Flavor of the Week #52

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Kurt Baggaley/Scape One
scapeone.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/pages/Kurt-Baggaley/973688385996190
( ;D --> Scape One is Kurt Baggaley. He gained attention with his releases as scape one writing for labels like electrix, SCSI-AV and templedog. Writing since the 1980's and using mainly analog & hardware. He also writes under guises as Tau Sagittarii (experimental/ambient) Dr. Futurist and Tactical Systems (electro/techno), and under his own name (minimal/synth/deep).)
Former Self Ep (SoHaSo 005)
soundcloud.com/nunodossantos/kurt-baggaley-former-self-ep-sohaso-005
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/05/flavor-of-week-21.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/flavor-of-week-31.html
 
Boris Blank
borisblankelectrified.com/
www.facebook.com/yello.ch
soundcloud.com/boris-blank-electrified
www.yello.com/
( ;D --> Boris Blank is the musical part of Yello. He composes the songs and is responsible for the characteristic sound, having the reputation of a perfectionist. Boris considers himself as a constructor of music, starting composing with manipulation of self-recorded samples and finishing the tracks with the participation of invited professional musicians. Prior to his musical career, Blank worked as a truck driver. As a child he was very interested in music, but had no formal training. He never learned to read musical notation but always was interested in producing new sounds and samples. Blank began experimenting with tape loops and echo effects as a teenager. He recorded watersounds from a bucket of water and played sounds on a homemade bamboo flute. It was in this period he met Carlos Perón. Later, they formed Yello, with Dieter Meier as a conceptualist, vocalist and lyricist. He also composes and produces solo music, under the name Avant Garden, which is strictly intended for licensing to the film and TV production industry. This music is currently handled by Extreme Music. Blank was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident while playing with gunpowder and empty bullet shells. Boris Blank lives in Zürich, with his wife, and daughter Olivia. He is the second cousin twice removed of Scottish businessman Stewart Milne.)
Electrified
BB_Amazon
Big City Grill' - REMIX w FIFI RONG
soundcloud.com/boris-blank-electrified/big-city-grill-fifi-rong-vocal
See also
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/08/flavor-of-week-34.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
 
ASC
www.beatport.com/artist/asc/144
theasc.blogspot.se/
( ;D --> James Clements, better known as ASC, is a British electronic producer who currently resides in Del Mar, California. He has been releasing music under the alias ASC since 1999, and originally gained popularity as a drum and bass producer. Since the late 2000s, he has been one of the key artists in the emerging autonomic genre, along with artists such as dBridge and Instra:Mental. Since he redefined his musical persona with the Autonomic sound back in 2009, it seems like San Diego's ASC has been on a quest to prove he can do everything. Whether that's been running a label, performing a two-hour techno DJ set made entirely of his own material, releasing an ambient album or reviving his Mindspan alias, he did it all—except it seemed like he didn't make drum & bass anymore. While 2010's acclaimed Nothing Is Certain wasn't your average drum & bass record, it was mostly 170 BPM, and sometimes it feels like James Clements has been avoiding that tempo like the plague ever since. An enormously busy two years later, he finally re-emerges in familiar clothing with that album's spiritual sequel, Out of Sync, on New Zealand/Berlin-based Samurai Music.)
Out of sync
soundcloud.com/samuraimusicgroup/asc-oneironaut-out-of-sync-out
soundcloud.com/samuraimusicgroup/sets/asc-out-of-sync-lp-cd-digi-out
play.spotify.com/album/0WWQctMRLP5PxnkI4Zvlso
samuraimusic.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-sync
 
Vaccine/Christine Clements
soundcloud.com/vaccine
twitter.com/Vacccine
( ;D --> Vaccine is the production alias of Christine Clements. Having been involved with the promotions end of the industrial rock and IDM music scenes since she was a teenager, and running drum & bass and dubstep record labels with her husband, ASC, writing her own music - after she'd been promoting other people's for years - was a logical progression. Drawing inspiration from synaesthesia and her melting pot of musical influences ranging from Portishead to Skinny Puppy, Vaccine's style has been recognized as being considerably more melodic and not necessarily as dancefloor-orientated as her male cohorts. XLR8R magazine noted her "subtle melodies and echoed vocals", as well as stating that "(Vaccine's) constructions aren't necessarily main floor rave fodder, but rather, comedown music for the 6 a.m. afterhours." She is also notable for being the first female producer signed to a label in dubstep, Hotflush Recrodings, within what was up until then a genre whose producers were almost, if not entirely, male. Her DJ mixes as well have attracted attention for their careful commitment to precise blends, mixing in key, and unexpected multigenre inclusions.)
Decryption EP
auxiliary.bandcamp.com/album/decryption-ep
( ;D --> Vaccine returns to Auxiliary with a digital only offering for our Transmissions series. Four tracks here from the depths of the Vaccine vaults, sitting mainly around the 140 bpm mark. These tracks are actually from a few years back, when Vaccine was working with the likes of Nonplus and Hotflush. She had asked us to put them out since there was still demand for them, so we thought they'd be a fine addition to our catalogue. First up is the EP's title track, Decryption. Super high tech percussion and strange sounds trigger off huge bass and stark eerie manipulated vocals. Dark science. Bad Habit goes a little lighter and introduces a vocal to stunning effect. Nurse drops the tempo to 85bpm and keeps the bass heavy. Fans of the Autonomic podcast may remember this one. Finally, Electrolyte (Decryption Part 2) is the light to Decryption's darkness - an alter-ego of sorts. Stunning stuff from start to finish.)

Robert Rich
robertrich.com/
www.myspace.com/rrich
( ;D --> Although his music is often consigned to the new age bins of record stores and the bulk of his work has been released on labels more closely associated with that classification, Robert Rich's solo and collaborative recordings have proven extremely influential on a range of new-school ambient and experimental artists. His association with older space music pioneers such as Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, and Michael Stearns also makes him one of the few of that generation to have interfaced creatively with the new wave of experimental electronic composers. A California native, Rich began experimenting with electronics in the late '70s before attending Stanford University, where he completed a degree in psychology. While at Stanford, Rich's involvement in the university's prestigious Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics expanded his interest in electronic composition, as well as bringing him in contact with a wide range of nontraditional, non-Western musical ideas. Rich's performance of several all-night "sleep concerts" during this period also helped solidify an aesthetic focus on psychoacoustics, perceptible in early recordings such as Geometry and Trances/Drones.)
Filaments
twitter.com/robertrichmusic/status/545480162637529088
Perpetual
robertrich.com/discography/album/?album_id=53
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/11/flavor-of-week-49.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/12/flavor-of-week-52.html


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