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BRUNO PRONSATO

With his heady, intricately woven tracks and ominously funky live performances, Bruno Pronsato is one of technos most intriguing artists. His sound is full of contradictions: abstract but organic, sexy but drab, and though most of his records could easily stir a dance floor, they exist purely for themselves, never compromised for club potential. In music, as in life, Bruno likes to get weird, and the suspense that permeates his music often earns him the title of minimal. But its the deeply emotional moments"the warm, amber tones of tracks like What We Wish, At Home Im a Tourist and The Make Up The Break Up" that point to Brunos true objective: as he blurted out to an Italian journalist last year, I just want to make romantic techno.

In 2006, Bruno moved from Seattle to Berlin to do techno full time, and it wasnt long before he made a name for himself. His debut 12" was released in 2003 on Orac, a Kompakt distributed label, and was followed the next year by a full-length album, Silver Cities. Soon Bruno had the attention of labels like Philpot and Musique Risque, both of whom released Brunos next EPs. By 2005, Brunos live performance "an unusually nimble and improvisatory act"began receiving praise from XLR8R, The Wire, and dozens of underground European zines. It also piqued the interest of Ricardo Villalobos and Perlon boss Zip, who invited Bruno to play in their laptop super-group, Narod Nikki. Around this time, Bruno formed a duo with Sammy Dee called Half Hawaii. The pair played at nightclubs around Europe and international festivals like Mutek, and released two slick minimal records on Perlon and Hello? Repeat. But Brunos real breakthrough came in 2007 when he released Why Cant We Be Like Us, a strange and beautiful album that received a 5/5 from Resident Advisor and endless accolades throughout the blogosphere. This secured Brunos position as one of technos most imaginative and virtuosic artists, a reputation he easily maintained with his next two releases: the weird and sultry Whered You Learn to Kiss That Way on Hello? Repeat, and Take 1/ Take 2, a jazz-infected house jam he did with Daze Maxim, under the name Others.

In 2009, Bruno started his own label, thesongsays. It was partly a matter of necessity; he needed an imprint for his most ambitious work yet, a 38-minute epic called The Make Up The Break Up, so he decided to simply release it himself. Possibly his best work to date, The Make Up The Break Up received a deluge of praise upon its release, including another 5/5 from Resident Advisor. Later that year, thesongsays released its second record, a debut EP called What Ive Lost by Benoit & Sergio. Dripping with half-ironic romantic sentiment, What Ive Lost is a daringly unfashionable EP that, perhaps even more than his own tracks, reveals Bruno for who he truly is: a post-punk inspired techno artist that loves staying up all night, sipping whiskey with his pinky crooked.

JASON KENDIG (DJ - Honey Soundsystem, SF)

Jason began collecting records in Detroit in the early 1990s and soon became obsessed with the sounds of disco, italo, Chicago house and early Detroit techno. Mixing newer creative sounds with his deep collection of lost classics, Jason has DJed throughout the United States as well as abroad at parties like Horse Meat Disco (London), Club Lux (Lisbon), Tripod (Dublin), Paradiso (Amsterdam), Berghain (Berlin) and Hafen 2 (Frankfurt). He is currently resident for San Francisco's superb HONEY SOUNDSYSTEM and is releasing music on the MR.INTL label.
BRUNO PRONSATO

With his heady, intricately woven tracks and ominously funky live performances, Bruno Pronsato is one of technos most intriguing artists. His sound is full of contradictions: abstract but organic, sexy but drab, and though most of his records could easily stir a dance floor, they exist purely for themselves, never compromised for club potential. In music, as in life, Bruno likes to get weird, and the suspense that permeates his music often earns him the title of minimal. But its the deeply emotional moments"the warm, amber tones of tracks like What We Wish, At Home Im a Tourist and The Make Up The Break Up" that point to Brunos true objective: as he blurted out to an Italian journalist last year, I just want to make romantic techno.

In 2006, Bruno moved from Seattle to Berlin to do techno full time, and it wasnt long before he made a name for himself. His debut 12" was released in 2003 on Orac, a Kompakt distributed label, and was followed the next year by a full-length album, Silver Cities. Soon Bruno had the attention of labels like Philpot and Musique Risque, both of whom released Brunos next EPs. By 2005, Brunos live performance "an unusually nimble and improvisatory act"began receiving praise from XLR8R, The Wire, and dozens of underground European zines. It also piqued the interest of Ricardo Villalobos and Perlon boss Zip, who invited Bruno to play in their laptop super-group, Narod Nikki. Around this time, Bruno formed a duo with Sammy Dee called Half Hawaii. The pair played at nightclubs around Europe and international festivals like Mutek, and released two slick minimal records on Perlon and Hello? Repeat. But Brunos real breakthrough came in 2007 when he released Why Cant We Be Like Us, a strange and beautiful album that received a 5/5 from Resident Advisor and endless accolades throughout the blogosphere. This secured Brunos position as one of technos most imaginative and virtuosic artists, a reputation he easily maintained with his next two releases: the weird and sultry Whered You Learn to Kiss That Way on Hello? Repeat, and Take 1/ Take 2, a jazz-infected house jam he did with Daze Maxim, under the name Others.

In 2009, Bruno started his own label, thesongsays. It was partly a matter of necessity; he needed an imprint for his most ambitious work yet, a 38-minute epic called The Make Up The Break Up, so he decided to simply release it himself. Possibly his best work to date, The Make Up The Break Up received a deluge of praise upon its release, including another 5/5 from Resident Advisor. Later that year, thesongsays released its second record, a debut EP called What Ive Lost by Benoit & Sergio. Dripping with half-ironic romantic sentiment, What Ive Lost is a daringly unfashionable EP that, perhaps even more than his own tracks, reveals Bruno for who he truly is: a post-punk inspired techno artist that loves staying up all night, sipping whiskey with his pinky crooked.

JASON KENDIG (DJ - Honey Soundsystem, SF)

Jason began collecting records in Detroit in the early 1990s and soon became obsessed with the sounds of disco, italo, Chicago house and early Detroit techno. Mixing newer creative sounds with his deep collection of lost classics, Jason has DJed throughout the United States as well as abroad at parties like Horse Meat Disco (London), Club Lux (Lisbon), Tripod (Dublin), Paradiso (Amsterdam), Berghain (Berlin) and Hafen 2 (Frankfurt). He is currently resident for San Francisco's superb HONEY SOUNDSYSTEM and is releasing music on the MR.INTL label.
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