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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

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RA.823 Clark

05-10

Observe Harvest

Pre Order

Pylon

Superscope

Clark performing music from his new album on Warp Records, ‘Death Peak’, including tracks ‘Peak Magnetic’ and ‘Hoova’, alongside improvisations and musical counterpoints to the universe of the album. 

‘Death Peak’ is available now on Vinyl, CD, Digital and to Stream:
Buy – http://smarturl.it/death-peak
Stream – http://smarturl.it/death-stream

”I wanted to design a musical space where I could playback and remix my favourite album tracks, and also create some off the cuff improvisations that I feel are an enhancing and flirtatious musical counterpoint to the universe of Death Peak.

Going back to the material has made me pick apart some of the sequences and made realise what I value most in music.
I tend to shun the pointlessly intricate in favour of the impressionistic, the visceral. I want to extend the boundary of what's possible in music but not lose sight of the complex, emotional story telling at the heart of it, for me it's these things that give music a long lifespan, you keep coming back to records that pull you in on a level that bypasses rational analysis. I give priority to the most child-like, pure and agile musical phrases I come up with, and tend to poke fun at myself when I get all dry and technical.

Death Peak is a riddle of these most pure and lucid moments, condensed into an enduring and continuous musical wheel. I feel I really closed the circle on this one. But then I would say that. All I can say is that I loved making it. Hope you enjoy it too.”
– Chris Clark

CLARK LIVE 2017 / NORTH AMERICAN CO-HEADLINE TOUR WITH COM TRUISE

More information and tickets at http://throttleclark.com

APRIL
21 – Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus
22 – London, GB @ Electric Brixton

MAY
01 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room @ The Observatory*
02 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium*
04 – Portland, OR @ Holocene*
05 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial*
06 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
07 – Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall*
09 – San Francisco, CA @ Mezzanine*
10 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Soho Music Club*
11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater*
12 – San Diego, CA @ The Belly Up*
14 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater*
16 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird*
17 – Nashville, TN @ Exit In*
20 – Boston, MA @ Together Boston Music & Arts Festival*
21 – Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom*
23 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar*
24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Coda*
25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw*
26 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount*
27 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground*
28 – Detroit, MI @ Ghostly Intl/Warp Movement Afterparty at The Shelter*
30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater*
JUNE
01 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi*
02 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop*
03 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall*
04 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café*
05 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown*
06 – Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar*
07 – Dallas, TX @ Trees*
08 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall*
09 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk*
10 – Mexico City, MX @ Sala Corona*
16 – Barcelona, ES @ Sonar Festival

JULY
07 – Katowice, PL @ Nowa Musijka Festival
08 – Manchester, GB @ Manchester International Festival
16 – Cluj-Napoca, RO @ Electric Castle Festival




22 – Brescia, IT @ MusicalZoo festival at Castello di brescia

AUGUST
24 – Montemor-o-Velho Castle, PT @ Festival Forte

* Co-Headline shows with Com Truise

Death Peak London Session

@Warp-Records veteran and avant-electro icon Clark (@ThrottleClark) drops a knotty and gnarly Dazed Mix following his ninth album Death Peak.

Read more: http://dazd.co/2kGUp59
Download: https://clark.fanlink.to/dazedmix-dl

1. Chris Lee - Only You (Clark remix)
2. Beige Lasers - Chewy Flutes
3. Clark - Catastrophe Anthem (Rap Mix)
4. Regal Flotsam - Cracked
5. Trained -  Carpal Night Turns
6. Selfie - Torrid Opulence
7. Mordant Shish - Lung Pie
8. Over-Praised Slob - Laminate
9. Tamsin Shikane - Eye Feels
10. I Like It - Coz Ppl Say So
11. Marvel Doof - X Peach Y Dog
12. Xededo - Greyscale Cardinal
13. Cranken House - Lift You Up
14. Matt Berry - Night Terrors (Clark Remix)
15. Radiation Clutch - Life Outro

Dazed Mix

Dazed Mix: Clark

Stream/download here: https://ffm.to/fallingdownvideo

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Follow Ital Tek https://soundcloud.com/ital-tek

Beneath The Surface Remixed Pt.1

Falling Down

Buy/stream

Falling Down (Ital Tek Remix)

Interview + Download:  http://truantsblog.com/2019/truancy-volume-247-clark/ 

Soundcloud: @throttleclark

Following an expansive discography of LPs on Warp from 2001 to 2017, the latest release from acclaimed British producer Clark sees him self-releasing an album for the first time on his own label Throttle Records. Titled Kiri Variations the fourteen-track album is an extension on his score work he produced for BAFTA-nominated TV drama Kiri back in 2018. Having delved into world of scoring for film and TV back in 2016 with the soundtrack for crime-thriller The Last Panthers, he's taken to the versatility of this type of work with ease. Clark's music, even if sparingly, has always had quite emotive themes and on Kiri, his use of piano, harpsichord, clarinet, strings, electronics and his own voice paints a wonderfully melancholic narrative. We caught up with Clark to discuss the work put into Kiri Variations, his performance at the Royal Albert Hall, the transitional two second 'holy points' in his productions and how producing music for horror films is one of the most satisfying things you could ever do as a producer. His Truancy Volume, a sonic extension of his recent scores, is a riveting tapestry of organic instrumentation. Incredibly coherent yet polarising at points, his embrace of recent acoustic sources can be heard throughout. Shuttling through haunting modern classical and folktronica to the trance-induced productions of Lorenzo Senni, it's an overlap of two circles both firing up emotion. As Clark puts himself  - "We live in a post-genre era, it's good to take advantage of that."

http://truantsblog.com

Truancy Volume 247: Clark

Clark - Branding Problem 12" - 22 November 2019

A - Branding Problem
AA - Legacy Pet

Throttle Records (THROT003)

Order 12" vinyl and buy your digital Legacy Pet https://lnk.to/THROT003
Bandcamp - https://clark.bandcamp.com/album/branding-problem

“I’ve been quite amused at how easy it is to stream background music these days. How accessible it all is and how entitled we all feel to it, like it’s some sort of air freshener you spray in your Uber.

For some reason I’m imagining a future where Elon Musk does a streaming deal, so he can prance around controlling nano implant VR chips for 1 million amortal coastal elites, while the rest of us don’t have electricity and only manage one rave a year - to a sound system powered by rationed candles. This is music for that fantasy scenario, ha.

Anyway, I don’t want these 2 tracks to be part of background air freshener world. They are limited edition club gear. I wanna play them out so badly in my live show.

Influences: Hardcore UK rave, Detroit techno, Jungle, Oizo, Ed Rush and Optical, No U-Turn. The origins, the source and it’s constant subsequent mutations. BEHOLD THE CONTINUUM, HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE.” Clark

Branding Problem

Legacy Pet

— Top-ranking leftfield star Clark is next with a few rare and unreleased Clark gems. 
— Head to Tobacco Docks Saturday 4th April to experience his standout live performance, alongside what's possibly the best techno line up the capital has ever seen. 

Tracklist:

Bernard Parmegiani - Image de Marque Extrait
Yair Elazar Glotman - Oratio Continua (Part 1)
Pierre Schaffer - Etudes Les Allures
Clark - WOOF (Opening)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy Love Theme
Jonny Greenwood - Baton Sparks
Clark - Unreleased  Dove Melan Section
Jan Johansson - Polska Efter H
Mark Fell - Multistability 7.B
Clark - Unreleased Manic
Alvin Lucier - August Moon
Clark - Unreleased Horror Slab / Xyl Funk
Lucy Railton - Pinnevik
Supersilent - 6.4
Morton Feldman - Two Instruments
The Caretaker - Libet’s Delay
Clark - Snowflake Banger
Clark - Experts In Light
Bernard Parmegiani - Ondes Croisees

RE–TEXTURED Podcast 019 — Clark

https://throttleclark.com

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