#redshifter

I'm a member of some closed music nerd group on facebook and every so often we have a challenge, usually to produce some music with limitations. This time it was 'create a track not from your regular genre in one hour' (I think). This was in early 2015. Bonus point if you can work out where the sample is from.

Live recording of an hour of my set including live drum machine and spacey vocals similar to my Redshifter music.

The Eye of Jupiter is a great red spot made of swirling gasses on the largest of the planets in our Solar System. The oval object rotates counterclockwise, with a period of 14 Jovian days. It is large enough to contain three Earths. Stu Grant returns with a double-track EP both in his signature style of hissy detuned synths and rotating lead and bass lines sitting above heavy electronic percussion.

The Eye of Jupiter is a great red spot made of swirling gasses on the largest of the planets in our Solar System. The oval object rotates counterclockwise, with a period of 14 Jovian days. It is large enough to contain three Earths. Stu Grant returns with a double-track EP both in his signature style of hissy detuned synths and rotating lead and bass lines sitting above heavy electronic percussion.

"RDPHS004 - Block" by redshifter

Redshifter - Block - Red Phase Records. Redshifter's first release of 2016 is a single sided slab of mesmerising minimal techno track merging his signature hypnotic looping and pad based techno with the history of Detroit. Club techno that will massage your soul rather than rip it to pieces.

A bit of history...So a while back (late 90s) I ran a cool little label in the UK with my old mucker Chris. We weren't particularly prolific, and it was all a bit haphazard but as time went by our music was improving. Each release challenged the other to improve the other partner to improve the production and tracks. EMB008 was a bit of a weird one for us as somehow ended up having some kind of compilation and it knocked us back a bit. I was determined to follow up with a good release and this track on EMB009 is probably one of the strongest things I've produced, even up to this day. My plan for this was to start a new label, called Core Trax but for one reason or another I ended up deciding to knock this all on the head for a while and this was the final Embryo release. All in all a decent label and an interesting time in my life when I was 20. Chris obviously went on to do his stuff with UK Gold (I think) before retiring from techno production a few years later. This track was recorded back from vinyl (I do have the original DATs but of course they are unmastered and I don't have a DAT player) and I've just boosted the bass a notch to and added a limiter. Other than that it's untouched from the original Exchange mastering. It was all recorded live from 2 bar loops running from drum machines and other sequencers. No computers involved until today :-)

Redshifter - Gridlock - Red Phase Records. In the third and final release of 2015 Redshifter (Stu Grant) offers the first triple header EP of the series. Two minimal, deep and atmospheric techno tracks coming from different places but rooted in the club, and a third track, a hard dubbed out remix of Fallen which was previously a quiet bandcamp only release and supported by Joel Mull (drumcode), Andreas Florin, BEC and a number of techno residents around the world.