alex under & damian schwartz [tempo2year]

Tempo & breakandenter present
The Tempo 2 Year Anniversary

Friday, March 28th, 2008

CMYK/APNEA WORLD TOUR 2008

featuring

Alex Under - LIVE
(CMYK, Apnea, Trapez, Plus8 | Spain)
Discography
Recent Releases
Video 1 Video 2

The deepest meaning of ‘collage’, defined by Max Ernst, is the general application of Arthur Rimabaud’s ‘delirium’: “I accustomed myself to simple hallucination; I saw quite deliberately a mosque instead of a factory, a drummer's school conducted by angels, carriages on the highways of the sky, a salon at the bottom of a lake: monsters, mysteries, a vaudeville poster raising horrors before my eyes”. We could describe collage as an alchemic compound of two or more heterogeneous elements, derivate by their unexpected approximation generated deliberately by the search of systematic confusion and distorted perception.

That’s Alex Unders' musical universe. Based in Madrid, this producer is the ‘CMYK’ label manager. He is also one of the men behind ‘Apnea’ and ‘Bemysheep’, and one of the founders of Net28 (the net behind these labels and others like ‘Cyclical Tracks’ and ‘Pulpa’).

Alex Under confirmed himself as the new reality of the best international techno, sometimes being minimal and deep, sometimes hard and aggressive, but always original. He creates a sonic collage combining techno, trance and house elements while he constructs complex rhythms that arise from the dance floor taking the listeners to a higher level where emotions, depth, mind & body blend in a unique equation. Alex Under will intrigue beyond your perception ...

Damian Schwartz - LIVE
(CMYK, Apnea, Mupa | Spain)
Recent Releases
Discography
Video 1 Video 2

Since surfacing in the summer of 2005 with the cool clatter of the Arena en Los Zapatos (Apnea) 12" and its caterpillar-crawling organ fingerlings, sprays of hissy fizz and pocket-calculator bleeps, Damián Schwartz has, across six singles in just a year and a half, developed into a most reliable purveyor of sleek yet corrugated techno minimalism. Schwartz is the youngest member of the Madrid-based Net28 collective that houses such dance music imprints as Apnea, CMYKmusik, Cyclical Tracks and Múpa (most of which, naturally, have Schwartz platters in their catalogues).
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Villalobos call Schwartz's music "very mental, with an insane or mad twist,” perhaps an allusion to the way Schwartz's seemingly parallel sheets of buffed steel can slowly melt and warp into each other almost imperceptibly. Though openly referring to the "metallic" nature of his own sound, Villalobos even cites industrial music as a comparison, Schwartz's tracks are never grim, clanging things. Philip Sherburne, writing on Ruidos Y Frequencias 1 (Apnea), perhaps Schwartz 's crowning achievement so far in his brief career, calls it "post-Panasonic squealism," a term that can possibly be applied to Schwartz's overall work. It is sparse and supple instead of blank and brittle; if Panasonic managed to curve and bend sine waves into countless roaring, thumping monsters, Schwartz cracks them and hangs their glistening shards in pulsating clusters. The three cuts on Ruidos Y Frequencias 1 are exemplary. "R y F 1" is all squiggling oscillator doodads, crackling cartilage, and writhing currents of sluiced fuzz pocked with crystals. Flip it over and "R y F 2" has silvery hi-hats that puff like a huffing jogger, while "R y F 3" coats scattered microbial activity with scrabbled frequencies, swooshing glaciers and a murky thud. Disintegrating the durable, Schwartz's tracks have wobble and burp that belie their techiness.



With Support From:

Myers Briggs - LIVE
(Beretta Grey, www.arthuroskan.com)

Jamie Kidd - dj
(Tempo, Thoughtless)

evolve - dj
(breakandenter.net)

Details:
BLAK - 178 Bathurst
Doors at 10pm (party until late)
$15 before midnight

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