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Architeq - "Gold + Green" The Album Out Now on Tirk Records (09.09.09)

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Artwork Direction by Richard Robinson

Origami Shapes by Faye Allen

Photography by Mads Perch

Set Build by Alex Cunningham

Distribution by Vital/Pias

"Gold + Green" available from Boomkat and iTunes







Some feedback for Gold + Green so far:

This is like John Carpenter on acid. Futuristic with an 80's vibe Tripy, fucked up but sooo together. This is simply a great album. Full support from me (will playlist on the radio)

Sorcerer gives a big thumbs up

completely LOVE the album.. i will play something next week.. i'm torn as to which track.. it's ALL SO STRONG!!
m/a.. x

Architeq finally follows his acclaimed 12" releases for Tirk with this excellent debut album. The album lands at a point in the end of a decade when disco, dub, R'n'B and electronics are engaged in a full blown future-f*ck, inviting any style interesting enough to join in for a rhythmic climax, attempting to produce shiny disco babies for a next generation.

'Odyssey' is one of the major highlights here, bearing an slight resemblance to his Scottish brethren BoC with library-esque melodic touches and slo-mo cosmic boogie rhythm, while the previous singles 'Sleeping Bear Lament' and 'Birds Of Prey' will still deliver the sure-shock upon first listen. Architeq knows how to squeeze that last bit of juice from every key and and rhythmic twist, putting him on a par with retroid-future funk experts, but way out in a cosmos of his own.

Kid Kameleon for XLR8R Magazine: "Architeq's command of beats, space, sonics and timing is masterful. Rarely do you hear tracks that manage to take in the rare, sad, strange sonic magic of buzzing 80s synths, the head-nodding pleasure of the best hip-hop tracks of the past two decades, and the fearless rythmic experimentation that's now possible in 2009 and beyond. Both the Birds of Prey EP and it's companion remix EP manage to do all this and more in spades, and Samuel Annand's vision for his music shines through it all, clear as the sound of a bell. Whether his music makes you get down, lounge out sideways, or just sit up and listen, these are Sci Fi journey beats that everyone and their mother would do well to pay attention to. Timeless music."

Vice Magazine: "Dub, Disco and Noise are the mammaries of the future. To convince you, start by rolling a spliff cut with plutonium and slap a pair of headphones with architeq’s EP, released on Tirk. This young London-based producer has the class of Autechre in flip-flops crossed with a OIZO born in 2346, when Jamaica will have become a super power. we’ll be partying in air-conditioned space stations. drugs will cure all illness and everyone will be wearing aluminium-weave space suits with Red, yellow and green smiley’s sown onto their shoulders. We’ll be watching the Aurora Borealis in england. Paris will be an exotic jungle populated by androids, monkeys and parrots. Architeq’s cut-up Hip Hop instrumentals crawl with fat, analog bleeps and lashings of syncopated dub-metallic beats, played by a REAL drummer in the flesh. It’s what schwarzie would have listened to at the end of Total Recall. "Birds of Prey" and "Into The cosmos" count among the best pieces of futuristic electronica that i have heard, since the first Warp generation of the early 90’s.’

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