In this Friday’s mix, Spectralband looks to pull together his tastes in Techno, Drum & Bass and experimental music, to highlight a specific sound that defines his tastes, irrespective of genre or BPM.
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For many the name Spectralband is synonymous with radio…
From the mid 1980’s through to the 1990’s Warren Spectralband, too young to attend any of the illegal raves and warehouse parties in the UK, gained most of his knowledge of music through radio. His weekends usually consisted of listening to pirate radio and learning the names of the tracks, labels and artists that were being played - which at that time mainly consisted of Chicago & Acid House, Detroit Techno, shortly followed by the emergence of ‘Rave’ music.
His first experience of being on radio came by way of the BBC and an interview with Sybil Ruscoe and by the mid 1990’s he got his first break on radio as a DJ playing Jungle / Drum & Bass under various guises on pirate stations, mostly based in East & North London’s now demolished tower blocks.
In 1999 Spectralband went on to co-run a newly opened record shop in East London; it was there that he met Shax with whom he co-ran the store until 2003 when the record shop unfortunately closed.
Circa 2007, Spectralband and Shax teamed up with friend Jason H to form The Clairvoyants on Rinse FM, which was then still a pirate radio station. The Clairvoyants held a regular show on Rinse FM until Summer 2013, right through their transition from pirate to legal radio station playing underground Techno which featured guests from the Techno scene. This attracted a worldwide following and played a pivotal role in bringing Techno to new audiences and making it popular again in the UK…especially London…
In this time they played at many of London’s Techno events, such as Coma & Plex, and were residents for Neighbourhood. In 2013, they had the honour of playing at Tresor’s London warehouse event, sharing a stage with one of the genre’s creators.
By the summer of 2013, having already experienced many facets of the music industry, Spectralband felt the time was right to realise his long term goal which was to start his own imprint and launched the Spectralband label.
Soon after The Clairvoyants parted ways with Rinse FM, he decided to set up his own radio station, Seance Radio (www.seanceradio.co.uk). He has formed the Seance Limited company and expanded the radio station into a brand with a record label releasing both on vinyl & digital format as well as an artist agency. Our resident, @rommek, now has a fantastic show on the station.
Now, in 2016, with a career spanning over 20 years, Spectralband hopes to inspire new generations as he once was, by supplying them with cutting-edge underground music via the medium of radio in its many different forms and through his labels.
TRACKLIST
Undisclosed.
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Published on Fri May 13 2016 11:04:11 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time) by Loose Lips
