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The Vikings are coming led by Cave!
Reported by Echodek
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Submitted 04-09-07 16:55
His name might be Cave but there’s nothing dark and dismal about this guy. He came crashing onto the scene in 2002 with Street Carnival, a track that set pretty much every techno dancefloor in the world alight. Since then Cave (or Inge, as he is known to his mum) has maintained his place as one of the hardest working DJs in Europe and has produced an impressive body of work as a producer, with releases under his belt on labels as diverse as Planet Rhythm and Intec, as well as putting out a string of heavy releases on his own label, Spilo.
The man himself will be jetting over from his native Oslo for a one-off gig at London's Rhythm Factory on September 15, almost a year since his last UK date, and he is looking forward to it. "I have been to London a few times now, and I always enjoy myself there," he says. "You can almost always guarantee a good party, and an up-for-it crowd. The people are so friendly! I'm on the bill with Deetron, a DJ I've played alongside a few times in past, and I'm really looking forward to his set too."
Norway, where Inge has lived and worked almost all his life, has never really featured heavily on the techno map, unlike its neighbour Sweden. But instead of moving to Berlin or Stockholm, Inge has worked hard to build himself a reputation across Europe, much the same as Deetron in fact. "Of course, I love Oslo. I am a Viking! I enjoy the fact that I travel a lot and get work with producers across Europe, but there is still a nice scene here. The parties are generally smaller, but everyone knows each other and there is a nice sense of community,” he enthuses. “Also, the scene here has had a real boost thanks to the increased popularity of minimal techno. A number of regular parties have started recently and huge crowds are going out to see people like Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos and Adam Beyer, as well as guys like Carl Cox, Dave Clarke and Claude Young. You would simply never have seen these artists in Norway three or four years ago.
So the techno scene in Oslo is thriving right now, as it is across the world, but has Inge seen any benefit? Or is he about ready to drop the bpm to boost the sales? “It’s funny the general impression you get is that techno sales are in decline, because everyone is really buying into the minimal sound. You hear people changing their styles, out of fear that their sales and their bookings will suffer if they continue to play harder techno. But for me it has been quite the opposite. Sales of releases on my label, Spilo Records, have been consistently good. As for bookings, my diary has been filling up faster and faster, particularly over the last year. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that fewer DJs are sticking with pure techno, I’m not sure. What is for sure is that I could not change my style and start to make tracks that I didn’t really love, in the hope that they would sell well.”
While he’s obviously not about compromising on style, there has been obvious development since Cave tracks started battering dancefloors five years ago. Street Carnival was all about its infectious drums and its mayhem-inducing build-up. It was simple idea perfectly executed. And while he does regularly return to a lot of those basic elements (the driving basslines, the funky breaks), Inge is obviously paying more and more attention to detail in his tracks, innovating with sounds and structure, and constantly pushing forward into new areas. For most DJs, "pushing forward" seems to lead them down a housier, mnml path. That's not the case for Cave. Listening to his latest release, a remix of Out Patient by Oli Brand and Jimidge, released on KSS records in September, you'll here just the kind of sound processing that would make Matthew Dear proud, but combined with the heavy techno groove that people have come to expect from Cave.
Does it make him feel then like he's missing the minimal gravy train? “Not at all. I just don't see things that way. Some of the tracks I’ve been releasing recently have been the result of a conscious choice to test out new markets, I have always tried to maintain a balance between breaking new ground stylistically and keeping the elements of my style that people have come to expect from me. At the end of the day, lots of people like Cave's style, and shuffling around at 120bpm just isn't what it’s about. And anyway, there is still plenty of room for sonic innovation in hard techno. Some of the sounds and effects that appear in tracks now would have been virtually impossible a few years ago. Developments in both software and hardware allow us to experiment with more complex arrangements and more exciting structured.”
"The original of Out Patient was harder than the techno I usually make, so I wanted to do something really different. I spent a lot of time planning the track, trying different combinations of sounds, changing arrangements and patterns over and over. In the end I was very happy with the result which was both hard enough to fit the KSS label style, while still being identifiable as a Cave track." The result is a solidly engineered techno pounder, which every now and then descends into complete madness to the point of almost falling apart, before coming back even harder. Much like his other releases over the last six months, this badboy demonstrates full that, for all his obvious enthusiasm for off-the-wall sound manipulation, Cave is one producer who rarely loses sight of what is important: keeping the dancefloor rocking.
Cave will be playing at KSS15, alongside Deetron, Sebastien Marx and Pattrix at the Rhythm Factory, London on Saturday September 15.
Oli Brand & Jimidge - Out Patient (Cave remix) is out on KSS Records on September 17.
More info at www.kssrecords.co.uk
Photos courtesy of Cave. Not to be reproduced without permission
KSS::Deetron and CAVE :Serious techno
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Saturday 15th September 2007
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The Rhythm Factory [map]
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22:00 - 06:00
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8 in adv more on the door
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www.kssrecords.co.uk
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Tickets Online:
TICKETWEB [+bf]
mark@kssrecords.co.uk [no bf]
Tickets Offline:
Phonica, 51 poland street, W1F 7NG
Access All Areas, 2nd Flr, Camden Lock Place, NW1 8AL
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The KSS philosophy comes out of the warehouse and into a club environment. It will be a 2 room party with one room focusing on tough harder techno while room 2 will be deeper with electro/minimal techno.
The night for us is a statement of what we have done over the years – quality music first, accompanied by solid production and always giving people the best possible show and night out they can get without charging extortionate amounts of money for the privilege
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London
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Tribal House. Acid Techno. Deep Techno. Funky Techno. Techno.
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CAVE norway (spilor records/ intec)
DEETRON switzerland (music man records / primate/ intec)
Seb Marx *live* (kss records, open source, global warmer)
PATTRIX (kss records, mutate to survive)
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From: Neats on 5th Sep 2007 11:14.34
looking forward to the 15th 
From: ~deleted9531 on 5th Sep 2007 11:21.28
Keep up the good work Inge, have lots of your stuff and love it. See you on the 15th.
From: Matt Smallwood on 5th Sep 2007 16:34.28
Seriously savage techno! 
From: James Terry on 6th Sep 2007 14:43.37
Been loving this guys productions for a while now, wicked producer!
From: Ben Gomori on 14th Sep 2007 09:47.26
Cave is fucking wicked! As is Deetron. Sweet line-up
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