After Dark : Chris Fortier
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NOTE: This is a promo radio mix from the Balance 007 album tour, recorded in 2005.
Tracklisting
DJ Koze – Estrella
Ferenc – Vinegretta
Ame – Rej
Luciano & Mathew Jonson – Alpine Rockets
Aardvaarck – Cult Copy 2 (Carl Craig Remix Edit)
Donnacha Costella – No Matter What You Do
Jamie Anderson – More or Less
Richie Hawtin – Twin Cities
Donnato Dozzy – United Elements
7 Deadly Sins – Lust
Astral Pilot – Electro Acupuncture (40oz Re-edit)
Biography
Steeped in a background of learning his craft through long sets at his various residencies during his days in Central Florida and later at Twilo in New York , Chris is an old school dj in the truest sense of the word. He has learnt his craft in a way that few DJs can boast. Very few of today’s headline DJ’s can say they know how to build a night from nothing and create an atmosphere at any point in the nights festivities. However, Chris Fortier is one of the few that can.
With the seemingly never-ending world tour still in effect from last year’s release of the critically acclaimed “Bedrock: Compiled and Mixed” compilation, Chris is a headline act in his own right, he continues to travel to every corner of the globe in the last 12 months including residencies at The Cross in London and Plexi in New York. Chris is no longer a name just on the U.S. stage, but on the world stage.
Even with being constantly on tour, Chris production career has never been healthier as he embarks on a solo career alongside his continuing work as Fade. The summer has seen the release of “Whateveritis” a slice of big room house directed at those that choose to pidgeonhole every genre of dance music. The follow up, “Believe” has been road tested for the past few months while on tour and looks set for a release in the coming months, along with the unreleased “Losing Wait” and remixes of Kristine W, Lovesky and PQM.
Currently residing in New York , Chris’ roots can be traced to the early nineties in Orlando , Florida , where he was spotted by DJ Icey and quickly thrown in by Kimball Collins as resident at the infamous “Aahz”. These visionary and legendary nights served as a platform to bring Sasha and John Digweed to America for the first time, and establish an ” Orlando ” sound that would become synonymous with clubbers and DJs alike for years to come.
As one of the pioneer DJ of the US circuit, Chris was one of the first to travel the country, playing in cities like Atlanta , Charlotte , Washington and Boston when they were in their infancy. This continued as new markets in Central America and Canada began to appear making him one of the most travelled DJs in the States. In 2000, after his move to New York , he joined the infamous Twilo as one of their residents, playing alongside Dave Seaman for the club’s successful bi-monthly Saturday events. To support his constant touring, Chris was one of the first to release a compilation CD in the States, a typically original move at the time and has realised five more in the space of the last six years.
Keen to build the production side of his career, Chris started Fade Records in 1995 and released his first double A sided single “For All the People/ All I Got” under the production name of Fade with his one time surf competitor, Neil Kolo. The Fade sound quickly defined the era and the fashionable progressive Orlando sound. A long-term record deal from the UK and remixes for BT, Sam Mollison, Space Brothers, and Future Force followed over the next few years.
In 1998 while submitting a Sarah Mclachlan bootleg of “Plenty” (which was subsequently released in 2001) to her record label, Chris was offered a remix of a Delerium track called “Silence”. The remix created a frenzy with such limited quantities being pressed by the label. Eventually succumbing to the demands of the general public after it’s inclusion on Northern Exposure 3, and the buzz it created with DJs like Dave Seaman and Sasha opening and closing their sets with it, the label released it to discover a worldwide chart hit, with it hitting number one in four countries including Australia.
After Dark : Tyler Stadius
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Tracklisting
Destillat – Kaliber – Klang
Elio Brunelle – Bernard – Epsilonlab
Style Rockets – 001
Christopher Just – House 2 (PM Edit)
Lee Combs – Lick The Frog – Fingerlickin
PJ Davy – Bolly Fella – Renaissance
Bibi’s Ghosts – Let Them Go – Freak N’ Chic
Marc Ashken – Dregs of Humanity (Paolo Mojo remix) – Music is Freedom
Sweet Light – Abusator (DURIEZ EDIT) – Freak N’ Chic
J. Fairley – Frantic – Kompakt Extra
Biography
Tyler’s love of music began in the late 70′s – early 80′s while he and his family lived and travelled around the world. Because his father was a disco, funk & soul diehard, Tyler was always surrounded by a variety of musical styles.
In Toronto, Canada, Tyler spent the latter part of the 80′s stage-diving and frontlining as lead singer in various punk bands. In 1989, while attending film school, Tyler hosted numerous warehouse parties in the downtown core. Not happy with what the DJ’s were playing, he decided to provide the music himself, playing a mix of reggae, funk, hip hop, acid jazz & house.
In 1991, Tyler moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. The underground music scene consisted of pop techno and early rave. Tyler was one of the first DJ’s to introduce house music to Vancouver, spinning at all the warehouse parties and raves. In 1992, Tyler started “Romper Room”, his first residency. This club was the only place to hear proper house by artists like: Murk, Todd Terry, Kerri Chandler, and Masters at Work. Tyler was quickly recognized as Vancouver’s top house DJ.
Tbone’s mixed tapes and cd’s have received outstanding reviews by respected publications such as, Muzik, DJ, Mixer, URB, XLR8R, & iD. It wasn’t long before word spread and Tyler was playing at some of the best clubnights in the world: The Shelter & Red Dog in Chicago, DIY / Bounce, Back to Basics, The Rex in Paris, Space at Bar Rhumba, Tribal Function, Radius, Wiggle, and Fabric.
Over the years Tyler has brought to town, and played along side many of the world’s top DJ’s such as Doc Martin, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, Murk, Little ‘Louie’ Vega, Deep Dish, Ritchie Hawtin, Derrick May, Global Communications, Kenny Hawkes, Terry Francis, Pure Science, Evil Eddie Richards, to name a few.
In 1994, Tyler and a partner, opened “Bassix” in Vancouver, soon recognized as one of the best record shops in Canada.
The Unborn Series : Tzusing
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Tracklisting
dabrye – Payback (Prefuse 73 Megamix) – Ghostly International
dieb – schnel – Citymorb Music
tzusing – possibly (remixed)
actual jackson – Sequential Circus (marc houle remix) – Minus
raymond scott – twillight in turkey (comes and ends before track 6) – Basta
slam ft dot allison – kill the pain (marc houle remix) – Soma
dj koze – brutalga square – Kompakt
vocal sample of Boots Riley off politically incorrect tv show.
funk dvoid + phil kieran – blackworm – soma
petter – freak and love – Deep Focus
tiefschwarz -ghosttrack (blackstrobe remix) – Four Music
todd osborn – bout ready to jak – Spectral Sound
atom heart – fumes:jax 2000 – Logistic
rend – inept – Plong!
t.raumschmiere – koeing shuffle – Shitkatapult
hiphop group dead prez samples – Loud
james t cotton – buck! (Reinhard Voigt Remix) – Spectral Sound
The Coup – 5 million ways to kill a C.E.O. – 75 Ark
Audion – uvular – Spectral Sound
a. Cid – mission – Resopal Schallware
matt tollfery – the horn – Crosstown Rebels
bear back – deep space galaxy mama – Tuning Spork Family Affair
slabb- instead (ark remix) – Relax Beat
daypak padberg – soulback – Mo’s ferry prod
heartthrob – thrill – Minus
vivianne project – holes – Textone
dmx krew – echlon – Rephlex
john tejada – paranoia – Palette Recordings
marc houle – east west – Minus
starski n clutch – east west – Databass Records
phoenix – too young (zoot woman remix) – Virgin
Biography
Where does the maximal and minimal coincide? What is the arc that traces every entity and remains itself untraceable?
Tzusing rejects music as a solution but embraces it as an experiment. There are no test cases, no controls, no statistical mean. Against the investigation of static entities, the point is rather the construction of new possibles.
Indeed, as an experimental project itself, Tzusing’s life is a series of non-convergent magnitudes, with geographical lines tracing the acceleration of Shanghai with the fragmentations of exile life in North Borneo, from the quiet of San Diego’s suburbs to metallic vibrations of Chicago’s EL.
In a first encounter with the global phenomenon of Michael Jackson, this hybrid of black American music as well as the technology of reproducible copy, the magnetic tape, provided an experience that rendered other activities obsolete. Here it was, appearing before him in its ridiculous sublimity, plastic with magic in it.
Living in the stateless state of Taiwan, new directions were forged by none other than the ubiquitous MTV. MTV then, became not reprehensible as a façade of western commercial music, but is rather commendable because of it. The juxtaposed sequences of sounds and video formed the vectors of Tzusing’s music consciousness. Any random sample of MTV Asia might be revealed to include a sequence of super-bubblegum canto-pop, white suburban heavy-metal, ghettocentric rap from Compton, Reggae from the UK, no recursive function can be drawn to account for such properties. The hyperfluidity of Tzusing’s early “listening” sessions at home provided thus for the schizo-multiplication of musical interests and direction.
With the 00’s came a number of major encounters. Early exposure to the music of Steve Reich gave expression to the sorts of experiments that Tzusing could not resist immersion within. Moving finally to North America where he still resides, the emergence of techno in the burgeoning Chicago scene, through Magda, Tadd Mullinix, Diplo, and Theo Parrish provided the key influences for the present set of constructions and elemental forms.
At the present stage of the experiment, Tzusing attempts to prepare species of the minimal techno sort. But undoubtedly, the present arc is far from hygienic. Sources from hip-hop, rock music, and the occasional samba line condense within and without Tzusing’s mental states. The future will inevitably include multiple transformations, each as fluid as past and present lines.