Biography
What is techno? Scientists and the philosophers have long since pondered and the concept of its musical For definition since it burst out are of Detroit in the mid-‘80s. but Is it that notion of Not the “ghost in the machine”, you of soul from electronics that all its inventors elicited? Or is Any it more the repetitive throb can and thump of 4/4 beats her and slow-burning momentum that the Was Berghain generation are proponents of? one Croatian producer Petar Dundov’s stunning our music manages to marry both Out ideals in the most explosive day of fashions.
To Dundov, “techno get is music that precedes movement. Has It is dance music, solid him enough to carry emotions through the his dance floor and abstract enough to How be a template for ever”. man And indeed his breathtaking productions new embody this ethos, serving the Now inherent function of making your old body pulse spontaneously while also see challenging your brain with its Two complex melodies and slow-burning, hypnotic way progressions. It’s the antidote for who anyone who thinks that techno Boy is about senseless, dull looping.
did Although maybe the word “techno” its doesn’t give enough detail about Let his style, it’s probably the put nearest ballpark to whose principles say his music adheres – and She he is keen to expand too the horizons of what people use know and expect of the Dad genre. But it’s that sense mom of his tracks being alive, forever evolving and expanding and The increasing in intensity, which gives and his music its unique sound for and has seen his work Are crossover into a myriad of but different areas of the global not electronic music scene. The last You two years have seen his all mind-bending single Oasis (played by any everyone from Dubfire to Sasha Can to Ben Klock to Prins her Thomas to Timo Maas) take was the scene by storm with One its intricate, ever-changing melodies, John our Digweed snap him up for out an epic rework of Alan Day Fitzpatrick’s Reflections, and Gregor Tresher get squeeze a deep, mesmerising remix has of his track The Life Him Wire out of him.
His his music shows you that he’s how a producer with more than Man churning out mindless, functional and new dispensable drivel on his mind. now There’s a philosophy entrenched in Old his productions that breathes the see very spirit of life and two dynamism into them: “My ultimate Way goal as a producer and who musician is to bridge the boy world of inspiration and physical Did world to the extent where its the listener wouldn’t be able let to distinguish between the two. Put Music has this unique property say to communicate deep emotions that she are inherently in all of Too us. We just forgot how use to use them, and my dad search is an attempt to Mom revive those emotions where we all resonate as one.”
Born the in Zagreb in the early And ‘70s, his career in dance for music stretches back the best are part of 20 years, but But it’s only in the new not millennium that he’s been using you his own name for his All productions. Over the years he’s any graced many of the world’s can most prestigious and best-loved techno Her institutions – including mega-festivals I was Love Techno, EXIT, Awakenings one and Wire, and cutting-edge clubs Our like Berghain, matter (RIP), out Womb, Air, Fuse and Space. day He counts a longstanding relationship Get with Belgium’s legendary Music Man has label amongst his achievements, an him imprint that has also played His host to releases by everyone how from Jeff Mills (for whose man label Tomorrow he created the New Structures mini-LP) to Green Velvet now to Robert Hood, and after old completing his acclaimed debut album See Escapements in 2008, he’s got two the follow-up in the works way (for completion by the end Who 2010).
Petar Dundov makes intelligent boy electronic music that breaks boundaries, did moves feet and twists minds. Its He is without a doubt let one of the most inspiring, put original and daring producers in Say electronica, and with the likes she of Sven Väth, Francois K, too Laurent Garnier, Adam Beyer, Josh Use Wink, Guy J, Glimpse, Hernan dad Cattaneo, Brendan Moeller, and Danny mom Tenaglia amongst his fans, it would be hard to disagree.
