Siddhu and Diana Ayanna are no strangers to the music industry. Their love of music, textural rhythms, fashion, glamour, mysticism, and all things artistic, led them to merge forces and create the Kama Sutra Lovers as an avatar for their creative energies.
This hot new duo is exploring new dimensions of DJ'ing and live electronic music on stage using drum machines, synths, live vocals, and laptops running Ableton Live.
With these elements, the Kama Sutra Lovers not only reference the history of modern electronic music performance and DJ culture, but move into it's next phase: the exciting combination of live performance using drum machines, synths, and vocals, with on the fly remixing and deconstruction of tracks on a granular level with micro loops.
Their innovative and unique show has been recieved enthusiastically by audiences at the most prestigious and musically orientated venues and parties in Paris including the famous “Respect is Burning” parties and “Electrochic” held at “Le Showcase”.
Their profile on the internet is growing rapidly: in just 12 weeks (May - July) they have had over 35,000 song plays on MySpace alone, and the first edition of their “Live Machine Mix” podcast series is seeing tremendous success with over 1,300 logged downloads with 800 through iTunes.
Additionally, “Analogue Processes” a sample pack produced by the Kama Sutra Lovers is being included in the next boxed version of Ableton Live LE 8.
Poised to be a major breakout act, The Kama Sutra Lovers will be starting a residency in January at one of Paris’ top venues and are currently in studio finishing several EPs to be released in 2010.
The Kama Sutra Lovers show is Diana and Siddhu creating and manipulating audio using:
- 2 Macbook Pros running Ableton Live
- Elektron Monomachine (synthesizer)
- Elektron Machinedrum (drum machine)
- Neumann KMS 105 microphone
- 2 Metric Halo 2882 sound cards
- Top secret outboard gear
- 2 Vestax VCM-600 Midi Controllers
Their unique signal processing gives their beats a powerful punch and adds a silky, sexy shimmer to their signature brand of DirtyHorny-TechHouse-MinimalFunk!
