This one’s been on heavy rotation for the past couple months:
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Today I went back to my favorite album from last year and thought of sharing it here. Many of you may know them already. Their previous album named Multi-Love (2015) is the one that got me into them and only then I dived into II, that came out in 2013. Their first album is self-titled and worth listening to get some perspective in their sound development.
However Sex & Food and IC-01 Hanoi (instrumental album that originated from the sessions for Sex & Food) are my favorite.
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Dang, that was really good. Was he playing instruments in supercollider with a joystick?
Not entirely same, not entirely different, but maybe you’d like emptyset? My mind isn’t producing any noise artists that fit that bill, at the moment.
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this is pretty cool! thanks for the suggestion.
He’s got a joystick, keypad and an Akai MPC mini(this might have changed, I know he used one at some point though). I think it is all supercollider though from what I’ve heard.
mateo
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An unlikely mix of artists (Si Begg, Murcoff, Vanessa Wagner and John Cage) but a nice result
Jet
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The guy’s brother, who joined the band relatively recently I think, did a great album of his own as Silicon, called from memory God Emoji. He has other stuff out there under his own name, Kody Nielson.
Their previous band had a number one single back here in New Zealand, which seemed weird enough at the time.
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Great info! I didn’t know he had a brother who played music too. I’m gonna look him up. All I knew from an interview I watched on Youtube is that he was from NZ and he used to be an art student. And I believe his father was a musician as well.
The first song by UMO I listened to was Necessary Evil. I was instantly captivated by the intro guitar riff and vocals (that sounded kind of distorted). It was a live version for some Youtube radio/tv station. I love them. My favorite album from 2015 has to be Choose Your Weapon, though (by Hiatus Kaiyote).
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The A History of Music Technology radio documentary series from the BBC World Service. I wrote about it more at my blog (paging @disquiet).
It’s cracking, so far. Each episode is 50m, they have good, knowledgable interviewees, and go suitably deep on each topic; by leaving the Synthesizer and the Sampler to later episodes, the Electronic Music Pioneers episode can spend lots of time with Theremin and Martenot and the WDR, for instance, rather than squeezing them into a program mainly about Moogs. Really recommended.
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I’ve been listening to this new release today: https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/wind-colors
Very nice indeed.
Jet
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Here’s their earlier band, The Mint Chicks. I don’t hear that much of either UMO or Silicon in it. Fun tho imo.
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The new Loscil is sounding very, very good. Can’t wait to hear the whole record.
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Welp… More new Bon Iver is on the agenda again.
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Wow, nice pairing of sound+video.
Right? This is something else, I like it. It doesn’t have the same level of artistry in the sound I guess. But again, that is very much something UMO developed album by album.
brook
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This is great, thanks for posting! Do you know if the downloads of this “expire” a la netflix etc? The BBC site says “6 days left to listen”… if that applies to the downloaded files I’ll be sad as I won’t get through them!
The downloads won’t expire - they’re plain old MP3s. “Days to listen” is, however, time during which those downloads are available and the stream is available…
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I downloaded them from the Apple podcast app, fwiw…
should be fine! there’s no DRM on those files, and they’re not proprietary like Netflix, etc.
