Audio By Carbonatix
British-based Fact Magazine recently released it’s best albums of the decade list (everyone’s doing it!) and here’s an interesting inclusion of note: Coming in at No. 21 on the taste-making mag’s list is Dallas-based electro artist Gerard Hanson, who scores with the 2006, self-titled album he release under his Convextion moniker.
Writes Fact scribe Krian Sande:
Gerard Hanson has enjoyed eminence among techno producers ever since his earliest releases on Matrix Records in the mid-late 90s. A native of Dallas, Texas, he’s developed an isolationist but incredibly soulful techno sound… Pretty much every one of Hanson’s absolute-bugger-to-track-down 12″ singles are worth owning (including the more electro-leaning fare he records as ERP), but the self-titled Convextion album of 2006 is the most satisfying and economically viable one-stop-shop… In Convextion’s hands, techno still sounds vital, and futuristic; and it aches – oh, how it aches.
Many congrats to Hanson, who rarely performs locally, instead choosing to hop off to one-off gigs throughout Europe, where his icy-cool sound has found a bigger audience than it has in the States. And how: Fact places Convextion higher on its list than critically acclaimed releases from the likes of Portishead, Hot Chip, Arcade Fire, Beirut and even Daft Punk.
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(Thanks to Convextion’s fellow area electro-head Wanz Dover for the hat tip.)
