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Materia

Producer and DJ

About Me

Tectonic aka Materia aka Jan Warnstam started his music career on an Amiga 500 in 1988. Since then he has produced many styles of electronic music and seen the birth of genres such breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass in the early 90s. He started acquiring more dedicated hardware and soon decided to take his music production to a new level, and to a wider audience. In August 2000 he participated in a remix competition on the Swedish Radio P3 show Morgonpasset, followed by sending of demos to P3 Dans and P3 Demo in September under the name of Soil of Sound. In spring 2001 a 15 minute special show dedicated to his previous and present music was featured in P3 show Syntax Error.In April 2001 Back to Plastic founder Thomas Bergsten approached wanting to start a new drum'n'bass label to release tracks on vinyl. Pressure Cut Recordings was a fact and has so far released one 12 inch vinyl with tracks by Jan under the production alias Hidden Lab. Parallell to this Jan also got a breakbeat remix signed to a compilation album on Invisible Records in Chicago, using the monicker Soil of Sound. This compilation album was released in September 2001. During 2002 Jan was also signed to the Swedish breakbeat label Sound of Habib based in Gothenburg, and the first release on this label consists of two tracks on a compilation album coming autumn 2002.In 2004, Materia was contacted by London based Basic Recordings and the track Impact was signed to the label. The 12-inch was released in summer 2004 with a Paradox remix on the flipside. To celebrate this a release party was held at HQ in Oxford in May where Materia aka Tectonic played alongside Mattrick, Chemical and Loxy from Metalheadz.More recent releases include a track on Australian Kinematic as well as three tracks on Canadian Earwaks and three on German Tilt Recordings, and most recently two on Finnish Digital Tunes Dubs. Forthcoming releases are planned on several new labels, including Secure Records, Unholy Records, Intelligence Audio, Oni Records, iDJ Recordings and Gun Recordings. The past gig list now includes countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, UK, Estonia and Poland. Several gigs are being negotiated and in April Tectonic will play four gigs in Denver at Recon, Diskonect, System and the big festival Nation 4. May starts off with two gigs in Minneapolis - Konkrete Jungle and 9th Circle and continues with Diskonect and The Mastermind in Denver.The future looks bright with forthcoming collaborations together with other electronic producers as well as vocalists and instrumentalists and more international gigs in the pipeline. If you want to book Tectonic aka Materia for a varied set of deep, technical and musical drum'n'bass, breaks or jazz, don't hesitate to get in contact right now.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2004
Band Website: materia.groundmotion.com
Band Members: Jan Warnstam
Influences: Everything from Teebee and Cause 4 Concern to Simon Posford and Miles Davis.
Sounds Like: Gene Krupa on acid.

Record Label: Secure, Basic, Kinematic, Earwaks, DTD, IAUD, iDJ
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New electro house track again

Inspired by New Media Meeting in Norrköping, and electrohouse in general, I decided to sit down and do some music at the end of this weekend, and finished it on Monday night - I for one can't stand st...
Posted by Materia on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:59:00 PST

Back in Sweden!

I am back in Sweden now after being awake for about 33 hours since leaving Denver Monday morning () and sleeping about 7 hours tonight - I actually feel kind of ok right now, which is nice, the jetlag...
Posted by Materia on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:20:00 PST

Up and running in Denver, and some new releases on Oni

I am now up and running in Denver, I've played a small electro house gig and I am looking forward to a few drum'n'bass gigs in April. Keep an eye on my events list and tectonic.groundmotion.com f...
Posted by Materia on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:55:00 PST

New electrohouse track in the player

I took a break from the drum'n'bass vibes today and made some electrohouse (some people will call it progressive, others will call it speed garage, haha, anyway it's kind of funky).
Posted by Materia on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:16:00 PST

New releases on Gun Recs and Intelligence Audio

Two fresh digital releases out now!IAUD001 - Plasticity / MachineGUNR002 - Cordless (Zero Method remix)...
Posted by Materia on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST

I will be working in Denver this spring

Got this confirmed at a meeting last week, figure it's time to let the MySpace crew know I'll be in the US from March to May next year! I'll be researching graphics visualization data formats and netw...
Posted by Materia on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

Tectonic - The New Breed [new mix]

Some time has passed since my last mix, and lots of things has happened, which made it totally necessary to focus this mix on purely new music - for the first time there are no olden golden classics i...
Posted by Materia on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:47:00 PST

Voodoo signed to Secure Records

Good news!This track has now been signed to Secure Records and will be released as SECURE006after two wicked releases forthcoming by arQer & Realtime and Alpha Omega. Flipside to be announced, kee...
Posted by Materia on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:22:00 PST

Out now on Digital Tunes Dubs - React/China Lights!

Finally I have found a loving, caring home for these two tracks of mine! Much respect to Physics for taking on these and letting me release them throughthe new imprint Digital Tunes Dubs, exclusively ...
Posted by Materia on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:14:00 PST

Voodoo, but voodoo of a more terrible sort that they had ever known

New track in the player! Fresh cut with a MySpace exclusive intro, bringing you directly to the breakdown and head-on into the drop.Don't hesitate - embrace the voodoo. ...
Posted by Materia on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:19:00 PST