Artists>>Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz hails from Düsseldorf, Germany, the breeding ground of Kraftwerk. Andy manages and curates Background Recordings. Andy has been a pinnacle cornerstone of the German electronic music movement. He is highly regarded as one of the essential individuals on the global front for providing a cultural conduit for electronic music, between Düsseldorf, San Francisco, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, London, South Africa and countless other cities around the world. Background recordings has been a major force in the presentation of minimal techno, introducing and educating the world to the geographic variable influences that exist within the genre.
In 2000, Andy Vaz has released his own material. After many years of work in the studio, Andy was reluctant to release his music. taking the time needed to polish and refine the sound, and feel that it was on par with his contemporaries, his first 12", "Sounds Variation 1-1" was met with incredible international acclaim. Sounds_variation is based on the use of the same sounds, re-used throughout, giving each track another musical approach by pushing each instrument in a different compositional direction by re-arrangement, toneshifting and by adding/changing effects in order to demonstrate that a defined production criteria brings forth maximal results through the process of limitation within a lo-fi aestethic. The first edition of the Andy Vaz vinyl series on the elusive and nameless label is therefore entitled.
Next to the series Andy Vaz also started putting out minimal techno dance material. Music that is focused on the Groove and is based on his rich experiences as an internationally rewarded Live Act. Apart from having played countless clubs, festivals and venues, he's done everything from the legendary Liquid Room in Tokyo to the Mutekh Festival in Mexico. Andy has build up an excellent reputation as a crowd shaking and unique sounding live act. Known for extended two hour dance live-sets to more abstract listening performances Andy proves to be diverse and suitable in various musical contexts.