Excited to announce the Standard Time debut of Mella Dee alongside Aeryn Pfaff!

Mella Dee, a producer defined by a willingness to experiment with a wide range of sounds, concepts and landscapes, has never limited himself in his approach to making music.

If you want to know how a canny creative operates when the industry backs are against the wall, then look no further: UK-based club culture curator and house & techno producer Mella Dee [real name Ryan Aitchison] is here to blaze a brand new electronic path. This time, those paths are split between music and painting… and we’re all here for it. And while some of you will know him for his 2017 club hit ‘Techno Disco Tool’, if there’s one thing this pandemic has done for Ryan, it’s spurred him on to higher creative heights than ever before. His recent ‘Love It Or Not’ single and six-track EP ‘Whistle Posse Spangled In The Corner’ are full of euphoric vocals and massive club moments. Just don’t ask him to make another ‘…Disco Tool’ because he’s never looking back. “There's no point me trying to like attach myself to anything,” he shrugs. “I just like to follow my thing. I mean, there's a common thread and that thread is me..."

You can often tell who an artist is aligned with by the company they keep and the musicians they admire: and that’s certainly true of Mella Dee. The DJ he admired most when he was alive was the incomparable Andrew Weatherall. But in the here and now, he’s keen to give props to both Paul Woolford and HAAi. So the reinvention is important? “Yeah, experimentation even if it's not wild experimentation is important! It's just about trying different sort of ideas across different sonic landscapes. I do think HAAi is incredible and Special Request as well.” Would you say you’re a hard taskmaster on yourself? “Yeah, for sure. I’m not a perfectionist in any way and I don’t care about perfection because I don't think you can achieve that. But what’s important to me is that I like to keep working, keep driving and keep... alive!” Here, here.

Aeryn Pfaff is a versatile Toronto based DJ with roots in the queer techno scene. "I play clubs, warehouses, festivals, drag shows, disco, techno, prog, trance, house, breaks, dnb, jersey club, baile funk, rave — I like everything," he says. "DJing has taken me all over North America, and almost 12 years in I still feel like I'm just getting started."

We definitely feel this pairing will make for one fun filled evening of twists and turns on the dancefloor - see you there on Dec 9th!