my feet, my armz and my iz...
asthetics by feedback,
atmosphere by hiss,
rhythm by the broken/tumbling apple cart,
sonourousness from above,
funk at the heart of it,
occassional part-time guest: clarity
TRY THIS FOR A TASTE:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=810590
from within and without....
along with the wild crazy ways of the blue ocean
...not only, but also....
Biz---Funkadelic---Sly..
ae---J.B.---KlingKlang (an all who sail in her..)
Wishmountain---Africa---Carribean---F.Z.
The Police---Mr Vibert---Biosphere---Mr Sayle
The Bonzos---The Temperance Seven---Oscar Peterson
Pansonic---Prince---early ZZtop
RDJ---blues---Duke Ellington
karsten pflum----ceephax-----nigel-nigel
Mr Benn---the birds in the trees---wind..
..and very much including: bloom, blam blam, ausgang, otaku (oh the wind), peata out...shrimpsalad..
for further evidence of the influence of shrimpsalad please log on to:
Shrimp Salad.com
- it will sort your head out, guaranteed...
Sounds Like
As many of you will know Saturday the 12th of December marks the date of our next music and arts multimedia event at The Art Organisation Leicester: STENCH V.
Stench V promises to be a pithy night of aural and visual delight for all who attend. Attached is our cyber flyer, we think you'll agree that it's the best Stench flyer so far. It will also be the best Stench so far.
Musically we have lush, heart-rending beauti-tronics from the acclaimed Mrs Jynx of Planet Mu, fantastic phuture-esque 303 antics from Roy Of The Ravers (very much in the Ceephax mould), intricate improvised vintage synth work from Threep, wild funking sonic adventure from Myoptik, a connoisseur's plethora of electronic delights from Centrifuge label boss Wassim and Leicester's very own dubstep king Felis with the usual fine bass heavy wares.
A diverse set of sounds for sure.
Below you will find nice little biogs about each of the musical performers, but remember Stench is more than a musical event and this time the venue (the very fine and capacious Art Organisation Leicester) will be chock-a-bloc with visual delights for the eyes to savour.
In short if your diary can handle it and you have the means to make it then you would be a fool not to truck on down.
Stench V is designed as sonic and visual adventure to spin and inspire you headlong toward 2010....
Myoptik - Do Not Deny A Camel Of The Burden Of His Hump
For Myoptik's 3rd Centrifuge EP we have something a little different. Where the first two EPs gave a vague nod to accepted electronic forms (albeit through a mangle of madness), this time we have a diverse range of narratives from an obtuse mind. The artist's intention here is to question accepted styles presenting an attitude from beyond and without.
There are half a dozen slices celebrating the fertility of limitation and the prospect of future limitlessness. It's all about irreverent audio stimulation with a message of vitality. A relevant madness that shows a tenacious thirst for life; stupid combinations that help to question, and to open up towards the unknown future.
With remixes from Shrimpsalad and Data Out we also get a window into what it would be like if Myoptik wasn't so awkward and obtuse. Where he puts familiar sounds into confused and unfamiliar settings, the remixers pull them back from the brink so you can grab them with both hands.
So come on, take your gloves off and let yourself become unravelled by this weird little collection of audio blockages.
Available from thecentrifuge.co.uk from Nov15th 2009..
come and see myoptik's sonic saucery in nottingham at Centrifuge's Planet Mu special on Friday the 19th of October:
Right here is a little video of myoptik live at firebug from june 2008 to give you a flavour for the sonics that blast his boxes:
more live vids, including the recent Summer Sundae performance to follow soon...
coming from the sound beyond earth..............
..aka what on earth?.......
Myoptik is the purveyor of his own unique, trademarked self-titled FUNKATRONIX (tm).........
in other words his is a world of sonic flights of fancy. a wibbly sonorous maelstrom full of life, where hints of popular styles like house, techno, ambient, grime, funk, soul and all the rest go through the mangle and come out malformed, twisted, and down right funky. this is where thoughtful meets sagacious cacophany in a serendipitous world of unclassifiably unclassified tonality,
especially on wednesdays..
music and emotion in motion through broken glass windows<
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MEGA-BASS-BIG-BOOTY-BONZAI in full efx>>
and just to prove it here's some mind melt rave mash that me and preston
performed live under our AUSGANG moniker at the attik in 2006...
Ausgang Sonic Punishment..MP3
a truly intense bit of mega-bass-big-booty-bonzai f'sure..
...and remember: there's no rush like a sonic rush, so slow down.
all 3 of the above EPs are available for download from www.thecentrifuge.co.uk
mind melt music to rewire your gasket for future use....
Live footage of Myoptik vs BJ Cole from the recent PVC event at Stenchival now available for viewing here:
ENJOY!
NEWS:
PVC RETURNS! MYOPTIK VS BJ COLE LIVE IN LEICESTER WITH OTHER LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM PHELAEH, GLATZE, SAMUEL AND THE DRAGON. PLUS DJ SLOTS FROM THE CENTRIFUGE (WASSIM) AND BARRY CONVEX (TWIST AND SPOUT).
BE THERE BECAUSE ITS GOING TO BE VERY SPECIAL AND MENTAL AND FUNNY AND FAT AS YOU LIKE!
MEGABASSBIGBOOTYBONZAI>>
myoptik playing live at Ginglik, see flyer:
ALSO: see myoptik spinning 78s at the following festivals this summer:
LLAMA festival in Lynton & Lynmouth
Secret Garden Party
Shambala
New music: goto www.thecentrifuge.co.uk to download Myoptik's Allusion To Dance EP. 3 tracks of head mangle madness sure to reconfigure your inner chips for a sea voyage of disaster. ENJOY.
go to www.thecentrifuge.co.uk to download Myoptik's Sundae_P. It's a 3 track EP, it's free and it sounds nice with your cornflakes or beef mound. but make sure the mound is tall before your ear.
new compilation now out on THECENTRIFUGE netlabel, featuring your's truly, MYOPTIK. a really diverse electronic compilation for free! Click the pic to grab it from TheCentrifuge.co.uk.
....and now, a free Christmas compilation with a Myoptik rendition of We Three Kings Of Orient Are....Click the pic to get it from the label's site!
Sure to be a night to remember> PVC @ SUMO on 8/11/8.
Long standing Leicester live music event PVC returns
after a long sabbatical to host a special one off event.
The legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole,
will be joined on stage by Leicester’s electro beat-meister
Myoptik & London sound-sculptor Manglebot.
Also performing live will be Clatterbox
the 90s electro star and boss of the funked up Z-Bop Records.
Then dubstep from DJ Felis (Kontakt)
Plus PVC’s funk residents Barry Convex & JammyG
with live percussion from Freedom Beatz & crazy
Lego projections from VJ Window…
Come down and feel the Fiesta…>
MYOPTIK brief BIOG:
For 10 years myoptik has been a radio presenter, dj, music journalist, producer and event promoter based in not-so-sunny Leicester. His long standing record label ping-discs exists to demonstrate unvarnished depth and emotion in modern music and provides release for the many side projects and improvised jams that have informed his musical spread. In all his work, both solo and collaborative, extended narrative combines with an unnerving propensity for the unpredictable. His current work with BJ Cole takes these attributes into a wider domain of juxtaposition and humour.
Live performance is Myoptik's natural home with appearances in all sorts of places, under all sorts of musical guises and monikers at events such as the Sonic Arts Network EXPO in 2005 & 2006, Summer Sundae in 2005 & 2008, Monastery Of Sound in 2000, Delia Derbyshire's old home in 2003 & 2004..
His radio shows for DemonFM were of such a calibre that the Shrimpsalad shows were repeated on ResonanceFM in later years, whilst his journalism progressed from The Voice, to Melody Maker and the notorious Miles Ahead.
Myoptik is also known for his vibrant Leicester based PVC club nights, which pioneered his trademark live Funkatronix sound.
He has worked with the likes of BJ Cole, Chin Chin, I-mitri, Phaelah, aUXiLEC and Normal Position to name a few. On his own his musical demeanor tends towards a wild maelstrom of gutural bleep-funk and emotive soundscapes, accompanied by a glass of rum..
MYOPTIK rambles about his general direction/musical background/vybe/other projects/pant size:
Myoptik has been working on the sonic underground for over ten years. Early forays occurred via the cognoscenti that surrounded Law and Auder records in the 1990s. A certain notoriety was established through two highly charged performances at the Monastery Of Sound festival in Normandy. Held in a twelfth century Abbey the festival provided the perfect backdrop for Myoptik’s unique live sounds. In those early days live keyboards sat alongside crumbling distorted rhythmic assaults, wailing improvised vocals, free falling feedback loops and deeply filtered waveforms, layered with catatonic buckets full of inter-breading species of that ever beloved atmospheric hiss .....................................................................................
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Myoptik has always been a keen collaborator too, setting up projects like Blam Blam, BloOm, Skeletor, Rea Diapason, Otaku, Ausgang and Peata out as well as his current forays with BJ Cole and Manglebot to name a few. The majority of which have albums on Ping-Discs which still stew nicely, stretching the standard conceptions with a bit of that soupy miasma, a bit of heart wrenching depth of field normally only associated with good photography and lost relatives. The latest of these collaborations has been with BJ Cole where live performance is creating a stir of excitement in this thunder of comedic emotional funk................................................................
The intangible was always central with the focus being on the spiritual and emotional depths which music was designed to reach and express. Tantamount in this exploration is that which many fear: unpredictability. Myoptik is the ancient wooden spoked apple cart; replete with a broken axel and a wrickety frame; the apples go a tumbling, no one knows where; no one knows how long it can keep going; always its a rattlin; always it is teetering on collapse. Just like reality.
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But also the Myoptik sound is murky, not always easy to resolve. Many have said its soupy, and like a proper old broth its full of ingredients; perhaps some of them have gone off, whilst that bit over there is vividly fresh. The whole bears no comparison...hiss is central, feedback is lush, imperfection a beautiful, heart-rending reality............................................................................
Using a very live, unpredictable and un-harnessed resonance Myoptik has cut a reputation for controversy with award winning performances on Demon FM and guest slots on ResonanceFM as Shrimpsalad as well as Tracks for Law n Auder on compilations including Slo n Lo, i-ambient and Rehabilatism (you can hear Rehabilitism on the Law n Auder website). There have also been many many albums for his own ping-discs record label, including Ionic Sluice, Funkatronix volumes 1-5, Bomber, ONLI, Oyarsa...to name a few.
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A key player in Leicesters musical underground Myoptik’s live reputation continues to grow in notoriety not least because audiences know they are very unlikely to witness anything repeated............................................................
The Wild was encouraged most at the Legendary Foundry on old st London which became like a second home for hobo-optiK....down he would go and that cavernous wail n beat brought nu light to underground sound art...
(peace to Jonathan for allowing 6 years of Myoptik mind bend to grow there...)
meanwhile the ever jamming club night he curated under the PVC banner continued to remind Leicester that live electronics should be loose and....slightly crazy..
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SUMMARY:
New madness every time, Myoptik style.
great to see you at stench rich. had a great night. what are your plans for new years? oh yeah, i still have a few vids of you from back in the day if you want them. feel free to pop round anytime and stick 'em on your computer.
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
hello mate, best bet is to grab the one off myspace and grab one of the more recent photos. i've got another bio somewhere, but makes me sound like a cunt so roll with this one. :)
