Got this from Gold und Liebe, might be of interest to someone... -pH ----
Forwarded message: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:53:27 +0100 Subject: "THE LAST DJ ON EARTH" From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Kerres) hey-ho freunde, der alan ist vom 1.2.00 bis zum 5.3.00 in deutschland. er wird seine neue compilation ""The Last DJ on Earth"", welche auf prime ver=F6ffentlicht wird, promoten. es wird tour - plakate und flyer f=FCr jeden club geben. f=FCr weitere informationen: 030- 25768825 bio & bild beigef=FCgt liebe gr=FCsse -andr=E9- =20 BIOGRAPHY: T-1000 Alan D. Oldham has been called "Detroit Techno=B9s Renaissance Man=B2 (Muzik, UK). A lifelong cartoonist and graphic designer, a young Oldham published his=20 own comic book Johnny Gambit in 1987 to local notoriety. Hired that same year=20 by his childhood friend Derrick May to illustrate several memorable pieces for the new Transmat label, this led to Oldham=B9s first involvement in the fledgling techno scene. Besides his art and writing, 1987 also saw Oldham=B9s radio debut on Detroit=B9= s WDET-FM with the long-running "Fast Forward=B2 program. Originally meant to b= e a free-form rock, jazz and fusion show, Oldham=B9s passion for both local and international electronic music gradually took center stage until it finally became the only radio program in Detroit to feature techno and house music exclusively. The early cassette, reel-to-reel and four-track material of such=20 (now) well-known international artists as Juan Atkins, K??? ????? ?????? ?????????? ???t hony Shakir, Richie Hawtin and many others made its on-air debut here, as well as being the first and only show to break international acts like Moby= , Joey Beltram, 808 State, LFO, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and others in Detroit. In 1988, Oldham graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Radio-TV-Film. In 1990, having finally produced his own EP at a friend=B9s studio, Oldham sold=20 the project to a small Dutch label whose fax number he found in the bins at Record Time. His pseudonym for the four-track project was Signal to Noise Ratio. The small Dutch label: Djax Records. After the release of the EP, label boss Saskia "Miss Djax=B2 Slegers hired Oldham to create the graphic identity of Djax-Up-Beats. Ten years on, Djax dominates the Dutch techno scene and Oldham=B9s trademark visual style still defines the label. In 1992, Jeff Mills left Underground Resistance to become a solo act. "Mad=B2 Mike Banks, needing an immediate replacement DJ for a month-long Australian live tour, tapped Oldham for the job. Without rehearsals, Oldham took the leap of faith that changed his life. Jumpstart into infamy. Leaving his increasingly-thankless WDET airshift behind forever and adopting the onstag= e persona of DJ T-1000 (taken from the shape-shifting liquid metal cyborg in the movie "T2=B2), Oldham began rocking decks for UR and never looked back, setting the stage for subsequent UR "assault DJs=B2 Rolando and James Pennington. Upon returning from UR=B9s triumphant Australian tour, Banks again tapped Oldham=B9s many talents, this time asking him to create a label to be distributed by a new company that Banks was organizing, a distributorship that would within a few years come to dominate the Detroit landscape: Submerge. Oldham agreed and his second and most successful attempt at a label=20 (the first was the disastrous Technika Records in 1989) would be called Generator. Beginning in 1993, Generator delivered 25 exceptional releases, spotlightin= g the best work of such international talent as Oldham himself, Woody McBride= , Dave Clarke, the incredible and still-underrated Marco Passarani, Japan=B9s Mind Design and others. Feeling the need for a new challenge, Oldham ended Generator in 1996 with the risk-taking, experimental double album blow-out "Enginefloatreactor=B2 (9/10, Muzik UK). It was also during this time that Oldham once again became prolific, artwise..=20 A fully-painted Danger Girl comic strip in Muzik UK and the album cover for Astralwerks "Beyond the Third Wave=B2 compilation marked 1995, as well as his debut retrospective at Detroit=B9s Cement Space Gallery and a new "Miss Djax=B2 comic. With his solo DJ career in full swing, however, it was time for his music t= o follow suit. Oldham established the Pure Sonik label in 1996 with the double-barreled, double-vinyl statement of intent "Pure Sonik Manifesto=B2 (PURE1). This move garnered his first and only cover story in Magic Feet (UK), and a video that aired on MTV UK=B9s "Party Zone=B2. Three years later, the label continues to feature Oldham=B9s production talents as DJ T-1000, th= e best moments of which can be found on the CD/2x12=B2 "A Pure Sonik Evening=B2 (PURE10). In 1998, Oldham began an alliance with legendary German techno label Tresor when their label manager, vacationing in Detroit, was blown away by his dem= o tracks. Signing him on the spot, the first product of that transatlantic union was the "Jetset Lovelife=B2 EP (Tresor87) and his debut performance at the Tresor club in Berlin. In between a solid year=B9s worth of DJ dates both in the US and abroad, the release of his first-ever mix CD "Live Sabotage=B2 (BML/X-Sight), and many personal changes at home, Oldham delivered his debut album "Progress=B2 (Tresor128). It was released in Europe in October 1999 and a World Tour quickly followed, capped by an epic, four-and-a-half hour set at the Tresor club, broadcast live over the Internet. "Progress=B2 was bracketed by the dua= l release of "Codes and Structures Volume One=B2 (PURE11) and "Volume Two=B2 (PURE12) on his own Pure Sonik label. On the horizon for 2000: a new mix CD, a website launch and a return to comic books for the graphically-oriented Oldham. After over a decade in the music business, DJ T-1000=B9s goal of World Sonik Domination still hasn=B9t been achieved, and he=B9s not about to retire. Rocking show after live show worldwide and continuing his vinyl and CD assaults in the record shops and the live circuit in the face of overhyped, overpaid, untalented trance and big beat competition from the UK is his goal as he and Pure Sonik Records plunge into the millenium. --Achmed el-Gibar for Pure Sonik Records. ***************************** ***************************** gold und liebe .booking.events.label-promotion -andr=E9 kerres- finowstr.34 10247 berlin/germany ++49-(0)30-25768825 ++49-(0)30-25768826 ++49-(0)177-7876776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************** *****************************
