2011.11.18 [SFL] SAFE pres Bodycode aka Portable @ Electric Pickle 11.18.2011

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Posted by infizero on Nov-04-2011 17:43:

2011.11.18 [SFL] SAFE pres Bodycode aka Portable @ Electric Pickle 11.18.2011

BODYCODE is PORTABLE
PORTABLE is BODYCODE

LIVE.
MIAMI DEBUT.

Friday November 18. 2011
10PM

SAFE
presents

Portable aka Bodycode : LIVE

(S�d Electronic, Perlon, Spectral, Naif, Karat, Scape, Background, Yore )
Lisbon, Portugal

The Electric Pickle
2826 N. Miami Avenue
Miami Arts District

For More Follow:
@SAFEmusic

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Alan Abrahams AKA Portable AKA Bodycode has been in motion his whole life�growing up in South Africa, coming of age in London, decamping to Berlin and finally settling in Lisbon�and his deeply syncopated brand of electronic dance music has evolved with every step of the journey.

His formative years were spent in an impoverished Cape Town township ironically tagged �Beverly Hills�, and to the backbeat of the first wave of Chicago house records he emerged out of the ruins of a post-apartheid South Africa. Inspired musically, yet frustrated geographically, he relocated to London in 1997.

In London, Abrahams began recording as Portable, the experimental, atmospheric project that acts a living link between the indigenous sounds of his youth, and those first records whose futuristic aesthetic broadened his horizons. He founded the S�d Electronic label with his partner Lerato and released a string of 12″ releases. A succession of full-length albums followed - Cycling and Futuristic Experiments #005 on Background, Version on ~scape records, and the Powers of Ten for S�d Electronic in 2007. A rich and expansive record, Powers of Ten further explored his African heritage through a new lexicon of sonic influences, acquired from his home base in Portugal.

Upon moving to Lisbon, Abrahams conceived of Bodycode, a more dancefloor-centric project that complements Portable�s headier textures with a more body-moving aesthetic. As Bodycode, Abrahams harnesses his desire to �unlock the psyche via the body,� layering tech-funk with wisps of melody, heady effects, and a liberal wash of otherworldly vocal samples. Somewhere between the beats for the body and melody for the soul, Abrahams believes, lies the Bodycode. The result was Bodycode�s first full-length, The Conservation of Electric Charge, a whirlwind of percussive, multi-layered techno released on Spectral Sound in 2006. After a three-year absence, Abrahams resurrected the moniker for second Spectral full-length, 2009�s Immune, an intricately textured album of vocal-laced house. �I just felt it a good time for a warm, nurturing aesthetic,� says Abrahams of Bodycode�s shift in tone, �We need that right now.�

2011 so far witnessed Alan Abrahams exploring the experimental outer reaches and the innermost dancefloor sensibilities of both Portable, and Bodycode.

Listen to the RA.EX059 Podcast from October 2011:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podc...spx?exchange=59

http://residentadvisor.net/dj/portable
http://listn.to/portableakabodycode
http://twitter.com/portacode
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Porta...121545827886922
http://myspace.com/bodycodemusic
http://discogs.com/artist/portable