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Qtier - The Cards EP

Pigeons & Planes: "a band with a bright future ahead of them" - Best new artists
Indie Shuffle: 'subtle electronica at its best'
Lauren Laverne (BBC 6 Music): 'Just beautiful’
The Fly: 'extraordinarily rich' 
Les Inrockuptibles: 'enchanting…peace and pleasure’
The 405: 'radiant vibes'
Eddy Temple Morris (XFM): 'A remarkable find’
Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music): 'Great, chilled tunes'
Rob da Bank (BBC Radio 1): 'Love it'
John Kennedy (XFM): 'fantastic new music from Qtier'
DIY: ‘Massive promise’
Tsugi (FR): Included in 'tracks of the month’

Qtier is Adam and Howard, two London-based electronic musicians who make beautiful, captivating music for the city. Having announced their arrival earlier this year with the massive Still EP, now they’re back with The Cards, a stunning collection of tracks set for release on BPitch Control, the prestigious Berlin electronic label responsible for releases from Apparat, Modeselektor and it’s esteemed label boss Ellen Allien.  For Qtier, The Cards EP is about control, adoration and perception, all viewed through the prism of what electronic music means to them.

It’s the collision of Adam’s breathtaking, tender vocals, and Howard’s forward thinking electronics that makes this outfit’s sound so remarkable. With both members coming from such diverse musical places, the marriage of their differences creates a unique union of genuine, heartfelt songwriting with exceptional production.  The first offering from Qtier became an instant sensation, with big support coming from BBC 6 Music, The Fly and XFM, marking them out as a band on the verge of something very special.

Adding drums to the live line-up, their first ever outing was a mesmerizing performance at a now infamous house party in South London. Since then, 2013 saw the band have play to packed crowds at a string of unusual spaces; receiving lavish praise from Time Out for their masterful live interpretations of their studio productions.

Qtier - Anything Other (Kiwi Remix)

Ocean dub (out here in Little Rock, Arkansas currently)

Sea Beat

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Landside - Still There (Max Cooper Remix)

Buy Emergence: http://maxcooper.lnk.to/Emergence

I started this track with a simple Prophet patch running through a Moog ring mod with loads of overdrive. It wasn't so much overdrive that it became aggressive, but enough so that it had a simple tonal quality overlaid with plenty of honest low-fi grittyness. Sometimes all it takes is getting that first timbral feature right for the rest of the track to flow from there, and this was a good example for me. 

I also knew I wanted the track to fit later on in the Emergence story, where it should be rhythmically straight enough to fit into a club show where needed, but also for the part of the show where we explore visually, the range of complex living forms and evolutionary change - it needed to capture some of that beauty of life's morphogenetic creativity.

I found the chord sequence fairly quickly, and built the drums and smooth dynamics within a few days, but I got stuck on how to complete the track. I tried hundreds of different ideas, and thought I might need to bin the project, but then luckily stumbled across some old synth jam recordings that had some moments that sounded ok. So I jumped on those and went to work on an editing job. 

It turned out that a lot of the problem I had been having was that I was trying to add too much, when for me, the chords were the hook, and what was needed was a sparse melodic addition to support the chords rather than any sort of traditional tuneful hook. In recent years I've been more and more drawn to just chord sequences as the main features of tracks musically, with the rest stripped away. When Ryan Rival Consoles was considering a remix he commented the album seemed to be all about the chords (or something to that extent), so I guess that idea is in there. Chords just seem to carry the most emotion for me for some reason (as opposed to melodies or lyrics for example).

So there it is, I hope you like the track!

Emergence

12"/Download/LP Stream

Organa [Mesh001]

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

Nathan Fake - You are here (Fourtet remix)

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