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Andrew was initially drawn into music as a child after many raids of his father's vast rock vinyl collection, which ranged from the Beatles to Pink Floyd to Hendrix to Joy Division. Andrew purchased his own set of turntables as a freshman in high school back in 1996 and began practicing the art of mixing records immediately after. Initially mentored by a successful hip-hop DJ while playing various mobile gigs and parties in high school, these experiences taught him the art of reading crowd response through music. Andrew's tastes in music soon began to change. Attending the Drop Bass Network Parties in Wisconsin along with a number of parties throughout Chicago, Detroit, and across the states, he became equally influenced by Kurt Eckes' legendary Drop Bass parties and family techno campouts, as well as Richie Hawtin's heady parties of the second half of the nineties. The various sounds of house, techno, electro and IDM became a sort of obsession for Andrew and friends, following the techno movements at various events across the country, from Chicago to Detroit, NY to LA.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Andrew has spent a great deal of time in Chicago, enrolled in the Audio Arts and Acoustics program at Columbia College since 2003, concentrating in sound design and production. He also was recently brought on by the global music and audio company, Shure, Inc. to work full-time at their headquarters in Chicago assisting in the artist relations department, and is now living in Chicago. Over the years, he has also helped organize various electronic events with friends (primarily in Milwaukee area). Some of the names Andrew, John Alan, Screendoor and others brought out include Jeff Samuel, Solvent, Ryan Crosson, Barem, Safety Scissors, Seth Troxler, Keith Kemp, Bruno Prunsato, Andreas Tilliander, Sassmouth vs. Punisher, and more. Andrew has been currently spending much of his free time honing in on weird, distinct, and unique sounds on his computers, primarily utilyzing Ableton, Pro-Tools, Jomox analog drums, Reason and various Native Instruments software. Andrew has created numerous sound synthesis patches in the Max/MSP environment, and has had a close relationship with Chicago experimental electronic music composer, Tiffany Sevilla, further developing his sound, by working with her for the past few years on MIDI-based compositions. His production work focuses on a balance between "floor" material, as well as cerebral music for the head.
Aside from his current focus on mixes, remixes, re-edits, synthesis, and MIDI-based performance, Andrew also maintains his passion of creating mixes of music through DJing. With a love of all "great" music, his DJ sets are typically very versatile and diverse, ranging from ambient, downtempo, idm, new wave, rock, electro, house, techno, industrial, and everything in between, depending on the crowd and atmosphere. Andrew makes a point to steer clear of genre pigeonholing and saturation, but always likes to reference his electronic influential roots of Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, Cologne, Manchester, and Chile in his DJ sets and production work.
DJ/Production Gear/Hardware/Software Used:
Currently using:
Pro-Tools LE and M-Powered, Ableton Live, NI Traktor and Traktor Scratch, Rane Serrato Scratch Live, Roland Edirol 24-bit field recorder, Max/MSP, Absynth, Reason, Reaktor, FM7, Mackie 824 and Event 20/20 studio monitors, M-Audio Firewire 410 external soundcard, M-Audio UC-33 MIDI controller, M-Audio 88es MIDI keyboard controller, Jomox X-Base analog drum machine, Allen and Heath Xone 32 DJ mixer, Red-Sound Cycloops loop sampler, 2 Technics 1200 turntables, Shure needles, Sennheiser, Sony and AKG headphones, and Waves Renaissance for compression
Partial list of some stuff I've used in the past:
API Legacy analog mixing console, Neve and SSL mixing consoles, Digidesign Pro-Tools Control Surfaces and SYNC I/O for visual media sync with SMPTE, Neumann U76 vintage microphone and various Shure, AKG, Audio Technica microphones, Universal Audio 1176 compressors/limiters, DBX 160 compressor/limiter, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Electrix, Analog Filter, Ensoniq DP/2 parallel effects processor, various Genelec and Rogers studio monitors, various Lexicon reverb and effects units
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