Imperial College - Radio Mix (2013)

御柱035_諏訪大社上社本宮御柱休め　柱の周りを掘る

※「御柱休め」
諏訪大社上社本宮、上社前宮、下社秋宮、下社春宮に6年間建立されてきた御柱を倒し、ご神体としての役目を終了し処分すること

Held once every six years in the central Japanese tow

Onbashira  "Held once every 6 years " B 035

Bass Clef
Bugbranded EP
PUBINF013

Release Date: 3rd March 2014
4 track EP (Ltd 500 copy pressing -no repress- in debossed house sleeve, individually hand numbered) / Download

Buy here: https://publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/bugbranded-ep

And so we drive down rain-slicked analogue motorways head first into our second EP series release following an IVVVO dispatch in September 2013. This time out Ralph Cumbers AKA Some Truths AKA Bass Clef is behind the wheels.

The clue is in the title. Tom “BugBrand” Bugs, denizen of Bristol, electronic sound devices engineer, maker and creator. The four tracks here are dedicated to his craft and design: the thrill of the analogue-surprise, the crunch of the circuit, the twist of the patch cable, the white-hot burn of solder on board.  BUT it takes a real master to make sense of these machines, Public Information are so happy to have one in our midst.

Long-time wielder of the modular-flame, Ralph Cumbers has a distinguished CV for the likes of Punch Drunk and his own Magic+Dreams imprint. Here, across four extended sequences does he shine, taking the crystalline drive and coarse groove of the acclaimed Reeling Skullways LP into hotwired groove zones.

“Sometimes the only way out is to go further in” starts the trip. Take care dear listener; once you’re in track one, you may not want to escape from its grip, its cyclical riffs, its space dust licks, its buttered bass notes. Then, the sadness. The mournful minor key shuffle of “elsewhen” is sheer blue-note Blade Runner melancholy. Then, the euphoria. Instant gratification hits you on “faster than the speed of love” a click-pump-click-pump kick surrounded by jagged sawtones, straight to the chest. Through swirling, speed-addled melodies does Clef then lead us- Detroit nights under Hackney sodium lights. Then, to a breath. Bugbranded arrives at an all too premature end with “neon black and vulcane” a glistening collage of white noise splash, acidic whispers and head-nod-chug.

This is techno how it was dreamed in Belleville, re-imagined by a genius with a synth or three. In Clef we trust, for all our magic and dreams.

A1: sometimes the only way out is to go further in
A2: elsewhen
B1: faster than the speed of love
B2: neon black and vulcane

Bass Clef - Faster Than The Speed Of Love (Taken from Bugbranded EP released 3rd March 2014)

This is fun XD glitching sounds with a sequencer I've written in Pure Data, more details on it to come.

pure data glitch 1

Nyna

dusk

Doors, Drawers, and the Fridge

Happy making simple noises sound complex

szdl is done. Those two EPs were probably the most successful musical creative period in my life so far, but that time is gone and I feel like I'm judging everything I do against them - so by killing this I can move on and do something new. Don't know what yet, or how, but it's a fresh start for me. I'm going to leave this page up - for myself, so I can look back and see what I've done if I want to, because the files are spread over several computers, most of them now dead - and so, if I want to, I can let other people hear what I've done before.

Thank you everybody who ever listened to a track, I shouldn't vindicate myself through a "like" but I did, and every one meant an awful lot to me.

Thank you, and good bye.