| January 2011 news
January 31, 2011
MONOTONE TECHNO
• tube'|227 - project_unknown - Undefined static forms of monotone structures
«This is project_unknown again (check out tube156) with more minimal crazyness. This time around, he's playing with monotone sound structures, repeated untill your head goes numb and gets into the rhythmic pattern like an ant follows a path of sugar. Monolake comes a lot to my mind when I'm listening to this EP, especially 'Untitled #1' which has a lot in common with the 'Gobi The Desert' period from the german electronic project.
To listen very very loud!» - Pedro Leitão
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January 17, 2011
EXPLORATORY SOUNDSCAPING
• tube'|226 - Ricardo Webbens - Analog Mountains
«Ricardo Webbens (Lisbon, 1973) is a multidisciplinary artist. Although he had a classical education in the visual arts (painting, drawing and sculpture), soon he became interested in the visual component of the emergent video art movement. He began by making video installations and experimenting with the early aesthetic of panning, already with several studies in aesthetic composition of color and functionality. Many of these works explored the dialectic that exists between work and experimentation referenced context.
Later, as he evolved with his work in the field of video art, he decided to test another artistic environment. In 1996 begins to explore music (focusing more on electronic music) and incorporate this new line of work in video art, becoming a hybrid artist, composing and creating more complete and complex works.
In 2001 he founded the Polar music project (in partnership with Nuno Rosa), and published a couple of works, with excellent reviews from the media (Public, enpegdigital, digital gravel, igloomag, etc.).
By 2004, Ricardo embarks once more on a journey through contemporary improvisation and followed several special projects and participated with artists from other areas such as dance and theater, like Clara Andermatt.
Kringles Cat and Mosquito are two forays into the field of jazz improvisation. Project Kringles Cat, a duo with the artist Travassos, is made of exploratory ramblings in the travel universe of contemporary environmental and experimentation of new concepts and instrumentation.
Ricardo Webbens stands out in this field as an artist who makes and creates his own instruments in a personal search for collateral spaces in music.
Project Mosquito, with Hernâni Faustino, Travassos and Joaquim Trindade, is a tireless quest for three-dimensional panoramas and parallel universes where the demand for constant imagery brings to the work of these artists a soundscape almost mathematical but inconstant.
He then forms Tsuki, with José Lencastre, in order to create a compelling solution in the DIY movement. He also continues to work with video, doing some work for artists like Blockhead (Ninja Tune) and bllix (Audiobulb). On the other hand he is doing another kind of visual experimentation in the field of improvisation with Tiago Miranda (Loosers), at Lux Frágil and also at MusicBox (two of the most notorious Lisbon nightclubs).
'Analog Mountains'
is the culmination of his work as an audio creator, using tools he learned and experiences he acquired from 10 years of continuous work.» - test tube
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January 04, 2011
SMOOTH PUNK
• tube'|225 - Rico Püstel - Marquee Strat
«We welcome back Rico in brand new 2011 with a spanking new EP, called 'Marquee Strat'. This marks a bit of a depart from Rico's sound, at least for the time being, where he switched from fat beats and downbeat structures to sampled guitars and drums, electronic hardcore-punk-rock-whatever style, but still software sequenced. Reminds me a bit of Mogwai meets Fugazi.
Unusual and freshly fun. Enjoy!» - Pedro Leitão
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