Artist: Joel Mull
Album: Arrow of Time
Cat no: PRBL LP01
Release date: June 14th 2019

Written and Produced by Joel Mull 
Mastered by Walter Coelho 
Artwork by Andrei Kashan 
Curating and administration Linda Nilsson. 
In memory of Knut.

Since its launch in 2015, Parabel has established itself as one of the main Swedish techno imprint with very well received EPs by local artists Joel Mull, Patrick Siech, Nima Khak, The Persuader, Petter B or Patrik Skoog.

Parabel steps up with Joel Mull’s fourth LP ‘Arrow Of Time’, his first album in eight years and the first LP to be released on the label.

If you’ve listened to techno in the past twenty years, Joel Mull won’t need any introduction, with three previous LPs released on prestigious labels Inside, Harthouse and Truesoul, and regular EPs appearing on Drumcode, Cocoon, Mary Go Wild or Kanzlermant to name a few.

This new album is influenced by traveling, time and the future’s point of direction. It is melancholic, cinematic, with the soul of techno at its heart. Here is the concept hiding behind it in the artist’s own words:

”We all have moments when we think about time, I do, especially when I travel. There is a certain loose feeling when I write music and sketch on ideas while I’m in a moving object that is blasting throughout space, such as a plane or a train.

These moments are more intense for me than, for example, when I’m working on ideas in the studio. The studio is amazing but it can also be too structured. When I look out of a window and have a moving canvas in front, it directly adds emotion and easily inspires me.

‘Arrow Of Time’ is the inspiration to this album’s title. It is both the time capsule that we all travel in and the journey that you do every time you listen to music.

Most of the ideas behind the tracks have then been recorded in my home studio adding a few instruments to the mix such as the Roland sh101, Lyra 8 the Roland tr8 and through the Elektron Analog Heat to get it to glow a bit more.Then processing it on my laptop with plugins from UAD, Softube, Soundtoys and with my favorite software Ableton.

The album could not sound complete and get released to the outside world without the help of my favorite mastering engineer Walter Coelho.”

Tracklist:
1 - IRREVERSIBLE
2 - UP THAT HILL
3 - GLEAMING 
4 - NORTHERN SPHERES
5 - CAVER
6 - MNEMONICS
7 - COLORBLIND
8 - WORKING BODY
9 - AHEAD OF THE PAST
10 - HERTZSPRUNG 
11 - ALDEN PLATEAU

Arrow Of Time

9. Joel Mull - Ahead of the past

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The label is showcasing the sound in the agency. 

contact:
Linda [at] parabelmusic. se
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