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March Profile:Sean Anderson
Crew: Moon Magnet Productions - Harmonious Discord Recordings - United Tribal Project - Cure Recordings |
Audio Mixes:
Real Audio: Harmonious Discord + Candlelight Mix Sessions 5
MP3: Harmonious Discord + Candlelight Mix Sessions 5
How did you get started ?
Since then I've crafted and sped through many different genre's and techniques but in all aspects I've been helped along the way by my fellow musicians in Moon Magnet, we seem to just be a family in that sense that we only truly begin doing the things with music that we knew were on the right track when we are connected with like minded individuals that inspire us. To this day I would like to think I'm still learning and miles away from perfection or where I need to be. I got started producing just over a year and a half ago and currently I spend most of my time producing tracks under the names Equality 7-2521 and Grey. My newest passion is focused on production and have found myself really addicted to it in a sense. I feel that some people have an overbearing amount of subdued expression that once you're able to find a channel to focus it through then allot of the times you find yourself doing nothing else. I try to convey in my production the elements of music that in the fast five years and throughout all genres I could groove to. I try to justify my notion that house music doesn't have to fit a certain form, it doesn't have to be directly groovy but can layer more emphasis on the hidden grooves and melodies.
I got into techno music when I was in middle school, a good friend of mine introduced me to the earliest airings of Edge Club but I had been familiar with a lot of industrial electronica before hand and it was an easy transition. I started spinning records around January or February of 1997, I started off spinning house and breaks mainly because that was the only thing I was exposed to at the time. It was a difficult start because I knew no one in my circle of friends at the time that was DJing. I started throwing free park parties with my good friend Chris Hardin in Arlington and Grand Prairie and continued to do that for over a year. Shortly after that I traveled to London for a good bit of time, and came back to the states with a more well rounded idea of a lot of musical genres that simply hadn't made it to Texas at the time. Proceeding that I met up with two like minded individuals near the end of 97 named Clent Scott and Brad Denton, although I've been spinning for over five years I didn't really truly consider myself a DJ until I met my partners in Moon Magnet.
Who inspires you musically and why?
As far as Producers are concerned, one of my biggest inspirations is Omid Nazarough (16B), musically what he does resembles the boldness that Thelonious Monk and others used when first testing the waters of free form music. Another one would have to be Hakan Lidbo he is always producing in 3/4 and making music that while not as dance floor friendly as most DJ's prefer, from a music theory standpoint, stand out as simply amazing. Other producers such as Morgan Page, Attaboy, Miguel Migs, Terry Lee Brown Jr., and YMC I admire for their ability to construct both complex and artistic pieces. From an audio engineering standpoint Gene Rene, Andy Caldwell, and the rest of the naked music team take the cake for that, to a trained ear you will not hear a tighter sound. For overall production of just all kind of style and technique I would most definitely have to say Soulstice, they are able to produce every genre of electronic music extremely well and apart from flawless tone and quality they are able to engineer vocals amazingly. More close to myself lies my personal inspirations including all my brothers in Moon Magnet, John Digweed, John Turnaround Walker, Ethan Klein, Mark Pena, Taki, Coy West, and Merrick Brown who has inspired me more than any big name musician ever will.
In a broad definition I have admiration for any producer or DJ that tests the boundaries of what they're doing and above all else concentrate on flow and distinction. I believe that any person given the right amount of time and energy will be able to master the art of beat matching or even producing. I admire producers that engineer specific sounds that can't be compared or that supercedes the closest in comparison.
Working as a DJ in the progressive scene turned me off of music a great deal due to much of the politics involved and most of the progressive people I met where really concerned with perfection, or what they perceived to be perfection and ones ability to achieve it. I was always heavily into jazz and started buying house again, which was mostly centered around the tribal sound. Tribal house will always be a genre of mine, I seem to have a deep seeded passion for the energy produced by tribal music and the atmosphere in created. I started after time hearing a lot of the stuff Merrick was doing in Austin and really got into tech house and that's pretty much where I am today. Even inside the genre of tech house I would like to assume that I am in my own way playing a class of a broad term of tech house. I play music that combines bold and aggressive basslines that resemble techno, chords that resemble compositional music and underlay a deep tone, along with rhythms with intricate sequence. I love many different genres and styles of music but none as much as I enjoy tech house; it's the only genre that I really felt defined the music I wanted to display. Currently I produce Deep and Tech House and spin Tech House, Tribal House, Progressive House, Deep House, Deep Techno, Broken Beat, and Downtempo/Electro.
How much have you changed musically since you started?
Oh my, quite a bit. I started out in '97 spinning mostly house and breaks and then traveled to London where I first heard progressive trance, I came back to Dallas and decided to make it my main genre. I spun trance and progressive house all over Texas for about 2 years under the name Moonglo. In that time I lived in Houston and could be heard playing large raves at the Eyeball and smaller clubs scattered between Houston and Dallas. I experienced the lifestyle of a well paid progressive DJ at the time but I knew that I had to return to Dallas. My style changes came with growing up and learning more about music.
Name two of your favorite tracks.
Sabastian Amore - Dela Vega
Morgan Page - Distant Accents
What do you think of the current state of the Dallas Scene?
I've been an activist for many causes for a number of years, rave law rights being one of the largest, and in order to achieve some of the things that say Austin has been able to achieve or San Francisco it's just simply going to take a more cohesive community. Dallas will be the epicenter of music production in 2 years, this I strongly believe. Regardless of whether we are throwing big parties, very soon the world will be turning to Dallas for new innovations in the art.
My thoughts on that subject could probably fill a large newspaper article but then again they already have. I think that Dallas has grown up. We see the diminishing large party scene and the insurgence of an extremely tight nit underground. I think on a whole that Dallas will have its day in the sun again as far as parties go. As time progresses the laws will have to be adjusted to fit such a large audience. Any musician would tell you that electronic music wasn't ready two or three years ago to be as big of an industry and a threat to law enforcement as it was. I can only hope that by going back underground we gain a deeper respect for the lengths in which we go to enjoy good music and that if nothing else we can safely say that electronic music and drug usage are completely separate entities sharing no bond. It's too bad that it is so quickly trivialized in Texas.
When is your next gig?
March 15 @ the Sandbar
April 09 @ the Orchid Bar - Special 3 hour set featuring live vocals and instruments
April 12 @ the Sandbar with Sonic Convergence
Do you want to thank anyone?
Of course, I would like to thank everyone at Moon Magnet (Dave, Bobby, Brad, Cody, Chris, Herb, Eric, Mike) and United Tribal Project (John Turnaround, Mark, Ethan, Phill, Bob, and Scott). I would also like to thank Joey Cruts, Adam Pickrle, Merrick Brown, JJ Stonebraker, Kim Collins, Coy West, Chris Specht, Johny (RBP), and Lacy Lawson. Also to all of those who have booked me or even just picked up a CD as well as all my good friends not associated with the music scene, you guys are my release.
Do you have anything else to add?
Tentative Release Dates:
Moon Magnet has started a record label called Harmonious Discord Recordings. The label will be featuring the best in new tech house and progressive house with artists such as Myself (Equality 7-2521/ Grey), David Brown (Ahman), Eric Reeves (Litex, Grey), Hebert Berkley (Smight), Merrick Brown, and Jay Winborn.
HD001 Ahman and Litex- Deep Chords Ep In Stores NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
HD002 Merrick Brown April 2002
HD003 Grey (Sean Anderson and Eric Reeves) June 2002
HD004 Smight August 2002
HD005 Circuit Boy October 2002