Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Stewart Walker's been around the world at least twice in the last 12 months, performing in locales ranging from rural Australia to New York City; Tokyo to Szcezcin, Poland. Banging out his signature blend of rhythm and melody to party people and technophiles alike.
In 2007, Persona Records is eager to present Stewart Walker's new album "Concentricity." Commemorating his 10th year of making records and performing, Concentricity contains 10 all-new tracks of detailed electronic dance music representing the many facets of his musical personality, some of which we've heard before and some which are completely new. Downtempo, Techno, Ambient ...he's been there and left his mark in every area with recordings on such legendary labels such as Minus, Tresor, and Mille Plateaux. But aside from the history, aside from the old touchstones of "midwest techno" and "berlin" and "minimalism," here's the new stuff. Artists must choose to grow or to languish.
Concentric circles grow upon each other. From the core of early innocence grows layers of experience. From an interest in music grows into studying synthesis, drum programming, and then multi-tracking. Spreading from the studio to the stage with live shows: fir st with hardware when everybody else was DJ'ing and computers couldn't hack it, and presently with the newest tools. In 2003 came "Live Extracts," a testament to this love of live. Rumours circulated early last year that Stewart was working on the follow-up to that landmark, but what grew out of the early idea of a sequel was something else entirely. Not content with the "fla tness" of so many contemporary tracks, the orchestration grew more baroque, with a rebirth of structure and dynamics. More highs and more lows, and a broader timbral palette.
Finally, the individual tracks were then combined into a perfect mix despite warnings from the industry that "nobody wants mix CDs these days." Techno is made to be mixed. He even threw in some reversed kickdrums as a way to say "What's up, Richie!"
Mixing the personal touch and the propulsive rhythm. This is the future of future-music, and this is what Persona Records brings you.
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