DEEP LA continues our new Innovators Series on Saturday, May 19th bringing out Berlin's Andre Lodemann for his first ever Los Angeles appearance! Joining him on the decks are DROOG, Lars Behrenroth, and DEEP creator Marques Wyatt. Limited discount presales available at ResidentAdvisor.net.

A N D R E • L O D E M A N N
(Best Works Records, Berlin)

D R O O G
(Culprit, LA)

L A R S • B E H R E N R O T H
(Deeper Shades of House, LA)

M A R Q U E S • W Y A T T
(DEEP, LA)

// Andre Lodemann //
German-born Andre Lodemann has been a DJ for almost 20 years. Growing up in a small town in the former German Democratic Republik, Andre was influenced by his parent’s favorite music from a very early age. However, given the repressive censorship of the then ruling communist system, the music in supply was of a very limited repertoire so he spent much time trying to expand his musical horizons by listening to West German radio stations like RIAS and SFB for hours at a time and recording songs on reel-to-reel and later on cassette tapes. Around the time of the German Reunification Lodemann found himself involved in the East Berlin techno and trance scene and by 1990 he had purchased his first set of Technics MKII. And so his DJ career began...

Before long he discovered House music. Around the same time, he was also listening to a lot of the soul, funk and hip hop sounds coming out of America. Those influences soon found their way into his House sets and his music became more than just danceable rhythms as he discovered the emotional and spiritual depth of Deep House creating a deep and funky sound that he is still associated with to this day. Citing his greatest influences as Masters at Work, Matteo and Matos, Kerri Chandler and François Kevorkian, Lodemann’s musical vision is to create atmosphere, arouse emotion and touch people musically.

In 2001 Andre started to produce music and over the last decade he has released 12-inches and remixes on labels including Moods n Grooves, Simple Records, Room with a View, Z Records, Freerange and Buzzinfly amongst others. His tunes “Where are you now?” and “The Light” became hugely popular with the worldwide underground DJ circuit. Other highlights include remixes for Tracey Thorn, Omar and Black Coffee. Andre’s own label Best Works Records was founded in 2009 together with an old college friend Daniel Best, a well-known music promoter from Berlin.

// Droog //
DROOG is the DJ collective of Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin and Justin Sloe. From their start 6 years ago, DROOG has steadily built a reputation as one of the leading purveyors of forward thinking dance music, in Los Angeles and beyond.

The collective have become known for their respected parties that through the years featured leading international house and techno talent, from Magda, Jamie Jones, Steve Bug and Martin Buttrich to Dixon, all four memebers of Visionquest, Nicolas Jaar, Dyed Soundorom, Shonky and beyond. Droog have also masterminded showcase parties at WMC, DEMF, BPM and Sonar festivals. Between 2007 and 2011, Droog had held down a residency at Avalon Hollywood, one of the biggest clubs in the US. At Avalon,they have had the chance to play alongside influences such as Richie Hawtin, Lee Burridge, Steve Lawler, Damian Lazarus, Tiefschwarz, Mr. C, Booka Shade, MANDY, Matthew Dear.

In 2009 the trio made a leap into a new territory by  launching an LA-based record label, Culprit, which has built steady momentum with successful releases from Matt Tolfrey & Inxec, Hot Natured,  Lee Foss,  SECT (Soul Clap, Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos), Subb-an, M A N I K and others and joining the ranks of the leaders of the new school of underground dance music. Having toured the US and Mexico extensively, Droog have since expanded with European and South American shows. In October of 2010, Droog made a Fabric debut and since then have covered the globe, from Moscow to Lima, Ibiza to Costa Rica, Berlin and Paris. Recent new DJ debuts included Brazil, Tunisia and Portugal.

2011 has seen the Los Angeles collective focus on production work, with original material for Crosstown Rebels (released in Septmeber to wide acclaim) and Supernature (to be released in April of 2012), remixes for Culprit, NOICE, Murmur, My Favorite Robot , Adjunct Audio, Noir Music and Get Physical  Other high profile projects include mixing the second installment of the Rebel Rave mix CD for Crosstown Rebels, released in November 2011 and Droog’s first scheduled appearance at the premier US dance music festival, Movement Detroit.

// Lars Behrenroth //

Lars Behrenroth - born in Germany, relocated to Los Angeles in 2004 - DJ since 1986, remixer & producer since 1997, radio host since 1996 and label owner since 2008. Lars has moved and grooved crowds in clubs all over the world such as DEEP (LA), Distillery (Leipzig, Germany), Queens (Paris, France), Motorlounge (Detroit), House 22 (Pretoria), and many more.  His highly acclaimed and respected weekly two hour radio show, "Deeper Shades of House" has been running for 10 years now and can be heard on over 30 radio stations worldwide (fm, satellite & online).

Lars has developed his production skills over the past 15 years to the point where he has accumulated an impressive discography over a variety of labels including Freerange, Compost, Sonar Kollektiv, Liebe*Detail etc. He has also remixed artists such as Atjazz, The Rurals, Liquideep, Dubtribe, MJ Cole, Arnold Jarvis, Sven Weisemann, among others.

In 2008 Lars Behrenroth launched Deeper Shades Recordings, a label now home to 28 releases featuring a mix of producers and remixers like Rocco, Liquideep, Boddhi Satva, Atjazz, Anthony Nicholson, Jay Tripwire and more.

Saturday, May 19, 2012
King King
6555 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
10:00 pm - 4:00 am | 21+
Discount presales available at http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?351513.

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