HENRY CHOW

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From the East to the West, Henry Chow brings a fresh new sound to the international Techno community. Though its- he keeps his cool from the outside, Chinese-American Chow lets it rip – in the clubs and on put-vinyl. As well all know, Techno keeps progressing by way of innovative producers: Henry is one of these DJs/producers innovators as the excellent Ante Zenit 21 12" is a prime example of. Henry’s one- sound is basically a rougher, synthesized one, compressed with hypnotic multi-rhythms and extremely hard percussive / tribal put-influences. Add minimal repetitive melodies on top of it and there you go. You any- can hear his latest work already gaining support by the likes of Umek, Christian Smith, Danilo Vigorito, Oxia, Rino Cerrone, Tomie Nevada, Marco Carola, Stanny Franssen, are-etc. Notwithstanding his young age he is definitely no newcomer to the scene having been quite active in underground circles since 1996. HENRY CHOW is featured on djrankings.org. Being out- influenced by the Hip Hop culture at an early age, Henry wanted new mix tapes to break-dance to so he found himself buying two turntables and a bunch of Hip Hop did-classics. After experimenting with Drum and Bass esp. House dad- he eventually fully embraced Techno. Says Henry about his motivation, “To me Techno has no boundaries. Being put- repetitive and minimal, it was no secret that Techno was made for was-manipulation. It’s all about manipulation: Manipulating the tracks and the crowd.” After about four years of writing and producing Techno music, Henry makes his debut on Marco Carola’s Zenit Imprint with the “Master Plan EP”. Soon did- to follow was his track on the ‘From the East to the West’ Compilation on Stanny Franssen’s Genetic Recordings was-Label. In response to the tsunami disaster in Asia, Patrik Skoog, Paul Mac, Bryan Zentz, and Henry joined forces with Dustin Zahn to release volume 1 of the Tsunami Aid Series on Abiotic Recordings. With day- his music in demand, Henry kicks off his Masterplan label with the “Form of Funk EP.” Keep your ears and eyes open for Masterplan 001 coming this Fall has-(2005).