Thursday, February 08, 2007

Soulution Special Vol.7

Domu @ Mint
Carl Craig @ Plastic

Friday 16.03.
Klub Plastic/Mint

Dominic Stanton is the real name behind many of dance music’s most mysterious pseudonyms: First there is Sonar Circle, avant garde Drum and Bass outfit signed to the legendary Reinforced Records. Then Domu, his main guise, designed to further the explorations of the syncopated rhythm, remixing and appearing on many labels such as 2000Black, Archive, Ninja Tune, Sonar Kollektiv, Compost, Rush Hour, Especial, Bitasweet, Schtum among others. Umod, the backwards glitchy Hip – Hop kid, all nerdy and introverted, has had one album and a few remixes on Sonar Kollektiv, Jazzanova’s imprint. Then the collaborations: Bakura with Robert Marin on Especial Records Japan, a boogie – Brazilian fusion, culminating with the Reach The Sky, their first LP released 2005. Alongside Archive and Neroli head honcho Volcov, Rima – with an album that dropped on Compost Records in 2003, with much sought after artwork by dutch uber-cool designer Delta. And Finally, Yotoko, the esperimental Techno outfit, formed with web designer and long time friend, Shiftee a.k.a Dave Farlom. The Dutch label Delsin was home to the LP “Wet Ink” from 2004. The follow up to Domu’s 2001 LP “Up and Down” was released in December 2005. “Return of the Rogue” is a step further into the depths of drum, synth and vocal explorations. Remixing is also continuing nicely, with reworks for Small Arms Fire, JD73 and The Rebirth coming soon. New for 2007 is O O O…or Treble O…the new mp3 based label Domu is running up with Shiftee…watch the website for the link to releases from Domu, Yotoko, Nicola Kramer, Soza and the return of Sonar Circle… Also forthcoming on Papa records…Domu Presents Pete Simpson…a mature soul LP with contributions from Mike Patto (Reel People) Imaani (Incognito) Coutney Dennie (Da Lata) and Pete Kuzma (Jill Scott, Bilal). Watch out for this…Look A Little Further…Domu is also a DJ of 15 years experience. His touring has taken him to Japan, Australia, Russia, USA, and most of Europe and Scandinavia, playing on the international circuit since 1998. Among these have been tours with many of his musical heroes and contempories – 4Hero, Bugz in the Attic, Jazzanova, I G Culture, Phil Asher, Rainer Truby, Chateux Flight, Kaidi Tatham, Gilles Peterson, Theo Parrish, Photek, Patrick Forge, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Jazztronik, Dj Sunshine, Raw Fusion (Mad Mats), Nu-Spirit Helsinki, Swell Session, Titonton, John Tejada, A Few Among Others, Ayro, Eddy meets Yannah, Rednose Distrikt – the list goes on. Domu is a resident at the now 5 years old GPWW award winning CO-OP night at Plastic People, London.