Guy Gerber

Tel Aviv-based dance music producer Guy Gerber blends elements of progressive house/trance, deep house, and techno into a signature sound. He first gained attention as an emerging talent in 2004 when Bedrock Records issued “Stoppage Time,” a release that quickly led to a prominent contract with Cocoon Recordings. Raised in Israel, Gerber spent his early years focused on soccer, yet by his mid-teens he had shifted his attention to music, developing a strong interest in seminal English-language alternative rock acts of the 1980s such as Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, the Cure, and Joy Division, which prompted him to begin playing guitar. His listening habits soon broadened to include the Beach Boys and the Beatles, Kraftwerk and Chic, Curtis Mayfield and Jimi Hendrix, as well as Iggy Pop and the Velvet Underground. Electronic dance music also captured his interest, with Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, and Carl Craig serving as major influences. He entered production work in 2002 via releases on the British imprints Alternative Route and Whoop!. Within two years he moved to Bedrock, the influential progressive house/trance label co-founded by John Digweed. Bedrock put out “Stoppage Time” in 2004; over the following two years the track established itself as an anthem, particularly within Ibiza circles, prompting the label to authorize a remix EP that appeared in 2005 and featured reworkings by Max Graham and Tom Mangan. Gerber subsequently joined Cocoon, the techno-trance imprint launched by Sven Väth and closely connected to the Ibiza scene. The label issued the 12-inch singles “This Is Balagan” and “Sea of Sand” in 2006, followed by the full-length album Late Bloomers in 2007. Gerber also launched his own imprint, Supplement Facts, which debuted that same year with a limited-run promo pressing of “This Is Balagan.”