Taken from the Portable album for Perlon :
Into Infinity 

Into Infinity

Island Of Thought

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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.”

Some guy who likes music. All types but especially electronic music. My likes include vintage audio programs and software, the songs of the many guises of Tom Middleton,  l.a. tech house and gin. My turn offs are lockout laws, spending too much time on mastering and working for the man. The first edit I ever attempted was a remix of sash!'s, encore en fois, its hard to make 90s euro dance sound worst, but i did, and Ive been making tracks worst ever since! Dj'd and partied since my teens, now Im wondering what happened to all that time. I've collected over 26k tracks in 20yrs, 4k onlines mixes and podcasts and created about 14k samples. That explains it.

"Movement is intentional and life sustaining."

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uniting diverse sounds into a continuous flow

Island Of Thought

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