CLR Podcast 060 – Function 4i656o

Function, aka David Sumner, should be a familiar name to anyone who's been paying attention to techno in New York City for the past 15+ years. Heavily influence by the early New York rave scene (Limelight, NASA, Storm, etc), Dave dove into production with a string of releases and collaborations on Damon Wild's seminal Synewave label in the mid-90s. From the late 90s to the early 00s, Function put out many productions on his own label, Infrastructure. In the process he made a strong artistic connection with Regis and Female from the UK, and formed Portion Reform with Regis, releasing a handful of 12"s and an album on the cult, UK Midlands based imprint, Downwards. This connection remains strong to this day. In 2008, Dave moved to Berlin and began to strongly focus on the Sandwell District label, which was undoubtedly one of the breakout labels that year. The label was launched in 2002, and has only put out 15 releases since then, each one well worth owning. In 2010, the techno spotlight is shining brightly on Sumner and Sandwell. He has a residency at Berghain, and appears regularly at other huge clubs around Europe, and from all reports, his performance was the best set at the Labyrinth Festival in Japan this year. And now with Sandwell District being slated to close the main stage at Sonar this June, 2 new groundbreaking V/A Promo 12"s in the pipeline set to come out in May/June 2010, which will precede a full length Sandwell District album and 2 new collaborative projects with Jerome Sydenham for CLR and Ibadan, the future really couldn't be much brighter. Tracklisting Function - SDSMP01 A1 - Sandwell District Silent Servant - SDSMP02 A1 (Edit) - Sandwell District Silent Servant (Regis Mix) - SDSMP01 B1 - Sandwell District Function vs. Jerome Sydenham - Two Ninety One - CLR Xhin - Blade Moth - Meerestief Xhin - Plexus - Meerestief Robert Hood - Alpha - M-Plant JPLS - Displacement - Minus Martyn - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Remix) - 3024 Cybersonic - Technarchy (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - Plus 8 JPLS - X Pulse - Minus Mark Broom and James Ruskin - No Time Soon - Blueprint Speedy J - Armstrong - CLR Xhin - Fixing The Error - Stroboscopic Artefacts Xhin - Link - Stroboscopic Artefacts Function - SDSMP01 A2 - Sandwell District Function - Unreleased Live Edit Mark Broom and James Ruskin - The Metal Man - Blueprint Robert Hood - Omega - M-Plant Robert Hood - Superman - Music Man Cari Lekebusch - Spindizzy (Luke Slater's L.B. Dub Corp Remix) - Mote Evolver Equalized 03 - A - Equalized Jeff Mills - Black Is The Number - Axis Lionrock - Packet Of Peace (Jeff Mills Deep House Mix) - Deconstruction Function vs. Jerome Sydenham - Illusion - Ibadan Phase - Fragmenta - Token Milton Bradley - Hypnagogic - Do Not Resist The Beat Delta Funktionen - Silhouette (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - Delsin Silent Servant - SDSMP02 A1 - Sandwell District Silent Servant - SDSMP02 B1 - Sandwell District Female - SDSMP02 B2 - Sandwell District Female - SDSMP02 A2 - Sandwell District 561r2f