klang

Since the beguining of his career Klang, was heading in the direction of the more fresh and energetic dance music, he beguins to play just in the times of classic tracks like Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder..s ¨I feel Love¨, and Kraftwerk..s ¨Man machine¨ (around 1978 and 1979) , since then he has been developing a taste for cutting edge dance music, doing an exclent job on the dancefloors, with his vigorizing and refreshing music selection. Something that has been present in the sound of Klang, from this very early stage, has been his way of beeing contsntly open to all the new sounds, and to the new dance music styles. Klang have been all the time in contact, with all the new directions that the electronic music was taking, and at the same time that such generes like house, acid house, techno, electropop, and hip hop, were borning, Klang was beguining to play them, as part of his sound. The quality of his work, was being reflected in the uplifting response of the crowds in the dancefloors. That..s why, gradually he started to be requested to work, as resident DJ, in some of the most famous club..s and discotheques, in México, like the Keeper (in Valle de Bravo) in 1983, Magazine in 1984, Quetzal in 1985, Taizz (in Cuernavaca) in 1987, and Mystery in 1995. During the 80..s and the first 3 years of the 90..s, Klang was the ownwer and dj, of a movil sound and music service, that Klang put together in collaboration with his brother Rafael, one of the most famous dj..s in Mexico city, during the second half of the 70..s decade. In fact Klang learn the art of Mixing, watching his brother play. It was the second half of the decade of the 80..s, and Klang have been incorporating the new electronic sounds more and more in his sets, that..s why he was one of the few mexican dj..s, that was taking the risk of experiementing playing, a good variety of this new electronic sounds, in every event, party and club that he was invited to play. This way, step by step, and thanks to his solid intention, in looking towards the new posiblities, and the new directions that this sounds were taking at that moment, Klang turned gradually in a specialist, in electronic music, alternative music, and in a wide variety of dance music. By 1987, was invited to take a new direction in his musical career, developing a notorious labour as sound engineer for live concerts, working for a lapse of 8 years, for some very famous singers, and pop mexican artists, like Pandora, Alejendra Guzman, Timbiriche and many more. This was one of the factors that brings Klang close to the world of music production, in that times a revolution in the music production world was beguining to be more than evident, the times were changing, MIDI, the Sampler and the Personal Computers, were a Reality. By 1989 Klang beguins to work in his first musical project in collaboration with his friend Hugo Espinosa, creating the musical theme for his first radio show, Nexus 6 was the name of this project, that Klang has developed in collaboration with Hector Mijangos (the creator of Noise Lab), this was one of the first radio shows specialized in electronic music in México City. After this, Klang and Hugo Espinosa beguin to work in a series of tracks, in wich they reflect an inspiration that came directly from tecno, new beat, electro, tecno pop, and the alternative music from the 80..s, then they invited Hilda Acevedo, to participate as vocalist and to be part of this project, that was just about to start, this project was initially called ¨Los Legendarios Tlaconetes¨, and in 1990, since their first formal live show, they were introduced as ¨Ele Ele Te¨. By this time there were just a small number of electronic groups in México, possibly the most famous were Syntoma, Zise, Silueta Palida, Volti, Cucu Bazar, Casino Shangai, Decada 2, Interface and Artefacto, this groups were very well known, and they participated in the development of the so called ¨First Generation¨, of mexican electronic producers, ¨Ele Ele Te¨ was considered to be part of the ¨Second Generation¨, of mexican electronic music producers, that emerged from 1990, with projects like Conditus, Transceiver, Fussible, Bostich, Sussie 4, Expotecno, Halosol, Double Helix, Hocico, Nahutec, and many more. By September of 1992, the Nexus 6 radio show ends, and Klang starts a second electronic music radio show, with the Tecnoplex name, this one stays on the air on the same fequency (105.7 FM), until December of 1998. By 1999, ¨Ele Ele Te¨, have produced 3 long play (LP) records, the first one was edited in vinyl, and the last two in CD, by the independent record label Opcion Sonica. With the pass of time, the band configuaration has been changing, and by the time they were producing their last single called ¨Volando en las alas del intento¨, the band was formed by Klang, Luis Enrique Guzman, and Enrique Otero. That same year the first volume of the Toltécnica compilation was released, the first collection of mexican electronic music, this was compiled and produced by Klang and Enrique Otero, they have been working together, developing the Toltecnica Records, project, and the Centimetro Cubico de Suerte, psycodelic trance project. The same way, the second delivery of the Toltécnica compilation, it was released in year 2000, both ware released by the Opcion Sonica label in collaboration with Toltecnica Records. Also on year 2000, the first Tecnogeist electronic music festival take place, it was produced by Arteria Productions (Arturo Saucedo and Carlos Becerra), this consists in s series of activities that consisted that take during a week of conferences, workshops, and showcases, ending the celebrations with a big massive free festival, that takes place in Mexico..s City biggest main square, the Zocalo, this unique festival attracted more than 180 peoples. Thanks to his trajectory, and to his participation at the Tecnogeist festival, Klang was invited to play in Berlin for 3 years in a row, playing for 3 times at the Lovenation festivals, and two on the main stage of the Berlin Loveparade (years 2001 and 2002), he also was invited to play at the 4 editions of the Mexican Loveparade (from year 2002, to year 2005). By Summer 2003, Klang makes his first European DJ Tour, invited by Corvin Dalek y Mark Reeder, playing at the Exit festival, and the Technogeist festival, in Servia, at the Lovebeach party in Berlin, and at the Creamfields in Prague. In October of the same year Klang returns to Berlin, to play at a special mexican techno night, at the legendary Trasor club, as part of the Tecnogeist / Mexartes Festival, this time he was invited to go together with the mexican djs Chrysler, Ollin zeele, and Ramiro Puente. In october 2004, Klang was invited to play at the first Loveparade U.S.A, celebrated in the city of San Francisco California. In April 2005, Klang made his second european DJ Tour (The Provocative Connection tour), again invited by his friends Cirvin dalek and Mark Reeder, it consisted in a series of 7 events, celebrated in diferent european cities, like London England, Dublin and Duganoon in Ireland, Warzow and Poznan in Poland, Zlin and Prague in Chec Republic, and Martin in Slovakia. Another successfull project that Klang has been involved, has been the creation and develovement, of the electronic music and dj area, of the G Martell, College of Dj and Music, this project started in 1998, and Klang and Carlos Saavedra (Expotecno), were the first teachers, and the founders of this project, that today have gained very good results, thanks that some of the students from the first generations, to came out from this school, now are becoming very well recognized in an interantional level. This young talents are Dig-It, Andres May and Xavier Buzo, whose remixes and original tracks, has been signed and edited, by some european independent record labels, such as Silver Planet and Ying Yang. Actually Klang keeps working at the G Martell, sharing his knowledge and experiences, in the dj and electronic music production courses. From year 2001 Klang started to realease music as a solo artist, releasing in April his Radiant Sphere EP, later he produces some tracks that were released in the Tecnogeist and Loveparade México CD compilations, like Skyglide, Buzzdroom and Akkord, the last one was choosen to appear on the Berlin Loveparade 2002, CD compilation. Klang works for some time with Ramiro Puente on the developing of the Waveriders project, with wich they released a few track singles and remixes, like the Punto de Partida and Origen tracks, and the remixes for the tracks Tania, from the group Fase, and 10 in 01 from the project Members of Mayday, also they produced together the hymn for the first Loveparade Mexico, with the name Un espacio para el amor, under the alias Love.Com. This tracks were edited in the compilations from Tecnogeist and Loveparade Mexico. Later Klang was invited to produce like solo artist, the anthems for the last three Loveparade Mexico festivals. Then in 2003 Klang produced in collaboration with Corvin Dalek and Mark Reeder, the Quetzalcoatl track. In 2004, Klang produces again as a solo artist, his first two Wet and Hard tracks, they were Suckoh, and Foo King Geil. The same year Klang works in collaboration with Arteria productions, in the production of the new CD compilation, and the first mexican electronic music festival Toltécnica. His most recent remix works include Belanova..s ¨Suele pasar¨, Double Helix ¨La cumbia azteca¨, Dj L.S.D. ¨Ximeva mexika¨, Biotek..s ¨Hydra¨, and Latinzizer..s ¨Dr Punkie¨. In 2005 the german label Flesh, released 2 12¨vinyl records, wich featured Klang..s remixes, the first one was the ¨Klang..s muy horny latinas remix¨, of Ÿoung People¨, by Corvin Dalek. The second was the ¨Klang..s latin power remix¨, from the ¨Quetzalcoat¨ track, by Klang and Dalek. This year started with very good news for Klang who was, invited in January to join, the Balance record pool, the winner of the best record pool, of the world in year 2005. Actually Klang is working in the production of some new tracks, as a solo artist, and also in collaboration with some very good friends, at the same time he is also working in the developing and production of the new Toltecnia Cd compiltion, that this time is going to include only the new material from all the Toltecnica label projects, this is going to be released later in year 2006. Today Klang keeps intact the integrity of it style, and it..s taste for play and fuse different styles of dance music without prejudieces, a very good variety of styles, that goes from House, Progressive, Tribal, Techno, Wet and hard, Trance y Psychedelic Trance, with a music selection ready to satisfy the demands of every dancefloor.