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Artist
Stewart Walker
12+ albums
minimal technotechnominimalelectronicelectronica
about
After selling his guitar and abandoning “lead singer” ambitions in 1993, Stewart Walker started to assemble a synthesizer-based hardware studio. He'd work his supermarket job during the day and come home to a dim room with blinking lights. Starting with a synth and a drum machine, he'd work the filter knobs or pitchbender while dreaming of standing on stage in front of a screaming audience. From such humble beginnings, Stewart stepped up his knowledge of synthesis, drum programming and mixing. After a period of listening to and recording only freeform ambient jams, he picked up Jeff Mills “Live at the Liquid Room” and fell in love with rhythm again. This early techno enthusiasm expressed itself in a line of recordings which were released first by Matrix Records in Detroit, and later by Deepfried (Grand Rapids, MI) and Tektite (Austin, TX). His first European release “Artificial Music for Artificial People” came out on Cristian Vogel's Mosquito imprint from Brighton, England. At this time when he was releasing his first records, Stewart was frequenting local clubs to study how this music could be performed. This because he had already decided not to DJ. So he brought his music on stage with the intention of doing what Djs cannot. That is change the music inside the records they are playing. He took to the stage with an MPC-2000 and a DJ mixer, determined to rock a crowd using only his music, shaped by his own hands. This lead to a worldwide touring regimen hitting clubs in A
