Portable live excerpt , Giegling Chinastraat May 2022

Portable Live At Giegling Chinastraat May 2022,track foreign to you feat niq e on @circuscompany

Portable's latest single, "Magnetic fields ," invite's listeners on a sonic journey exploring the hidden forces that underpin our very existence.
With "Magnetic fields ," Portable delves deep into the enigmatic realm of electromagnetic fields, shedding light on the often overlooked yet essential role they play in our daily lives, from guiding migratory birds to enabling the functioning of our technology.
With his signature blend of experimental electronic beats and soul-stirring melodies, Portable creates an immersive soundscape that stimulates the senses, sparks introspection, and makes you want to move, all at once.
Through "Magnetic fields ," Portable encourages listeners to contemplate the omnipresence of these magnetic forces, urging us to recognise their significance in our survival and the interconnectedness of all living beings. As the rhythms pulse and the melodies intertwine, Portable shows off he's unparalleled ability to blend innovative soundscapes with thought-provoking themes.
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Portable - Magnetic fields

àn  extract from the. Portable live show 

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Reprise Surrender feat l_cio

Surrender Feat L Cio

Taken from the Portable album for Perlon :
Into Infinity 

Into Infinity

Island Of Thought

Live recording from a Bodycode Live set at Concrete Paris, Get Perlonized  11 Sept 2016

Say Its Gonna Change With Ursual Rucker - Bodycode Live Version

Portable - Closer - Live MIx

PortableBodycode Dj Set

The Conservation of Electric Charge

Local Traffic

Immune

Arigato

Snippet of a new Bodycode track on the forthcoming Superlongevity 6 !

Bodycode - Syncronised Sleep Snippet

Bodycode DJ Set Autumn

Stamp The Wax Monday Morning Mixtape 189 I made
http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/01/15/monday-morning-mixtape-189/

Stamp The Wax Monday Morning Mixtape 189

RANGEr live in Paris on the Portablebodycode show at Rinse France.
http://www.rinse.fr/

RANGEr Live At Rinse France On The Portable:Bodycode Show  Recording

Portable aka Bodycode launches his own record label, Khoikhoi Records, with this stellar future classic and a voice and style so distinctive it can only be Portable.
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Portable - Believing

Alan Abrahams, that’s the man behind Portable, born and raised in South Africa, where he started to produce music in the 90’s. 1997 he moved to London. After several releases on Labels like Context or Background, he started his own imprint “Süd Electronic” around 2002. Another Project named “Bodycode” was born and found a home at USA based “Spectral", the sisterlabel of Ghostly.His first “Portable” album was released at the end of 2007 through “Süd Electronic". Now Perlon is more than happy to welcome mister Abrahans on board with this incredible deep 12″ entitled “Knowone Can Take Away". Two songs for eternity!

Portable - Release

Portable - The Many

An excerpt recorded live at Modular Cape Town, South Africa

Bodycode Live at Modular, South Africa excerpt

A little mix I made to pass the time during this trying time for all, please enjoy ;-)
Alan

Portable Solidarity

Take's Me Away

Take's Me Away (feat. Waly Loume)

Death Is Nothing To Fear 1

Exciting Ride

Bookings contact 
alanportable@gmail.com


Portable AKA Bodycode has been in motion his whole life—growing up in South Africa, coming of age in London, decamping to Lisbon and finally settling in Berlin—and his deeply syncopated brand of electronic dance music has evolved with every step of the journey. 

His formative years were spent in an impoverished Cape Town township ironically tagged “Beverly Hills”, and to the backbeat of the first wave of Chicago house records he emerged out of the ruins of a post-apartheid South Africa. Inspired musically, yet frustrated geographically, he relocated to London in 1997.

In London, he  began recording as Portable, the experimental, atmospheric project that acts a living link between the indigenous sounds of his youth, and those first records whose futuristic aesthetic broadened his horizons. He founded the Süd Electronic label with his partner Lerato and released a string of 12" releases. A succession of full-length albums followed - Cycling and Futuristic Experiments #005 on Background, Version on ~scape records, and the Powers of Ten for Süd Electronic in 2007. A rich and expansive record, Powers of Ten further explored his African heritage through a new lexicon of sonic influences, acquired from his time in Portugal.

Upon moving to Lisbon, he conceived of Bodycode, a more dancefloor-centric project that complements Portable’s headier textures with a more body-moving aesthetic.  As Bodycode, he  harnesses his desire to “unlock the psyche via the body,” layering tech-funk with wisps of melody, heady effects, and a liberal wash of otherworldly vocal samples. Somewhere between the beats for the body and melody for the soul, Abrahams believes, lies the Bodycode. The result was Bodycode’s first full-length, The Conservation of Electric Charge, a whirlwind of percussive, multi-layered techno released on Spectral Sound in 2006. After a three-year absence, Abrahams resurrected the moniker for second Spectral full-length, 2009’s Immune, an intricately textured album of vocal-laced house. “I just felt it a good time for a warm, nurturing aesthetic,” says Abrahams of Bodycode’s shift in tone, “We need that right now.”

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