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Blow Your Own Way featuring Stewart Walker LIVE (USA)

Author: events@tranzfusion.net
Thursday, January 19, 2006
"Welcome to the moment when things turn real. A year break, the fifth Blow, the fourth international. The music has changed but the modus operandi remains. Defy the standard and herald the cutting-edge. Forward the frontier as you mess it up and misbehave. Rein In Chaos and then Click To Next Frame. From the USA to Berlin, from tomorrow to today… Bring Back The Buffalo and Blow Your Own Way."

Stewart Walker is the complete package. His ultra-tight, crystaline productions can be found on pretty much all of the leading forward thinking techno labels: Tresor, Force Inc, Mille Plateaux & Richie
Hawtin's M_nus imprint to name a few. He has performed all around the world to rapturous global response, including the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in front of a million people and the Tokyo Crossover Jazz Festival where he left several thousand people in complete awe. His live performances in Germany and throughout Europe, a tour de force of style and power, are becoming the standard by which to measure in today's every-evolving world of electronic music. Every variation comes as a reaction to his crowd: their feedback and energy driving the direction of each arrangement. The music itself is as stirring, funky and soulful as any electronic music you are likely to encounter. He runs his own groundbreaking label: Persona. He has influenced pretty much all of the artists that are associated with clever music and continues to bring fresh musicality and an outspoken voice to an
otherwise complacent techno scene.

Joining Stewart Walker will be deftly innovative minimal bleep funk extraordinaire; J P Larue, Melbourne's most talented, musically astute and ever-humble proponent of minimal house; Damian Laird, steadfast techno iconoclast with a fresh minimal aesthetic; the brilliantly skilled Dallas Raft, and MTC mover and shaker, scene-saver and techno groove maker; Sam McEwin.

Stewart Walker Biography

Born in 1974, Stewart Walker began toying with music at an early age, writing songs at the age of 5 about his ambitions to become a rock star. Years of structured guitar and piano lessons afforded Stewart a strong musical background and the ability to gain aptitude from later experimentation.

High school and college were defined by frequent day trips to record shops, sifting through used bins hoping to snag the new promo cutouts of the day, and late nights spent sitting in front of his guitar amp with the reverb turned all the way up. About midway through this time, he became conscious of the electronic music bouncing around the college radio airwaves. Habitually tuning in to hear a techno-pop, industrial and EBM show plus one focused solely on house music, Stewart began recording tracks from these programs that he found inspiring. In 1992 he bought his first drum machine and became infatuated with plugging it into his guitar amp and manipulating beats for hours.

The fascination with electronic sound grew into an obsession and before long it became essential for Stewart to purchase his first sampler. Using this piece of equipment he started constructing music in a sequencer and as a result, his tracks started progressing into the techno genre. His earliest releases from 1997 appeared on Detroit's Matrix Records and shortly afterwards came his first European release. This period was marked by great productivity as Stewart had finally quit his day-job to pursue making music on a full-time basis.

With his records gaining popularity among DJs, he began accepting offers to perform live locally, which resulted in a slight predicament. The dilemma Stewart faced was how to perform live using his limited studio setup. Lacking a DJ background, he found his initial performances intimidating yet educational for it was early on that Stewart gained an appreciation for the vitality generated from crowd interaction at live performances. This energy was non-existent in the studio, but he noted its influence on his sound and consider
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