Beatrice Dillon — Workaround

[aencre]

https://beatricedillon.bandcamp.com/

Out in Feb 2020 on PAN.

[Lada Laika]

New Beatrice Dillon is always an instabuy. At least, once I get paid.

[Extralife]

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=706

 

Looks good.

[aencre]

New preview track up :

https://beatricedillon.bandcamp.com/track/square-fifths

Out this friday!

[Nil]

Actually you can stream it all from the Bandcamp feature on its homepage. And it's super promising (I was a bit puzzled /offset by those saxophones on the first extract). Will most likely order it ?

[species8472]

off topic. beatrice dillon looks like conan obrien.

[markedone]

very nice, workaround 2 has a funk/swagger that reminds me of snd or aoki takamasa, but with wider palette.  and from what i skimmed in the bandcamp article (@below), an interesting process.  need to read the full thing later when i have more time

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/on-workaround-beatrice-dillons-imaginary-club-music-gets-fully-realized

[sun drugs]

Yeah its great, there is a lot of music that is at the cutting edge in sound and tech that imo often sounds dated in a few years time (some of Powel's work comes to mind, some) cause it relies too heavily on certain production tropes are are very much tied to trends that come and go.  Dillon is an artists who manages to avoid that and she creates incredible music that straddles computer music and club music in a very delicate and clever way.  You can hear the influence of SND/Mark Fell heavily in her digital synth use but the inclusion of acoustic instruments through her discography compliments the cold digital and glitchy sounds beautifully. Have loved the collab work with Rupert Clervaux and was lucky to get copies of the Face A/B and Two Changes 12" + snagged the original tape that still impresses me when I listen back, all of them are keepers and often get ID requests when i play them out.  

The Laurel Halo track is great, her recent work is very similar, its no surprise they are close friends. This reminds me of other artists like Kassem Mosse, Madteo, Burnt Friendman, Dale Cornish and some contemporary computer music artists and labels like Conditional,  Lowtec and some of the Workshop artists, those classic Benjamin Brunn and Move D records, Davy Kehoe, Morgan Buckley and the Wino crew, of course some of the TTT family, Hessle Audio and some of the Timedance producers like Bruce and Batu (who i think is on the record), the Latency label and is well at home on PAN but its probably my favourite thing they have put out club music wise in a long time, found a few other records in this vein like the Objekt record to be a bit of a miss.
Its a solid record, im looking forward to listening through over the next few months, just love her synth work that she has going on.  

Was stoked when it was announced this was coming on PAN and have been enjoying the press run she is doing leading up to this album, hoping for some more interviews going in depth about her production haha.  From what I have read she is moving up in tempo and making some dance floor tracks which is promising, one of these artists who can't get records out quick enough imo. I really enjoy the majority of her output, about as buy on sight as they come for me.

[Nil]

We're blessed with fantastic computer music, and it's rejuvenating both as a listener and as an electronic musician. You've named many incredibly talented musicians, I feel like adding some of my very favorite such as Gabor Lazar, Rian Treanor and William Fields to the list (which could go on and on).

That new Beatrice Dillon's album sounds like a proper grower, I've had the currently available 2 tracks on repeat since I've grabbed a copy.

[sun drugs]

yep for sure, could even add in some Moritz von too.  Its a ripper, got a copy from boomkat on its way in green, not sure if they all are and generally coloured vinyl is a bit lame but this one ill take

[Ivan Ooze]

sounds good! will check it out

[Richie Sombrero]

This is very good.

[aencre]

Took the day off to rinse this out.

[d-a-m-o]

listening right now, I like it a lot, sounds super fresh thanks to the incorporation of live instruments like those tablas on first track. 

[kakapo]

I'm not feeling this, but I'll give it some time.  All electronic music coming out of London right now sounds like its coming from the experimental module at the BRIT school.  

[species8472]

can’t say it was bad. perhaps underwhelming. more listens required. 

[Time Tourist]

Just listened to it today for the first time, really loved it immediately. The rhythms are really nice and sounds are great. Really headphone music in my opinion!