Noise//Bruitisme

Rashad Becker 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I' (PAN 34)
LP/DL - Release Date: July 2013

'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I' is a devastating display of potential which ensures a journey unlike any you have encountered.  In the vast world of electronic music, where sounds, signifiers and gesture's are recontextualized to a numbing degree it is increasingly rare and refreshing to encounter a release as perspective distorting as the debut full length release by Rashad Becker.  The album is a masterpiece of focussed non-referential electronic environments.  It is is both warm, alien, paranoid and exhilarating.  Sounds are stretched in the most unusual manner, foreign bodies are frequent and the structure is simply bewildering.  Split into 'Themes and Dances', the 8 tracks guide the listener through Becker's brave new world.  Despite being entirely synthetic there are sounds which appear like a distortion of the world around us, on occasion 'voice-like' sounds are present, elsewhere there appears the sound of cicada's, only these cicada's are made of mercury and swim through time.

https://www.pan-act.com

Rashad Becker 'Dances III' (PAN 34)

Music: Marie Davidson

Mix and treatments: David Kristian

Lyrics. Sadaf Nava & Marie Davidson

Abduction

test for an installation. more info here:  http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/ritual.html

over the course of six weeks the signals turn from five pure sine waves assigned to individual speakers to harsh digital noise. in between: funky stochastic rhythms that get more and more dense. 
that's the plan.
 

Ritual(proof of concept)

From the album, Human, out now

iTunes: www.smarturl.it/MCHuman
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl + CD Pre-order: bit.ly/FIELDSshop

So, it's my next album single, and this time it's a bit crunching. There is a reason for this abomination lacking softness or melody though - the album is called "Human", and it's my attempt to translate some common themes about the human condition, into musical form. And of course not everything about being human is beautiful or pleasant - we experience all sorts of things, and this one is about the impacts of life, in the form of pounding mechanical collisions. It's a club track really, and if you've seen me in recent months you've probably had your face smashed by it a little - sorry about that!

Big thanks to Pitchfork for featuring this along with the amazing acid-style excursion from Gabe Gurnsey of Factor Floor.....AND....watch out for the Perc mix coming very soon, which takes the track to whole new labels of abrasion.


Here is the press spiel in case more info and fafferage is needed -

An album that sets out to examine sonic extremes, Max Cooper's debut Human juxtaposes a whole range of electronic styles:  lush orchestration fighting savage distortion, and clinical digital sound anchored by warm analogue grooves.  And nowhere is that restless curiosity to experiment as apparent as the contrast of the first and second singles - first, the delicate and downtempo Adrift, versus this second release, Impacts, the roughest, toughest sampler workout Cooper has produced.
On the album, they're sequenced in a focused line to be the centre of the album's first act and then its midpoint, before the album's more experimental final act.  But as a single on its own?  Impacts is a stop-start stomper that has had festival crowds asking WTF!?!? for months now, and the album's only purely dancefloor moment - as far from voguish k-house sounds as it is.  

But despite the harsh uncompromising sonic contrast - and this is a track that grunts into focus like a sledgehammer picking a fight with a gang of hi-hats - Impacts is, to Cooper's mind, actually something very optimistic.  It's the sound of a person beaten again and again by life, but each time bouncing back and wanting more.

For the remixes, Cooper has gone for two artists with their own take on high-contrast sonics.  Gabe Gurnsey of Factory Floor has folded his band's hypnotic acid tweaking into the original's rasping beats, and Perc has gone balls out with an take-it-or-leave it experimental sub-lead mix for the serious heads and big systems.


Impacts (clip)

ENDON "MAMA IN CONCERT" tour edition CD - Available Feb.2016
GGRR-004

1, ETUDE FOR LYNCHING BY FAMILY
    EARTHDOM, SHIN-ŌKUBO, TOKYO, NOVEMBER 29, 2014

2, PARRICIDE AGENT SERVICE
    HUCK FINN, IMAIKE, NAGOYA, JULY 18, 2015

3, ACME APATHY AMOK
    EARTHDOM, SHIN-ŌKUBO, TOKYO, NOVEMBER 29, 2014
    SOUP, OCHIAI, TOKYO, MARCH 29, 2015
    CLUB UPSET, IKESHITA, NAGOYA, MAY 8, 2015

4, PRAY FOR ME
    FEVER, SHIN-DAITA, TOKYO, MAY 2, 2015

5, WIWTWM
    UNIT, DAIKANYAMA, TOKYO, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

6, JUST LIKE EVERYBODY
    UNIT, DAIKANYAMA, TOKYO, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 
   
MIXED BY KOKI MIYABE(ENDON) & ATSUO(BORIS)
MASTERED BY SOICHIRO NAKAMURA(PEACE MUSIC)
ART DIRECTION BY MA(HIDDEN CIRCUS)
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATSUKI MITSUHASHI
SPECIAL THANKS TO DAYMARE RECORDINGS, ATSUO, HIROMI MIZOGUCHI, YUJI WATANABE

endon.figity.com

ENDON "PRAY FOR ME (FEVER, SHIN-DAITA, TOKYO, MAY 2, 2015)"

PJ Harvey's "The Crowded Cell" closes each of the 4-parts of Director Shane Meadows' latest drama, 'The Virtues'.

'The Virtues,' starring BAFTA-nominated Stephen Graham (This is England, ’86, ’88, ’90, Boardwalk Empire, Taboo, Line of Duty) alongside Irish actors Helen Behan and Niamh Algar, tackles themes of repressed memory, apocalyptic revenge and the hope of redemption.

Original Score by PJ Harvey.

ENDON "PRAY FOR ME (FEVER, SHIN-DAITA, TOKYO, MAY 2, 2015)"

Daymare Recordings

Related tracks