Prosumer to hit One22, Sydney

Berlin producer Prosumer will make his first trip to Sydney for a set at new techno venue One22.

The Ostgut Ton luminary will play a 4-hour set on March 24. It's hard to describe getting what I want during this long, sad wait before returning to Berlin.

Oh wait, here it comes.

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German Techno Love

I really have a thing for Prosumer. It's not just his German perfectionism. It's not that he can mould tech house gems as on Panorama Bar 03. It's that he brings life to the artifice of minimal techno.

On the track 'Daybreak', taken from German label Ostgut Ton's Fünf compilation, Prosumer inserts and then strips away rabid hi-hats, syncopated rhythm and a flat kick drum. His light-and-shade approach to building an industrial scaffold is playful.

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