BRITISH COLUMBIA - LOCAL ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
RENNIE FOSTER
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Rennie, your relationship with the DJ Mag family
goes back for a number of years…. we know you
well and we’re great fans of your work. For many
of our readers this will probably be the ?rst time
they are meeting you. Tell our readers about
yourself, who you are, where you come from.
I am originally from Victoria, BC, a small city on Vancouver
Island, Canada. This city is responsible for an unusual amount of
notable techno talent aside from myself, including artists like
Mathew Jonson, Hrdvsion, Noah Pred, Cobblestone Jazz, The
Mole and many others. Such as with other places, the artists
within the city often go somewhat unrecognized on home turf
in favour of local popular DJs or out of town acts, and many
end up moving away, mostly to Berlin, but myself, I relocated
to Tokyo, Japan and lived there for nearly a decade where I
became deeply entrenched in the Japanese club community
and music industry.
I have recently returned to Canada, and now live in Vancouver,
BC with my twin daughters who I have been raising on my own,
as a single dad, for many years. In the past I have released
on many classic techno labels, such as F-Communications,
Synewave, Soiree, Subject Detroit and Teknotika, and more
recently have been working with Thoughtless Music, Rebirth
and Derrick May’s iconic Transmat label, as well as my own label
projects.
Share with us your love for Vancouver.
Well, truth be told, I am just getting to know Vancouver,
although I have experience playing here in the earlier days,
when I lived in Victoria, many things have changed since then.
I feel each month, and with each gig here, I am gaining ground
quickly though, as more people get an idea of what I have to
offer, and that what I’m doing musically is quite unique for
here.
There is an interest growing here in Detroit techno, although
few people involved in that seem to realize I have released on a
good many Detroit labels and have a deep and long relationship
with the Detroit techno community. I am working to change
that, and doing what I can to contribute to anything based in
the underground house and techno culture movement here, as
it goes forward. I am not so social actually, more of a studio
guy. I feel out of place in clubs mostly when I am not behind the
decks, so it has been a slow and steady process meeting people
here and re-asserting myself into the Canadian scene, but I’m
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