The LIQUID STRANGER Origin Story - Rise of the Underdog
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2024
- Dive deep into the enigmatic world of Liquid Stranger with this groundbreaking documentary, "The Liquid Stranger Origin Story - Rise of the Underdog." Unravel the fascinating journey of Martin Stääf, the visionary artist behind the renowned project, as we explore the evolution of Liquid Stranger and the rise of Wakaan.
From humble beginnings to international acclaim, follow Martin's path from his early days in Sweden to his emergence as a pioneering figure in the electronic music scene. Through exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and archival material, we uncover the intricacies of his creative process and the philosophy driving his groundbreaking sound.
Discover the origins of Wakaan, the influential record label founded by Liquid Stranger, and its role in shaping the landscape of bass music. Explore the collaborations, innovations, and sonic experiments that have defined Liquid Stranger's career and cemented his place as a trailblazer in the industry.
Join us on a journey through the highs and lows, triumphs and challenges of Martin Stääf's extraordinary life and career. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the world of Liquid Stranger, this documentary offers an unparalleled glimpse into the heart and soul of one of electronic music's most elusive and captivating figures.
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Video Credits: Wakaan, WAKAAN TV, Famingos Productions, ELINEVIDS, illGatesmusic, TVBOO, Grace on Tour, ivan valadares, WeAreRampageEvents, Aerial Perceptions, LLC, TheFestivalExperience 
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When someone explained his name to me i was blown away:
Whats the opposite of a liquid stranger?
A solid friend.
That just blew my mind 🤯 I had assumed the liquid part was referencing liquid dance that was popular in the rave scene back in the day, and the stranger part was because he originally intended to be anonymous, but your explanation makes more sense
Gaseous acquaintance.
Plasma foe.
@@ieatants888 hehe
@@ieatants888 Plasma Foe is actually a pretty dope moniker
He was so underrated for so long. It's sick to see him be recognized as one of the goats. Well deserved. Great video, man!
He’s still extremely underrated
been following him since ~2010 when him excision and downlink were putting stuff out on Rottun Records. Martin is a goat and I'm glad he's gotten to a place he deserves to be, can't wait for wakaan fest round 4 this fall! 😁
@@daver00lzd00d I can’t wait either! Bought my tickets last week, super excited.
Agreed! I was shocked that last year was his first time playing red rocks.
@@daver00lzd00d I’ll be there as well. Can’t wait!
My first Liquid Stranger experience was at a Shambhala in the Village stage.
My day started by getting stung in the leg by a ground wasp earlier in the morning. Med tent told me to prop it and stay off my leg. So I went and chilled in a chair at my favorite stage.
after a very late night and I'm about to hobbel off to bed Liquid comes on for a massive long sun rise set. His sound had me hooked from the first beat. I couldn't help but get up and wiggle and get weird. Best Shambhala memory ever!!!
Shambhala and liquid stranger is a perfect duo🙌 saw him last year at the pagoda and i think about it all the time!
Of the trees into liquid stranger into zeds dead last year was one of the best nights of my life
@@Deadmau5ismyhero FOR REAL! All 3 of those sets were the best sets i had seen from those artist. Especially the liquid stranger set
@@Deadmau5ismyhero Big up Of the Trees, our good ol' local Colorado boy. His shows are killer. Liquid Stranger is one of my favorites as well.
I went to Wakaan 2023
And that festival definitely changed my view on many things including experimental bass and dubstep
It brought back my love of Dub
wakaan fest has been incredible every year that it's been held. can't wait for round 4 on the mountain this fall! 👐
like many other people in the comments are saying, you should def have a lot more recognition. love to see you diving into bass & modern edm. keep this shit up bro!
I appreciate it!
This was great!
Yoooo you just made my day! Cool to see you here
I love Liquid Stranger
The years in the thumbnail near gave me a heart attack lol
Yeah I didn't think about that when I made it lol, I just meant the video covers his whole life
Posted this in his fb group a lot of peeps will appreciate this
Sweet, thank you for doing that!
You are probably the reason I am here watching then haha! Thank you, if so! #wakaanfam
Thanks for sharing! 🐐
I can't believe as such a big fan I never listened to those first two albums. Holy crap they might be his best. So ahead of its time in 2007-2009
Martin is a living legend! im so grateful to be alive while he’s still playing
Hell ya! I'm so stoked to be seeing him play next month for the first time
Definitely top 3 of my favorite producers of all time. It broke my heart last yr at Shambhala, about 50 minutes into his set at the Pagoda, the acid turned on me 😭
But I will be redeemed!!!! He's playing again this yr. I've been following him since around 2010 I believe, once X signed him to Rottun. Listened to his Mechanoid meltdown and Bionic beatdown mix literally for a yr straight. Then he did his ambient stuff for a while which kinda threw me off but then I heard The Gorgon and Wings Of Waves remix and we'll, he never fails to deliver.
Thank you for doing a mini doc on him 🙏
The more i get to know about this guy the greater is my motivation to keep going and produce more and more❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
*Beautiful video. I'm a big Liquid Stranger fan. I was exposed to their work before Wakaan and was pleasantly surprised to learn about 'Sskwan'. Thank you for this upload.*
I’m glad I got to see him at EDCO last year right before Excision.
Fuck yeah homie. EDCO was 🔥
Bro you are killing it with these videos! Im stoked that i found your channel!!
I love these documentaries!! You have been crushing - keep it up man!
Thank you, glad you like them!
Interesting video! Especially to show other producers that it doenst have to "happen" when you are like 21, just keep going and thing will happen
I am loving this series... I'm a huge fan of Liquid Stranger, Rezz, and Subtronics, so you've got me hooked on your channel already.
Would love to see some future episodes on ATLiens, Zomboy, Dirt Monkey, and ill.Gates, (my mentor who also appears in the above video)..
very well made! Thank you for this :)
Awesome channel + detailed interview - I'll be back to learn more!
Great vid, thank you for spending the time researching I really enjoyed
Amazing video
Looking forward to this
Martin is the man to do it all! first artist to really get me into the end scene. 🕺🏽 keep up the killer work. i’ve been waiting for this one!
Great documentary thoroughly enjoyed watching this, there is not enough content on these amazing producers. Much love from Texas. You can tell some work was put into this🔥
wow this is amazing!!! Martin has been one of my biggest inspirations since I started making music after discovering psychedelic bass music when I had only heard dubstep and house before, it is especially inspiring to know he had been at it for so long before the trees of his labours beared any fruits. This resonates as someone who has been producing for (only) five years going on six but in todays day and age and my kinda uh generation I guess because it has felt a bit discouraging at times as time goes on and I inevitably observed so many people kinda my age and younger proceed to blow up in what I (think) was a shorter frame of time. (not to make this about me but) Anyways thanks for making these videos man, very interesting watch!!
great video shedding light on someone who makes music from an authentic place and lives their life accordingly
As far as that dirty mechanical sounding dubstep from the early 2010s goes... NOBODY could touch him imo,(Excision, Space Laces, Downlink, Datsik ect.) His sound always hit different to me, it was so mechanical yet so human and organic sounding somehow. His stuff on Rottun will always be my favorite dubstep hands down.
One more, this one time at echo stage we got an entire spaghetti time set and it was one of the best sets I will ever see. This man is one of the best to ever do and I have the upmost respect for him as a person. Thanks for getting this information out there. ❤
Thanks for the video! Liquid Stanger is the goat been my favorite artist for years 💙 #wakaanfam
I remember that flyer it happened right before he moved if I remember right. Then I remember hearin the rumblings about it actually happening it was such a wonderful festival year 1
Thank you for doing the research and putting these videos together. I cant imagine the amount of time these take. I love the structure, story telling and the topic choices. Finding these artists over the years have really made me who i am today and learning more about them makes me appreciate them more. As well as making them seem like people and making your dreams come true really is an option. Thank you
Thank you so much!
Huge inspiration for me had a gnarly trip with my friends listened to the entire infinity mix and bought ableton the next day🔥 talk about pushing boundaries he created an entire culture. Thank you for this video dude very sick and much appreciated🦑🔊🫶🏽
been following him since his days putting stuff out on excision's rottun records. liquid is the king of experimental bass and wakaan will forever be top tier bass music releases. cant wait for wakaanfest in the fall, round 4 lets gooo
Liquid stranger is a legend. Humble with humility
This is really interesting stuff as an aspiring professional EDM artist myself. I just stumbled across your channel for the first time and I see that you cover the history of a lot of artists, which I love! Super cool brother, thank you for doing this. I'll be tuning in.
Glad you found the channel!
The Bass Missionary!!!!!
Would love to see a deep dive on Amon tobin and his multiple alias. Such a deep rabbit hole and influential artist! Love your vids
I been to Wakaan 2022 It wAS AMAZING!!!
Martin is the real GOAT. Stellar human being and artist✨🫶🏼
This was so informative and very awesomely done. Would love to see one on G-JONES!
Check out Cult Figure Club, he has a G Jones video!
Dude, absolutely AWESOME job on the video. I was at Imagine 2016 when I was in the Army, I saw that same Liquid set! 17:15
Oh nice! That was my first festival, I had a blast
I've been a big fan for years and had no idea Wakaan was based in OKC
So sick ! Ty for this !
incredibly underrated vids ! lowkey u the only one i got notifications on for
I'm flattered 🥹
Free form bass missionary🧙♂️
🙏⛪️🔊
liquid stranger is one of my biggest inspirations, WAKAAN and sskwan makes me feel so many different emotions. My favorite track is Dissolve it actually makes me feel a burst of things I've never felt, and makes me cry in happiness. I now am a producer and create music everyday because of what ive learned from Martin. Hectopascal is a beautiful craft as well. if you haven't listened to any hectopascal try it out! Its very different and floaty
Would love to see a tipper one gonna catch up on the other artists!
I still remember him opening for Excision on his X Tour in Atlanta. The concerts power went out from a huge storm and I was messaging Martin on Facebook and dude literally came out in the torrential downpour to take a pic with me.
It sounds like he had very supportive parents that’s awesome
Need Svdden death next
he was my first show in 2017 @ 930 club and that’s how I got into the scene haha
Liquid is the dj I've seen the most at 15 times
Same but I'm only at 11
He is so smart and his manager is so dense is unbelievable lol, cheers to Liquid
What a bad-ass human.
Been listening to him since Private Riot. His first 6 albums are in my opinion the best especially The Arcane Terrain. But I am just a little bit younger than he is that's why I like his more Reegee/ Dubstep/ albums.
What is the ID playing in the background at 11:00??
🐐
Do one on Tipper
He is the goat!
I’m still learning Ableton.
It’s spaghetti time❤
🍝🍝🍝
This is so dope lol
track name at 10:30?
Bro with the thumbnail photo.. I thought liquid stranger died.
Yeah I didn't think about it being perceived that way when I made it 😆
Can you do LSDream as well
Already have one for him!
what songs playing at 11:15??
It's a splice demo loop
What song is at 10:40?
It's a demo loop from splice
25:41
ID for song at 10:31 please
It's just a demo loop from splice
skipping over teaming up with spade jesus ?
Space jesus was the f in man in 2017
I swear, I was that kid that made the original fake Wakaan poster
Yooo you're a legend now! I was trying to track it down for the video but couldn't find it anywhere
you should do zedd or subtronics next
I'm down to do Subtronics next! I've got 2 more videos I need to finish before then, but I can do one pretty soon. And I'll definitely get around to Zedd at some point!
kinda implying that wakaan was the first festival at mulberry mtn ?
I just now googled it and I didn't realize Backwoods had moved to Mulberry Mountain! Still not many edm festivals happening in that area of the country though
@@audioeatswakarusa was there well before either
hm
BULLY!
Half decade. Try 14 years!
He's been making great music for a really long time, I just meant he's gotten a lot more "mainstream" success the last 5-7 years
He looks too young to be born in the 70s.
Yeah he looks insanely young for his age, it's all that tantric yoga
Ayyyy!! I spotted the venue I work at and have been raving at for years in the beginning of the video (9PM Music Venue). FUN FACT: someone snuck into one of Liquid Stranger’s first shows in Houston which was at our venue through the roof and fell into one of the restrooms, due to the show being sold out. He of course was caught, but my boss at the time was like, “If he really wants to be here this bad, he can stay!” lol 😂.
He just came and played at our venue recently and sold out again. He always throws down and represents! It’s so cool to see through this video how long he’s been producing and apart of rave/electronic music culture! 11 years old at an acid house rave in 1989 had to have been bad ass!!
That's so wild 😂 At least your boss was cool about it
@@audioeats he’s one cool mf. When things were more underground, he’d sell out his own parties and raves and then we’d do an event for the next day or next two days with headlining acts every weekend at one point. So each day, we’d have like 1500 people (felt like more at times and probably was) a night raving (sold out), or at least 600-900 minimum in the room at any given moment. Those days were so much fun man. And the best part was, for his underground parties, they’d all be like 5 room parties with different stages in every room for different genres, and then he’d use the mainstage of course for the best of the best djs of the night. It was the closest thing to a 90s rave anyone had been to in a long time, old heads would say a lot. This all took place 2017-2020 I’d say. Maybe extend the dates into 2021 until the buzz started wearing down a little, and extend the years back even more for the origin story behind my boss throwing parties and making a name for himself hahahaha. Good times and I wouldn’t exchange those memories made for a single thing.
He also at one point had this raver meetup called “ShareSpace” he’d throw every Monday at this indoor/outdoor bar with a stage outside that had a sandbar. There’d be 500+ ravers in attendance every MONDAY NIGHT!!! Best part about that event was it was free, and he would host an open decks stage in the indoor section of the bar to allow new talent to emerge. Producers would also meet in the back and produce/learn with/from one another. We had kandi stations/tables to make kandi, etc… Damn I miss it…
Shoutout to that 0:15 clip from @famingosproductions love those guys in the Houston scene! 🦩
Absolutely loved your video also, I can tell you really dove in. Thank you for the vid dude keep it up