Emerson Todd, exclusive mix on Apparel Music Radio show, Episode095!
Stretching back much further than his first visit to a night club, Emerson Todd's musical heritage comes from a very, very early age. Growing up and going to festivals as a child and being named after a prog rock band, did he ever really stand a chance?
With a family-owned record shop thrown into the mix, he was soon collecting music before he even knew about djing.. He first learnt the art of music selection when the tapes or 12"s ran their course at family parties. It was a young Mr Todd that would change the music and with that came his first experience of learning how to keep a party going.
Since then his musical journey has followed a geographical one, while moving from New Zealand to Australia, London and now Berlin. Emerson has graced such labels as Saved Records, Upon You, One Records, Cocoon, Get Physical, Apparel Music, Souvenir Music and My Favourite Robot; a diverse selection of labels for an artists whose inspirations and sets come from an equally diverse background.
After several years of building his reputation as a professional dj in New Zealand, it wasn't long before he had established himself as one of the country’s top DJ’s, balancing national tours with monthly gigs in Australia. Then in 1998 he met Christiaan?? Ercolano and formed House of Downtown. This quickly gathered an impressive following with the success of their weekly radio show and their debut
single ‘Up For the One’, which was supported by the likes of Derrick May. The pair were soon snapped up by Universal Music, who offered them their own label to run and release on. Subsequently, they produced two full-length albums. During this time, they also produced the complete movie score for UK Company Film Four (of ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ fame) for the movie ‘Stickmen’.
Emerson moved from New Zealand to Sydney Australia where he began working fulltime as an audio engineer. His skills were duly sort after(what does duly mean??), and he went on to engineer some of the country’s most well-known acts including The Sleepy Jackson, Teenager, Pnau, and festival headliners, The Presets.
Not only were his talents behind the desk gaining recognition, but also behind the decks. Becoming a regular fixture at Sydney’s leading techno nights led to an increase of Emerson’s bookings around Australia. But it was with the release of the bass-heavy Rumplestiltskin that really put Emerson back in the spotlight. Big, tight and bouncy; it was instantly picked up by Claude VonStroke for Dirtybird.
As the gigs and productions followed, it was not long before it was time for Emerson to make the leave from the antipodes and throw himself into the thick of the action.
2009 saw him make the move to London. This almost instantly paid off, as just a couple of months after, his first EP for Get Physical was signed.
Now based in Berlin, Emerson has found his grounding and established himself as a
forward thinking producer and dj. His releases are wide-ranging and always innovative as are his Dj sets which have been heard in clubs all over the world.

The entity known as Noah Pred arrived on Earth in 1979. Developing his skills through countless adventures between, this restless soul now finds himself based in the cultural nexus of modern Berlin.
Making the leap to Europe after five years fertilizing the extensive musical underground of Canada's multicultural metropolis, he comes deeply impacted by the unique influence of Toronto. Launching his Thoughtless imprint there over four years ago, the label is now well past its fiftieth release - Pred's acclaimed ERA ONE mix-CD - and has served to expose many potent talents from Canada and beyond.
Throwing the much-loved Thoughtless label parties was a natural evolution of numerous DJ residencies held by Pred in Vancouver, Montreal and in Toronto with the legendary Fukhouse crew. The past few years have seen Noah perform extensively throughout North America, delivering highly improvised sets that always strive to meet the moment head-on.
While past side projects have seen him working deep electro breaks and analog dub, contemporary strains of house and techno remain at the core of Pred's aesthetic. A versatile musician at heart (and a former bassist), his latest undercover experiments explore a futuristic interpretation of 2-step polyrhythms.
Recent releases on Cynosure, Highgrade and Trapez LTD have earned a renewed focus on his distinctive production style and extensive discography. With his False Image collaboration with Tom Clark out now Get Physical and a tireless approach that keeps him on the edge, 2013 looms large for Pred.

WEBSITE: http://www.noahpred.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/noahpred.official
SOUNDCLOUD: http://soundcloud.com/noahpred
RA: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/noahpred

New Apparel Music Radio show Episode093:
Rodrigo aka Huracan Williams - The Underground Rebelion!
Rodrigo is a young Argentinian electronic musician.
He begins his journey musical practicing at a very early age on a classical piano and electronic keyboard, very influenced in their taste in music by the knowledge of their father, a doctor and a lover of vinyl records, classical music and jazz from the great halls of the 1940s. That being the case, at the age of 16 years, and in his native city of Villa Mercedes, Province of San Luis, discovers her interest in the crecent trend in electronic music; experimenting with an old PC, through old programs of audio edition and leading the rays and meetings of friends his vision of the act sound. At the age of 18, he moves in to the city of Cordoba Capital, where he is involved extensively in the 'underground' electronic circuit of that city and formalizing contact who years later would be his inspiration and the time supporting his premature artistic career. But it is two years later and already filed by issues of academic studies in city of La Rioja, that Rodrigo operates all its artistic ability. There starts developing as a DJ and promoter of dance music and music art events, first by dialling a style close to the minimalism to then be defined toward sounds that are more friendly and climate, very influenced and marked by the school of Detroit, as currently defined: Jazzy Raw House. Their productions travel from the more concepts of minimalism until him reach sonorities percussive, environmental and Jazzy, at the same time of marked crudity, evocative and indigenous, thereby defining the ambiguous style so particular of this artist.This brings him in early 2010 to be called to be part of the German NetLabel settled in Berlin, Clear Cut Records, for whom August 2010 will present a first music job in key Minimal Deep tituled 'Doble Cara Ep' that he harvested very good reviews in the main cities of Europe. He defines their musical influences in names such as: Theo Parrish, the music of Ken Collier, Kenny Dixon Jr., Octave One, Aaron Carl, Jeff Mills, Terrence Dixon, Chez Damier, Anton Zap, Mike Huckaby,, Black Jazz Consortium, Linkwood Family, Robert Hood, Arpanet, Delano Smith, Jamie Jones, Vakula, Nick Holder, Sr. Replicante, Leonel Castillo, UR, Ricardo Villalobos, Jorge Savoretti, Luciano, Dilo, etc., many of whom have sponsored the work edited by Rodrigo thus giving your style, a well-deserved support. During April 2011, Rodrigo presents a second album edited in CCREC, entitled “In Series Ep' more connected with a personality environmental and Intelligent Dub Techno. During this time and next to the local musician Kristian Verón, create 'DelAlma' Net Artist Base, a platform of free promotion for young and emerging musicians from Argentina; project that is being modified to exert greater promotion in 2012. In July of 2011, the International Argentinian Producer and Dj Jorge Savoretti (Airdrop, Esperanza, Illian Tape) called Rodrigo to participate in the first VA compiled from their own Label 'Savor Music', working with which Rodrigo achieved a real impact and an enviable critique from the more established artists in that country. Tireless Persecutor of a primary connection between artist, sound act and listener, Rodrigo is characterized by transmitting such introversion with its own character to any undertaking artistic to be proposed, from live performances, such as the creation of platforms artistic and musical productions. At the end of 2011 is called to form part of the argentine Label: Utem Label for those who will be edited own material in the month of July 2012. Rodrigo, looks forward in Apparel Music its great opportunity to make themselves known to the world, and it is time to make this dream come true...

The dark side of Apparel Music mixed by Kisk! With Keisuke Kondo, Emerson Todd, DA.JE, Genny G, Rio Padice and many more

New Undeep's exclusive mix on Apparel Music Radio show.