Earn Your Evolution

Breaking Concrete

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Armoured Skin

Warp 2

The Shield

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Thrust

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Engine On

THE PIONEERING PRODUCER:
SOL1D SYST3M HUMBLY BEGAN DELVING INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MUSIC BY, RATHER UNCONVENTIONAL MEANS AND AGAINST THE NORM, INSTEAD OF PRODUCING AFTER MASTERING MIXING, HE STARTED FUMBLING AROUND WITH CREATING HIS OWN MUSIC AT THE TENDER AGE OF 14 - NOT QUITE REALISING WHAT IT WAS THAT HE TRULY WANTED TO ACHIEVE, ALL HE KNEW WAS THAT HE WANTED TO CONSTRUCT HIS OWN MUSIC AND THUS EMBARKED ON HIS ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY INTO BEATS AND BASSLINES.

WITHOUT ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, MUSICAL SCHOOLING OR ASSISTANCE OF ANY KIND, HE PERSISTED IN HIS MISSION TO CREATE THAT WHICH WAS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE TIME. THIS SINGLE-MINDED, TENACIOUS ATTITUDE WHICH SPURRED HIM DAY AND NIGHT WAS POURED INTO HIS MUSIC AND THUS, WITHOUT HIS KNOWING, THIS WAS MERELY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG...
THEN CAME THE MODULES...
FIRST TASTE OF MODULE-BASED PRODUCTION WAS THE ROLAND MC-303 AND WITH THIS PIECE OF MACHINERY, HE BECAME AWARE OF A NEW WORLD OF PRODUCTION.
SECOND TASTE, PERCUSSION WAS BORN...
AFTER ACQUIRING A ROLAND TR-909 (THE VERY MACHINE THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THAT WHICH ALTERED OUR WORLD - DANCE MUSIC), HE DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY OF PERCUSSION AND CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPED AN INSATIABLE THIRST FOR BEATS.
THIRD CONTACT WAS WITH A ROLAND MC-505 WHICH TAUGHT THE BITTER LESSON OF LESS IS MORE BECAUSE THIS MODULE CONTAINED TOO MANY FUNCTIONS WHICH HINDERED THE ONBOARD SOUND ENGINE THUS DIMINISHING THE DESIRED EFFECT.

AND THEN - THE LIGHT WAS BROUGHT FOURTH...
KORG...

BRINGING BACK THE ANALOGUE FEEL, COMPLIMENTED BY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, PROVIDED HIM WITH AN EVOLVED PLATFORM FOR SERIOUS PRODUCTION. THIS BEAUTIFULLY CREATED DRUM SYNTHESIZER BROUGHT ABOUT THE NEXT PHASE IN HIS MUSICAL MASTERY AND CEMENTED THE WAY FORWARD.

THE GLORIFIED "TAPE-RECORDER"...

KORG ES-1 SAMPLER:
THE CROWD IS HIS PLAYGROUND, THE DANCEFLOOR HIS TEMPLE... AND THE BEAT GOES ON...
THE DISC JOCKEY JOURNEY:

MIXING IN THE BEDROOM, LIKE MOST ASPIRING DJ'S IN EARLY 1997, HE REALIZED THAT TECHNO WAS WHAT HE WANTED TO MASTER BUT WAS CONFLICTED WITH THE CONNOTATIONS OF THE WORD TECHNO TO THAT OF THE LIKES OF 2 UNLIMITED, ETC. AFTER HIS FIRST TASTE OF PURE, UNDILUTED TECHNO AT CLUB G.A.S.S IN BRAAMFONTEIN, JOHANNESBURG, AN UNBREAKABLE DETERMINATION TO SCHOOL THE WORLD IN THE TRUE NATURE OF THE UNTAMED BEAST KNOWN AS TECHNO WAS BORN.
AFTER THREE YEARS OF DANCE FLOOR EDUCATION AT G.A.S.S. AND MANY, MANY HOURS OF PRACTICE, ON APRIL THE 14TH 2000, HE FINALLY RECEIVED HIS OPPORTUNITY TO UNLEASH THE TECHNO BEAST UPON THE UNSUSPECTING DANCE FLOOR. DURING THIS FIRST, UNRELENTING HIDING, ALAN INFERNO, THE OWNER OF THE CLUB OFFERED HIM A RESIDENCY AT THE INFAMOUS HARDER OPTION KNOWN AS G.A.S.S. WHERE HE WAS CHARGED WITH BRINGING ONLY THE BEST PERFORMANCES TO A CROWD OF HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR THREE GLORIOUS YEARS. AND SO IT IS WITH MANY THANKS TO ALAN INFERNO THAT HE FINALLY MOVED OUT OF THE BEDROOM AND ONTO COMMAND OF THE DANCE FLOOR. MANY, MANY THANKS TO ALAN FOR HAVING THE FAITH IN HIM AND ALWAYS PUSHING HIM TO FURTHER HIS MUSICAL ABILITIES...

PLAYING ALONGSIDE ONLY THE BEST IN TECHNO - ALAN INFERNO,CHRIS LIBERATOR, DAVE RANDAL, ANT, SIMMER AND MARK TYLER. AS WELL AS LOCAL TALENT, ANTI, GAVIN THE CHEF, IAN PUNTON, GLENN GAFFER, STARSPINE, LOCUS AND MIKEY DREDD - THEY MANAGED TO CREATE A UNIQUE UNDERGROUND CLUBBING EXPERIENCE LIKE NO-OTHER IN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH IS STILL THE BENCHMARK TO THIS DAY.AND SOLID SYSTEM WAS BORN.

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