Summary: Function Function, aka David Sumner, should be a familiar name to anyone who's been paying attention to techno in New York City for the past 15+ years. Heavily influence by the early New York rave scene (Limelight, NASA, Storm, etc), Dave dove into production with a string of releases and collaborations on Damon Wild's seminal Synewave label in the mid-90s. From the late 90s to the early 00s, Function put out many productions on his own label, Infrastructure. In the process he made a strong artistic connection with Regis and Female from the UK, and formed Portion Reform with Regis, releasing a handful of 12"s and an album on the cult, UK Midlands based imprint, Downwards. This connection remains strong to this day. In 2008, Dave moved to Berlin and began to strongly focus on the Sandwell District label, which was undoubtedly one of the breakout labels that year. The label was launched in 2002, and has only put out 15 releases since then, each one well worth owning. In 2010, the techno spotlight is shining brightly on Sumner and Sandwell. He has a residency at Berghain, and appears regularly at other huge clubs around Europe, and from all reports, his performance was the best set at the Labyrinth Festival in Japan this year. And now with Sandwell District being slated to close the main stage at Sonar this June, 2 new groundbreaking V/A Promo 12"s in the pipeline set to come out in May/June 2010, which will precede a full length Sandwell District album and 2 new collaborative projects with Jerome Sydenham for CLR and Ibadan, the future really couldn't be much brighter. 01. Function - SDSMP01 A1 - Sandwell District 02. Silent Servant - SDSMP02 A1 (Edit) - Sandwell District 03. Silent Servant (Regis Mix) - SDSMP01 B1 - Sandwell District 04. Function vs. Jerome Sydenham - Two Ninety One - CLR 05. Xhin - Blade Moth - Meerestief 06. Xhin - Plexus - Meerestief 07. Robert Hood - Alpha - M-Plant 08. JPLS - Displacement - Minus 09. Martyn - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Remix) - 3024 10. Cybersonic - Technarchy (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - Plus 8 11. JPLS - X Pulse - Minus 12. Mark Broom and James Ruskin - No Time Soon - Blueprint 13. Speedy J - Armstrong - CLR 14. Xhin - Fixing The Error - Stroboscopic Artefacts 15. Xhin - Link - Stroboscopic Artefacts 16. Function - SDSMP01 A2 - Sandwell District 17. Function - Unreleased Live Edit 18. Mark Broom and James Ruskin - The Metal Man - Blueprint 19. Robert Hood - Omega - M-Plant 20. Robert Hood - Superman - Music Man 21. Cari Lekebusch - Spindizzy (Luke Slater's L.B. Dub Corp Remix) - Mote Evolver 22. Equalized 03 - A - Equalized 23. Jeff Mills - Black Is The Number - Axis 24. Lionrock - Packet Of Peace (Jeff Mills Deep House Mix) - Deconstruction 25. Function vs. Jerome Sydenham - Illusion - Ibadan 26. Phase - Fragmenta - Token 27. Milton Bradley - Hypnagogic - Do Not Resist The Beat 28. Delta Funktionen - Silhouette (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - Delsin 29. Silent Servant - SDSMP02 A1 - Sandwell District 30. Silent Servant - SDSMP02 B1 - Sandwell District 31. Female - SDSMP02 B2 - Sandwell District 32. Female - SDSMP02 A2 - Sandwell District
