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Le Carousel is Phil Kieran's latest LP, which is great, it was a pleasure to work with this track, and all the better because I decided I was going to do something weird with it! The lovely pads and vocals provided the backbone for my remix, and I just tried to accentuate these with a long ambient build.

The track would probably work better just with this ambient part and no more, but I decided to add on some sort of odd drop at the end, where it goes all hectic with lots of double timed randomised beats. To continue with the unexpected theme I went for another extended build to total distortion, climaxing in nothingness!

It's probably not the easiest track to fit into a set unless you just use the ambient part, but it's always nice to just let go and mess around with a track without worrying about how it might function outside of what you feel you want to do musically at the time.

Release date is 23rd September on PKR

Le Carousel - Lost Years - Max Cooper Remix

This track is about emergence from the combination of polar opposites. Fragments of self from very different places, but part of the same whole.

Combining classical and computational elements is something I've been experimenting with for some years, but this attempt to combine the extreme opposites of each was spurred on by some chance DJing experiments, a fortuitous collaboration opportunity, and the amazing work of my friends Olafur Arnalds and Vaetxh (Rob Clouth). I found that I could mix the most beautiful and delicate piano solo of Olafur, with the most hyper-edited and jarring glitch of Vaetxh, and that the result actually worked, well, for me anyway, even if half the people in the club stood confused about how to dance. So when the opportunity arose to work with the pianist and composer Tom Hodge, I wanted to try and create this form of merger of extremes for a release, rather than it being confined to my DJ toolbox (also on the classical meets glitch history from a slightly different angle, check out "Rossz Csillag Alatt Született" from Venetian Snares 2005!).

After some discussion of ideas and approach with Tom, he sat and played and made some recordings for me, which I then chopped and build chords and structure around, sent them back to him to play over the top of again, and then back to me to edit and glitch the playing along with the nasty noises. My detailing process was that of finding some interesting sound sources (binaural recordings, drum hit samples, clangs and slams etc) and using some Max for live randomisation chains to generate lots of partially random complexity which I could then edit as audio before repeating the process with additional layers, eventually bringing the recorded piano audio in to the editing too.

At completion of the audio I was really happy to find out that Nick Cobby, one of my favourite video artists and long standing collaborator, was available and interested in working on the visual side of the project. He took the combination of seemingly incompatible opposites, and applied it visually with his beautiful generative forms, smooth and organic for the melodic sections, and jagged and abrasive for the percussive sections - big thanks to Nick for his amazing work as always!

So, that's probably enough ranting about this track from me, aside from why it is like it is, I hope it's something that you can enjoy irrespective of the conceptual faff.

Buy on Beatport

Fragments of Self - with Tom Hodge - Out Now on FIELDS

Made for OWSLA earlier this year. Realized this was never uploaded aside from the ending of the Earth and Words mix. 

2013 Hundred Waters - "Boreal" (Eskmo Remix)

Download ISAM and get the limited edition ISAM CD with photos from the Control Over Nature exhibit

'ISAM' - Full album with track-by-track commentary from Amon Tobin

Learn more about the mix at <a href="http://warp.net/records/plaid/download-new-mix" target="_blank">warp.net</a>.

'Reachy Prints' will be released this month, pre-order from
<a href="http://smarturl.it/4sh6cx" target="_blank">iTunes</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/h3ucqn" target="_blank">Bleep</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/amvelf" target="_blank">Amazon</a> (<a href="http://smarturl.it/kdkk6i" target="_blank">Vinyl</a>)

TRACKLISTING

MAST_ASCENT_APR062
JOHN WIZARDS_MUIZENBERG
MUSIC BOX_NOVEMBER_LYDL008
SAGET_SATELLITE_VLEK13
MAX COOPER_IMPACTS_FLDSCD001
MR OIZO_FLIP BAT
WESLEY MATSELL_TOTAL ORDER OF BEING
LOVE OVER ENTROPY_GROUNDSWELL_SOHASO1
ATOM ™_ICH BIN MEINE MASCHINE_R-N146
RAIN DOG_REGOLITH
AROVANE_VRAIIL
SEVENDEATHS_ALL NIGHT GRAVES_LM020
EDOC_I DONT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING_DBOY16
VISONIA & DOPPLEREFFEKT_DIE REISEN_TRAJECTORY1017
SHATTER HANDS_KNIFIN AROUND
PAUSE_SINK_PLXS003
LAZLO_TURNING TIDE_LYDL009

Plaid Tour

MAY
22 The Soup Kitchen - Manchester, GB (<a href="http://www.seetickets.com/Event/plaid/soup-kitchen/785742" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
23 Village Underground - London, GB (<a href="http://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/13936/chk/689d" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
25 Chill Out Festival - Istanbul, TR (<a href="http://www.biletix.com/etkinlik/RCOFI/ISTANBUL/en" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
29 Conne Island - Leipzig, DE (<a href="http://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/TemplateSystem/EventDetailsTemplate.aspx?templateId=6fa6b976-a95d-4d1e-8068-4a3d26b077f2&eventId=9304" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
30 Gretchen - Berlin, DE

JUNE
01 Tolhuis - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/129269?brand=nl_paradiso&camefrom=paradiso" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
02 AB Club - Brussels, BE (<a href="http://www.abconcerts.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
08 Exil - Zurich, CH (<a href="https://starticket.ch/0Numberoftix.asp?ShowID=73690&CategoryID=117758&ZoneID=&ShowDetails=1" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
13 Gaité lyrique - Paris, FR

JULY
23 Ten Days Off - Gent, BE (<a href="http://www.10daysoff.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

AUGUST
01 - 03 Dekmantel Festival - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.dekmantelfestival.com/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

Plaid 2014 DJ MIX 01

Taken from the forthcoming EP 'Iterations'.
Released May 13th via Tri Angle Records (12" drops May 27th in UK & Europe).
12" & Digital.

Fis - Womb Dream

From 'Groove It Out' out now - http://smarturl.it/grooveitout-bleep

http://lonelady.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/LoneLady

Hinterland

Groove It Out on Bleep

Groove It Out (Ekoplekz Replekz)

No Film (From "Margins EP")

Severant

Ant City

Free download at http://app.topspin.net/f4m/100307

ISAM Sampler (mixed by King Cannibal)

Original track taken from the 2010 album The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
http://asthmatickitty.com/sufjan-stevens

Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix)

Vessel - Order Of Noise LP
Released October 15th on Tri Angle Records
LP, CD & Digital

https://itunes.apple.com/be/album/order-of-noise/id561807627?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
http://boomkat.com/cds/573632-vessel-order-of-noise
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=355228
https://bleep.com/release/38846


Vessel - Court Of Lions

Airhead - Pyramid Lake

pre-order the single here
http://randsrecords.greedbag.com/buy/pyramid-lake-0/

includes free downloads with a vinyl purchase

Airhead - Pyramid Lake

「Meditation」

Beck.  NYC  73 - 78.   from the album REWORK_Philip Glass remixed

The original version of Fuck Buttons - Olympians is taken from the album Tarot Sport, out now on ATP Recordings. Olympians is available as a ltd 12" single in 5 colours of vinyl: http://www.atpfestival.com/recordings/release/olympians/view.php

Fuck Buttons - Olympians (Radio Edit)

Original version taken from the album Tarot Sport, out now on ATP Recordings.

Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar (7  Edit)

There have been a lot of whispers and rumours about Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace project since the band formed in 2009 to play The Eraser live. In the new issue of Dazed & Confused, the fabled frontman clears up the speculation surrounding Amok, his first group album outside of Radiohead, with one of his most in-depth interviews to date. He also talks frankly about his life and work, discussing his uneasy relationship with fame, that video for "Lotus Flower" and why he's still intent on bending people's heads of out shape. 

Also, stay tuned to Dazed Digital over the next fortnight, as we'll be enrolling 14 of today's most innovative producers, including Actress, Machinedrum, Flying Lotus and Arca, into "The University of Yorke". They'll be asking Thom a series of burning questions, plus much, much more.

Until then, we thought we'd get you in the mood by asking the man himself to make us an, ahem, A-Thomic mix of some of his favourite tunes. Little did we realise that he would go into the studio with Nigel Godrich and emerge with 25 minutes of unreleased solo material and remixes. Suffice to say, it's essential listening. Check below for the tracklisting, and make sure you pick up the issue, which hits the shelves today.

TRACKLISTING 

cycles mk 3  thom yorke

you wouldn't like me when i'm angry unfinished rmx  atoms for peace

mali:  kono, the sacred birdÃ≈ mali musicians

proud evolution thom yorke 500quid rmx  liars

i don't need an excuse unfinished thom yorke 

bloom treatments radiohead

morning shiver down the black wood river anstam

give up the ghost thom yorke rmx radiohead

the grind average joe vs unless atoms for peace


Thom Yorke – exclusive Dazed Digital mix

Efterklang - Dreams Today (Brandt Brauer Frick Reinterpretation)

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/gluid-1. His free field recordings were used in this track.

Golden Pekoe

My other project: @dis_ant
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