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Audioelectronic

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About Me

Best known for his live electro project Cybrid, with releases on Belief Systems and Exact Science, Gustavo Lanzas brings his love of Electro, Acidhouse, Jack Trax, and Detroit-influenced Techno to the mix.

Drawing from 15+ years of experience as a producer, and an appreciation for the dancefloor classics, audioelectronic is a musical experiment to get back to the roots of electronic dance music. Favoring hardware drum machines and samplers, Gustavo blends rhythms, basslines, and synthetic melodies into a danceable mix. Retro music for the dancefloors of the future.
"...Known for his diverse and danceable sets, SF's Audioelectronic, aka Gustavo Lanzas, is also an accomplished DJ. Playing everything from dubbed-up disco cut-ups, 80's hits, driving electro, to dark industrial anthems his sets entertain and keep booties on the floor."

"...To be honest, I much prefer time travel (or mind travel, if you will) to air travel, and the March 18 installment of Club Activ at SoMa's Shadow Lounge was just the, er, ticket. AudioElectronic set the pace with a laptop DJ set of old-schoolish Electronic Body Music and electrofunk, punctuated with his own huffs and hisses, and Activ resident TeflonJacket segued nicely into sets by Bunker Records' guests Speculator and Danny Wolfers, a.k.a. Legowelt, who provided just the 88-mph oomph the flux capacitor needed to send the room back to 1983. Nu Romantic guys in ties, vests, and wingtips; girls heavily made up with hacked-off asymmetrical cuts; Giorgio Moroder-esque synths whirring and popping like rubber bands stretched to their limits Ð it was like Liquid Sky but without the space aliens and rampant drug consumption, and it was just what I craved. But it was even more on point when the trashy '80s loyalists broke dance-floor bread with a few preppy girls and a lone gent who I believe had just arrived from delivering pizzas Ð pseudo-Domino's uniform and all.


- Ken Taylor, SF Weekly

Please do not try to post ads for anything in my comments. If you want me to help promote an event/band/etc, write me, send me links to music, and I'll be happy to review it in my blog.

I welcome any independent artists, musicians, and anyone who just likes my tunes. But please don't bother trying to add me if you're just promoting yourself or if you represent a company, product, or marketing firm.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/29/2005
Band Website: zero-sf.com/audioelectronic
Band Members: Gustavo Lanzas
Influences: Electro, EBM, Synthpop, New Beat, Italo Disco, Greebo, Acid House, Techno, Disco Punk, Rock n Roll, and even some electroclash - dj Pierre, Alex Smoke, LCD Soundsystem, PWEI, The Clash, Gang of Four, Joy Division, New order, Juan Atkins, Psychic TV, Dj Rolando, Cabaret Voltaire, Alexander Robotnik, Visage, Camouflage, Red Flag, Cetu Javu, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Stooges, Iggy, Ozzy, Aphex Twin, ACR, Basically the entire Factory records catalog, MC 900-ft Jesus, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Fixmer-McCarthy, Tiefschwartz, DJ Hell, Sweet Exorcist, Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Shriekback, Liquid Liquid, Ultravox, John Foxx, Gary Numan, My Bloody Valentine, Loop, Main, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Warp, Acid Trax, Kompakt, Perlon, Playhouse, Circus Company, Ghostly International, Spectral, and anything raw, emotional, electronic, and makes you want to jack.

I directly owe my start in electronic music to two people - Jeff Taylor Cross, who used to write as Ultraviolet Catastrophe and Sinistar for giving me my first sampler and introducing me to a lot of great music, and to Miguel Fiero, Single Cell Orchestra, for his support and encouragement when I got started, and friendship in the years after - and explaining to me exactly what a sequecer did. West Coast Electro represent! Shouts out to Volsoc (RIP), Carl Finlow, JimG, Raf One, Shane Knapp, :code, Impulse... those that were there - you know what's what, what was then, and what is now gone.
Sounds Like: Cabaret Voltaire, LFO, Phuture, Drexcya, Cybrid, Steve Bug, The Hacker, Miss Kittin, Adult

Record Label: Exact Science, Belief Systems
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

So you want to be an Ableton DJ?

This post came about because of a discussion on CDM's article about Live's new API. A poster on there expressed what they felt were several shortcomings of Live, which really are nothing more than lac...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:33:00 PST

Updates

So the big news is I'm moving to Portland, Oregon on July 1st. I've been incredibly busy launching a new company, and preparing for my move.Most of my other projects have had to take a back seat at th...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:16:00 PST

been a while

I haven't had much of a chance to update my blog in a couple of weeks! Been extremely busy with work and life in general.So I dug up a few old tracks, which I'm posting for your enjoyment. These are a...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sat, 13 May 2006 09:08:00 PST

Thomas Dolby tonight & other info

Welcome, new readers. If you're looking for pics of Dolby's controller, scroll down the page. And if you're in San Francisco, Come see me play live this next Thursday at Lucid. I will be playing a set...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:21:00 PST

Hahahah... listed on CDM - and my snake adventure

Somehow my Dolby controllers made it onto one of my daily reads. And almost 400 folks have cruised by to take a look. Hey - check out my tunes and leave some comments.Anyways - walking back from break...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:39:00 PST

Been a while... lots of stuff...

Ok, so I'm finally really on the road to recovery. My health really suffered the last couple of months - and man, let me tell you, I'm taking good care of myself.Work has been hectic as usual. I'm rea...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:51:00 PST

funny

Nothing more needs to be said....
Posted by Audioelectronic on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:32:00 PST

V for Vendetta

Just got back from seeing it. Awesome. Go see it now.It is a bit more driven by dialogue - specifically by V's monologues - but it is an excellent film. Hugo Weaving is excellent in the role, and mana...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:44:00 PST

Friday afternoon madness...

I am doing everything I can to avoid working. Including wasting time here. But I had to post... the song "I want to Fall" by Single Cell Orchestra - which I haven't heard in years - is so incredibly b...
Posted by Audioelectronic on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:15:00 PST

Finally worked on some music last night...

My good friend Raf came over last night, and brought over his Akai MPC 2000.Years ago, I helped Akai redesign their operating system, and ever since, the MPC has been a tool near and dear to my heart....
Posted by Audioelectronic on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:12:00 PST