phil julian

Live Flux

**Edition of 150** Coruscating electro-acoustic drone works by underground stalwart Phil Julian aka Cheapmachines. Active in the UK since the late '90s with releases on a host of great labels including Entr'acte, Harbinger Sound and Staalplaat, Phil has collaborated with and remixed for Maurizio Bianchi, The New Blockaders, and GX Jupitter-Larsen. 'Live Flux' presents documentary evidence of two live actions deploying unstable or chaotic systems and computer based sounds, both recorded in London. The first, at Hope and Anchor, 19/04/2012, stealthily segues from keening metallic drone to phosphorescent microtones and more physical scrapes and sonorous shapes culminating with a controlled blast of dense noise. The second, recorded at the ICA, 14/07/12, is equally elemental, abstract, forging resonant, ductile tones into sheer, placid drones which dissipate to a cloud of mechanical disintegration with a deliberate, meticulous logic.