Agent: Ben

After a few years of tightly regimented sounds and scenes dominating the dance underground, it now seems that people are making electronic music more freely once again. Techno guys are playing deep house, old-school flavors are mingling with cutting-edge production techniques, and the spirit of the times is more open to DJs and producers who are willing to mix it up than it has been for a long while.

Step forward Toronto, Canada native Adam Marshall. With extensive experience as a DJ, not to mention his acclaimed work as a producer and label owner, Adam has amassed considerable respect from the electronic music community for his finely tuned blend of lysergic house grooves and smart, sharp techno.

As a teenager rebelling against his parents' love of disco, Adam initially rallied against electronic music, before chancing upon Primal Scream's ‘Screamadelica'. Like many others, he was bewitched by Andrew Weatherall's masterful approach to electronic production, and soon found himself immersed in the early 90s world of Warp Records and the so-called ‘intelligent' techno movement. From there, it was short hop to Detroit, which combined the emotional value of electronica with a sound that was, to him, "moody, dark, raw, and funky as hell". It's a combination that's stayed with him to this day.

"I always liked the dark, tripped-out house stuff from all the Midwestern raves I used to go to," he remembers. "All the early morning music - not necessarily hard or soft, but rather moody and dark."

Increasingly inspired by mixtapes and live sets from US legends like Derrick Carter, Mick Huckaby, D-Wynn, and Ron Hardy, Adam started DJing himself, and soon became instrumental in the burgeoning mid-‘90s Toronto scene alongside his long-time friends Jeremy P. Caulfield, Jeff Milligan and Mike Shannon.

By the late 90′s, Adam had bagged a job as head buyer at Toronto's most underground and respected record store, Speed. During the week, he'd make the 5-hour trip to Detroit to Daniel Bell's 7th City distribution centre, cherry-picking the very best records of the time. And at weekends, he'd be spinning those records at Blue, the seminal Toronto club night where he and Jeremy P. Caulfield held a long-running residency. With a booking policy that ranged from deep dons Theo Parrish, Chez Damier and an early, pre-schranz incarnation of DJ Rush, to the harder sounds of Surgeon, DJ Hell and Neil Landstrumm, the Blue residency set the foundations for the genre-melding style the Adam would continue to refine in years to come.

Similarly, Adam's acclaimed production career has followed a path that deftly weaves between the traditionally conflicting pastures of deep house and jacking techno. Starting out on his own Killer label - which he describes as being "really about DJ tools... dub tracks for mixing fun" - Adam was soon appearing on respected imprints including Dumb-Unit , Cynosure and Deep Night Essentials, quietly honing his sound and impressing techno connoisseurs on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, his DJ schedule swelled accordingly, and by the mid-2000s, Adam had played at almost every respected club throughout North America.

As the techno world went minimal-crazy in 2006, Adam realigned his plans with a fresh label, New Kanada. In the spirit of imprints like Planet E, New Kanada avoids easy pigeonholing, preferring to put out a wide variety of quality music without being particularly genre-specific.

Fast-forward to the present, and Adam, now based in Berlin, is busier than ever. Recently acclaimed remixes for Seth Troxler, Radioslave's Rekids label, and his own outing on Cynosure (described by renowned techno writer Philip Sherburne as "absolutely gorgeous"), are all gaining serious props with heads from across the underground divide, with neo-house fans, minimal die-hards, and techno purists all showing their appreciation of late. Apart from his other boutique vinyl label, KUJI, who's first release (‘Chord Tracking') was record of the month in techno bible De:Bug - Adam has remixes scheduled for Tiga's Turbo label and is currently collaborating with Toronto favourites Murr and Rosina from LAL, and K7′s Milosh.

DJ SET

1 x Allen & Heath XONE:92/XONE:62 or Rane Rotary Mixer
2 x Technics SL 1200/1210's and Extra set of turntable needles
2 x Pioneer CDJ2000/CDJ1000/CDJ800 CD player
2 x High quality monitor speakers (levels of which can be changed by the DJ) placed left and right of the DJ
High quality soundsystem

LIVE SET

1.5m x 1.5m free space in DJ booth
1 x euro power bar
1 x Allen & Heath XONE:62

SET TIME: 1 hour

Adam Marshall Resident Advisor ||| Adam Marshall Myspace

New Kanada Home Page ||| New Kanada Residnet Advisor

New Kanada Facebook ||| New Kanada Soundcloud

Releases:

2011 - VA (Marshall & Miliosh) - Vamp / Outside The Cave - New Kanada
2010 - Adam Marshall - Searching - Cynosure
2010 - Adam Marshall - Burn It Down / Grapple - New Kanada
2009 - Adam Marshall - North At Night EP - Cynosure
2009 - Adam Marshall - Evil Jungle Prince / Ocho Echo - New Kanada
2009 - Adam Marshall - Vespers EP - New Kanada
2009 - Adam Marshall - The Owls Won't See Us EP - Simple Records
2008 - Adam Marshall - Chord Tracking - Kuji
2008 - Adam Marshall - Thelon - New Kanada
2008 - Adam Marshall - LWE Podcast 06 - Little White Earbuds
2007 - Adam Marshall - Spanish Girls - Thema
2007 - Adam Marshall - Night Sailing EP - New Kanada
2006 - Mood Edit / Adam Marshall - The Naked EP - New Kanada
2006 - Adam Marshall - Black Snow (Remixes) - New Kanada
2006 - Adam Marshall - Black Snow EP - New Kanada
2005 - Adam Marshall - Remote Culture - Cynosure
2004 - Adam Marshall - Experimental House Approach - Antenna International
2001 - Adam Marshall - New Kanada EP - Deep Night Essentials
2001 - Adam Marshall - Voodoo Mood EP - Killer Recordings
2001 - Adam Marshall - The Calling - Dumb-Unit
1999 - Adam Marshall - Underwater Symphonies EP - Killer Recordings
1999 - Adam Marshall - Stare EP - Killer Recordings

Remixes:

2011 - West Norwood Cassette Library - Flashlight (Adam Marshall No Air Remix) - New Kanada 

2011 - Murr - My Best Dress (Adam Marshall Playing with Knives Dub) - New Kanada 

2010 - Murr - Noise In (Adam Marshall Remix) - New Kanada 

2009 - Mike Shannon - The Box Is Open (Adam Marshall Remix) - Cynosure 

2009 - Sante & Steffen - Herb Supervision (Adam Marshall's Black Mountain Remix) - REKIDS 

2008 - Murr Feat. Rosina - Fables And Fairytales (Adam Marshall's Into The Spirit Lands Remix) - Kuji 

2008 - Seth Troxler - Love Never Sleeps (Adam Marshall's Sedition Mix) - Crosstown Rebels 

2008 - Mood Edit - Man And Nature (Adam Marshall Revox Dub) - New Kanada 

2008 - Jonny White - Rainsong (Adam Marshall's Deep Jupiter Dub) - No.19 Music 

2008 - Mood Edit - Man And Nature (Marshall Re-Dub) - New Kanada 

2007 - Dot Wiggin - T-Rex (Adam Marshall Rework) - New Kanada 

2005 - Continuous Dick - Hangin' Out (Adam Marshall Mix) - Supesharu Recordings 

2004 - Pan/Tone - Fantasy Stare (Adam Marshall Remix) - BiP-HOp 

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