I-F Explained

I-F
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Alias:Interr-Ference
Origin:The Hague, Netherlands
Genre:Electronic, electro, electroclash, pop, Italo disco, chiptune
Years Active:1996-present
Label:Disko B
EFA
Viewlexx

I-f (also Interr-Ference) is the stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs, a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague. He is a former member of the Dutch techno-pioneers Unit Moebius.

Overview

In 1997 he produced the track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass",[1] which became a huge underground dance hit and is often cited as an early example of electroclash. It introduced "old-fashioned verse-chorus dynamics to burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks" and is the "record widely credited with catalysing" the electroclash movement.

The album Fucking Consumer was released in 1998 on the Disko B label, followed by The Man From Pack the next year. In 1999 he also made the mixed album Mixed Up In the Hague Vol. 1,[2] [3] which has been cited by many, including Morgan Geist, as being the catalyst that brought renewed interest in Italo disco.[4]

I-f was featured on the seminal 2002 Ghostly International compilation Disco Nouveau. He has also recorded as The Parallax Corporation with Intergalactic Gary. I-f currently runs a record label called Viewlexx.[5] He also ran the internet radio station Cybernetic Broadcasting System (CBS).[6] It was closed down in 2008 but is now one of four channels on Intergalactic FM, which is also operated by I-f.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: I-f – Fucking Consumer (Promo) . . Zinc Media, Inc. 29 December 2020.
  2. Web site: Let Me Be Your Radio: The Bizarro Universe of Italo Disco. Pitchfork. Feb 10, 2021.
  3. Web site: Dit zijn de 50 meest invloedrijke Nederlandse dj's. 3voor12. Mar 2, 2021.
  4. Juzwiak, Richard (November 22, 2004). Unclassics: An Interview With Morgan Geist Stylus Magazine
  5. Sicko, Dan (1999). Techno rebels: the renegades of electronic funk. Billboard Books,
  6. Web site: Portrait of a live man: I-f . Resident Adviser . 14 August 2008.
  7. Web site: I-f – Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass. Discogs. 25 July 2012.