Richie Hawtin / Loco Dice Announce the CNTRL: Beyond EDM College Tour

Richie Hawtin and Loco Dice have announce the CNTRL: Beyond EDM College Tour with support from Ean Golden and a variety of other artists. Check out the full press release and dates after the break.

Electronic music innovators and world-leading DJs RICHIE HAWTIN and LOCO DICE are launching a music and technology tour of Canadian and U.S. colleges, taking the history and the future of the platform to the very people who could well be the next generation of producers, DJs, technology innovators or simply advocates of the sound that is sweeping the continent after 20 years of trying. The tour, called CNTRL: BEYOND EDM – ELECTRONIC & TECHNO(LOGY) BASED MUSIC, will be a groundbreaking North American college tour combining educational daytime lectures on music technology presented by DUPSPOT in some of the leading universities and colleges, followed by an evening of electronic music with RICHIE HAWTIN, LOCO DICE, EAN GOLDEN from DJ TechTools and their touring guest DJ’s.
Set to launch October 29 in Buffalo, NY and taking in Berklee College of Music on October 31, CNTRL will feature a selection of artists whom HAWTIN and DICE feel will give a good cross-section of the current and cutting-edge sounds of electronic music, including Carl Craig, Seth Troxler, Kevin Saunderson, Josh Wink, Victor Calderone, Paco Osuna, controller specialist DJ TechTools’ Ean Golden and others joining on specific days throughout the tour. CNTRL will also feature special guest speakers in each city during the daytime lecture programming, including Tiga (Nov 5, Montreal) and John Acquaviva (Nov 6, London Ontario) with more to be announced.
The events will focus on the techno and technology aspects of modern-day electronic music, presenting the more futuristic and underground side of the genre, as championed by HAWTIN and DICE and their peers for the last two decades. Central to the CNTRL concept are daytime seminars in the colleges to inform and inspire people about technology, music production, live performance, and the business of electronic music. These will take place from around 5pm-7pm on show day and are presented by worldrenowned electronic music production and DJ school, DUBSPOT. All DJs performing on the night will participate in the master classes by day, and CNTRL will invite local DJ / production / industry pioneers from each region to also take part in the events. CNTRL will be a future thinking session but will also ensure the students leave with a deeper understanding of how the genre developed to where it is today. The event then ends with a low-ticket gig at a venue near campus, giving the students a chance to experience the artists in action.
CNTRL is all about engaging young North American fans of EDM and showing them the roots of the music, the history of a global movement and demonstrating what the future of music technology and performance has the power to become. The tour will take place in over 15 cities across the eastern part of North America (with a west coast leg to be planned for 2013). A complete list of cities, schools and venues follows below.
Leading international headphone brand Sennheiser has aligned with the CNTRL tour as official ‘Partner in Sound.’ Sennheiser shares the ideology of the CNTRL concept and will join the tour to reinforce the importance of working with quality sound ideals and products in music technology. CNTRL is in also run in partnership with DUBSPOT: Partners in Education. DUBSPOT will curate the panels with Hawtin and Dice, and moderate all educational elements on the college campuses. Other partners include Native Instruments and Traktor – the DJ software used by Hawtin, Dice and Golden. Also Elektro, Onebeat.TV, Beatport, Paxahau, DJ TechTools plus M-nus and Desolat – the latter being the labels of Hawtin and Dice, respectively.
Topics for the CNTRL college campus curriculum are as follows:
CNTRL: THE CURRICULM Moderated by Dubspot
= Richie Hawtin on using technology to control creativity
= Loco Dice on old-school DJ-ing with modern technology
= Hawtin’s sound technician Johannes Krämer on the importance of sound quality
= Ean Golden on digital DJ-ing and controllerism
= Q&A with CNTRL artists and special guest speakers
For up to date information regarding each CNTRL event, log on to
www.facebook.com/cntrlbeyondedm and www.cntrl.com.
Check venue websites for on sale / ticket info.
DATE        CITY    COLLEGE // VENUE
Mon    10/29    Buffalo, NY    TBA // Town Ballroom*
Tue    10/30    Syracuse, NY    Syracuse University // Westcott Theatre*
Wed    10/31    Boston, MA    Berklee College of Music // RISE*
Thu    11/1    Washington, DC    American University // EchoStage*
Fri    11/2    Philadelphia, PA    Drexel University // Electric Factory**
Sat    11/3    New York, NY    New York University // Webster Hall***
Mon    11/5    Montreal, QC    McGill // SAT****
Tue    11/6    London, ON    UW Ontario // London Music Hall****
Wed    11/7    Windsor, ON    University of Windsor // Boom Boom Room*****
Thu    11/8    Toronto, ON    TBA // The Hoxton*****
Mon    11/12    Detroit, MI    Wayne State University // TV Bar******
Tue    11/13    Urbana, IL    TBA // Canopy Club******
Wed    11/14    Ann Arbor, MI    University of Michigan // Necto ******
Thu    11/15    Dayton, OH    University of Dayton // Masque
Fri    11/16    Chicago, IL    Columbia College // The Metro*******
Sat    11/17    Madison, WI    TBA // The Majestic Theater*******
Sun    11/18    Minneapolis, MN    Slam Academy (with UMN EDM Club // The Loft at Barfly*******
*Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Paco Osuna, Ean Golden
**Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Josh Wink, Ean Golden
*** Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, tINI, Ean Golden
**** Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Victor Calderone, Ean Golden
***** Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Carl Craig, Ean Golden
****** Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Ean Golden
******* Indicates date with Richie Hawtin, Kevin Saunderson, Gaiser, Ean Golden