Browse by Artist: WALKER, STEWART

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Live Extracts
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	PRS 011CD

"After years of trying to reconcile the separate experiences of the 'listening techno' he has released on Persona and Force Inc. and the pounding 4/4 jack-trax of his world-renowned live performances Stewart Walker has finally managed to merge both worlds to his satisfaction. Live Extracts is the result of taking the exclusive and never before released sounds from his live show and re-orchestrating them with the full control offered by a home studio."

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Grounded in Existence
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRS 014CD

American techno-minimalist and producer Stewart Walker returns with his second full-length record crafted specially for the home-listener. Grounded in Existence is the downtempo thematic successor to 1999's critically-acclaimed Stabiles album on Force Inc. After years of talking about the difference between music for the dancefloor vs. music for the home, Stewart Walker had a history making dance-tracks with a minimal bent until he devoted himself to steady techno bass pulses for the home environment. Stabile's minimal and organic orchestration inspired the now-huge genre of simple but effective bass and reverb nod-a-thons. But truthfully, this music was simply a logical progression from Stewart's influences Basic Channel and Mike Ink's "Studio 1" series. When Walker started work on Grounded in Existence he had spent much more time listening to hip-hop and indie rock than techno 12"s, and he wished to reshape those influences into an electronic format making original sounds out of genre-mixing. In addition, he aimed to bring back strong melodies and harmonies into his music, aligning these new tonalities into a more traditional song structure so that each track has multiple instances of quiet and intensity. It all smacks of "post-techno" but let's try not to take ourselves

too seriously.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Spend The Day Frozen EP
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	PRS 018EP

American techno-minimalist and producer Stewart Walker eschews the black hole of minimalism and firmly wears his heart on his sleeve on Spend The Day Frozen. The first track compresses four kickdrums and six snares, heavy metal guitar samples, and adds screaming crowd noise on top of it all. The second track is mellow and dubby, with strummed guitar chords and Stewart's first recorded vocals for a techno track. The last has a fat bassline and can certainly rock a freaky dancefloor. Locate it somewhere between the Brighton-sound and Patsy Cline.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	After This I'll Never Sleep
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	PRS 020EP

American techno-minimalist and producer Stewart Walker presents three new Persona melodies. "After This I'll Never Sleep" comes in deep and moving with seamonster funk -- his first official "acid track" recorded with the aid of a Devilfish-modified TB-303. Also add musique concréte, kick drum aesthetic, muted trumpet and foghorns with a fat kickdrum and broken shuffle percussion. The next track is driving, with flashes of synthesizer and resonant bass slurps. Finally, "Crabgrass vs. Monkeygrass" reflects the new Walker sound: delicate shininess and light. Pleasure and happiness. Maybe it's the yearning for the first green shoots of grass at the Volkspark.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Persona's Progress
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRS 021CD

American techno-minimalist, producer and Persona Records label-head Stewart Walker returns with his first full length mix CD. It's been just over a year since Persona Records transplanted its home base from Boston to Berlin, Germany. In that time the Persona sound has developed through its interaction with the "Berlin sound." Persona has consistently tried to ride the path between these hedonistic and sober approaches. In light of this transition, the label thought it wise to represent Persona's progress as a continuous mix, which allows music lovers to judge for themselves how the label and the artists themselves have changed. Includes music from Stewart Walker, Touane, Gregory Shiff and Gustavo Lamas.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Druid Hills EP
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	PRS 027EP

Druid Hills is the great foreshadowing of Stewart Walker's new album. A1: "Fernbank 1991" has gotta be the hittin'est dancefloor track Stewart has dropped in recent history. Big kicks, big snares, and then at the climax, a smear of hi-hat mosquitoes and echoing synthesizers collide with the windshield of the bass lead. "Foreshadowing" is like sitting in the dark and listening to an old woman tell a ghost story. Whispering in your ear, and then the sound of scissors. Immersive reverse pianos. The last track sounds like a real mute-unmute track, but there's a soul to be found in its Kraftwerkian rigidity. Or maybe in the melody which drizzles like rain on a sunny day.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Concentricity
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRS 028CD

American techno-minimalist, producer and Persona Records label-head Stewart Walker returns with his third full-length record, after having traveled around the world at least twice in the last 12 months, performing in locales ranging from rural Australia to New York City; Tokyo to Szcezcin, Poland. Commemorating Walker's 10th year of making records and performing, Concentricity contains 10 all-new tracks of detailed electronic dance music representing the many facets of his musical personality, some of which we've heard before and some which are completely new. Downtempo, techno, ambient... he's been there and left his mark in every area with recordings on such legendary labels such as Minus, Tresor, and Mille Plateaux. But aside from the history, aside from the old touchstones of "Midwest techno," "Berlin" and "minimalism," here's the new stuff. Artists must choose to grow or to languish. Concentric circles grow upon each other. From the core of early innocence grows layers of experience. An interest in music grows into studying synthesis, drum programming, and then multi-tracking. Spreading from the studio to the stage with live shows: first with hardware when everybody else was DJing and computers couldn't hack it, and presently with the newest tools. In 2003 came Live Extracts, a testament to this love of live. Rumors circulated that Stewart was working on the follow-up to that landmark, but what grew out of the early idea of a sequel was something else entirely. Not content with the "flatness" of so many contemporary tracks, the orchestration grew more baroque, with a rebirth of structure and dynamics. More highs and more lows, and a broader timbral palette. Finally, the individual tracks were then combined into a perfect mix despite warnings from the industry that "nobody wants mix CDs these days." Techno is made to be mixed. He even threw in some reversed kick drums as a way to say "what's up, Richie!" Mixing the personal touch and the propulsive rhythm, this is the future of future-music, and this is what Persona Records brings you.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Concentricity
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	PRS 028LP

Double LP version. Commemorating Walker's 10th year of making records and performing, Concentricity contains 10 all-new tracks of detailed electronic dance music representing the many facets of his musical personality, some of which we've heard before and some which are completely new. Downtempo, techno, ambient... he's been there and left his mark in every area with recordings on such legendary labels such as Minus, Tresor, and Mille Plateaux. Not content with the "flatness" of so many contemporary tracks, the orchestration grew more baroque, with a rebirth of structure and dynamics. More highs and more lows, and a broader timbral palette. Mixing the personal touch and the propulsive rhythm, this is the future of future-music, and this is what Persona Records brings you.

Artist:	WALKER, STEWART
Title:	Concentricity Remixes
Label:	PERSONA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	PRS 031EP

After a hugely successful return to techno with Stewart Walker's album Concentricity, Persona lets loose its beloved friends and family to sharpen their sampling knives to pare the original recordings down to three servings of musical sashimi. Jeff Samuel's version of "We Welcome Utopia!!!" is a chewy rendering, in track of its ambience, rhythms and basslines. Marco Tonni takes his favorite morsels from "Fragile Chemistry" and loops them into a propulsive, mechanical eighth-note stepper. Robag Wruhme takes the super-driving force of "Fernbank 1991" and submarines its rhythms into a most luscious slice of heavenly floatation.

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