earlids artist: analog
catalogue number:Hippocamp HC141 tracks:12
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01 vuldren
02 instep with johann
03 rundspitze
04 soupsith
05 slim volume
06 blob forridge
07 backy
08 optimistic pump transition
09 duck beater
10 mandoling
11 wort to yr mother
12 pumpkin pie
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I wrote and recorded most of this album a couple of years ago before putting it on the back burner to concentrate on my band, doublejo(H)ngrey, and my techno/electro project Protoplasm Daddy. Returning to the recordings in 2005 I gave them a thorough overhaul: adding, subtracting and reworking the tunes into this album.
The album follows the format of a prog-rock concept album a la Gong or Hawkwind. Despite its somewhat unfashionable image I am proud to name prog as a big influence: hence my unashamedly pretentious use of unusual time signatures and varied instrumentation. Needless to say I have been influenced by a wide variety of other genres also.
I used computer-based sequencers, effects, synthesis and editing programs alongside live instruments, field recordings, turntables, samples and general sonic and electronic experimentation to produce the album. There are elements of drum&bass, techno, hip-hop, breaks, noise, downbeat and acoustic music, though I’ve tried to mash them all into one big audio mud-pie.
Hope you enjoy it!
Analog
contact: analog
artist site: snazzyrecords.org.uk
label: hippocamp.net