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Natural Devices

by TLAOTLON

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Tim Shiel
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Tim Shiel Bizarre compelling rhythms. Part artificial landscape, part epic mind puzzle. #mindpuzzle Favorite track: Open Systems.
Michael Upton (Jet Jaguar)
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Michael Upton (Jet Jaguar) The "multiple-tabs-open" description on the page describes Tlaotlon perfectly, tho to my ears this is his most straightforward release since the 7" on Vauva in 2013. Still pretty mad. :D Favorite track: Illuminated Biomass.
Martyn Pepperell
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Martyn Pepperell While the steady bass drum will provide you with a safe entry point (or perhaps a safety belt), it's the colourful circular rhythms, melodies and textures that will keep you coming back. The concept of avant-club music is often invoked or floated in discussions, but Tlaotlon is really doing it. Exceptional work.
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After a flurry of EP’s in 2014, including cassettes on 1080p Collection, Baba Vanga and a split 12” with Katie Gately as part of Fatcat’s forward-thinking split series, Tlaotlon starts 2015 with Natural Devices on his fresh imprint World Memory Records.

On Natural Devices Tlaotlon maintains his ingenious rhythmic invention and vibrant sound worlds, but now in higher definition. On these eight tracks, dynamic, glossy and malleable assemblages often evoke the plastic arts. Digitally processed sonic objects are manipulated to bubble, burst and drip seemingly of their own accord, yet are simultaneously sculpted with razor-sharp precision and tamed just enough to fit into the dense spatio-temporal terrain.

All eight tracks on Natural Devices have a bass drum on every beat, however the rhythmic sensibilities displayed don’t quite conform to the grid-based and interlocked machinic momentum of Techno. Using numbers and ratios culled from various sources, Tlaotlon creates a mesmerizing ‘rhythmification’ of data. Percussive elements each loop on their own axis, decentering the grooves as they orbit and eclipse one another. Melodic phrases are built with the repetitious logic of ringtones, human speech, radio idents, console start-ups and animal calls. By shifting focus around and between these elements, the listener can appreciate new perspectives in the music’s inter-rhythmic topology and scope.

Natural Devices reflects the multiplicity of the virtual domain onto the open surface of electronic music. Where pop-ups, splash-screens, hover-ads, gifs and auto-play videos might simply rupture your focus zone, Natural Devices zooms out enough to transform this sensation into a multiple-tabs-open musical panorama bursting with divergences of colour, texture, balance and drama. This is a unique perspective on close-listening club music and is a bold, speculative work of contemporary electronic music.

Natural Devices will be released February 2015 on Cassette and Digital formats.

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released February 9, 2015

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