Our show Supersonic explores the challenges of taking electronic music from the studio to the stage. We reveal the ideas, process, and inner workings of innovative artists operating in the space between the technological and the organic. You should click here now to subscribe to THUMP on YouTube.DeWalta's shimmering minimal techno is so goddamn beautiful you might find yourself lying on your roof at dawn with your headphones on, crying softly and not even feeling weird about it. That kind of beautiful. Unsurprisingly, DeWalta is the sensitive young artist type—a modern Raskolnikov for the Panorama Bar crowd. He even based his DJ moniker after his grandfather Walter, whose vinyl collection first sparked DeWalta's love for '40s and '50s bebop. DeWalta's grandfather passed away when he was a kid, but that jazz obsession remained, taking a techno turn when he moved to Berlin at 15. His formative partying years, also known as adolescence, were spent sneaking past bouncers.Eventually, DeWalta released his debut EP, Wander, on Berlin's Haunt, a label known for occupying the intersection between jazz and electronica. Other DJs compared to his sound to "Jaco Pastorius on acid," and we kind of agree… so we caught up with the soulful kid after his performance at Mutek to find out how he does it.
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