Lee Van Dowski
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- Lee Van Dowski: The very name exudes style and intrigue—a country lord, perhaps, who at night throws open the manor gates to host all-night bacchanals legendary for their wine and song.And though the French-born, Geneva-based artist may not have a manor to his name, the rest isn't far off the mark. Born Renaud Lewandowski, Lee has earned a reputation as a kind of dark prince of uplifting electronic music—a trickster who spreads his mischief via long, undulating DJ sets and bewilderingly epic releases. No surprise to learn that Lee's roots go deep. His musical prehistory may be similar to many of his generation: raised on rock and hip-hop, complete with the obligatory attempt to learn to play guitar followed by short-lived bands with schoolmates. But Lee was the beneficiary of his stepfather's eclectic musical tastes, which spanned classical, jazz, funk, rock and even musique concrete and academic electronic music. "I was fascinated by the metallic sleeves and their geometrical designs," he remembers, suggesting a possible source for the shimmering timbres and clever vectors of his own music. The pieces first fell together in 1993, when a friend invited Lee to attend a rave in southern France, near where he lived. "That was the shock of my life," says Lee, echoing a sentiment that will be familiar to many. "That was what I was looking for, without really knowing it—thousands of people dancing and sweating in the open air. An amazing soundsystem. And this never-ending kick that drives you to madness… Since that day, I've devoted my life entirely to being a part of this." Lee got involved with the infamous Dragon Bal raves, where Miss Kittin got her start; he worked mundane jobs, saved money, bought decks and a mixer and taught himself to spin. He came to production the same way, beginning with an MPC2000, but translating the sounds in his head into its fat, blocky pads wasn't as easy as it seemed. His ambitions took Lee to Geneva, where he earned a degree in music engineering, but it may have been his next job, working in a Lausanne music shop, that really signalled his entry into the world of electronic music. "Even if the boss was a crazy guy, the shop was like a goldmine, full of gear and old analog synths, drum machines, all the recording and mixing tools you could dream of," he recalls with awe. He took advantage of his employee discount to build out his studio, and just as importantly, the shop served as a focal point for all the area's musicians. It was here that Lee would meet both Quenum and Luciano—and from there, as they say, the rest is history… Between 2004 and 2013 he was a mainstay at Luciano’s highly regarded Cadenza troupe. Over nine years the highly prized Gallic import played Vagabundos parties the world over, while dropping a series of tantalising dancefloor groovers on the respected imprint led by 2004’s ‘Extension/Oregon’ EP with Quenum, ‘La Cucina Del Cabrón’ with Glimpse (Half of Dense&Pika) in 2009 and ‘Bimbam’ in 2011. Outside of Cadenza, Lee was also industrious, releasing a full-length album with Quenum on Soma in 2006 titled ‘As Told On The Eve Of…’ while further bolstering his production credentials on an impressive list of labels such as: Wagon Repair, Cocoon, Bedrock, Suara, Soma, Rekids, Kling Klong, Intacto, Material, BPitch Control, Snatch!, Cabin Fever, Ilian Tape, Noir, Rebellion (sub-label of Crosstown Rebels) and Mobilee (the label presided over by Anja Schneider and Ralf Kollmann) that rang strongest for Lee when he was a looking to creatively challenge himself after his Cadenza years. In any case, his music career had been always steady and full of dancefloor weapons. To name just a few: surreptitiously entitled “050504” released on Mobilee (a deep tribal gem canned by Sven Väth that became one of the year’s biggest techno tracks after it was first debuted in Anja Schneider’s Essential Mix ; 6th most charted track of the year on Resident Advisor and hitting the tech house top10 for quite a while), for the same imprint “ELLE” (most charted track in RA’s top50; #2 on Beatport’s techno top 100 chart) or “WWW” (Cocoon). We stand as obedient soldiers if we talk about some of his most recent releases. His terrific remixes for example of the legendary “By the Kiss" by M83, euphoric sounding Pig&Dan’s “The Saint” (Elevate) or Dave Seaman’s “Nightfalls” (Selador), an absolute top seller on Beatport. And of course do not forget at all his most recent LP to date: “Cerca Trova” via Mobilee, where Lee gave the dancefloor a time-out for the contemporary IDM. “This experimental/ambient session finds a precious heart hidden within twisted metal and frazzled circuitry, crunching machinery together and finding the beauty within, or at the very least, placating the beast he puts in charge” attested Matt Oliver on his CLASH album review. The 14-track longplayer sees the artist hark back to his nascent rave years when Autechre, Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada ruled the stereo. From ambient techno to breaks, electro and acid, the work is ambitious, inspired and like all the best musical experiences – ultimately surprising. Said all this, let’s mark on fire this 2017 where he’s going to kick off with a brand new release on MOOD, Nicole Moudaber's record label. And not only that... Lee Van Dowski represents tirelessly the passion for the music. It is moving always in exciting new directions that keep him at the very top of the pile... And definitely, he has lots more to come.̸Condor1 EP Suara 2016 Lee Van Dowski & Sabb Condor1 / Destinasia Bullets Vol.4 Toolroom 2016 Lee Van Dowski & Mark Knight Fall Down On Lee Mobilee Back To Back VOL10 Presented by Lee Van Dowski Mobilee Records 2016 Various Artists Cerca Trova (ALBUM) Mobilee Records 2016 Lee Van Dowski Creating Me / I.L.A.N.E.N.O. feat. Miss Kittin / Awaken / Au Minimum / Phenix / GY6z2 / 1+1 / Alekhine´s Defence / Repli Tactique / Dans Tes Yeux / Toran / Cerca Trova / Sinon Toi Elle EP Mobilee Records 2016 Lee Van Dowski John Digweed Presents Re:Structured Bedrock 2015 Lee Van Dowski Ici Et Maintenant Quasar 27.3 EP Rebellion 2015 Lee Van Dowski If Only Jack Was Here / Quasar 27.3 / Bango Bango / Odds And Sods Cocoon Compilation O Cocoon Recordings 2015 Lee Van Dowski WWW Riva Starr Presents Square Pegs, Round Holes Snatch! 2015 Lee Van Dowski Eternity Forever Ulysse Is Back EP Mobilee Records 2015 Lee Van Dowski Ulysse Is Back / Nekuia / This One Goes To Eleven 050504 EP Mobilee Records 2015 Lee Van Dowski 050504 / Lee’s Mobile What's Up Doc? EP Dazed & Confused 2014 Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele What's Up Doc? / Mine O Mine / Shove it Up Function is Tension Intacto 2014 Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele Function Is Tension / Foo Gas / Calamity John The Impossible Mobilee Records 2014 Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele The Impossible / Crossing the T / Put Your Shoes On / Inside Out Branding You Damned Leena Music 2014 Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele Branding You Damned feat. Cari Golden / Moonlight Hotel / Geroldstrasse 5 Exodus EP Intacto 2013 Lee Van Dowski The Exodus / In Bloom Life Is My Teacher EP wSphere 2012 Miss Kittin & Lee Van Dowski I.L.A.N.E.N.O. (with Lee Van Dowski) Cabin Fever Trax Vol.31 Cabin Fever/Rekids 2013 Lee Van Dowski I Want You A Kind Of Kling Klong volume 9 Kling Klong 2012 Lee Van Dowski Not A Remix Cabin Fever Trax Vol.23 Cabin Fever/Rekids 2012 Lee Van Dowski Dove / If You So Soul Aid Music For Japan Soul Aid 2011 Lee Van Dowski Far Beyond On EP Rekids 2011 Lee Van Dowski On / 1977 L'Hotel Cherif EP Memento 2011 Lee Van Dowski L'Hotel Cherif / The Old Faithful / L'Hotel Cherif (Ilario Alicante Floor Mix) / The Old Faithful (Ilario Alicante Interpretation) Bimbam Cadenza Records 2011 Lee Van Dowski Bimbam / Bimbam (Alternative version) Cabin Fever Trax Vol.17 Cabin Fever/Rekids 2011 Lee Van Dowski Likewise Shinkansen Mobilee Records 2010 Anja Schneider & Lee Van Dowski Shinkansen Die Eisenbahn Voltage Musique 2010 Lee Van Dowski Die Eisenbahn / Die Eisenbahn (The Glitz Remix) / Die Eisenbahn (Marquez Ill Remix) Versus Cadenza Records 2009 Lee Van Dowski & Glimpse La Cocina Del Cabron Glass EP Material Series 2009 Lee Van Dowski Go Bowling / Go Bowling (The Glitz Remix) / La Pattata / La Halte Deseo Mobilee Records 2009 Anja Schneider & Lee Van Dowski Deseo / La Roulette All I Wanna Do Saf Series 2009 Lee Van Dowski All I Wanna Do Survival Saf Series 2009 Lee Van Dowski Survival The Variable Man Leena Music 2009 Lee Van Dowski & Agnes (CH) The Variable Man / Thomas Coles Lives Free for All Crash Endeavors Num Records 2009 Lee Van Dowski Boondock Saints / Free For All Crash Endeavors The Bobsleigh Memo 2008 Lee Van Dowski & Tassilo The Bobsleigh / Little Angel Convex January Exile / Hits For Squares Light On Dark EP Schatten Records 2008 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Ladybug The Last Run BPitch Control 2008 Lee Van Dowski The Last Run / Rave Da House Louder Elvis Leena Music 2008 Lee Van Dowski & Agnes (CH) Louder Elvis / Radio Graceland The Moon Above Mario's Blast 60 sec Records 2007 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum The Moon Above Mario's Blast / N.F.E. The Last Bounce Remixes Num Records 2007 Lee Van Dowski The Last Bounce (Matt Star's Remix) / The Last Bounce (Ripperton's Remix) Confusion Is Sex EP Ilian Tape 2007 Lee Van Dowski & Dachshund Confusion Is Sex / So What Asem Soma Quality Recordings 2007 Lee Van Dowski & Tsack Asem The Strike Pandemonium Soma Quality Recordings 2007 Lee Van Dowski The Strike Pandemonium / King Convex Stylus Ultimate Desert Ambassador Soma Quality Recordings 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Ultimate Desert Ambassador / Ultimate Desert AmbassadorMike Shannon's View To Vodka Remix The Torque Machine EP Defrag Sound Processing 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum The Torque Machine / Rotating195 / Muvo As Told On The Eve of… Soma Quality Recordings 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Overdrill / Vegas Nevada Shooter / Dude Bond 334 / The Joint Echo / Little Doll Chaos Pounce Upon Option Assult Reverberation / Unholy Tundra Fisherman / Lust Part 1 / Ultimate Desert Ambassador / Lust Part 2 / Thomas Edison Invents The Lazy Dance / Dune Dude Bond 334 Soma Quality Recordings 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Dude Bond 334 / Dude Bond 334 (Dario Zenker's Remix) Collective 1 BPitch Control 2006 Lee Van Dowski Little Doll Chaos Pounce Upon Assault Reverbaration The Last Bounce EP Num Records 2006 Lee Van Dowski The Last Bounce / The Last Bounce (Quenum Remix) Oceoce EP Pnuma 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Oceoce / Iceice Unicare EP Defrag Sound Processing 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Tsack Nanospec / TT127 / Unicare Fugue (Nope) Num ltd 2006 Lee Van Dowski as Nope Fugue 1 (Nope, Shift What You Are Now Original Shifter's Mix) Thank You Technology Plak Records 2006 How To Make Sense Of A Window Three / Thank You Technology / Nxt Highway To Xenia Mental Groove Records 2005 Lee Van Dowski First Move / Second Move / Third Move / Fourth Move / Fifth Move / Sixth Move / Melodies From Xenia The Joint Echo Num Records 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum The Joint Echo (Dachshund Remix) / Isoval (Jeremy P.Caulfield Remix) / The Joint Echo (Jacek Sienkiewicz Remix) Extension Cadenza 2006 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum Extension / Oregon The Darkened Component Num Records 2006 Lee Van Dowski Endonet / The Darkened Component The Joint Echo EP Num Records 2005 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum The Joint Echo / Isoval My Missing Toys EP Num Records 2005 Lee Van Dowski Land Speeder / The Interceptor Last Minute Plak Records 2005 Lee Van Dowski Take Away / Last Minute Invisible Num Records 2005 Lee Van Dowski & Quenum & Andres Garcia No Name / No Name 2 Hosomaki mix 2 Mental Groove Records 2003 Lee Van Dowski Micha A Lego Element Anti-Iiism Records 2003 Lee Van Dowski Album 12 tracks Eps Labels Year Artists Remixes Dethroning EP Solar Distance 2016 Natural Flow Dethroning (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Rooms EP Bedrock 2016 And.Id Rooms (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Machine EP Definitive Recordings 2016 John Acquaviva & Olivier Giacomotto Machine (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Green Holiday EP This & That 2015 Basti Grub All I Need Is To Be High Sometimes (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Polaroid Beats Remix EP Snatch! 2015 Riva Starr In My Soul (Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele Remix) Lost In A Dream EP Spread Your Wings 2015 Eagles & Butterflies Lost In A Dream (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Cederron EP Suara 2015 Edu Imbernon & Los Suruba Cederron (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Dubmission Remixes Mobilee Records 2015 Anja Schneider Dubmission (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Thrill Thrill Of It 2014 Acumen Thrill (Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele Remix) Love Her Madly Noir Music 2014 Djuma Soundsystem, Aki Bergen, Lazarusman Love Her Madly (Lee Van Dowski & Dean Demanuele Remix) The Right One EP Hive Audio 2013 Manuel Moreno Under Your Skin (Lee Van Dowski Remix) The Rift Valley Cadenza Records 2013 Rebelski The Rift Valley (Lee Van Dowski Binary Re-Up Mix) Earth & Sun Melisma 2012 Felipe Valenzuela & Dani Casarano ft. Yvan Genkins Earth & Sun (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Hold On EP Viva Music 2011 Detlef Hold On (Lee Van Dowski Remix) All You Need Mobilee Records 2011 Miss Kittin All You Need (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Sexgas Memento 2010 Marco Effe Sexgas (Baba Remix by Lee Van Dowski) 7 O'clock Etruria Beat 2010 Luca Agnelli 7 O'clock (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Gauchito Gil Cadenza 2010 Daria Gauchito Gil (Lee Van Dowski Edit) Rolling Brooklyn Wagon Repair 2008 Luca Bacchetti Rolling Brooklyn (Lee Van Dowski Remix) 5 Easy Pieces EP Glimpse 2008 Glimpse Caught On Train (Lee Van Dowski Remix) El Viaje Del Barrilette Remix EP Ilian Tape 2008 Leonel Castillo Con Hilo De Seda (Lee van Dowski Remix) Balztanz Der Schwingungen Weave Music 2007 Matt Star Balztanz der Schwingungen (Lee Van Dowski remix) Illuminaten Einmaleins Musik 2007 Pan-Pot Illuminaten Fidget Sonance Mix (Lee Van Dowski Fidget Sonance Remix) Luna BPitch Control 2007 Dusty Kid Luna (Lee Van Dowski's Fiddle Tonality Late Mix) Global Warming EP Sirius Pandi 2007 Fernando Daxta Outsider (Lee Van Dowski & Daxta Bioremix) White Lice Soma Quality Recordings 2006 Funk D'Void & Phil Kieran White Lice (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Time Starts Now Recognition 2006 Jacek Sienkiewicz Time Starts Now (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Rarefied Atmosphere Dumb-Unit 2006 Giorgio Gigli I Can't Breathe (Lee Van Dowski Remix) White Lice XMAG 2006 Funk D'Void & Phil Kieran White Lice (Lee Van Dowski Remix) Bells Vinyl Club 2006 Luc Ringeisen Bells (Lee Van Dowski Remix)
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