NEW MUSIC: PHIL KIERAN AND JOCHEM PAAP – WORKSHOPS VOL 01
New EP out on Electric Deluxe – Jochem Paap’s (Speedy J) label. This time it’s a collaboration with Phil Kieran. But they’re going backwards to do it. This EP uses vintage recording techniques for the EP.
It certainly sounds analog and as if it could be 20 years old. Openers Paint and Chemicals Dept. and the Dub mix have that limited palette so much of the late 80s and eaarly 90s. The track relies on a simple, hypnotic bass drum to drive itself forward. A few synths arrive later but nothing much. The Dub is more of the same but with less synths. Wood and Organic Dept. has a ‘woody’ feel to the drums that again drive the tune. This is again pretty minimally constructed stuff. The odd synth fart and that’s it. I admire this release more than I’d ever want to buy it (or listen to it again)
Blurb: “Workshops” is a new experimental series of releases by Phil Kieran and Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J). The idea behind this project is to explore the recording techniques used in the middle of the 20th century and dating right back to the mid 1950’s. Famous inspirational places like ‘BBC Radiophonic Workshops’ in England and ‘Philips Lab’ in Holland have seen some of the most innovative production techniques, experimenting with the first use of stereo, modular synths, found sounds and reel to reel tapes. The end result was always something space age and promisingly futuristic and still to this day fresh sounding, crisp and exciting. Phil Kieran and Jochem Paap have decided to use this inspiration to effortlessly accomplish marrying the past, present and future in an innovative mix of old ideas with new. As Phil Kieran explains: “We want to try and create our sound source from a vintage palette, and then take it into something very high tech, we recorded some of these first ideas at Jochem’s studio in Rotterdam. I feel like we are only scratching the surface and I am so excited to really dig deep with this idea”.
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