Dr. Rek
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Biografía
- Since 1994 Dr. Rek has performed live, DJ’d, VJ’d, and live visuals in various cities in US and Japan. He loves Acid, produces and spins a lot of it. Dr. Rek's DJ sets are Gourmet, crossing genres, always with a dash of psychedelic funk and deep grooves.Dr. Rek is an intersex artist who began producing music, videos, and absurdity in 1994. In 1996 he began radio DJing, which he continued throughout college until 2002. Dr. Rek then started focus on the sounds, circuits, and videos for his own electronic explorations. During 2002 – 2006 Dr. Rek could be found projecting video, performing, DJing, VJing, and/or helping organizing the events of Icomplex and other experimental electronic music and art underground events in LA nearly every weekend. In 2005 he helped found the now dubiously infamous Burning Man theme camp, Monticello, aka The Royal Society of the Powdered Wig. Becoming their resident DJ during their progress thru the ages, he was a resident DJ on the art car, the Dodo Bus, Burning Man's 2010 winner. In 2006 he moved to Omura, in Nagasaki prefecture Japan, and started two new projects, Poopie Kewpie and Denki Poo. In the summer of 2008 he moved to Fukuoka prefecture and joined the monthly event yurUnity at Water Lounge, and founded the ATHED party that winter at Tsuti where he also VJed frequently. There he also had acid techno unit with hard off, called yaOya. In July of 2010, he moved back to the bay area and started the nomadic electronic monthly Gourmet, continued on with another event called TechAngle from 2013 - 2016, and recently has been resident DJing with the Rollin' On Wednesdays crew. Since 2018 Dr. Rek has dived deep back into live visuals with modular video synthesis at streaming and in person events, also producing video synthesis music videos for Daedelus, Wagon Christ, Secret Sidewalk, and Luke Vibert̸Various - Colundi every0ne (An Enchantment of Sonic Spells (Part 2 of 3) (Colundi 2020) Dr. Rek - Live at Chika Ikkai 2010 (Abbiz004 2017) Dr. Rek - Live at the Best Huggers Benefit (Abbiz003 2017) Dr. Rek - Cosmosurdity (Abbiz002 2015) Dr. Rek - The Business of Absurdity 12" EP (Abbiz001 2005) Various - BusinessCardCDR_01 (Phthalo 2003 as Derek Shybell)
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