idm, classics and more pt.1

mixes

Style: Electro 
Artist: Convextion 
Time: 2006 - 2019

https://www.facebook.com/convextion
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/convextion
http://www.lastfm.de/music/Convextion

"Gerard Hanson was born in 1972. He hails from the unlikely environments of Dallas, Texas USA. Little is known about this producer who seems to have Scandinavian roots. His productions have reflections with Basic Channel/Chain Reaction sound. His main inspirations are Juan Atkins and Derrick May. His music also has influences from Stefan Robbers, Red Planet and Carl Craig.

He found a way where everything came together: Deepness, Minimalism and Soul, the Detroit-Berlin connection. In 1994 Gerard Hanson and Dan Kurzius started 'Hardsync', a Magazine dedicated to electronic music reviews and artist interviews. It has been defunct since 1996 as a result of a computer crash. Hard Sync was an outlet for several Texas-based electronic music enthusiasts to reach out to others around the world that shared similar musical interests. He released his first 12" in 1995. Ever since his debut 12" on Matrix in 1995. From 1995-1997, he released 5 ep's, and then only 2 more in the next 6 years until 2005. The reason he produced so infrequently was because when his first releases came out, the tracks were licensed to some big releasers and he did not get paid for them.

After that some other labels approached him but just wanted more of the same and didn't really seem to understand his sound. They just wanted more of the same sounds. After that he stopped releasing music and produced only for his personal usage. After a couple of years the label Down Low convinced him to pick up his producing again. He is very careful about sharing his music with the rest of the world. In the last decade he only used the aliases Convextion and E.R.P. (Event Related Potential). E.R.P is an electro-edged moniker. Gerard has remained willingly anonymous since his debut in 1995, but he came out of obscurity for a debut European Live performance in London in April 2006. Why he remains unknown is a mystery. In the future we will hear much more from this producer." > http://www.ibiza-voice.com/music/artist/Convextion

Convextion / Gerard Hanson / ERP Mixes

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Recording from Fantasy FM circa 1990. Tearing tunes. Nostalgia at its best. 

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FIBER Podcast 02 - Distant Drummers (Mixed by Artefakt)
Distant Drummers is a collective that strives to bring the best of two worlds together. Originating from a grindy squatting scene, the group recently performed at the sterile environment of the Stedelijk museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam. Their music aims to bring forward the human in the machine by creating sound experiments with analogue gear and combining them with the conveniences of digital effects and recording. This results in a strict solid four to the flour beat with live improvisation on top, giving the techno aesthetic some breathing space.
For this mix two of the members of DD, also known as Artefakt, used their own material, as well as that of likeminded groups such as Morphosis, the scrap instruments of African group Konono no1, and the diverse appeal of the spontaneous house sound by the German label LiveJam records.
The musical narrative is based on the geometrical patterns designed by renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno, who wrote numerous books on the Art of memory. Bruno describes by means of geometrical patterns how a cognitive process is connected in parts of the brain. These patterns were conceived by DD as a road through their musical landscape where time, as in a good mix, can be forgotten. Raw but tight!
www.distantdrummers.com
1. Autechre – Autriche [Warp]
2. R_D – Fiber podcast jam [Distant Drummer Collective unreleased]
3. AFX – Laricheard [Replex]
4. Vinalog – Organic Contruction [Relative/Live Jam ltd] / Mali (Touaregs Al Kansar) ‐ Onomatopoeic song [CMX]
5. Marcel Dettman – Reticle [Ostgut Ton] / Rumenige – Fastfood [Antidandruff] / James Ruskin – Prevention Beyond Cause B1 [Blueprint]
6. Deepchord – Vantage Isle (DC mix III) [Echospace]
7. Moritz von Oswald Trio live in New York – Nothing 3 [Honest Jonʼs Records]
8. STL – Silent State [Smallville Records] / Deepchord – Grand Bend (CV313 live mix) [Echospace]
9. Artefakt – Sun [Distant Drummer Collective unreleased]
10. Artefakt – The Rise [Distant Drummer Collective unreleased] / Omar-S – Solely Supported [FXHE Records] / Outline – B3 Untitled [Blueprint 05]
11. Anton Zap – Ainʼt Got Time [Quintessentials]
12. Black Jazz Consortium – Stay [Soul People Music]
13. DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central pt. I (MCDE bassline dub) [Mule Musiq]
14. Mr. G – Platonic Solids no. 5 [Rekids]
15. Rick Wilhite – Deep Horizons [Music 4 Your Legs]
16. Silent Servant – Untitled [Sandwell District]
17. Function – Immolare (Osaka version) [Sandwell District]
18. Morphosis – Androids Among Us [Delsin]

http://www.fiberfestival.nl/blog/music/podcasts/fiber-podcast-02/ 

FIBER Podcast 02 - Distant Drummers (Mixed by Artefakt)

Would You like to extend Your journey to the moon? 4, 3, 2, 1, go!

Convextion - Live In London 2006

Laurent Garnier - 6 hours DJ set @ Le Sucre (05/12/2014)

As commanding officer Convextion stood behind the controls at Radion, he watched how the audience, immersed in DEFRAME’s stage design, wandered above a sea of fog, and danced under a grid of red lasers shooting into space. Continue reading at www.fiber-space.nl/podcast/fiber-podcast-30

FIBER Podcast 30 - Convextion

Another visitor makes his way down the iron staircase to the 2Sox basement HQ, this time in the form of one of Glasgow's most trusted selectors, Laurence Hughes.

He and fellow house (and techno, and electro) expert Tom Churchill have been busy recently making very fine tunes together as The Nuclear Family - https://soundcloud.com/the_nuclear_family. Their self released 12"s are two of 2Sox' absolute favourite belter records of the last year. Be sure to check them out. Laurence's production credits go back as far as 2002, under the Elijah moniker on Jason Brunton's Iridite label. Tom founded the Headspace and Emoticon labels, which produced many a stellar release by himself and the likes of Dan Curtin, Future Beat Alliance and Marco Bernardi.

Laurence has been a resident at many a club night in Glasgow over the years, including the legendary Traxx night alongside our previous DTS guest Jamie Thomson. He takes massive pleasure in discovering, playing and discussing electronic music new and old. You'll normally have a screed of mental notes after hearing a set, and this mix will be no exception. It's also worth noting that he will teach you a thing or two about, and whip your arse at, table tennis.

Check https://soundcloud.com/the_nuclear_family/sets/tnf002-come-dine-with-us-clips

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Out now on 2Sox: Debukas - Dream Travel EP (2SOX002)
soundcloud.com/2soxrecs/sets/debukas-dream-travel-ep-2sox002

More Down The Stairs mixes: https://soundcloud.com/2soxrecs/sets/down-the-stairs-mix-series

Down The Stairs Mix Series 004 - The Nuclear Family

The German philosopher Friedrich Kittler once argued: "The development of the internet has more to do with human beings becoming a reflection of their technologies…. After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.” (The Guardian 28/12/11)
A claim that winks to Alan Backdrop, a man with a profound love for vinyl. He says his life spins in circles. During long periods of research and experimentation in music he often falls for dark and gloomy sounds. But at some point he comes full circle and is in need for something more light and colourful. As if the record passes the light pin on the turntable. The eleventh FIBER Podcast has been recorded during one of these moments.

The moment Alan became hooked on techno music was when he discovered Luca Morris, an Italian artist who mixed Detroit and German techno in the nineties. “More than often I listened to his mixes made between 1998 and 2001. Mixes that cannot be found on the web, they are like a sort of relic in the hands of the guys who experienced the magic at that time”.

Another great influence was Monolake’s ‘Polygon Cities’, an album Alan bought at Hardwax when he visited Berlin for the first time, back in 2005. The impact of Monolake’s music made him speechless: “I listened the cd time after time and kept asking myself where that sound came from”. His concept of music was taking shape and the following year he bought turntables and started collecting vinyl.

2006 also gave birth to ‘Thursdaydeep’, a laboratory equipped with studio monitors where Alan and his friends Enrico a.k.a. Status End and Stefano a.k.a. Oldste could experiment.
“Initially I sought my personal sound in deep minimal-techno”. But all the changes and nuances in genre influenced him and developed into an aesthetic, that kept floating in his mind. “There was a specific kind of sound, a sound that binds the surreal atmospheres of Monolake’s album, that bewitched me to the nineties techno played by Luca Morris, full of TR-808 and -909 sounds I love. The almost total identification of this sound occurred in 2008 with the first releases of Donato Dozzy on Aquaplano with Nuel.”

For this mix Alan grouped vinyls with smooth sounds in sleeves and dollies coloured in blue, teal, yellow, orange and white. Colours and artworks are important to him. “I started to mix imagining being light and surrounded by floating objects. I hope listening to this mix conveys this lightness”. A feeling also reflected in ‘Green House’, this podcast’s accompanying artwork by South-Korean artist Kyung Woo Han.

http://soundcloud.com/alan-backdrop
http://alan-backdrop.jimdo.com/

Tracklist:
Ask Alessio! He probably has an eye on the soundcloud player!

FIBER Podcast 11 - Alan Backdrop

Con todo nuestro cariño ;)

Un abrazo muuuy fresh!

http://www.freshweekend.es

Convextion closing White Stage@ Freshweekend 04-07-2010

RA.265 Convextion aka E.R.P. - 2011.06.27

A follow-up to December's selection of mid-90s Detroit-influenced UK techno, this time featuring some US producers in the form of Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin and Abacus alongside the likes of As One, Stasis and Black Dog. Deep and timeless music for heads and feet.

NB: As before, these are all recorded from well-worn vinyl, so apologies for the occasional snap, crackle and pop.

As One - Shambala (Buzz, 1993)
Stasis - So-lar (Time Is Right, 1993)
Psyche - Elements (Planet E, 1989)
Abacus - Relics (Prescription, 1994)
Kenny Larkin - Butterflies (R&S, 1995)
Repeat - Lilt-A (A13, 1995)
Nuron - Eau Rouge (Likemind, 1996)
La Synthesis - Agraphobia (Plink Plonk, 1994)
Black Dog Productions (Atypic) - Otaku (Rising High, 1992)

Golden Era Techno Part 2

Another selection of mainly UK techno from the early to mid-90s. On this one there's a slightly more uptempo/dancefloor feel (in the middle section at least), with some deep grooves from the Pure Plastic/Plaid family, LFO's Mark Bell in his Clark guise, a soulful techno masterpiece from Inertia (aka A Guy Called Gerald), and a raw heater from Neuropolitique on Irdial. Recorded from vinyl once again with authentic grit.

Luke Slater’s 7th Plain - Time Melts (GPR, 1994)
Mark Broom & Dave Hill - Weather (Pure Plastic, 1995)
Neuropolitiue - Fusion-Neu (Irdial Discs, 1992)
Ismistik - Flowcharts Remade (Djax-Up-Beats, 1995)
Inertia - Nowhere to Run (Retroactive, 1990) 
Eco Tourist - Downtown Chic (Rewired, 1995)
Ed Handley - Nine Open (Pure Plastic, 1995)
Clark - Christo (Planet E, 1995) 
Balil - Rosery Pilots (Rising High, 1993)
Russ Gabriel - Airborne  (Input Neuron Musique, 1995)

Golden Era Techno Part 3

Tom Churchill provides the 3rd guest mix.

Tom emerged in 1996 via his own label, Headspace Recordings, which went on to feature several of his productions as well as releases from Dan Curtin, Derek Carr & Sean Deason, among others. Together with sister label, Emoticon, Headspace established itself as an eminent UK label, and their releases are still sought after to this day.

Both labels ceased trading in 2006, and after a break from music production, Tom finally returned and has recently been releasing as part of a duo - The Nuclear Family.

Check the links below for new music, and be sure to listen to his recent stand-out trio of 'Golden Era Techno' mixes.

@tomchurchill @the_nuclear_family
Tom's blog: https://nothinbutmagic.com

SpillCast 08 - Tom Churchill

Bios, Athens 14-11-08

Tracklist from 1:03:00:
01. Carl Craig - Einbahn
02. Tampopo - Helicopter (Tobias remix)
03. I-Cube - Supernovac - (Live at the Lanchonete Version)
04. Marco Passarani - Clair
05. DJ 3000 - Melodica
06. Cobblestone Jazz - 5th Element
07. Sterac - Rond
08. Patrice Scott - Atmospheric Emotions
09. 7027 - The Pace
10. Zombi - Sessuale

Convextion live at BIOS Athens 14-11-2008

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/podcasts/2010/feb/17/bodytonic-podcast-070-convextion/

Convextion live at BIOS Athens 14-11-2008

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