Emile Strunz
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Biografía
- Taking the sound of electronic body music and slo-mo Balearic techno into the 21st century, Emile Strunz has set his stall out with a range of synth-heavy lo-slung hypnotica designed to demolish dancefloors.Emile Strunz was born on the dancefloors of Spain and Germany and amidst the dry ice and strobes at many a Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb gig. Exposure to the UK's club scene over an 18 year period also saw Emile contribute to Mixmag and write press releases for the Cream empire whilst interviewing Moby, Richie Hawtin, and Depeche Mode's former sonic architect, Alan Wilder, for his Clubs column whilst at university. A sound slowly developed over this period - driving controlled electronic sequences, tribal rhythms, and robotic chanting. A sound that found favour in the underground house and techno scene in London. His debut single, Shields, released on Andy Blake and Joe Hart's excellent World Unknown label was a first introduction to his hard, heavy and hypnotic electronic sound, and reached number 1 on Juno Records' Electro House Chart. "Shields" sounds like that exact point when EBM and nu-beat was on the verge of becoming house music... Or perhaps when Paul Oakenfold decided that sluggish acid house was what the world needed (think of his Happy Mondays "Wrote For Luck refix" - Piccadilly Records "Take a glance at the biography and Soundcloud of Emile Strunz and it's apparent the producer has been fine tuning a well chosen approach to his craft over some time, culminating in the quite excellent "Shields." A solid mid tempo jacker of a track driven by a liquefied arpeggio, the unhinged vocal chanting that sits deep within adds the requisite idiosyncratic touch we've come to expect from the label run by Blake and Hart." - Juno Records. “Sin City” is the Antler Records guys doing pre-crack Al Jourgensen. - Test Pressing.org After a stunning DJ mix on Paul Hughes and Adrian Luvdup's Salford City FM's Eclectic Circus show, the rest of 2012 and early 2013 sees Emile Strunz release his North Sea Body Music EP on Flight Recorder, mixed at his summer retreat on the mouth of the River Tyne, a politically-charged double A side on the enigmatic Porn Wax label hit Number 3 of Juno Records' Techno Charts at the end of November, and he also stars alongside Ali Renault, Chamboché, and Rebel Soul Collective on the debut Rothmans EP. A debut album is in the pipeline