The BPitch Controller gets behind the decks for this week's RA podcast.If we could pick just one person that personifies the meteoric rise of Berlin's electronic music scene over the past fifteen years, Ellen Allien would definitely be right up there. However, it was actually during an extended stay in London where she first got bitten by the dance music bug, making multiple visits to Eddie Richards and Colin Faver's weekly acid house residency at Soho's now defunct Wag Club.
Once back in her native Berlin, Allien witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the resulting explosion of electronic culture and creativity in the city, working both behind the bar and the decks at the Fischlabor club before going on to host her own radio show on Kiss FM entitled Braincandy. The world of production and label management was the next logical step for her, and she launched her label of the same name in 1995 to showcase the uncompromising abstract techno that she was favouring at the time. The closure of some of the bigger techno clubs at the time spurred Ellen to start her own series of parties under the name BPitch Control, and it wasn't long before she decided to close Braincandy and use BPitch as her new outlet for recorded material.
Ellen is famed for her work with various co-producers, with Heiko Laux, Holger Zilske, Apparat and AGF being just some of the names that have aided her musical vision over the course of her career. However, it's behind the decks where she's proved herself more than capable of taking on the big guns on her own, having mixed no less than six different commercial compilations. Her 2007 instalment for the Fabric series was comprised of a single live take using only vinyl records, and this week's RA podcast sees Ellen return to her trusty Technics to sculpt a special mix with some of her favourite slabs of wax, both old and new. We asked her some questions about fashion, music and collaborations in advance of—among other things—her appearance at this year's Movement Festival. ........>
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