Crude Essence, by Tom Moody

Crude Essence

by Tom Moody

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1.	Recrudescence 01:15	buy track
2.	Gatecrasher 01:38	buy track
3.	It's Too Robotic 01:56	buy track
4.	Dribble Chords 2 00:41	buy track
5.	Short Loop Waltz 01:43	buy track
6.	Antipodean Sample March 01:51	buy track
7.	The Biggest Apartment 01:16	buy track
8.	Jeff's Unbirthday 01:38	buy track
9.	Knalledj 01:26	buy track
10.	Divine Drippy 02:48	buy track

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Noisy samples from field recordings, made in and out of the studio, are the heart of this release. Street voices, slamming gates, plastic bag dispensers at the deli, crackly vinyl "ghosts of the past," "sounds of the internet," old songs of mine cut up and granularized. Several voltage-controlled low res samplers were used. The songs are very short and structured. Strings also figure prominently -- synthesized and found.

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released July 15, 2015

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Tom Moody New York, New York

"The sound world [in Melding Principle] is very finely calibrated; your ear for pairing the very pure and the klangorous has become remarkably deft. That makes it easy for the listener to latch onto the layered melodies. (Howl Din)

"[Y]our musical works exploit the aesthetic paradoxes of telecommunications and computer technologies and the social fantasies attached to them."
(Pierre-Luc Verville) ... more

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