One could argue that Dave Pezzner could be referred to as one of the statesmen of U.S house music.

In the 90’s, recording music as the much loved Jacob London (with Bob Hansen), releases on the legendary Classic Records, Doubledown and dotbleep established a reputation well beyond his native west coast, cutting his chops by creating eccentric house and break beat rhythms.

Deciding to go it alone as Pezzner, in 2008, allowed him to make his mark as a solo act. It wasn't long before he found his initial offerings scooped up by the hugely well respected London-based deep house label Freerange.

And so an exciting new phase in his career began; one that shows no signs of slowing down as we reach 2011 with new Pezzner releases on European buzz labels such as 8 Bit and the Crosstown Rebels offshoot label RebelLION getting a massive response. Also a much sought-after remixer, his reinterpretations have appeared on staple US labels Mothership and Ghostly International.

Pezzner’s own work could be said to be more serious, with an abstract artistic sensibility, lofty percussive themes and intentions to create hypnotic soundscapes for the body as well as the brain. His ‘The Tracks Are Alive’ album on Freerange is a 13-track walk-through of his organic sounding style, in full dance-floor mode traversing with ease between disco, house and techno. Beatportal wax lyrical how it ‘blows like a cool breeze through the stale air of a marketcrowded with by-the-numbers deep house’ and Resident Advisor note the “rising, sizzling dubeffects” of his ‘Blacklist’ release, adding ‘a steeliness to his refined contours’.

Featuring heaps of brand new productions, remixes and originals, his live set continues to take him to the far reaches of the dance music map, reaching the heights of festival appearances including MUTEK (CA), Sunrise (MX), Balaton Sound (HU), and Rotofest (CL).

Club shows abound not only in Europe, where he is now a regular touring act (with recent shows including Space Ibiza, Rex Club in Paris, Turin’s Gamma and Amsterdam’s Trouw, as well as new London buzz party Creche) and North America (2011 shows at The End Up (SF), Verboten (NYC), Minneapolis’s BLACK, Footwork in Toronto), but also now in to Latin America with gigs in Ecuador and Mexico and a debut Australia tour.

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01 Dirty Channels and Bugsy - Alone feat Amina
02 Benjamin Fehr - Stay At Home, Read A Book
03 When Saints Go Machine - You And The Gang [Alejandro Mosso Mix]
04 Stojche - Dilligent (Dogmatik)
05 The Pushaman - Rhyme or Reason [Mitch Davis Remix] - Non Music
06 Alpha and Olmega Feat Sheyl - The African Drummer [Instrumental]
07 Micha Klang - My Feet (Act Natural)
08 Oliver Ton Ft Ronald Christoph - Got Them Groovin (I.DJ Gigolo)
09 Seiji - Easy (Seiji)
10 Cocolores - Tip Top Bob (Exploited)
11 Mark E - Special FX - Merc
12 Royalty - Heat Ray (Five Easy Pieces)
13 Andre Cymone - Get It Girl (Columbia Records)
14 Tiger And Woods - Don't Hesitate (Running Back)
15 Pattern Select - Matrix (Delusions of Grandeur)
16. Ethyl & Huxley - 3 Feet High [Roman Flügel Mix 1]