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since may 2005 micro has been the premier minimal art platform in shanghai, a base where forms of expression collaborate: live music & live performance, visual & acoustic, with a focus on micro/minimal electronic sound & culture_

the micro name works in collaboration with the varying identities of different venues at each event: locations from Clubs to Creative Spaces_

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micro
Category:
Music - Electronic
Description:
since may 2005 micro has been the premier minimal art platform in shanghai, a base where forms of expression collaborate: live music & live performance, visual & acoustic, with a focus on micro/minimal electronic sound & culture_

the micro name works in collaboration with the varying identities of different venues at each event: locations from Clubs to Creative Spaces_

microclub (Madam Zung’s Club)
microfabrique (Fabrique)
microlab (The Lab)
microfloor (TOURIST)
micropirates... (read more)
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microshelter (4th birthday session) - Friday 17 July 2009

microsounds crawling into your ears and washing your mind with rhythm and excitement. We tickle you and your feet with the need to buzz and hum.

4 years ago micro was established as the premier minimal art platform and is Shanghai’s most well known minimal house and techno event series.

It’s time to celebrate 4 amazing years of your joy, craziness and support. Thanks for that!

Hosts of the night are your micro residents BEN HUANG, B6, dji, SKINNY BABOU, plus TOOTEKOOL jamming with VLADIMIR - a special acoustic live performance between electronic music and semi-acoustic guitar. VJ Hean on microvisuals.

@ The Shelter (5 yongfu lu, near fuxing lu)
40 RMB





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microshelter - Friday 3 April 2009

Since may 2005 micro has been the premier minimal art platform and is Shanghai’s most well known minimal house and techno event series.

After the previous and very successful micro night at the shelter, we invite you to welcome with us our special guest Nick Höppner - from the admired DJ and producer collective My My - a key player in the crazy Berlin Club Scene.

He will be supported by the Shanghai based micro residents Ben Huang, dji and of course tootekool.

For this occasion the venue will be transformed into a green micro art installation world. VJ Hean from Korea will be welcomed to create & expand the micro world.

http://microshanghai.wordpress.com/

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My My is a group of producers and DJ's which formed in 2003 during the rebirth of Berlin as an electronic music Mecca. Although they consider Playhouse to be their home label, they have also released on Circus Company, Aus and Ostgut Ton.

In 2006, their debut album Songs for the Gentle launched a tour of their Live show that has so far taken them to 20 countries around the globe, and they hope their second album, still in production, will take them even further.

Nicolas Höppner now balances his monthly appearances at the new Panorama Bar and Berghain with his role as label manager for the Ostgut Ton label, and studio work and touring with MyMy and as a solo DJ.

http://www.myspace.com/justmymy

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microshelter

Friday 3 April 2009

Special Guest My My / Nick Höppner
(Playhouse Rec., Ostgut Rec. / PanoramaBar Berlin/Germany)

host of the night - micro resident DJs
TOOTEKOOL, BEN HUANG, dji, VJ Hean

50 RMB entry fee

@ The Shelter
5 Yongfu Lu / near Fuxing Xi Lu
永福路5号，近复兴西路




SWITCH ON
Electronic Sounds and Visuals from
Switzerland and China (4 live acts & 5 DJs & 2 VJs)
http://www.myspace.com/switzerlandchina

Galoppierende Zuversicht (CH), Live Act
Larytta (CH), Live Act
Sonja Moonear (CH), DJ
Strotter Inst. & Flo Kaufmann (CH),
Bang Goes and Styro 2000 (CH), DJs
Cheesebeat (CN & CH)
8gg (CN), VJs
Ben Huang (CN), DJ
Tootekool (D/SHA), DJ
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The Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, the Shift Festival, Miro China/Cheesebeat and micro are proud to present their first joint initiative Switch On. Switch On showcases artists from Switzerland and China who are active at the interface of electronic music and related visual arts connecting in a crossover programme.

The project will be the first in a series of exhibitions and workshops in the field of electronic arts, which will take place until the middle of 2010 as part of Pro Helvetia’s overall project in China. It aims at enabling a lasting cultural exchange between the two countries’ art scenes.


Switch On presents interdisciplinary projects ranging from audiovisual performance to electronic music. An extensive programme of crossover projects rooted in experimental electronic music and cutting edge dance music will give Swiss and Chinese artists ample opportunities to meet and mingle. Switch On’s major focus is the interface of sound and visuals: abstract tones, rhythmic grooves and video, which merge in various combinations to stretch the limits of audio-visual experience.

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Artists

Ben Huang (CN), DJ
One of the foremost Chinese DJs and among the first to break out onto the international stage, Ben Huang has played a crucial role in establishing electronic music in China. The man earned his limelight by being among the front-runners to jump-start the early days of the Beijing club scene and consolidate events such as Technasia in China. His DJ sets combine everything from experimental and nu jazz thru to minimal techno to create a unique energetic sound.
http://www.myspace.cn/djbenhuang


Bang Goes and Styro 2000 (CH), DJs
Styro 2000 and Bang Goes are the godfathers of Techno in Zurich. Since their first DJ appearances back in the early 90ties, they played at hundreds of parties and in clubs at home and all over the world. They also form the live act “Galoppierende Zuversicht” and released on labels like RecRec, Bruckstücke, K7 and Substrat among others.
http://www.myspace.com/styro2000,
http://www.banggoes.ch


Cheesebeat (CN & CH)
Cheesebeat is a Swiss- and China-based Event-Label for electronic music founded 1996 in Beijing. The main goal of Cheesebeat is cultural exchange in field of electronic arts. After countless events in China between 1996 and 2004, this legendary party label continues to invite Chinese artists to Switzerland and builds bridges between the two subculture scenes.


Galoppierende Zuversicht (CH), Live Act
No matter where- at an underground party or a major festival, Zurich based musicians Marcel Ackerknecht (aka Styro 2000) and Roland Widmer (aka Bang Goes) are known under their collective alias, Galoppierende Zuversicht (“Galloping Confidence”) for a characteristic mix of techno and electro. They have masterminded countless musical highlights over the years. Defiantly averse to performing with laptops, they choose instead to work with homemade samplers to produce the inimitable, tailor-made sound of Galoppierende Zuversicht. Galoppierende Zuversicht debuted in China along with Cheesebeat in 2003.


Larytta (CH), Live Act
Larytta was founded in 2004 by the duo, Christian Pahud and Guy Meldem, whose energetic, creative mix of everyday sounds, guitar loops, rhythmic beats and vocals adds up to a singular, experimental style of electro-pop. Champions of Lausanne’s lively music and arts scene, Pahud and Meldem are also involved in a number of crossover style co-productions and have worked with video artist Emanuelle Antille, among others. Larytta’s graphic design is the domain of artists’ collective Körner Union, of which Guy Meldem is also a member. Together with artist Tatiana Rhis, Larytta is currently working on new ideas for the interplay of music and video. These will be presented for the first time at Switch On.
http://www.myspace.com/larytta


Sonja Moonear (CH), DJ
Sonja Moonear is without doubt one of the best and most sought after Swiss DJs for techno. In the last couple of years she’s been booked by major festivals and clubs around the globe, and also released her own tracks and remixes on renowned international labels such as Karat and Perlon. This artist from Geneva evades easy categorisation however: her sets reflect an enormous wealth of ideas and creativity and lead her to perpetually redefine her style.
http://www.ruta5.org/sonja/sonjaframeset.html


Strotter Inst. & Flo Kaufmann (CH), Live Act
Strotter Inst. and Flo Kaufmann are among the most important exponents of the vibrant Swiss scene, poised at the intersections of homespun craftsmanship, music, performance and art. A “DIY” attitude is central to their work. Strotter Inst. modifies record players to produce live sound sculptures that make electronic music acoustically comprehensible adding an optical perk to their performances. Flo Kaufmann, who amongst other things managed a vinyl pressing plant, stretches the boundaries of sound production by utilizing common objects like beer cans, which he cuts to create an inventive sound and adds it to the basis of their unique life concerts..
http://www.strotter.org, http://www.flokka.com


Tootekool (D/SHA), DJ
Since early electronic beginnings in 1990s Frankfurt, Germany, Tootekool has lived an electronic journey: In 2005 he arrived in Shanghai and since then Tootekool is running micro, Shanghai's Premier Minimal House/Techno platform. The platform that instigated China's first Ableton Live Music Production Workshop and is Shanghai's largest minimal House/Techno event, bringing artists such as Argenis Brito, Mathias Schaffhauser & Sam Reynold to those on Asia's side of the seas.
http://www.tootekool.com


8gg (CN), VJs
Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu from Beijing make up the internationally renowned multimedia duo 8gg. Its audiovisual performances and interactive installations have brought 8gg to important institutions and festivals across the continents. They also visited Switzerland on several occasions, which enabled them to collect a great mass of video material. This rich visual archive will now be the starting point for a unique live video mix at Switch On: A Chinese view of Switzerland – the result of an inspiring exchange.
http://www.8gg.com


Organisers

Through his Cheesebeat label, Michael Vonplon has actively contributed to the electronic music scene in China since the early nineties. He continues to support cultural exchange between China and Switzerland.
http://www.miro-china.ch


Shift is an international festival for electronic arts based in Basle, Switzerland. It presents new trends from the fields of media and digital arts and electronic music, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary projects.
http://www.shiftfestival.ch

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check the link for my micro mix !
http://www.zshare.net/audio/50564713134909aa/

ENJOY *

yours
tootekool

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happy birthday...to us!

micro turns three.

and to celebrate those three glorious years of parties and workshops…installations and frolicks…musics and mayhems – we now bring you micrologo.

on Wednesday 7 May, micro joins a good few of those who’ve been there for us along the way... Thanks!:

DJs
B6
Ben Huang
dji
tootekool

Acoustics
JQ (trumpet)
Didjelirium (didjeridoo)
Mark Pummell (piano)
Vladimir (guitar)
Willow Nielson (saxaphone)

Birthday Cake,
micro

P.S. Birthday Gift Music Mix @ http://www.tootekool.com.

P.P.S. More micrologo information at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36282665577.

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and the one before that . . .

MICROSHELTER
Saturday 8th December

PICTURE GALLERY
http://www.smartshanghai.com/gallery/928

The micro DJ collective rubs up against Shanghai's Jazz scene and gets down to some twisted installation artistry on Saturday 8 December, at The Shelter.

micro, Shanghai's premier minimal art platform, joins brand spanking new venue, The Shelter, to present microshelter.

The micro DJ collective's infamous minimal house/techno versus leaders of the Shanghai Jazz scene, Coco Zhao, JQ Whitcomb & Vladimir - in an otherworldly art installation by recent London Royal School of Art graduate, masterly light and installation
artist, Simon Husslein.

这次，micro DJ团决定和上海的爵士乐人拗上劲，在上海全新开业的The Shelter里举办今年最后一场micro——microshelter。全新的场地The Shelter（原先的Blue Ice）在经过被Simon Husslein（Lodon Royal School of Art毕业生）精心布置后充满来世艺术的气息，由团众所周知的minimal house/techno DJ团对抗上海爵士乐的先锋人物Coco Zhao赵可、JQ Whitcomb以及 Vladimir。

more at: http://forum.smartchina.com/thread/16334/page=1/MICROSHELTER_sat_8_dec

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