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“in a very real way, mnml is all about dancing about architecture, or dance music about architecture”

Posted in de-dans on April 30th, 2008 by de-dans | 1 Comments

Dan Deacon, super cafeinizat

Ceva a revoltat in tine entuziasmul de primavara. In loc sa fie calm, melancolic si visator, demn de pastelurile proaspat inflorite, il simti ca o bila de energie in gat. Iti arde esofagul si te face sa tipi. Poate s-a intepenit in tine “anarhia” din jurul summit-ului sau poate te-a starnit Dat Politics, la Rokolectiv, cert este ca americanul Dan Deacon, artisul rotund, cu rame rosii, lipite cu scotch, ti-a asediat in viteaza creierul, precum un soldat electronic, cu mii de beat-uri impulsive. Vrei sa dansezi, sa te zbati si sa faci zgomot.

In muzica lui, totul pare absurd, mult prea rapid ca sa fie real, mult prea constant in viteza ca sa nu existe. O frenezie de loop-uri construieste ritmul intr-o impetuozitate nervoasa de sunete abstracte care te transforma in dans spasmodic. Este o hiperactivitate sonora care da aspectul, atat tie, cat si lui, unui maniac post punk. Universul nu mai are nici un inteles, asa ca, de ce sa nu-ti faci de cap atata timp cat isteria se revarsa din boxe? Sa fie noise, in supra doze!

Cand face live, americanul pare sa fie preocupat doar de ce suna bine pe moment (!). Muzica da navala peste tine cu tempouri care iti intepenesc mintea si isi lasa amprenta. Iti place sau nu. Cale de mijloc nu cred ca exista. Muza lui este influentata de new rave, punk rock si pop, de muzica din Looney Tunes si The Simpsons. Peste toate, domneste improvizatia si spectacolul. “As putea provoca audienta la o discutie, as putea spune ceva ridicol, cum ar fi cateva numaratori inverse elaborate si fara sens, poate le cer sa stea in cerc, pentru un concurs de dans. Dar, de la noapte la noapte se schimba atat de multe, asa ca niciodata nu stii”, spune artistul. In timpul show-urilor, Dan Deacon implica audienta in spectacol, intr-un mod atat de banal si de copilaresc, incat toata lumea ii face jocul cu un entuziasm salbatic.

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Posted in art.ist on April 30th, 2008 by fresh good minimal | 2 Comments

Anthony Collins @ cubecast

adica liebe*detail la cubecast, maine de la 7

Posted in de-dans on April 25th, 2008 by de-dans | 0 Comments

Dan Deacon

on tour

aduce cu martin un pic, din categoria cum ar putea sa fie

Dan Deacon – Spiderman of the rings (2007)

Posted in download on April 25th, 2008 by fresh good minimal | 2 Comments

Bukarest

am zis ca pantha du prince cu efdemin vroiau sa isi faca trupa care sa se cheme bukarest. azi un alt bukarest, de data asta o piesa de pe ultimul album duo505 (B. Fleischmann & Herbert Weixelbaum).

duo505 – bukarest

si tot albumul la liber pe last.fm. IDM melodic cum se facea odata.

Posted in de-dans on April 24th, 2008 by de-dans | 12 Comments

Regenrefication

the bang gang (modular rec.) presents a guide to your favourite sub-sector of the musical universe. forget indie dance, electro house, nu-rave and minimal. this is the future…

din M is for Modular #1 / ModularPeople.com

Posted in de-dans on April 23rd, 2008 by de-dans | 0 Comments

Alex Under, brainy minimal

Multumita Studio Martin, mai exact lui Lovely Lore, care se pricepe la facilitat interviuri, spaniolul Alex Under are cuvantul. Aleluia!

– You say your work resembles the collage technique in visual art. What kind of sounds do you assemble, in order to create a new whole?
– That’s exactly the point, the sounds I use are part of already made tracks, I mean, I first make a basic track or loop, then I use cuts, slices, clicks, and parts of this track as sounds to make a new track. That way every single sound has a whole world of sounds on it. It’s a very complex technique that needs a lot of time to make a track. Unfortunately I don’t have that much time, so I don’t use it always. You can listen to “collaged” tracks in the “Multiplicanciones” series on Apnea Records (listen here), some of my early CMYK Musik (listen here) releases and the “Collage EP” (listen here) on Plus8.

-You say there is something alchemic in your music. What is the purpose of your music?
– The purpose of my music is to evocate feelings in the listeners, probably the purpose of all the music, though. It depends in what I’m working on, but right now my aim is to make people dance with an ear-to-ear-smile in their faces.

– What’s the story of you making music?
– “When I was seventeen, it was a very good year” do you know that Sinatra’s song? It’s a good one! Anyways, I started when I was a teenager, I used to play in metal bands in my hometown, I spent all my youth in a hole we had rented for play, I played everything, guitars, drums, bass, but I didn’t sing ever, thank God. Then I discovered electronic music and I got amazed with it, firstly I tried to mix it up with the music we were doing with the band, some kind of (hahaha) techno-metal, but of course it was a shame. And then I kissed bye bye my band buddies, and started my solo career as a techno kid.

– Where is your studio, what is the sightseeing there?
My new brand studio is in Madrid, we have a new place with 3 studios and the office, it’s a Paradise, we were working on it very hard, doing some handyman’s stuff after the professionals finished the hard work. The sightseeing (hahaha again) is not bad, I have a 2×1 meters window that connects my studio with the office, and so every time I see the face of my partner Jose, he is not that ugly, but the sightseeing could’ve been better. So, I have Jose in front and the rest of the guys, Tadeo, Imek and Damian in the other studios.

– Do you use any gear?
– I don’t use much gear right now, I got into the computer music very quickly because it makes my life easier and it permits me to make music in less time. My vintage favorite is my SH-101 and my brand new favorite is an MBase01 by Jomox, which is a very small analog machine to make only bass drums.

– How many hours per day do you work? How long it takes till a track becomes a good track?
– I don’t have a routine, I have a 2 years old kid, and I’m all the weekends out of home, plus the office work with the labels, so its really hard to me to have a fixed schedule, either for work or sleep. I didn’t spend too much time in the studio lately, but I have a good working plan for the next months so I hope I can make it for 5 or 6 hours everyday. Anyway is hard to say how much time needs a track, some of them need weeks, others just hours.

– Does your son react to any type of music?
– My son, Cyan is 2 years old, and he is the meaning of my life, he is my world. Cyan loves the music, especially funky; his favorites are Herbie Hancock and Earth Wind and Fire. Is amazing how he reacts with “headhunters” of H. Hancock, since he was 3 months old. I love to watch him dancing in my rear-view mirror when we are in the car.

– You come from Madrid. How was your childhood, what were your musical influences? Do you still have tapes or vinyl from that period?
– My childhood was very smooth; thanks to my parents I always had lot of freedom. It was in the old-times, so a 10-year-old boy could go out by night in the summer without any danger, so I loved the street. I was always “having bad ideas” as my mom defines my childhood, this is something nice of being artist, now those bad ideas are named as creativity :))).
I have a brother and sister (+4 and +5 years older than me) my brother was very involved in music composition since he was a kid, he had the very firsts synths and computers.
The first bands I liked by my own, after listening to my brother’s tapes, was Metallica and Sepultura, followed by a long tail of thrash, gothic or death-metal bands. Shameless I don’t have much tapes or CDs from that period, but I do have a lot of vinyl from my family collection, very miscellaneous collection.

– How is the clubbing scene in Madrid?
– I’m afraid I’m not the correct person to answer this. Unfortunately I don’t have a clue of what’s happening in Madrid during the weekends. I live here Monday to Thursday, but I know only the day life here. I can tell you we have great parks to go with the kids, but surely if you ask Richie Hawtin or Ellen Allien, they would know much more than me about the club scene in Madrid. In the last year I played 2 times in Madrid, in the whole year!

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Posted in interviu on April 22nd, 2008 by fresh good minimal | 8 Comments