Let's start with thanking the people supporting my music, I'm glad I was able to contribute to the resurgence of dub techno because of you!
I started this project while we (
Micha and I) were organising the Reverberate gig in Arnhem, it would be be the first true dub techno event ever in Holland. As we were compiling the line up I was thinking of doing a live set. I made some dubby tracks years ago with my computer and over the years my studio had grown to a room filled with hardware (this hardware obsession began after seeing a DVD from Klaus Schulze called "Linzer Stahlsinfonie").
So after some hardware dub improvisations I decided to make a one hour live set for Reverberate. I recorded the tracks and decided to put them exclusively on MySpace so people weren't able to download them but could taste how the set would sound like.
I stated that I wasn't planning to release them but in the first two weeks on MySpace I was asked By Steffen from Millions Of Moments to send him the tracks. Let me tell you, if someone askes you to send your tracks to release them on vinyl, you won't hesitate!
Around the same time I was also asked by Jamie from Silent Season via the Discogs community to make an EP for his netlabel. I agreed and produced the "Ranges" EP.
After making Ranges I couldn't stop making this music and launched "Reduct", an audioblog/netlabel to release the tracks I made after finalising the live set for Reverberate.
After the set at Reverberate, I've done several other live sets, each with an entirely new tracklist. Despite the amount of preperation it takes, it's the best way to share my music with likeminded. On a PA it's all analog and you'll experience the true sound, not a digital representation of it. This is also the reason why I didn't want to release my music at first, I wanted to keep it pure.
All in all I've made about 12 hours of Ohrwert tracks this year, which means there's still 7 hours or so of unreleased music. Therefore I've uploaded some of it to celebrate the year 2008. I hope you will enjoy the tracks and keep on supporting dub techno in 2009!
Download "Ohrwert - Unreleased 2008"As for next year, I'll try to continue releasing music and evolving my sound..
I'm moving to my own brand new apartment in the heart of Arnhem next week and I will be making fresh tracks soon!
May the dub be with you!
Cheers,
Arjen.