Paul Abad

 
Paul Abad is a dj, producer, promoter, visual artist and community activator based in south east queensland. He has been part of the local music scene since 1998 and is now a regular on the east coast circuit. The width of his experience sees him play everything from outdoor festivals to experimental/sound art gigs to warehouse breaks/glitch nights.

After years of exploring a variety of electronic genres, Paul has now positioned himself as one of the leading exponents of minimal/progressive techno and hi-fi breaks in the outdoor festival scene in Australia. His obsession with futuristic sonics and dedicated outdoor sensibilities still shine through in how he works with these genres, in track selection and overall feel, and he has a unique ability to tailor sets to a specific time and place. Tool of choice these days is laptop with Ableton live and controller, ensuring a seamless and creative approach to mixing. Flow, groove, space and progression are key themes in paul's sets, but of primary importance is the mix - recombining and layering, and responding to an audience

2007 saw Paul join Cairns label Open Records team. In 2008 Paul is teaming up with label mate Solatek to compile a progressive techno release, with a planned release date of the 08/09 summer festival season.

Paul has played mainstage sets for qld earthcore, cairns winter solstice, exodus, earthfreq, melbourne winter solstice, regrowth, super freak, nimbin mardi-grass doof and submerge, aswell as the rainbow serpent festival market stage sunday afternoon session, akasha market stage, woodford folk festival, mind over matter, liquid architecture, west end festival, this is not art and many more.

He has played alongside acts such as Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous, Tipper, Dj Krush, Monolake, Richard Devine, Adam Beyer, Jeremy P Caulfield, Phoenecia, Bernd Friedman, Antix, Perfect Stranger, Tegma, Phoney Orphants, Luna Spice, Bufo, Krumeler, Kazu Kimura, Thomas Brinkman, Aes Dana, Talpa, Haltya, Artax, Sun Control Species, Sensient, Spoonbill, MZO etc.

After having been involved in staging outdoor music events since 2001, 2005 saw Paul launch Subterran, an events org focused on outdoor enviro/electronic music events. Subterran has a solid list of events under its belt now and more to come. Subterran is also one of the key instigators of the annual Earth Freq Festival.

 
  paul abad @ earthcore05