tres bon,dommage que ce n'es pas un peu plus long

Love the progressive feel you got here.There is a psychedilic drop in your jazz love it.

@beatsgalore-1: Yeah, I bet homey Ookpik wud dig yo tracks yo -  o_O - I'm 150% positive he didn't listen to this at all. 

Really enjoyed this surreal tour into my imagination, guided by these soundscapes. 

Music from various projects, competitions, and collaborations with which I've been involved, as well as some wonderful remixes by various artists. Further info on some of the projects and collaborators:
<a href="http://oramics.herokuapp.com/">OraMIX (2012)</a> 
<a href="http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/">60x60 (2010)</a> 
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/grimes-adhesif">Grimes Adhesif (Britain, UK) </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/greta-cottage-workshop">Greta Cottage Workshop (Britain, UK) </a>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/quivion">quivion (Stockholm, Sweden)</a> 
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/soft-enerji">Soft Enerji (Australia)</a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/yoanncarion">Yoann Carion Fauth (France)</a> 
<a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Gamehenge-09/release/2953189">Gamehenge (2009)</a> 


collabs, remixes, & experimental

So here's a dub 303 version I made with the help of a moog sub phatty... Download away! 

Check out the original release for some seriously badass music... http://www.beatport.com/release/miracle-2-remixes/1193621 

Arthur's Landing - Miracle 2 (Algy Strutt's 303 Dub) FREE DOWNLOAD

A 30 minute live set that i recorded for the hypercolour lads for their weekly Rinse FM show. 20th March 2015. https://soundcloud.com/hypercolour_glasstable/hypercolour-rinse-fm-show-34

italkim001

Ancient winking smiley!
the disc in the image is the Sky Disc of Nebra in Germany, pupported to be a 3,600 year old depiction of the heavens including the pleiades. There was a suggestion of it being fake but I think that's been pretty much disproven. A beautiful thing either way.

Maps of the Ancient Star King

A sample from Imaginary Forces "Visitation", to be released by Fang Bomb in 2016.

Imaginary Forces return to Fang Bomb with “Visitation”, a collection of dark, menacing rhythmic noise and crumbled techno that predate the recent releases on Halcyon Veil, Bedouin, Entr’acte and his Basic Rhythm album on Type.

Deep and ominous with a grimy, industrial edge, Visitation also features the spoken word of long time Imaginary Forces collaborator Closed Circuits. 

Imaginary Forces - Visitation

Francesco Clemente's cult fave from our shadowy days past gets the remix/tribute treatment by Vercetti Technicolor of Giallo Disco - dare we say - "fame", and mutates into an epic 12 minute Church Burner in the process. FREE to grab in all it's spectacular glory in any format you like on the Creme Bandcamp!

Grab: https://cremeorganization.bandcamp.com/track/suoni-dalle-ombre-oltre-vercetti-technicolors-shadows-from-the-past-remix-free-download

The rather timeless original can be found here: https://cremeorganization.bandcamp.com/album/suoni-dalle-ombre-oltre-creme-12-15

https://soundcloud.com/vercetti-technicolor

From the original write up: Crème managed to license this superb Giallo soundtrack from the vaults of Francesco Clemente, a forgotten Italian producer. When the movie was withdrawn due to monetary problems, this insane synthesizer gem landed on the shelf to collect dust. It was only years later that it was rediscovered by a Japanese collector who has so far kept it for himself, but after persuasive words from the Crème management decided to share it with the world. Mastered from the original tapes.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Suoni Dalle Ombre Oltre (Vercetti Technicolor Shadows From the Past Remix) FREE DL ON BANDCAMP

Original version on the album Morning/Evening released on Text Records in 2015.

Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never edit)

Rinse FM Podcast - Four Tet - 3rd March 2016

a bridge for the birds 

I’m the only words this song can hear. 
A bridge built for the birds - by thousands
I’m the motion of the wheels that slip their gears 
before a crash is heard.

Bring your Hearts to war on lightning legs and thrones,
if they strip you down - I’ll put you back on bones
I’ll tape you back together with strings and rocks and sticks,
the shapes of spoons and weather - and hope with all it fits;

but I’m the glass that breaks under the rushing broom,
the helpful words that got you down,
I’m the bus fare that sends you the wrong way home,
there’s nothing there but wilds and gloaming ones

Pins and needles in the pines will spark her fires 
hunters roving in the blooms with bloodshot thighs
Bring your ribbons. bring your robin’s eggs, and keys,
we’ll have a party with the bread ties and the bees.

I’m the rooftop that lets everyone reign in, a snail shell made for bullet slugs,
I’m the clogging of the bathtub in the rain-graveyard of bugs and mossy pails.

I saw the sailboats in their rocking waves. 
Wild and beating for their harbor trains.
I saw the streets with windows I would keep
fences kissing sidewalks with their teeth

but I’m the light that blinds you while you’re in the shade,
a plastic bag of crumbs. a hole inside in a lake.
my cherry teeth fangs sink deep then fade into the dust of
sidewalk chalk and not so dandy lion muck

and I know you’re never at my side
the broken records songs all play, 
are truer than lies.

So bring your Hearts to war on lightning legs,
and when they cut you down I’ll put you back on pegs;
I’ll string you back together with tape and rocks and sticks,
and forks of angry weather and hope with all, it fits.



art lifted from supremely talented illustrator/painter Ellis Nadler
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellis-nadler/

a bridge for the birds

This is a piece I made for the The Science Museum's OraMIX competition--where we were given stems of bits made by the amazing Daphne Oram.   
We were meant to imagine what Oram would have composed for the 1967 TV show "Our World"--a TV show where everything had to be live.
For this reason, I decided to base my piece around improvisations and live transformations that I performed in real-time on the new ipod mini-version of Oram's own Oramics Machine--imagining Oram performing it live for the show. The rest of the piece is made by manipulating the stems provided using basic music concrete techniques.






Your Birdsong Stays on My Mind (for OraMIX)

a song i did at 2am on 5th march 2012 ha ha fella. re$pect

daze of old

A crazy little electroacoustic miniature piece, created for this year's 60x60 (Vox Novus). 

Description: Minimally processed and edited live recording of an improvised performance on hot water tap. Make and vintage of hot water tap: unknown.

(I should mention too that it had to be 60 seconds or less, for 60x60, but I could maybe post a longer version that I had, eventually)


Hot Water (for 60x60 2012)

泳ぐ魚

Lefthand

This is a track from the new Quivion Remixes 01 EP. With remixes of Alex Ookpik, Bruno Sanfilippo, Madi and Axs. Available on free download...

http://quivion.bandcamp.com

Alex Ookpik, Widow's Walk (quivion remix)

Alex Ookpik was a Montréaler writing, performing and producing avant-pop and electroacoustic music (Dec.7th, 1975 - Nov.24th, 2016). Her first album MegaFauna is here on bandcamp : https://alexookpik.bandcamp.com/releases     It has been released digitally and as a limited edition cd. One hundred percent of the proceeds go directly to the Alexandra Olsen Memorial Bursary at Concordia University for a female electroacoustic / electronic music composer. Her second album will be release in 2018. Thanks so much for supporting her musical legacy !

Her music bridges the worlds of pop and experimental music; taking in acoustic instruments, synthesis, field recordings, and studio manipulations.

Former lead-singer and keyboard player of the Montreal post-rock band Marlowe (1995-2005); releasing two albums and sharing the stage with Tindersticks, Snowpony (ex-My Bloody Valentine & Stereolab), April March, The Dears, Feist, and The Besnard Lakes, among others.

She has participated in many different side projects and collaborations over the years: electroacoustic composition (60x60), music and sound design for theatre and short films, producing other artists, and tracks for special projects like OraMIX (Daphne Oram tribute) and BCM (Bedroom Cassette Masters), and a mixtape for Steven Hall's Mitamine Lab. She has also had the honour of being remixed by various artists from around the world, notably: Quivion, Soft Enerji, and Grimes Adhesif. Some of these projects can be found here on SoundCloud, with details on:  <a href="http://www.alexookpik.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">

Her first solo album is entitled MegaFauna : https://alexookpik.bandcamp.com/releases

 
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