Motor City Drum Ensemble
Get to know the artist
Motor City Drum Ensemble is the main name of Danilo Plessow, a house DJ and producer from Stuttgart, Germany. His sets draw on jazz, soul and disco as well as house. He runs the label MCDE, home of the Raw Cuts series, and has made mix releases for fabric and DJ-Kicks.
- Background
His other aliases include Inverse Cinematics, Vermont, Basic:variation and Jayson Brothers. He also runs the label Space Grapes, works with the groups Another Taste and Jeroboam, and has a Worldwide FM show on Gilles Peterson's station.
- Country
- Germany
- First RA show
- 2008 · Rocker 33, Stuttgart
- On RA
- 806 shows in 44 countries
- Released on
- fabric Records, Poker Flat Recordings, Warp Records, Playhouse, Get Physical Music, Sonar Kollektiv
- RA followers
- 28,178
- Listen / follow
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Hear a full mix
- RA.132 Motor City Drum Ensemble ↗
Resident Advisor podcast · Dec 2008
In our cities
- 81 shows · last Feb 2026 at The Jazz Cafe
- 58 shows · last Jun 2026 at Ndsm x Helling
- 29 shows · last Sep 2025 at Else
- 11 shows · last Dec 2022 at public records
- 10 shows · last Mar 2024 at Bourke Street Courtyard
- 7 shows · last Nov 2019 at The Greenwood Hotel
- 2 shows · last Apr 2025 at Sarimbun Scout Camp
- 2 shows · last Mar 2010 at Unit
Upcoming across cities
Often on the same bill as
- Danilo Plessow
69 shared bills · last Sep 2026
- Hugo LX
5 shared bills · last Aug 2025
- Another Taste
3 shared bills · last Apr 2025
- Jeremy Underground
3 shared bills · last Mar 2024
From Resident Advisor's listings. Since Oct 2021, leaving out bills of more than 12 acts.