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Artist
Walker Barnard
12+ albums
tech-houseminimal technospotifyHousetechno
about
Walker Barnard grew up on an ashram outside the American mainstream, listening to Balinese monkey chants, classical Indian music and The Beatles White Album. His first experience of the funk came early on when his father, who was making music videos for Motown, brought him to hang on the set of the shoot for Rick James's Super Freak video. In the early nineties, Walker started playing the bass in a funk-rock band called Mobius Trip. The band recorded in Los Angeles with the Dust Brothers of Paul’s Boutique fame and then with Beastie Boys keyboardist Mark Nishita. Walker threw down on a range of projects—Including a Lemmy remix, and Vince Neil's solo record. From there Walker's journeys led him to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he continued to hone his bass playing and recording chops in a number of projects. It was in Santa Fe that Walker dove into the world of house and techno. On re-emerging from the depths of the sweaty dance floor of his first warehouse party he knew that his funk was electronic. It was then that he began his mission to transpose the soul and depth of his live music experience onto the realms of house and techno.While living in a teepee outside Santa Fe, Walker got a call from a friend in NYC who was looking for a producer engineer to come work at a downtown manhattan hip hop studio. He thought that sounded pretty good, so with fifty dollars in his pocket boarded a plane bound for New York ready for the next chapter. The studio turned out to be the epicenter
