Paul Easy
Samuli Kemppi
Playground presents: MARTIN LANDSKY
Friday 22.5.2009 // 22:00-04:00 // Age 20
Playground
Iso Roobertinkatu 10
00100 Helsinki
Main room:
10 years of Poker Flat
MARTIN LANDSKY (Poker Flat, Berlin/GER)
http://www.landsky.de/
Samuli Kemppi
Paul Easy
Including special Samuli Kemppi b2b Paul Easy set.
Timetable:
22:00 Paul Easy
23:00 Samuli Kemppi b2b Paul Easy
00:15 Samuli Kemppi
01:30 Martin Landsky
Tickets:
Advance: 8 incl. bf.
(from www.tiketti.fi & Street Beat)
Door: 10
Lights: marX & the boys
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Martin Landsky bio
Unlike any other German protagonist of the electronic dance scene, Martin Landsky withdrew himself from the well known category of electronic dance music. The verbal approach is of course only a portion of the complete and original sound of Landskys music which combines Techno, House, Minimal and Funk. He has been creating waves as a sensational DJ and producer since the middle of the nineties and Landsky has also been heard and recognized, since the year 2000, as one of the key figures in the circle of producers at Poker Flat Recordings. The label owner Steve Bug is also a long term friend of Landsky.
As a DJ and as musician I try to balance between both traditional House and Techno music. Despite the fact that I use a lot of reduction for that electronic sound, it is my duty to create deep music which must also always include twisty and funky elements says Martin. With confidant mixing from retrostyle roots to up-to-date Club music, this all but consequently represents Landsky like hardly any other musician and DJ of the Poker Flat Style.
The special affinity to the roots of black club music fell in Landskys sight early on in his life. Through his hobby of breakdancing as an eleven year old boy, Martin Landsky aquired an impulsive contact to dance music, from funk to hiphop. Starting initially on a tapedeck and then later on his fathers Bontempi organ, as well as a pitch control record player, it was clear to see from the first single megamixes he produced that he had lost his heart hopelessly to the music.
In the beginning DJ-ing was always the most important thing for Landskys musical identity. He was just fourteen when he first started to perform at school celebrations and private parties. Of course the ultimate moment of his musical carrier came around when he first visited Hamburgs Kultclub Front in 1988. The mixture of Funk and the growing trend of House, Acid and Techno electrified Landsky like nothing else before and has affected his musical aesthetics up untill the present day.. In 1994 his hard work and persistance payed off and his dream came true when he was offered a regular residency at his favourite club.
It soon became clear that Landsky would not last the duration as just an exclusive and shining local heroic DJ and so then started to work for the newly established distribution department of Container Records. He then later worked for the distribution company Word and Sound, and it was through both of these jobs that he gained valuable contacts which helped him to travel much further afield as a DJ. At the end of 1999 he made a last and final decision to leave Hamburg and try his luck in Berlin as a full time DJ and Musician. With the help of regular Bookings and his friends Clé and Steve Bug, he helped to arrange a series of Poker Flat Nights at famous Sternradio and regular headliner bookings in some of the most renowned clubs in Berlin such as E-Werk, the Pfefferbank, Tresor and Casino. He also put together many Mix CDs for labels such as Poker Flat, Systematic and the Partysan complilation series which turned Landsky into one of the most important figures in the German Clubsound of the year 2000.
Parallel to this and as a result of his music productions, Landsky gained the status as one of the most important protagonists with a slightly different understanding of house music. Two years after Martin Landskys first release in 1995 called Sampled House Vol. 1 for Container Records, he then announced the release of his first 12 the Horner Corner EP in 1997 under the name of Pseudonym City Nord on the London label MC Projects. From this point on Landskys definition of House music became internationally known.
The following year Martin released his 12 My Hidden Basement which was the startingpoint of his first new label Effortil Records, then came Love-Fourty which was the second release to appear in 1999. His label, now under the name of Intim Recordings and of course his first releases for Dessous (Wild EP) and Poker Flat (Crude Clay), made him acquainted for the first time within a big circle of renown DJs and Producers. Still, in the year 2000 he began working on his first longplayer for Poker Flat Records, which in the following year brought his status up to an international level.
In Between was the title of Landskys debut album which was directly linked to his third Intim-EP Follow Me and the Poker Flat Records 12 release Sweet Sweet Morning. The year 2001 was the most productive and successful year in Landskys career.
In the Summer of 2003 Landsky had reached a new point in his understanding of House music. On Reject he worked together intensively with Filip G., an amazing vocalist from Hamburg. Not least because of the catchy vocals, the single became a massive global club hit which lasted for weeks in the German Club Charts and which also landed Landsky into the playlists of some of the hippest DJs around. There was also Landskys remix of the single The Difference by DK7 which was played to extent up and down the clubs worldwide.
Besides the remixes (for Marc Romboy, Booka Shade, Eyerer & Chopstick or Namito) In the past, Landsky recently created some special moments for club nights with the hits Fools (They dont know the time) from the year 2004, FM Safari (2005) and last but not least 1000 Miles (2006) a dusky hypnotic masterpiece which is without a doubt Landskys most successful piece of work. More recently Let me Dance was the next track to follow up in the footsteps of 1000 Miles.
