A Positive Life - The Calling

http://www.discogs.com/A-Positive-Life-Synaesthetic/master/40517
http://www.myspace.com/apositivelife
Formed in the UK in 1991 by founders Patrick Morsman and Stefan Pierlejewski.
Picked up, by pure fluke, by Beyond Records in 1992 when owner Mike Barnett was trying to prove to his A&R that you dont find good bands by simply sifting through a pile of demo tapes. Attempting to prove his point he picked one tape at random from a pile but was subsequently on the phone to APL within half an hour!
APL appeared with two tracks, The Calling and Universal Message, on the second Ambient Dub compilation in 1993. After playing a gig at the now famed Oscillate night, Stefan started guest DJing and began a good friendship with label mates HIA. Gigs followed at various nights including several at the well known Megadog and Milkveg in Amsterdam. Further releases came on Ambient Dub 3 with Hypnosystem and a 12 release of The Calling along with an HIA remix and a downtempo mix by themselves.
Beyond Records began a partnership with U.S. label Waveform and APL tracks were signed to them, appearing on the One A.D. and subsequent compilations. It was also in 1993 that they signed a publishing deal with Chrysalis Publishing when the band Enigma sampled The Calling for their track Out From The Deep on their multi platinum selling Cross Of Changes Album. The track Pleidean Communication appeared on Trance Global Express 2 in 1994 whilst APL were busy finishing their debut album Synaesthetic which was only finished after Patricks departure later that year.
Synaesthetic designed as a pre/post-clubbing/tripping album was then released by Waveform in the U.S. to much praise, APL even getting a glowing fax from one of Steven Spielbergs workshops!


In 1996 Stefan was joined by best friend DJ Liam Farrell. Together they began to craft APLs second album. A much more uptempo album began taking shape. Titled The System , it conceptualised a full night out, from the journey to the club in Coming Up to the final staring at the ceiling before sleep Eyelid Movies. However, this much awaited album never saw the light of day. Beyond Records folded leaving APL to release the album elsewhere. To APLs delight Deconstruction Records agreed provisionally, to release it once the final mixes had been done. This sadly was never meant to be, as 2 hours later, their EMU sampler came back from being repaired..with all the data blank!
The only mixes that exist of this album are in demo form..some will appear on this site from time to time along with Mark Bunegars arwork for the ill fated release.

Stefan continued to work on more uptempo releases under various psuedonyms. On Global Undergrounds Sasha in San Fransisco compilation as Sneaky Alien Bluestream, as The Soundsystem on Christopher Lawrences Trilogy, Part One: Empire with his club hit Colossus and more recently as Metatron remixing Robbie Williams Sin Sin Sin and Deep Sound remixing Fat Freddys Drop Cays Crays.

Stefan is currently working on a new A Positive Life album!!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ambient
• electronica
• beyond

[maukabud66]

On the hunt to find tracks from the "A.D" Waveform compilations...those were great collections!

[JJR93]

Thank you, Forest, of Waveform Records, for exposing me to this wonderful bit of hard-driving electronica...

[tikiman1323]

One of the best.

[Scubadevils]

@victormusictechnique delayed reply but that info is taken from his own myspace which I linked to above also.

[dorrellwilson]

This is like literally the best piece of music ever.

[hal9thou001]

@isolatedoddball Oh, baby... this is MUCH better..........

[lazyfreedom98]

They are cock blocking my genius.

or it could be that i am just tired

gravitational electromagnetic view of the universe is the new gay rights

Princeton is not just going to roll over and beg, you kind of have to unlock their mind.

Simple folk

German Yellow.

What other body were you considering living, silly puppy.

[Drummline4life]

absolutely amazing.... chills running down my spine

[k9thru12]

Cheers

Suba

Devil

[isolatedoddball]

Awesome! Reminds me of Gus Gus' Purple.