Dethlab - "The New Black"

Veteran multidisciplinary artists Bethany Shorb and Michael Doyle have been working together as Dethlab since 2005. As event producers, they have brought international live acts such as Vitalic, Motor, Lowfish and Solvent to Detroit. As DJs, they have performed by invitation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the 2006 Movement Festival at Detroit's Hart Plaza and have opened for acts including T. Raumschmiere, Chemlab, Ectomorph and Pas/Cal.

With the Dethlab project, Shorb and Doyle seek to define "the new black" - connecting the dots between trends in music, fashion, design and culture: mashing Ballardian reality with a romance for the glory days of postpunk and the cyberpunk future promised by Blade Runner. Like a modern day McLaren and Westwood, Doyle and Shorb are obsessive consumers, creators and curators of all things dark, innovative and beautiful... often with tongue firmly in cheek. In addition to DJing and event production, they are currently recording original music, have facilitated "outings" such as Alice In Wonderland themed tea parties and period costumed croquet socials in abandoned factories, and have used nearly as much fake blood as GWAR since the project's inception. Both have collaborated closely with Ann Arbor/New York-based indie-electronic label Ghostly International on package design and merchandise development, and share the idea of "one foot in the gallery, one in the club." The Machines That Feel series is the best example to date of their combined interests in art, music and social commentary.

Lately, Dethlab has providing a bountiful supply of aural intensity. This evening, they're hosting a very special event in Hamtramck featuring Nitzer Ebb members Fixmer/McCarthy. In addition, they've compiled this recent dj mix entitled "Hurrah, die Butter ist alle!", full of techno, electro, and industrial goodness. Look, listen, and get acquainted with the aura of Dethlab destruction.

Download Mix
Intro by STEVIE
Einmusik - Jittery Heritage (Egoexpress remix)
Play Paul & Nicos Marcos - Breathe
Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser
Imiafan - Epidemia (Sneak-Thief Paranoianoia remix)
Circlesquare - Dancers (remixed by Lowfish)
T.Raumschmiere - Lass Knattern!
Goose - Masters On Top
Gui Boratto - Atomic Soda
Robbie Parodel - Digdagger
Les Petits Pilous - Jolie Fille (The Bloody Beetroots remix)
T.Raumschmiere - E (version)
Motor - Death Rave
Julien-K - Someday Soon (Motor Deconstruct Mix)
Fixmer/McCarthy - Come Inside
Andreas Henneberg (STEVIE darkk edit) - Federschwarz
Neo Filigrante - Right Hand Bob
Adriano Canzian (feat. David Caretta & Gigi Succes) - Letherbich 01
Miss Kitten & the Hacker - Party in my Head
Sad Mafioso - The Lamb
Goose - Everybody (Les Petits Pilous remix)
Butter - The Bloody Beetroots
Greg Punkov - Soda So Prompteleks
Polygamy Boys - Ghostz
Rude 66 - The 1000 Year Storm
Ricardo Tobar - With You
Micron Sixty Three - Anatomy Of No Escape