HPX60 - Various Artists - Mutations 101 - H-Productions - 16th January 2012

2011 saw the launch of a new way of working for CariLekebusch’s H-Productions label. Motivated by the dual inspirations of thelabel’s original name – Hybrid Productions – and the brands long legacy withintechno, a concept was born which would bring together a select group of artistswhose musical taste complimented one another and whose heritage matched that ofthe label. This deliberate hoarding and nurturing of creative forces within agroup dynamic has breathed new life into a label whose first release hit theshelves of record stores in 1994; enabling the H-Productions legacy to continueto be a home to the artist who have helped build the brand over the lastseventeen years and provide a launch pad for like-minded talent of the nextgeneration.

 

Like the label itself, this debut release of H-Productions’Mutation series is also a hybrid. Born out of a spark of inspiration, thisvarious artist compilation is an evolution of the often tried and well tested‘annual best of compilation’ concept; a collection of brand new, originaltracks crafted solely from the separated production parts of H-Productions 2011back catalogue. Having collected numerous samples of percussion, keys, strings,pads and effects from the 40 tracks released in 2011, a gene pool of audio wascreated. This mass of parts was made available to the H-Productions artists,with all eight members of the roster invited to consume the individual parts inorder to regenerate them into original productions of their own. Result? The seventeentracks listed below…

A unique, set of genetically modified music created bycombining and mutating the sonic DNA of the label’s 2011 output. A boldexperiment to challenge the creative elasticity of the producers on the rosterby inventing a hyper-artistic working environment that would allow for thegroup to be inspired by each other while expressing themselves individually.

Creatively free to select parts from whichever track theywished, a controlled but random process began to take shape. Take a hi-hat fromAlexi; grab a bassline off Cari; throw in Jesper’s kick drum; add a sample fromThe Advent & Industrialyzer’s synth; play around with Joel’s melody andsprinkle it all with Tony’s crazy effects. The potential combinations wereendless and we believe the outcome is nothing short of phenomenal. 

Various Artists - Mutations 101 is released 16th January 2012 on H-Productions via 12" and digital

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