THE ADVENT
The Advent have been
involved in the house / techno scene for many years now. Francisco
Ferreira kicked his career off in style when not long after leaving
school he found himself working as a sound engineer for Jack Trax,
engineering for Derrick May, Fingers Inc & Adonis. Cisco's solo
releases included the 1988 classic " Space Opera's " The Project on
R&S Records, Belgium and the eponymously titled Cisco Ferreira EP
on Fragile Records. His other engineering credits includes work with
Loose Ends, Bang the Party & Shock Sound System (Ashley Beadle).
Cisco was also involved in
collaborations in 1990, with Fade II Black for Bio Rhythms 2 on Network
Records. Cisco also co produced with CJ Bolland on The 4th Sign/
Mantra, Camarage, Nightbreed and Live At Universe for R&S Records
he has also worked alongside the likes of Mundo Musique
In 1994 Cisco signed to
Internal Recordings and formed The Advent. Since then The Advent have
released a series of outstanding EP's that have combined the best
elements of Electro and Techno, but always generated music with a dance
floor edge.
Elements of Life (1994)
represented The Advent's sound perfectly and many of the tracks had
already been road-tested in their live performances.
Then came Shaded Elements
(remix project) and this was followed by the release of the 3rd album
New Beginning's (1996) one quote from a magazine said " Prepare to
phunk Advent style, to this brain shaking, electro-frying sequel "
The Advent have been causing
mass limb gyration and 909 detonation world-wide and whether it's at
the hands of a pair of 1210's or during live performance's. The Advent
have taken hold of the millennium dance floor and decoded its alien
phunk scripture into their own sound system speaker shock blast. This
in fact is the New Testament of dance music.
In 1998 came the distinctive
mixed album, Kombination Phunk, this was a series of tracks supplied by
the likes of Dopplereffect, Luke Slater's Planetary Assault Systems and
Joey Beltram.
Cisco is now runs number of
labels including Kombination Research & Alpha Recordings.
Kombination Research was launched in 97 the mission was to keep it 100%
advent style, and after departing from London Records in 97 Cisco
wanted to build on the love of music strictly for the underground
masses, after 13 successful releases on Kombination Research the time
had come to present a long player with the same idea as shaded
elements, this project "Re Creations" will be based on the same idea,
introducing new talent from the last 7 years to mix all the past 18
EP's on K.R.