The Advent: Time Travel Technik
James Ratcliff goes back to the future with The Advent’s Cisco Ferriera.

The door of the DeLorean flies upwards. An excited voice shouts over the deafening sound of an electric storm, ‘Doc, the flux capacitor has almost reached the 1.21 Gigawatts we need to break the time barrier, but we haven’t set the co-ordinates! Where are we heading?’

‘Set them for 1991, Marty. We’re going to Berlin!’

‘OK. Whatever you say Doc! But why do you keep calling me Marty? My name’s Cisco… it’s not that hard to remember.’

And so, as the DeLorean reaches precisely 88 miles per hour, we head back in time with Cisco Ferreira, the man behind The Advent and boss of one of the most solidly reliable UK techno labels – Kombination Research.

The 90’s

‘Back in the early 90s, clubs such as Tresor in Berlin, didn’t have very good sound systems. So when you made tracks, you had to compensate for that by making your kicks even harder and dirtier, so you could really feel it on the dancefloor.’

‘In some respects, that is how I still approach making music,’ begins Cisco. ‘It has to have the same raw power that techno had back in the early days. If you saw Jeff Mills at Tresor, or Joey Beltram at the Orbit, the music would physically move you. That is something I always try to maintain in my music.’

Program Da Future

‘This year I have a lot planned for Kombination Research and I wanted to have maximum control over how the music was distributed,’ he says. ‘The three of us have worked together a lot over the years, and we share similar goals.’

The company’s website – www.mpctrax.com – allows both retailers and individuals to buy vinyl releases, CDs and MP3s online. Some of the most exciting tracks on the website are collaborations between The Advent and Industrialyser – a new name, but one that is becoming more and more recognized in techno circles.

2009 will see a relentless stream of new material being added to MPC Trax. Meanwhile, the man himself has gigs lined up across Europe. In the next three months he’ll be everywhere, from Utrecht to Naples and from Dublin to Budapest.

Check www.the-advent.com for the low-down on future dates and releases.

You can read the full interview here in Issue 5: www.core-mag.net

Words: James Ratcliff