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Event

• Lovebox GA Backroom Sessions - September 5th 2008

   
• 04 | 09 | 08
   
• @ Eden, Ibiza
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• Headline set from Andy Cato, Co-hosted by Institubes Records, a live Para One Set & Surkin.

  Para One

  1979 | Born in Orleans. Real name Jean-Baptiste de Laubier. 1987 | Gets into Public Enemy, thanks to his sisters. Moves from his older brothers’ classic rock (Deep Purple, Pink Floyd) to Flavor Flav impersonations. The Geto Boys, NWA and Native Tongue are next. 1989 | Darkness falls. Sent to a catholic boarding school, he learns two elfish dialects, and starts an elfish zine. Goes from blond- to dark-haired in six months. At night, he escapes from the dormitory, sneaks into the school’s chapel. There, he prays for his sick sister while playing random notes on the organ. 1992 | Moves to Chambery, a smallish town near the French Alps. Gets into skiing, breakdancing, rapping and producing. 1993 | January 8th: first hip hop group. Takes the name Paradoxal H. Writes all the lyrics and produces all the songs. 1997 | Darkness falls once again. Comes back to Paris under a shroud of sadness. Produces two mixtapes in the QUALITY STREETZ series. Directs his first movies. 1998 | Leaves a VHS tape with some of his movies on the doorstep of filmmaker Chris Marker, of LA JETEE fame. 2000 | Produces for quite a number of rappers. Meets Tacteel. 2001 | Releases the BLUE RAIN EP on Ablode Recordings. Meets French rap superstars TTC. Writes one track on their first LP, CECI N’EST PAS UN DISQUE (Big Dada): “Pas D’Armure”. Film school. 2002 | Produces “Baise les Gens” for Le Klub des Loosers (Record Makers) and “Helium Liquide” for L’Armee des 12 (Kerozen). Starts Fuckaloop with Tacteel. With supergroup L’Atelier, releases LE BUFFET DES ANCIENS ELEVES (Institubes/PIAS). Completes CHARLOTTE QUELQUE PART, a documentary. 2003 | January 1st: Chris Marker responds, becomes a kind of mentor-at-large. Releases the BEAT DOWN EP (Institubes), his true first solo record. 2004 | Produces six tracks on BÂTARDS SENSIBLES, TTC’s acclaimed second album (Big Dada/V2), among which a true classic: “Dans le Club”. Directs a short film: CACHE TA JOIE. 2005 | His movies are shown in Tokyo. Remixes Agoria, Krazy Baldhead, Ellen Allien (with Tacteel), Daft Punk. Releases second EP: CLUBHOPPN (Institubes), played by Feadz, Erol Alkan, Diplo, Modeselektor, Justice. Works on TTC’s third LP. 2006 | EPIPHANIE is released in Europe. Tours extensively all over the world. Gets remixed by Boys Noize, MSTRKRFT and Adam Kesher. Remixes MSTRKRFT, Trabant, Bloc Party, Vegastar, Teki Latex. First single DUDUN-DUN is one of the great club hits of the year. ..

  Surkin

  20 year-old Surkin moved to Paris from Southern France last year. He dropped out of art school two years ago and never looked back.  A former four-to-the-floor hater (rap was all he cared for until 2003), Surkin got into dance music through Detroit ghettotech and—thanks God for P2P—started to dig deeper into club music history, focusing on Miami Bass, Chicago ghetto-(and non) house music. Add a thick layer of glammed- up filtered house courtesy of French dons Daft Punk and local originators Jess & Crabbe and you’ve got  the full Surkin mille-feuilles.

  In May 2006, Parisian label Institubes released not one but two Surkin records at

  once: GHETTO OBSESSION EP and RADIO FIREWORKS. The response was tremendous. Played and playlisted by everybody, from the Ed Banger/Erol Alkan cabal to Boys Noize and Tiga, those tracks even managed to break the indie dance glass ceiling by smashing main rooms all over. Radio Fireworks emerged as a genuine club hit, topping both Justice’s AND Mylo’s “Best tracks of 2006” list.  Surkin went on to play all over the place, from small clubs and warehouses to huge festivals (Fuji Rock, Good Vibrations, and Primavera and Coachella soon) and toured Australia, North America, England and Japan several times. His fast-paced, cut-up mixing of old and new electro and house bangers has become a style, a template.

  Remix offers came in droves, from Boys Noize, DJ Mehdi, Justine Electra, Klaxons, Paul Johnson, Para One, Chromeo, Foals, VHS or Beta, Justice... After a Japan-only mini-album—ACTION REPLAY—, Institubes dropped FIREWORKS REFIRED, featuring refixes by our own Tacteel, Aussie heavy-hitters Riot In Belgium and ghetto house legend DJ Slugo. Now Surkin is back with NEXT OF KIN, a third EP that showcases a tremendous growth as a producer. On this record, we have one BIG nineties-influenced dance track, a hard druggy warehouse banger and a song that is somewhat a departure from what Surkin is known for. PLUS: Todd Edwards, one of Surkin’s heroes, remixed Next of Kin into pure, streamlined, cut-up house.

  Next up: NEXT OF KIN, MARK II, wherein Surkin and friends—Baltimore superstar DJ Blaqstarr, excellent Canadian smoothies Chromeo and high-powered boy Bobmo— mess around with the original tracks.

   

   

   

   

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