Back in 1963 when synthesizers and electronic music were strictly the refuge of academic professors, Morton Subotnick played Don Buchla's Music Box on his experimental album 'Silver Apples Of The Moon', and put electronic music firmly in the imagination of the public. The grandfather of electronic music and his non-traditional approach to pitch and timbre has been influencing sound design and installations ever since.
Born 1974 in Edinburgh. Chris Douglas – aka O.S.T. / Rook Vallard / Dalglish grew up in San Francisco and began studying piano at age 8. Released first EP on Detroit based Switch Records in 1992. Founded Qlipothic Records in 1996. He has created a large body of work, a highly textured and confrontational take on traditional forms of electronic dance music.
With initial releases and early formative years spent in Detroit and San Francisco, he acquired several high profile fans such as Autechre who had him support their 2001 ‘Confield’ tour of North America, then later brought him to Europe to play their curated ATP festival, where he has remained since.
The digital only version of ‘Benacah Drann Deachd’, his latest release has been receiving some of his most eager reception to date, with a full page review in the June issue of the Wire:
“Chris Douglas haunts his own music. A nomad and something of a loner, he has rattled around the electronic music network like a busted component for the last decade and a half [...] It’s appropriate, because his music is one of the most striking evocations of the life of the mind that you’re ever likely to hear. The music is substantially live, improvised within a loose framework, and the shifting layers of grey-green tone, fractured samples and nervous tics that whip around the stereo field obsessively tease out new geometries and shapes ..” Derek Walmsley, The Wire
Featuring:
Alan Moore
Walter Murch
Phoenecia
Surgeon
SND
Tetsu Inoue
Sensational
Newcleus
Hate
Oneohtrix Point Never
Angelo Badalamenti
Made
Haswell+Hecker
Scott Walker
Ian Darby
Public Image Ltd
Ligeti
Zoviet France
Tim Hecker
Great mix from the mighty Sir Froderick, courtesy of the good people over at Collective Resonance check out an interview with the man here and keep a look out for him appearing on the Fitz Ambro$e "PDISO REMIXED" project, out soon on ∆ICASEA.....
Tracklist: More Santika SSRI6 La Rouge - Funeral March Magus I It's a gesture Dear, Not a recipe Sodium Haze Unravelling Failures Knots What happened then? Cathartic Interlude PNH III A S P Soren K
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ICASEA est une plate-forme fondée en 2008 par Satoshi Aizawa, Tom Knapp et Alex Peverett, afin de proposer des oeuvres physiques et digitales d'artistes sonores et musiciens éléctroniques oeuvrant dans différents endroits du globe. Ce blog/bloc notes, alimenté par les artistes du label, a pour vocation de documenter leurs différents centres d'intérêts. Veuillez visiter le site officiel d'ICASEA afin d'être informé de l'actualité du label.
ZK / THE OWL OF MINERVA FLIES AT DUSK (MP3 audio, 141 MB)
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