DJ: Luciano.Electronica producer Luciano specializes in microhouse, a minimal, somewhat heady version of house music. Yet Luciano's tracks are often embellished with Latin or tribal beats, on top of the already sophisticated layering he ...
DJ: Metro Area.Since 1999, New York-based production duo Metro Area (Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani) have been prime-movers of dance music's disco renaissance, debuting a series of singles that retraced the roots of house, back to the ...
Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot (1996, Penguin Recording, Pasadena, California).Easy listening pianist Bent Fabric raised some eyebrows when he won the Grammy for Best Rock & Roll Recording in 1962 with "Alley Cat," a pop instrumenta...
Detroit house music maestro Omar S is the subject of this installment of the Fabric label's excellent remix series. Omar S's productions are restlessly inventive yet always accessible, ranging into experimental glitch and bleep territory wi...
One of the great ironies of modern dance music is that so much of it manages to take itself and its decadence so seriously. So when Bootsy Collins shows up early on in the program to Claude VonStroke's contribution to the Fabric label's DJ ...
John Tejada was a techno legend by the time Fabric 44 came out, and this DJ mix program shows why: he's not only a genius at editing tracks so that a long string of unrelated source materials comes out sounding like a seamless piece of symp...
DJ: Simian Mobile Disco.Simian Mobile Disco are one of the few dance groups with little high-level DJing experience, which marks their edition in the Fabric series as one that comes with a few question marks. Would they have anything to ...
Personnel: Ben Westbeech (vocals).Additional personnel: Ian James Whitelaw, Meitz.Audio Mixer: Alexi Delano.Audio Remixers: Steffen "Dixon" Berkhahn; Georg Levin; Charles Webster.Recording information: The Squirrel Tower.Arra...
DJ: Ame.German electronica duo Ame have been mixing their love of house music with subtle IDM and experimental flourishes since 2004. FABRIC 42 (2008) continues to map the duo's journey, mixing in dub, jungle, and trance influences over ...
M.A.N.D.Y. is the Berlin-based duo of Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, a pair that has been working the German avant-club scene for years. Their contribution to the Fabric label's eponymous series is a weird and vaguely eerie set of techno ...
West Coast house master Mark Farina was long overdue for a Fabric mix CD, so one can only speculate that, mainly due to a lot of prodding and requesting from the many fans of the series, he finally has a studio mix for the always important ...
One of the most original voices of the second wave of Detroit techno producers, beginning in the early-`90s, Robert Hood made a virtue of stripping back electronic music's rave-addled excess. Hood's productions, including his groundbreaking...
Tyrant: Craig Richards, Lee Burridge.Personnel: Marc-Bryan Brown, Toni Economides (programming).Audio Mixers: Morgan Geist; Anthony "Shake" Shakir.Audio Remixer: Two Lone Swordsmen.Recording information: MMM Studios, London, Eng...
Like many DJs, Ewan Pearson has recorded under a variety of monikers: Maas, Dirtbox, Villa America. Contributing to the Fabric series under his own name, he picks up where minimal techno leaves off, applying a dubwise sensibility to songs a...