Biography
British electronic music producer Ed Davenport employs several aliases, among them Inland, which functions as his dedicated vehicle for deep and expressive techno. The project’s meticulously layered and rhythm-driven approach finds its fullest expression across extended formats, as demonstrated by the 2018 debut full-length An Invitation to Disappear.
Growing up during the 1990s, Davenport developed an early fascination with the experimental electronic productions—such as those from Underworld and Altern8—that regularly reached the U.K. pop charts. Frequent visits to London’s Fabric club in the early 2000s expanded his musical perspective, prompting him to begin creating his own material: an energetic, fragmented, tuneful fusion of house, techno, and dub. He issued his initial tracks under his given name in 2006, starting with the single “Diminuendo” on Gumption. A consistent sequence of subsequent releases appeared on labels including Liebe*Detail, District of Corruption, and Figure SPC. His first album under his own name, Counterchange, emerged in 2012 as one of the final offerings from the respected British house imprint NRK prior to its closure. In the same year he established his own imprint, also named Counterchange. Like numerous fellow British producers, he relocated to Berlin during the first half of the 2010s.
Davenport introduced the Inland alias in 2013 via “EP X” on Vidab, attracting further attention with its profound, groove-oriented, densely atmospheric techno. The following year he assisted Function in reactivating the Infrastructure New York label after a nine-year hiatus; the two artists jointly released the “Odeon” EP, while Inland also contributed to the label’s widely praised Facticity compilation. Additional output followed on Nonplus, Black Crow, and Counterchange before the debut Inland album, An Invitation to Disappear, arrived in 2018 on A-Ton, a sub-label of Ostgut Ton. Created in partnership with visual artist Julian Charrière, the recording served as the soundtrack for a video installation addressing climate change.
Growing up during the 1990s, Davenport developed an early fascination with the experimental electronic productions—such as those from Underworld and Altern8—that regularly reached the U.K. pop charts. Frequent visits to London’s Fabric club in the early 2000s expanded his musical perspective, prompting him to begin creating his own material: an energetic, fragmented, tuneful fusion of house, techno, and dub. He issued his initial tracks under his given name in 2006, starting with the single “Diminuendo” on Gumption. A consistent sequence of subsequent releases appeared on labels including Liebe*Detail, District of Corruption, and Figure SPC. His first album under his own name, Counterchange, emerged in 2012 as one of the final offerings from the respected British house imprint NRK prior to its closure. In the same year he established his own imprint, also named Counterchange. Like numerous fellow British producers, he relocated to Berlin during the first half of the 2010s.
Davenport introduced the Inland alias in 2013 via “EP X” on Vidab, attracting further attention with its profound, groove-oriented, densely atmospheric techno. The following year he assisted Function in reactivating the Infrastructure New York label after a nine-year hiatus; the two artists jointly released the “Odeon” EP, while Inland also contributed to the label’s widely praised Facticity compilation. Additional output followed on Nonplus, Black Crow, and Counterchange before the debut Inland album, An Invitation to Disappear, arrived in 2018 on A-Ton, a sub-label of Ostgut Ton. Created in partnership with visual artist Julian Charrière, the recording served as the soundtrack for a video installation addressing climate change.
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