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ROB GARZA (of Thievery Corporation)
As one half of electronic music pioneers/producers Thievery Corporation, Rob Garza has been at the forefront of music and has traveled the globe performing, remixing, djing, recording, and composing.
Since Garzaâs recent move to San Francisco, he has begun a re-exploration of his love for electronic music and beats focusing on Nu-Disco and Deep House, while keeping very groove-oriented and outer-national based rhythms. Recently he has been djing and remixing, taking things to an even more spaced out and trippy level.
Two years ago, Rob started fielding requests from all manner of musicians to remix their material. He began honoring those requests as a labor of love and opportunity to explore new directions with his creative output. After amassing more than a dozen remixes, Garza decided to compile the tracks into one single collection.
âRemixesâ showcases Garzaâs mastery as an electronic musician and reveals his passion for left-of-center dance genres. âThere was a lot of experimentation in coming up with these remixes, and they very much reflect what Iâm drawn to as a DJ,â says Garza. Kaleidoscopic, but intensely groove-oriented, the 12-track album represents a dizzying number of sounds from all corners of the music world, unified by Garza into a lush, shimmering soundscape.
For Garzaâwhoâs devoted much of the last 18 years to creating the richly textured, endlessly innovative electronica thatâs defined Thievery Corporation âthereâs a certain freedom in the limitations of remixing. âWhen youâre making original music, thereâs more exploration involved and you never know whatâs going to come out of it,â he says. âRemixing is more like piecing a puzzle together âI look at the elements that grab me, then pull the track apart and reconstruct it into something new.â In remixing Tychoâs âAscension,â for instance, Garza zeroed in on âthese cool, ethereal arpeggios I was grooving on,â stripped those notes away, deepened the beat, and ended up creating a blissfully hazy track thatâs nearly trance-inducing.
Garza delivers infectious remixes of tracks by deep-house DJ Miguel Migs (âThe Systemâ), Afro-Peruvian/electronica act Novalima (âFestejoâ), Latin-influenced neo-soul act AM & Shawn Lee (âPromises are Never Far from Liesâ), dancehall veteran Sleepy Wonder (âWorld Citizenshipâ), ambient musician Tycho (âAscensionÂÂÂ), and electro-chanteuse Shana Halligan (âTrue Love). Also featured are Garzaâs remixes of Gogol Bordelloâs âThrough the Roof and Undergroundâ and Federico Aubeleâs âNo Oneââas well as a reworking of Thievery Corporationâs fiery, Afrobeat-infused âVampiresâ with San Francisco-based collective Afrolicious.
For inspiration in his puzzle-piecing, Garza heavily mined the dance styles and sub-genres heâs discovered through DJ-ing in his newly adopted hometown of San Francisco over the past few years. âWhen I first came to San Francisco, I got more into the dance scene and also started spending a lot of time in Mexico, where there are some great DJs coming through,â says Garza. âThereâs so much going on in terms of people taking influences from all these different genresâlike house and dub and new wave and discoâand putting it all together in a way thatâs very new and original and inspiring to my own music.â
For more information, visit http://robgarza.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/RobGarzaMusic/
Friday, October 9, 2015
9:00pm - 1:30am PDTEOS Lounge
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