Decimal - Live PA - Projekt - Milwaukee US - Sep 2008

Biography of Decimal

Hailing from the industrial quarter of Northwest Indiana, confirmed drum brainiac Decimal, also known as David Spacek, began his love affair with electronic music at 15. In the years that followed, Decimal was inspired to produce his own tracks. Following a move to Chicago in 2007, the producer and DJ began to refine his sound. Today he is helping reaffirm the city’s place on the international techno map.

Decimal strives to deconstruct, analyze, rebuild, and reshape theory and technology searching for new directions in techno. Taking cues from the sounds of Detroit, Sweden, and Birmingham, he wraps muscular grooves around experimental rhythm arrangements. Exploring fresh ideas in kinetics and sound design, his tracks stay true to space and minimalism. Today Decimal expands upon powerful technique and research to reinvent the experiences of both performer and audience with his relentless live sets. His combination of experimental spatial distortions and complex rhythms has earned him a growing reputation as an inventive producer and engaging live performer.

Decimal’s Live P.A.s blur the boundaries between techno and house, with moments that range from deep and dreamy to rowdy and percussive. With an academic approach to music partially inspired by deconstructionist philosophy, he breaks techno programming into bizarre asymmetrical loops, all the while holding down a groove. His live performance is driving, hypnotic, and improvisational; using a combination of hardware and Ableton Live, he completely restructures and re-loops his productions on the fly, creating a unique dance floor experience each time he rattles the bass bins. As he continues playing to clubs and underground events in all corners of the Midwest, word is quickly spreading about his sophisticated performance technique.

Decimal’s first release on Minneapolis-based Enemy Records, 'Small Moving Pieces,' earned him international attention, and his follow-up E.P. has been burning up dance floors at the hands of some of the world’s most respected figures in techno. His hypnotic jam for the early morning hours, 'Idiosynkratik” was recently licensed for M.A.N.D.Y.’s Fabric 38 mix. In 2008, Decimal will continue to expand his repertoire by exploring a diverse range of sounds, and will soon unleash both collaborative and solo efforts for Soma Records, Enemy Records and Mihalis Safras’s Material Series.