Foundation ft. Answer Code Request (GER)
PUBLISHED June 26th, 2015 03:51 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am
When [Answer Code Request](https://soundcloud.com/answercoderequest)’s first EP suddenly hit the shelves of Berlin’s seminal record store Hard Wax in
2011, speculation across the web took up instantly. Was this another incarnation of affiliated Techno stalwarts,
like Marcel Dettmann or Shed? A lot of people were very sure it had to be, even if further discussion
seemed to agree that the music contained on this mysterious 12′ would mean a bold redesign, as it was quite
a different beast. Sure, there was the industrial punch, heavy groove and fierce determination associated with
the Berghain sound and Ostgut Ton’s artists, but then again there were so many unfamiliar layers and signatures.
It merged Berlin’s Techno heritage with Detroit melancholia, the heyday of UK’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’
and the rhythmic innovations of the most current bass music, and ended up with a sound original and fresh.
A musical concept that was so significantly different to what was already happening, that it was indicating the
fact that this was not an established artist testing new grounds, but a new artist emerging to be that very new
ground, and nothing less.
If you listen to the music of Answer Code Request, be it on his astonishing records, as accordingly astonishing
live act, or in the shape of his diversified and tremendously executed DJ sets, it all fits together. It seems it
only took Answer Code Request a bit longer to enter the spotlight because he wanted it that way. He waited
until everything was perfect and ready to go. And then it took him way shorter than almost everybody else to
break through, and stay, just because of that.
The event will take place on 18 July from 10pm onwards at Canvas.
Presale admission is $18, and $25 at the door.
For more information, please see [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/canvassingapore?_rdr).
Image courtesy of [Juno Plus](http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/03/19/answer-code-request-to-release-debut-album-on-ostgut-ton/).
