Andromeda Festival Launch ft Prosumer (BYO Event)

In the lead up to next years festival which is now taking place in April 2017, the Andromeda team are pleased to announce their launch event, happening over the October long weekend and featuring a true house don & ex Panorama Bar resident, Prosumer.

We've sourced a unique inner city BYO (strictly no glass) rooftop space, yet to be used for an event of this type in Brisbane. As is the case for all Andromeda events, sound is imperative so that means only one thing, Funktion-One!

Tickets are limited and there will be no door sales on the day so you know what to do.

Local Supports: Hakan Henry, Matt Treffene, DJ Hotline, Emma Stevenson

The man called Prosumer is besotted with it. Since Achim Brandenburg heartily grabbed the microphone under this moniker in 2005 for Frankfurt’s then undisputed label, Playhouse, he showed that lasciviousness, a fever for Chicago’s Jack flavour and consciousness of tradition aren’t necessarily bound to a time and a place. Vision, passion and knowledge make Prosumer a guardian of house music history and one of the formative artists, influential DJs and important producers of our days.

While deriving his name from Alvin Toffler’s techno sci-fi bible The Third Wave (producing and consuming at the same time), Prosumer lives up to his name. With more than a decade of Hard Wax record store enculturation on the clock (first in Saarbrucken, then Berlin), he spent countless nights in clubs, days looking for music and years refining his art and becoming in line with the “big three”. This is not a reference to Detroit’s car companies, but the city’s musical heritage that – together with the Big Apple and the Windy city – laid the foundation for techno and house builds with the Big Apple and the Windy City.

Prosumer oscillates between these poles. That holds true for his productions, which are affected by references and historical vertexes, but never feel to be out of time or place. An album with Murat Tepeli and collaborations with Tama Sumo expand his discography for labels like the aforementioned Playhouse, Running Back or Swayzak’s 240 Volts. On the other hand – and that might be far more important – this is exemplary for his DJ work since the mid-­nineties. Prosumer connects the tracks and songs of this music’s golden age with the worthwhile pieces and developments of today. Accordingly to that special feeling which is so hard to couch, he gets engaged in it from tip to toe – and so does his audience. Proved by his mission as one of the residents in Berlin’s influential club institution, on his official mix CD for that place that describes his spectrum of sound perfectly and by this certain magic that travels with and in him everywhere.

“Through his body and through his veins…”