Taken from "Human" out now >

Digital: iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport http://btprt.dj/TC7WHJ
Vinyl / CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

This was a fun track to make. I wanted to try and make something purely noisy and intense, but always delivering a feeling that 100 times more power was still fighting to get out, like the potency of human nature. After deciding on a basic chord structure, it was just a matter of layering and layering, which gave an interesting interference result, you can hear the different waves interacting to give beating patterns.

The layers were made from some Operators in Ableton with Guitar Rigs and Saturators, plus a Moog Minitaur with a fast LFO with high resonance, plus Andy Ramsay’s overdriven guitar amps and speakers re-recorded, plus Phil Kieran’s tape saturation/distortion - it’s basically a right mess! You can even hear some of the leftovers on Phil’s tape at the end, with him speeding it up and slowing it down. Interestingly, that Moog on there was the only analogue synthesiser used in the whole album, the rest was all sourced digitally, albeit with some subtle analogue compression and analogue mixing desk throughs at the end.


Some album press:

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja

"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ

Potency (clip) from HUMAN LP out now

sketch 4 (clip)


For this year's Record Store Day, the Monkeys offer you a set of tunes released on Monkeytown Records in 2014, however freshly remixed by other Monkeytown artists in 2015:

Find an Anstam edit of a Dark Sky's "manuka" taken from their debut full length "imagin".

Tracklist:

01 / A - Robot Koch "Let Me feat. Curtain Blue & Born In Flamez / Alex Banks Remix"

02 / B1 - Dark Sky "Manuka / Anstam's Saint Seclusive Edit"

03 / B2 - Mouse on Mars & Tyondai Braxton"Off Sea/ Gajek Remix"

Order your 12" on Record Store Day, April 18, 2015 at our webshop at bit.ly/1E1E8Li
or visit you trusted record dealer.


Dark Sky "manuka" / Anstam Edit

All samples except the drums, the vocals and the second bass are from drifting chairs sampled for the challenge. 

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Yo, this is it for now

Alphaville, updated mix. Recorded in Bitwig Studio.

Pale Blue Star EP

Alphaville

Buy on Bandcamp

Alphaville (mix 3)

Nearly all sounds made from Piano and Eurorack

Human, intimate and soulful. Heavily processed pianos, otherworldly drums, hunting vocals and a dose of synthetic bass bring a pack that sends you floating, tether-less, through space. Let go, and become, Adrift

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blocs-wave-make-record-music/id1085697317?mt=8

Aneek Thapar, Matt Pike

'Adrift' (Novation/Blocs Wave)

NO LIMIT IN " THE PRESTIGE "

The Recreational Beats EP takes some of the deep, 170 bpm-based ideas that Stillhead was playing with while making both Iceberg and Copenhagen albums, and takes them a step (perhaps a side-step) closer to the dancefloor.

Mixing the deep, spaced out sounds of dub-techno with the tight percussion, deep bass and intricate breaks associated with experimental drum & bass, Alex pushes headlong into the abyssal soundscapes he has become known for, but this time with swing, with conviction and with a 3-track that sits somewhere between the dancefloor and your headphones.

Throw in an expansive vocal track with collaborators Cubehog, (reminiscent of Ian Brown’s wider tones) and you’ve got a strong 3-track offering.

Tracklist:
01 Recreational Beats
02 Still Monday
03 Society (feat. Cubehog)

NO LIMIT IN " THE PRESTIGE "

ZERO GR4VITY