Deepchild - Berlin Mix

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Deepchild is one of Australia’s most respected electronic/dance artists with a strong national following and international profile with releases and remixes for some of Australia, Europe & the USA’s most well-known artists and labels. With tracks licensed to over 50 compilations and releases on labels including Ministry of Sound, Get Physical, V2, Om, Freerange, and of course, Future Classic. There’s consensus on the dancefloors that there’s something infectious and downright sexy about Deepchild’s forward-thinking aesthetic. Dub, soul, hip hop, minimal techno and freaked-out post-disco are all thrown into an eclectic mix that is both warm and cutting edge at the same time. Add to his credentials a growing list of remixes with international artists including Booka Shade, New Order, Jimpster, Luomo, and Deepchild’s rep as a heavyweight international contender is well solidified.

Returning from six months living in Berlin & Edinburgh, ‘Departure’ is Deepchild’s hotly anticipated fifth artist album and marks his first release as a truly international artist. The tracks on this album have been written, road-tested and developed over 2 years of extensive touring and live shows at some of the world’s biggest festivals from the 190,000 person Exit Festival in Serbia and Sonar in Barcelona to the madness of Berlin’s legendary Panorama Bar and Watergate, touring top billing sets along-side the likes of Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Booka Shade, Jesse Rose, Dixon, Sebo K, M.A.N.D.Y, Ewan Pearson and Will Saul. In a release schedule saturated in fluorescence, ‘Departure’ marks a sonic departure to both tactile experience and visceral warmth – a type of communal experience best understood at 6am in a packed club someplace in the heart of Eastern Europe or Northern UK, where much of this album has taken shape.

The album bears all the hallmarks of typically intriguing Deepchild sound-design, newly embraced techno-cred and nods to dubstep and deep electro. A collection of extended dancefloor cuts, this is a record that is as pneumatically jacking and functional as it is deep and considered. Video-game burbles, radio-static and bottomless analog bass provide the hand-mixed glue in an album of jacknifing beats, hyper-compressed oddity and a liberal dose of both late-night mirth and rolling experimentia. From the cobblestone-path rhythm opening Nicoteen Fudge to the tightly arpegiated mayhem of Norwegian Calculus, this album finds Deepchild in the finest form of his career.

To launch the new album Deepchild will be undertaking a national tour of intimate club shows presented by Beck’s. For all the tour dates, tickets, video, audio, gossip and exclusive content check: www.inthemix.com.au/berlinsessions

Friday 26 September – Melbourne – Smash Bang @ La Di Da
Thursday 2 October – Newcastle – Supperclub
Saturday 4 October – Brisbane – Logic @ Bar Soma
Friday 10 October – Sydney – Nevermind
Saturday 11 October – Adelaide – Sugar
Friday 17 October – Gold Coast – Ruby Tramp