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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Producing: <div><br></div><div>I've been working on a weird industrial/ambient cross breed called 'NoiseTheorem'. I've got one album out that I am happy with but could use improvement, and a second album I finished...but won't release (It's full of ideas but not exact in execution). I've started work on a third and I am looking for collaborators.</div><div><br></div><div>I am also working on a new Industrial project (sometimes, you just gotta do what you know) called 'Circuit Jerk'. I've got a couple EE friends who are big fetish freaks working on a two way interface between my modular synth and some freak BDSM electrostim harness thingie for live performance. I give it a 1 in 10 shot of ever being completed and a 1 in 1000 shot of finding anyone crazy enough to let themselves be hooked up to it (of course, this is Chicago...there are a lot of people). </div><div><br></div><div>Listening:</div><div><br></div><div>I've been listening to a lot of environmental recordings. Lots of air conditioners and sewer drains and the like. I've also been listening to a lot of ambient and industrial and getting ideas. For some reason, I've been on a classic 80's industrial kick, pulling out the old Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb records for the first time in probably a decade. </div><div><br></div><div>Tony <br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: nigel@4trak.net<br>Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:59:22 -0700<br>Subject: Label and pigeon-hole yourselves.....<br>To: music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br><br><div dir="ltr">so I've been out for a while, and Andrzej's comment on his post got me thinking about how I have no idea what you're all producing and what you're listening to these days.<div><br></div><div>
Being anal about micro-genre labels sucks, but you know, apart from actually listening to *everything*, language is all we have....</div><div><br></div><div>I'll go first.</div><div><br></div><div>**Producing**</div>
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<br></div><div>I'm still working out what my voice is after a long break, but things seem to be breaking into three broad categories. Forgive my out of date reference points ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Micro-house with a dubby techno kind of vibe. Think Luomo meets Basic Channel and Rhythm and Sound.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Abstract electronic with a more experimental feel, Mouse on Mars, Atom Heart, Pole, Sutekh, Surgeon.</div><div><br></div><div>Urban something post dn
b, autonomic, footwork-y ragga whatever you call this stuff at 150-170 bpm with more stuttery drum work with more kicks.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>**Listening**</div><div><br></div><div>Totally obsessed with Mark Pritchard's EPs under his own name. Completely fascinated by juke/footwork and that whole fast/slow thing that seems to have come out of Mosaic Records, dBridge, Objekt, Om Unit's more recent stuff. Pretty excited about the new Bug album too...</div>
<div><br></div><div>With the recent announcement of the upcoming Aphex Twin album (squee!) I've been working my way through the back catalog of all his older stuff under every pseudonym. It's even more glorious than I remembered.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also been running back through the Kompakt Records back catalog and catching up on the last few years of releases.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div> </div></body>
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