GummiHz
Mobilee
Sweet. Sour. Sticky. Gooey. Finger-lickin’, dancer-trickin’, needle-clickin’ good: this is GummiHz.
His real name Alexander Tsotsos, GummiHz was born in the late ‘70s in Edessa, Greece; as a kid, he spent a lot of time shaking in front of a retro hi-fi system before taking up classical guitar lessons and then, at age 14, forming a band. Then he discovered turntables and the rest—as for so many of us—is history. After a few years playing in bars and clubs in his hometown, Tsotsos left for England to study and further his musical development; his time behind the turntables in clubs and warehouses deepened his love for electronic music, particularly New York deep house, and nudged him towards music-making.
In 2001 he began composing on basic sequencing software; after graduating from a music production and sound engineering course with his head full of loops, he began crafting tracks in earnest, and in 2005 he began releasing EPs—including the appropriately titled Head Full of Loops EP—on various netlabels.
At the beginning of 2006, Anja Schneider signed him to her mobilee label; his vinyl debut, the Select and Bounce EP (mobilee 009) was instantly heralded by many DJs and critics alike for its propulsive sense of rhythm and psychedelic atmospherics. At once delicate and banging, GummiHz’s unmistakable sound perfectly encapsulate mobilee’s mandate for a new vision of minimal music—intricate and intelligent but made for body-moving.
GummiHz’ followup for the label, “Modern Dynamic” (mobilee 013), is even more accomplished. Recalling the Chicago revisionism of Soylent Green or Crowdpleaser & St. Plomb, the tune features a springy groove with more cracks than a dried-out rubber band; tweaky and squealing, it ties up dancefloors in knots every time—which is a fair definition for GummiHz’ style in general: ebullient, bouncing, discombobulating, butting the boing-boing-boing in the boom-boom-boom.
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