Aeriae is Sydney-based electronic composer/producer Wade Clarke. Aeriae's tracks pulse with all the addictive beat microscopy and spliced-atomic delights of avant-IDM artists such as Autechre and Retina.it, and wed these rhythms to conspicuous tonal beauty. Rich organ lines, crystal-like textures and treated White Girl voices wrap around tracks whose compass equally includes the song-like and the properly experimental.
Hold R1 is the debut album from Aeriae, eleven deep tracks of femtoscopic electro-funk, complex IDM beauty and addictive organ figures. The album's trajectory is one of openness, allowing it to incorporate into its Intelligent Dance Music trappings everything from the white girl gabber of Novelle Sis to the nursery rhyme catchiness of AMay, or the slow-building sonic disintegration of ten minute closer Rizdvo.
Fans of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Retina.it, Prefuse 73, The Black Dog or the UK's Warp label in general will appreciate where this music is going, as will any fan of innovative electronica.
ABOUT THE CD:
Hold R1 was mastered with tape-saturated goodness by Reece Tunbridge (Silverchair, The Grates, Sarah Blasko) at Benchmark Mastering in Sydney.
The album comes in the form of an enhanced CD including the videoclip for AMay, playable on your Mac or PC. This vibrant animation doesn't just look like it was made with eight-bit software - it was made with eight-bit software, namely Fantavision for the Apple II computer, over many months. The clip is a love letter to the aesthetics of early videogames and their futurist dreams.
Aeriae's tracks were first aired in 2006 by Unearthed, the ongoing competition for unsigned artists run by Australia's National Youth Radio Station, JJJ. Karpa, Areola and Clique from Hold R1 were picks and plays on Unearthed and JJJ's The Sound Lab.
Over at garageband.com, Aeriae scored the Track Of The Day slot eight times between 2006 and 2008. He also collected his favourite reviewers' grab to date on the site when Caylin-Calandria was described as being 'like a Donkey Kong on crack running amok.'
Since the album's release, Aeriae has seen rotation on FBi FM and further play on JJJ, 2SER, 3RRR, LastFM, 2GLF and Rage in Australia, and on other radio and video shows internationally, including The Indie Revolution and Long Island's Live Music Media Show. Aeriae has remixed tracks by Delta Goodrem, Retina.it, Catcall and Cloudy, and is currently working on studio tracks for his second album.
How are you? I hope you have had a merry holiday and happy new year!
I am writing to inform that i have put up a few new tracks from my coming album (Interference, summer 2009) - If you have a spare minute, please drop by and have a listen! I would very much appreciate it and I'd be thrilled to hear what you think!
The new tracks are: "Excuse Me", "Yours45" and "Run Too Fast"!
haha! there's usually more going on in my set, sadly I had to bend to the whim's of my computer, who was suffering from fairly severe stage fright, and went pretty easy on the manipulations.
any chance you shop in chatswood? i work at jb hifi and today i put something away for 'wade clarke' - i'm sure there aren't many of you!
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A new zainetica release - Soul Paradox, is out Monday 21st on rednetic recordings. CD Digipak available from www.rednetic.com and selected record shops. Thanks for your time.
Just a remind that the Sharpie Poetry Slam Competition deadline is approaching soon!
If you would like to perform at The Studio - Opera House with all the spoken word legends in Australia, send us a video with your best poem using cue cards, a la Bob Dylan.
For more info go to myspace.com/thenightwordsfestival
So hurry! Support the spoken word scene and be part of The Night Words Festival 2008!
yeah, I will be. Though my tracks terribly underworked as well. It was late at night and I had work the next day, so I sent in what I had. Haha, it was fun making it though. I think i'll polish it up eventually. 20th pops up on some inconvenient days :o Will be checking out your new track definitely. Cheers
haha, that's awesome. I heard your track "Lenticular" on the 20th cd, before I saw your profile. Cheers for adding me. Is nice to put a face to the name. Awesome sounds and arrangements you've got.
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