Check out three guys from Vienna who are forging a prolific career by playing hypnotising dubby tech-house in the classic garage set-up of drums, bass and electric guitar.
With the increasing mobility of musical equipment, lines between performing and recording, live sets and DJ performances have become increasingly blurred. Sounds that must have filled several trucks when Kraftwerk first hit the road in the early '70s as a fully electronic band would easily fit your iPod these days. Of course, availability of sounds does not equal ideas. A project like Elektro Guzzi from Vienna is a welcome presence then, a group of conservatory-trained musicians who have consciously limited their set-up to focus on ideas.
Theirs being to capture the spirit of sequencer-based music - with the odd nod to motorik krautrock beats, afro flourishes and dub textures - in a classic electro-acoustic set-up of drums, bass, guitar and a massive array of effects pedals.
Not giving in to the temptation of loose jams, they approach their material with a modern producer's mindset, carefully shaping and building their tracks in ways that may be counter intuitive to live musicians, but that are all the more challenging for it. The results swiftly captured the imagination of producer Patrick Pulsinger who went on to produce their debut album as well as utilising the band on his own music.
“Elektro Guzzi’s combination of techno structures with the improvisational techniques of post-rock and Krautrock is a refreshing change from the quantised and digitised; Breuer's free-flowing organic percussion lends a regimented but loose backbone to the two guitarists' murky sound design and rhythmic interplay.” (residentadvisor.net)
This recording for Red Bull Music Adademy Radio captures the rhythm & sound of Elektro Guzzi live at Spring festival, Austria.
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