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Henry Saiz
Birth nameEnrique Saiz Gonzalez
Also known asHal Incandenza, H.Haze
BornMadrid, Spain
GenresElectronica, progressive, house
Occupation(s)DJ, producer
Years active2006-present
Labels
  • Natura Sonoris
  • Lost Worlds Records
  • Balance
  • Bedrock
  • Paradigma Musik
Websitewww.henrysaiz.com
Moonlight, Wolf, used as image and cropped into front cover of Henry Saiz' 2013 debut album, Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams, oil on canvas by Frederic Remington, used under license and with thanks to Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, USA.[1]
Moonlight, Wolf, used as image and cropped into front cover of Henry Saiz' 2013 debut album, Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams, oil on canvas by Frederic Remington, used under license and with thanks to Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, USA.[1]

Henry Saiz is a Spanish electronic DJ and music producer.[2] Saiz' first productions were released through the Global Underground and Paradigma Musik imprints. His remix of Lamur by Guy J, released on the Bedrock label, was produced in 2009 after he came to the attention of John Digweed, one of the label's founders.[2] Renaissance Recordings then commissioned the releases of his EPs Artificial Paradises and Madre Noche in 2009 and The Rider in 2010. He produced the Balance 019 compilation, released on June 10, 2011, and has his own record label, Natura Sonoris,[3] which serves as a platform for his own productions as well as those of new artists. In addition to his productions, Saiz has been developing a live show, using a combination of the Akai APC-40 controlling Ableton Live, Access Virus TI Synth and an Ipod Touch.[4]

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Electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means. Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar.

Global Underground

Global Underground

Global Underground is a British record label and compilation series founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and James Todd. The label symbolised the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s and first manifesto for high-end DJs such as Tony De Vit, Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Darren Emerson, James Lavelle, Carl Cox, and Solomun.

Guy J

Guy J

Guy Judah, known by his stage name Guy J, is an Israeli progressive house, techno and electro music producer and DJ who has released three albums and over 15 EPs since 2008. His recordings are noted for their diverse and wide range of musical styles, while his DJ work is known for creating immersive "journey-like" live shows.

Bedrock Records

Bedrock Records

Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, progressive house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed. Its name comes from a long running and successful club night held in Hastings and also at Heaven nightclub, London - both also called Bedrock. Bedrock Records has released many singles from artists such as Astro & Glyde, Brancaccio & Aisher, Steve Lawler, Shmuel Flash, Steve Porter, Sahar Z, Guy J, Henry Saiz, Stelios Vassiloudis, Electric Rescue, The Japanese Popstars and Jerry Bonham. Bedrock is also the name that Digweed and Muir use as their production moniker.

John Digweed

John Digweed

Thomas John Digweed is a British DJ and record producer. DJ Magazine voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, and with Nick Muir as Bedrock.

Renaissance Recordings

Renaissance Recordings

Renaissance Recordings is a British record label, founded by the club Renaissance in 1994. It went into administration in September 2010 and the back catalogue was sold to Phoenix Music International Ltd. After a year of inactivity, in July 2011 it was announced that Renaissance had been reborn, with founder and original owner Geoff Oakes once again guiding the brand. In 2018, media and finance entrepreneur Scott Rudmann acquired a majority stake in the label and began working in partnership with Oakes. After a large period of activity, they ceased operations once again on 23 September 2014. In July 2017, they released a new digital remix of Age of Love's song "The Age of Love" by Solomun that went to world no1 on the electronic music charts.

Extended play

Extended play

An extended play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. In K-pop they are usually referred to as mini albums. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, "EPs—originally extended-play 'single' releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk and indie bands." In the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of maximum length and no more than four tracks.

Ableton Live

Ableton Live

Ableton Live, also known as simply Ableton, is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering. It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching, crossfading, and other different effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beatmatch songs. Live is available directly from Ableton in three editions: Intro, Standard, and Suite. Ableton also made a fourth version, Lite, with similar limitations to Intro. It is only available bundled with a range of music production hardware, including MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.

Access Virus

Access Virus

The Access Virus is a virtual analog synthesizer made by the German company Access Music GmbH. It was first produced in 1997 and has since been upgraded frequently, with the company releasing new models about every two years. Early models include the Virus A, Virus B, and Virus C series, each available in various hardware configurations. In November 2005, the Virus TI series was released, including the 61-key Virus TI Keyboard and the 37-key Virus TI Polar. A small desktop model was released in February 2008 called the Virus TI Snow. A revision of the TI series called TI2 came out in March 2009, featuring faster digital signal processing (DSP) controllers, additional polyphony, more effects in the effect section and a slightly changed design. The Virus series also has come out with two software plugin versions: TDM for Pro Tools and VST for TC Electronic Powercore series. The term Access Virus can be used to refer to any one of these synthesizers.

Career

Henry Saiz' musical career began playing bass with the Spanish black metal band, NahemaH,[5] his first and only release with the members being the symphonic metal album Chrysalis in 2001.[6] He turned his attention to producing electronic music upon hearing the 2003 progressive house single, A Break In The Clouds, from UK-based producer James Holden.[7]Starting his journey in Spain with underground labels, Saiz soon attracted the attention of UK giants such as Renaissance, Global Underground and Bedrock. His first official single release was in 2006.[8] “My first vinyl releases were special moments for me, when DJ’s you’ve admired your whole life support your music, it’s a big feeling to then go on tours to places such as Asia, Australia and South America, and realize just how much the music I’d made was a part of so many people, it’s hard to explain just how amazing that was – and still is!” stated Saiz.

Accolades have also followed releases. His own label, Natura Sonoris, won ‘Best Label’ of 2011 by DJ Magazine and his standout remix of Guy J’s Lamur brought him his first “Essential New Tune” from Radio 1’s Pete Tong. He was invited to mix his own CD compilation for the prestigious Balance series (also in 2011), a process in which he utilised vinyl, cassette, reel-to-reel tapes and over 100 field recordings that he’d recorded as a pre-teen.

Saiz' 2013 debut LP, Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams, features 17 tracks embodying two years of production and recording. Fusing melodic-hypnotic house, analogue techno and retro-futuristic pop, written and partly recorded amongst a volcanic backdrop in a remote part of Lanzarote, Henry’s connection with nature and his surroundings plays a huge role in the album’s sonics, according to an interview in Resident Advisor,[9] as well as the many sound recordings that were sent to him via his website – Henry asked his followers to send him sampled noises personal to them in a forward-thinking move to incorporate his fans into the album. The title of the album is a mixed quotation of contemporary philosopher Slavoj Žižek's in his psychoanalytic documentary, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.[10]

A few years later, Saiz began to crowdfund a kickstarter program, this time conceptualizing and co-producing with friends and fellow Spanish musicians Eloy Serrano and Luis Deltell under the title Henry Saiz & Band. They intended to travel across the globe to record synthesizers and create an audiovisual album featuring videos from the landscape.[11] Securing 813 backers, the group exceeded their fundraising goal in the summer of 2016. By autumn of the same year, the group began their international journey to each of the seven continents, drawing inspiration from the local or indigenous persons and cultures of the land, the natural environment and music and field recordings to create and produce their tracks. Originally scheduled to release in mid-2017, Human was released in 2018.

When quarantining began during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Saiz started a YouTube series of mixes and sets, first with 'At Home with Henry' and later addended with 'MIRAGE' in order to distinguish two separate mixing styles.[12] The former has been chosen to showcase a wide variety of genres, themes and miscellany including and excluding electronic music. The latter, set to run typically on weekends, is geared towards clubbing and dance music.

In late 2022, Saiz announced Henry Saiz & Band would be renamed as Moonlight Wolves, releasing their first single, Gardens By The Bay, in October 2022.[13]

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Black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

Nahemah (band)

Nahemah (band)

NahemaH was a Spanish heavy metal band from Alicante, Spain, that was formed in 1997. Since then, they have released four albums. Nahemah released their two final albums via Lifeforce Records.

James Holden (producer)

James Holden (producer)

James Alexander Goodale Holden is a British electronic music artist and DJ. After beginning his career as a DJ and producer, Holden has moved extensively into live performance and founded his own record label Border Community.

Pete Tong

Pete Tong

Peter Michael Tong, is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records and for his own performances at nightclubs and music festivals. Tong has also worked as a record producer and is regarded as the "global ambassador for electronic music."

Lanzarote

Lanzarote

Lanzarote is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 125 kilometres off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.94 square kilometres, Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 152,289 inhabitants at the start of 2019, it is the third most populous Canary Island, after Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Located in the centre-west of the island is Timanfaya National Park, one of its main attractions. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1993. The island's capital is Arrecife, which lies on the eastern coastline. It is the smaller main island of the Province of Las Palmas.

Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor is an online music magazine and community platform dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe. It was established in 2001. RA's editorial team provides news, music and event reviews, as well as films, features and interviews. The website also manages services that include event listings, ticket sales, club and promoter directories, photo galleries, artist and record label profiles, DJ charts, an online community, and the RA Podcast.

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective.

Field recording

Field recording

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electromagnetic recordings or contact microphones. For underwater field recordings, a field recordist uses hydrophones to capture the sounds and/or movements of whales, or other aquatic organisms. These recordings are very useful for sound designers.

COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 10 March 2023, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.

YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is an American global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.

Artistry

Henry Saiz spent his childhood absorbing early Stanley Kubrick soundtracks and explains, “My influences are pretty diverse, taking me all the way from Italo Disco to Black Metal. From Abba [sic] to Aphex Twin, Vangelis and Pink Floyd (via Detroit) – I believe that electronic music can, and should, have a message. The infinite palate of sounds and textures give the power to evoke much more complex feelings and mindscapes than the traditional pop-rock instruments – the fact that you can dance to it in a club doesn’t mean it can’t transmit a message (and a thrill) to the listener on many levels.”[14]

Saiz is a fan of the works of David Foster Wallace and Salvador Dalí. One of his side projects is Hal Incandenza, named after from the protagonist in Wallace's most famous novel, Infinite Jest. Producing under Hal, Saiz experiments in disco-house and experimental pop.[15] It’s Saiz’ open-minded approach to influence and his background in sound design, working on TV shows, documentaries and commercials, that give his productions the rich cinematic moments and deep atmospherics that are often found. As Saiz explains, “sound design is always a big factor in my music, I love to add sampled soundscapes to my music – it allows me to explore the visual and psychedelic aspects of electronic music that is so important to me.”

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films—almost all of which are adaptations of novels or short stories—cover a wide range of genres and feature innovative cinematography, dark humor, realistic attention to detail and extensive set designs.

ABBA

ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. One of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, they are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, and in 2022.

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James, best known as Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born British musician, composer and DJ. He is known for his idiosyncratic work in electronic styles such as techno, ambient, and jungle. Journalists from publications including Mixmag, The New York Times, NME, Fact, Clash and The Guardian have called James one of the most influential and important artists in contemporary electronic music.

Vangelis

Vangelis

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

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Discography

Albums

  • Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams (2013)
  • Reality Addendum (2014)
  • [Henry Saiz & Band] Human (2018)
  • [H.Haze] triste (2021)[16]

EPs

  • Mamut EP (2006)
  • Labyrinths Designer EP (2007)
  • Liquid Gardens EP (2007)
  • Artificial Paradises EP (2009)
  • Madre Noche EP (2009)
  • The Rider EP (2010)
  • It's Not Over (2014)
  • Haunted Girl Canyon EP (2014)[17]
  • We Drown Together (2015)
  • Rituales EP (2015)
  • Secrets EP (2016)
  • Night Cult EP (2016)[18]
  • [Hal Incandenza] Incivitas (2022)

Singles

  • You, The Living (2006)
  • Vancouver (2008)
  • [Guy J & Henry Saiz] Meridian/La Marea (2011)
  • All the Evil of This World (feat. Hanin Zueiter) (2013)[19]
  • Digital Mirages Vol.1 (2019)

Compilations

  • Balance 019 (2011)
  • Balance Presents Natura Sonoris (2017)[20]

Source: "Henry Saiz", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Saiz.

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References
  1. ^ "Moonlight, Wolf". Access Addison. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023. This object has the following bibliographic references: [...]Henry Saiz. Reality is for those who are not strong enough to confront their dreams. Natura Sonoris. 2013.

    Uncanny in its aspect, the figure of the wolf is also formally related to the surrounding scene. Its eyes match the two most prominent stars in the sky, its body is reflected in the water, the line of its back and head parallels the line of the distant sloping hill, its white-tipped tail assumes the colors and elongated form of the hill and sand, and, finally, its body is arranged in a more or less compact rectangle that echoes the rectangle of the picture itself. As a result, the painting can be said to confront us not simply with a wolf, but also with the wolflike menace of its own presence.

  2. ^ a b "DJ Mag Japan Special Interview:Henry Saiz". DJ mag Japan. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. ^ Groove, Aria (29 December 2019). "Henry Saiz: "I love to work under concepts because it allows me to focus and to develop an idea properly"". electronic groove. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. ^ Henry Saiz Biography on official website
  5. ^ "NahemaH". Friedhof Magazine (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
  6. ^ "Nahemah - Chrysalis". The Metal Archives. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  7. ^ "At Home With Henry 55". YouTube. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  8. ^ Hernandez, Christina (26 February 2018). "Meet the underground talent of CRSSD Fest:Henry Saiz". Dancing Astronaut. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  9. ^ Dickins, Clare (9 March 2012). "Henry Saiz: A lengthy interview with a perfectly nice man". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  10. ^ "The Pervert's Guide To Cinema script". Scripts. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

    "The logic here is strictly Freudian, that is to say we escape into dream to avoid a deadlock in our real life. But then, what we encounter in the dream is even more horrible, so that at the end, we literally escape from the dream, back into reality. It starts with, dreams are for those who cannot endure, who are not strong enough for reality. It ends with, reality is for those who are not strong enough to endure, to confront their dreams."

  11. ^ "Henry Saiz & Band - Human". bandcamp. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  12. ^ "MIRAGE & At Home With Henry". YouTube. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  13. ^ "Moonlight Wolves announcement". Instagram. 11 October 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  14. ^ "All about music and cats | Suara Music".
  15. ^ "Ariana Grande - Touch It (Hal Incandenza Bootleg)". Soundcloud. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2023. Hal Incandenza is Henry Saiz's alias for his disco-house and experimental pop side, which he uses to experiment with absolute creative freedom.
  16. ^ "H.Haze - triste". bandcamp. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  17. ^ "Henry Saiz - Haunted Girl Canyon". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  18. ^ Kaufman, Danny (22 February 2016). "Premiere: Henry Saiz - Night Cult EP on Suara". Magnetic Magazine.
  19. ^ All the Evil of This World
  20. ^ Morris, Valarie (10 July 2017). "Balance Presents NATURA SONORIS mixed by Henry Saiz". T.H.E Music Essentials.

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