The Unborn Series : Gene Hoffmann
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NOTE: This is a ‘semi-live’ DJ set recorded using Final Scratch 2.0, Traktor DJ Studio 2.6, Ableton Live 5.0, Allen & Heath Xone:32 and 2 X Technics SL-1200Mk2. Featuring the following tracks and samples; in alphabetical order (plus other as yet unnamed tracks, loops, samples, beeps and squeaks by Gene Hoffmann)
Tracklisting
Adam Beyer – A Walking Contradiction Pt 2 (Plus8)
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker Acid Edit (Warp)
Dominik Eulberg – Meanboy Remix (Plong!)
Donato Dozzy & Brando Lupi – Liquid (Orange Groove)
Guido Schneider – Removed (Poker Flat)
John Tejada & Justin Maxwell – Unpleasant Hardisc Surprise (Palette)
Lemon8 – Model 8 Remix (Basic Energy)
Marc Houle – Business (Minus)
Marc Houle – Kill the Pain Vocal Remix (Soma)
Mathew Herbert (Wishmountain) – Radio (Antiphon)
Monolake – Plumbicon (Monolake / Imbalanace Computer Music)
Persuader – What is the Time, Mr Templar? (Svek)
Sleeparchive – Elephant Island (Sleeparchive)
Someone Else – Bedroom Eyes (Foundsound)
Tekel – Sucrette Garden (Initial Cuts)
The Youngsters – Break Them Up (F-Communications)
Troy Pierce – Horse Nation (Minus)
Biography
Gene Hoffmann’s sound is constantly evolving. After flirtations with everything from acid techno to psychedelic trance in the late 90’s; Gene now finds himself spinning music with predominant techno, minimal, house and electro flavors.
Playing his sets using Final Scratch and Ableton, Gene is comfortable playing on 2 or 3 turntables; often fusing his minimal techno styled sets with quirky acid, tough house, glitchy electro or dark and dirty bass driven beats. All of what he plays is geared towards the dancefloor, and Gene is happy to experiment and cross genres during a set if the end product is complementary, entertaining and unique.
As an enthusiastic supporter of the Melbourne techno scene, Gene has drawn his influences from local Melbourne DJ’s including Slack, Slieker, Sam McEwin and Mike Callander and International DJ’s and producers such as Cari Lekebusch, Speedy J, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, Jesper Dahlback and Luke Slater.
After an apprenticeship playing house parties, outdoor events and pub/club gigs around Victoria, Gene founded Panic Stricken Bovine in 2000 and began running dance parties alongside ‘Decimal’ Dan Rachele and Matt Van Diemen. The Bovines ran many big and small scale events around the state, and are probably best known for their Wild Things 2 party, which attracted 4,000 party goers to Kryal Castle.
Gene has played around the globe; making noise at full moon parties in Thailand, discotheques in Indonesia and squat parties in the UK. He has played on invitation at Australia’s biggest and best dance music festivals; including Earthcore, Two Tribes, Enchanted Forest, AdventJah and Hardware events. Over one hundred thousand electronic music fans worldwide have downloaded his online DJ mixes.
Gene has been a regular guest on Australian radio and he has supported the very biggest names in the dance music business; including Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, The Advent, Chris Liebing, Joel Mull, Oliver Ho, Magda, The Hacker, David Carretta, Adam Jay, Tiga, Miss Kittin, The Prodigy, The Crystal Method, Slam, Blackstrobe, Mike Humphries, Heiko Laux, Lawrie Immersion, Thomas Schumacher, Deetron, Ben Sims, DJ Misjah and many more…
The Unborn Series : Gauss Control
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Tracklisting
Gauss Control – My sweet dream (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – The FreakStones (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – Between my legs (UNDRESS 01)
Gauss Control – Blonde (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – Aluche dub (Scuba Dive Music 01)
Gauss Control – Ultralinear (Livestuff.net)
Gauss Control – CO2 (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – FRTV (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – War Division (UNDRESS 01)
Gauss Control – The Old Shed (Unreleased)
Gauss Control – Broken Home (Deep Explorers 03)
Gauss Control – A (unreleased)
Gauss Control – Free Charles (Deep Explorers 03)
Biography
Andres Criado has been among cables, computers and stages for more than six years in the underground Spanish scene. Playing at great clubs and festivals in Spain and abroad. His evolution as a producer has been changing from tech-house to minimal-house. With some tracks in broken beats and deep house.
Gauss Control is, without doubt, an important name among the new talents growing in Spain. Some international sucess guarantees the quality of this young producer from Madrid, being listed in charts of recognised djs like Nacho Marco, Tony Thomas, and Jay Tripwire.
Andres plays a new concept of live/dj set. He uses Ableton live to play his own tracks and loops, but also unreleased tracks from friends or remixes. He works hard to perform live sessions of more than 2 hours. He only needs to carry his computer to gigs. Sometimes a notebook or a “fly-case-PC”, an AMD@2400 with TFT screen and PCI sound card (creamware Scope Home). All mounted inside a fly-case.
He also runs the label UNDRESS records which released it’s first record with a Jay Tripwire remix. Also, he is developing a new concept of net-label for ableton users (producers who play live-sets) – www.livestuff.net .
The Unborn Series : Dennis DeSantis
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Tracklisting
Dennis DeSantis – Malpractice (Reasons, Kanzleramt)
Dennis DeSantis – The Magdalene Laundries (Unreleased)
Meg – Scanty Blues : Dennis DeSantis Dub Mix (Mgrmx, Warner Music Japan)
Dennis DeSantis – Koro (Unreleased)
Dennis DeSantis – Variant (Clockwise, k2o Records)
Dennis DeSantis – Dig Button (VA – I Like To Listen, Thinner)
Dennis DeSantis – Five Minutes, Today, Forever (Unreleased)
Dennis DeSantis – Chickenhawk (Unreleased)
Paul Keeley – Lubya : Dennis DeSantis Mix (Sussex Blue, Thinner)
Dennis DeSantis – Suspend (Clockwise, k20 Records)
Dennis DeSantis – Warning Fatigue (Warning Fatigue, k2o Records)
Dennis DeSantis – Reflexive Calvinist Twitch (Transatlantic Nightclub, Thinner)
Wrench – Sound Aim Source : Dennis DeSantis Remix (Overflow, Victor)
Dennis DeSantis – Shifted ( Clockwise, k2o Records)
Dennis DeSantis – On The Gripping Hand (Transatlantic Nightclub, Thinner)
Dennis DeSantis – Priority ( Clockwise, k2o Records
Dennis DeSantis – Under The Wire (Clockwise, k2o Records)
Dennis DeSantis – The Parallel Power (Unreleased)
Dennis DeSantis – Promotion Of Vice (Clockwise, k2o Records)
Dennis DeSantis – Brahms Of Progressive (Unreleased)
Biography
Dennis DeSantis was born in 1973 in Warren, Michigan to parents who were semi-professional musicians with diverse and eclectic listening tastes. Every day, the music in the house would span from Beethoven to Joni Mitchell, Stravinsky to King Crimson. Dennis’s early forays into active music-making involved chewing on the piano bench. Somewhat later, after a series of unpleasant piano lessons and a failed venture into playing the horn, he began to focus on percussion and electronics.
At around the same time (somewhere in the early 1980′s), Dennis met and became friends with Andy Crosby (who now produces amazing electro under the name Spesimen, with several releases on his own Infocalypse label and a 12″ on the Dutch label Amici Curiae.) Together, the two of them began earnestly exploring the rapidly growing world of electronic music, with a particular focus on such artists as Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Eventually, Andy and Dennis ended up at different high schools and, inevitably, their musical interests began to diverge. Andy wisely followed the development of electronic music right back home to Detroit, while Dennis somehow missed the history that was being made around him, instead moving toward Euro/synthpop (New Order, Depeche Mode) early Industrial (Front 242), experimental music (Negativland), classical and jazz. He kicks himself daily for not noticing the incredible music being made in his own backyard.
While in high school, Dennis began to focus more seriously on composition. From 1989 to 1991 he composed, programmed, and played keyboards for an experimental jazz trio, and it was during this time that he began to discover just how much fun sequencers could be. In addition to his work with the trio, this early sequencer work evolved into a unique fusion of Tangerine Dream-esque ostinato patterns and groove-oriented jazz.
After graduation, Dennis attended Western Michigan University, where he majored in composition and music theory with an additional emphasis on percussion. It was here that he shifted his focus to writing for acoustic instruments – electronic music would take a backseat for the next several years. His listening interests expanded to include the Classical repertoire (particularly that of the Twentieth Century), non-Western music, and even more jazz, funk, soul, and R&B. In 1992 he became the drummer for the Kalamazoo band Knee Deep Shag, where he remained until 1995. That experience (as well as the fact that he was living in a house with four other percussionists) contributed greatly to his concept of rhythm and groove. Both situations however, were probably not so beneficial to the longevity of his hearing.
In 1997 Dennis headed for the East Coast to pursue a Master’s degree in composition at Yale University. Percussion was now in the back seat next to electronic music, and for the next two years his writing was almost exclusively for small chamber ensembles. Yale also gave Dennis his first real teaching opportunity, as an assistant for an undergraduate survey course in the history of popular music. While these years were compositionally productive, Dennis missed both performing and being in an environment where jazz and popular music were taken seriously. With the free time afforded by not playing drums (combined with the unexpectedly lax academic requirements), Dennis found himself with copious amounts of free time between 1997 and 1999. Some of this time was spent forming a new music production organization known as the Minimum Security Composers Collective with three Yale classmates. The rest of it was spent going back and discovering what had really been happening with electronic music in Detroit all those years. These discoveries led to more discoveries, and before too long Dennis found himself enmeshed in the beautiful electronic funk of Hawtin, Chain Reaction, and the like. He began, slowly, to make electronic music again.
After completing his degree in 1999, Dennis moved to Rochester, New York, where he entered the doctoral program in composition at the Eastman School of Music with an assistantship teaching electronic music. This job, combined with his rekindled interest in composing for computers, required that he remain up-to-date with the current developments in electronic music technology, and he used this knowledge to help himself design a home studio that was optimized for his working methods. Eastman also brought Dennis back to an environment with a vibrant jazz community, and before too long he was performing again, both as a percussionist in contemporary music concerts and as a drummer with funk and hip-hop groups. By 2001 he was performing regularly with (and serving on the administrative board of) Ossia, the student-run new music organization at Eastman. He also serves as a performer and administrator with the group Alarm Will Sound, with whom he has recorded the music of Steve Reich for Nonesuch and Cantaloupe Records.
Meanwhile, by the spring of 2001, Dennis had produced enough finished techno to feel comfortable about letting it be heard. Almost immediately after circulating some of these tracks online, he began receiving offers from DJs and independent labels. Inspired by the interest, he mailed a handful of proper demos, and by the end of the summer had received offers from labels on both sides of the Atlantic. He eventually signed with the Kanzleramt sub-label k2o, who released his debut 12″ “Deviant” in January of 2002. Selling out almost immediately, “Deviant” garnered rave reviews from De-Bug and Groove and has appeared in the sets of such luminaries as Dan Bell and Laurent Garnier. Other releases in 2002 included the “Promotion of Vice” 12″ in April, two tracks on the k2o sampler CD in May, a split 12″ with Tom Churchill on Headspace in September (which was charted by the likes of John Tejada and Fabrice Lig and was named a “Sureplayer” by England’s DJ magazine), a remix for Alexander Kowalski and the double-vinyl/CD release “Reasons” with Alex and Diego Hostettler in October (both on Kanzleramt.) Dennis’s debut album “Clock Wise” was released on k2o in June and quickly became one of the label’s top-selling albums.
In the summer of 2003, Dennis moved with his wife Alison to Berlin, where he maintains an active international performance and production schedule and works as a sound designer for Native Instruments.