| technasia is a collaboration between amil khan, label manager (born 1972),
raised and based in hong kong, and charles siegling, musician and dj (born
1974), raised and based in paris. after meeting in hong kong some years
back, they felt it was time to put south east asia on the world map in terms
of the production of electronic dance music. they have been exposed to a
variety of electronic music from abroad and are influenced in their works by
early electronic sounds from the likes of yellow magic orchestra, coil,
xymox, and depeche mode...
technasia have built their notoriety with acclaimed tracks such as „descent“, „future mix“ and „hydra“, „force“, „evergreen“ and „final
quadrant“ and more recently with their latest singles „2 the floor“ and
„ghett-o-freak“.
in 2001, technasia released their first album „future mix“ in europe
featuring their popular technasia singles, as well as new and previously
unreleased tracks. the album topped the japanese national charts (#26) the
year before for its asian release in july 2000. it won technasia three award
trophies at the 2001 edition of berlin‘s musik and machine awards : best
album („future mix“), best single („force“) and best newcomer. the album
acts as a tribute to the pioneering chinese radio show with the same name
and based on the same concept and features excerpts and jingles from the
actual radio show itself! this radio show, presented by charles siegling and
a local chinese radio dj, michael nee, was broadcasted from 1998 to 2001 to
the entire south east china province of guangdong (hong kong, canton,
shenzhen, foshan...) covering a population of 60 million people.
since 1999, technasia has diversified its activities by producing several
new record labels thru their music production platform, technorient music.
„sino“ is dedicated to welcoming artists such as joris voorn, john thomas,
renato cohen, petrae foy, kelli hand, dj skull, steve rachmad (aka
sterac)... „star tracks“ is charles siegling‘s solo dj club tools label.
„static drum“ and „ethique“ are both labels co-produced by fellow french
producer john thomas, as well as „green“ co-managed by talented young dutch
maestro joris voorn.
in 2001, technasia toured as a live set which took them to leading events
and clubs worldwide. charles siegling also started several dj residencies in
popular electronic music clubs such as fuse in brussels, rex club in paris
and nitsa in barcelona. technasia was invited to launch a new series of mix
cds, titled „plus“ (carrying the same name as the popular events in china
and japan), with the first one being charles siegling‘s mix, recorded live
at club orange in beijing in april 2001 and introducing to the world his
frenetic three decks dj technique (released in february 2002). amil khan‘s
„plus“ mix cd followed in october 2002.
the album „future mix“ was followed in october 2002 by „recreations“ a
collaborative musical journey of their past renowned productions conceived
alongside claude young, funk d‘void, renato cohen, john tejada. in march
2003, technasia started a 60-date/5-month world live tour, visiting most
popular clubs and festivals. the live tour was followed by a technasia
charles siegling 40-date world dj tour from september 2003 to january 2004
for the launch of his new mix cd „fuse presents technasia“. this third
volume of the renowned brussels‘ fuse club mix cd series was released in
october 2003. the mix shows charles siegling‘s unique ability to mix, tweak,
scratch and shuffle a wide variety of music styles- from old-skool house to
techno and detroit electro. 2003 also brought another technasia techno
classic with one of their „rare-but-unique“ technasia remixes for dave
clarke‘s single „way of life“, released in october 2003.
technasia is now releasing a new album entitled „popsoda“ in may 2006. it
features collaboration with detroit ghetto tech top producers dj nasty,
fletch flex and dj godfather, dutch new talent joris voorn, france‘s
minimal-tech king, john thomas, brazilian chart-topper renato cohen and uk „baron of techno“ dave clarke. the album also features several vocal tracks,
including duos with charles‘ wife, fei wang. in order to promote the album,
technasia is going on the road again for a new live tour from april to
october 2006... |