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Humanaut & Technoir Audio proudly present:
FRIDAY, MAY 1st, 2009
Stewart Walker {Live} [Persona Records - Tresor] Berlin
www.stewartwalker.com
Berlin-based STEWART WALKER is a restless innovator. After making a splash in the late nineties on definitive labels like Force Inc. and Tresor, he’s had an inestimable impact on the development of current club sounds, yet consistently chooses the less traveled road: working as live producer in a world of DJs; injecting emotion into functional electronic dance music; quietly building a label family of unclassifiable artists on his own imprint, Persona.
After selling his guitar in 1993, Walker began assembling a synth-based hardware studio while in university in Athens, GA. Inspired by Jeff Mills’ Live at the Liquid Room he became obsessed with rhythm. A string of recordings appeared on Matrix Records in Detroit – including the 1997 single Amphetamine Sulphate – and later on Deepfried (Grand Rapids, MI) and Tektite (Austin, TX). A year later, his first European release Artificial Music for Artificial People was picked up by Cristian Vogel's British imprint, Mosquito, and Walker hit the live circuit. Armed with only an AKAI MPC2000 sampler and a DJ mixer, he did what a DJ never could: move a club crowd with sounds shaped by his own hands. This original approach was welcomed across Europe and in Japan as well as his native US.
1999 saw Walker’s debut on Berlin’s Tresor Records with Nothing Produces Stark Imagery, followed up by the now-classic minimalist experiment, Stabiles, on Mille Plateaux. These productions proved to be seminal in the development of minimal techno.
Walker continued to release on labels such as Minus and Force Inc. until, in 2001, he set up his own imprint, Persona Records. Persona released eleven records in the US culminating in the second landmark album of Walker’s career to date: Live Extracts (2003). Live Extracts captured the sound and atmospherics of Walker’s in-club performances and was soon licensed by Tresor.
Persona restarted in 2005, this time in Berlin. Now based in Europe, Walker performed in every capital and made incursions as far afield as Australia and Russia. Soon after, he released the downtempo album Grounded in Existence and a breakbeaty techno EP, Travel Plaza. These releases showcased Walker’s increasing attention to nuance, dynamics, and melody.
Concentricity, Walker’s fourth full-length, was released in 2007.
Also featuring:
Shawn Rudiman {Live} [Technoir Audio - PGH]
Chris O'Connor [Technoir Audio - PGH]
Jwan Allen [Technoir Audio - PGH]
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Here's the deal people - pay attention:
1) This is a very different event than normal. You MUST have a presale ticket. The party will be going down in the main recording studio of Machine Age. It only holds 170 people. Between Technoir Audio & Humanaut we are going to clear through these tickets at warp speed so MAKE SURE you get one.
Presales - $10 are available in person from Technoir & Humanaut members, as well as online at:
GROOVETICKETS
2) Everyone MUST arrive with their ticket in hand by 11:30 pm to get in. The doors will shut at 11:30 and nobody else will be admitted, ticketed or not. You can leave, but you can't return.
3) Because this isn't a bar, the party is BYOB. May I suggest a (small!) cooler or a backpack of some sort? We don't want to clog the place with huge coolers, so keep it in something that can be tucked away please!
4) We will go as late as people want to stay and Stewart/Shawn want to play. That means at least 4am.
Get ready! We are ridiculously excited to be hosting such a legendary artist! This is one of only TWO gigs in the US along with the [kontrol] party in San Francisco @ The Endup. It is basically a house party in a badass music studio, with a small group of friends, on turbosound, with one of the residents of the most famous German techno club in the world – Tresor.
This will be one for the record books!
The address of the studios will be released before the party. Stay tuned to:
www.humanaut.net
www.technoiraudio.com
FRIDAY, MAY 1st, 2009
Stewart Walker {Live} [Persona Records - Tresor] Berlin
www.stewartwalker.com
Berlin-based STEWART WALKER is a restless innovator. After making a splash in the late nineties on definitive labels like Force Inc. and Tresor, he’s had an inestimable impact on the development of current club sounds, yet consistently chooses the less traveled road: working as live producer in a world of DJs; injecting emotion into functional electronic dance music; quietly building a label family of unclassifiable artists on his own imprint, Persona.
After selling his guitar in 1993, Walker began assembling a synth-based hardware studio while in university in Athens, GA. Inspired by Jeff Mills’ Live at the Liquid Room he became obsessed with rhythm. A string of recordings appeared on Matrix Records in Detroit – including the 1997 single Amphetamine Sulphate – and later on Deepfried (Grand Rapids, MI) and Tektite (Austin, TX). A year later, his first European release Artificial Music for Artificial People was picked up by Cristian Vogel's British imprint, Mosquito, and Walker hit the live circuit. Armed with only an AKAI MPC2000 sampler and a DJ mixer, he did what a DJ never could: move a club crowd with sounds shaped by his own hands. This original approach was welcomed across Europe and in Japan as well as his native US.
1999 saw Walker’s debut on Berlin’s Tresor Records with Nothing Produces Stark Imagery, followed up by the now-classic minimalist experiment, Stabiles, on Mille Plateaux. These productions proved to be seminal in the development of minimal techno.
Walker continued to release on labels such as Minus and Force Inc. until, in 2001, he set up his own imprint, Persona Records. Persona released eleven records in the US culminating in the second landmark album of Walker’s career to date: Live Extracts (2003). Live Extracts captured the sound and atmospherics of Walker’s in-club performances and was soon licensed by Tresor.
Persona restarted in 2005, this time in Berlin. Now based in Europe, Walker performed in every capital and made incursions as far afield as Australia and Russia. Soon after, he released the downtempo album Grounded in Existence and a breakbeaty techno EP, Travel Plaza. These releases showcased Walker’s increasing attention to nuance, dynamics, and melody.
Concentricity, Walker’s fourth full-length, was released in 2007.
Also featuring:
Shawn Rudiman {Live} [Technoir Audio - PGH]
Chris O'Connor [Technoir Audio - PGH]
Jwan Allen [Technoir Audio - PGH]
------------------------------------------------------------
Here's the deal people - pay attention:
1) This is a very different event than normal. You MUST have a presale ticket. The party will be going down in the main recording studio of Machine Age. It only holds 170 people. Between Technoir Audio & Humanaut we are going to clear through these tickets at warp speed so MAKE SURE you get one.
Presales - $10 are available in person from Technoir & Humanaut members, as well as online at:
GROOVETICKETS
2) Everyone MUST arrive with their ticket in hand by 11:30 pm to get in. The doors will shut at 11:30 and nobody else will be admitted, ticketed or not. You can leave, but you can't return.
3) Because this isn't a bar, the party is BYOB. May I suggest a (small!) cooler or a backpack of some sort? We don't want to clog the place with huge coolers, so keep it in something that can be tucked away please!
4) We will go as late as people want to stay and Stewart/Shawn want to play. That means at least 4am.
Get ready! We are ridiculously excited to be hosting such a legendary artist! This is one of only TWO gigs in the US along with the [kontrol] party in San Francisco @ The Endup. It is basically a house party in a badass music studio, with a small group of friends, on turbosound, with one of the residents of the most famous German techno club in the world – Tresor.
This will be one for the record books!
The address of the studios will be released before the party. Stay tuned to:
www.humanaut.net
www.technoiraudio.com
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