Hobo (m-nus) + Derek Plaslaiko (Spectral, The Bunker)

breakandenter

Date:

09/19/2009 - 21:

breakandenter presents

Saturday Sept 19th, 2009

'Will Food for Techno Party!'

Featuring:

Sometimes you have to lose yourself in order to find a better way. It’s
not a conscious decision, it can’t be forced – it’s just the way of the
wanderer…the hobo.
Joel Boychuk knows this more than most, having travelled halfway around
the world in search of musical inspiration only to return home and find
it waiting on his doorstep…

Growing up in Sarnia about an hour’s drive from Detroit, Joel first
connected with electronic music through Kraftwerk who in turn
stimulated his interest in the rich techno landscape just a stone’s
throw away. Jeff Mills and Juan Atkins were particularly influential
but it was Plastikman’s Sheet One that really sealed the deal,
inspiring him to start building his own loops and samples. He was soon
hooking up for laptop jam sessions with Adam Young after high school
and the pair gradually evolved into Tractile.

Regular trips to Untitled at Detroit’s Shelter club followed and it
was there that he tentatively handed Clark Warner the first Tractile
demo. Richie Hawtin soon got wind of their potential and suddenly the
prospect of a Minus release was on the table. For an 18-year-old kid
this was mind-blowing and a deal was eventually struck at the Detroit
Electronic Music Festival in 2005. Tractile’s “Silent Movie EP” on
Minus was a memorable affair of action packed tunes that hurtled
forward, effortlessly shifting from rough angular beats to flowing,
floor-friendly grooves at the flick of a switch. After relocating to
Berlin, spending a whirlwind 13 months touring Europe, soaking up the
city’s electric atmosphere and collecting invaluable experience, Joel
felt the constant traveling around, from show to show seemed to be
disrupting the collaborative process. Soon after, Joel decided to
follow his instincts and return home to pursue his own musical vision
and develop his own identity.

That identity or alter ego is Hobo and it came
about in a Yurt (a Mongolian tent) somewhere deep in The Pinery – a
National Park close to his home in Sarnia, Canada where he spent a week
last winter writing his new EP “From A to B”. It was a bold move,
embarking on a solo career and faced with the challenge of writing
alone for the first time. He ventured into the wilderness not knowing
what he would find. With his laptop perched on a plastic picnic table
and living purely off maple syrup and water, he shook off the shackles
of modern life and wandered alone through the woods, losing himself in
both a spiritual and physical sense in order to harness the moment when
subjective thought is overwhelmed by objectivity, and then somehow
translate it into music. It’s a deeply personal, exploratory approach
to the creative process built on the belief that the more you put
yourself into the music, the greater the chance the listener will get
something meaningful out of it. The result is a collection of
individual, almost stand-alone tracks defined by perception and
experience. Joel freely admits that there’s more emotion in this new
body of work, a more vivid sense of life brought about by his close
proximity to nature while recording. It’s a process he intends to
recreate in the future at equally inspiring locations around the world
as and when the hobo in his heart yearns for more adventure.

Some people filter through the record bins, taking what are on the
wall or record store employee suggestions. Then there are people who
dig deeper into the dusty crates, and absorb music like a sponge; ignoring
labels, bucking trends and are forever on a quest to find the perfect
record. The ones that make the staunchest of chin stroking, note taking
trainspotters lose their shit on the dancefloor, hanging on every record
from one to the next.

Derek Plaslaiko unquestionably falls into
the latter category. As a teen equally transfixed by Mojo and Wizard
cassettes and Minor Threat 7”s, Plaslaiko followed the beats from his hometown 20 miles
south of Detroit to the epicenter of Detroit techno, then enjoying
its third wave of success. He quietly paid his dues on Detroit’s
rave circuit, and was a crucial piece of the puzzle for the legendary
Poorboy and Syst3m parties of the mid-nineties. He quickly earned a
reputation for forward thinking DJ sets that were clinical, sophisticated
and extremely sensual. This combination resulted in a residency for
Family, the weekly party at Detroit’s legendary Motor.

With a reputation for high energy sets that were versatile and tasteful,
Plaslaiko slowly became in demand on the Midwestern club circuit; sharing
the stage with such techno luminares as John Acquaviva, Kevin Saunderson,
Richardo Villalobos, Baby Ford, and Matthew Herbert. It was also during
that time Plaslaiko was asked by Carl Craig to perform at the inaugural
edition of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

In 2003, Plaslaiko became part of the original
team of DJs at Detroit’s
Untitled parties, sharing a residency with Tadd Mullinix (aka James
T. Cotton), Matthew Dear and Mike Servito. In 2004 he made the decision
to head east and set up camp in New York City, determined to bring
a slice of the Motor City to the Big Apple.

Currently, Derek is one of the resident
DJs at the Bunker (Galapagos) in NYC, as well as an integral part
of the Wolf + Lamb monthly parties. Most recently, he was honored
in the Village Voice 2006’s “Best
Of” poll as New York’s Best Techno DJ.

Plus local support from

Chris Larsen
(YM)

Martin Fazekas aka evolve
(breakandenter)

Hans Ohm
(Archi-Textures)

Spatial:

Amira Emma

(www.amiraworks.com)

Visual:

Wustenarchitekten

Details:
$10 before 11pm
860B College St.
Cheap beers, wells & shooters before midnight (hell yeah!)
Doors at 9pm until 3am (headliners go on early!)

** Special After Hours Craziness to follow! **

Web:
www.breakandenter.net

www.m-nus.com
www.ghostly.com
www.hobotracks.com
www.plaslaiko.net

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Hobo (m-nus) + Derek Plaslaiko (Spectral, The Bunker)

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