GIGS CONFIRMED IN MANCHESTER AND LONDON PLUS FESTIVAL CONFIRMATIONSPRE-SALE VIA OFFICIAL WEBSITE - LOOPZ
The Orbital reformation gathers momentum with headline shows now confirmed for Manchester and London this September. They are also set for a busy summer. Orbital play at 2009¹s Rock Ness Festival in Scotland on 14th June and in July play the Global Gathering Festival in Stratford, as well as The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle as previously announced.
Orbital will play Manchester Academy on Saturday 19th September and London Brixton Academy on Friday 25th September. Tickets go on general public sale on Friday 30th January at 9am. We are running an exclusive pre-sale through the official Orbital web site - www.loopz.co.uk on Wednesday 28th January 2009.
ACP Recordings presents The Ideal Condition, the solo album from Paul Hartnoll - his first major release since he and his brother disbanded their group, Orbital, three years ago. From their early success with, ‘Chime’ in 1990, Orbital became one of the most acclaimed electronic artists of the next decade. They made seven albums, and their live shows-groundbreaking both in terms of performance and production-became a legendary fixture of the festival circuit around the world and particularly at Glastonbury, where they performed for the final time in 2004. Work on The Ideal Condition began that same summer. “I wanted to do something different from what I’d done before, that was the point of not doing Orbital,” says Paul, “It just took time to discover exactly what that was…”
What evolved, whilst recalling the cinematic sensibilities and crowd-shaking rhythms of Paul’s earlier work, is a collection of songs that takes those instincts and moves them into new and at times experimental terrain. “I started trying to piece it together like a novel, each song being a chapter and building it up in the same way a plot line might do. I can’t honestly say it has a narrative from beginning to end, although it does strangely feel like a concept album without a concept.” The most obvious conceptual shift is that the balance of this record is tipped in favour of acoustic (as opposed to electronic) sounds. As Paul explains, “I wrote the whole album and then realised there were aspects of this that weren’t gonna work unless it was done with real instruments.”
With arranger Chris Elliott, Paul set about reversing the usual process - whereby electronic music might mimic the sounds of traditional instruments - and presented his compositions to an orchestra. “It’s intimidating at first. You’re looking at 40 people-virtuoso string players and thinking, ‘I’m now going to ask you to play two notes for five minutes,’ and you think they’re going to turn round and say, ‘this is ridiculous!’ But they don’t. They’re all very discreet, they just get on with it.”
The fruits of this union-full orchestra, 32 piece choir and “the whole compliment of electronics” are heard to dramatic effect on the album’s opener, ‘Haven’t We Met Before,’ “the fullest track on the record in terms of the amount of people playing on it and number of different parts.” It’s a deliberately grand opening and one that contrasts with later songs like ‘Patchwork Guilt,’ “the only track on the album that’s entirely electronic and entirely played by me.”
Between these extremes The Ideal Condition takes a remarkable journey into the realms of the possible while also recalling the familiar aspects of Paul’s previous recordings. “This album’s got a lot of film influences on it,” says Paul, “all the old favourites the Michael Nymans, the John Barrys, Ennio Morricone, and you can hear a lot more of Danny Elfman on this one, I think. But it still finds its way back to the rhythm. I’m always trying to find a harmonic or melodic narrative-if you like going with the emotional side of it-and then as soon as that starts happening it’s like a gut instinct I can’t stop myself thundering in with the drumbeats. I almost do it for fun. Sometimes I manage not to, but I bet you on all the ones where I’ve managed not to I’ve tried it and it didn’t work!”
When “the emotional side” wins out the results, like the almost “synth-free” composition for strings ‘Dust Motes,’ are extraordinary. More remarkable still is that The Ideal Condition is an album where such songs sit comfortably with the punkish electronic squall of tracks like ‘Aggro.’
One attribute Paul carries over from his Orbital days is his nose for a great collaborator. Guests on the album include The Cure’s Robert Smith on the forthcoming single “Please.” “He’s got that whiney-bendy voice which was a lot like the lead lines I’d written for that song. I wanted someone who could do that naturally so I asked him, and he was up for it.” In addition to the Metro Voices choir vocal contributions are also present from U.S singer songwriter Joseph Arthur (“Aggro”), Brighton’s Lianne Hall (“For Silence”) and South London’s Akayzia Parker (“Nothing Else Matters.”)
From what Paul calls the “Boadicea moment” of the album’s opener to the “steam driven synthesiser” of “Simple Sounds” via the old school electro of “Patchwork Guilt” and the neo-classical coda of “Dust Motes”, The Ideal Condition is a vivid testament to the scope and sensibility of one of modern music’s most innovative and resourceful minds.
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PLEX TURNS 3 THIS FRIDAY! with: SCION - live, ANCIENT METHODS - live, NORMAN NODGE SCORN - live, COMBAT RECORDINGS, MATT WHITEHEAD, PLEX DJS & LOTS MORE! 10-7am - CORSICA SUDIOS - 30th OCT 2009 £13 in adv £15 doors http://www.wegottickets.com/event/56990 http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?116716 As a special treat here is the DJ Pete set recorded at Plex back in April 2008: http://soundcloud.com/plexlondon/dj-pete-at-plex-april-4th-2008
i Have made the tiesto remix "knock you out" under the project "pull and push"
if you Want you Could come to spin-up us on beatportal tiesto remix contest: http://www.beatportal.com/remix/detail/tiesto-knock-you-out-pullpush-remix/
The next REGGAE ROCKERS night is fast approaching. Don't miss it.... Big tunes, fresh from JA, mixed with Revival classics. SATURDAY 24th OCT BARCOSA 9pm-2am 54 Holloway Rd, Islington, London. £4 entry (30% goes to Jamaican charity BREDS)
9 de octubre, 19 h. Foro FNAC-Valencia. Entrada gratuita.
9 de octubre, 22:30 h. Sala WahWah (Valencia) junto a MAR. 5 €
14 de noviembre, 19 h. Foro Fnac-Donostia. Entrada gratuita.
26 de noviembre, 21 h. Zaragoza, con Pedro Marín. Sala Arena
28 de noviembre, 19 h. Foro FNAC-Bilbao. Entrada gratuita.
28 de noviembre, 24 h. Badulake-Bilbao. Entrada gratuita.
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En Zaragoza también está a la venta en Pub Teatro de las Ánimas y Pub Mar de Dios
PLEX 3rd BIRTHDAY! London 30th Oct 2009. 10pm - 7am. http://www.plexlondon.com/ Hard Wax [Berlin]: Substance & Vainqueur pres. Scionversions (Hard Wax) - LIVE Norman Nodge (Berghain, Ostgut Ton, MDR) Ancient Methods (Hard Wax) - LIVE René Löwe (Hard Wax, Scion Versions) Combat Recordings: Scorn - LIVE Point B - LIVE Elemental - LIVE Stormfield Combat AV Team Matt Whitehead (Rebel Intelligence) - LIVE Stewart Lowman (Outlet Collective) Luke Handsfree (Plex, Handsette, Brackout) Strepsil (Plex) Tec vs Dask (Plex, Brackout, Rebel Intelligence) Corsica Studios Units 4/5 Elephant Road SE17 1LB Tube: Elephant & Castle £13 adv / £15 on the door http://www.wegottickets.com/event/56990
Das Raumschiff ist grau, mit großen Fenstern und Düsen so groß wie Elefantenfüße. Innen ist alles im Jugenstiel verziert und sehr edel aufgemacht. Es ist ruhig, sehr ruhig im Schiff. Tausende von Sternen zischen an den Fenstern vorbei. Denes und Feydh treffen die letzten Vorbereitungen für das Fusionsmanöver. Noch während sie dabei sind eine gewisse Ordnung in das Kabelwirrwar der Konsolen zu bringen unterbricht das Dockingsignal des Steuercomputers die idyllische Ruhe... Der Liveact "Schützt eure Kinder" - der schon seit Jahren in der Rhein-Neckar-Galaxie von sich reden macht - ist bereit zum andocken. Bereit um diesem denkwürdigen Tag mit treibenden Rhythmen und extravaganten Arrangements den gebührenden Respekt zu zollen.
Der Tag der Deutschen Einheit ist seit Jahren eine feste "Institution" in den elektronischen Weiten der Halle_02. Auch dieses Jahr gibt es wieder Electro und Techno auf die Lauscher und Überaschungen sind ebenfalls geplant - Clap and shake!
Electrogravity mit Schützt eure Kinder (LIVE), Denes und Feydh Rotan und natürlich mit euch.
!!!NATUERLICH MINDESTENS BIS 5 UHR UND NUR DORT!!! Halle02/HD 6.- AK
OUT NOW ON BEATPORT! ELECTROGRAVITY V1.0 by Feydh Rotan
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