Excerpts from my recent live show in Moscow.  The Radias cuts out of the recording (but not the actual live performance) around the 4 min mark.  I've left some of the performance in sans Radias because I think it sounds interesting.  It comes back in later during Deception.  Thanks to Sergey for sound and recording, and Sasha, Mark, Anna, Snezhana, and all at Club Cult for an amazing time.  And Philip, Anton, Mujer, Elina, and everyone else at Stackenschneider in St Petersburg.  See you all soon xx  

Emile Strunz Live In Moscow 31.01.14

And old one, but still a fave of mine.  I think I based it on a Chris and Cosey track whilst watching Conan - hence the sample...

Strength Through Joy

My 10 minute 'disco odyssey' released last year on Flight Recorder

One Step Closer To Heaven

National radio-endorsed paean epic to people who, well, people who just can't say no.

People Who You Know (Who Can't Say No)

Shields

Merck 274350

Sin City

It's been a while since I've switched the machines on...

Disconnect From Desire

Released October 2015 on Have a Killer Time records

Tunnel Signs 'Cracks' Emile Strunz Rework

Permanent Wave 'Noir Obscure' Emile Strunz Mix Number 2

Blue (LaTour cover)

Bubastis 2018 (Original re-model)

Pumping tribal version of my second single.

Deception (NYC Mix)

Useless Man

Casual Violence

Body Mass

Nineteen95

Dangerous Liaisons

Materia

You Meant Nothing, To Her

Shields - Tramell Mix

NO OFFENCE

Eurobeat 3000

A Fine Balance 2019

Feed The Machine

Body Shock

You May Find Yourself...

I played that Code 61 track last week off Balearic Beats Vol 1, and it got me thinking...



A New Deal (unmastered)

People Who You Know (will  reap what they sow)

The Driving Force

Someone Is Falling...

The Driving Force (Acid Mix)

Synths, sequencers and pure unadulterated bullshit...
Here's a collection of released tracks, remixes, unreleased/unloved/unused tracks, live sets, demos, sketches, ideas, noodles, fuck load of mistakes, and in some cases, just badly produced shite. ;-)

OK, now for some accompanying self-aggrandizing BS to embellish this bollocks...
Emile Strunz was born in a bedroom in Burleigh Street, on the dancefloors of Ibiza, Spain and Germany and amidst the fire and fury, dry ice, and strobes at many a Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb gig. Exposure to the UK's club scene over an 18 year period also saw Emile contribute to Mixmag and write press releases for the Cream empire whilst interviewing Moby, Richie Hawtin, and Depeche Mode's former sonic architect, Alan Wilder, for his Clubs column whilst at university. It was rumoured that he bought his first of many horses around this time.

His debut single, Shields, released on Andy Blake and Joe Hart's World Unknown label was a first introduction to his hard, heavy and hypnotic electronic sound, and was number 1 on Juno Records' Electro House Chart and was Record of the Week on Piccadilly Records' House Chart.

"Shields" sounds like that exact point when EBM and nu-beat was on the verge of becoming house music... Or perhaps when Paul Oakenfold decided that sluggish acid house was what the world needed (think of his Happy Mondays "Wrote For Luck refix") - Piccadilly Records

"Take a glance at the biography and Soundcloud of Emile Strunz and it's apparent the producer has been fine tuning a well chosen approach to his craft over some time, culminating in the quite excellent "Shields." A solid mid tempo jacker of a track driven by a liquefied arpeggio, the unhinged vocal chanting that sits deep within adds the requisite idiosyncratic touch we've come to expect from the label run by Blake and Hart." - Juno Records.

"Food for the Italo disco and EBM fans", Clone Records

"Uncompromising...unlike anything else out there at the moment", Narc

"Amazing..." , Erol Alkan, BBC Radio 6 Music

"Incredible", Heidi, BBC Radio 1

“Juible Quible Accept”, Tommy Gordon, Westoe Comp

Elan Vital from the North Sea Body Music EP was picked up by the legendary Andy Weatherall and included on his mix for the French Inter Radio Station
http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-addictions-mix-exclusif-andrew-weatherall-rotters-golf-club

The Voyetra Technique EP was released on People Get Real's Join our Club label in November 2013.  People who you know (who can't say no), a 10-minute body beat epic was released on Ali Renault's Vivod label in January 2014 - and was broadcast on Erol Alkan's Friday night BBC Radio 6 Music show. 

Emile made his live debut in Rotterdam in 2013, alongside Das Ding, and he then took his hardware-driven live set to Newcastle, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.  In early 2014, after angering a total berk, he toured Russia (is two shows a tour?), playing packed venues in Moscow and St Petersburg, played live alongside Scott Fraser and Timothy J Fairplay at Hackney's Oslo venue, played the (Still) the enemy within event in East London alongside Test Department, and his live show followed The Hacker's DJ set at Berlin's Magic Waves Festival.  

He also contributed the New Order-esque 'A Fine Balance' to the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed documentary Still the Enemy Within - a logical contribution given Emile's experiences of the miners strike in his home town of South Shields.

Subsequent gigs in Glasgow and Amsterdam saw Emile round off 2014 nicely.  Battered and bruised (literally)
January 2016 saw Emile make his debut in Spain playing Femur in Madrid, and two more remixes on NEIN Records followed that year.
More sporadic and chaotic gigs followed, playing Czech Republic and Holland in 2018 and 2019. 
2019 ends with a propulsive re-rub of "Elan Vital' turning the sleek New Beat of the original into a peak-time 115bpm EBM banger on New York's Wonder Stories label.

Emile Strunz

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