We have a Hawtin/Acquaviva double bill happening here in Toronto this weekend. I thought I'd post some quotes from an interview Richie did with Ben Rayner of The Toronto Star regarding his new project, Closer to the Edit, due for September release. He states:
"Whereas the first Decks EFX album was a live mix that had been remanipulated and had some studio post-production on it, this is a complete studio album [...] This is not a live mix CD, that's for sure. There are over 75 tracks on the album. I started the album by taking 150 records and re-sampling everything down to small, one- to four-bar loops. So there isn't anything on there greater than four bars long. And out of that information--out of what I'm kind of referring to as a jigsaw puzzle--I started to build up and recreate this hour-long piece of music...The records that I've used have just become pieces. I've taken the bits, the basslines, the kicks, the ideas that were represented in these records and just filtered them down to the pieces that I felt were most important. [...] It's interesting. It's slower than the first one, it's more minimal in some places, it's weirder in some places and it's funkier in some places, but it's different. It's definitely a progression. It's Decks EFX two years later. I'm really happy with it." "It gave me a lot of ideas and possibilities for my next album, and I know from my past experience and where I go and how I do things that it'll probably start to get a bit weirder again [...] I think it's time to get back to something a little more obscure." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
