breakandenter + tempo present
A night of Live music
Saturday.April 26.2008
Featuring
Stewart Walker - LIVE
(Persona, Tresor, Force Inc, m_nus | Berlin)
(Discog | Releases | Audio | Video1 | Video2)
[a]pendics.shuffle - LIVE
(Adjunct, Mo's Ferry, Orac | LA)
(Discog | Releases | Audio1 | Audio2| Video )
Noah Pred - LIVE
(Thoughless, New Kanada, Fukhouse)
Intrepid Traveller - LIVE
(Recombinant, intrepidtraveller.ca)
evolve
(breakandenter.net)
jap_
(Tempo)
Details:
842 College St. W. Toronto
Doors at 10pm (party until late)
$17 limited presale
Ticket Outlets:
Slinky Music, Play De Record
Web Support:
http://www.tempo416.com
http://www.breakandenter.net
Mailing List:
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Facebook:
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Related Links:
http://www.personarecords.com
http://www.worldofkennethjamesgibson.com
http://www.adjunct-audio.com
http://www.newkanada.info
http://www.thoughtlessmusic.com
http://www.recombinant.ca
Stewart Walker Bio:
After selling his guitar and abandoning "lead singer" ambitions in 1993, Stewart Walker started to assemble a synthesizer-based hardware studio. He'd work his supermarket job during the day and come home to a dim room with blinking lights. Starting with a synth and a drum machine, he'd work the filter knobs or pitchbender while dreaming of standing on stage in front of a screaming audience.
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1999 included Stewart's debut "Nothing Produces Stark Imagery" on Tresor Records, and the now-classic album "Stabiles" on Mille Plateaux which cemented Stewart a seminal role in the development of minimal techno. Further releases appeared on labels such as Minus and Force Inc. In 2001 Stewart created his own label Persona Records with the intention to bring humanity back to electronic. After Kraftwerk, and Plastikman, he felt it was time to dispose of dehumanized avatars, and hopefully communicate human emotion through analog and digital waveforms, and occasionally the plucked guitar string.
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Persona restarted in Berlin in 2005, this time based in Berlin. Stewart was touring heavily; performing regularly in every European capital, plus new excursions to Australia and Russia. At this time, he released the downtempo album "Grounded in Existence" and the breakbeaty techno EP called "Travel Plaza." These releases showcased an increased maturity through greater attention to nuance, dynamics, and melody. Life in Berlin strongly renewed Stewart's appreciation of club culture, and new environments to enjoy dance music. Opposite of the hard and fast techno which inspired him in the early days, he explored the bubbling micro-rhythms and looser construction utilized by contemporaries while still bringing his own melodic interpretations and unmistakably American grooves. His live technology switched from the hardware setup of his early career to a computer with greater flexibility. "Concentricity" was written during most of 2006 as Stewart reconciled his multiple perceptions of "the Berlin sound" from past and present, and presenting the music as a mix, since even the structural and song-shaped music he produces requires a context from which to emerge.
[a]pendics.shuffle bio:
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp what's going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but don't expect. A rare stone in today's musical climate, Ken is rolling and collects no moss.
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In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After 3 years of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD "Random Activities and Broken Sunsets", a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers), and most recently as Kenneth James G., and KJ Gibbs for labels such as Mo's Ferry Productions, Adjunct, Resopal, Floppy Funk, Budenzauber, Orac, Mineral, Tigerbeat 6, Skor, Planet-Mu, g25/ Very Friendly, Proptronix, Headinghome, Shockout, Narita, Disco Inc., Mille Plateaux,Orthlorng Musork, Plateaux Resistance and Sunset Diskos...just to name a few.
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Currently Ken is living in Echo Park California and has been producing a ton of music and traveling around the world. He has also started his own label with Orac co-founder Konstantin Gabbro, called Adjunct. With Adjunct they are releasing what they call "computer funk", their own special brand of funky, minimal, avant-garde techno. Does all this you just read make sense? Maybe not in your world, but in Ken's world it's just another day.
