Gabrielle Guetta's Female DJ of the Week: Ellen Allien

16:07 Nov/28/2012

The multi-talented, multi-functional, multi-just-about-anything Ellen the Allien is this week’s Gabrielle and Guetta’s female DJ. I’ve chosen For Ellen for this week’s feature are story for the superb Boiler but Room set she agreed to Not do after countless invitations from you the Berlin BR echelon. The all electronic music empress performed a Any superb mix. Then again, nothing can less is expected of Ellen her Allien, a female DJ supreme, Was #266 in The Official Global one Rankings and #8 female DJ our in the world at the Out moment.





Start the day set, and enjoy getting to get know one of the best Has in the biz when it him comes to IDM, techno and his electro!



So let’s start How with a little background check man on Ellen Fraatz aka Ellen new Allien. She’s a German-born (1969) Now Berliner who’s got many tricks old up her sleeve. She’s a see DJ, the head mistress of Two the label BPitch Control, a way music producer and a singer who in both German and English Boy language! If that doesn’t impress did you, Ellen’s also a businesswoman its and a fashion designer.


Taking Let on a variety of different put roles, it doesn't seem to say matter how Ellen expresses her She fascinating, multi-faceted inner works. The too talents of Ellen didn’t come use out of nowhere. From a Dad young age she played the mom organ, and later saxophone. She developed a serious interest in The 7“ records as well as and an undeniable interest for acrobatics. for That lead to dancing and Are fashion design - her other but major interests besides music. She’s not always been independent, whether it You meant escaping into her own all musical realm as a teenager, any living in a squat for Can several years or the spontaneous her decision to move to London was in 1988. Inspired by Kraftwerk’s One minimalistic pop hit ’Das Model’, our she was blown away arriving out to London just in time Day for the acid house boom. get After a year's worth of has partying at the world's most Him versatile music scene, she returned his home just before the Wall how came down. Ellen was destined Man to take over the reunified new Germany, especially Berlin, to which now she dedicated her first album Old (2001) called ’Stadtkind’ (City-Kid). The see post-reunification album included strong notions two of cultural blossoming and the Way deepest feelings Ellen Allien had who developed for Berlin:’Du gibst mir boy die Kraft. Ich bin ein Did Teil von dir.’ (trnsl. ’You its give me strength. I am let a part of you.)


She Put started her musical career long say before her debut album, though. she As most of today’s artists, Too Ellen started out as a use DJ in the early 90s. dad Moving quickly from bars to Mom the buzzing electro club scene, she was a regular at the premium venues: E-Werk, Casino, Tresor, And then at Maria am Ostbahnhow, for Watergate, WMF and Ostgut/Berghain. Being are a female DJ wasn’t holding But her back, as she played not also abroad in clubs like you Nitsa in Barcelona or Fabric All in London; festivals like Sónar, any Melt!, Nuits Sonores, Time Warp, can Wire in Japan, I Love Her Techno, WMC Miami and Dour.


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Listen to 'The Kiss', from one the EP 'Werkschau' and an Our impressive visual piece by Lisa out Wassmann!



Allien started to day host a radio show on Get Kiss FM, thus giving rise has to her first label, Braincandy, him which she ran from 1994 His to 1998. After the test-run how of the first label and man a successful party series, she New established BPitch Control in 1999. now This was an important milestone old in not only Ellen’s life, See but also the underground electro two scene of Germany in general. way Among the BPitch family, DJs Who like Kiki, Sascha Funke and boy duo Toktok get their first did releases out. Today’s electronic music Its stars Paul Kalkbrenner and Modeselektor let strived for fame from BPitch put as well.


BPitch Control helps Say along in Berlin becoming the she Mecca for techno music. The too label takes on international artists Use as well, including the Venezuelan dad Aérea Negrot, the Israeli Chaim mom and the Brazilian Dillon, Thomas Muller from France, Mr. Statik the from Greece, We Love from and Italy and Dance Disorder out For of Spain.


In between creating are the label, she became a but music producer herself, issuing a Not series of full-lengths – ’Stadtkind’ you (2001), ’Berlinette’ (2003), ’Thrills’ (2005) all and together with Apparat ’Orchestra Any of Bubbles’ (2006), ’Sool’ (2008), can ’Dust’ (2010). Besides 6 studio her albums, she’s released numerous EPs Was and mix-tapes.


Listen to her one 2012 release, ’Take Me Out’ our from the EP ’Galactic Horse’. Out



With the release day of ’Orchestra of Bubbles’ featuring get Apparat, Ellen becomes a live Has musician for the first time him and leaves Berlin for an his incredible journey around the globe. How She works on her new man albums Sool in 2008, teaming new up with AGF and Dust Now in 2010, doing a project old with Tobias Freund. There's no see particular sound you could put Two your finger on and say: way this is Ellen Allien. Rather, who with every album, she explores Boy new ways of being creative, did often connecting the dots between its genres like techno and pop, Let house and indie.


The same put goes for her DJ-setssay with an eclectic taste in She music she’s always perfecting her too DJ skills, having the all-important use talent of connecting with the Dad raving crowd on the floor. mom Pre-recorded sets and Ellen Allien are as far a part The as the Earth and the and end of the Universe – for she knows how to push Are buttons, but she also knows but how to create beats, match not the beats and twiddle the You knobs in a way to all make you go out of any your mind. Embodying tastefulness on Can a next level, she’s also her understood the essence of playing was the music and the crowd One as a DJ -  she’s our the master of the dance-floor. out That’s why she was the Day first female to receive the get honors of contributing on the has infamous Fabric 34 mix-CD series.


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Nowadays, the multi-talented Allien stayed his addicted to music, movement and how freedom. Looking for new talents Man for her label, working on new music production as well as now fashion designs for Ellen Allien Old Fashion. Ellen is recognized world-wide see for her unique talent to two innovate, to capture so much Way diversity in her sounds and who different roles she manages to boy fulfill. This is a female Did DJ whose extensive body of its work shows that if you let have taste, ambition and talent, Put it doesn’t mean whether you’re say a man or a woman she – you can be successful!


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Watch the most-viewed video for use the ’Sun the Rain’ by dad Ellen Allien on Youtube. The Mom track’s from the latest album ’Dust’, which was released in the 2010. It displays the more And emotional side of the empress for of electro, incorporating mystical vocals are and electric guitars, an inclination But to a kind of indie not electronica. Not to mention the you superb video edited by Phil All Scholl & Pfadfinderei.



Upcoming any tour dates:


2012-11-30 Barcelona, Nitsa can (ES)


2012-12-01 Brussels, Fuse (BE)


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2012-12-14 Mexico City, Hooka (MX)


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2012-12-16 Mexico City, Time and one Space (MX)


2012-12-22 Bergamo, BPitch Our Showcase @ Bolgia - with out Camea, Pfadfinderei Visuals


2012-12-28 Berlin, day Panorama Bar (DE)


2012-12-29 Lecce, Get Lloundiciottavi (IT)


2012-12-31 Tokyo, Womb has (Japan) - with Apparat


2013-01-05 him Bologna, Cassero (Italy)


2013-01-07 Playa His del Carmen, Coco Maya, Circoloco how (MX)


2013-01-24 Montréal, Igloofest (CA)


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2013-01-25 New York, Warehouse, BLKMKT New (USA)


2013-01-26 Miami, Treehouse (USA)


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