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Neil Landstrumm is pioneer of new electronic styles with a signature techno sound often copied and imitated, he has always been, and continues to be, a unique electronic artist. Neil has released records on a wide variety of electronic music's finest labels over the last two decades, and is one of the true innovators in techno. Highlights include 12″s and LP’s for Peacefrog, Tresor, Planet Mu records and Dixon Avenue Basement Jams. He has been a member of Optimo’s JD Twitch as Doubleheart, Sugar Experiment Station with Tobias Schmidt and Modini with Hostage. Essentially a live hardware based artist since the beginning of his career, he has toured internationally for the last 20 years with regular events in Europe, Japan and China. A native Scotsman, Landstrumm had lived in New York for a number of years, but is now based back in Edinburgh working from his own Witness Rooms studio. Links: https://neillandstrumm.cargo.site/ https://neillandstrumm.bandcamp.com/
Neil Landstrumm Wants to Save Us From Fossil Fuels On this episode of Rave Curious, the techno stalwart considers how we can help the world beyond the club. Neil Landstrumm has been releasing confounding techno floor-fillers since the mid-90s, with releases on Tresor, Planet Mu, and his own Scandinavia imprint. The Scottish producer has no obvious connection to the Northern European peninsula, despite the name of his label, but was closely affiliated with the wonky techno scene of UK producers like Christian Vogel and Si Begg in the late 90s. It's a sound that recently reemerged in conversation, in part because of a confounding absence of producers like Landstrumm in the recent Tresor 25th anniversary celebrations. "What bothered us was that not one of us was included. It's not me, personally," he says of the "brouhaha," but sagely states that labels come and go, "like booking agents. Ha!" Not that Landstrumm is sitting at home sulking. He continues to release music at the same pace he has maintained throughout his two decade-long career. He's also preparing for an existence after techno. Next step? Solving the fossil fuel crisis facing humanity.
This live-set is Fedka the Irritant and was aired on Friday January 24th, 2014 to an audience of fellow troublemakers. …Continue reading »
Scottish techno pioneer, Spannered associate and owner of one very fine hat, Neil Landstrumm last graced these pages when the site launched back in December 2006. Well, he's back with a splendid new live recording, put together in Edinburgh this month as a promo for his current Subs & Steel tour. The string of dates kicked off at the Today's Art festival last weekend, where he also performed for the first time with collaborator Milanese. On more of a broken tip than his previous studio mixes, the sound is still unmistakably Landstrumm, with all manner of spannered electronic rhythms freaking out under a storm of bleeps, bass and thick Jupiter 8 stabs. For current tour dates, check his MurdochSpace page. No tracklisting. ^ Read Spannered's 2006 interview with Neil Landstrumm ^ Read Overload Media's interview with Neil Landstrumm from 2001 ^ Listen to Neil Landstrumm's Ravestep studio mix, recorded in 2006