INSTITUBES PARIS TERROR CLUB TOUR featuring Das Glow, Bobmo and Orgasmic.

Institubes, the label best known for uniting hip-hop and techno on the dancefloor, was an idea incubated in the brains of Teki Latex (from avant-rap group TTC) and his friend, Martinique native Jean-René Etienne.

With genre barriers in dance music quickly melting, Teki and Jean-René joined forces with Emile Shahidi of Arcade Mode and fellow TTC producer Tacteel, and set up shop in Northern Paris. Since then, they’ve issued U.S.-style hip-hop mixtapes from TTC’s Cuizinier and Orgasmic alongside gloriously insistent anthems from Surkin, Para One’s, cheeky Baltimore and acid sounds from Bobmo, and atmospheric maximal tech-house from Das Glow.

Each artist not only has a distinct musical persona but also presents a highly personalized graphic look, with art direction often provided by Etienne. “For us, it has always been very important to show that [we’re making] dance music, but it hasn’t been done only by machines,” he explains. “What’s interesting about techno is that it’s really a struggle between a machine and the guy behind the machine. You don’t really see that in most of rock music, which is about the guy and his instrument as one. It’s a question of obvious mastery. In dance, we don’t really know what the guy is doing with his laptop–if he loves or hates his machine. To present it right, we have to find the proper look for the music and the people doing it.”

Institubes isn’t averse to a good marketing scheme, but even that is a labor of love for these rule-breakers, whose ethos is reflected in their name. “It’s a play on words,” explains Etienne. “You have ‘institute’, meaning some kind of cultural administration with patrimonial ambitions; but also with a research component to it. Then ‘tubes’ which, in France, means hit records. So it’s some kind of research lab or museum for hit records.” Indeed.

BOBMO

BOBMO is a young (19) producer hailing from the hyperactive city of Paris via
the even more hyper city of Bordeaux. While in high school, with no musical
training, he launched a short-lived rap career, making beats on his Playstation
(no, really!), spitting awkward tales of murder and woe.
Like so many kids of the P2P generation, he ended up taking matters into his own hands. This is the result: “LET’S GOBOBMO!”.
We could have argued that his biggest influence is the endless stream of free flowing
slivers of sound-as-data which engulfed the world after the 1999
Napster Breaking of the Copyright Dam. But hey, we’re not that full of shit.
Plus, such theoretical gut looks unsightly tagged to the delicate, wiry frame of
a twelve-year old drug addict. Let’s just stop at his love for Robert Armani and
Armando, all right? Now, please welcome these three tracks into your life, they
come from the heart.

ORGASMIC

Humility is for pussies: Orgasmic is The Best French DJ Alive. One of the few who manage to pump some relevance back into classic tracks, inject freshness into each and every set and burn down the house in the process. His skills are matchless, that's a fact, but more importantly, the man knows how to dress. WE HAVE PHOTOS TO PROVE IT.
Orgasmic produced both of Cuizinier's classic "Pour les Filles" mixtapes, and two tracks on TTC's new album "3615 TTC" (including "Téléphone", currently burning airwaves). We at Institubes, home of Para One, Tacteel and Surkin, are very proud to present you with the man's first official mixtape.
So what do you get? Club bangers left and right. Rap, contemporary Rock, Baile Funk, Techno, House, exclusives from Para One, Institubes Paris Terror Club (first glimpse at the album the label's superband is working on), TTC, Feadz, Midnight Juggernauts, and Orgasmic himself, backed by Cuizinier and Charly Greane or fellow Québec rappers Omnikrom. All genres bow down before Club Music, don't they?
And: YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE VISUALS (like, right now he's sporting this black satiny reversible teddy with a glittering silver waterfall embroidered on the back... matches with his hair...).

DAS GLOW

Das Glow—real (Frenchified) name Damien Granier—was born in Moscow in 1982. A newborn Damien was found by one of the priests of the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel, burial place for the Tsars. He was adopted by a modest but loving young couple of clerks from the Soviet Patent Office and, at the age of ten, got apprenticed to one of the most revered
jewelers in Moscow where music is banned and strangely enough, this is where the first elements of his musical consciousness will coalesce: the motorik steadiness of the workshop
sounds, the unexpected lining up of two streams of jingling and jangling, the miraculous synchronicity emerging from the racket.

The year is 1998: Damien embarks on a grand tour of the jewelry capitals of Europe. Prague, Berlin, then Paris, where he ends up staying for good. At this point in his life, he hates music. With one crucial exception: techno, which he discovered by listening to snippets of albums on
display at big, well-heated department stores. Then it gets less quixotic: the French Touch (Daft Punk, Mr. Oizo, Air, Etienne de Crécy & Cassius), then Bpitch via Feadz and Perlon thanks to Akufen and Ricardo Villalobos, Matthew Herbert,  Whrume, Pantytec, and the German minimal empire: Kompakt, Musik Krause, Freude Am Tanzen, Milnor Modern, Trapez/Traum… Damien buys his first pair of turntables on April 14th 2001.
One year later, he asks Alex from the record shop Katapult, pioneer of all things minimal in France, how one gets to play in clubs: “You have to have a record out!” So production is the next step. All the money his grandmother has been saving for him since forever is used to buy a
computer, and a year of his own savings goes into a decent soundcard. At the first “Alors les Filles” party thrown by Institubes, Damien discovers the incredible mixing style of (TTC DJ) Orgasmic and realizes he has found a home. In September 2004, Institibes recieve a strange sound file in their inbox. Two years later, we give you Das Glow – “Weiss Gaz EP”.

TOUR DATES

Fri June 20. Melbourne, Prince Bandroom
Sat June 21. Adelaide, Electric Circus
Thu June 26. Gold Coast
Fri June 27. Sydney, Oxford Art Factory
Sat June 28. Perth, Shape