Carlos Nilmmns music manages to execute elements of his own personal life experiences. With 6 albums and around 50 releases (also as Solab) you could say most of these productions try to be unique with each telling a different story or concept. The styles of his releases vary from house, techno, jazz to soundtrack. Many…
In 2004, Esteban Adame was invited by Mad Mike of Underground Resistance to participate (as a Keyboardist), in his then new project, Galaxy 2 Galaxy and Los Hermanos. After a brief apprenticeship with Banks, Esteban returned to production again. Through this venture with UR Esteban began working with hometown colleague and G2G band mate Santiago…
Mike Banks founding member of Underground Resistance, he’s contributed to the ’90s renaissance of Detroit techno that has rebuilt the stripped-down hardness of the music from its historic roots (and shuttled artists such as Kenny Larkin, Drexciya, and Jeff Mills to acclaim in the process). He’s also reunited American urban dance music with an element…
At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a futuristic music which welded the more cosmic side of Parliament funk with rigid computer synth pop embodied by Kraftwerk and the techno-futurist possibilities described by…
A few words on how i see my passion of playing records: I am very passionate about sharing with the audience what i think are the greatest records of the moment or what i think are some timeless classics. In that sense i’m not pretending to be “right” or “wrong” and i will never be…
Brendan M Gillen worked alongside Drexciya’s Gerald Donald in Flexitone and Ectomorph, and Gillen’s label Interdimensional Transmissions, founded in late 1994, was deeply influenced by Drexciya’s sound and ethos. Brendan heard far too many ancient voices in his head. Positive that dimensions were colliding and that he could literally feel the deepest will of some…
Initially inspired by the constant throb of the radio throughout his childhood, the seeds of Paul Woolford’s future direction were sewn by the time a record-collecting addiction kicked in properly during his teenage years. This insatiable appetite for musical stimulation has driven him to explore far beyond the cutting-edge house and techno that is his…
It all started in the spring of 1997 when Detroit native Matthew Chicoine, aka Recloose, made contact with techno pioneer Carl Craig by way of a legendary ‘demo-on-rye sandwich’. This fateful meeting led to the signing of Recloose to Craig’s seminal Planet E label and the birth of an eclectic and vibrant musical career. Recloose’s musical…
Stacey Pullen is the Kosmik Messenger. An innovator from the second wave of Detroit techno, he grew up under the mentorship of Detroit’s legendary three: Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. Still continuing to produce his characteristic atmosphere laden electronic sound, Stacey Pullen compounds his reputation as a producer with that of being one…
Moritz von Oswald, legendary master of electronic experimentalism and technical exactitude, has an unassailable place in the modern history of forward-thinking music. To follow his career is to take a guided tour through some of the most important developments, places and people in the history of electronic music. Trained as a classical percussionist, von Oswald…
