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Clay Wilson’s life story is, for the most part, a mystery. Little is known about the 25-year-old producer, who began turning heads with mesmerizing
tracks from his home base in Brooklyn last year. Before Wilson started making techno, he studied improvisation at music school in upstate New York.
Wilson played bass, studying with noted jazz musicians who had worked with Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and many artists who
recorded for the ECM label. He counts Coleman, Coltrane, and Art Ensemble of Chicago among his major inspirations. You can sense the subtle traces of
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Clay Wilson’s life story is, for the most part, a mystery. Little is known about the 25-year-old producer, who began turning heads with mesmerizing
tracks from his home base in Brooklyn last year. Before Wilson started making techno, he studied improvisation at music school in upstate New York.
Wilson played bass, studying with noted jazz musicians who had worked with Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and many artists who
recorded for the ECM label. He counts Coleman, Coltrane, and Art Ensemble of Chicago among his major inspirations. You can sense the subtle traces of
Wilson’s avant-garde jazz training in his techno. You can hear the shifting layers of intriguing textures in the music, his deep understanding of the low
end, of arranging and composition, of form. “Understanding the foundation of form has allowed me to not worry so much about putting loops into a full
‘song’, which seems to be a common thing with electronic music,” he says. “I think the textures kind of come from trying to get away from standard
musical ideas.” « hide |
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