Percussion Loops by Mads Emil Nielsen
Four pieces based on drum/cymbal + synthesizer recordings from Copenhagen-based musician Mads Emil Nielsen. Recorded in Berlin & Copenhagen, 2012 / 2015.
A2 Untitled was originally featured in Secret Thirteen Mix 056 "Percussion Bitter Sweet" - mix compiled + synth played by Andrew Pekler.
"A nice set of unruly tracks that originate with percussion loops (from samples of recordings of solo percussion and also orchestral works), but achieve a strangeness and beauty all their own when manhandled by this Copenhagen based musician. If they're technically composed of beats, they are not built on a foundation of beat-as-beat so much as rest on beat-as-sound. Wrenched in a variety of unexpected directions, the percussion is about as dancy as a random shard from Han Bennink or Chris Corsano. Which suits me fine. Hard to not think these snippets wouldn't be great to use for soundtracks to antic animated films."
- The Wire Magazine
Tracklist
| 1. | Untitled Percussion Loop | 2:38 |
| 2. | Untitled | 1:43 |
| 3. | Distance | 1:22 |
| 4. | Unfold | 3:03 |
Credits
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Written & produced and artwork by Mads Emil Nielsen.
Mastered by Kassian Troyer. Cut at D&M, Berlin. Artwork by Mads Emil Nielsen.
Special thanks to Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann.
www.arbitraryproject.com/Percussion-Loops
B2 Unfold opened The Wire Tapper 39 CD (The Wire Magazine, November issue 2015):
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper-39
License
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Mads Emil Nielsen works with basic sound sources, often combined with short percussive and orchestral samples, real sounds and an amplification of machine produced errors. In 2014 he founded arbitrary, the label and artistic platform on which he released a series of graphic scores and recordings (Framework) and various solo works & collaborations.