MethLab New Addition & Autumn Mix Series Part 3 // Rawtekk

Part 3 of the MethLab Autumn Mix Series is here, and we have a very special edition in the form of a new announcement to the MethLab roster - Rawtekk!

Hailing from Hamburg, and composed of accomplished professional sound designers Stefan and Christine Westphal; Rawtekk is an incredible live act fusing intricate electronica and live vocals. Their crossover style connects Drum and Bass, Dubstep and Idm; fused together by the lusciously unusual vocals of Christine – reminiscent of the surreal and enchanting styles of Bjork or Joanna Newsom. Their output is sophisticated whilst remaining mainly focussed on the dancefloor, designed to work in both club environments and more diverse festival stages as a live act.

Their debut LP ‘Sprouted and Formed’ dropped in mid-2013 on the highly respected Medschool offshoot of Drum and Bass heavyweight label Hospital Records. This 17 track album represents their manifesto of diversity; with beautifully heavy Dubstep in the form of ‘A Magnaminous Kind’s Will’, intricately heavy DnB in ‘Amber’s Love Was Like a Marble’, pounding wonky Techno in ‘Skrotum Left its Dwelling’ or the lush ambient vocal-led Halo. The album has been widely praised as an outstanding and significant debut, garnering them well deserved attention. The release of the LP follows a considerable number of releases on labels such as Syndrome Audio, Citrus Recordings, Disturbed Recordings and also including work with collaborator Phace, who worked on both the ‘Stretch Pack’ / ‘Life Goes On’ release on the Subtitles label and also subsequently commissioned them to remix the track ‘Angst’, from his Neosignal project. Further releases are set for Medschool in the coming year, with reworked VIP versions of tracks from the album amongst new material.

Rawtekk have been performing all over the world in venues such as London’s world-famous ‘Fabric’, as well as many other notorious venues across Europe. They are also producing sound and music professionally for companies while they are developing their acoustic audio branding worldwide. Furthermore they are producing commercial spots, soundlogos, imagefilms and they are developing sample libraries and demo songs for Steinberg's Cubase, Halion, Halion Sonic and Sequel 1-3.

Plaster // Audiovisual Update

Following their totally incredible recent slew of releases on prominent labels such as Stroboscopic Artefacts and Touchin'Bass - as well as being remixed by the infamous Techno artist Substance on the Sonous label; we would like to draw some attention to their mind-blowing Audio-Visual live show. Combining the talents of Berlin-based visual artist Lasal and the upward moving pioneers of their diverse darkly textural sound, Plaster - the result is something quite staggering. 

We're taking bookings for their live AV show now - so check it out for yourself, and then contact jef@methlab-agency.com to bring them to your city!

MethLab Autumn Mix Series Part 2 // Oyaarss

Part 2 of our Autumn mix series is here, following the incredible Part 1 from Stroboscopic Artefact's Plaster. With part 2, Oyaarss is taking us further into Industrial territory, with a mix containing plenty of incredible new material, and hot off the announcement about the formation of his new 3 piece band - taking his solo material further into live territory (check the video below...)



The mix comprises 44 minutes or so of grinding industrial mechanisms set the against moments of beauty and ambience typical to Latvia's most prized young experimental musician and we've been heavily enjoying it over the past couple of days. You can listen below, we're tkaing bookings now for either the individual electronic live set, or full band show...

Contact: jef@methlab-agency.com for bookings and enjoy the mix!!!

Current Value // Stay on This Planet Album Tour

We're proud to announce the first MethLab tour for one of our artists in both Japan and Australia. In celebration of the launch of his most recent and widely praised album ' Stay on This Planet'; Current Value hitting the shores of the Far East in November! His cultural mission to further educate foreign dancefloors in the art of precision filtered breaks and extreme synth manipulation starts in Nagoya on 8th November, and finishes in Perth on the 30th. 

You can see from the October release roundup the extent to which CV has been busy recently, with a stack of releases for both his DnB and Dubstep sounds, as well as his partnership with Dean Rodell under the Machine Code moniker. With the Machine Code album set to drop at the end of the year, and subsequent tour, the booking schedule is set to be quite tight. However, we're now looking for a few more dates for the Stay on This Planet tour - to continue the tour in Europe through December // January. So it's time to get booking if you want to be involved in bringing Current Value to your city!

Contact: Jef@methlab-agency.com for availability