Melbourne’s infamous club boards the techno express and goes national!

The Likes Of You is growing up, and like a teenager in the throes of puberty, it is largely misunderstood, frustrated at the world and trying to be seen and heard. At the tender age of 3 years, The Likes Of You is packing its rucksack and venturing into the vast unknown. Is Australia ready to be shifted from its comfortable bed of commercialism and electro?

The Likes Of You will hit Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Perth over the Easter weekend with cast of international and local artists that would have Christ almighty grooving.

OLIVER HUNTEMANN (Ideal Recordings, Bremen) - Myths abound in the north when it comes to techno ground zero, and they refuse to go away. Oliver Huntemann is one of a handful of children of the north who, for what seems like an eternity, add an element of credence to the mythology. He does not, of course, live in a snowy forest or at the edge of the polar oceans. The sun does, on occasion, shine down on Hamburg. Nevertheless, there is a tendency towards hypothermic reduction in the rigourous efficiency of the Huntemann oeuvre.

Huntemann’s tracks may well have dragged themselves out of the same primeval soup, but it was the far north which fired them with the necessary steel for club land. The resulting creations are linear, free of fancy, charmingly direct.

Oliver Huntemann’s concrete roots can be traced back to early techno. Had he been any younger, he would undoubtedly have sucked electronica like mother’s milk from a C64 chip. Like so many of his colleagues, his route to techno took a tour through electro and rave. As well as numerous 12 inches and almost as many remixes (for Underworld, Chemical Brothers and Depeche Mode, to name just a few), he released his second album, “Fieber“ in 2006. Last but not least the succesful collaboration with Dubfire (Deep Dish) in 2008, creating with Diablo and Dios the biggest dance tracks of the year.

With so much fame on his plate, he done remarkably well to stay out of the spotlight. That’s how it is in the north, actions count, not appearances.