TM05Base /
TMBase Festival
The best electronic music festival in
Romania is upon us again, the
TM05Base Urban Sound Culture
festival is due between the 20th and
22nd of October 2005 gathering
some of the best international names
and most relevant national contenders
from the electronic, dance and urban
music scene. Unique in vibe and
mentality, the festival features a wide
variety of genres from hip-hop to funk
and breakbeats to techno and
drumandbass.
The 3 day event takes off with one
warmup night in one of Timisoara's
clubs then moving on to the main days
set inside the warehouses on Divizia 9
Cavalerie Street behind Kappa
Comercial Complex near Iulius
Mall.
The lineup is offcourse solid, this years
edition featuring renowned names from
the international scene with the likes
of: drum and bass legends MC
Navigator (Rawhill Cru) and Doc
Scott (31 Records, Metalheadz), techno
top names Technasia (Paris, FRSINO), DMC team champions 2004
Coups 2 Cross, experimental audio
and visual german trio
Rechenzentrumvs SchneiderTM ,
breakbeats finest Chris Carter (TCR,
Botchit and Scarper), hungarian Fine
Cut Bodies (Chi Recordings),
canadian glitch-pop group Bleep, hiphop and drumandbass wonderkid JFB
and 4 more top headliners waiting to be
announced, together with names from
the national scene.
With a strong lineup and the renowned
TMBase festival experience there is no
excuse for missing what we would dub
the essential electronic and urban
festival experience in Romania today.
This year also TMBase would like to
thank its partners and sponsors for the
continued support shown by the
British Council Romania, French
Cultural Center Timisoara &
Association Francais d'Action
Artistique, The German Cultural
Center Timisoara, City Hall and
the City Council of Timisoara, Red
Bull Romania and Ursus.
Artists & acts
Full lineup will be revealed soon on
www.tmbase.ro
and founded his own label, Moonshine
Music in 1996. Celebrating oldschool
drum and bass, TMBase and British
Council Romania bring you one of its
founders.
Doc Scott
Navigator MC
(31Records, Metalheadz)
(Rawhill Cru)
Legendary drum and bass soldier and
Metalheadz cofounder alongside
Goldie back in 1994, Doc Scott put
the drum and bass scene in motion. He
started mixing during the late 80s
when rave was big, his style was much
darker, adding influences from hiphop, jungle and Detroit techno, all very
characteristic for the early 90s. These
roots are more evident in his earlier
productions - "As Nasty as I wanna Be"
(1992), an oldschool drumandbass
classic as well as the famous "Here
Come the Drums".
Rawhill Cru's finest Navigator MC
has been responsible for much mayhem
in the drum and bass scene teaming up
with a wide selection of huge names.
With more than a decade of experience
to benefit him passing through
hardcore, reggae, jungle and drum and
bass, MC Navigator is as big a name as
they et.
After leaving Reinforced, he teamed up
with Goldie and founded the legendary
Metalheadz, soon to be most famous
label in drum and bass. Among his
early releases are "Vip Drums" and "Far
Away". He's also been working on LTJ
Bukem's label, Good Looking Records
This year he will be MC-ing along side
oldschool legend Doc Scott onstage at
the TM05Base festival due to the
support from the British Council
Romania.
Noisia
(Vision, Moving Shadow, Subtitles)
Noisia DJ, producer and member
Martijn van Sonderen.
Technasia
(Paris, FR-SINO)
Infamous drumandbass trio Noisia,
formed back in 1998, is made up of
Nik Roos, Thijs de Vlieger and
Martijn van Sonderen.They met up
thanks to a small graffiti community
and were soon joined by Martijn who
was producing hip-hop and studied
classic piano.
Having just launched their very own
Vision Label their tracks have sewn a
new path into the very fabric of sound being released on labels Subtitles and
Moving Shadow - have put them in the
spotlight. Noisia have worked together
such great names like Teebee, Cause
4 Concern, Calyx, Black Sun
Empire and legendary Bad
Company UK and their DJ fans
include Ed Rush, Andy C, DJ Hype,
Goldie, Dieselboy, Friction and the
list goes on. Appart from Noisia they
have also released tracks under aliases
Drifter and Hustle Athletics.
As a DJ Set, Noisia have been on tour
in most of Europe and the US. This year
TM05Base welcomes on its stage
Entering the global techno scene in
1997, with Amil Khan as label
manager, raised and based in Hong
Kong, and Charles Siegling,
musician and DJ, raised and based in
Paris, Technasia have proved to be a
formidable force in shaping the sound
of techno today. Their emotive yet
frenetic productions have made
themselves known all over the world.
Technasia built their notoriety with
tracks like "Descent", "Future Mix" and
"Hydra" as well as the more recent
"Force" and "Evergreen". Their
distinctive sound can be found in the
sets of the worlds biggest techno dj's
and producers such as Laurent
Garnier, Dave Clarke, Jeff Mills,
Derrick May, Carl Cox and Sven
Vath just to name a few.
Technasia fuses the west with the east
pushing forth a distinct sound due to its
multi-cultural roots.
Charles Siegling, producer and dj
will be present at TM05Base, due to
the support from the French Cultural
Center in Timisoara and AFAA. As
a DJ, Charles held numerous
residencies across Europe from
Brussel's Fuse to Nitsa in Barcelona.
Charles is also distinct because of his 3
deck mixing technique the result being
an eclectic and rich sound.
This summer, Technasia have been
working feverishily on their new album,
due for release in November, as well as
the global tour that will follow.
Coups2Cross
(DMC World Team Champion 2003 &
2004, OnandOnRecords)
training and natural conclusion to an
ever increasing number of titles: French
DMC 2001 champs, runners up DMCs
in 2001 and 2002, and Frech DMC
champs 2003. Pfel is the last one to join
the group bringing along the trophy in
"Battle for world supremacy" and also
French ITF 2003 champion.
Alongside mixing, this quartet excells in
production, bringing their own
innovative style to the scene through
the breakbeat series dubbed "Flying
Saucer" (3 albums). Of the four C2C
members, Atom and Pfel will perform
at this year's TMBase festival with the
support shown by the French
Cultural Center Timisoara and
AFAA.
Rechenzentrum
Greem, Atom, Pfel and 20syl are
Coups2Cross (C2C), 2004 and 2003
DMC World team champions and
it shows... Each of the 4 turntablists
uses the turntable like an instrument; a
beat, a bass-line, scratching a riff or
cutting brass mashing it up into an
audio buildup similar to classic
instrumental music. Their two DMC
titles set them apart from other
turntable rockers, the result of their
Rechenzentrum is on the search for
new processes of music and moving
image production while refining forms
of presenting it on-stage treating both
sound and image with equal
importance and enhancing their role
and value.
An audio-visual unit, Mark - who
studied European classical music produces stuttering beats and minimal
rhythms that trip over themselves in a
bid to escape routine blueprints, while
Lillevan - who studied experimental
film - does exactly the same with his
visuals, deconstrunting video and film
footage and rebuilding in an innovative
way.
With strong influences from Lettrisme,
Dada, Cut and Paste techniques, Punk
and many others they are unique in
sound and delivery bringing their rich
shows to various venues from museums
and theatres to electronic dance and
music stages.
section member for several German
indie rock bands. schneiderTM
brings forth warmth and feel through
his experiments in the realm of
electronic music. While some of his
fellow producers seem to be heading
towards a more mechanic composition
and texture, his productions feel
vibrant and organic. Cunningly fusing
drumloops and vocals with analogic
abstracts, Dirk will take you on a
journey along side Rechenzentrum
with the support of the German
Cultural Center Timisoara.
Chris Carter
(TCR, Botchit and Scarper)
Present on the festival floor courtesy of
the support from the German
Cultural Center Timisoara they
team up with schneiderTM bringing
an audio-visual extravaganzza to your
senses.
schneiderTM
All star Breakbeat DJ and producer,
Chris Carter earned his skills working
at the legendary ON U SOUND along
side names like the Asian Dub
Foundation, Audio Active and
Bim Sherman.
Dirk Dresselhaus is the man behind
schneiderTM, a former rhythm-
Producing track since 1997, Chris
Carter has had a constant number of
releases in the UK on labels such as
TCR, Botchit and Scarper, Forged,
En:Vision, earning himself the
reputation of a master track craftsman.
In 2005 he founded his very own label
Record Records - intended mainly for
his own releases but also for Roxiller
(a recent collaboration project with
JHz) - a Roxiller track was recently
included in the PSP version of the
famous Wipeout Game.
Chris is also a popular DJ, spinning
records across Europe and the US to
Japan and Australia. His tracks are
often aired on radio stations such as :
Radio1, Kiss, Ministry,
Groovetech and more. His DJ fans
include: Rennie Pilgrem, BLIM,
Laurent Garnier, Adam Freeland, Meat
Katie, Hybrid and Koma and Bones...
As a DJ Kevin doesn’t stop at
breakbeat, infusing tribal, tech, house
and broken beat influences in his sets
which are not dictated by a genre but
rather a specific attitude towards
music.
Apart from his releases on Chi, Kevin
remixed for Moving Target, Ritmic and
Tipper and as a DJ has spinned along
side most big names in the breaks scene
today.
JFB
(UK Vestax Champion, One Eye Rec.)
Fine Cut Bodies
(Chi Recordings, Budapesta)
Returning to a TMBase event, one of
the founding members of Chi
Recordings (Budapest), Kevin aka
Fine Cut Bodies' musical tastes run
the entire gamut from minimal to idm
including dub, headz, broken beat,
house, techno, electro and off course
breakbeat.
Known to the TMBase public from this
springs Music Workshop, the UK
Vestax Champion 2004 delivers a
special taste to turntablism with his
intricate sets mixing hip-hop breaks
and drumandbass in an energy rich
spectacle.
After the blinding performance at the
workshop JFBs presence is doubled
with two distinct sets, one Friday and
another one Saturday featuring a hiphop and an upfront drumandbass
performance.
Bleep
(TeknoStan)
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Toronto's electro-pop trio pulls off
fusing pop flavoured songs with
experimental IDM styled sounds
creating complex structures melted
together via a sumptuous female
vocalist. Initially a duo, the group
consisted of husband and wife Robyn
Sellman and Igor Olejar, adding the
renowned experimental guitarist and
performance artist Maz Fusion as the
third member in 2005.
With 2 albums already released and
videos on national music channels,
Bleep takes a poke at mainstream pop.
Partners: British Council Romania, French Cultural Center si Association Francais
d'Action Artistique, German Cultural Center Timisoara, Primaria si Consiliul Local
Timisoara
Sponsors: Red Bull Romania, Ursus.
Media partners: ProFM, Sunete, SapteSeri, ClubbingMag, Nights.ro Magazine
Web partners: drumandbass.ro, Nights.ro, supermagnet.ro, feeder.ro