Known as one of the godfathers of Detroit Techno he is actually from Windsor Ontario. Also works under the name Plastikman and has been working on a series of releases which explore the way that the art of DJing has progressed in the last 5 years, where a live DJ can use an enourmous array of EFX and samples triggered by computers to add to the beats produced by drum machines or recorded tracks. This is the 3rd in the series DE9 :Transitions.
As he says in the liner notes; "the exploration of the transition is not only limited to the X and Y (time and amplitude) planes of sound but also in the Z plane(depth) of space."
It is an amazlingly layered creation which takes minimal techno to a new frontier. The piece is actully 96 minutes long which can only fit on a DVD, but the set we played was from the CD version, tracks 16 thru 21. There are so many original tracks of music listed for every one track on this cd that it would take way too long to list the whole set!!
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