PERFORMERS

Stewart Walker started with a synthesizer and drum machine and from such humble beginnings has become one of the foremost innovators in the electronic music scene. He first brought his music on stage with the intention of doing what DJs cannot: to change the music inside the records they are playing, bringing an MPC-2000 and a DJ mixer and rocking the crowd using only his hands and his music. This approach leads to a worldwide tour in Asia, Europe, and his native USA, cementing him a seminal role in the development of minimal techno. In 2003 Walker moved to Berlin in order to truly participate in the vibrant European techno community, and with a reenergized appreciation of club culture, he explored bubbling micro-rhythms and looser construction, all with an unmistakable American groove. Walker has reconciled his multiple perceptions of “the Berlin sound” from past and present and now presents the music as a mix, since even the structural and song-shaped music he produces requires a context from which to emerge.