After a long night of dancing, many night club patrons leave the venue with a certain track stuck in their heads, but for Âme, the DJ/production duo of Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann, the tunes lodged in their brains are the ones they didn’t hear, ones not yet written that would fit perfectly in their sets. As part of Innervisions, the collective/label they run with Dixon, Âme offers glimpses of the future of electronic music in a genre obsessed with reliving the past. The partnership was formed in their hometown of Karlsruhe where Wiedemann first crossed paths with Beyer in 2001 at the latter’s record shop, Plattentasche.

Bonding over Chicago house and Detroit techno, the duo joined forces in 2003 to produce seminal deep house platters for Sonar Kollektiv, many of which were collected on the duo’s self-titled debut album. Intent on not repeating themselves, Âme splintered their established sound and found a more nimble, compositional approach that yielded their scene-conquering single, “Rej.” The pair teamed up with Dixon and Henrik Schwarz in 2006 for another instant classic, “Where We At,” featuring Derrick Carter’s stirring vocals. If one stylistic point shines through, it’s the group’s penchant for orchestral instrumentation and composition, albeit deconstructed and enmeshed in vintage synth tones and spectral vocal samples. From the waltzing proto-techno of “Fiori”—a key movement in Ostgut Ton’s ballet score, Shut Up and Dance! Updated—to the gargantuan brass tearing through the wild pitch strings of “Enoi,” their work simultaneously evokes the conceptual ardor of John Cage or Tony Conrad and the dance floor thrust of DJ Pierre or Underground Resistance. Not given to fulfilling trends, their sets draw upon the whole of dance music’s history and keep them in great demand around the world. Their regular nights at such establishments as Robert Johnson (Frankfurt), Fabric (London), Trouw (Amsterdam), Lux (Lisbon), and Air (Tokyo) are exceeded only by their marathon sets during Innervisions nights at their beloved Panorama Bar (Berlin).

Performance Date @ Crimson Lounge: February 08, 2012

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