biographical info
Dean Williams and Steve Mason met in
the late 1990’s during Steve’s first visit to Toronto, Ontario. Sharing a mutual affinity for abstract sound,
humour, the recreational destruction of brain cells, and measured doses of
drones, bursts of static, beauty, and sloppy breakbeats, their collaboration
began almost immediately; their first co-written track was conceived, written
and recorded during their first evening together.
With Steve soon back in Indiana, geographic
distance effectively laid the blueprint for their compositional technique;
their initial collaborations carried out over the infuriatingly slow dial-up
networks available at the time.
Sampling, more by necessity than
design, soon became a central weapon in their musical arsenals, allowing them
to bring traditional instrumentation into their work, as well as playing a
large part in the creation of unique textures, utilizing the most unmanageable
found sounds, and adding a warmth, quirkiness and startlingly human quality to
a genre that at times celebrates the abandonment of all things organic.
Half performance art and half
performance, Original Recipe’s live sets often involve live composition and
improvisation, pretty ladies, costume changes and staggering dance moves in an
attempt to break free of the much-maligned techno tradition of screengazing. A
performance at Vancouver’s New Music West festival, for
example, involved the on-stage preparation and serving of omelettes; which by
all accounts were delicious.
lineup
Dean Williams Composer/Producer
influences
prefuse 73
boom bip
sinewave