Chris Clark's music is hard to describe, but if you wanted to explain it to an electronic music fan, you might use the dreaded term "IDM" to encompass the many strange and alluring records, some frantic, some chill, the UK producer has put out through Warp over the years. We can be a bit more specific: he uses field recordings, out-there drum patterns and all kinds of hardware (seriously, there's a lot) to make make meticulously processed music, some of which you can dance to. Lately, though, he's turned his attention to classical music, scoring films and televisions shows and culminating in last year's Playground In A Lake for vaunted label Deutsche Grammophon, which featured guests like AFRODEUTSCHE and Oliver Coates and a member of Grizzly bear on a moving, string and horns-led suite about climate change.

You hear all these ideas at once on Clark's stirring RA Podcast, which features music, as he explains, from 1922 all the way to 2022. Classical rubs elbows with Burial and Ricardo Villalobos, as once familiar tracks melt into new (mis)shapes. It also features plenty of Clark originals—maybe some glimpsse of the new album? The best part isn't even the formidable selections, but the way he puts it altogether. Far from a seamless DJ mix, this one is full of peaks and valleys and clever transitions that'll make you check the tracklist and wonder what you just heard. It's the kind of all-over-the-place mix that captures the brilliance of Clark's in a DJ format. Maybe he should do this more often.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/823

RA podcast

RA.823 Clark

Perttu Lindroos - Hack The System
Escape From Synthesis - EFS004
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: Finland
Released: Dec 1, 2022

A1. Intro (Narrated by Sam Hughes)
A2. Aftermath
A3. Isolation
A4. Deep Breath
B1. Escape From Newland	
B2. Resistance	
B3. Signal
B4. Glow
C1. The Race To World Domination
C2. Conspiracy
D1. Cyberwar
D2. Mainframe
D3. Poetic Justice

Hack The System

EFS004 - Perttu Lindroos - Hack The System - Sampler

Suicide

Animal Fantasy

Mnemosine

It's Expo 2023 and I got the opportunity to sit down with Larry Demar to talk about the Williams Days. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!

Ep 120: The Godfather of Modern Code, Larry DeMar

pure breakage

mystvib [E-Beamz#8]

Part of "Mean Seed vol. 2" compilation, to be released on 17th of September 2016!

Buy the compilation from: 
http://meanseed.bandcamp.com/

Also, check out the mixtape of the full release from here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0FdrnKl8U

Fornic (preview)

Shadow Banger is my contribution to #savefabric

http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/save-fabric.html

Shadow Banger

79Ancestors is proud to share "Something Akin to Lust" - the first new Telefon Tel Aviv track in over 8 years, and the first single from the inaugural 79A compilation, "Territories" 

Buy Territories Now:  www.79Ancestors.com/Territories

Telefon Tel Aviv - Something Akin To Lust

Piano E.C.S.T. 

Taken from the double A side 12" 'E.C.S.T. T.R.A.X.' release. Out now on Throttle Records, Clark's newly established record label.

https://clarkmusic.lnk.to/ECSTTRAX

Limited edition 12" is available via Bandcamp https://clark.bandcamp.com

E.C.S.T. T.R.A.X.

Buy E.C.S.T. T.R.A.X.

Piano E.C.S.T.

A spiritually anonymous artistic entity trying to express its deeper emotions.

Cover photo © Michael Åhlfors
Profile photo © Marianne Kurki

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