IXIndamix

No theories here: experimentation, a science of sound, a break-beat and elaborate textures on the terrain, in the action, in the movement.

“At the start it was Debbie of Spiral Tribe who invited and encouraged me to play on the decks. Later, Simon and Sebastian (Cristal Distortion & 69 DB) taught me how to use the studio. I was pregnant and needed to keep myself busy doing something new. I produced my first track in Berlin, two weeks before the birth of my son.”

Her influences are: “the dancers, technology, nature, (my) children” She lived gypsy style with horses and wagons from the age of 17 before crossing paths with Spiral tribe in 1991. “ During that summer, we travelled horsedrawn across England. By chance we ran into Spiral Tribe almost every week during free festivals (free festivals occurred during the 70’s and 80’s in England and inspired raves, free-parties, and teknivals). We decided to follow them to London for the winter. I no longer wanted to leave at the end of the parties. I left my horse with a friend and I joined the tribe.”

Since then, whether it be with turn-tables or machine generated , she has declared total war against boredom, conformity, and against all uniform matters. Movement, inspiration, humor, energy, it’s crazy how great it is to run into an artist who is truly free.

" I had never made music before Spiral Tribe. I had listened to the Pogues, the Sex Pistols, to reggae, and the groups who played in the free-festivals before the arrival of acid-house. But when I heard this new sound for the first time, I didn't want to listen to anything else."

This without doubt explains the musical universe of IXI which is totally incomparable to anything else. Even more than mixing or playing live, working on this album permitted her to plainly express her utterly free conception of the music.

“I tried to capture certain bass frequencies that are good for the soul. I tell stories with the sounds to make people smile, laugh, or contemplate while dancing. It’s true the music is always a bit up-tempo: like life, sometimes a bit hardcore. I try to reconcile realism and optimism.”

Her album is one which prefers samples of music cross-pieced with the far traveled lanes of major highways. Her world is one of sound where hardtek kicks bound between the most diverse back-beats.

Techno that makes people laugh because it’s spiced up with disco gimmicks; the poetry of steal and the strange vitality of it’s synthetic sounds; the echos of Jamaica within the inner workings of the computer.

One can truly say that IXI incarnates all the values and the symbols of free movement better than anyone. But we have to leave time for the musicologists and historians to digest the notion of cheescore!

That leaves us to big-time jubilation, dreaming and reality escapism without worrying too much about things....