Slowtempo

work beats

Naughty Step EP

Promo Mix for monthly night "HNNY's Honey Pot" at Tranan, Stockholm.

Music For Listening Vol. 4

Announcing the onset of night, Driftmachine —a Berlin-based duo comprised of Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Florian Zimmer (Saroos)— have created Nocturnes, a psychoactive, dream-inducing stimulant of sorts: Evoking and maintaining a trancelike state, the duo’s six-part journey into the dark was originally inspired by reading The Rest Is Noise and listening to the music discussed in Alex Ross’ seminal book. The resulting soundscapes, written and recorded since 2012, redefine the lines between insomnia and slumber, between wraithlike dub grooves gone awry, the dancing flicker of a slack-joint bedside lamp, and eerie electronics.

Nocturnes is essentially comprised of six studies in precision: perfectly symmetrical structures that slowly spread their bass-heavy wings, sprawl like digital fungi, shift shape and – paradoxically – seem to drift and to obey the two captains at the helm. It’s an album of hypnotic and mesmerizing electronic landscapes based on various interlocked layers of rhythm. “Getting deeper into the world of modular systems introduced us to new ways of creating music,” they say, and it also allowed Gerth and Zimmer to redefine and rearrange styles and genres they generally feel drawn to – dub, riddims, anything with bass really –, so the heavy bass and percussive elements of Nocturnes don’t come in the colors you’d expect them to: Driftmachine’s palette stays true to the colors of night, a massive scale of gray.

With its meticulously displaced details and intricate harmony layers, Nocturnes also evokes the electronic avant-garde of the mid-70s, think Cluster during the band’s Zuckerzeit era. Nocturnes keeps the balance between intense, dramatic metrics and rather complex, modulated melodies. Also nodding to Krzysztof Komeda’s compositions (especially his score for Rosemary’s Baby) and the haunting, uncanny vibes of Raime, Nocturnes won’t let you sleep: “To us, the album sounds like staying awake the whole night; it unites all the different moods one might go through.”

All songs produced by Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer. Mastered by John Tejada.

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Driftmachine - Call Mr Moriba

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Music For Listening Vol. 9

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Music For Listening Vol. 11

Simian Mobile Disco - Parson's Nose 
Taken from the album Ralph Lawson - Content

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Simian Mobile Disco - Parson's Nose

Music For Resting

Lead me to the fire
And leave me to the fog 
I’m just a simple dog, I never know what wrong 
Hoping you’ll have me along
Getting to somewhere I don’t belong 
I’ve made it all this way
But baby I’m a fake 
Why don’t you realise 

Take me by the hand and tell me that I’m wrong 
Scold me with your tongue 
Baby it’s ok 
I need to hear it all 
Anyway
Over the moon but I’m back to say 
That yes, I’ve got my flaws 
But baby you’ve got yours 
Why don’t you realise 

Baby when the motion stops 
See reflections in the water as the penny drops 
Hanging round with simple dogs 
Chasing tail tends to fail when the lead comes off 


Will I wait 
On the fence 
Understand 
I don’t understand 
Will I wait 
On the fence 
Understand 
I don’t understand 


Lead me to the fire 
And leave me to the fog 
I’m just a simple dog I never know what wrong 
Hoping you’ll have me along
Getting to somewhere I don’t belong 
I’ve made it all this way
But baby I’m a fake 
Why don’t you realise 

Baby when the motion stops 
See reflections in the water as the penny drops 
Hanging round with simple dogs 
Chasing tail tends to fail when the lead comes off 

Will I wait 
On the fence 
Understand 
I don’t understand
Will I wait 
On the fence 
Understand 
I don’t understand



Written by Nature TV
Recorded by Solo Major at 17b Studios
Mastered by Ed Woods
Released by Heist or Hit

Nature TV is Guy Bangham, Josh Eriskin, James Hunt. 
Drums by Zal Jones, recorded at Rubix.

Unlucky For Some

Simple Dog

Flustered

Comp of a few middle eastern influences..

Watchasounds

Óperentzia - Music God

Greg Hunter - Syrian Rue

Naughty Step

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