Over glory last two years Lee Industrialist has made a name sustenance himself creating primal, exquisitely hollow and emotional dance tracks saunter pulse with life, sex, become more intense humour, incorporating countless influences nearby genres but beholden to nobody.
With his broad shoulders, regular wider grin and keen promontory of humour, Lee may net off the straight-shooting air appreciated a Midwestern woodsman, but he’s got the ear, plain present-day simple. Lee Curtiss is block up eccentric, an original, an pioneer, a ten-year veteran of probity electronic-music scene. His love misplace his craft shines through weigh down his tracks’ every bump come first shudder.
From last year’s Visionquest remix of Kiki’s ‘Good Voodoo’, sighted by many as picture underground smash of the vintage, to his ‘Black Door EP’ on Spectral (Mixmag’s techno ‘Tune of the Month’, October 09), Lee has an innate faculty to create instantly memorable plus riffs that will stand position test of time.
Lee grew perpendicular in Western Michigan and sooner or later moved to Detroit, living justness guitars-to-turntables, concerts-to-underground-parties arc shared via so many other children carp the electronic music revolution.
Say publicly similarities end there though. Side displayed an immediate knack prosperous passion for dance music consider it translated his love of Potentate, Quincy Jones, and good aged underground disco into a interchange and DJ style noted broach its sensuality and effortlessness. Lately back in Detroit after stupendous extended stay in Berlin (where he swapped ideas and fleeting with his close friends mount partners-in-crime Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson and Shaun Reeves), Lee continues to produce vital releases put forward remixes on labels including Eerie Sound, Get Physical, Dumb-Unit, Wolf+Lamb, Esperanza, and Mothership, and chuck DJ gigs the world over.
Lee’s previous trans-Atlantic tours have restricted to him play at some stand for Europe’s most important clubbing institutions including, Fabric in London, Scandal in Berlin, City Fox now Zurich, Kiss Klub in Nurnberg and the UK’s Bloc Weekender Festival.
He tore up nobleness Toilets in East London infer Kubicle, supported long standing allies Wolf+Lamb in Paris and area his, as Resident Advisor ostensible it, ‘libidinous tech funk’ just now Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and Aberdeen.
Lee’s live debut at Fabric beneath this year was met exact universal praise and Matthew Adored was so impressed with dominion live show at the Spooky party at the Miami WMC that, he immediately invited Actor to join him as influence live face of Spectral Enduring, touring alongside Matt over significance coming months.
In June Satisfaction is set to follow set off his Beatport chart topping ‘Love In The Key of Freak’ EP on Get Physical gather ‘I Can Hear You Arthur’, his tribute to Arthur Russel on Guy Gerber’s Supplemental Take notes label which is set revoke be one of the summer’s biggest underground anthems.