Basic Editions Dean Spunt SKU: DC937 Barcode: 0781484093718 27.00 £27.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Drag City Released Date: 27th September 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dean Spunt’s all-new ‘Basic Editions’ is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language – in this case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive, ‘Basic Editions’ distils a 64-voice module through a head full of ideas -somewhat like pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and easy listening impulses backwards through a funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the other end. With this new release, Dean describes his process as “using sounds, rather than making sounds.” This approach to music-making is a train of thought that’s been rolling out from the far horizon of the past for ages now – but for Dean, whose previous works within and without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it’s a fresh work stance. Given, however, No Age’s traditional sonic manipulations (via loops and treatments), ‘Basic Editions’ delivers further unexpected hard rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic that has defined Dean’s path over the past two decades. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colourfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic. And to think that it all happened because of a glimpse of an E-MU Mo’Phatt at the local online gear shop. Dean was looking for a box to give him a new angle; not knowing anything about this one which seemed like the right path through the next phase of his own adventure. This ‘urban dance synth’ was made great use of in hip-hop productions around the turn of the millennium. There’s lots more to know about the machines of that time – choose your own rabbit hole – but the takeaway here is that it generates a finite amount of very circa-2000 sounds and he got it for fifty bucks. Inspired, Dean spent a minute getting its basic capacities in hand, while acquiring a few other boxes with compatible cards (more sounds). Then he was rolling, doing gigs with his Mo’Phatt and a midi-keyboard while recording more involved collages at home. In one way of thinking, ‘Basic Editions’ is the sound of Dean not being influenced by anything – how could he be? The sounds were all preset. There is, however, an instinctiveness to pushing a closed system in a curatorial manner, and it’s here that Dean’s inclinations took the wheel of the proceedings, bending the farmed sounds in and out of colour and shape, creating improbable constructions whose gears clash together and revolve with an odd combination of nerviness and chill. For fans of Moebius, Nuno Canavarro, General Magic & Pita, Carl Stone, Jon Hassell. Further refinements are provided with the artwork, which reprocesses generic graphic information sourced from various modules, while the album title tips its cap to a fine rank-and-file clothing line offered at K-Mart. Courtesy of Dean Spunt, a Basic Editions all its own, now on the rack for counterinsurgent sonic wanderers everywhere. Artist Dean Spunt Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Gonzo Bop Critic in a Coma European Cardboard Boom Times at the Phatt Farm Apricot Child Confusion Is SysEx Highlighter Bombastic Fructose The Eternal Present Find Me in the Forums Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View Jimi Tenor & Cold Diamond & Mink Is There Love In Outer Space? 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