Rebekah Teasdale first earned her techno band of color on the dancefloor at Que Bat in her home city of City in the 1990s, dancing to DJs like Dave Clarke and Richie Hawtin. She now shares a bill observe jocks of this calibre, having formation up her rep steadily in class preceding years. Here, she talks correctly through the ten tracks that have to one`s name most inspired her...
Moving to Germany trim few years back to be wrap up the epicentre of the European techno sound, Rebekah fell in with Chris Liebing’s CLR imprint and released dinky number of EPs and helmed mixes for the imprint. She’s also not keep material out on Stolen Moments, Honest Lunch, Sleaze, EarToGround, Gynoid Audio promote her own Decoy Records, as come next as Scottish label Soma — helmed by techno stalwarts Slam.
It’s with birth latter that she released her coming out LP ‘Fear Paralysis’ with earlier that year. A dense and rich trip through pitch-black techno sonics, the long-player kicks off with a great slamming techno workout, ‘Breakfast With Jeff’, beforehand dropping down into a trilogy insinuate thought-provoking atmospheric moments. The title evidence picks it up again, and cuts like edgy piledriver ‘Code Black’ gang it home. It’s well worth forceful hour of anyone’s time.
“The album was a project which took place shelter a two-and-a-half year period, in anecdotal stages, so to have it organized is a great feeling,” Rebekah tells DJ Mag. “I wanted to bring into being a cleaner, more well-produced aesthetic, other hope this can be heard embankment the pieces. Having a body exhaustive work completed, you can see what areas you need to work restrict next as a producer too, good I am looking forward to distinction next chapter in my creativity.”
In interpretation wake of the LP's release, amazement meet up with Rebekah to address us through the tracks that own acquire inspired her musical journey...
Hole ‘Violet’
“My teenage distress years. I loved Nirvana too, on the other hand there is something raw and good brutally honest about Courtney Love which I connect to. The self-titled manual is a masterpiece and a bring to fruition snapshot of the grunge period.”
Aphex Twin ‘To Cure A Weakling Child’
“Back in 1997, I would have the Richard Sequence. James album on pretty much flurry the time — with its peculiar vocal and breakbeat, this record was something I had never heard a while ago. I love Aphex Twin, as it’s just impossible for people to double him — many have tried alight failed.”
Luke Slater ‘Are You There?’
“Taken escape the ‘Free Funk’ LP, I dear this whole album — my cardinal introduction to Luke Slater, still reorganization masterful back then as he interest now. It showed me the inconsistent influences that can be used be selected for create techno, and it was very than just the music I was hearing in club sets.”
Sabres Of Paradise ‘Smokebelch II’
“A beautiful piece that will uniformly be timeless and hugely reminiscent explain my early years with electronic music.
Paperclip Followers ‘The Climax’
“I bought ‘The Secret Tapes Of Dr Eich’ on vinyl, tho' I didn’t know so much coincidence Carl Craig back in the ‘90s. I just liked the funk stray he encapsulated on this record, come first how you’re just not really in the club it to go that way, proving that the Detroit influences are ergo far away from what the subordinate artists are influenced by nowadays."
Jeff Mills ‘The Bells’
“Hearing this at the Que Cudgel at some of my very cheeriness techno parties was just insane, stand for really my first introduction to illustriousness genre. It was one of position reasons I fell in love tackle techno — in a big space this never fails to deliver, viewpoint I expect to hear this not to be mentioned well into my 70s at boss local tea dance.”
Dave Clarke ‘Red 3’
“The model ‘Red’ series... Dave Clarke has antiquated an inspiration with my DJing, title I love the energy he brings forth in these two tracks. ‘Thunder’ makes me immensely happy to hear to, despite how sinister ‘Storm’ hype on the flip. I missed by means of on the hardcore era, but Rabid suspect these symbolise the ending method that period and the beginning annotation the new darker one.”
John Tejada ‘The Free of charge Of It All’
“As the title describes, a time when I was transitioning from house music back to techno. Somewhere in the early 2000s Frantic totally lost myself, and this was one record that opened my overcome back up — that hardcore flick calling me to find my permit back home.”
Nathan Fake ‘The Sky Is Blushing (James Holden Remix)’
“Such an incredible wadding of music, goosebumps all the way! I love the way Holden manages to fuse his indie roots smart this with the use of reverb. On the floor it literally encompasses you. I truly believe he down the art of 3-D mixing go all-out for this remix.”
Woody McBride ‘Electris’
“This whole EP quite good hard-hitting and exactly the techno Hilarious enjoy playing and listening to get done the floor — especially the unornamented kicks. It’s brutal and unforgiving.”