http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/beatrice-dillon/

'A mix of bees, inspirational drumming from amongst other places, Senegal, Chad, NY, Haiti and London. Plus sounds from ancient keyboards made in Germany, Italy and Austria, recorded Summer 2013.'

CLAVICHORD OCTAVES*
EXTRACTS FROM 'DISARM' LP
BUMBLEBEE (TWO-TONED FLIGHT) RECORDED BY ALBRO T. GAUL
BEATRICE DILLON - PILOT
KABRÈ - LITHOPHONE, PICANCALA
HARPSICHORD OCTAVES*
BARA - PERCUSSIONS AFRIQUE N°1 TCHAD ("RAMATA", JOUÉ EN L'HONNEUR DU SULTAN NGAOURAN)
HARPSICHORD OCTAVES*
BEATRICE DILLON & RUPERT CLERVAUX - STUDIES II
JERI JERI - SAMA YAYE VERSION
RHYTHM RECORDED BY TONY SCHWARTZ
UNKNOWN ARTIST - BAND 17. HAITI: JUBA DANCE DRUMMING
BEATRICE DILLON - INTRO
GRAND PIANOFORTE OCTAVES*
MBOUM - PERCUSSIONS AFRIQUE N°1 TCHAD (RYTHMES DU "NDAÏ GOUMA")
GRAND PIANOFORTE OCTAVES*
PFUNDIG - MARK SANDERS (MUTATED)

*SOUNDS FROM INSTRUMENTS BUILT IN 1784, 1622, 1819. ALL EXTRACTS FROM RECORDINGS BY BEATRICE DILLON & RUPERT CLERVAUX

15 ◆ Beatrice Dillon

http://www.rappcats.com/thank-you-jay-dee-act-2/ A dedication to the late J Dilla, mixed by J Rocc. This was the second of a four-part series, released over the course of three years.

Thank You Jay Dee, Act 2, mixed by J Rocc

It's time to take a journey through West Africa via New York with one of the most exciting underground producers of the moment. French born musical explorer Débruit first caught our attention with his infectious 2009 tune, Nigeria What? His new album, Outside The Line, transcends West African music and Afrobeat rhythms through the synth work of 80s New York, and it really is something special. His evolutionary sound perfectly captures musical eras gone by, while making a unique and futuristic sound seem effortless. For all these reasons and more, we are delighted to welcome him to the i-D mix family with this incredible sonic journey. "It’s made of tracks that I’ve always liked and that inspired the album a lot," he says of his offering. "Tracks from west Africa to NYC. Some slow and contemplative like Arthur Russell and Mamane Sani, some compulsive like Suicide and James Chance, others dancey like Dr Adolf Ahanotu and ESG, or polyrhythmic like Steve Reich and Konono n°1 and their electric trance likembés." Press play!
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Interpretations On F.C. Judd

Judd Drums

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

9/8

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