ROBOTS present ANDY VAZ(Backround, Germany) Kevin McHUGH and NICK AC Friday 25th!!!!

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FRIDAY MARCH 25th

ANDY VAZ Live! (Background Records, Sound_Variation)

KEVIN McHUGH (Micromini)

NICK AC (Robots)

From Andy's highly acclaimed "First aid course" 12" on Background Records...:

Café Deville 10-late

$5

Set Times TBC (Andy will prob go on around 12.30pm)

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 [---].