Himadri

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TESTE was the original alias for techno producer Himadri of Richie Hawtin's +8 records. In 1991 during the time of Chemistry and Nitrous raves in Toronto a partnership was made between David Foster (now drummer for junior boys and then drummer for Eden Mandate. The two began an industrial group called Kanal and then AVM, which opened for many industrial shows such as DHI, bang elektroniq and digital poodle. Himadri left his 1987 hiphop act after opening for public enemy to promote 1987 AVM's demo in London UK where he also handed out tapes of TESTE, the loopy distorted experimental tape of beats made on a tr909 with a tb303 and other analog synths. "Ironically, I had the 909 as a 14yr old to help me keep tempo for my sitar lessons..." Himadri recalls. In London where he discovered dance music, He made friends with several uk djs and shops and when he returned he discovered that the music that he thought was an experiment was coming from detroit in particular transmat records and underground resistance's "we are on tv". after making over 100 tapes which circulated across usa, germany and uk to similar unknown producers at the time in a new music deemed "techno" as techno was becoming what we now know. Soon afterwards AVM finished its full legth album in 1989 when 100 tapes were manufactured but destroyed in a destructive activity as the band broke up their reputed shows of extreme visuals, crazy antiques and dark mysterious electronic songs. The three were then approached by R

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On Your Knees

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dubstep massacabre

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Electric Ladyland I

Electric Ladyland

Trance Atlantic

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dubstep massacabre - himadri live set @ demf2007

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Blueprints For Modern (Techno)logy Vol. 3

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Plus 8 Classics volume 2 1993-1994

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Plus 8 Classics Volume 2 (1993-1994)

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Blueprints For Modern Technology, Vol. 3

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Plus 8 Classics Vol. 2 (1993-1994)

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Trance Atlantic (Disc 2)

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