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FANDF 057CS
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Drawing parallels between present day Britain and that of the turn of the '80s, Ekoplekz looks back to that era's industrial and post-punk soundtrack for inspiration. In a land increasingly brutalized by austerity and divided by nationalism, the tensions that informed some of the post-punk era's most important works -- Red Mecca (1981), Unknown Pleasures (1979), Metal Box (1979) -- haunt this collection of bleak postcards from the present. Recorded quickly on cassette tape recorders, combining live instrumentation (guitar, bass, keyboards) with programmed drum machine and sequencer, the album has a raw, spontaneous edge, drawing on elements of dub, funk, and primitive electronics for musical direction. The album is dedicated to the late Mark Fisher, who's brilliantly insightful writing is sorely missed while trying to make sense of these insane times.
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PUBINF 004EP
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"Five brand new emissions from Bristol's premier electronicist Nick Edwards, alias Ekolplekz. Three-hundred copies only, no repress. Opening with a glorious ode to the founder and oldest surviving member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 'Dick Mills Blues' we are deep inside a mournful place, lathered in digital vapour trails and infectious circuit-gunk. Soon drops a nod to King Tubby down Dromilly Avenue, sliding the biggest drums this side of Dub-Kingston, slowly dissolving in pure liquid drift. Rocketing onto the flip we are plunged into a headlong fizz of modular scorch with 'Neutronik' and into the fractal Chris & Cosey cabaret of 'Jugglin' For Jesus,' before our heads are gently assaulted in wave after wave of gaseous Radiophonic noise with 'Clayton Freak.' Somewhere holed up inside these single-take, unique abstractions is the sound of pop-electronic, it beats roughly, strangely against the vinyl groove-wall, in sweet disharmony just waiting to be discovered by your stylus."
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