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Appeared at Echo Club, Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland: Saturday,
March 2nd 2002, DJ Set.
BABY FORD (Ifach/Trelik/Pal/Rephlex/Klang UK)
supported by DJ SWo (CUE Central Europe, Electro_Shox CH)
PETER
FORD - BABY FORD
Baby Ford has produced a catalogue full of music that makes you want to
bow in awe. Starting off in the second half of the 80's, with popular
acid tracks, only to soon abandon the path of popularity to go back underground
and work on his very own musical universe. Since more than ten years,
Peter lives in his small flat in west London, which is also his studio
and the place from where he runs his three labels Ifach, Trelik and Pal
SL. Peter continuously works with a handful of friends such as Ian Loveday
(Eon), Thomas Melchior and Mark Broom on various musical projects. Their
releases get more recognition in Germany than in England. Klang records
in Frankfurt has released three 12" and Baby Ford's latest album
"Sacred Machine" (2001). Peter had released an EP by Dimbiman
on Pal SL, which in turn has led to the release of Baby Ford tracks on
Dimbiman's Perlon label, also in Germany.
PETER
FORD - MINIMAL MAN
Minimal Man is a collaboration of Baby Ford and Ian Loveday aka Eon that
started in 1993 after the BFORD9 phase. Ian and Peter had been producing
'Fetish' and 'A kind of living' before; indeed Minimal Man has been one
of the most important projects that set the spirit for the foundation
of the Ifach and Trelik labels. The first release was the 'Minimal Man
E.P.' on William Orbit's Guerilla label, a soulful and dubby techno house
record with a certain disco flavour and warm analogue, yet powerful technoid
sounds combined with awesome samples (Might be hard to find these days,
but if you can get it, don't miss it.) The style they introduced with
this 12'' was developed further and put in a more technoid, less housey
concept with a release on Vinyl Solution called 'Treatment feel', an excellent
3-split track moving somehow between the 'tribal' elements of the Guerilla
e.p. and the tricky rhythms they used later on Baby Ford's Trelik label,
which was launched in 1995 and on which all Minimal Man releases came
out from that moment on. Minimal Man stands for an innovative techno sound
that has never stopped to develop itself further. Despite its minimal
and experimental character and the will to produce new sounds, the project
has never neglected its dancefloor-oriented component.
IFACH
Records London
Text in Groove Magazine, Germany
Text in De:Bug Magazine, Germany
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