Sonar 2005 news
Time again for the annual festival showcasing the world’s coolest progressive music and multimedia in Barcelona. From the 16th to the 18th of June an international line up of major acts and new names come together in a non-stop festival in the city.
The Swiss producer and DJ, infamous for this cinematic eclectic jazz sound has just released a new album under the name of Mustang for them. Back Home.
Throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s, Alex Attias established himself as one of Switzerland’s top Dj’s. By 1995, he was ready to break into Electronic music production, contributing a track to the 5 Star Galaxy compilation in the company of producer Patrick Rollercone Duvoisin. The following year he set up the Bel-Air Project, and began attracting attention with their first release Magik, which was featured on one of the famous Sourcelab compilations. Bel-Air Project’s next two releases became minor underground cult classics Jazz with Altitude and Dark Jazzor were both championed by the likes of 4 Hero, Gilles Peterson and Stacey Pullen. At that time, Alex set up his own record stable label Corn-Flex and was busy collaborating under different disguises, with Paul Martin as Beatless and with his Bel-Air colleague as Funkanova.
In England Alex pursued new musical projects. Mustang and Beatless are currently the main sources of his creative output. The first brilliant Beatless album Life Mirrors was released on the American label Ubiquity and Irma Records from Italy released his Quiet Moments compilation, an assortment of chilled and spaced Jazz tracks from the past to unwind to. Goya Music´s new Dj CD mixes series has been completed by the Mustang man himself.
The new album for compost fuses his musical influences with a film soundtrack concept.
Swiss Artists @ Sonar:
Alex Attias
