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Wired is a collaboration between Dutchman Rene Van Der Weyde and Ard Quindvist from Helsinki. As a DJ, Rene played a key role in introducing house and techno to the Dutch dancefloors in the late 80's and his mixing skills are legendary. Over the last 7 years he has been masterminding and producing many successful European dance acts. In 1994, under the guise of 'Atlantic Ocean', he had massive international chart success with the track 'Waterfall' on the then emergent label, Eastern Bloc. Rene also owns a graphic design company.
Ard Quindvist is also a man of many trades. After playing the drums in several school bands, ("they were all shit" he remembers), he went on to experimenting with electronics, then in 1989 decided to explore his artistic side and went to the Scandinavian School of Art. It was around this time he became involved in Helsinki's acid house scene and started to write his own music on self-designed and home-constructed gear.
Both Rene and Ard use the internet to sell their designs, and are frequent visitors to several on-line music and audiophile communities. Quindvist: "There is nothing nerdy about meeting people in chatgroups, it's a great way to quickly find people who share the same interests". They both feel the internet is an increasingly important medium for people to exchange ideas and even work together. "People have talked about it for years now, but hardly anyone ever actually does it" Van Der Weyde states, "so we thought it would be fun to record a track together without ever meeting in real life". In August 1998 they started sending each other midifiles and small samples, it didn't take long before they were sending entire pieces of music. The entire track took them a week to do, both versions were eventually mixed in Rene's studio in the Netherlands. DJ Enrico's stomping club mix completes the package.
Future Groove will be releasing Wired - "Transonic" on CD and 12" on 8th February 1999.
If the hookline sounds familiar to Yazoo fans, don't be surprised - Vince Clarke is credited as one of the song's writers as Wired recreated synth sounds from the hit "Don't Go".
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