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Percussive Maintenance is an initiative by drummer Simon Popp aimed at forming new ties through improvisation. At Import Export Munich, Simon invites fellow artists to engage in an open-format collaboration. For each evening, new formations are created, playing exclusively improvised music, making each concert a truly unique experience. For this special event, Simon will be joined by the innovative and boundary-pushing producer and electronic artist Stenny.
Stenny
Born and raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny earned recognition in the last decade as both an accomplished producer and DJ. Exploring club culture and sound art, his journey has been one of constant research and reinvention, avoiding trends and the demands of contemporary music consumption while embracing the slower and more deliberate nature of his craft. Stenny’s work traverses the full electronic music landscape. Whether embracing new narrative structures and compositional experiments or consolidating the immediacy of a dancefloor-oriented project, each release marks a point of departure. Familiar yet constantly shifting, his sonic language remains identifiable within the experimental techno spectrum but expands beyond genre boundaries. Currently based in Munich, Stenny is an Ilian Tape affiliate and a Blitz Club resident. His artistic expression consists mostly of DJ sets and live performances. Fearless in his approach, he ventures through his broad range of musical influences with spontaneity and
control, committed to creating an ever-unique and immersive experience.
Simon Popp
Munich-based drummer and composer Simon Popp navigates polyrhythmic structures with a keen sense of timing and atmosphere. He contrasts earthy and airy sounds, blurs the boundaries between the electronic and acoustic worlds, and makes a powerful statement about what contemporary percussion music can be. Popp studied jazz drumming in Munich and explores the intersections of jazz, ambient, and electronic music through his solo work and projects such as Fazer, 9ms, Poeji, and Polygonia & Simon Popp. His solo albums Laya, Devi, and Blizz have received international acclaim, particularly within the vinyl community. As The Line Of Best Fit praised: „this is music you can get totally lost in, where the lines between organic and electric are blurred so as to be indistinguishable.“ In addition to recognition from magazines like Clash, Juno, and Ransom Note, Bleep compared his work to that of experimental pioneers Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
This project is supported by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst and the Bayerischer Musikrat.
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Simon Popp Biography
Exploration and play are at the core of Simon Popp’s creative process. Trained in jazz drumming and polyrhythm, the Bavarian-born artist draws from a vast array of percussive instruments to build his expansive sound palette.
Popp's ravenous musical curiosity resonates throughout his extensive output, both as a solo artist or through his collaborative projects like Fazer, 9ms, Poeji, or Polygonia & Simon Popp. His solo albums Laya, Devi and Blizz make use of rhythms as storytelling mechanisms. Contrasting light and dark, organic and synthetic sounds, his compositions engage in a dance of subtle complexities, enticing the listener into the practice of close listening. The Line Of Best Fit praised Popp’s work with “music you can get totally lost in, where the lines between organic and electric are blurred so as to be indistinguishable." Alongside acclaim from the likes of Clash, Juno and Ransom Note, Bleep drew comparisons between Popp and experimental heroes Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
"Simon Popp is one of Fazer's drummers. Influenced by percussionist of the east he just did his thing and recorded an album of
immense deepness and rhythmical convergence. I'm collecting these obscure drummer solo records for years and then a young men comes along and makes them all sound boring.“ Growing Bin Records
„ [...] The Munich based musician weaves a tapestry of wondroud melodies and percussive elements across a record which is as
deep and poetic as it is danceable. " Ramson Note
„Popp's 'Holort' Is A Percussive Workout." Clash Magazine
"At its best, this is music you can get totally lost in, where the lines between organic and electric are blurred so as to be indistinguishable.“ The Line Of Best Fit
Read MorePopp's ravenous musical curiosity resonates throughout his extensive output, both as a solo artist or through his collaborative projects like Fazer, 9ms, Poeji, or Polygonia & Simon Popp. His solo albums Laya, Devi and Blizz make use of rhythms as storytelling mechanisms. Contrasting light and dark, organic and synthetic sounds, his compositions engage in a dance of subtle complexities, enticing the listener into the practice of close listening. The Line Of Best Fit praised Popp’s work with “music you can get totally lost in, where the lines between organic and electric are blurred so as to be indistinguishable." Alongside acclaim from the likes of Clash, Juno and Ransom Note, Bleep drew comparisons between Popp and experimental heroes Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
"Simon Popp is one of Fazer's drummers. Influenced by percussionist of the east he just did his thing and recorded an album of
immense deepness and rhythmical convergence. I'm collecting these obscure drummer solo records for years and then a young men comes along and makes them all sound boring.“ Growing Bin Records
„ [...] The Munich based musician weaves a tapestry of wondroud melodies and percussive elements across a record which is as
deep and poetic as it is danceable. " Ramson Note
„Popp's 'Holort' Is A Percussive Workout." Clash Magazine
"At its best, this is music you can get totally lost in, where the lines between organic and electric are blurred so as to be indistinguishable.“ The Line Of Best Fit
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