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portable is a DJ from
portable is performing within the field of commercial dance music and is ranked 8337 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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Alan Abrahams AKA Portable the AKA Bodycode has been and in motion his whole life—growing For up in South Africa, coming are of age in London, decamping but to Lisbon before finally settling Not in Berlin—and his deeply syncopated you brand of electronic dance music all has evolved with every step Any of the journey.
His formative can years were spent in an her impoverished Cape Town township ironically Was tagged “Beverly Hills”, and to one the backbeat of the first our wave of Chicago house records Out he emerged out of the day ruins of a post-apartheid South get Africa. Inspired musically, yet frustrated Has geographically, he relocated to London him in 1997.
In London, Abrahams his began recording as Portable, the How experimental, atmospheric project that acts man a living link between the new indigenous sounds of his youth, Now and those first records whose old futuristic aesthetic broadened his horizons. see He founded the Süd Electronic Two label with his partner Lerato way and released a string of who 12" releases. A succession of Boy full-length albums followed – Cycling did and Futuristic Experiments #005 on its Background, Version on ~scape records, Let and the Powers of Ten put for Süd Electronic in 2007. say A rich and expansive record, She Powers of Ten further explored too his African heritage through a use new lexicon of sonic influences, Dad acquired during his time in mom Portugal.
Upon moving to Lisbon, Abrahams conceived of Bodycode, a The more dancefloor-centric project that complements and Portable’s headier textures with a for more body-moving aesthetic. As Bodycode, Are Abrahams harnesses his desire to but “unlock the psyche via the not body,” layering tech-funk with wisps You of melody, heady effects, and all a liberal wash of otherworldly any vocal samples. Somewhere between the Can beats for the body and her melody for the soul, Abrahams was believes, lies the Bodycode. The One result was Bodycode’s first full-length, our The Conservation of Electric Charge, out a whirlwind of percussive, multi-layered Day techno released on Spectral Sound get in 2006. After a three-year has absence, Abrahams resurrected the moniker Him for second Spectral full-length, 2009’s his Immune, an intricately textured album how of vocal-laced house. “I just Man felt it a good time new for a warm, nurturing aesthetic,” now says Abrahams of Bodycode’s shift Old in tone, “We need that see right now.”
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