LOWTEK

Born in the summer of 2002, LowTek started off a joint project between Garvan Power and Jens Kroenert. Refusing to settle into any one style or form, the pair attempted to push the boundaries of hardcore as much as possible. At heart, LowTek is a mix of raw industrial and hardcore, but Garvan and Jen's style and sound is definately their own. Their driving, and energetic live shows has won them widespread acclaim across the hardcore community. Inspired by everything from ebm to the old PCP style, to modern sounding hardcore, LowTek draw influence from the harsher, darker side of all electronic music. To date LowTek have released on labels such as Industrial Strength, Bastard Loud Records, and Black Monolith Records, as well as appearing on Thunderdome, Hellbound and BioMechanik compilations.

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Name : Jens Kroenert
Age : 26
Nationality : German

Jens has been listening to techno and hardcore since around 1992. However, his musical tastes also include Black and Death metal, with Dimmu Borgir, Emperor and Morgul being some of this favorites. Within the hardcore scene, the likes of DOA, Industrial Strength, Nordcore, and the PCP style really caught his attention. Jens began to create his own music around 1995, starting first with the classic Amiga 500, before moving onto a 16 track software drum computer on his PC, accompanied by various software synths and samples. 1995 also saw the formation of Jen's first ever live techno act, 'The Napalm Couple'. They managed quite a few gigs using two amiga's, vinyl, cd's, and lots of back-up disks.

Following on from this, Jens next development was his gabba/speedcore project, 'JENSEN'. Hitting beats of nearly 700 bpm with some tracks, JENSEN's sound is not for the faint of heart. JENSEN recently played live at the Intra Hearing festival in Zurich, Switzerland, to a frenzied response from the crowd. Jen's also secured his first release under this title on the famous Industrial Strength Records, run by the legendary Lenny Dee - 'JENSEN vs LOWTEK' ISR053

Along with his work as JENSEN, Jen's has recently teamed up with Irish industrial / electronic producer, Garvan Power, to form the project, LOWTEK. Moving away from the sheer tempo of his work as JENSEN, LOWTEK take on a more harder, driving sound, mixing hardcore and industrial into a very unique and distinctive style.


Name : Garvan Power
Age : 27
Nationality : Irish

Garvan's first big musical influences came from the nineties explosion of thrash metal. Listening to the likes of Sepultura, Slayer, and Pantera lead him to buying a guitar for himself, and the desire to write some of his own music. When he heard the likes of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, is when he really found a sound that appealed to him. The pure aggression of this industrial-metal-dance fusion opened up all sorts of possiblities for him. Trading guitars for sequencers and keyboards, he began to produce his own style of electronic music.

It wasn't until he teamed up with Karl Milne in 2000 and formed D:V:ANT, that he really settled on a sound. D:V:ANT recorded two CD's, the D:V:ANT E.P., and Evolution, and rather quickly established themselves on the Dublin dance music scene, with their hard edged dance industrial tunes, and high energy live shows. To date D:V:ANT have played with the likes of Chris Liberator, Dave the Drummer and Lenny Dee.

While D:V:ANT went on hold for recording, Garvan continued to play the club scene, doing hard techno DJ sets, and eventually set up his own club, FLUX. In early 2003, Garvan and Jen's hooked up, and discussed various ideas about setting up a new live project. Shortly after, LOWTEK was born. Three months later, Industrial Strength Records signed both 'JENSEN' and 'LOWTEK'. Currently, they had two CD's recorded, 'Core', and more recently, 'Bassbound'. September 1st 2003 will see the release of the 6 track double vinyl, 'JENSEN vs LOWTEK'.

LOWTEK have already established themselves on the Dublin hardcore scene, having played several, well received gigs, and recently supporting hardcore legend, HELLFISH (Death Chant Records). Abroad, they have also began to make an impact in Germany, having been billed with the likes of Marc Acardipane, Catscan, and Rotterdam Terror Corps.