Tendency - PHMIX002

Padre Himalaya

£6.46

Cat: PHMIX002
Format: Tape
Release Date: 10th May 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

The man behind this mix once made a joke about me being an extremist in my opinions . So to confirm his opinion, let’s start with a bold statement:

Tendency is the most unique and challenging DJ in Portugal. For more than a decade, he's been developing a very liquid form of mixing, not only technically but most importantly, sonically, while creating a very melting, weird sounding mix of organic, sub-heavy frequencies, together with the high pitch aggressions of the early rave influenced computer music in the line of Florian Hecker and alike. While in some larger European cities other DJs and producers were developing this approach conceptually, Tendency (Solution back then) refined this utopic, post-digital, aesthetics in the packed dancefloors of a small, musically conservative local club culture, not very tolerant to anything but catchy, melodic, dancefloor friendly, sets. It all sounded very futuristic, alien... It also sounded inevitable - like if the mix of genres and influences he was creating were logical, and yet most would never think of mixing them together.

Carlos Milhazes (Matéria Prima)