In 1998 Aril Brikha reacquainted the world with deep techno soul, as his record Groove La Chord crossed generic boundaries. Is it Techno? Is it House? Is it Deep House? It’s everything and nothing. Groove La Chord is simply timeless. No one was more surprised about the success of Groove La Chord than Brikha himself - after all, he’d originally presented it on his demo as a potential B-side. Two years after he recorded Groove La Chord, Brikha heard it in a club for the first time - Derrick May pulled it out in Chicago. Aril then realized it was a good track.

Got his first keyboard at seven and picking up notes by ear, Aril ran his childhood years with Depeche Mode and Front 242. First composing appeared at 16 – his friends called the stuff “Detroit techno”, Brikha not having any idea what that is. Being a true renegade, Aril turned his music away from local loop-based techno scene and created his own cerebral, emotional and spiritual electronic music.

Sending demos outside from Sweden, Aril Brikha received message from Derric May’s Transmat label, interested in his Art Of Vengeance EP what was issued on Transmat’s sister label Fragile, also Groove La Chord being on it. And Aril Brikha became a star of deep techno, doing live everywhere from the Detroit Electronic Music Festival to clubs like London’s Fabric and Tokyo’s Air and Yellow.

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Aril Brikha performs on Sunday, 19th November in Von Krahl.