Fanon Flowers // Subsist Podcast 006
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Fanon Flowers was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, exactly
halfway between Detroit and Chicago, the birthplaces of techno and house
music. A product of his environment, he grew up listening to Italian
Disco, Chicago Acid House and Detroit Techno. At the age of 17, Fanon
purchased his first synthesizer and drum machine and started buying
dance 12" records. He soon developed a style which combined the funky,
syncopated rhythms of techno with the soul of house music. He began to
garner attention in 1994 when he appeared as Mode Selector on the
"Elements of and Experiments with Sound" compilation on Detroit's
seminal Planet E label. Subsequent EPs for such labels as Reference,
Konsequent, Sheep, E-Com, and Holtzplatten established Flowers'
reputation as a prominent American techno producer. In 1996, Fanon
Flowers appeared under his Mode Selector alias on the "Detroit: Beyond
the Third Wave" Compilation. Released on Astralwerks, Flowers appeared
alongside Detroit techno stalwarts such as Claude Young, Ectomorph, Sean
Deason, and Anthony "Shake" Shakir.
That same year, Flowers started his own techno imprint, Mechanisms
Industries (distributed by Triple Vision Holland), to showcase his
unique and funky approach to techno. With over 40 records produced and
released on various labels, Fanon Flowers embarked on several European
Tours and One-off events playing in Slovakia, Spain, Belgium, Germany
and England. Fanon Flowers also launched a new label in 2009 called
Studio Sound (distributed by Crosstalk International Chicago). The
label’s focus is Acid
Techno and pure Detroit Techno and the first released is called the
“Acid Kush EP” by Fanon Flowers. The second release called
“Detroit-Chicago” was released in 2010. The year 2009 saw the release of
Mechanisms Industries monster remix 12”of the legendary Hard minimal
Techno track “Dom” by Obscurum originally released in 1997 on E-Com
Records Germany. The remix 12” includes remixes by Spanish Techno
producers Exium, Reeko and Fanon Flowers. In 2011 the latest project to
be released on Mechanisms Industries called “Antikythera Mechanism”,
showcases the depths of the Mechanisms sound. Also in 2011 were releases
on Modularz, Reaktor and Sect Records (UK).
Tracklist
Surgeon - Those Who Do Not - Dynamic Tension
Pwog - Kraak - KK
Dino Sabatini - Step 1 - Sonic Groove
Wax - 30003 (B1) - Wax
Traktor - Traktor Mood - Traktor
Unit Mobius - Untitled (B2) - Network 23
Equalized - 003 (A1) - Equalized
Regis - Lapal - Downwards
Skudge - Shivers - Skudge
Robert Hood - Stereotype (B2) - M-Plant
Exium - Synchro - Nheoma
Christian Wunsch - White Coats (Part 1) - Tsunami
Fanon Flowers - Mode 05 - Exalt
Pylon aka Obscurum - Frown - Clip
Surgeon - We Are All Ready Here - Dynamic Tension
