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Member Since: Oct 30, 2003
Rank: 2237
Rated 1222 releases, average: 4.64
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Profile: A Worldwide agent, journalist, and an enthusiast of the Brazilian electronic scene, Alain_Patrick grew up listening to Classical music, mostly Debussy, Mussorgski, Stravinsky and the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, under his parents influence. His mother was fan of Mozart, his father, a Jazz and Opera expert - that’s where he could listen to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday for the very first time - and his stepfather a musician devoted to J. S. Bach and Haydn’s oeuvres.

His ears were always eager to find new sounds. The first of them couldn’t be other than the experimentalist György Ligeti, who turned to be one of his primal avant-garde influences, since he was lucky enough to see Stanley Kubrik’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” on the very early eighties, with some of Ligeti’s masterpieces on the soundtrack – “Requiem For Soprano”, “Lux Aeterna” and “Atmospheres”. The minimal composer Philip Glass was another big reference, thanks to his mother, who would listen to his pieces recorded on tape during his way to school.

One day he discovered the streets and the radio. That’s where Funk, R&B, Soul and mostly Electro-Funk ruled back in 1983-1984, during the Break Dance Era. His favorite artists of the genre were Arthur Baker, Break Machine, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Hot Streak, Jellybean Benitez, Malcolm McLaren, Ollie And Jerry, Quincy Jones, Trevor Horn, ZAPP, among others. At the same time, the charming & soulful music from Barry White, Earth, Wind & Fire, Floaters, The, James Brown, Jocelyn Brown, Kool & The Gang, Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder infested the radios, influencing a whole generation.

At the end of the eighties, new influences of bands like Depeche Mode and New Order, as well as all the Acid House, New Beat and EBM scenes caught him almost instantaneously. Something seemed to be missing though - a more soulful and sophisticated perspective, with electronic / futuristic approach.

In 1989, his greatest friend Sylvain 'Acidman' Justum (the 'Gazza'), brought him the first album of Inner City, and nothing would be the same again. The rising of Detroit Techno & House would set change his life forever, as well as his old love for Breakbeats.

Since the very beginning of the nineties, the post Acid House scene made him start to look for the clubs, just like his companion Sylvain 'Gazza' Justum (A.K.A. Acidman): at U.S. Beef Rock, they met the young DJ Ricardo 'Mazinho' Almeida, and later the Frenchman Cedric Huet through a friend. His main ‘electronic’ influences are 4 Hero, 808 State, Alex Reece, Altern 8, Bam Bam, Cabaret Voltaire, Carl Craig, Chez Damier, Claro Intelecto, Clock DVA, Coldcut, Derrick May, Eddie Flashin’ Fowlkes, Eric B & Rakim, Fingers Inc., Future Sound Of London, The, Grandmaster Flash, Juan Atkins, Kraftwerk, Kenny Larkin, Kevin Saunderson, Kirk Degiorgio, Klinik, Larry Levan, LFO, Liaisons Dangereuses, LTJ Bukem, Mantronix, Marshall Jefferson, Masters At Work, Maurizio, Nightmares On Wax, Open House & Placid Angles, Orbital, Public Enemy, Rebel MC, Stacey Pullen, Stasis, Wax Doctor and Whodini.

After several years, his passion for music became his daily work. He collaborated for several electronic music sites such as www.rraurl.com, www.technopride.net, www.energybr.com.br, and was invited as a member of the Editorial Council of Beatz Magazine in 2004, one of the most important specialized magazines of Latin America, then directed to the official website management during the same year. www.beatz.com.br.
In 2005, he left Beatz to work with a DJ & Production School and Technology Center DJ Ban for some few months, so that he could use all of his knowledge and skills in the international electronic music scene to offer specialized and personal support to the DJs, producers and supporters in general. From 2005 to 2007, he integrated the SmartBiz For DJs team as an agent and responsible for the news and partnership between SmartBiz and DJ Sound.

Since 2002, he and some friends (DarkAge, DJ Robson, André Bacon & Dragonheart included) created the Aesthetic Nation Crew, and underground collective to support a music essentially conceived as ART.



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Portfolio:


DJ Manager, Journalist and Public Relations

Radio Sessions:

. The History Of R & S Records

. DJ Pierre (Phuture/Phortune) interview

. Steve Rachmad Interview

. Techno-Soul Sessions By Aesthetic

[b]www.beatz.com.br – Editor during the year of 2004

Interviews in portuguese: Acácio Moura, Alex S, Altern 8, Billy Nasty, Chris Liberator, Dex, Daniel U.M., Dave Angel, Dave Mothersole, Duet 4 Fun, Ian Pooley, Julião, K-Milla, Karl Bartos, Karsten John, Kevin Saunderson, King Britt, Layo & Bushwacka, Magal, Marcão (Clunk DJs), Marcio Zanzi, Nisek, Osunlade, Pure Science, Richard Bartz, Robson, Roger Rabbit, Ronald, Thomas P. Heckmann, Wagner J & Wander A (Colors).

Interviews in English (some of them are located just below the one in portuguese): Altern 8, Billy Nasty, Chris Liberator, Dex, Dave Angel, Ian Pooley, Karsten John, King Britt, Osunlade, Pure Science, Richard Bartz, Thomas P. Heckmann

Events coverage: Kraftwerk @ TIM Festival

Magazine articles:
Beatz 07: “Belgica: Do Poperô Ao EBM”
Beatz 08: Laurent Garnier Interview
Beatz 09: Layo & Bushwacka Interview
Beatz 10: DJ Murphy Interview

[b]www.discogs.com – Biggest International Electronic Music Vinyl & CD Database –

Profiles:

Altern 8
Billy Nasty
Dan Caballero aka DJ Dex
Dave Angel
DJ Di'Jital
King Britt
Osunlade
Pure Science
Richard Bartz
Vinyl Vibes
As 'Underground Front':
Exos

www.djban.com – Most important Technology & Cultural Center for DJs & Producers –

Interviews with:
Exos (Iceland)
Dan Physics (USA)
Vince Watson

DJ Sound:

SmartNews (DJ Sound nº130)
SmartNews (DJ Sound nº131)
(look on the 'SmartNews' column on the website).

www.d-edge.com.br
Interviews:
DJ Di'Jital
Steve Rachmad

www.energybr.net – Article Sessions – (go to ‘Artigos’ on the main menu)
De olho na Cena – “Hey, Joe!” por Werner Underground Front

Clássicos 001 - Jam & Spoon – Stella por Werner Underground Front

Clássicos 002 - The Ambush - The Ambush por Werner Underground Front

Clássicos 003 - Choice feat. L. Garnier & Shazz - Acid Eiffel por Werner Underground Front

www.rraurl.com – releases:
Dave Angel – X-Mix 4 (Beyond The Heavens) – K7! (1995)
CJ Bolland – The 4th Sign – R&S (1992)
Inner City [Kevin Saunderson, Paris Grey] – Big Fun – Ten Records (1988)
Interviews:
(as 'Bruno Nettesheim')
Fabrice Lig
(as Alain Patrick)
Arthur Baker (with Jamille Pinheiro)
Special Articles:
Detroit Flavors - The Legacy
* 'Cabuloso' Podcast Radio Sessions *
Hardcore Uproar
Detroit Flavors
Cool Beats
Break The Law

www.technopride.net – Deep Techno column – (Look at ‘Colunas’, then ‘Deep Techno’)
Redhead – The Darkness (Tom Hades rmx) – Mb Electronics (2003)
Resenha
04.12.03
Carl Craig - More songs about food & revolutionnary art - Planet E (1997)
Resenha
19.11.03
Henrik B – Kryoniks – TrueSoul(2003)
Resenha
Drexciya - Hightech Nomads (Grava 4 album) - Clone (2002)

Favorite books:

Baron in the Trees, The (1957) - Italo Calvino
Capital, The - Karl Marx
Discours De La Méthode - Descartes
Golden Book Of The History Of Music, The [From the Middle Age To The XXth Century] - Otto Maria Carpeaux
Grove Dictionnary Of Music, The
Holy Bible, The
L'Esprit Des Lois - Montesquieu
La Fontaine - Fables
Le Rouge Et Le Noir - Stendhal
Les Trois Mousquetaires - Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas - Machado De Assis
Médecin Malgré Lui, Le - Molière
Música Eletroacústica - Flo Menezes
On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859) - Charles Darwin
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) - David Ricardo
Pasteur, une science, un style, un siècle - Bruno Latour
Quatrevingt Treize - Victor Hugo
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Wealth Of Nations, The (1776) - Adam Smith
Seller Rating: 100.0% positive (4 ratings)

Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (9 ratings)

Alain_Patrick's groups (42)

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LTJ Bukem - Demon's Theme / A Couple Of Beats - 12-Sep-07 03:03 PM
"Demon's Theme" is not only the Good Looking Records very first release and a Danny Williams' masterpiece that would change the course of the rivers for Breakbeats, Jungle & Drum n' Bass, but a primal mark that is part of the history of electronic music itself.
Making use of amazing samples (the flutes of Marshall Jefferson's "Open Your Eyes", shouts of "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren and pianos from 'Rhythmatic - Frequency'), Danny Williams aka LTJ Bukem creates a majestic atmosphere with very elegantly shaped basslines and overlapped classic Breakbeats - the Amen Breaks from 1969 Soul classic "Amen, Brother" by The Winstons with 1974 Funk-Soul marvelous "The Breakthrough" by Isaac Hayes (Bizzy B & Peshay would also use this Bukem's Breaks combination on "Merder Style" and Simon 'Bassline' Smith on "Palamino").
"Demon's Theme" was released when the whole Electronic-Breakbeat scene was changing. It was a blueprint of a new sound. The rest, as we say, is history.

Sigmund Und Seine Freunde - Erdbeermund (Remix) - 12-Sep-07 01:08 PM
Jens Lissat and Peter Harder, who worked together on several other projects such as Komtur and The Beat Pirate are behind the Sigmund Und Seine Freunde winter 1989 club hit "Der Erdbeermund".
With the help of other studio experts (Harald & Wolfgang), they released in 1989 "Der Erdbeermund"; while the original version had a more House mood, the remixes that came out the same year on this second single were what they used to call Techno-House versions.
'The Original DJ-Version' starts with a small quote of Glenn Miller & His Orchestra classic "In The Mood", suddenly interrupted by a backspin that gives place to the version itself. The lyrics are from "Der Erdbeermund" classic ("Ich bin so wild nach deinen erdbeermund", which means something like "I'm so wild with your stawberry mouth"), were hot & easily chanted by the club audiences; Lissat and Harder also put samples from synths fragments of "Los Niños Del Parque" 1981 classic from Liaisons Dangereuses, and shout samples from 'Lyn Collins - Think (About It) - 1972' as well.
'The Orchestral-Strobelight-Version' on the other side of the single is an instrumental version of the A Side and has no sample from Glenn Miller & His Orchestra at the introduction, but very nice harmonic-melodic arrangements (even if the beats, snares and riffs were pretty common type, the Germans always counted on their best tradition of synth timbres and melodies arrangements).
Affirming that these remixes of "Der Erdbeermund" were a sort of a prenouncement of what Trance Music would become is not wrong at all, for they both reflect the 'German school'.

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar - 11-Sep-07 10:42 PM
A dialog of vocal samples "There are certainly brilliant people there!" & "Where are they hiding?" (the last one later sampled on the Techno classic "Where Are They Hiding" by Frankie Bones & Joey Beltram on their Mental Mayhem project years later, in 1990) opens the amazing "Yashar" by Cabaret Voltaire.
The combination of Synth lines composed by an Arabic chorus simulation, rhythmic bass synthesized lines (that are sharper, more metallic and Industrial-type on the original version by Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder) and other instrument simulations impresses even the high-demanding addicteds. Electro & Synth Pop specialist John Robie is behind a special extended version of "Yashar"; his percussion is electronic, though very well shaped and, surrounded by his typical lines of synths will certainly remind you of his contributions on New Order's eighties releases.

Virgo Four - Do You Know Who You Are? - 11-Sep-07 08:26 PM
Eric Lewis & Merwyn Sanders, the American duo behind Virgo Four's productions got their place in history with the 1989 release "Do You Know Who You Are" on Trax Records (Chicago, USA).
The repercussion was so important that Larry Sherman, director of Trax Records negociated on the same year of 1989 the license of this release on the English label Radical Records, where a single and an album came out.
Commonly mistaken as the Virgo project by Marshall Jefferson, Adonis and Vince Lawrence, Virgo Four, baptized by the English as 'Virgo' as well, belonged in fact to Eric Lewis & Merwyn Sanders only and had nothing to do with the older Virgo project.
Even though, their music atmosphere brought as well that deep feeling, emotion and wonderful rhythmic-melodic ensemble: "In A Vision" and "Do You Know Who You Are" became major standards of House music and were included on important compilations of the genre, from 'WARP 10+1 Classics' to 'Chicago Trax - The Original Sound Of House'.
The original American release on Trax Records had also "Goin Thru Life" with its aesthetic trio of strings, pianos and percussion; and also "Take Me Higher" that brought a more raw, minimal mood with some minor string environment.
The American EP was repressed in 2006 on Trax.

Virgo* - Do You Know Who You Are? - 11-Sep-07 08:09 PM
Composed by the duo Eric Lewis & Merwyn Sanders, Virgo Four (baptized on the English single as 'Virgo' only) is behind a fantastic House Music EP from 1989 - "Do You Know Who You Are?" - whose original release went out through Larry Sherman's Trax label from Chicago, and in the same year of 1989 on the English label Radical Records with much better sound quality (unfortunately, the production proceedure was far less than fair at the early times of Trax).
The American pressing has four tracks, two of them present on this English pressing: "Do You Know Who You Are?" with its beautiful strings & swing mood, and the timeless classic "In A Vison" based on a perfect melodic-rhythmic hypnosis. Both tunes come with instrumental and vocal versions, the non-vocal ones being acclaimed by the dancefloors and experts of that time.
As a result, the two classics were included on historical compilations, from 'Deep Heat 4 - Play With Fire' to 'Chicago Trax - The Original Sound Of House' (for "Do You Know Who You Are") and 'WARP 10+1 Classics' to 'The Kings Of House' (for "In A Vision").

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