Berlin’s Ellen Allien is one of the hardest-working women in the electronic music scene (she DJ’s, runs her own record label, produces, and remixes). Recently, she came out with ‘Sool’, a brilliant album in the more ‘minimal’ vein.
With production help from fellow Berlinette and electronic musician, AGF, Allien delivers the goods and continues to push the envelope as well as solidifying herself as one of THE prominent techno producers out there today.
In contrast, here are two funky and melodic tracks from her highly-acclaimed album, ‘Orchestra of Bubbles’, which came out a couple years ago and was co-produced with another fellow Berliner, Apparat..
For quality techno and electronic music, check out Ellen Allien’s record label, Bpitch Control, and Apparat’s record label, Shitkatapult, which he runs with T. Raumschmiere.
“I don’t know which came first- shitty rave music or the drugs… I wonder if it was just these non-music fuck heads who are, you know, sitting in their house one day and they dicked around on their Macintosh and they go ‘bloop bleep bleep bloop’…”
That there [courtesy of Panacea] is the intro to Modeselektor’s first official DJ mix for Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control label, preceding volumes mixed by Kiki and Sascha Funke, respectively. What makes this mix so special is the fact it’s not filled with the hottest ‘bangers’ of the moment — it’s compiled of personal selections that Modeselektor love.
This is a well-rounded mix that morphs and mixes cohesively from one track to the next, blending all forms of ‘electronica’ and showing Modeselektor’s digital trickery and expertise along the way.
You can purchase Boogybytes Vol. 3 from here and don’t forget to check out other Modeselektor albums. Tour dates, streamable tracks available on their myspace.
Seems like everyone’s making up genres these days. New Rave, New Grave, Rip Hop, nu-doodoo-metal. MY TURN! ‘Black Girl’. Female vocals on top of dark-electro. Not a hint of indie. Straight up electro for that ass.
Who would fall into the ‘Black Girls’ genre, you ask?
Let me lace you with some tracks.
and don’t forget to check out other Modeselektor albums. Tour dates, streamable tracks available on 
