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DECENNIUM05 - Plant43 (Plant43 Recordings, CPU, Frustrated Funk)
For the 5th edition of our DECENNIUM series we bring you an artist recognised as a genius by the elite in the Electro world; our good friend Emile Facey aka Plant43. For 15 years he has regularly released on labels considered as royalty in the scene, which any Electro artist would dream of, such as Central Processing Unit, Frustrated Funk, Ai, Semantica, Cultivated Electronics, Shipwrec and TRUST. Now busy with his own label Plant43 Recordings, we are immensely grateful to Emile for taking the time to produce this well informed, masterclass of a DJ set, made exclusively for Natural Selection.
First inspired by Kraftwerk in the early 80′s Emile was hooked on Electro from an early age. In 1998 he got involved with promoting Electro events in London and soon after started writing music as Plant43. His first vinyl release came in 2006 on the much-missed Ai Records. Several 12’s and the well-received “Burning Decay” album in 2010, alongside other releases on Semantica Records, CPU, Frustrated Funk, TRUST, Shipwrec, AC Records (acidlab.de), Bleep43 Recordings and Cultivated Electronics have highlighted his singular and ambiguous style of sinewy Electro that draws deep from the influence of Drexciya. Emile is also a graphic designer and co-founder of bleep43.com, which is dedicated to promoting and reviewing electronic music. Since 2003, the London based Bleep43 parties have seen him play live alongside such acts as E.R.P., DJ Stingray, Surgeon, Regis, Objekt, Sync 24, Demdike Stare, DMX Krew and many more.
After being huge fans of Plant43 for many years, in 2019 we were finally able to relish the opportunity to book Emile to play a live set as part of our collaboration event with CPU Records at FOLD, amongst a lineup that included The Advent, E.R.P. aka Convextion, 96 Back, CPSmith and our residents Annie Hall, Kodah and Osc Kins. His set went down as one of the best live sets we have ever had the pleasure of witnessing and we were proud that this was produced at one of our events and heard by a packed venue on one of best club sound systems in the UK.
It is an absolute honour to have Emile on our series and we hope you enjoy listening to this set as much as we did.
- Genre
- Electronic