Chris Sattinger early electronics

3 December 2004

When I listen to tapes of my late 80s stuff, it all sounds like electro. At the time, that
was just beats. And I got my electro from Keith LeBlanc and Adrian Sherwood.

1987 Acid House hit minneapolis via Kevin Cole's House Nation / Depth Probe which dropped the extreme noise as well as the divas from 1987 all the way through 1994.

But you know it was cool sounds but too many cheesy samples to be serious... But made some tracks to try it out. By 1991 Underground Resistance gave it the final stamp of cool. Many of us plunged in. The midwest was into hard shit ! Went to London in 1991. What the hell were all these italian pianos ? Rave ? Cheesy. Didn't hear anything hard and intense like what we were into. Still, the breaks were killer. Meat Beat Manifesto's Babylon leaked into the London underground.

  • First release on a CD: Happy As Hell on Instinct's best selling Trancefusion compilation.
    Which was actually a laid back trancey mix of a brutal ear shredding hardcore monster. But Instinct wouldn't have touched that...

I played guitar in a My Bloody Valentine type band (Fauna) just so I could tell girls I played in a band. It worked. Otherwise if I told them I did Techno, they all assumed I was gay. 4 years later those same girls were all trip-hop djs.

Got burned out on the brutal thud of the kick and decided to escape to an experimental breaks driven ambient sound.

  • Released several tracks as mothering noise in 1994, again on Instinct compilations (Plug In Turn On). These remain for me strong and beautiful.

Then started making slower, funkier techno. Richie Hawtin was going to release some of the Mothering Noise stuff on Probe, but in the process of listening to stuff we ended up going with this experimental house stuff...

  • first EP Mono Ekagra, nice, but looking back, we should have put out the experimental ambient breaks.

but that got me started back on ... %techno#Chris Sattinger techno%


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Solar Life Raft Ingredients

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The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)

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The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.

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