Here is a preview of 5 of the 10 tracks available - will be on Bandcamp, Beatport, iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and More. With special thanks to Biologik and Honeysmack (both resident Elektron members for their wonderful remixes - which appear on the full album and not the preview here).
If you just hit play on the above album icon it will play five tracks in succession (there are ten on the album).
Morphology 1.0 is a collection of curiosities, original tracks and remixes that tie up the loose ends of the last few years into a rather lovely synopsis. With one eye set on the past it manages to hint at the direction of future releases.
I’ve always wanted to hear how other people would interpret my music. More specifically perhaps, how the nature of their interpretations would integrate and live as entities beside some of my unreleased newer material.
Morphology 1.0 is the rounding glory in a triptych of releases starting with Hunab Ku and Desolate Sound whilst still hinting at a future direction for Venn Diagram’s material via tracks like Kodokushi, Gelatine, Soma:Redux and Caduceus. It’s a diverse beast that still manages to sound like a complete album and I am impressed with how well the collaborative/remix process integrated with my own musical vision.
Jan, Eric, James, Bunny, Uwe, Emil, David, Chris and Adrian thank you for all your support and feedback whilst creating this.
Biologik, Little Birds, Honeysmack and Kibeja - for your superb remix / collaborative efforts that have made this album what it is and to both Stereospread & Little Birds for letting me release my remixes of their work on this album (I am forever grateful)
Special thanks to Joseph Carra @ Crystal Mastering and Arovane for the kind words of wisdom and Filter Label for enabling this release to see the light of day.
I’d like to dedicate this album to Rob for being the one unwavering constant in a fragile sea of self doubt. You always believe I am capable of greatness and I am forever humbled. Thank you.
I have to be honest, I could only listen to the first 2 tracks. I’ve been catching up tonight. Your style is very recognizable. Whenever things start off, I’m always a little nervous, because it could just go off into a retrospective, isolated pit of despair, but you always throw in something that lets me know things will be alright. Like a warm bass line, a soft melody line or some simple rhodes style piano… You create a really nice juxtaposition of moods and I always enjoy your music. I look forward to purchasing the album in it’s entirety off of bandcamp. I actually like bandcamp, as you can choose what format you want. I normally opt for a high res MP3 so I can play it in everything, but since you got so much going on here, I may have to do apple lossless and stick to listening to this at home.
Cheers,
Mike
Your sound design is stellar! There is so much detail and asymmetry, I’d love to see how you put it all together. Did you complete everything in hardware, or a DAW? Just curious, and trying to imagine organizing so much detail and movement with hardware (I’m a noob).
Elektron should feature Venn Diagram in a jam session!
It depends on the track - I like to keep my approach diverse.
Some pieces are inspired by sound design in others sound design inspires the composition, other times I will just jam and record and edit the marrow of the session into a framework I can improvise and /or compose around. I am also quite fond of working out nothing more than a key or chord progression and working on the Elektron Machines separately - only one powered on at a time.
And work a bank of patterns together, do the same on another the next day and so on then come back with fresh ears a day or two later and see how all these desperate and seemingly unrelated entities can coexist within a framework of simple rules.
At least 85-90% of my sequencing is done in hardware at a minimum.
However I tend to take a more Eno inspired holistic approach to the studio itself and view everything in it as an instrument, right down to crackle of dry circuit encoders, faulty cables, happy accidents, found sound recordings and so on and so forth.
The final result is inevitably arranged and composed as it where in Logic but the bulk of my sound sources are hardware derived. I tend to like a hardware front end with computer DSP based processing back end (be it for analog / digital / fm / pcm or sample and synthesis.)
I am currently working on the sound design for a MnM / OT based live set (using new material) that I want to get out and perform next year.
For a short time I have a full long play preview on my site if anyone is interest in giving it a spin - good monitors, speaker or headphones are recommended.
How did I miss this thread? This stuff is amazing. Video’s are pure class too. I am unashamedly envious of your talent mate. Excuse my language but F$#ing Blindin mate.
