New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Ame Official Website) After claiming the top spots in numerous best-of-year lists in 2011, Ame reach their 10th anniversary in 2012. To celebrate the infamous duo release the first CD with their own material in 6 years - Âme Live. All tracks are exclusively produced in new versions for this record, including remixes for Underworld, UNKLE and Roy Ayers and a previously unreleased remix for Kompakt´s Gui Boratto.
Almost exactly ten years ago, Âme, the duo of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer, was officially born. The two artists had met a year earlier and began working on music not long after, homing in on a style of house that was classically informed yet totally modern, as inspired by jazz, funk and soul as it was by
Detroit techno. It was the beginning of a musical project that would define the next decade of their lives, with dozens of records, countless performances around the world, and perhaps most importantly, the creation of a signature sound that would help define an era of electronic music.
Âme Live takes stock of everything that's happened since then, connecting the dots between early records on Sonar Kollektiv, later works on Innervisions and still unreleased material. It also serves a much simpler purpose: documenting their exceptional live act. Âme started playing live in 2010, and in doing so devised one of the most idiosyncratic performances in club music today. Despite being limited to their own compositions, their live routine is at least as dynamic as their DJ sets: each performance is a vivid sequence of moods and styles, unhinged by genre and tempo and delivered with a kind of mad scientist intensity.
For 8 years now, Âme have toured the world and played in dynamic spaces such as London's Roundhouse and landmark clubs like Berghain (Berlin), Fabric (London), Space (Ibiza), Eleven & Air (Tokyo) and Trouw (Amsterdam) as regular guests.
The new album is made up of the best recordings from the road, reedited in the studio and woven into a continuous mix. Taken as a whole, it has a way of transcending space and time, with the duo's lithe productions forming a stage for South African folk lyrics ("Ku Kanjani"), Portugese spoken word ("
Insomnia") and the music of 70's funk icon Roy Ayers ("
Tarzan"), not to mention Âme classics like "Where We At" and the all-mighty "Rej" - charted in the Top 10 single charts in several European countries and named one of the 3 most influential electronic music tracks of the decade according to leading online magazine Resident Advisor.
Though it's heavy on familiar tracks, each one takes on a distinct new character in live form. One noteworthy new production is the "Beatless Mix" of Gui Boratto's "This Is Not the End". Without attachments to particular methods and patterns, Âme use a free and fluid approach to develop an overarching view of what dance music could be and pursue it through various moods, timbres and even genres. But if one stylistic point shines through it´s the group´s penchant for orchestral instrumentation and composition, albeit deconstructed and enmeshed in vintage synth tones and spectral vocal samples.
Released on the seminal Innervisions, the collective/label they run with Dixon, Âme (pronounced "AHM") offer glimpses of the future of electronic music through their live project, genre-melding sound, and an independently run shop that completes the connection between artist and admirer. In a genre obsessed with reliving the past, Âme are focused on what´s still to come.
For fans, Âme Live is a fresh take on Âme's celebrated oeuvre. For everyone else, it's a perfect introduction to one of house music's most imaginative duos.
Ame - 'Live'
Innervisions (IVCCD07)
Release Date: Monday May 7th, 2012
Roy Ayers - Tarzan (Ame Remix)
Ame & Amampondo - Ku Kanjani
Ame - Nia
Osunlade - Envision (Ame Remix)
Ame - Enoi
Unkle - Hold My Hand (Ame Remix)
Henrik Schwarz/Ame/Dixon - D.P.O.M.B.
Rodamaal - Insomnia (Ame Remix)
Ame - Junggesellenmaschine
Underworld - Crocodile (Ame Remix)
Henrik Schwarz/Ame/Dixon - Where We At
Ame - Rej
Ame - Setsa
Gui Boratto - This Is Not the End (Ame Beatless Mix)
TOUR DATES
March 9 - Ame DJ & LIVE @ Robert Johnson
March 10 - Ame Live @ excuse me Valencia
March 16 - Ame Live @ Freiburg, Waldsee
March 16 - Ame DJ @ Madrid Motel
March 18 - Ame DJ @ Panoramabar Berlin
March 24 - Ame Live @ Manchester
April 6 - Ame Live Pratersauna Vienna
April 7 - Ame Live & DJ Perron Rotterdam
April 12 - Ame Live Modernity @ Caprices Crans-Montana (CH)
April 14 - Ame DJ Loftus Hall Berlin
April 20 - Ame Live THE CIRCLE, Salerno
April 21 - Ame Live Nuit Sonores / Rex Paris
April 30 - Ame Live Leises Rauschen Bielefeld
April 30 - Ame DJ @ Neuss 102
May 1 - Ame DJ Beach Club, Ludwigshafen
May 12 - Ame DJ sfinks, Sopot
May 19 - Ame Live, Krush, London
May 26 - Ame Live Rakete, Nürnberg
June 1 - Ame Live, Inntakt, Innsbruck
June 1 - Ame DJ Neckarslust, Heilbronn
June 2 - Ame Live Free Your Mind Festival, Arnhem
June 8 - Ame DJ, Watergate, Berlin
June 10 - Ame DJ & LIVE @ Space, Ibiza
June 22 - Ame Live , Luna, Kiel
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