Shed tekee sen kerran toisensa jälkeen. Saa teknon keinumaan.

Selitys löytyy ehkä miehen historiasta. Ensinnäkin, ikänsä puolesta, vuonna 1975 syntyneenä, mies on väistämättä marinoitunut hip hopin kultaisten vuosien svengissä. Shed on kulkenut UK hardcoresta Gabbaan ja sitä kautta Chicagoon ja Detroitiin. Jos kysyt häneltä itseltään, hän elää biittien, breikkien ja samplejen Bermudan kolmiossa ja pitää vuosia 1996 ja 1997 teknon kannalta hienoimpina.

Orgaanista, rentoa, vastaansanomatonta… Hikistä, mutta älyttömän tyylikästä. Shed on julkaissut viimeisen kymmenen vuoden aikana aika pinon, mutta laaduntarkkailu ei ole ikinä pettänyt.

Onko Shed kova livenä? Kyllä: tytöt tykkäävät ja perseet keinuvat.

//

Shed’s background is as classic as his music. Born in Frankfurt/Oder in 1975 – grown up in Schwedt/Oder, he was fascinated by the new music played on the radio in the early 90s - a very typical thing for anyone from this generation who grew up in Berlin or its surrounding counties. While everybody around Shed focussed on HipHop, he himself was addicted to the sample-based sound of UK-hardcore. Then there was a quick liaison with Gabba and through the back catalogue of Djax Up, he finally discovered Chicago and then Detroit. Deep inside the ever-fascinating triangle of beats, breaks and samples, he today identifies 1996/97 as the most important time in Techno for him, although he hit the brakes straight afterwards.

While the mainstream did what it could to commercialise the music, Shed closed the door on the Love Parade, remixes and mega raves. Between 1998 and 2002 he did not buy a single record. What followed was not rocket science. His first EP [2003] on his own Soloaction imprint sold well, soon after that he recorded two EPs for the Amsterdam-based Delsin label, and the more he released, the clearer his musical vision became, culminating in his debut album “Shedding The Past” on Ostgut Ton [2008]. Followed by “The Traveller” [2010], also on the infamous Berghain label, and a lot of excursions into dance-music under his well known aliases like WAX, Equalized or Head High now his third attempt ”The Killer” sees the light of the world on Modeselektors label 50 Weapons.

Shed is one of the few producers and DJs out there who know that you cannot write about
the future without a nod to tradition.