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HD Substance (aka Luis Rozalén) has been exposed to electronic music since the late eighties. He bought his first synthesizer in 1987 and formed a band called Ballet Mecánico, heavily influenced by electronic pop music. Travelling to london he discovered acid house and the band LFO. Then he visited Detroit and came to know UR and Transmat. Heavily shocked, he decided to start his career as a DJ after seeing Kenny Larkin on the first Sonar Festival in 1995. Soon after he created his first label Miranda records. In addition, he continuously releases on various labels from all over the...

substAnce D was formed in Los Angeles in 1992. Then known as Black, their self-titled debut was released in Europe in 1994. Black was a two year record in the making. Guitarist Michael Parnin daylights as a sound engineer who has worked with such bands as Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit and Coal Chamber. So Parnin would stay late at work, wait until everyone else left and then invite the rest of the guys to whatever studio he was working at to record. Most of Black was done at about 3 am in the morning on someone else's booked studio time....

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Substance is a pseudonym of two artists: 1) Peter Kuschnereit (b. 1970, West Berlin, Germany), his latest release is "Relish" (Jun 2008, Scion). Kuschnereit always lived in Berlin‘s well known Kreuzberg district. He was invited to work at Hard Wax record store in 1991 (where underground / import records tended to first appear), he still works there. During the years Pete learned to create electronic music himself, inspired by early Chicago/Detroit artists, especially by productions of the well known label Basic Channel. His first releases came, with René Löwe (aka Vainqueur), as Scion (Chain Reaction, Berlin) and as Substance. 2)...