Biography
Hegstraction is a minimal & techno producer from the UK, Beatport Top 100 (releases) & BBC Music Introducing artist. He also runs Bad Haz Techno (track promotion).
BACKGROUND
Hegstraction grew up in the 80s & 90s heavily influenced by the emergent electronic music in Amiga, Nintendo & PlayStation video games & also the movie soundtracks made by electronic music pioneers Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream & Kraftwerk. This led to a natural inclination towards house, techno & trance music. More recently he has been influenced by the German Techno DJ/producers Felix Krocher & Stephan Bodzin.
INSPIRATION
His inspiration differs from most artists as it comes from the dance floor where he is most at home. Through over 20 years experiencing DJ sets worldwide in such places as London, Manchester, Leeds, Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Prague, Berlin, Goa, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Hanoi, Sydney, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Montreal & Buenos Aires, his ideas have been shaped.
METHODOLOGY
He approaches each track as a mini set building up slowly using level changes, sounds that stimulate & energize whilst also bringing it back down ready for the next DJ or track creating a trance-like state. Sections of tracks are designed to be used for DJs to isolate interesting segments or sounds for mixing purposes. Skeletalism is used in some tracks just using closely related sounds; the best example of this is Fetish from the album Movement. Other tracks feature massification where sounds are layered over time as in track Morning Flare also from the album Movement.
ARTISTIC VISION
Hegstraction is currently working on his first 3 part project, which consists of 3 albums: Space, Movement & Light.
Movement
Movement features 12 minimal tracks with house & techno elements; it was released in June 2019. The focus for this album was on sound cohesion & appropriate use of contrasting elements whilst also concentrating on the sound aesthetic to be highly pleasing to the ear & literally giving the listener sounds they could ‘run their teeth along & bite!’ The album was made to tell a story and is best listened to as a whole from track 1 through 12. Tracks Electric Popcorn, Versailles, Doorstep & Destiny were featured on BBC Music Introducing.
Light
Light was released in 2020 as 12 techno singles one released each month, which was then re-released as an album in early 2021. The 12 singles make up an album that is techno with minimal and experimental elements. It is based on his time spent in Berlin during the summer of 2019 taking in the vibrant techno scene there, visiting such temples of techno as Berghain, about blank & Sisyphos combined with elements & ideas that he has long held & wanted to see in techno tracks.
Space
The final album Space will also be a techno album & is currently a work in progress to be released in the second half of 2021.
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