Tonight On Art Of Beatz: Tomas Jirku

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Tonight On AOB:

We continue the AOB Live sessions with a stiff dose of
techno from the infamous tomas Jirku.

Tomas Jirku has quickly established himself on the
international electronic music scene. From his humble
beginnings of independently released CD-Rs and MP3s,
Jirku's unrelenting, unpredictable explorations of
techno have since been released on prestigious record
labels around the world.

Born in the Czech Republic, he escaped with his family
to Toronto Canada while Eastern Europe was still under
communist control. Jirku spent his impressionable
youth studying fine art and design, playing video
games, painting graffiti, and listening to early
electronic pop stars like The KLF, Technotronic and
808 State.

Jirku's own music productions were first created using
archaic software and his earliest albums saw only
limited edition runs with hand-made packaging. He
first received international attention with his online
"Variants" project, with which he exposed his creative
process on the No-Type Internet website, collecting a
series of 59 interrelated compositions. These were
then paired down and compiled on his international
debut CD album released by Alien8 Recordings. The
opportunity to promote his newly released album at
Montreal's inaugural Mutek Electronic Music Festival
in the summer of 2000 was a catalyst for his creative
growth. Performing along side by his musical heroes,
Jirku presented newer, even more forward thinking
material that impressed everyone in the audience and
drew interest from the prolific German record label
Force Inc. Force Inc promptly picked up Jirku's new
material for his "Sequins" album. The album consisted
or experiments in what can best be called
'glitch-funk', wherein Jirku worked with samples
culled from his favorite funk tracks, coaxing elements
from the source audio that were left in the back of
the mix. With this fresh-minded approach, Jirku
allowed the listener to hear what no one has heard
before.

Jirku has since created a impressive catalogue of
diverse music ranging from scientifically experimental
acid-techno on Netherlands' Audio.NL, to deep and
dubby dance-hall on Mitchell Akiyama's Intr_version
label. Collaborations with other musicians have proved
to be equally successful. Jirku's work with rap
vocalists under the guise of 'The Killaz' resulted in
one of the most unique hip-hop albums in recent years,
and his ongoing 'Jirku/Judge' project with like-minded
Canadian musician Rob Warren.

Hour 2:

The AOB All stars getting funky on that ass. Broken
house, Ambient and Bass, Deep dubstep. Yeaaaah...

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