In January, I said there’ll be a proper album release this year.
In February, I said something about Technical Death Metal.
Now it’s May, and there’ll still be an album. But a different one.
A Dub Cartography
Remembering what I did last year as part of DeepMEE, why not something ambient techno. Think minimum viable product, nicht zu viel. And one Music Weeklies contribution somehow set the mood.
Ambient/Dub Techno. Maybe building on what I did last year, but most probably moving into uncharted territory. Again.
A Tracklist?
As of now, there’s completed mixes or at least release candidates for a total of five tracks – enough for a 50-odd-minutes album.
Starting off with Nicht. Zu. Viel., we have another take on the idea you just heard. A sustained chord and a bass drum. Not too much, indeed.
The following Amazake is a genre I would call, after much deliberation, „ambient no techno“. The „ambient“ is there. The „techno“ is there as well, only it’s somewhat dysfunctional. And the odd tonality, while not exactly hurting, does not help, either.
The centrepiece (by track order, and by running time) is Chapter Six. Which is pretty much the pinnacle of last year’s DeepMEE. With a linear edit. I thought about reinterpreting it, but, why? It’s nice as it is.
With Hatsumode, we somehow break out of the musical context altogether. I had first thought about something „more dub than dub techno“. Then it turned into an „abstract hiphop idea“. But without drums, it might also work as contemporary jazz. How will it sound (except for the odd scale)? To be decided? Rolando might play fingerdrums on this!
And closing off, there’s Mehr. Ist. Weniger. Bring back loads of hardware synths again. And combine them with software synths. And play a cluster of all pitch classes in an octatconic scales with them. Then play them with faders on a mixer. There is a musical concept to it. And a continuous bass drum. So it’s ambient techno. Even though there’s church bells.
Path Forward?
Still working on the fingerdrum parts (or not) for Hatsumode. And tie together the master. Cover art will be a breeze – if all else fails, I’ll write the title on a piece of paper and photograph it or something. Minimum viable product. No promises, but:
Expect a release before end of June, maybe still in May!