Miércoles 10 Ene 2007, 15:08
I made another mix for the Showcase Mixes thread on DOA where DJs present underexposed music. This time the focus is on electronic music with classical influences and soundtracks. You won't find any dnb in this mix.
cygn - centre of thousand forces (july 2006)
Tracklist:
01. Murcof - Utopia (Leaf)
02. Shrift - Lost In A Moment (Six Degrees Records)
03. Digitonal - Seraphim (23 Things Fall Apart, Toytronic)
04. Ennio Morricone - Un Uomo Da Rispettare (Crime and Dissonance, ipecac)
05. Arvo Pärt - Festina Lente (Miserere - The Hilliard Ensemble)
06. Troublemakers - Everyday Is Just An Extension Of Yesterday (Express Way, Blue Note)
07. Broadway Project - The 3rd Stream (In Finite, Grand Central Records)
08. Toru Takemitsu - Summer Soldiers (Film Music Box Set)
length: 39:26 min.
mixed live in Ableton live 5
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A little bit of information about some of the artists:
Murcof
Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona.
Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and was raised in the nearby port of Ensenada. In 2000 he returned to Tijuana where he continues to live and work. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name.
Murcof's music is sparse, minimalist, sample-based electronica. Although founded on complex, at times, abstract, glitchy electronic percussion, Corona's recordings are more melodic and traditionally structured than many contemporary electronic musicians. Many recordings feature orchestral strings sampled from recordings of works by modern composers such as Arvo Pärt.
Digitonal
Digitonal is a musical group which utilises European classical music instruments in combination with electronic music. It comprises of Andy Dobson, who is responsible for producing the majority of the music, with assistance from violinist Samy Bishai and drummer Callum MacMillan.
Their first album, 23 Things Fall Apart was released through Toytronic Records in September 2002
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928, Rome) is an Italian composer especially noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores of more than 500 films and TV series. Although only 30 of these are for Western films, it is for this work which he is best known. Morricone's sparse style of composition for the genre is particularly exemplified by the soundtracks of the classic spaghetti westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968). In more recent years, his haunting scores for The Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986), The Untouchables (Brian DePalma, 1987), Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988), and Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997) have demonstrated his giftedness and the power of his work.
The track I used here can be found on the compilation Crime and Dissonance which features not the usual music Morricone is known for. Instead you'll find wonderfully dark and bizarre stuff that careens from musique concrete, melodramatic church organ pieces and free jazz to wah-drenched psychedelia, stiff funk, and abstract avant-gardism.
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935 in Paide) is an Estonian composer, often identified with the school of minimalism and more specifically, that of "holy minimalism" or "sacred minimalism". He is considered a pioneer of this style, along with contemporaries Henryk Gorecki and John Tavener. Arvo Pärt is best known for his choral works.
Broadway Project
An all-out composer, Dan Berridge has scored numerous award winning short films and completed commissions for Channel 4 and the BBC. Inspired by the love of avant-garde jazz, hip hop breaks and the cinema aesthetic, the Broadway Project sound is naturally epic. Its soul penetrating grooves are gripped by a deep emotional charge and indeed, the project did initially only take form as something of a creative outlet for Dan’s recovery from ME/chronic fatigue syndrome.
Toru Takemitsu (Toru Takemitsu)
(October 8, 1930–February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer of music, who explored the compositional principles of Western classical music and his native Japanese tradition both in isolation and in combination.
Takemitsu was largely self-taught in music. He was greatly influenced by French music, and in particular that of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen.
His work comprises orchestral pieces, chamber music, electronic music and almost a hundred film scores for Japanese films including those for Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes (1964), Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) and Shohei Imamura's Black Rain (1989). His first score was for Toshio Matsumoto's Ginrin. His music for cinema rests deeply upon the concept that a new film needs a new sound colour, and is as much about taking out sounds as about taking them in.
Some of the formal concepts in Takemitsu's music depend deeply on visual imagery, taken from paintings, dreams, or his concept (about which he writes much) of the garden.
Tags: soundtrack, electronica