Submitted By: insr

Genre: Techno

Date of Set: Apr 14th, 2008

Filesize: 123.91 MB

Total Downloads: 13

Insr (real name: Sanjay) hails from Austria (Austria that is - no kangaroos in Austria - mind you) and has discovered his love for electronic music at the delicate age of 11, when he got his first hifi for his birthday and started buying CDs, samplers like dream dance and future trance. As soon as the shallow trance sounds started to bore him, a period of rock, hiphop, metal and industrial followed. The latter paving the way for what came next - drum and bass - techstep in particular. Instantly he got sucked into the dark and intelligent beat structures of the likes of Ed rush+Optical, Dom&Roland, Photek, Paradox, and the industrial atmosphere these London-based artists have been creating with their music between 1996 - 2000. Labels like Prototype UK, No U-Turn, Metro, Virus, Metalheadz, 31Records - just to mention a few - led him to concentrate on drum n bass solely and exclusively - every week he'd run to the local recordstore and check each and every new release - even though he did not even call a pair of decks and a mixer his own then - not yet.

After graduating from school he 'sacrificed' a trip to Turkey with his classmates, for the sake of finally being able to afford a decent pair of decks and a mixer. From that point in time onwards his musical preferences progressed from techy dnb to a mixture of techy and mellow dnb (Klute, Calibre, Commix etc..) - music for the mind, as Dev Paradox would say. Unsatisfied with the more recent output in dnb, he tried to keep his sets oldschool-ish. Nevertheless, this discontentment eventually developped into frustration with the (at the time - mid-2006) state of the music/scene he loved/loves - it seemed to him that modern artists believed that swingbeats, bleepy sounds and eardrum-penetrating-lead-synthies had become more appealing to the audience than clever beat structures and atmospheric soundscapes. Judging by what he had seen on recent raves - those artists were right. That's when he subconsciously decided he had to move on and his DnB purism vanished.

He remembered a quotation by an undoubtedly great man;' it's the gaps between the sounds, that make them sound bigger,' and what he had admired drum n bass for - using few elements, arranging them wisely and thereby making the tune as a whole sound interesting - minimalism - something that could be found in techno much rather than in modern dnb. As a logical consequence, Insr had started buying minimal/progressive/whatever/techno vinyls by late-2006. His love for dnb has never parted him, so at present he's focusing on drum and bass and techno, the latter consuming a larger percentage of his budget and time however. DJs that inspire him at present; Oliver Koletzki, Karotte, Gregor Thresher, Alex Smoke, Dominik Eulberg, etc.

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