Hegstraction

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Hegstraction is a minimal & techno producer from the UK, Beatport Top 100 (releases) & BBC Music Introducing artist. He also runs Bad Haz Techno (track promotion). BACKGROUND Hegstraction grew up in the 80s & 90s heavily influenced by the emergent electronic music in Amiga, Nintendo & PlayStation video games & also the movie soundtracks made by electronic music pioneers Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream & Kraftwerk. This led to a natural inclination towards house, techno & trance music. More recently he has been influenced by the German Techno DJ/producers Felix Krocher & Stephan Bodzin. INSPIRATION His inspiration differs from most artists as it comes from the dance floor where he is most at home. Through over 20 years experiencing DJ sets worldwide in such places as London, Manchester, Leeds, Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Prague, Berlin, Goa, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Hanoi, Sydney, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Montreal & Buenos Aires, his ideas have been shaped. METHODOLOGY He approaches each track as a mini set building up slowly using level changes, sounds that stimulate & energize whilst also bringing it back down ready for the next DJ or track creating a trance-like state. Sections of tracks are designed to be used for DJs to isolate interesting segments or sounds for mixing purposes. Skeletalism is used in some tracks just using closely related sounds; the best example of this is Fetish from the album Movement. Other tracks feature massification where sounds ar

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Space: The Radio Edits

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Space

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Mohs 1 Talc: The Hard Series

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Lozenge Composition: The Minimal Series

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Seraphim: The Melodic Series

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Tableau 1: The Minimal Series

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Dark & Dirty Beats

Movement

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Mohs 4 Fluorite: The Hard Series

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Composition No. 1: The Minimal Series

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

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Mohs 6 Orthoclase: The Hard Series

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