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Label: Flesh – 7626-6
Format: Vinyl, 12″
Land: Germany
Rleased: 18 May 2005
Genre: Electronic
Stil: Techno, Wet&Hard
Corvin Dalek – Young People
Young People was shaped by my first tour of Colombia in 2001. The trip marked the beginning of a connection with a region where electronic music was just beginning to emerge in public space. The invitation came from Fabio Acosta, then A&R at EMI Colombia, who had licensed Pounds & Pénz for the Afterparty compilation series. That release opened the door to a wider audience and to the journey that followed.
During the tour, I carried a Sony Mini-DV camera, documenting the streets, the coastal soundscape, and spontaneous conversations. One recording became central: an interview with Colombian DJ and artist Julio Montes. Although brief and marked by a language barrier, the exchange captured something essential- a voice speaking for a new generation inside a changing cultural climate. Colombia at that time was in transition. Cities like Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Cartagena were beginning to host electronic events. The energy was direct, optimistic, and rooted in local identity. The contrast between past and present was audible everywhere.
Back in Berlin, I began developing the track together with Jan Kessler. Jan contributed the core rhythm structure, which we layered with Latino elements and sound fragments from the Mini-DV tapes. Insects, ambient street noise. We worked in Logic 5 on a hybrid setup: G4 Mac and Pentium-4 PC, networked and synchronised. The voice of Julio Montes became the track’s axis. The result was Young People: a percussion-driven track with the legendary vocal.
Young People became central to my sets – consistent in response, difficult to omit. Its lyrical directness made it incompatible with mainstream radio, but effective in underground contexts. In Colombia – and probably everywhere else -, the track became my signature.
