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Alland Byallo's "One Of The Ones" On New Poker Flat Compilation (GUNSLINGERS AND GREENHORNS, POKER FLAT VOLUME 9)
Straight To The Point with Alland Byallo
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Alland Byallo's First Release On His Label Bad Animal "Thirsty Eyes" Reviewed By KZSU Zookeeper Online
Thirsty Eyes reviewed on klubbers.com
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Bad Animal News on Resident Advisor
The label is only the latest endeavor from the American DJ and producer. For the better part of the last decade, Byallo has had his hand in a number of projects aside from his own productions, most notably [Kontrol], a party he co-founded six years ago that became one of the finest house and techno nights in his home city of San Francisco (hear more about that in RA's recent Exchange with Byallo and one of the party's other core members, Sammy D). Since then he's churned out a series of 12-inches, an album called Brick By Brick, and moved to Berlin, all while staying busy as a graphic designer on the side.
Bad Animal is his first foray into the world of label management. It will be a platform primarily for his own productions and those by close friends, with profits going to the World Wildlife Fund. The first release is Thirsty Eyes, an EP with two of Byallo's original tracks plus remixes by dOP and the German producer Adam Port. It's available next month digitally and on vinyl.
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Dubbed an “elegant dark lord of the dance floor” by XLR8R Magazine, Alland Byallo is a DJ, producer, label owner, graphic designer and event organizer – a tour de force within the club and underground music scenes.
Born in Los Angeles, Alland began his musical journey at a young age. Trying his hand at piano and trumpet as a young boy and influenced by the experimental electronic sounds of the early 90s, Alland grew captivated with the world of dance music, began experimenting with basic production and eventually bought his first pair of turntables. While working at WAX Records, LA’s now defunct authority on dance music, Alland’s tastes matured, and a move to San Francisco in 2003 saw Alland’s star rise quickly; while in SF, Alland honed his talents DJ-ing at respected venues stateside and overseas, started his own an underground dance music label named Nightlight Music and launched one of California’s most inspired techno-focused nightclub events, the monthly [KONTROL].
Gaining global attention producing gems for definitive record labels like Poker Flat, Liebe*Detail, Dirt Crew and Missive, by the time Alland garnered four stars from influential web-based dance music magazine Resident Advisor for his original full-length album release, Brick By Brick (2009), Alland’s devotion to the techno-house sound was plain to see and his fate as one of dance music’s major talents was reasonably sealed.
At the same time, Alland’s ongoing DJ residency at San Francisco’s legendary [KONTROL] party found him sharing the stage with a roster of talent that reads like a who’s who in underground house and techno, leading to a solid demand for Alland at dance music gatherings around the globe – often as a headliner at renowned events and venues like Berlin’s Panoramabar, Waterate, Cookies and Tresor, Munich’s Harry Klein, Brazil’s D-Edge, Tokyo’s La Fabrique, and Detroit’s annual DEMF Movement Festival among many others.
More recently, a move to Berlin has Alland expanding his horizons and focusing not only on DJing and producing but he has since gained a residency at the city’s most well known underground music radio station, TwenFM. His bi-weekly show, The Secret Button, hosts such guests as Sammy Dee, Jin Choi, Trickski, Chopstick, Jeremy P. Caulfield, Pan-Pot and many more. Endlessly inspired by his new home, Byallo continues to work hard and forge ahead with steady musical output, adding a greater organic touch to his productions – more vocals, more experimentation, and dare it be said, a little more techno soul.