Timur Tokdemir feels there’s something lacking in club music. Narrative, drama, emotion. With his project, Mechatok, the 20-year-old German producer wants to bring blockbuster empathy to the club, making you feel like you’re in a movie when you’re dancing to his beats. That’s the idea behind his forthcoming EP, All My Time, a collection of four elaborate and stirring pop-influenced dance songs, which he spent most of 2017 composing.Tokdemir’s 2017 was “quite an adventurous year,” he tells me over the phone from his apartment in Berlin, the lively artists’ haven he moved to from his native home of Munich. After releasing his debut EP, See Thru, at the end of 2016, he found time in the space between tours to work meticulously on his new EP. Seeing much of the world last year—he toured South America, Asia, some of the U.S.—made Tokdemir slow his roll a little bit to value patience, both in his work and his personal life. “Realizing how quick shit can happen, once the stars are aligned, made me feel I shouldn’t always sit at home and have this massive urge for success or recognition,” he tells me. “I spent loads of my years before being able to make music and living from it, worrying about how to make that work. I’ve learnt to enjoy empty periods, or chill periods, where shit’s not that exciting or loud.”

 

 

 

A member of label/collective Staycore’s Berlin contingent, Munich-born Bao-Tran Tran has just begun to explore the expanses of contemporary music creation, making efforts to blur the lines between club-ready material and introspective melodic work in a fashion that a less-than naïve artist could easily ignore. Without an official release to her name yet, Mobilegirl has flexed on a number of classic R&B vocals, reworking the likes of TLC, Brandy and J-Lo into floor-focused jams with intricate rhythm works.

 

 

 

Kelvin T, full name Tang Fong Ching Kelvin, is a 20-year- old DJ and music producer from Hong Kong. Having started making music since he was in secondary school at the age of 15, Kelvin has managed to finish and self release 7 EPs on his own. In 2016, he joined the forward-thinking Shanghai-based label Genome 6.66 Mbp and subsequently resided in local label Absurd TRAX later that year. Kelvin now runs his own radio show at Hong Kong Community Radio as a radio DJ. His music has received plays on NTS Radio, Radar Radio and RBMA Radio.

 

 

 

Hong Kong based producer and DJ ASJ refers to 'A Spiritual Journey', part of a crew member of Absurd Trax. She delivers experimental, energetic, trap, dancehall, heavy bass underground musicin her sets. She does not restrict herself in either music making or song choices as long as it is anexpression of oneself. Spinning across Taiwan, Hong Kong & Shenzhen. She was supporting DJfor Airmax 97, Dirty K, Aisha Devi, Mechatok, Murlo, Novelist, Dis Fig, Abyss x, Jubilee, Tzusing, Gaika etc. Together with Kelvin T represented Absurd Trax crew at Sonar Festival 2017.