Jonas Bering

Frenchman Jonas Bering's minimal productions are often dub-influenced, which aligns him with Berlin-based camps like <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Chain+Reaction%22">Chain Reaction</a> and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Basic+Channel%22">Basic Channel</a> more than Cologne's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a>, a label he frequently records for that leans toward icy tech-house more than anything else. However, it's probably Bering's inability to paint himself into a corner with one sound that endears him to the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a> brass. 2000 was a breakout year for the producer. His full-length debut, Bienfait, was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a>; the 12" Emballages was also issued on the Cologne label before the year drew to a close. From the Nape of the Neck followed on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Logarhythm%22">Logarhythm</a>, and Bering performed at Montreal's Mutek Festival that year, featured alongside <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a> cronies <a href="spotify:artist:384lQttmfOe4mD1cyRo0LP">Dettinger</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2j7JwncWKK8w0Lfb2xjKdy">Closer Musik</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2ffVsiEYflmvLXNjPm6g5s">Tobias Thomas</a>. Another 12" for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a>, Marine, was issued in 2002.

Bering's second album, Sketches for the Next Season, arrived on the label in 2003; the album was less dubby and more melodic than his previous releases. Bering's next few singles appeared on other labels such as <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Defrag+Sound+Processing%22">Defrag Sound Processing</a> and Sentrall Records, but the label issued his EPs Behind This Silence and Lost Paradise in 2006. Seattle-based <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kupei+Musika%22">Kupei Musika</a> released Cityscape, Bering's split EP with <a href="spotify:artist:2KXLSIzI7CY7AJg5ARUOSb">Kate Simko</a>, in 2007, and the following year, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a> issued Can't Stop Loving You. The EP's longing, infectious title track featured vocals by Aubelia Petit, and was Bering's most pop-oriented track to date. Greek label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Klik+Records%22">Klik Records</a> rounded up tracks from Bering's singles and EPs on CD compilation Behind the Silence, also issued in 2008. Other than a few remixes and contributions to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a>'s Total compilation series, Bering mostly kept quiet for the next several years until resurfacing in 2014 with the full-length Regain, released by Japanese label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fountain+Music%22">Fountain Music</a>. He made his return to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a> in 2015 with a remix of "The Magical Party," the debut single by <a href="spotify:artist:7i32REOyi8OZRKuTsvYTD1">the Silent Ones</a>. ~ Andy Kellman & Paul Simpson, Rovi