{"id":17535,"count":11,"description":"","link":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/artist\/portable\/","name":"\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30d6\u30eb","slug":"portable","taxonomy":"musicartist","meta":{"artist_discogs_id":6971,"artist_discogs_url":"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/6971-Portable","artist_image_id":635558,"artist_real_name":"Alan Abrahams","artist_profile":"Portable grew out of the ruins of the post-apartheid era of South Africa, being part of\u00a0the generation that was to bring about the freedom of Nelson Mandela and all that\u00a0 followed for his country. He is a\u00a0celebrated live act.\u00a0Inspired musically, yet frustrated geographically, he relocated to London in 1997. In London, Alan Abrahams began recording as Portable, the experimental, atmospheric project that acts a living link between the indigenous African sounds of his youth, and those first records whose futuristic aesthetic broadened his horizons. He founded he\u2019s record label S\u00fcd Electronic in 2002 and the first single  \u201c Gridshift \u201c  was a recommended new release by the UK publication, The Wire and received best release of the month by De:Bug magazine, Germany. \r\nA succession of full-length albums followed , namely  Futuristic Experiments #005  in 2002 on German label Background records , in 2003  he\u2019s Cycling album, which received a Red Dot design award for outstanding graphic design .\r\nIn 2005 Portable released he\u2019s album \u201d Version \u201c on ~Scape records. And  In 2007 Portable  decided to change he\u2019s base city and moved to Lisbon, Portugal.There he recorded  his album \u2018Powers\u00a0 of Ten' for his own S\u00fcd Electronic record label. A rich and expansive record,\u00a0 'Powers of Ten' further explored his African heritage through a new lexicon of sonic\u00a0 influences. In 2008 Portable released he\u2019s first single on legendary Berlin label Perlon called \u201c Knowone Can Take away \u201c and was listed as best of the week\u2019s releases on Groove magazine who wrote \u201c \u2026delivers one of the most beautiful , heart rendering and dance floor shattering songs, A magic plate \u201c  \r\nLisbon was his base for 5 years. Here he launched his alter ego project\u00a0 BODYCODE and signed to  US, Detroit record label Ghostly International \/ Spectral. He\u2019s first album for them \u201c The conservation of electric charge \u201c  Was a recommended release on online platform Resident Advisor with them writing \u201cFor dance artists, the album format is a tricky balancing act between keeping people interested at home and on the dancefloor. \u2018The Conservation of Electric Charge\u2019 fulfils both criteria. As an album, it\u2019s really tight, nothing is slackly produced or rushed. He went on to release another album under the Bodycode moniker  called \u201c Immune \u201c \r\n\r\nThe next capital city he relocated  to would be Berlin. There, in 2010 , he released he\u2019s single \u201c This life of illusion \u201c  on legendary Berlin record label Perlon. It was voted best of the month\u2019s releases at Groove Magazine saying \u201c \u2026full of timeless Chicago house magic with vocals that gives you goosebumps \u201c  And  2011 Portable released the \u201c Into infinity \u201c album  on Perlon. This release landed him on the cover of Berlin\u2019s  influential magazine, Groove, in May 2011, them quoted as saying \u201c in the annual charts of the Groove editors, Portable's album Into Infinity landed in the top 10 several times - with good reason, since Alan Abrahams, the man behind Portable, knew how to combine contemporary house music and song structures on this record like hardly any other producer \u201c . Portable\u2019s\u00a0 music reached a new level of exposure when the 2014 track 'Surrender' received a\u00a0 \u201cBest New Track\u201d designation from Pitchfork, and appeared in a re-edited form on\u00a0 DJ Koze\u2019s critically acclaimed DJ-Kicks mix (named the #1 mix of 2015 by Resident\u00a0 Advisor). And the video to which was named 2nd Best Video of that year by Inverted Audio. This\u00a0 gave birth to further video experiments which Portable began to use for his many live\u00a0performances .\r\nIn 2016 Portable signed to major record label !K7, and released his sixth full-length album\u00a0simply entitled \u201c alan Abrahams \u201c  The 11 track affair was his most personal yet and had a Pitchfork review quoted \u201c paints romantic ecstasy as a kind of free fall and near spiritual \u201c and KCRU ( NPR) public radio saying \u201c Abrahams augments the stable of electronics and consciously Afrocentric rhythms, through a fascinating group of songs \u201c And XLR!r wrote \u201c ..an album of melancholic beauty \u201c\r\n\r\nIn 2018 Portable released he\u2019 ep \u201c A life without Notifications \u201c on German label Dial records and was once again selected as best of the week\u2019s releases at Groove magazine them writing that \u201c \u2026once again reflects the artists typical embedding of traditional rhythms in warm toned electronic sound scapes paired with he\u2019s distinctive vocal style\u2026 \u201c \r\n2018 saw Portable move to Paris, France . There he set up a new record label called Khoikhoi Records and released  A single \u201c Believing \u201c and a compilation \u201c Raising Ancestors \u201c featuring leading figures in the South African music scene and introducing them  to a European audience. And in  2020 Portable released a new album named \u201c The transit of\u00a0 Mercury\u2019 , this to critical acclaim and amongst Pitchforks best albums\u00a0 for Winter 2020, them writing that \u201c\u2026in the album\u2019s most intense moments, distorted  synthesisers turn thick and dissonant, throbbing like a knot in the stomach \u201c - Phillip Sherburne \r\n\r\nIn 2022 Portable signed to French record label Circus Company and released he\u2019s album \u201c My Sentient Shadow \u201c This once again was hailed by the critics, with a strong recommendation from  Resident Advisor  writing \u201c\u2026another deep ,and deeply affecting concept album, this time focusing on identity, sentience and belonging \u201c Groove magazine had it in their essential albums of the month saying \u201c  The greatness of Portable is reflected in the subtle complexity of his tracks, in the springy arches that he spans from seemingly rigid frameworks. The rhythm has by no means lost its southern character, \u201cAnd online music blog Inverted audio writing \u201c if you\u2019ve somehow missed the prolific Abrahams over the years, this is a superb point to jump in , his creativity and potency remaining undiminished \u201c","artist_country":"","artist_active_years":"","artist_website":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/portacode","artist_instagram":"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/portableakabodycode","artist_facebook":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portableakabodycode","artist_bandcamp":"http:\/\/portableakabodycode.bandcamp.com","artist_soundcloud":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/portable-aka-bodycode","artist_spotify":"","artist_resident_advisor":"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/portable","artist_beatport":"","artist_youtube":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bodycode","artist_youtube_session":"","artist_chart_products":"","artist_chart_title":"","artist_chart_date":"","artist_instagram_curated":"","artist_email_curated":"","artist_bio_curated":"","artist_real_name_curated":"","artist_website_curated":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicartist\/17535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicartist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/musicartist"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?musicartist=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}