From fix8 Sent Tue, Sep 15th 1998, 04:51
************************************************************************ Truck musik 10 and 11 Voiteck vs TD5 Voiteck doesn't disappoint on this double 12" release, the newest on his own label Truck Musik. The standout a1 begins with an almost house-ish beat before being overlapped with trademark peculiar techno percussion which contorts and contrasts. Slowly tweaked analogue loops join the fray transforming the track. The addition of a sampler to his set up is noticeable in the running water which backs the b2 which coupled with beats provides a throbbing porter-ricks like background to pristine synth notes and a twitching melodic undercurrent. Truck 11 contains re-workings and reinterpretations of the tracks from truck 10 showcasing the results that alternative focuses have yielded. Truck 10 and 11 heralds Voiteck's evolution as an artist though a controlled and more experimental approach applying subtler rhythms and inflections with a defter touch. Voiteck continues his analogue experimentation, stretching the boundaries of the techno genre ************************************************************************ Interview extract: Voiteck Andersen is one of the most brilliant and challenging techno artist in Australia today. Based in Melbourne he is responsible for releases on Plug Research, Harthouse, Primate, Undefined as well as a host of local labels. He also runs and releases material on his own label Truck Musik one of the first underground techno labels to operate in Australia. Covering a vast expanse of styles and sounds, Voiteck has released material ranging from an ambient album to the blistering percussive mind-terrorism of his latest album Live at your mama's which showcases segments of his live shows from '96-'98. Concessions to the conventions of style and genre don't form a part of his creative process, rather Voiteck is interested in pure and original expression.. "I don't sit down and say I'm making a minimal track because that's what's happening, trance was then and techno is now, so I gotta roll with the times. Not at all. To me I make the track and whatever's coming out of me - whether its aggression or whatever, I'm trying to express basically the way I feel. If its minimal its minimal, if its rocking its rocking, if I'm in a driving mode… whatever mood I'm in basically I try and express that as purely as I can without putting bull shit into it." This approach is most apparent on his 1997 release on Plug Research the Liquid Paper EP, the sounds of which were dynamic and distinctive - neither recognisable, capable of categorisation or safe. The brilliant A side 'rusty swing' consisting of layers of clashing mechanical drum loops and wrenching analogue synth melodies, received widespread underground acclaim. Remarkably, the release was only possible because Voiteck was having difficulty acquiring Plug Research records and decided to contact them directly. "I was trying to order records off them and they wouldn't answer me, and then they asked me for a tape - I don't how they knew that I make music. Suddenly my record came out before I could buy their records." This month will see the release of two more 12"s of outstanding techno on Voiteck's own Truck Music label with Voiteck in schizophrenic mode as 'Voiteck vs TD5'. After discussions with Claude Young while he was on his Australian tour earlier this year, Voiteck is also looking at the possibility of a European tour next year. "The thing was that finally someone who is into my style of music or who knows where I'm coming from, my ethics, the hardship we go through as artists, was able to tell me more, give me more information about what's happening in Europe. Where my records are going, and he basically said to me 'what the hell are you doing get your arse over there', so I'm planning a tour next year, early next year." Having already played live in support of Aphex Twin, Speedy J, Jeff Mills, Claude Young, Stacey Pullen, Luke Slater and Derrick May and at over a hundred other live shows Voiteck's reputation as an innovative and skillful live artist is sure to be cemented by a successful European tour. Voiteck also says that the majority of the material on his truck releases was three to four years old, but that it was essential that he release the tracks that he considered landmarks in his evolution as an artist. "In a few years, ten years ahead, I look at a record and it shows me where I was at as a person. What stage I'm up to in the development as a human being almost, how I'm evolving and that to me is art. Life is an art form in a way, to live life... people are artists you know, you have to be an artist to live a life basically, life is art." In the last year appearances on brilliant LA label Plug Research and the widespread success of his live album have increased Voiteck's profile and established his position as one of Australia's premier producers. His drive and passion for music is sure to see the continuation of his unique and successful blend of experimental analogue sounds, ambient atmospherics and driving beats. Or as Voiteck puts it, the exploration of 'abstract forms, innovative complexities and extremes' will continue to propagate 'into expansive realms of analogue music, chewy mechanical elements and resonant percussive motion.' There is activity beneath the surface. Indeed. ************************************************************************ More of the interview to come. Phylistine