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Quarion(Drumpoet Community, Retreat, Perspectiv)Berlin-based, Swiss-born QUARION (aka Ianeq) has produced and played with a wide variety of musicians since the late nineties. First, crafting skilful beats and samples for hip hop MC's, as he still does nowadays alongside JONAS. Then shaping versatile tech house grooves as ENTERPLAY with Geneva's Rosario and Japan’s Force Of Nature producer DJ Kent, or with jazz keyboardist Leo Tardin. Ianeq also put out a stellar 12'' with Snax on Get Physical and if you asked a 90's clubber, he would be remembered as the fine drum & bass DJ he used to be. Nowadays Quarion's remixes breathe fresh air into already influential house and techno cuts, as evidenced on the best-selling Kompakt, DJ-Kicks and Compost Blacklabel CD series. Tracks by Dirt Crew, Agnes, Alex Attias, Jagged and others have been reworked and shot into orbit while his take on Jamie Lloyd's "May I?" and Andres Garcia's "No More Tears" are paraded by world-class DJs. These frequent flyers have been charting Quarion's own productions since half a decade, when the likes of Rainer Trüby, Michael Rütten and Lars Behrenroth repped his superb, housey broken beat "Reset" EP done as Ianeq. That jazz and hip hop background still transpired through Quarion's "Karasu", heavily endorsed by Ame and Dixon, while his admiration for dub grooves and Detroit techno deepness (or vice-versa) blossomed into a timely contribution to them. Having early on released a stunning tribute to Mad Mike entitled "The Light", touring with Motor City ambassadors Theo Parrish and Omar-S was a natural fit. A moody yet gregarious soul, Quarion has co-founded the vinyl-only Retreat imprint and is a member of Drumpoet Community, both of these labels being his favourite outlets for the widescreen, uplifting house with instrumental flourishes he creates today. By now a well-heeled alumni of high end clubs such as Womb in Tokyo, Watergate in Berlin, Cielo in NYC, Rex in Paris, Zukunft in Zurich or tours of Australia, USA and Israel, Quarion takes the stage for a soulful DJ set or one of his always renewed, semi-improvised live performances with the same determination and hopeful inspiration he already blew into his sax and scratched his vinyl with as a teenager. Music casts a spell on all of us through people like him. Selected Discography . Quarion – Pepper Candy – Retreat – March 2010 . James Blonde & Oliver Deutschmann – Milanese (Quarion RMX) – Flakplatz Limitiert - March 2010 . Enola – Lost In Shibuya (Quarion RMX) – Initial Cuts – December 2009 . Filippo Moscatello – Houz (Quarion RMX) – Moodmusic – September 2009 . Quarion – Dusty Fingers EP – Retreat – August 2009 . Jagged – Hello Kool Nice (Quarion RMX) – Quintessentials – Oct. 2008 . Andrès Garcia - No More Tears (Quarion RMX) – Connaisseur – May 2008 . Class 71 - Seaphone (Quarion RMX) – Four:twenty - May 2008 . Quarion - The Workout EP – Drumpoet Community – April 2008 . Jennifer Cardini – Feeling Strange (includes Quarion RMX of “May I”) – Kompakt - March 2008 . Quarion – Takin’ No Shorts – Family Tree Compilation – Perspectiv – Jan. 2008 . Jamie Lloyd – May I? (Quarion RMX) – Future Classic- Jan. 2008 . M.A.N.D.Y. – Fabric 38 (includes Crowdpleaser RMX of “Karasu”) – Fabric – Dec. 2007 . Booka Shade – DJ Kicks (includes “Karasu” and “Play Your Part”) – K7 – Oct. 2007 . Alex Attias pres. Mustang – Finding Who We Are (Quarion RMX) – Compost BlackLabel – Oct. 2007 . Agnès – Things Recur (Quarion RMX) – Resopal Red – May 2007 . Quarion – Karasu/Play Your Part EP – Drumpoet Community – Nov. 2006 . Snax & Ianeq – It Ain’t Love/Fill Me Up EP – Get Physical - 2006 . Enterplay – Water & Dust CD & EP samplers – Arm Records - 2005 . Ianeq – Reset/Snow Flakes Hesitate EP – A Few Among Others – 2004 . Ianeq – The Light/Electric Thoughts EP – Mental Groove – 2004
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