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Ahead of his debut album, To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast, set for release in late February, @love-over-entropy unveils the NLC EP. It includes "NLC," the only track that will also appear on the album, alongside four exclusive tracks.

A stark departure from the dance music Love Over Entropy is known for, the NLC EP serves as both a preview and a bridge into the warm and enveloping sonic landscape awaiting listeners on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast.

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NLC EP

For his debut album To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, @love-over-entropy used only one source: a Yamaha DX11 synthesizer. It’s a vintage machine from 1987 that was also used by early IDM and techno producers. “Working with an artificial constraint unleashed a different kind of creativity," says the The Hague-based musician, who normally does not shy away from elaborate productions.

Love over Entropy spent a lot of time working out the correct order of the tracks on the album. "I think it's important that the story also flows well on a higher level. It was a nice puzzle to solve."

Although the Covid pandemic is long behind us, much of the material on this album comes from the days when society was still largely in lockdown. "Which explains the title," says Love over Entropy. "But it also refers to my distancing myself from the hustle and bustle of the dancefloor. Up until then, I was primarily making dance music."

You won't find any kick drums or heavy bass lines on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast. It is intimate, meditative and often very beautiful ambient music. But not the formless kind that seems to dominate chill-out playlists these days. Tracks like Finnkroken, Tidalene and Rotiriot have a story to tell, with a lot of effort put in to get it just right.

“To me, making music is mostly about the process. So I will spend many hours working on details that probably nobody will ever notice. Above all, the pastoral melodies stand out, undulating back and forth like foam on the surf. The harmonies are reminiscent of Isan, Boards of Canada and Murcof, while the album also pays homage to the Artificial Intelligence period on Warp Records.

According to the Dutch producer, a lot of current ambient music falls short of the original idea, as coined by Brian Eno. "Eno once described ambient as music that should be 'as ignorable as it is interesting', but nowadays it seems to have become 'as unignorable as it is uninteresting'," Love over Entropy says cheekily. "Ambient music really is everywhere, with modern production tools often doing the heavy lifting."

With To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, the producer hopes to make a difference, simply by raising the bar. It's a journey that can be taken both horizontally and vertically, and hopefully offers comfort. Or as the producer describes it: "music that offers a refuge."

Artwork by Spherical Waves (www.sphericalwaves.com)

To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast

Originals & Remixes

This release marks the second in a series of ‘past patterns’: Tracks that were never released, but that I still want to put out there. They might mean something to somebody. 

‘Past patterns’ not only refers to the tracks themselves, but also to the way they were created. When I open these projects, I come across many techniques that I still use, but there are also some techniques I somehow forgot about. More than once I’ve been surprised by the creativity, only to realize that I was actually the one who came up with it. Apparently, the way creativity flows belongs to a specific point in time, and is about much more than just the toolkit you have at your disposal. Even if I had any interest in making tracks like these again, I doubt I could. 

The tracks on this EP were produced together with Jon Charnis, who visited me in Amsterdam after I reached out during ADE. Later I went to visit him in LA while on a North America tour. We had a couple of fruitful sessions, which is not surprising given that Jon is an amazing fountain of ideas. Finishing the tracks together proved quite a challenge though, and at one point Jon allowed me to finish these tracks according to my own vision. Still, the heart of these tracks is what we did together during the sessions in Amsterdam and LA.

--

All tracks produced by Love over Entropy and Jon Charnis. Mixed and mastered by Love over Entropy.

AMS < > LAX

This single was released exclusively on Bandcamp on 2019.10.25.

https://loveoverentropy.bandcamp.com/album/unfathom

This version is also available as a free download: loveoverentropy.bandcamp.com/track/unfathom-demo

Those who buy the full release will also get access to a royalty-free sample pack created from the four tracks.

Unfathom

Free Download

Unfathom [Demo] (preview)

Live @ Trouw 20140412 (Amsterdam, NL)

Released on Bandcamp on 24.07.2023.

This release marks the first in a series of ‘past patterns’: Tracks that were never released, but that I still want to put out there. They might mean something to somebody. 

‘Past patterns’ not only refers to the tracks themselves, but also to the way they were created. When I open these projects, I come across many techniques that I still use, but there are also some techniques I somehow forgot about. More than once I’ve been suprised by the creativity, only to realize that I was actually the one who came up with it. Apparently, the way creativity flows belongs to a specific point in time, and is about much more than just the toolkit you have at your disposal. Even if I had any interest in making tracks like these again, I doubt I could. 

These specific tracks were produced in 2013, right before the Love over Entropy project took off. I don’t consider this to be an album, as the only connecting factor between these tracks is that they were created during the same period. But there was never a bigger idea behind them, which for me makes the difference between an album and a collection of tracks.

--

All tracks produced, mixed and mastered by Love over Entropy.

Take 2 (preview)

Ante

Quagmired

Quagmired (preview)

It's All and Nothing

It's All And Nothing (preview)

Mesmeriz (preview)

Released on: Off The Grid EP (Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 001)


Groundswell

Released on: Off The Grid EP (Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 001)

Off The Grid

Pete Blaker X Pleon - Tudududu (Love Over Entropy Remix)

IfZ ist Selbstausbeutungsgalore und Wunschmaschine.

Live @ Institut für Zukunft 20150220 (Leipzig, DE)

Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/nlc

Ahead of his debut album, To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast, set for release in late February, https://soundcloud.com/love-over-entropy unveils the NLC EP. It includes "NLC," the only track that will also appear on the album, alongside four exclusive tracks.

A stark departure from the dance music Love Over Entropy is known for, the NLC EP serves as both a preview and a bridge into the warm and enveloping sonic landscape awaiting listeners on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast.

Love Over Entropy - Guguy (EP Version)

Love Over Entropy - Heiig

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Love Over Entropy - Metro

Love Over Entropy - Whirligig

Love Over Entropy - NLC

Released on: Tonii EP (Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 006) 

Vinyl and digital, 13th of April 2015

Tucaroya Pt. 1

Released on: Tonii EP (Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 006)

Vinyl and digital, 13th of April 2015


Tonii

Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/to-sit-quietly-where-everything-is-moving-fast

For his debut album To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, https://soundcloud.com/love-over-entropy used only one source: a Yamaha DX11 synthesizer. It’s a vintage machine from 1987 that was also used by early IDM and techno producers. “Working with an artificial constraint unleashed a different kind of creativity," says the The Hague-based musician, who normally does not shy away from elaborate productions.

Love over Entropy spent a lot of time working out the correct order of the tracks on the album. "I think it's important that the story also flows well on a higher level. It was a nice puzzle to solve."

Although the Covid pandemic is long behind us, much of the material on this album comes from the days when society was still largely in lockdown. "Which explains the title," says Love over Entropy. "But it also refers to my distancing myself from the hustle and bustle of the dancefloor. Up until then, I was primarily making dance music."

You won't find any kick drums or heavy bass lines on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast. It is intimate, meditative and often very beautiful ambient music. But not the formless kind that seems to dominate chill-out playlists these days. Tracks like Finnkroken, Tidalene and Rotiriot have a story to tell, with a lot of effort put in to get it just right.

“To me, making music is mostly about the process. So I will spend many hours working on details that probably nobody will ever notice. Above all, the pastoral melodies stand out, undulating back and forth like foam on the surf. The harmonies are reminiscent of Isan, Boards of Canada and Murcof, while the album also pays homage to the Artificial Intelligence period on Warp Records.

According to the Dutch producer, a lot of current ambient music falls short of the original idea, as coined by Brian Eno. "Eno once described ambient as music that should be 'as ignorable as it is interesting', but nowadays it seems to have become 'as unignorable as it is uninteresting'," Love over Entropy says cheekily. "Ambient music really is everywhere, with modern production tools often doing the heavy lifting."

With To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, the producer hopes to make a difference, simply by raising the bar. It's a journey that can be taken both horizontally and vertically, and hopefully offers comfort. Or as the producer describes it: "music that offers a refuge."

Artwork by Spherical Waves (www.sphericalwaves.com)

Love Over Entropy - Tidalene

Love Over Entropy - Echolon

Love Over Entropy - Finnkroken

Love Over Entropy - Nohmannoh

Egypt (preview)

Sonjon dub (preview)

The Dog and the Carpet (preview)

Sonjon (preview)

Water Damage (preview)

Ambient Jam (preview)

Released on: Somewhere(Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 007)

Digital and limited edition CD, 28th of August 2015


Rommella

Released on: Inbetween EP (Lossless LL1207) 

Vinyl and digital, 7th of September 2015

Buy vinyl at muting the noise - https://www.mutingthenoise.com/music/inbetween-ep

Buy digitally at Beatport pro - https://pro.beatport.com/release/inbetween-ep/1595030

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Fortyfour

Autumnal

Released on: Alone EP (Be Free Recordings BF017)

Digital, 10th of December 2015

Alone - Darse (Love over Entropy Remix)

Released on: Glömde EP (Off Recordings OFF128)

Digital, 11th of April 2016


Glömde - Nandu feat. Tyra (Love over Entropy Remix)

Released on: Sea EP (Something Happening Somewhere SoHaSo 010)

Vinyl and digital, 24th of June 2016


Worth While

Finisterre

Released on: Contact EP (Nazca003)

Digital, 25th of December 2017, Vinyl March 2018

Tora - Thodoris Triantafillou (Love Over Entropy Rewhirl)

Released on Nautilus Rising NR05
Vinyl 14.09.2018, Digital 21.09.2018

9576 EP

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Whiteout

Released on the Cocoon S compilation, 2019.08.23

Compilation S

As if

Released on 01/12/2020 as part of 43 Katzen tanzen auf'm Tisch - Heinz Hopper - curated by Mira 

Available at: https://kioskid.bandcamp.com/album/43-katzen-tanzen-aufm-tisch-heinz-hopper-curated-by-mira

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Requests: loe@loveoverentropy.net

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