On Friday May 2nd, 2008
Aspect Media & Summers Productions present


RESONATE


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Live Music by:
Stewart Walker (Persona Records, Tresor, Force Inc, Minus) Berlin, Germany


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.


From such humble beginnings, Stewart stepped up his knowledge of synthesis, drum programming and mixing. After a period of listening to and recording only freeform ambient jams, he picked up Jeff Mills “Live at the Liquid Room” and fell in love with rhythm again. This early enthusiasm for techno expressed itself in a line of recordings which were released first by Matrix Records in Detroit, and later by the labels Deepfried and Tektite. His first European release “Artificial Music for Artificial People” came out on Cristian Vogel's Mosquito imprint from Brighton, England.


While he was releasing his first records, Stewart was frequenting local clubs to study how this music could be performed as he had already decided not to DJ. So he brought his music on stage with the intention of doing what the DJs could not. That is change the music inside the records while they were playing. He took to the stage with an MPC-2000 and a DJ mixer, determined to rock a crowd using only his music, shaped by his own hands. This lead to a worldwide touring regimen hitting clubs in Asia and Europe as well as in his native USA.


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 started his own label Persona Records with the intention of bringing the human element back to electronic music. 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.


Persona released 11 records in the USA culminating in the second landmark album of Stewart's career entitled “Live Extracts” which aimed to capture his techno side heretofore only seen in his live performances. In 2003, “Live Extracts” was licensed by Tresor, which Stewart took as a sign that he should move his life to Germany in order to truly participate in the vibrant European techno community.


Persona restarted 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 breakbeat infused 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 showed him new environments in which 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. This is when he switched from the hardware setup of his early career to a computer based system with greater flexibility.


His latest full length album “Concentricity” was written during most of 2006 and released in 2007 as Stewart reconciled his multiple perceptions of the Berlin sound from past and present. He performs this music as a mix, since even the structural and song-shaped music he produces requires a context from which to emerge...


We are very proud to bring Stewart for his first ever Vancouver performance!


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With DJs:


Luke Summers (Summers Productions)
Kickapoo Sandwitch (Renegade/Soundwave) Victoria, BC
Snailrider (Standardmethod/Aspect Media)
Aspect Unknown (Aspect Media)


Visuals by Blunt Faktory & RIM Visuals
Full Color Laser by Aspect Media


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Location:
NoTofu @
#7 - West 2nd Avenue


Open 10 - Late


Earlybird Tickets $15
Advance Tickets $20
More at the door...


Tickets will be available at Beatstreet, Zulu and Cottonmouth and will go on sale Thursday, April 3rd...