Tag : Abe Duque

Secondo appuntamento con Sweatshop, neolabel berlinese fondata da Savas Pascalidis. Sono oltre dieci anni che il tedesco (di origini elleniche) esplora in lungo e in largo la House e i più attenti potrebbero ricordare quando, alla fine dei Novanta, gli fu attribuita la paternità del genere Stellar Funk, patrocinato dalla prima delle sue etichette, l’attualmente [...]

When Carlos Abraham Duque Alcivar joined the United States Marine Corps, he spent four months in boot camp at Parris Island, in South Carolina – the facility made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s movie Full Metal Jacket.

“My Marine days really shaped my character, it made me a tougher dude and more resilient to failure,” says Alcivar otherwise known as the American DJ and producer Abe Duque.

“Boot camp was hellish. I was a bit chunky back then, so they put me in this platoon with all the fat guys. It was a special platoon called PCP, or Pork Chop Platoon. We trained all day, every day. Other platoons, they did other stuff like shoot guns, but we just woke up at 4am and worked out all day.

“It was miserable. I never thought I’d get out of there. It was hell on Earth,” he says, laughing. From the photos and background, you’d expect Alcivar to be a hard nut to crack, but he’s chatty and full of chuckles.

Alcivar eventually left the Marines after four years and became a music producer. He went from shooting M16s to putting out house records. His drill instructor must be pissed, but he took a few things with him from his Marine days.

“My first release was in 1989,” he says. “But it was only after 15 years of trying that I saw real success. I guess I kept coming back for more pain, that was something I might have learnt in the Marines.”

Some would call it insanity – to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results, but Abe Duque, he would call it discipline, resilience, and self-belief. Once a Marine, always a Marine.

With his third studio album ‘Don’t Be So Mean’ having dropped recently, and its darker dancefloor moments filtering their way across clubland’s underbelly we felt it was time to salute Abe Duque.

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Eroe ’sotterraneo’ della techno, rispetto a nomi commercialmente più appetibili come Sven Väth o Richie Hawtin, Abe Duque è stato tra i primi ad intuire, in tempi del tutto non sospetti (1993-1994-1995) le potenzialità creative che si celavano dietro la simbiosi tra house e techno. Divertendosi ad adoperare pseudonimi svariati per i propri brani [...]

Dopo il mini-tour invernale l’equadoriano Abe Duque tornerà in Italia per due date: il 1 giugno a Bologna sul palco del Flippaut Festival (occasione in cui suonerà live per la prima volta tra Moby e Chemical Brothers che, proprio di recente, hanno richiesto le sue versioni per le rispettive hits “Lift Me Up” e [...]

L’equadoriano Carlos Abraham Duque Alcivar alias Abe Duque è uno dei personaggi legati all’underground internazionale che meglio si sta distinguendo negli ultimi mesi. Dopo aver prodotto l’album di Dj Hell intitolato “N.Y. Muscle” ed aver attivamente partecipato alla realizzazione del remix di “Let’s Get Ill” di P.Diddy, Abe ritorna con un nuovo album, “So Underground [...]