Martin Buttrich & Ashwin Khosa

Flash and Verboten bring you the massively influential German DJ and record producer, Martin Buttrich, and Traum Schallplatten's Ashwin Khosa in from New York.

Martin Buttrich

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Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint on many big ticket artists, notably receiving a Grammy nomination for a Tori Amos remix in 2003. Such diverse musical horizons are rare. While other prolific artists may have slowly watered down their music, Buttrich’s star has risen in diametric opposition. His vision has become more and more condensed, more and more crystallised. Flipping and puncturing grooves in a live setting is a snap for him, and he’s entranced audiences at festivals like Time Warp and Creamfields, at temples of boom such as Fabric (London), Womb (Tokyo), Cocoon (Frankfurt), Panorama Bar (Berlin) and Amnesia (Ibiza) and at worldwide Desolat Experience parties with Loco Dice.

A key musical partnership, with Loco Dice, begun in 2002, undoubtedly inspired Buttrich to delve deeper into the musical histories that first lured him towards after-dark melodies. In a short space of time they’d built up a deep discography creating an era-defining sound in the process. They spent more than half a year living in New York in 2006/2007, with half of Buttrich’s studio set up in a rickety hideaway in Brooklyn that looked out over Manhattan’s vistas. Between late night production sessions and snowstorms, their Desolat label came to life. Having his debut solo album Crash Test released on Desolat in early 2010, Martin Buttrich is taking his vision to the road, fusing wild imagination with solid musical architecture, cherry-picked inspiration with true perfection of his musical craft.

Since then constantly on tour, in 2011 Martin Buttrich still has dropped a remarkable collection of music - productions like “Fire Files” EP on Desolat or remixes for Marco Carola and Lee Curtiss amongst others. Currently based in LA, Martin Buttrich is working on his second artist album and a jazz project called The Stoned Autopilot. Stay tuned.

Ashwin Khosa

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Ashwin Khosa is born and raised in Hong Kong but ethnically Indian. He graduated from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Originally listening to his father's trance collection at a young age, his curiosity led him deeper into the underground house and techno scene. He has performed all over the world in countries such as Hong Kong, India and America alongside artists like Adam Beyer, Chus + Ceballos, Damian Lazarus and more. His productions are released on labels around the globe from Pure Substance (Malaysia) to Traum Schallplatten (MBF) in Germany.

His musical talents have always been clear and although originally a bass guitarist with rock band 'Madison', which played at several international festivals including Jamfest 2008. He has always been a lover of house and techno. Electronic music was always around at home because of his mother and father who are dance music enthusiasts - it was that same year in 2008 when they gifted him a pair of turntables and a mixer for his 16th birthday. Both his sets and productions feature dynamic grooves, deep basslines and complex musicality, all bundled together by a gripping soundscape. At 23 years old with many productions set for release in 2015, Ashwin Khosa is a name to look out for.

Coby Jones

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