Norman Records said : "Downstate's tracks are similar in their lovely downtempo vibes and fit in perfectly in this pairing. Lush melancholy electronics to sooth your wounded soul.." Last FM shite is here : http://www.last.fm/music/DownState
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My name is Thomas Oliver, I am from Redourn in the U.K, I live in Shanghai,I make Glitch,electronica,IDM,whatever you want to call it. Hopefully your ears are happy when you listen, my style is fairly varied but i try not to imitate and not let my head dissapear up my own arse with over pretentious stuff. I guess Downstate is all about meloncolic sounds, melodys, pianos, music boxes, my glockenspiel, and lots of clicks, crackles and beats.
I have an E.P out with Porn Sword Tobacco, on Awkward Silence.
Downstate's life is enriched by the following :
My better half,Oxygen,Marajuana,Pianos,Music that makes me feel something,My Glockenspiel,Weekends,Pancakes,Cats,Amsterdam,Quiet places,Fucking noisy places,Gigs,Sweaty Clubs,taking photos,maple syrup,horror films,animation,lunch breaks,tea,childrens sweets,being awake early,wandering.
Downstate is thinking the following things are bad :
Tax,people who think electronic music's "not real music",people without an openmind,eastenders,cocaine,overdraft charges,violence,spongers,ignorance,bullys,musicals,gangs of dumb kids that think there fucking gansta's from L.A,r n b,weed being illegal,religious extremists,bigots,lying politicians,
And all these fucking crazy kids stabbing each other on a weekly basis.
What ever happened to just giving someone that didnt pay up a bit of a beating rather than killing them?
Thank god for music.
Good things to you all. X
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Downstate Live @ Ginglik 24th Nov
Nice work dude. First track is nice and crunchy and love the retro 8bit noises. Second one is all ambient and synthy which you know i dig. The last track kinda makes me think Death Cab goes electronica love the beat very strange change of tempo mid way sweet!
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Thank you so much... My EP, A Moment to Break, is now available on iTunes and Amazon. You can also join my mailing list at www.jamielynnnoon.com-- I couldn't be more grateful for the love and support!
cheers for the add . some really nice sounds going on there. some of the tracks have that softer "aphex twin "sort of feel to it.. yeah man ,very nice!
thanks for the comments, i really appreciate them. im pretty new to photography, ive only been doing it for about 7 or 8 months, so its nice to hear good things about my work.
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