Dirty Epic presents its eleventh episode of the Amplify Series podcasts, this time welcoming @truncate aboard.

After being introduced to electronic music back in the early 90's in Los Angeles, a teenage David Flores was hooked. He started DJing across Southern California on the DIY warehouse, backyard, desert, and rave circuit. His style then was as varied as the local scene - a myriad of sounds ranging from house to acid to techno to hardcore. After a few years solely DJing, he began releasing original music under the monikers David F & Audio Injection, which landed him on labels such as Monoid, Stimulus, 4 Track & LA label Droid Recordings. His association with Droid Behavior began in 2003 as resident at the now defunct yet infamous and internationally acclaimed Interface event series alongside Drumcell and Raiz. He currently runs a new event series together with Drumcell and Oktaform named “Observe”.

In early 2011, he started the project Truncate to focus on the deeper, raw side of techno. His Truncate releases early on gained critical acclaim from world class underground talent such as Modeselektor, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, DVS1, Luke Slater, Ben Sims, Josh Wink, Eats Everything, Joris Voorn, and many more. Since then, he has provided remixes for artists across the musical spectrum including Kink, Slam, Loco Dice, Ben Sims, Josh Wink, Ellen Alien, Miss Kittin, Carl Cox & Nicole Moudaber. He has also released original works on 50 Weapons, Ultramajic, Blueprint, Ei8ht, Figure and of course his own imprint Truncate. He has also collaborated with Jimmy Edgar, Chambray and most recently started a new project with Ben Sims as ‘Assailants’ which they’ve released on their own imprint ‘Obscurity Is Infinite’.

A rigorous international tour schedule has since followed, including stops and regular appearances at the most prestigious venues and events, including Berghain in Berlin, Fabric in London, Concrete in Paris, The Movement Festival in Detroit, Womb in Tokyo, Dimensions Festival in Croatia, Awakenings in Amsterdam, Output in New York, and many more.

With his heavy remix, production and touring schedule there is still no slowing down for David. He continues to shape an evolving sound and to champion the Los Angeles underground.

LINKS:

TRUNCATE: 
Soundcloud: @truncate
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Truncate.LA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truncate_la/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/truncate_la
Bandcamp: https://truncate.bandcamp.com

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Amplify Series 011 - Truncate

Welcome to Dirty Epic's Amplify Series, a music podcast focused on elevating the underground from scenes across the globe. From techno to electro, and everything in between, our aim is to broadcast the music we love, from artists we respect, to people all around the world.

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I'm a one time DJ of little to no repute. I played in clubs twice a week in the late 90s and since then I have made occasional appearances playing sets to small groups of family, friends and unsuspecting strangers at house parties, cocktail bars and the occasional club.  I was the quiet half of the Love:House and Co.Funk events. @mattsuttner was the noisy half & responsible for all that punctuation. Oh, and I played 115 once. I play music I like which is cool if you like the music I like. 

Josh my kid. He used to live at soundcloud.com/josh-four but we've merged accounts and will start uploading back2back drum & bass sets soon too. Josh has been mixing since he was about 8. He started on Traktor and a cheapie Numark controller. But soon went to the Pioneer DJ Mix school as their youngest ever pupil at the time. Dude was mixing on NXS before he turned 10.

We mix at home. Mostly.

Digital set-up: Pioneer XDJ-XZ
Analougue set-up: SL1210MK2s & a Gemini PS-626