I cannot stress enough how much I love music of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk. It’s been my greatest inspiration ever. When I discovered them I thought I may just stop producing as Talk Talk had everything I needed. However, I am still here and today I accidentally recorded something I think might show you how I feel about Talk Talk. Or maybe not. I never wanted to touch their music as not to ruin it. Well, this evening, I was improvising and playing around live and somehow ended up bringing in the sounds of Talk Talk. Euphoria for 20 minutes.

Hear the results:

firstly, update on my stupidity.

I am sorry to say this but sometime ago I have overlooked my contact page form and stupidly left wrong email address… Those messages which went through the contact form got lost in the sea of nothingness… I am really really sorry about that, you probably thought that I am pretentious bum not replying to your emails… it’s fixed now so please, don’t hesitate to message me again, it’s going to be a pleasure to reply :>

well, I would like to use this glamorous moment to invite you to register with my site. make sure you check your SPAM folder as messages from this site get tagged incorrectly.

I am setting up subscription service to offer you exclusive content. I will keep you updated about all of my creative excursions. essentially, I want to share my work, efforts and errors with you…

my long-long delayed album Clouds Are Mountains is finally being manufactured as we speak. I will be sending promo copies of the album very very soon. if you would like to get one, don’t hesitate to register, I am looking forward to connecting with you.

let’s keep synchronised.

eleven tigers

hey hey, I gotta post this. Don’t know if you know DZdj, I just stumbled upon his track ‘Gritty Beats’… It is incredibly lush, something really different from most of the dubstep nowadays. Have a listen and tell a friend:

I started working on the idea of a social sampler (read about it here)… Learning Max/MSP/Jitter/m4l is really exciting and rewarding – I can’t wait to integrate it into my live sets. In the meantime, check this video which documents what I’ve already achieved (not that much but anyway):

remember this?

well, I have just mixed it in 5.1 surround…

My goal was to adapt ‘No Space’ to a different listening environment without drastically changing anything. If you have a surround setup grab this file and immerse yourelf in the soundscape.

I love A.Tarkovsky films. I did some music on top of one of the most beautiful scenes of ‘Stalker’. I hope my music will add something to this scene despite the fact that the original music is perfect…

Internet is an amplifier of the noise, an echo-chamber, a big delay processor. Take trends and posts on twitter and imagine them as taps within a delay, tails fed back around creating massive noise.

Truncated phrases,  taken off social media,  sourced from videos,  transformed into spectral noise which fluctuates in real-time.

Delay/reverb/echo-chamber? A post is an initial signal which gets repeated over many retweets. These retweets mutate/disappear/bounce.  Hashtags represent reflections, bounces,  moments of happening.

Who started what ? Can a sound generated out of twitter noise can be of any use? How filtering RSS is similar to filtering audio through lp/hp/bp/whatever? How about compressing/limiting the noise? However if it is noise are there any dynamics…?  How one create a mix of elements? Who creates filters? Can I transform data of social media into music? Would it be evolving or predetermined as filtering is? May I find it difficult to implement evolutionary processes into this music ? Do I actually need them if the evolution happens real-time online?

I will try my best to create a “social sampler” using Max/MSP, some Java, some APIs.

I need to connect to the twitter API and source the lists of trends, track streams of posts. Then map this data to (let’s say) relevant videos on youtube via tags, popularity, titles etc.  Videos are then streamed to a Java decoder which extracts audio. Audio is passed to Max/MSP….

All of this in real-time.

Would you help me?

Ore.lt, lithuanian music and culture  mag, has just published an interview and a live set I did for their popular ‘Orecast’ podcast series. You’ll hear 11 minutes of my mumblings followed by the exclusive live set…

Orecast : Eleven Tigers

Live set only:

I am so proud to announce that Lowvibe Records has finally pushed LOW001 into the daylight. It features tracks by Taksi (Mark Splinter & Nightjar), Genys and me :> Have a listen and if you like them, go and grab them off Bagpak , here. Also, this digital release will be available in all other good shops soon…

I am sorry that Step was out of reach, it’s been migrated to a new server, at last!… However, I need to reboot myself as the last weekend was really intense thanks to Lithuanian ’steppers! Aroma did this amazing video:

The tune you hear in the video is new and raw ‘Autogenesis’. Here, have a listen to a version I’ve just have finished:

Come to DUBSTEP.LT 2nd Birthday at Gravity and hear me play live tonight. My set will be a re-interpretation of ‘Clouds are Mountains’ and some totally new tunes…

Original Dubstep.lt soldiers will be there. Mark Splinter, Nightjar, Jeff Metal, Genys, Ske and Soundboys.lt are going to blow up the place! I just can’t wait and sleep :]

Meanwhile, if you read lithuanian, head over here and check the interview I did for Karolis Jachimavicius (uroboras.lt).

 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

[...]

T. S. Elliot (1942)

Tune in to BBC Radio 1 on Nov 5th (’round 2 AM GMT, Wed) as Mary Anne Hobbs is playing my mix! There will be stuff from my upcoming album, single and other Soul Motive goodies. If you miss it listen on-line at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/ ;>

P.S. ‘Stableface’ will be released later this November and the album will come straight on the new year. My apologies for the delay however I have some nice things to you regarding the artwork of these releases…

Update: listen to the mix in best quality:

Original version of Taksi ‘No Space’ is yet to be released publicly  however I present my new remix effort. Version2 is a post-rock influenced interplanetary trip through the debris of saxophone and voices by Nightjar and Mark Splinter. Look out for this to appear on Lowvibe records…

It’s been a while…

However I am so glad to announce that Stableface, my piece from 2007, together with a remix from Peverelist, is due to be released on Soul Motive records in October, this year. My début album ‘Clouds are Mountains’ will follow shortly afterwards…

Meanwhile, here is an excerpt from Stableface previewed on Marry Anne Hobbs ‘Experimental’ show (09/09/09): play

more info very soon…

Be aware! My lovely kid just went loose. Catch it and take care of it, you may be pleased by the character of aTract… I got him on my latest tracks and I wish him to find some new ones soon. Here is a little photo of aTract:

follow this path to find it…

framework i am building for a second album,  sounds of what’s to come. tune in and listen.

click the image to step into my new store

Here is one more free track . I’ve stepped into breakbeat area with this one. Thanks to Nightjar and Mark Splinter for the Horns. Dedicated to my love.

Here is a little remix of “Atomic Turnip” (track from my forthcoming album “Clouds are Mountains”). Feel free to download and spread the mood.