Thursday, May 8, 2014

Announcing Brutalism

Brutalism was a reaction. The idea was function over form. Architecture in the raw. Wheras the preceeding architectural movement was "form follows function". Brutalism was huge slabs of concrete and brick. Monumental ideas in this hard edged realist interpretation.

This idea in architecture, artwork, and music has interested me for quite some time. How do you express this feeling. Unpolished massive constructs, filled with depth and weight. In my last EP I was exploring urban music styles. The idea was to use my understanding of EBM/Electro and then further explore the ideas and history of UK Garage and Dubstep music.

I feel that, like Brutalist Architecture, music has also had a splash-back reaction. Experimental noise, heavy bass, unpolished lo-fi, these styles of music have flourished since the period where most music was becoming over compressed, over produced, and overall fake- in my opinion of the use of Auto-Tune and basically stealing ideas from past era hit songs, polishing and releasing them as original compositions.

In the undercurrent there was a movement of heavy, realistic, and urban ideas. And this music speaks to me like nothing has in the past decade or so. Not so reliant on style, but about the construct and function. Raw techno, noise, ambience, heavy sounds, jamacian and dub rythms, polyryhthmic structures, massive synth crashes without a great reliance on melody and harmony. These are the rough ideas I am taking into creating this new album "Unyielding".


Thursday, May 1, 2014

R010R 2014 new LP is Unyielding

"Unyielding", is the working title for the new album. Roughly 20 tracks have been created. There might be a prelude single or EP. I have not decided yet. Right now I am just seeing how all the pieces fit. because this album is like a puzzle for me. Putting the pieces together, following my subconcious pathways through each section. This time I did not put tracks together as songs and enclosures. They have been coming together like landscapes. Broad and sweeping in style and destination.

You can hear some of the ideas now at my SoundCloud.




Friday, January 24, 2014

Bruderschaft - Return


R010R remix featured on BRUDERSCHAFT LP "Return".



Vocals are by Stefan Netschio of Beborn Beton- I am a big fan of their music and was thrilled to be able to put this together for the guys.
http://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/return-bonus-tracks-version

Get the 2 CD boxset including a poster and pin here: http://www.alfa-matrix.com/bio_bruderschaft.php