LOD
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Biografía
- In a place far, far away from the MTV streams we find LOD, Luis Ortiz more experimental sideshow. This is Solid minimalism tickling your ears for more, keeping you in a constant alert and full of expectation of what`s going to happen next. Luis Ortiz r..Luis Ortiz, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria en 1974, works as a musitian sijce 1990. He have lived for more than 18 years in different International cities like Dublín, Londres, Boston, Los Ángeles, Barcelona, Berlín and nowadays he has return to Canary islands, his home land, from where he manages his different projects who´s main characteristc is the serach of new sonorities and structures keeping the listener in a constant alert and full of expectation of what`s going to happen next. On 2000 he starts Klitekture records, Minimal sound art referent with artists such asits his first and most loved label that includes the works of artists like Sutekh, Mikael Stavostrand, Frank Bretchneider, Thomas Brinkman, Mapstation, Krikor, Deadbeat, Johan Skugge, Tomas jirku, Tonne, Pep gaya, Andreas Tilliander and LOD himself dedicated to create clicky music for minimal minds under a conceptual format and sustained with techno influence rhythms decorated with gltichness. Most of these artists are now icons of electronic music with a unique and personal style. In 2004 While living in Barcelona he creates Sinergy-Networks, a netlabel based on the synergy theory who affirms that the combined power of a group of things when they are working together which is greater than the total power achieved by each working separately. Sinergy-networks counts with more than 100 artists and was nominated as best label in 2007 at Qwartz Awards (París) along with other wellknown labels like Touch, Staubgold, Ant-zen who´s artists roster incluyes Ryuichi Sakamoto, Fennez, Mapstation, etc. Luis Ortiz have gain the respect of the International Electronic music scene for his enermous contribution as Label Manager for his labels sinergy-networks and klitekture, discovering new talents that have fed labels like Richie Hwatin´s Minus, Daypak´s Mosferry, Pole´s scape and many more. As musitian, with his LOD Project, he was also nominated on 2005 by Qwartz Awards in Paris in 2 different categories ( best track and new Discovery ), a year later he receives a new nomination as best track of 2006 and he becomes in one of few selected artists to be nominated in different years for what he was invited to perform with his Project Krater during the awards ceremony. As LOD he has released his music in labels from Japan, Germany, France, Canada, Rusia and spain with great feedbacks from specialized press like Debug (germany), Groove (germany), The Wire (UK), Traxx ( Spain/france), Cyclic Defrost (Netherlands), etc gaining respect from artists like Richie Hawtin, Daypak, Jeff Milligan, Ellen Allien, Angel Molina, Joel Mull, etc In 2006, after many years working as a solo artists, he decides to create new projects with different conceptual approaches inviting other musictians and visual artists like Krater, Fehlfaktor, Oranda plus the close collaborations with visual artists Amanda Lopez. In all forms of colaborations music and video are treated equally working closely from the early stages of any type of production to create Taylor made audio-visual compositions. Luis Ortiz have performed at most prestigious international festivals for this genre of music like Sonar (Barcelona), Observatori (Valencia), Superdeluxe (Tokio), Colours Studio (Tokio, Japón), Electro-Mecánica (San Petersburgo ), Shanti (Moscú), Festival de Mayo (Guadalajara, Méjico), Time Warp (Frankfurt, Alemania), Killekill (Berlín, Alemania), Qwartz awards (Paris, France), le lieu unique (Nantes, Francia), Dispatch (Belgrado, Serbia), .Musac (León, España) and many more. Check the performance page for a complete listing. Related Websites: Luis Ortiz Myspace site LOD Last fm page (Español) LOD Last fm page (English) LOD Last fm page (Japanese)̸RELEASES AS LOD ALBUMS LOD-LEVEL OF DETAIL – SINERGY-NETWORKS SN050 LOD/LAVA – SINERGY-NETWORKS SN020 EPS LOD-SABADO GRIS - KLITEKTURE KLK008 LOD-4WD – KLITEKTURE KLK006 LOD=LUISORTIZ – MODELISME16 LOD=LUISORTIZ – MODELISME18 LOD/SABADO GRIS – MINUS –N 003 (JAPAN) LOD/BERN/GURTZ – Electroide - sinergy-networks.com 005 REMIXES / COLLABORATIONS AND COMPILATIONS LOD`S remix of franco cinellis sense – MOSFERRY (Germany) SARAH GOLDFARB - LOD REMIX - sinergy-networks sn018 FRANCO CINELLI - LOD REMIX - sinergy-networks sn016 LOD/GURTZ/FUNZION/BERN/MARKO FUSTENBERG/THEODOR SOX/PHEEK – Thinnergy – thinnerism 074 LOD/GURTZ/FUNZION/BERN/M. FUSTENBERG/THEODOR SOX/PHEEK – Thinnergy – synergy-networks 017 LOD-esponja - minus_n (japan) LOD-grey-antmanuv compilation (Canada) LOD/TONNE/MIKAEL STAVOSTRAND/MOLAIR/GURTZ/FUNZION – Luteum remixes – synergy-networks.com 011 BERN/LOD – Historic - sinergy-networks.com 006 LOD/ABSTRACT GROOVE/SILENCE – Digitalized – sinergy-networks.com 003 LOD-Taylor – EPITOME vol 1 . Klitekture Records 005 (Las Palmas) LOD – guell – sinergy-networks.com 001 (Las palmas) LOD – Utopia - Up-Front 003 (Barcelona) LOD Sidecar Ruin records (Las Palmas) Luis Ortiz Taff Shag Homeless records (Los Angeles) RELEASES AS LUIS ORTIZ EPS LOD=LUISORTIZ – MODELISME16 LOD=LUISORTIZ – MODELISME18 LUIS ORTIZ + GREGORY SHIFF - CALIMA001 (Barcelona) REMIXES / COLLABORATIONS AND COMPILATIONS LUIS ORTIZ remix of Gurtz Noked on Calima002 RELEASES AS KRATER ALBUMS KRATER – HARMONIC TREMOR – KLITEKTURE 010 OWN LABELS: KLITEKTURE Klk001 SUTEKH – DEPOSITED TRAILS E.P. Klk002 MIKAEL STAVOSTRAND – FORMAT E.P. Klk003 DEADBEAT – DISASTER IN THE DANCEHALL E.P. Klk004 LOWFOUR,LOD, TOMAS JIRKU, PEP GAYA, JOHAN SKUGGE – EPITOME Klk005 TONNE – LILIUM L.P. KLK006 LOD – 4WD – WITH SUTEKH REMIX KLK007 PEP GAYA – EPTA(7) – WITH LOD REMIX KLK008 LOD – SABADO GRIS – KRIKOR. TOMAS JIRKU, PEP GAYA REMIX KLK009CD – TUPPERWEAR – BETON INSEL KLK010CD – KRATER – HARMONIC TREMOR KLK011 – TUPPERWEAR – KLEEN – WITH LOD REMIX CALIMA RECORDS CLM003 – THEODOR ZOX – LUIS ORTIZ REMIX CLM002 – GURTZ – NOKED – GREGORY SHIFF AND LUIS ORTIZ REMIXES CLM001 – LUIS ORTIZ + GREGORY SHIFF – SIROCO SINERGY-NETWORKS SN050 – LOD – Level of Detail SN049 – ALEX MEDINA - ARITMIC SN048 – HUB CREW – THE NEAREST AFRICA SN047 – CUBENX - ASLEEP SN046 – V/A - CONTAINER SN045 – THE SUFFRAGETTES - THOUSAND DAYS AGO SN044 – OL - Magnesium Silicate Polymer SN043 – RYO MIYAHSITA + SHO OKUYAMA - BLUE COLOR SN042 – MARTIN SCHULTE - ENIGMA SN041 – UN HOMBRE SOLO - AUSENCIA SN040 – KONTORASUTO SN039 – SMBP – THE LONG WAY TO AN ENDLESS SONG SN038 – LEAVEMOTTE - TABLECLOTH SN037 – LFO-ONE + ANDREAS STURM - ABSTRACT SN036 – LBLC - 3 SN035 – PEP GAYA – PREFIERO UNA MANTA SN034 – RSP -NASTROJE SN033 – SR REPLCANTE -RUDOS SN032 – ELECTROLIVING + MARCELINO- RANDOM SN031 – TEC_OVERFLOW - SEEK ERROR SN030 – LOD - 180º SN029 – ROMAN SKOK - EXPLORE SN028 – DROLE + SUMERGIDO - HOGAR SN027 – ANDREW DUKE - INBOX SN026 – DRONE - SINERGIES SN025 – LB^LC - ARCHIVE SN024 – NICO PURMAN - DESIREE SN023 – LAPLACEAUSOLEIL - WHITTERABBIT SN022 – EXOS + OCTAL - U CANT STOP TIME SN021 – THINNER VS SINERGY-NETWORKS - THINNERGY SN020 – LOD - LAVA (remixes by FAX, GURTZ, TUPPERWEAR, PT10, KRIIPIS TULO, ROMAN SKOK) SN019 – DILO VS ZENSIBLE - OSLO SN018 – SARAH GOLDFARB - ABSOLUT FUNK E.P. SN017 – SMBP VS SINERGY- GRACE E.P. SN016 – FRANCO CINELLI + SR REPLICANTE + NICO PURMAN + LOD + PEP GAYA + RAUL SUST – SENSE SN015 – BERN + RECEPTOR - RESPECT E.P. SN014 – ABSTRACT GROOVE + PEP GAYA + GURTZ - CONSEQUENCE E.P. SN013 – MOKIRA + KRIIPIS TULO + LOD + MIKAEL STAVOSTRAND - TATIKA REMIXES SN012 – FARK + LOD - CHICHARRO E.P. SN011 – TONNE + MIKAEL STAVOSTRAND + MOLAIR + LOD + GURTZ + FUNZION - LILIUM REMIXES SN010 – FABEL + KIMBERLY KLARK - SOUND SKETCHES 01 SN009 – ROMAN SKOK + PEP GAYA - SHIVER MY TIMBERS E.P. SN008 – FUNZION + ZENZIBLE BEATS CREW - TCP/IP SN007 – GURTZ + ZENZIBLE BEATS CREW - MICROSAURIO SN006 – BERN + LOD - HISTORIC SN005 – LOD + BERN + GURTZ - ELECTROIDE SN004 – TUPPERWEAR + ESTARQUI - CHIRATO SN003 – ABSTRACT GROOVE + LOD + SILENCE - DIGITALIZED SN002 – RECEPTOR + MIGUEL TUTERA + FRANCISCO FABREGA - COSECHA VIRTUAL SN001 – LOD + SILENCE - GUELL
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