Analog Symbionts

Yamaha SY77 + PitchLoop89 &  ProphetVS + H3000.  Prophet 12. Long held notes and lot of envelopes and LFOs.

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This hybrid DJ / Live Set was recorded in a yurt structure at the Freerotation Festival in Wales. This time my idea for the set was to take us all much further out, much deeper inside than the set from last year. A more disembodied experience. 

As I had done last year, I sat on the floor in front of the speakers to perform instead of behind them as a DJ normally does. This greatly enhanced my feeling of experiencing the set with the audience, dissolving the usual performer / audience divide. 
Below is the list of tracks that I played in addition to live improvisation using a eurorack modular system.

Many thanks to Steevio, the whole Freerotation crew and everyone who experienced it there with me.


Lars Von Trier - Intro from Europa
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Crossing the Line - Tibetan Bells III
Delia Derbyshire - Running - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Hydraulic Regime Vibrates Within - Journey from Anywhere
Coil - Copal - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Such Is Life - Time To Tell
Coil - Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück - Black Light District
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside: Excerpts - The Best Of William Burroughs
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music - Weaving
Coil - Bism - Worship The Glitch
Delia Derbyshire - Colour - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Long Distance Poison - Signal I (Drew McDowall Remix) - Gleise Translations
Coil - Caged Birds - Worship The Glitch
Coil - Magnetic North - Winter Solstice
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
Coil - We Have Always Been Here - Worship The Glitch
Jo Johnson - Long Shadow (Anthony Child remix)
Rapoon - We Danced Like Sticks - The Kirghiz Light
Alessandro Cortini - Resta - Forse 1
Delia Derbyshire - Falling - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Open Interval 1 - Journey from Anywhere
Rapoon - Dala - The Kirghiz Light
Coil - Ended - Worship The Glitch

Surgeon (ambient set) at Freerotation 2014

This is the recording of a live improvisation performed at Freerotation festival in Wales.
I was seated on the floor of the yurt with the audience so as to give us the experience of travelling together.
Thanks to Steevio for making it possible and to everyone who was there experiencing it with me.

The following machines were used-
Buchla Music Easel
Electro Harmonix 45000
Strymon blueSky
Sony PCM-D50 recorder

Freerotation 2015

Anthony Child - Live improvisation at Freerotation, Wales 11th July 2015

Track from NE24 Abdulla Rashim - A Shell of Speed

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Abdulla Rashim - A Shell Of Speed

Track from NE29 Lundin Oil - Between the Shields

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Lundin Oil - Torches At Distance

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Mana

Premiere: Ligovskoï - Mana (Abdulla Rashim Remix)

Here's the recording of my live techno set from Friday night at Freerotation Festival 2017. Thanks to Steevio & Suzybee, the whole crew and everyone who was there. I hope you enjoy the recording as much as I did performing it!

Freerotation 2017

Surgeon live at Freerotation, Wales 7th July 2017

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Joliejulien 001intro

A track released on the almighty M>O>S Deep label...

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6239/asok/better-dead-than-alien

ASOK - Better Dead Than Alien - M>O>S Deep

HVL - Ostati - 0A008

( Organic Analogue Records )

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/hvl-ostati/686593-01/

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Tracklisting:-

A1. Shesavali
A2. Sallow Myth
A3. დაისი (Daisi)
B1. Under Libra
B2. Askinkila
B3. Sinister Sea
C1. Continuum
C2. აისი (Aisi)
D1. Futuro
D2. When Rivers Flow

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Copies : 300 (limited edition) 
Vinyl : Black Double LP (140g)With Insert. 
Release date : 30th June (approximately) 
Distribution : Juno 
Mastered : Optimum Bristol

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Back in 2015, Team OA proudly showcased the work of Georgian producer Gigi Jikia, better known as HVL. The Away From Everything We Know 12” was instrumental in establishing Organic Analogue’s tendency for deeper strains of electronic music, and now it feels right to be welcoming Gigi back to present his long-awaited debut album.

In the past five years HVL releases have been flying out on labels such as Rough House Rosie, Housewax, Flyance and many more besides. Favouring a dubby aesthetic and adept at handling rhythms and tempos between house, techno and electro, the HVL sound is as distinctive as it is classically rooted. Part of this balanced approach is undoubtedly shaped by Gigi’s role within the scene in his native Tbilisi. As a resident of the much vaunted BASSIANI, he’s helped bring electronic music culture to Georgia and his debut album, Ostati, is a conscious tribute to this youthful, dynamic scene on the farthest reaches of Eastern Europe.

The Georgian word Ostati describes, ‘one who has mastered their craft,’ and Gigi applies the meaning to both his own artistic development and that of BASSIANI and the Georgian electronic music scene that, even five years ago, was a faint whisper of what it is today.

Sonically, the album (which Gigi refers to as one of his most personal works to date) is intended as a document of the sound of Tbilisi - a seductive, understated update on the established HVL dynamics, centred on warm, outboard house and techno but with a noticeably understated mood. There are ambient tracks that let sweeping pads and tones ooze from the speakers, but by and large the club tracks take a pared down approach that favours space and meditation over bold brush strokes. This is far from run of the mill minimal techno though. Whether it’s the teeth-gnashing bite of broken beat affair “Askinkila” or the rough and ready acid workout “Continuum”, the sound is gutsy and dripping with character. “Sallow Myth” unfurls itself over nine minutes, pitching somewhere between the warm-up and twist-out part of the night with tranced-out acid lines and rugged drums to suit a heads down throng.

If you think of releases on Ostgut Ton as painting a picture of Berghain as a club, then Ostati spells out a space where dim lights and mysterious corners provide a playground for wild ideas to dart around in the dark. The overall atmosphere may appear subdued, but it’s merely a cover for the fiery spirit lurking underneath. More than anything, this release defines a sound for HVL and BASSIANI distinct from what you might expect to hear in a more established cultural hub.

While it may not be able to recreate the feeling of getting lost in the smoke in the middle of the empty swimming pool in the early hours of the morning, until you can make it to Tbilisi let HVL be your guide.

(words by Oliver Warwick journalist for iDJ mag / RA / Fact / Ransom Note)

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HVL - Ostati LP

Taken from @mattheis forthcoming LP Thin Sections on Nous'klaer Audio.

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Thin Sections

Mica

Bandcamp

Mattheis - A2| Mica - Oemoemenoe1 (Out now)

Over fifty minutes of excellent minimalist synth explorations by Rotterdam based musician Mattheis on his new long player Thin Sections. Simultaneously launching a new series of albums on Nous'klaer Audio intended for sedentary listening. Heavy weight vinyl, full print sleeve and including download card.

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PREMIERE : Mattheis - Borrolan

Garnet

Mattheis - Garnet - Oemoemenoe 1

Staffa

Mattheis - Staffa - Oemoemenoe 1

Northern Electronics 45
Anthony Linell – Consolidate CS

Visual by A.L.

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Anthony Linell – Seeking Immortality

Impossible Holiday Remixes

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B1. Khidja - Haetrin (John Talabot’s Late Remix)

Track from NE59 Isorinne – Stumhetens toner
Cassette & Digital

Visual by A.L.

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Stumhetens toner

Isorinne – Fördelning av tyngd

Astroveliero

Oracolo

Following releases from Rude 66, Vakula and Mick Wills, Arma continues to explore the dark and wild corners of contemporary machine music via a new split 12” featuring LVRIN and Maoupa Mazzocchetti.

LVRIN is a Russian producer entrenched in the guttural thrill of distorted hardware techno. His previous releases have surfaced on Pinkman, Crimes Of The Future (alongside Dmitry Distant) and Sign Bit Zero, while his A Bleak Reality alias landed on Lux Rec sublabel Mrt. These reference points make clear the sound world LVRIN occupies, where blown out boxes spit out gnarled beats and slimy basslines through an overdriven desk. The entwined scepters of post punk and industrial loom over his nocturnal incantations, the clamour of the melodies bleeding into the hiss of the reverb for a gloriously deviant end result. It’s no surprise to learn these vibrant pieces were captured in one take – the impulse and energy of the performance supersedes the need for nitpicking and refinement in the mixdown.

Brussels-based Maoupa Mazzocchetti has been weaving defiantly unconventional strains of electronic music since first emerging on Unknown Precept and Mannequin. From the acclaimed Laugh Tool LP to last year’s Gag Flag on Editions Gravats and an essential leftfield reggaeton collaboration with Clara! on Les Disques De La Bretagne, Mazzocchetti’s path has been wildly unpredictable and highly original. This non-trend continues with the vivid shapes he marks out on the B side of this record. There’s a rugged, body-poppin’ thrust to the grooves that power all three tracks – all the stronger to carry the madcap sampling and mischievous synth splashes that shape out the music’s identity. These are short, sweet blasts of ideas dripping in personality and originality – equal parts deadly serious and deliriously flippant, and essential listening for anyone who enjoys straying from established paths while still rocking to the beat.

Cover artwork by P.Kuznetsov
Release Date: 22 March 2019

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Analog Symbionts

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