Booking Info
Territory: Europe
Agent: Chiz
Links: Official site
Biography
A new exciting collaboration between one-of-a-kind analogue explorer Nick Edwards (Ekoplekz) and itinerant trombonist and dubstep exile Ralph Cumbers (Bass Clef). Their album Tapeswap, was released on MC and is a unique experiment in collaborative overdubbing that emerged as a strange and hazily psychotropic trip through the fourth world via forgotten analogue switches, pedals and gear. Live both artists thrive out of their comfort zones creating a dense electronic jungle.
The album was recorded using the severely obsolete process of tape-swapping. Since both artists use similar four-track cassette recorders it was fairly simple. Well, apart from having to entrust the tapes to the semi-occult vagaries of the Royal Mail postal system…. First Eko recorded a whole length of tape (about 23 minutes), using one channel only. The tape was sent to Clef who added sounds onto the second channel. Then the whole process was continued until all four channels were filled. At the same time a second tape started by Clef was going in the opposite direction.
The album has gotten great reviews at many places including the Wire, Hypnoik, Freq, Brutal Resonance, as well as a host of blogs including Kid Shirt, An Idiot’s Guide To Dreaming and The Liminal. Thus far the duo have played live only on special, select occasions.
Next year they will issue the companion album Fileswap, featuring some new tunes, and a brace of remixes from a potentially stellar line up…
Ekoplekz is a a one-of-a-kind analogue explorer. His double cassette album Memowrekz (Mordant Music), the bass-heavy Live At Dubloaded (Further Records) and the recent Intrusive Incidentalz Volume I (Punch Drunk) have all sketched out a distinctive audio landscape. Somewhere between Radiophonic wonderlands, krautrock forests, abandoned industrial estates (as favoured by the likes of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire) and the hollowed-out caverns of 70′s dub echo chambers.
Bass Clef escaped from the confines of the dubstep scene in a haze of delayed trombone and modular synth frequencies. This year he released his third album Inner Space Break Free (MAGIC + DREAMS) as well as the anthemic Rollercoasters Of The Heart 12” for Punch Drunk. The stella-drenched, strobe-lit video for I Think You Are Ready Now For The Eternal Point Of No Return showcasing some characteristically left-field choreography and costume changes, has clocked up a good few k of hits.
Press Quotes
“A fusion of may epochs – 1960′s machinic experimentation, angrily arty 70s and 80s post-punk sedition, and 90s and 00s’ underground dance engineers – a single, deeply British continuum” - The Wire
“as forward thinking and exciting as anything else around” -- Hyponik
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