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month of MAYHEM

2017

Rare nü

No Flockin'

Für Fandra V.1.1

Check -Young Thug

24 Already

Money Over Everything

In June 2016, I've spent a month on a residency programme in Northern Iceland (check out www.listhus.com !). An important goal for me during this time was to try and capture the feeling, the atmosphere, many images, thoughts and memories of this unique and uncommon place. I wanted to collect and re-collect this period poetically, musically, whichever you prefer. One result of this is this track, part I of a two-part hommage to the wonderful, strange, lonely, raw and unforgettable town of Ólafsfjördur. The "soundscape" is built entirely on sounds recorded or produced during the residency, most sounds are field recordings from Ólafsfjördur and its surroundings. Also, you will here the voices of my fellow residents in June 2016 as well as the two organisers of the program,
(in order of appearance)
Andrea Krupp (www.andreakrupp.com)
Sinead Onora Kennedy (http://sineadonorakennedy.com/)
Yen Peng Tan (http://whitewhitewind.wixsite.com/tan-yen-peng)
Sigurdur Svarvarsson
Joe Scullion (http://cargocollective.com/joescullion)
Alice Líu (http://aliceliusportfolio.weebly.com/)
Merel Stolker (http://www.merelstolker.nl/)
Serene Hui Sze Lok (http://www.szelokserene.com/)
Soo-yeun Ahn (http://www.sooyeunahn.com/).

All of them read small parts of a text I wrote for this piece, in their respective mother tongues. They have all been equally kind and complaisant and agreed to even translate the parts I assigned them. Thank you very much, all of you, wherever you are now! I hope you are happy and full of projects, ideas and lots of love!

Ólafsfjördur soundscape I

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@agcook remixes @dannylharle

Harle: What do you think Me4U is about?

Cook: It’s obviously about two people becoming one - love, dedication, amalgamation etc. Though I also can’t help noticing how obsessed you are with both the word ‘you’ and the sound ‘ooh’ in general. It’s all over most of your tracks, and it's used very carefully in Supernatural - but Me4U gets completely obsessive! Maybe that fits the narrative, all about ‘you’.

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Harle: What is the future of television?

Cook: Teletubbies but with a much, much larger cast.

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Harle: What is your criteria for something to be interesting or important?

Cook: Interesting and important are very different things to me! I find almost everything genuinely interesting, and I feel like relatively few things are actually important.

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Harle: Does your remix contain elements inspired by any third party recordings?

Cook: Yeah tons! I feel like most of my music is quite referential, but especially remixes. There are a couple of very short noodle-y moments in my version that are intended to sound a bit like you (!) The main chords are a very “A. G.” interpretation of Me4U, but I thought it would be funny to actually (finally?) put a drop after the build, even if it’s a weird one :P Then most of the track avoids the UK Garage vibe of the original, until the very end when I fully give in to Artful Dodger. I also feel like that whole section is a bit old skool Dux Content, maybe even Dux Kidz. Dux for a post-Clean Bandit reality.

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Danny L Harle - Me4U (A. G. Cook Remix)

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Lightning Lipgloss Life by @lifesim

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Toxe - Crumpled

Words Fall to Ground is the new digital release on Creamcake from vocalist and producer Organ Tapes.

Organ Tapes is a part of a geographically dispersed set of rising “post-club” and scene of artists that include collectives like Bala Club, Staycore and Genome 6.66 Mbp, as well as artists like Blaze Kidd, Palmistry, coucou chloe and others, he has been releasing music independently under the Organ Tapes moniker since 2009.

He notably released Word Life on influential dance and club label Tobago Tracks in 2015. That album brought a stronger focus on OT's vocals, which continues in the Words Fall to Ground EP, while adding production from his peers, including Berlin’s @sodaplains, Paris’ @blu174 and Liège’s @ssaliva.

‘Believer’ is the only song of the four that features only Zha, and it meanders through the smoothest incarnation of the artist’s cut-and-paste aesthetic, one that liberally takes from a world of pop and noise samples, acapellas and field recordings to create the kind of raw, political world-making pioneered by artists like Elysia Crampton.

Words Fall to Ground EP will be released in full on May 5, with a launch party at Berghain’s new Säule club on May 12.

Words Fall To Ground

Order

Turned ft. Soda Plains

Painless ft. ssaliva

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Remix by Finn Keane

Cook: I don't think either of us have a strict 'process' when it comes to working on music,  but do you remember any key decisions that influenced the direction of this remix?

EASYFUN: Only that I thought it would be fun to try and make a drop that doesn't start on the downbeat.

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Cook: Is Stravinsky the best composer of all time?

EASYFUN: That's a leading question. Yes Alex, I like his music but sadly he didn't write any pop and that's my favourite kind of music. I'm sure if he had it would have been great.

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Cook: How do you feel about Spotify?

EASYFUN: Love it. Particularly New Music Friday, helps me stay on top of things and hear tomorrow's hits before anyone else.

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Cook : What's ur fave Janet song and why?

EASYFUN: 'Love Will Never Do (Without You)' from Rhythm Nation. I really like how the final chorus loops weirdly.

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Cook: What's ur fave Jam & Lewis production and why?

EASYFUN: I think it has to be 'If It Isn't Love' by New Edition. My gateway one!

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Janet Jackson - No Sleeep (Finn Keane Remix)

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Guys Next Door 
Top 5 Deep Cuts From The Late Sixties

Vanilla Fudge - Ticket To Ride

Vanilla Fudge - Eleanor Rigby

Captain Beefheart - Sweet Sweet Bulbs

The Beatles - Martha My Dear

Love - The Red Telephone

Guys Next Door - Behind The Wall

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http://lildata.co.uk @lil-data

Cook: What language are you using?

Data: I'm using TidalCycles (or Tidal), which is sending pattern messages to SuperCollider, which in turn is synthesising the patterns and outputting eight stereo channels to Logic Pro. Tidal is my go to as the syntax is super concise - you can fit a 'track' on one screen of code!
 
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Cook: What are some of the practical problems that happen with live coding?

Data: Because code is just text, most of the time you don't know what's going on. You're constantly making mistakes so you're constantly discovering things. Software updates can change what your old code does - for example this mix features a lot of chromatic runs due to a pattern parsing bug. It's a great set of problems to have, in musical terms.

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Cook: What are some of the conceptual problems that happen with live coding?

Data: The big one for me is - is it really so different to any other form of music making, or not? Over time I've come to see similarities more than differences, but some people see it as a completely orthogonal process to all other forms of composition or performance. It's a great problem as a setting for humanist drama ;~P

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Cook: How effective is Big Data?

Data: By now it's pretty obvious that Big Data aggregates and re-projects our common biases onto us in rigid, standardised formats, whilst Lil Data is about curating and amplifying imperfections that have meaning and positivity.

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Cook: Where & why did you grow up?

Data: I grew up in a shrinking old market town in the outskirts of Manchester which is only known for it's serial killers, and that is why I grew up.

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Cook: A couple of months ago you uploaded a video of what appears to be a fairly advanced dildo interacting with some ROLI BLOCKS hardware. Is that the future of music?

Data: It's a MysteryVibe Crescendo. I won it at a sex hackathon and wanted to know if I could use it to make musical robots, but unfortunately it's not self-articulating and doesn't have an API! It's certainly a valid future, although I think there's plenty more interesting ones out there ;)

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Lil Data - I Was Born To Code (Live Code 2013-2015)

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Lil Data - I Was Born To Code (Live Code 2013-2015)

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