Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Andy Stott technos in a way we might techno

Yo, so there's this guy Andy Stott who most people know already! But for those who don't, he makes really beautiful music that's obviously inspired by works in the academic/electro-acoustic tradition.

It seems like he's really into moving past the standardized "instruments" and sonic tropes techno had at the beginning - not that there's anything wrong with using them now - to explore where the organic sounds, human sounds can be used and manipulated.

This album is beautiful and so cool because it comes out of techno AND this piece which is just beautiful. As far as live performance goes, I'm not too aware of what he does except for that this Boiler Room set is the best one I've seen for sure. Things to learn might be that experimenting with our informed and diverse sonic worlds is not bad! different approaches to the groove, beat, tempo is not bad! and that we should be working out of an inspired place, authentically, whether that is straight up Detroit techno or really working out of the tape-music/minimalist/whatever tradition.

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