Time2Xpress with Peter Van Hoessen (Kinetic AM – Brussels) @ klubd nicosia
When it comes down to combining the best of many musical worlds, Peter Van Hoesen can say he’s been doing it for a while now. Deeply rooted in the Belgian electronic music scene as DJ and producer, he is considered by many as a man with multiple musical talents: from straight-up dancefloor jackin’ techno to advanced abstract electronica. His music has been released on his own labels Time To Express and Foton as well as through Berlin’s Lan Muzic and Brussel’s Meakusma. He is active as a DJ, producer, sound designer and composer for contemporary dance and theatre.
Arguably the most exciting thing to come out of Brussels since JCVD, Van Hoesen debuted in 2006 with the Increments EP on Berlin’s Lan Muzic label, and over the past four years has cultivated his own deep but reliably bolshy techno style. This applies to his DJing as well: much to FACT’s delight, he’s a selector unafraid to explore higher BPMs and revel in the intensification of funk that they bring. At the risk of sounding like a middle-aged man in an Underground Resistance hoodie, this is proper techno we’re dealing with.
The main outlet for Van Hoesen’s recordings has been his own Time To Express label, which has also provided a platform for releases from fellow dancefloor idiosyncratics like Sendai, Donato Dozzy and Cio D’Or. He’s also put out records on Morse and Komisch, turning out a number of remixes as well – the most notable for us being his fierce take on Ed Rush & Nico’s industrial d’n’b classic ‘Defect’.
Earlier this year Van Hoesen released Entropic City, his debut solo artist album, recorded at his Foton Studio in Brussels. Where so many techno producers flounder when it comes to making albums, Van Hoesen gave an excellent account of himself, successfully reconciling heads-down, club-oriented material with more unpredictable and investigative pieces. A coherent artistic statement that doesn’t forget to bang when and where it matters, Entropic City will almost certainly find its way into a number of critics’ Best of 2010 lists come December.
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