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Vision // Music ReMIX

VISION
Hatch Music: Remix Everything
Join us at Hatch April 14th to 17th for discussions on how technology is changing how we interact with music.  Attend panels and workshops.  Meet thought and creative leaders in music to discuss the cultural trends, the future and you.

GROUNDBREAKERS: Have Your Music Remixed
Be selected as a Music Groundbreaker and work on a remix of your music with New York City’s DJ Nickodemus and producer Moreno Visini aka Zeb, the Spy From Cairo. Hatch is seeking song submissions for bands for Hatch Remix.  Songs will be considered on quality and the vision that Nickodemus and Moreno Visini have on creating a final remix. Songs should be submitted by Saturday April 8th. The winning song or songs will be remixed during Hatch. Bands will be invited, but are not required to attend Hatch April 14-17 in Asheville and work alongside the remixers. This is not a performance opportunity. If you are chosen, you will have to provide the stems (the multi-track recording) no later than April 13th. The winning band(s) will have full rights to release the remix for commercial or promotional purposes as long as they attribute Hatch, Nickodemus, Moreno Visini, Echo Mountain Studio and any engineers. All genres are encouraged to join.

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Friday, April 15th: 1 pm
Panel: Music Remixed
Innovators Lounge (Jubilee Downstairs, 46 Wall St)
Everything is changing for music fans, musicians and the music business.   Remix and rethink your perceptions about music. Panelists will explore the changing landscape of music discovery, listening, creation and marketing.  Mentors featured on the panel include:

  • Ben Sollee
    Cellist, activist, songwriter, performer.
  • Malcolm Campbell
    Publisher, Spin Magazine.
  • Molly Nagel
    General Manager, Music Allies / former VP of Artist Development at Sugar Hill Records.
  • DJ Nickodemus
    Producer, remixer, label owner and NYC’s longest running dance music party promoter.
  • Tor Hansen
    Co-Owner: Redeye Distribution / Yep Roc Music Group.

Wednesday, April 13th: 7 pm
Music Video Asheville
Fine Arts Theatre
 Hatch presents the fourth annual, official FoAM event, MUSIC VIDEO ASHEVILLE, a showcase to highlight the pairing of local musicians and filmmakers, taking place on Wednesday,  April 13,  2011 at the  Fine Arts Theater in Downtown Asheville.

The showcase is open to all Buncombe County residents who are musical artists and filmmakers who wish to submit one to three videos or short films showcasing a local act’s  conceptual music video, live performance video, experimental or documentary style film. Music Video Asheville mission is to: increase the awareness and appreciation of local musicians and filmmakers by showcasing their collaborative works in a public event.

Submissions are due March 25th: To find out how to submit check out this link: http://musicvideoasheville.com/submit-video/  Tickets for this event go on sale April 1st.

Thursday, April 14th: 5 pm - 7 pm
Music Conversation: What’s Working From Who’s Working Workshop
Echo Mountain Recording Studio
Don’t miss this conversation with musicians, publicists, agents, club and festivals at Echo Mountain Recording Studio Thursday April 14th at 5 pm – 7 pm. Join local musicians and industry pros for a discussion about making money making music.  Real advice for musicians who are making a living performing music.  Network with your peers and learn tips from musicians and industry folks on how to make it in the new music business.

Thursday, April 14th: 7 pm Doors, 8 pm Show
BUY NOW // Ben Sollee Live In Concert with special guest Galen Kipar
 Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB) Backroom
Ben Sollee plus special guest at the LAB Backroom (Lexington Ave Brewery)
8 pm * $20 Ticket.  * A limited number of tickets are ON SALE NOW
The LAB * 39 N. Lexington Avenue, Asheville NC 28801

Friday, April 15th:  9pm – 12 am
Hatch Networking Party
YMI Cultural Center
Join Hatch attendees, mentors and groundbreakers for a networking event and music performances from mentors and groundbreakers.  Featuring performances by Skew Records artist Peripheral, Moving Temple and DMFM

Skew Records is a collective of music artists based in Asheville, NC. The label hosts artists with various instrumental and electronic music production backgrounds, and have been providing quality live entertainment and online record releases to the southeastern region since 2008. Skew Records has been very active this past year with performances at multiple electronic music festivals, full-length releases, and compilations such as The Asheville Beat Tape. The label is steadily making their mark nationally as artists continue to challenge seasoned listener’s imaginations, while producing and performing music that is also attractive to new electronic music listeners.

Skew Records is proud to represent at this year’s Hatchfest with DJ sets and a live- electronic trio consisting of drummer/producer DMFM, and this past year’s Moogfest Hot Chip Remix contest winners, Peripheral and Moving Temple.

Check out www.skewrecords.com for free downloads, upcoming releases, mixtapes and news about other upcoming artist events!

Saturday, April 16th: 9pm – 12 am
Hatch Closing Party
Featuring performances by Marley Carroll and Nickodemus
At On Broadway
Celebrate the spirit of mentorship and new friends.  Hatch attendees, mentors and groundbreakers for a networking event and music performances from mentors and groundbreakers.  Frea

Ongoing: Hatch Collaboration
Engage with the music community and participate in spontaneous creation.

MUSIC MENTORS

Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm Campbell is the Publisher of SPIN Media, where he has been part of the McEvoy management team since February 2006.

Malcolm CampbellPrior to SPIN, Malcolm was Group Publisher of Vice Media, and prior to that, Launch Publisher of Blender magazine, which won various awards, including Ad Week’s “Launch of the Year” and “The Best Magazine In America” by the Chicago Sun Times.

Before Dennis Publishing, Malcolm was part of SPIN from 1990 to 2000, rising from Midwest Sales Representative to Publisher during that time. He helped oversee the sale and transition of SPIN from the ownership team of Stephen Swid and Bob Guccione, Jr. to Miller Publishing.

Malcolm started his career in advertising as an Account Executive at Foote, Cone & Belding in Chicago.

Ben Sollee

Ben Sollee wants you to experience all the beauty and banality that life has to offer. It’s a serious request, and his enthusiasm is genuine. Armed with a cello, Sollee is canvassing the country, sometimes by bicycle, imploring folks to rediscover the connections between music, art, film, dance, their community, and personal relationships.

These factors ultimately translate to the mindset and making of the classically trained pop cellist’s new project – Inclusions. Beyond bridging genres and demographics with earnest, dynamic songwriting and passionate performances, Ben Sollee seeks to intertwine his music with art and life. The theme of Inclusions is large, humanistic and universal – how relationships influence us all whether intentional or not.

Ben Sollee first emerged with his 2008-debut Learning to Bend. Saturated with sweeping moods and visceral maturity, Learning to Bend showcased a wild mixture of musical approaches that Ben describes as “classically influenced folk with leanings of R&B and soul.” The album caught the ear of NPR’s Morning Edition, which heralded Sollee as one of the “Top Ten Great Unknown Artists of 2007.”

Collaboration plays an integral influence in Ben’s career.  He has toured throughout the world with banjo player and songstress Abigail Washburn, multi-Grammy banjoist Bela Fleck and fiddler Casey Driessen as part of the Sparrow Quartet. In 2010, Ben collaborated with fellow Kentuckians Daniel Martin Moore and My Morning Jacket front-man Yim Yames on the Sub Pop released Dear Companion. The album led to an eight-date tour to raise awareness about the destruction caused by mountain top removal coal mining in central Appalachia.

Additionally, Ben works Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to help preserve a cornerstone and major influence of his songwriting – his ancestral Appalachia.

Keep a look out for Ben in late 2011 when he embarks on another “Ditch The Van Tour” when Ben and his band abandon the comforts of driving or flying and instead peddle their gear and instruments (yep, the cello too) across the country on bicycles. Ben’s mission is to engage a greater sense of community involvement at every performance. By huffing it on two-wheels between cities, Ben and his crew are able to discover people and facets of our country in ways that traditional touring could not allow. “It’s not about being green or even sustainable… we want to exploit the limitations of the bicycle to slow down and experience the rich communities and people that I’ve spent years flying-by and driving past.”

Molly Nagel
Molly Nagel comes to Music Allies with over 12 years of music industry experience including roles in publicity and most recently as the VP of  artist development at Sugar Hill Records. Asheville-based Music Allies is a cutting edge marketing company for artists and labels looking to release and market music without the help of major labels.  The company specializes in marketing national music festivals including Bonnaroo, the Hangout, MoogFest, Outside Lands and Camp Bisco.

Moreno Visini
Moreno Visini, aka Zeb, The Spy from Cairo, is a producer/musician who has written and recorded six albums and remixed over one hundred songs of artsists such as Billy Holiday, Tosca, Sultan Khan, Astor Piazzolla, and Natacha Atlas just to name a few. He plays an ancient Arabic string instrument called the Oud, which he incorporates with electronic dub and dance music. Zeb is versed in the traditional music styles of the Middle East and North Africa as well as the dub and reggae styles of Jamaica. He has mentored many producers in the NYC scene by teaching them the latest music creation technologies. These teaching sessions have led to collaborations in many eclectic and far reaching styles.

DJ Nickodemus
Nickodemus’ sound is like a traveling circus that gets everyone dancing. It will stop off in India, the Balkans, the Middle East, Spain, North, South, East & West Africa, over to Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, up to New Orleans & of course his native hometown, Brooklyn NYC!

From his early days DJ’ing at Giant Step parties, to his current party Turntables on the NickodemusHudson, (which has been running for over 11 years), Nickodemus always keeps a positive & strong element of funky dance grooves that intersect the new & the old, the urban & the countryside!

He has two albums & remix albums called “Engangered Species” and “Sun People” as well as seven Turntables on the Hudson compilations to date. His highlight songs which can be found on 100′s of compilations & several movies, TV shows (Sex in the City, Dancing With the Stars) & commercials (iTUNES, Revlon, Heineken, Michelobe) include “Cleopatra in New York,” “Mariposa,” “Funky in the Middle,” and “Mi Swing es Tropical.” Remixes for Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Bebel Gilberto, Sultan Khan, Omar Farul Tekbilek, Thievery Corporation & many more exemplify the wide range of music Nickodemus encompasses.

Tor Hansen
Tor founded Redeye Distribution in Carrboro NC.  Redeye exclusively nationally distributes such artists as Black Keys, Death Cab For Cutie, Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Flying Lotus, Mars Volta, Gillian Welch, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Paul Weller, Brandfor Marsalis, Sun Kil Moon, Nick Lowe and many more.  Labels such as: Yep Roc, Warp, Barsuk, Bomp, Alive, Kill Rock Stars, Acony, Sargent House and others.  Redeye’s retail partners include national chains, lifestyle shops, web shops, Independent record shops & Digital Service Providers. What started out in the basement of Tor Hansen with no external funding is now has a staff of over 50. Yep Roc Music Group is a record label group providing marketing, promotions, production, and distribution for high quality label brands including Bella Union, Yep Roc, Full Time Hobby, and Mona.  Prior to launching Redeye, Tor has worked with Rounder Records, Hear Music and Borders.

LOCAL MENTORS

Find out more about the panelists here:

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MUSIC GROUNDBREAKERS

Marley Carroll
Marley Carroll is a prodigious multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ from Asheville, North Carolina. The beginnings of his musicianship sprang from training in piano, percussion and scratch DJ technique. His debut album, Melanaster is the result of meticulous bedroom alchemy, sounding like a lost Radiohead LP submerged in ten feet of salt water. Marley created Melanaster entirely on his own. The album’s touchstones are found in the space between the beautiful haze of early Nineties shoegaze rock (My Bloody Valentine) and early 2000’s IDM (Autechre, Squarepusher). The result is smeared, Marley Carrolmelancholy pop songs tethered to abstract electronic rhythms, what NPR called “gorgeously subdued glitch-pop”. Marley’s work has been featured on All Songs Considered, the TCIAF re:sound podcast, and the award-winning documentary, Pelada. The track “Flying Nomura Theme” was given a place on volume four of the respected What.CD compilation, and was voted the #1 track of the collection.

Up until recently, the songs from Melanaster and new originals have been rearranged and performed by live bands. Now, Marley has developed his first solo PA set to bring a more raw and boundary-pushing version of his music to live audiences. Combining vocals, keyboard, turntable, X1 MIDI controller, Serato, and a custom Logic interface, Marley transforms into something of a one man symphony. Quietly and humbly, Marley’s performance illustrates the irony of a painfully beautiful life. Like the ocean, his show is universal and inclusive yet does not let us forget that we are small and alone. To witness the live performance is undeniably the human experience.

As a DJ, Marley Carroll fluently blends together a curated selection of IDM, minimal house, indie rock, hip hop and a few pop staples. His sets include masterful mixing, innovative glitch technique and the skillful scratching that earned him high praise and accolades from a young age. He has a sixth-sense ability in reading his crowd’s reaction to steer his sets in all the right directions. Making all selections pertinent to his audience, no matter what their tastes, it is not uncommon for people to walk away with a newly discovered appreciation for genres they never understood or cared for. Never before has a DJ so creatively mixed seemingly uncooperative styles of music into one cohesive masterpiece. At age 17, Marley won the title of best scratch DJ in North Carolina by winning the Guitar Center’s Spin Off competition. He has shared the stage with such great artists as RJD2, Prefuse 73, Blackalicious, Martyn, Emancipator, Eskmo, Tokimonsta, Eprom, Lipp Service and more and was recently voted one of the top local DJs by his fellow Western North Carolina citizens.

GALEN KIPAR
Galen Kipar is a touring composer, guitarist, singer based in Asheville, NC. He is a graduate of Brevard College where he studied music with an emphasis in composition. He fronts the Galen Kipar
Project , a touring quintet with four albums in five years under their belt.  The most recent, the Scenic Route, was voted #51 in WNCW top 100 of 2010 and featured on WNCW’s Crowd Around the Mic compilation. The music has garnered reviews such as,  “complex yet accessible” and “cohesive and poignant” with “experimental folk masterpieces.” ”He is dedicated to creating an honest, original sound that brings peace of mind, and to exploring creative process, tone, orchestration, and the development of music theory in general.” “The process of writing a song can be like making breakfast for 15. It’s like Tetris, it’s like tug of war between left brain and right brain. You poke, jab, shift, rotate, retrograde, sequence, invert, slur, augment, smooth over, compromise, come to terms with … until you can’t anymore. Then, you take a break and do it again.” www.galenkipar.com www.facebook.com/galenkipar

 

More Groundbreakers to be announced soon…

Frank Bell (2010 Groundbreaker) • Matt Morris (2010 Mentor) • Sean O’Connell (Sean is founder of Music Allies and Creative Allies,  Hatch Music Discipline Leader and Hatch Board Member)

Philadelphia DJ/Producer King Britt performing at HatchFest Bozeman in 2009


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