AnD

Shaped in Manchester in 2007 following a chance interacting with a couple of years previous through shared friends, Andrew Bowen — originally from Belfast — and Dimitri Poumplidis — originally from Thessaloniki, Greece — noticed that that they had both researched on a single music production program, and made a decision to interact when Poumplidis handed Bowen a CD of his personal productions. Utilizing their used hometown as motivation for their frequently brutal and industrial-leaning make of techno, the duo’s 1st output came by means of a break up single on regional label Mindset in ’09 2009, and after a calm 2010 they came back with an onslaught of produces in 2011. Showing up on Black Sunlight, Horizontal Floor, Idle Hands, and their personal vinyl-only label Internal Surface area, the pair’s audio progressed into their personal make of dark, industrial-focused techno throughout 2011, plus they quickly found plaudits for his or her DJ and live models. 2012 and 2013 noticed the pair continue steadily to launch on labels such as for example Brothers, Hidden Hawaii Ltd, and Repitch, while raising their profile with crucial DJ times throughout Europe as well as the world. At the start of 2014, AnD released their 1st materials for Speedy J’s Electric powered Deluxe. The Kundalini EP would sign the beginning of their collaboration using the label, and their Dark Matter EP premiered a couple of months later on, preceding the duo’s debut recording, Cosmic Microwave History, which was released the next month.