Experimental

While the original EP is a return to logreybeam’s electronica roots [e.g. Yasume, remixes for Metamatics and Norken], ‘False Start [remixed]’ departs in various directions — from ambient/ downtempo and IDM, to tech house and techno.

After opening with Ruxpin’s ethereal, glitchy rendition of Atumnal Tints, the album then makes a respectively deeper, then darker and dirtier turn through Missingsense and Roel Funcken. Exercise One opens a techno stretch with deliciously slow, sludgy beats, Mikael Stavöstrand delivers a rolling bassline + tech-house groove, and Roy E Gamble [another Gabriel Morley alias] offers a preview of what happens when the artist remixes himself. The album winds down with a comparative study on the deconstruction of ‘Reminder’ from Shiro Fujioka and Tom Roberts — the latter leaving us with a scape of loveliness, à la classic Global Communication.

False Start [remixed] is available on Bandcamp. Proceeds benefit Macmillan Cancer Support.

False Start pays homage to logreybeam’s electronica roots, and utilizes his growing analog synth arsenal. “Reminder” is wholly sequenced with SH101’s on-board sequencer — a ‘quirky beast’ that gave it an odd time signature and drifting tempo. “Scales of Vociferation” was mainly written by a scale-based, random sequencer patch that triggered various synthesizers.

Many of the beats and melodies on False Start are controlled and sequenced by MAX/Msp patches triggering hardware, then subject to logreybeam’s fine instinct for arrangement. Heavily used on the EP are: Korg MS20 [vintage], Roland SH101, Ekdhal Moisturizer and Sherman Filterbank.

Half of the tracks on False Start are collaborations — “Marinetti vs. The Golem” with lure, Vibrane on “Technological Forgery” and “Autumnal Tints” with Latrondex and his stash of vintage drum machines.

False Start is available on Boomkat and iTunes.