Saltim Bocca wrote:
quoted 25 lines Yes, I agree his Audio.nl release is excellent. He has a knack for
>>Yes, I agree his Audio.nl release is excellent. He has a knack for
>>doing a variety
>>of different styles and doing them all, in my opinion, well. Got to
>>play live with
>>him in Vancouver last year; would urge those who get the opportunity to
>>check
>>him out. Andrew Duke
>>
>>
>
>Hey Andrew,
>did you get to chat with him how he goes about creating tracks? i.e., inside
>the computer or with machines (sounds very native to me - max??). The new
>one on Warp, on the other hand, with the hiphop grooves, may be done on a drum
>machine/mpc? I heard prefuse73 uses mpc's live and their tracks bear some
>similarity.
>
>You seem to have a very high profile release-wise, too! Care to describe
>what you do and how you do it?
>
>Cheers,
>Roland
>
>
>
Hi, Roland. When I played with Jimmy Edgar the Audio.NL release was
just about to come out and
he said that was all done with patches he designed and then he
introduced viruses to. He had only
recently been signed to Warp, so we didn't talk about what he had
forthcoming there, though he
did say that Warp were treating him very well and he was very
enthusiastic about the deal. Live-wise
he ran his sequences in Logic and then jammed over them with an Oxygen 8
keyboard (he's a damn
good player--reminded me of Prince what he was coming up with); he also
had a second laptop
that he used to run live visuals. Re: my stuff: I try to make all my
albums related around a concept
as opposed to just throwing a bunch of tracks together and calling the
result an "album"
(More Destructive Than Organized is about religion and war, Physical and
Mental Health, plus
Environmental Politics, and Take Nothing For Granted are about the
environment and the way
we abuse it plus how we abuse our own selves, as is the forthcoming
Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should; 74'02 and Consumer Vs.
User--forthcoming on Phthalo--
are about consumerism, Remembering Jason Trenholm--forthcoming on
Bip-Hop--is related to
memories of my best friend Jason Trenholm who passed away January 1,
Highest Common Denominator
is about working with others to create something even better than what
the two separates could
have achieved; Reciprocess Vol 3 forthcoming on Fallt/Bip-Hop is a
collaboration between
myself and Montreal's I8U. Basically, my songs tend to be
socio-political in theme and I use
related field recordings usually as their basis). I do a mix of
styles--techno, tech house,
electro, idm, dub, ambient, microsound, etc (not a fan of labelling
music, but it makes it easier
in certain circumstances)--and try to keep things non-predictable and as
non-sequenced sounding
as possible (I do most of my stuff by jamming and then cutting and
pasting the results as opposed
to straight up sequencing a track from start to finish; the majority of
Sprung was done like this;
ditto for my live shows--I try to make them as unpredictable as possible
and different each time).
Thanks for the interest. Take care. Andrew
--
Jason Trenholm was born 31 August 1969 and died 1 January 2004.
We met when we were 5 years old; he was my best friend for the next 29 years.*****
Andrew Duke releases out now:
Take Nothing For Granted
http://cognitionaudioworks.com
Environmental Politics
http://and-oar.org
Sprung
http://bip-hop.com *Canadian electronica album of the year nominee*
More Destructive Than Organized
http://staalplaat.com
Highest Common Denominator
http://pieheadrecords.com
Physical and Mental Health
http://dialrecords.com
74'02 (split with Hypo)
http://tsunami-addiction.com
http://cognitionaudioworks.com