Montreal, Quebec – National ^
09-17 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix ^
09-18 London, Ontario - Lolafest
09-19 Boston, MA – Paradise #
09-22 New York, NY – Webster Hall #
09-23 Washington, DC – Black Cat #
09-24 Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival
09-25 Urbana, IL – Pygmalion Music Festival
09-26 Chicago, IL – Metro #
09-27 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue #
09-28 Winnepeg, Manitoba – West End Cultural Center #
09-29 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Amigos #
09-30 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite #
10-01 Calgary, Alberta - Republik #
10-03 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue #
10-04 Seattle, WA - Showbox #
10-05 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #
10-06 San Francisco, CA – Regency #
10-07 Los Angeles, CA – La Cita
10-08 Los Angeles, CA – Music Box #
10-09 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse
10-11 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10-12 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre #
10-14 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
10-15 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
10-16 Tallahassee, FL – Engine Room
10-17 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
10-18 Orlando, FL - Backbooth
10-19 Miami, FL – Grand Central
10-21 Guanajuanto, Mexico- Mutek/Cervantino Festival
10-23 Santiago, Chile – Festival Fauna Primavera
10-27 Sao Paulo, Brazil – Clash Club
10-28 Bogota, Colombia – Downtown
10-30 Asheville, NC – Moog Festival
10-31 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle #
11-03 Geneva, Switzerland - L’Usine
11-04 Montpellier, France – 34 Tours Festival
11-05 Torino, Italy – Club to Club
11-06 Bologna, Italy - Locomotiv
11-07 Lubiana, Slovenia - Kino Siska
11-08 Munich, Germany - Feierwerk
11-09 Zurich, Germany - Abart
11-11 Lorient, France – Les Indisciplines
11-12 Amiens, France – La Lune Des Pirates
11-13 Luxemborg, Luxemborg - Exit 07
11-14 Leipzig, Germany – Central Theater
11-15 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefaehrlich
11-16 Heidelberg, – Enjoy Jazz Festival
11-17 Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
11-18 Reims, France – La Cartonnerie
11-19 London, England – Coronet *
11-20 Manchester, England – Warehouse Project *
11-21 Glasgow, Scotland – ABC *
11-22 Leeds, England – Social Brudenell
11-23 Bristol, England – Thekla
11-24 Brighton, England – Coalition
11-25 Bucharest, Romania - MNAC
11-26 Utrecht, Netherlands – Le Guess Who Festival
11-27 Brussels, Belgium – Autumn Falls Festival AB
11-28 Paris, France – Cabaret Sauvage
11-29 Cologne, Germany – Gloria
12-02 Budapest, Hungary - Godor
12-03 Zagreb, Croatia - Teater ITD
12-04 Vienna, Austria - Fluc
12-05 Frankfurt, Germany - Mouseoturm
12-07 Minehead, England – ATP In Between Days
12-08 Liverpool, England - Kazimier
12-09 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
12-12 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Razzmatazz 2

^ with Russian Futurists
# with Emeralds
* with Four Tet

07-30 Boston, MA – House of Blues !
07-31 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis !
08-14 New York, NY – The Beach at Governor’s Island ^$
09-19 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl *
09-21 San Diego, CA – SDSU Open Air Theatre *
09-22 Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl Concert Theater *
09-23 Salt Lake City, UT – The Rail Event Center *
09-25 Columbia, MD – Virgin Mobile FreeFest
09-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – PNE Forum *
09-27 Seattle, WA – Showbox ^&
09-28 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom ^&
09-30 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine ^&
10-01 Los Angeles, CA – Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theatre ^&
10-02 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress ^&
10-03 El Paso, TX – Black Market ^&
10-05 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater ^&
10-06 Houston, TX – Argentum ^&
10-08 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon ^&
10-09 Athens, GA – 40 Watt ^&
10-10 Newport, KY – Southgate House ^&
10-11 Chicago, IL – Metro ^&
10-12 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace ^&
10-14 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues !

! with Chromeo
^ with Prefuse 73
$ with Dom, Nite Jewel
* with Phoenix
& with Miniature Tigers

07-26 Leipzig, Germany – Sweat Club Leipzig
07-28 Copenhagen, Denmark – The Gun Club
07-29 Emmaboda, Sweden – Emmaboda Festival
07-31 Trondeim, Norway – Brukbar
08-02 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom !
08-06 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08-07 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
08-12 San Diego, CA – Museum of Contemporary Art
08-13 Pomona, CA – The Glass House $
08-14 Portland, OR – Berbati’s Pan ^
08-16 Santa Barbara, CA – Soho
08-17 Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
08-18 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
08-25 Seattle, WA – Neumos
08-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore
08-27 Victoria, British Columbia – Sugar
08-30 Sacramento, CA – Sol Collective
08-31 Visalia, CA – Howie and Sons Pizza
09-04 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
09-10 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone Cafe
09-11 St. Louis, MO – Billiken Club
09-14 Bloomington, IN – Rhinos
09-15 Columbus, OH – Skully’s
09-16 Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
09-17 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street Nightclub
09-18 Waltham, MA – Brandeis University
09-20 Providence, RI – Met Cafe
09-24 Kingston, NY – 323 Wall Street
09-25 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
09-27 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel
09-28 Greensboro, NC – Guilfor College
09-29 Charlotte, NC – Milestone
09-30 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
10-01 Nashville, TN – Exit / In
10-02 Oxford, MS – Proud Larrys
10-20 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden #

! with Smith Westerns, Total Slacker
* with Harlem, Fergus and Geronimo
$ with Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, the Growlers
^ with the Cool Kids
# with Phoenix and Dirty Projectors