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    What Happened To Underworld?

    in Music Discussion

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    54 minutes ago, donquixote said:

    They were great live, surprisingly so, I'm not a massive fan but they rocked a crowd in the 90s at least.

     

    I was expecting more Door Doot love tho.

    Just had a Freur youtube session, havn't listened to that stuff for years.

    Doot Doot is indeed still great.  That "Riders in the night" pop video is pretty corny haha... Karl's hair is perfect for early 80s London

    What Happened To Underworld?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Ibiza 2000

    Gatecrasher NEC 2003

    Brixton Academy 2008

    Glade Festival 2012

    Roundhouse 2016

    Yeah seen them a few times! Wish I had seen them prior to 2000 but hey hi, being 18 years old in Ibiza was pretty special. Best gig was easily Brixton 2008, I remember it so clearly. Epic.

     

    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    23 hours ago, Candiru said:

    They're underreporting deaths in China. Wait for it. 

     

    I hope not. Although building a 1000 bed hospital in 10 days is a bit worrying.  Hope the guys/gals driving the diggers get good payout

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    What Happened To Underworld?

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    Beautiful Burnout is a great track.  How can it be a parody of an underworld lyric when it is one? 

    2 months off, jumbo, downpipe, ring road, all great.  I thought Barking was a great album, given it was all collaborations. Scribble is a great live track too.

    Karls stream of consciousness poetry lyrics still maintain the magic for me. I need to spend more time with Drift but i would suggest being free from the constraints of writing an album in a studio has done wonders for their creative juices.

     

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    My experiments will go here

    in Your Latest Creations

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    4 hours ago, 714681746476436 said:

    @Soloman Tump I really, genuinely enjoyed these. Dirty, gritty sounds. Lots of human elements which make it really interesting to listen to. It's a very imposing sound, unsettling at times. Digging these so much - 'Tadpole' being my favourite. Hoping you do some more soon.

    I wasn't a big fan of the jam to be honest - I've yet to hear any mod synth jam that I can stomach. I don't think it does justice to your other tracks. The rest of it though, class!

    Hey, cheers for this. Kind words! The jam was just that, fun to just mess around and see what sounds come out. 

    Working on more actual tracks in the vein of Tadpole and Swamp, with the aim of releasing as an EP

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Soloman Tump

    Pladask Eletrisk announcing their 2020 range of pedals....

    (sorry can't imbed Instagram pics)

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B7l9UWunT3j/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    Draume looks amazing, its a digital reverb engine.  The manual is on the website now.

    And I want to know what the Bakfram does, looks like an octave drop / looper. 

    Lush all around.

    The fabrikat is the most playful and versatile pedal that I own, worth every penny.

    The Fear Ratio - They Can't Be Saved [SKAM March 2020]

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    The duo, who are long-term collaborators have created their own signature style with abstract synths, heavy basslines and experimental soundscapes that fit somewhere in between IDM, electronica and ambient.

    Their acclaimed debut album ‘Lightbox’ was initially released in 2011 on Ruskin’s Blueprint Records, featuring remixes from Warp aficionados Plaid and Deadhand. Soon after they formed a long-lasting relationship with cult Manchester based label Skam, with the follow-up album in 2015 ‘Refuge of a twisted soul’.

    2018 saw a four track ‘Live EP’ release made up of exclusive versions of their Autechre supporting slot at the Great Northern Warehouse in Manchester.

    The Fear Ratio’s third album ‘They Can’t Be Saved’ will be released on Skam on 13th March 2020.

     

    From the ever-important LittleBig e-mail which usually gives some juicy upfront info.

    Very excited to see where the project goes next.  SKAM put some new artwork up on their Instagram page over the weekend so I guess it is in relation to this.

     

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    Rob Clouth - Zero Point (Mesh)

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    On Zero Point, a new LP for Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint, Rob Clouth delves deep into themes of chance, chaos, coincidence and the ephemeral, using the zero-point energy from quantum mechanics as a unifying concept. Exploiting his skills as a software developer, Clouth has created a suite of tools that tap into data from the ANU Quantum Random Number Server (QRNS), an online service that publishes real-time measurements from the zero-point energy field. Zero Point is a love letter to noise, written with data sampled from the core of the universe.

    In quantum systems the energy of any point in space is always fluctuating, so even in a perfect vacuum the lowest possible energy can never be zero. This vanishingly small, perfectly random energy source is called the zero-point energy, and it exists in every part of the known universe.

    At the big bang, the universe was small enough to have been affected by fluctuations in the zero-point energy field. Some theorists think that matter itself may have emerged from this chaotic soup, like the black and white pixels of TV static aligning by chance to form a momentary image. If this is true, then all of existence could just be a great coincidence – a fleeting alignment of shifting probabilities that will eventually dissolve back into the static of the zero-point energy.

    Harnessing data from the QRNS, Clouth creates intricate, unpredictable compositions, washed in pulsing waves of quantum noise. To him, ‘pure noise is like a block of marble. It contains all possible sounds, you just need to figure out which parts to carve away'. The human brain is wired to find patterns and will often perceive order when there is none, a phenomenon called pareidolia. Clouth exploits this to reveal delicate forms in the random data.

    Like an image appearing in the static of a detuned TV, lilting chords seem to emerge from a dense cloud of noise on opening track ‘Dirac Sea Birth’. The title track and closer ‘Zero Point’ features a long, slow fade back into ambience. Between these two points Clouth touches on lurching, polyrhythmic beat science; sparse, hypnotic downtempo pieces; and crunching, mechanical dancefloor material. Stylistically, Zero Point explores the intersection between contemporary IDM, neo-classical and electronic dance music.

    Retreating from his home of Barcelona to a rustic farmhouse in Aineto, a remote town in northern Spain, Clouth created most of Zero Point in conditions of isolation and near complete silence. ‘The silence meant that I could hear every little detail in the music, and so I played a lot with dynamics, filling each moment with barely perceptible sounds. It's the subtlest music I've ever written.’

    Clouth’s creativity is enhanced by his own expertise in software development. On ‘A Shiver Sequence’ you can hear the QRNS data used to stochastically trigger vocal snippets, drums and other layers, resulting in 100 unique versions of the track that will be available upon release. A piece of self-made software called the ‘Reconstructor’ chops sampled sounds into tiny pieces and rearranges them to replicate a target sound. This allowed Clouth to use and manipulate his own beatboxing, a technique used on ‘Into’ and ‘The Vacuum State’.

    At the piano, from which he had a view of the snow-capped Pyrenees, Clouth tempers the chaotic abstraction of random noise with subtle, hypnotic harmonic progressions. At once abstract and tender, Zero Point draws on a neo-classical influence to strike an improbable balance between conceptual rigor and catharsis.

    Combining warmth with chaos, Clouth brings human emotion into contact with the universe in all its beautiful ephemerality.

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    obclouth.bandcamp.com/album/zero-point

     

    Released 12th March 2020


    EXCITED.  I was a big fan of his Vaetxh output from last decade, very glitchy idm beats.  Looking forward to this.  The lead single The Vacuum State is available now:-

     

    https://robclouth.bandcamp.com/album/the-vacuum-state

     

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    Be Up A Hello [2020]

    in Squarepusher

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    Actually cannot remember the last time I illegally downloaded something. Not taking the high moral ground here, I just can't remember when I last did it.  Years and years ago perhaps.  It's out in 2 weeks properly and there's loads of music I have actually already purchased that deserves a bit more of my attention until then.

     

     

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    Be Up A Hello [2020]

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    His 909 is on every track on the record, except those without drums, but he still tried to squeeze out novel sounds: getting a liquid effect by using a midi process that sent dense streams of information to the instrument, closely packed triggers varying in velocity and frequency. “You get these big oceans of sound that pulsate. There are moments when the 909 becomes more like a synth.”

     

    SNARELUSH

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