At 11:19 AM 5/30/2000 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 4 lines Hi to all,>Hi to all,
>Can anyone help with a description of Voiteck's music. I found it in a store
>in N.O. but passed on it for the new Sutekh instead. I'm pretty sure it's an
>idm-ish outfit.
I wouldnt consider Voiteck and idm-ish outfit but rather
a solid minimal techno producer.
Here is a Voiteck Anderson interview done by Phylistine
(fix8@tartarus.uwa.edu.au). I figure it should answer all
your questions. I added a discography and a contact email
at the bottom.
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VOITECK ANDERSON INTERVIEW...
Voiteck Andersen is one of the most brilliant and challenging techno
artist in Australia today. Based in Melbourne he is responsible for
releases on Plug Research, Harthouse, Primate, Undefined as well as a
host of local labels. He also runs and releases material on his own
label Truck Musik one of the first underground techno labels to operate
in Australia.
Covering a vast expanse of styles and sounds, Voiteck has released
material ranging from an ambient album to the blistering percussive
mind-terrorism of his latest album Live at your mama's which showcases
segments of his live shows from '96-'98.
Concessions to the conventions of style and genre don't form a part of
his creative process, rather Voiteck is interested in pure and original
expression.. "I don't sit down and say I'm making a minimal track
because that's what's happening, trance was then and techno is now, so I
gotta roll with the times. Not at all. To me I make the track and
whatever's coming out of me - whether its aggression or whatever, I'm
trying to express basically the way I feel. If its minimal its minimal,
if its rocking its rocking, if I'm in a driving mode whatever mood I'm
in basically I try and express that as purely as I can without putting
bull shit into it." This approach is most apparent on his 1997 release
on Plug Research the Liquid Paper EP, the sounds of which were dynamic
and distinctive - neither recognisable, capable of categorisation or
safe. The brilliant A side 'rusty swing' consisting of layers of
clashing mechanical drum loops and wrenching analogue synth melodies,
received widespread underground acclaim.
Remarkably, the release was only possible because Voiteck was having
difficulty acquiring Plug Research records and decided to contact them
directly. "I was trying to order records off them and they wouldn't
answer me, and then they asked me for a tape - I don't how they knew
that I make music. Suddenly my record came out before I could buy their
records."
This month will see the release of two more 12"s of outstanding techno
on Voiteck's own Truck Music label with Voiteck in schizophrenic mode as
'Voiteck vs TD5'. After discussions with Claude Young while he was on
his Australian tour earlier this year, Voiteck is also looking at the
possibility of a European tour next year. "The thing was that finally
someone who is into my style of music or who knows where I'm coming
from, my ethics, the hardship we go through as artists, was able to
tell me more, give me more information about what's happening in Europe.
Where my records are going, and he basically said to me 'what the hell
are you doing get your arse over there', so I'm planning a tour next
year, early next year." Having already played live in support of Aphex
Twin, Speedy J, Jeff Mills, Claude Young, Stacey Pullen, Luke Slater and
Derrick May and at over a hundred other live shows Voiteck's reputation
as an innovative and skillful live artist is sure to be cemented by a
successful European tour.
Voiteck also says that the majority of the material on his truck
releases was three to four years old, but that it was essential that he
release the tracks that he considered landmarks in his evolution as an
artist. "In a few years, ten years ahead, I look at a record and it
shows me where I was at as a person. What stage I'm up to in the
development as a human being almost, how I'm evolving and that to me is
art. Life is an art form in a way, to live life... people are artists
you know, you have to be an artist to live a life basically, life is
art."
In the last year appearances on brilliant LA label Plug Research and
the widespread success of his live album have increased Voiteck's
profile and established his position as one of Australia's premier
producers. His drive and passion for music is sure to see the
continuation of his unique and successful blend of experimental analogue
sounds, ambient atmospherics and driving beats. Or as Voiteck puts it,
the exploration of 'abstract forms, innovative complexities and
extremes' will continue to propagate 'into expansive realms of analogue
music, chewy mechanical elements and resonant percussive motion.' There
is activity beneath the surface. Indeed.
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Voiteck releases:
. Voiteck: Krylon 12" (Truck Music)
. Voiteck Andersen: De Droid cd (Truck Music)
. TD5: Momentum 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5: 4th Rail 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5: Activity Below The Surface 12" (Truck Music)
. Voiteck: Live at Your Mama's cd (Truck)
. TD5: Smudge Wars 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5: Electruck 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5: Battle Square 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5: Flat 5 12" (Truck Music)
. TD5 vs Voiteck: Self Discipline cd/2x12" (Truck Music)
. Meccano: Tribal Mechanics 12" (Truck Music)
. Voiteck: Train Games 12" (Truck Music)
Voiteck Anderson releases on other labels:
. TD5: liquid paper 12" (Plug Research)
. TD5: Criminal Damage 12" (Off The Wall)
. Voiteck Anderson: Monorail 12" (Bush)
. Voiteck: Motor Dreams 12" (Knee Deep)
. TD5: Juvenile 12" (Primate)
. TD5: Switch Stance 12" (Primate)
. Voitech Andersen: Voiteck 12" (Undefined)
Plus a host of compilation appearances on labels
like Plug Research and Undefinied to name just
a few...
In case you want to conact him his email is voiteck@hotmail.com
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