Lerosa
Corrugated Tunnel
Leo Holman
at producing uncompromising techno is that it shares
many of the same social problems — urban sprawl, social
exclusion — as hubs like Detroit or Rotterdam. Hartnett
agrees: “I’ll hazard a guess and say we must be somewhat
similar. Roughness? Urban sprawl? Social exclusion?
Yeah, we’ve loads of that here,” he says, but Donnacha
Costello claims that these factors are irrelevant as, “The
vast majority of people I’ve met through electronic music
have been middle class and educated, not people who
have been socially excluded or oppressed. Clearly it
wasn’t always so but I can only speak about my own
experiences.”
However, Sharpe feels that the factors influencing Irish
electronic music are more entrenched and include the
miserable climate and a history of being oppressed.
“Maybe Irish people are aware of our history and how our
families fought for independence, maybe there’s a kind
of proud, bittersweet feeling that comes out in people’s
music. The colder, darker climate is probably more the
reason, though. If we lived in a hotter climate there may
have been more ‘happy’ music, but I guess looking out
onto windy green fields or down into a bog isn’t going to
be as cheerful as seeing bikini-clad girls rubbing lotion
on each other down your local sunny beach in Rio!”
gloomy times, you can dance your arse off and forget
Soulful leanings about what you have to be dealing with during the week. Eclecticism
While these explanations are applicable to the techno We are an artistic race, and I’m pretty sure there’s a lot James is not alone in his eclecticism. No longer
scene, they don’t help to understand the proliferation of more artistic satisfaction from producing deep segregated according to cities, a new wave of deep
Irish house music. To do so, it is necessary to look at the introspective house or techno than say, hard house. house is emanating from Dublin, spearheaded by
impact of Shane Johnson and Greg Dowling aka Fish Go That’s why I’m genuinely looking forward to what’s former D1 DJs and producers: Leonid aka Paul
Deep’s long-running Sweat residency at Cork’s Sir gonna come out of this recession.” Smith releases sublime grooves on Patrice Scott’s
Henry’s venue and the cultural differences between Sistrum label, while Lerosa aka Leopoldo Rosa has
Dublin’s techno-focused scene, and Cork’s soulful Cork producer Edwin James aka Corrugated Tunnel bridged the gap between old school acid, slowed
leanings. John Daly traces the origins of Cork’s admits that Sir Henry’s US house soundtrack played a down Detroit house jams and funk and electronica
association with house music back to the ’80s, and feels pivotal role in shaping his tastes early on, but having for Uzuri, Real Soon, Quintessentials and Ostgut.
that there are parallels between then and now. lived in Dublin for a decade, Detroit techno started to In old school fashion, he has just released an album
“During the ’80s recession there was a massive reggae “creep into some of my tracks without my knowing”. on cassette on Further Records, consisting mainly
and soul scene there, which laid a foundation for what James has also released two albums that fuse old school of downbeat and ambience. Leo, who is from Italy,
was to come. Cork is one of the only places in the world electro with ambient soundtracks — he plans to release cites Autechre and Drexciya, but also Carl Craig, UR,
where slow, moody deep house is Saturday night his third long-player this year on a UK label — and also Theo Parrish and KDJ as shaping his sound.
peak-time music. releases clubby techno for Nightvision and District of “Early Sound Signature records were particularly
“Great music and club scenes will always arise out of Corruption. special to me and I’m sure that still comes across in
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