In recent years Jake Fairley has become recognized as a leading force in the growing Canadian electronic music scene. Fairley began experimenting with electronic music in 1995, and in 1998 he settled into Techno, after playing with several different genres. After many run-ins with his rock n roll peers, their influence began to take hold. Lately his sound has begun to show it's rock n roll roots. "By using distorted sounds, a steady beat, and occasionally aggressive vocls, he has been blurring the lines be...   [ read more ]

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Wall of sound. Not the first term one would have used to describe the original incarnation of Uncut, a product of multi-instrumentalist Ian Worang, and techno producer Jake Fairley. With their early singles making it into the record bags of high-profile DJs quick to adopt the then-fresh dance-rock phenomenon, an album full of club bangers might have been expected?but intentions change, and all that. So after Fairley relocated to Berlin, Worang rebuilt Uncut with Sam Goldberg, Derek Tokar and Jon Drew and r...   [ read more ]

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Spent before it even had time to blossom into the mainstream, the Kompakt label's schaffel (in English, shuffle) sound now peers dangerously over the edge of saturation, so complete and overwhelming is the number of perpetrators and pilferers. Yet it's still hard to resist that Gary Glitter strut, especially in the hands of those who understand that it takes more guts to walk in 8" platforms than it does to simply joke about them. On his debut full-length, Canadian Jake Fairley walks a mile and th...   [ read more ]

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