Main Stage - Live at Nachtdigital Festival

Ewan Pearson

Kompakt, Berlin

Kidderminster-born, Berlin-based Ewan Pearson has been rocking hats 'n kicks since '96 - turbo-boosting the floors of dance temples across the globe. In between, he's found a minute or two to write a book and some tunes that challenged the Electronic world. His ever-changing, avant-garde productions seem to always surprise even the most jaded of ears. Offbeat yet on point, with a charmingly unpretentious disposition, he makes pop-friendly music drenched in bass and sprinkled with addictive melodies. In Ewan's own words: "I think I move around style-wise, I've got quite diverse tastes. I suppose, because of the remixes I was doing five years ago, I've been lumped into the Electro scene, but what interests me is finding exciting new records. It's that sensibility of trying to twist things slightly, trying to put things together in not such an obvious way, trying to change things style-wise." He remixed everybody from the Pet Shop Boys to Goldfrapp, Mocky, Funk D'Void, Erlend Oye and Black Strobe, and most recently produced the likes of Tracy Thorn and The Rapture.