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One tale of hustling |
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During the torrent of the live streams invading your living room, I feel that we need something different… something very intimate, delicate, and serene… |
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“… too much gear usually leads to boring ideas, while many good ideas reduce the amount of equipment…” |
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… I like to be submerged in sounds and the inspiration comes from that… |
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RECITAL (2) |
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… hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion… |
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“… capturing the experiences the world can produce in our minds when we are open, receptive and boundary-less…” |
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“… turn down the light, put on these albums, and travel to a place within yourself you did not know existed…” |
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“… a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours…” |
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“… incredibly emotional, while at the same time playful, and most importantly intelligent flavour of electronic music…” |
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“The Système consists of a series of 4 scales creating seven four-note chords…” |
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“… an acute meditation on wave fluctuations, restraint on dynamics and textural space…” |
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“… a tranquil dance between the sound and image…” |
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“…the freedom of expression and thought within the modular system is very appealing, where it’s very much about the moment, the response in real-time…” |
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“… a suite of celestial, transcendent songs for synthesizer… “ |
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“… like the instrument that inspired it […] the music is elegant and expressive, the score to a movie inside your head…” |
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“… I just wanted to come back to hear my own heartbeat. Calm. Quiet… |
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… best understood as a crooked ballad… |
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“… a serene meditation on sound and space, capturing the quiet noises of the piano, bathing in the warm tones from the analogue machines…” |
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“… brooding over the boundaries set forth by the conditioned mind, and reminding us not to heed them…” |
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… focusing on the personal in order to tell a wider human story… |
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… prone to audio hallucinations whilst writing the album, Alan Myson aimed to capture these distortions in his perception of pitch and time… |
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“… a delicate alternate version, with gentle felted piano, deep ba*** rumble and romantic violin…” |
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“… contemporary humanity has lost the ability to engage in a productive solitude…” |
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“… on discovery, introspection and self-liberation…” |
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Australia Bushfire Compilation |
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… music made by machines, with machines, for machines… |
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… otherworldly sonicnecromancy, where long-dormant spirits are evoked, summoning an extremely heavy presence… |
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“… the clearer you line out your musical vision in advance, the easier will it be to get to the result…” |
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“I have a fondness for strange old music from the early years of the sh****ac… I just love tossing those old records in a pile on the carpet as I play them… it’s a deliciously irresponsible feeling!” |
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“… towering concrete structures push against the skyline and low-frequency pressure seeps from every crack in the granite…” |
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… when there’s a real beating heart behind what’s played with, there’s a form of emotion conveyed and never played the same way twice…” |
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“… I looked at my shelving unit the other day and thought I could hollow out the middle row, be laid to rest in it with the records and they could just nail wood over the top and I could go into the ground with it all…” |
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“Todd Chappell dives further into cinematic orchestration with a beautifully arranged modern-cla***ical composition…” |
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… a mastercla*** in acid breakbeat and leftfield drill’n’ba***… |
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“… a powerful and stunningly executed long-form work that continues to explore ideas of displaced sound…” |
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… and darkness came |
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… an arresting, fluorescing album that blends full-frequency dronescaping with a slow-burning ambient minimalism… |
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“… emanating sounds which let dissolve all conceivable questions of a man about life and death…” |
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“… an analogy of a hallucination in which real and imaginary space are intertwined into a sonic, visceral trip…” |