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artist :: Dennis Desanits
release :: Warning Fatigue
year :: 2003
genre :: Electronic
label :: K2O
catalog :: K2O 30
link :: http://www.dennisdesantis.com
ripper :: mbs-crew
date :: 18.07.2003
quality :: 192kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo
source :: Vinyl
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01.Dennis Desantis - Warning Fatigue 05:36
02.Dennis Desantis - Nine Lives 04:55
03.Dennis Desantis - Warning Fatigue (Jeff Bennett Remix) 10:25
:: 28,8 MB :: 20:56 min
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Dennis DeSantis was born in 1973 in Warren, Michigan to
parents who were semi-professional musicians with diverse
and eclectic listening tastes. Every day, the music in the
house would span from Beethoven to Joni Mitchell,
Stravinsky to King Crimson. Dennis's early forays into
active music-making involved chewing on the piano bench.
Somewhat later, after a series of unpleasant piano lessons
and a failed venture into playing the horn, he began to
focus on percussion and electronics.
At around the same time (somewhere in the early 1980's),
Dennis met and became friends with Andy Crosby (who now
produces amazing electro under the name Spesimen, with
several releases on his own Infocalypse label and a 12" on
the Dutch label Amici Curiae.) Together, the two of them
began earnestly exploring the rapidly growing world of
electronic music, with a particular focus on such artists
as Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Eventually, Andy and
Dennis ended up at different high schools and, inevitably,
their musical interests began to diverge. Andy wisely
followed the development of electronic music right back
home to Detroit, while Dennis somehow missed the history
that was being made around him, instead moving toward
Euro/synthpop (New Order, Depeche Mode) early Industrial
(Front 242), experimental music (Negativland), classical
and jazz. He kicks himself daily for not noticing the
incredible music being made in his own backyard.
While in high school, Dennis began to focus more seriously
on composition. From 1989 to 1991 he composed, programmed,
and played keyboards for an experimental jazz trio, and it
was during this time that he began to discover just how
much fun sequencers could be. In addition to his work with
the trio, this early sequencer work evolved into a unique
fusion of Tangerine Dream-esque ostinato patterns and
groove-oriented jazz.
After graduation, Dennis attended Western Michigan
University, where he majored in composition and music
theory with an additional emphasis on percussion. It was
here that he shifted his focus to writing for acoustic
instruments - electronic music would take a backseat for
the next several years. His listening interests expanded to
include the Classical repertoire (particularly that of the
Twentieth Century), non-Western music, and even more jazz,
funk, soul, and R&B. In 1992 he became the drummer for the
Kalamazoo band Knee Deep Shag, where he remained until
1995. That experience (as well as the fact that he was
living in a house with four other percussionists)
contributed greatly to his concept of rhythm and groove.
Both situations however, were probably not so beneficial to
the longevity of his hearing.
In 1997 Dennis headed for the East Coast to pursue a
Master's degree in composition at Yale University.
Percussion was now in the back seat next to electronic
music, and for the next two years his writing was almost
exclusively for small chamber ensembles. Yale also gave
Dennis his first real teaching opportunity, as an assistant
for an undergraduate survey course in the history of
popular music. While these years were compositionally
productive, Dennis missed both performing and being in an
environment where jazz and popular music were taken
seriously. With the free time afforded by not playing drums
(combined with the unexpectedly lax academic requirements),
Dennis found himself with copious amounts of free time
between 1997 and 1999. Some of this time was spent forming
a new music production organization known as the Minimum
Security Composers Collective with three Yale classmates.
The rest of it was spent going back and discovering what
had really been happening with electronic music in Detroit
all those years. These discoveries led to more discoveries,
and before too long Dennis found himself enmeshed in the
beautiful electronic funk of Hawtin, Chain Reaction, and
the like. He began, slowly, to make electronic music again.
After completing his degree in 1999, Dennis moved to
Rochester, New York, where he entered the doctoral program
in composition at the Eastman School of Music with an
assistantship teaching electronic music. This job, combined
with his rekindled interest in composing for computers,
required that he remain up-to-date with the current
developments in electronic music technology, and he used
this knowledge to help himself design a home studio that
was optimized for his working methods. Eastman also brought
Dennis back to an environment with a vibrant jazz
community, and before too long he was performing again,
both as a percussionist in contemporary music concerts and
as a drummer with funk and hip-hop groups. By 2001 he was
performing regularly with (and serving on the
administrative board of) Ossia, the student-run new music
organization at Eastman. He also serves as a performer and
administrator with the group Alarm Will Sound, with whom he
has recorded the music of Steve Reich for Nonesuch and
Cantaloupe Records.
Meanwhile, by the spring of 2001, Dennis had produced
enough finished techno to feel comfortable about letting it
be heard. Almost immediately after circulating some of
these tracks online, he began receiving offers from DJs and
independent labels. Inspired by the interest, he mailed a
handful of proper demos, and by the end of the summer had
received offers from labels on both sides of the Atlantic.
He eventually signed with the Kanzleramt sub-label k2o, who
released his debut 12" "Deviant" in January of 2002.
Selling out almost immediately, "Deviant" garnered rave
reviews from De-Bug and Groove and has appeared in the sets
of such luminaries as Dan Bell and Laurent Garnier. Other
releases in 2002 included the "Promotion of Vice" 12" in
April, two tracks on the k2o sampler CD in May, a split 12"
with Tom Churchill on Headspace in September (which was
charted by the likes of John Tejada and Fabrice Lig and was
named a "Sureplayer" by England's DJ magazine), a remix for
Alexander Kowalski and the double-vinyl/CD release
"Reasons" with Alex and Diego Hostettler in October (both
on Kanzleramt.) Dennis's debut album "Clock Wise" was
released on k2o in June and quickly became one of the
label's top-selling albums.
Other events in 2002 included a two-month tour of the
festival and club circuit in Germany, a performance at
Sonarsound Tokyo, and a series of print and television
interviews in both Japanese and German press. Planned
activities for 2003 include another round of 12"s and a
full-length release on Kanzleramt, a series of remixes for
Warner Brothers recording artist Meg and Victor recording
artist Wrench, and tours in Germany in January and Canada
in March.
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