Special Guest Bruno Pronsato live www. brunopronsato. com
Bio Seattle producer Bruno Pronsato (aka Steven Ford) took several giant steps in 2005 toward the peak of the experimental techno mountain. Both on vinyl and onstage, Pronsato kept up a hectic pace of production and performance, catalyzing listeners and crowds in Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, throughout the United States, and a triumphant set at Montreal’s Mutek festival. Twelve-inches on esteemed labels like Orac, Musique Risquée, Milnor Modern, Philpot, and Telegraph further elevated his stature and built his international fan base.
A sound scientist whose work is equally playful and rigorous, Pronsato deploys a canny use of space and idiosyncratically fashioned rhythms to disorient and build suspense—like some 21st-century Miles Davis or Eric Dolphy of the laptop. Despite being a minimal-techno artist, Pronsato offers a palette that’s as full of unexpected patterns and meticulously rendered textures as a Wassily Kandinsky painting.
Pronsato’s compositions unsettle in original ways, yet they also slyly tickle funnybones. Often both humorous and erotic, his cuts are the wild cards that adventurous DJs pull out when they want to take the dance floor to strange new levels of motion. Therefore, Pronsato’s releases have become elite selectors’ secret weapons of beguilingly baffling quirkiness that still move asses.
Unsurprisingly, 2006 is promising to be as eventful as last year. As demand for his music has waxed, Pronsato has accordingly increased his productivity while maintaining his usual exacting quality control standards. March will bring Pronsato’s debut 12 for Hello? Repeat while summer 2006 will see EPs issued by Orac and Telegraph (watch for the last two editions of the four-part Limeworks series), plus another collaboration with Argentinean Franco Cinelli for Milnor Modern (Picaro, their first joint effort from late ’05, contains some of Pronsato’s most flavorful club bangers). A temporary residence in Holland will enable Pronsato to spend even more time in 2006 devastating European audiences with his uniquely psychedelic and funky techno live sets.
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Bruno is also 1/2 of the production duo Half Hawaii on Perlon with Sammy Dee from Berlin...here is a track that you might recognize, love this one here:
I've been listening to classical music for the last four or five years pretty strongly, but the last year I've been getting into the opera and listening to these crazy Anton Webern songs that are totally ing freaked out! Also I have a lot of friends who make music and they send me tracks. I'm really really loving Franco Cinelli, this guy from Argentina. He's always blowing me away with his new tracks. I'm probably the biggest Franco Cinelli fan. And the new Thomas Melchior album is ing phenomenal. It's just weird because when I went to the studio to give Thomas my album, he gave me his album. We had a meeting, like an album exchange. And so I went home immediately and put it on. His record is really, really moody, and deep and beautiful. It also tells a story, you know? It starts off very Melchior, very super housey, groovy, funky, and then it just gets so deep, and I dare say beautiful, you know? It's called No Future Disco. Thomas and I finished our albums around the same time, and I think we both sort of had the same sort of...
Idea?
Well, we never discussed it. But when I heard his album, I felt like he'd probably thought to himself that he wanted to hear some more music in techno. And I guess that's maybe my point. I love a lot of the tracks I hear out, but I could stand to here a little more music, you know?
Some chords and some keys.
Right, but then sometimes maybe I'm not in that mood either. And that could be tonight. Someone could play a big booty house track and I could be like, "Oh gross. I want to hear beats."
