"Two hands, two channels, one take" accurately sums the Ekoplekz technique, but his pitch black portals of radiophonic dub continue to elude description like the movement of bats in a cave. Returning to Mordant Music - home of his 'Memowrekz' double cassette and 'Fountain Square' 12 - 'Skalectrikz' collects "searing live and studio scree from all corners of Ekoplekz's 2011 assault". The first tape features sounds captured and mildewed in his Dromilly Vale home studio (the name being a syncretic homage to King Tubby's Dromilly Avenue studio and the Maida Vale labs of the Radiophonic vanguard) and plumbs the depths of his cheap, archaic equipment to return with raw, brain-nutrifying/putrifying electronic dub of the oddest calibre. The second tape presents a selection of recordings made at his now-notorious live shows at venues across the UK and Europe. It's probably fair to say they follow a more disjointed flow than the ohr-worming home recordings, and should be taken more as glimpses of his recurrent brilliance as an in-the-moment improvisor who's constantly discovering new nooks and crannies in his ever-morphing echo chamber...
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"Two hands, two channels, one take" accurately sums the Ekoplekz technique, but his pitch black portals of radiophonic dub continue to elude description like the movement of bats in a cave. Returning to Mordant Music - home of his 'Memowrekz' double cassette and 'Fountain Square' 12 - 'Skalectrikz' collects "searing live and studio scree from all corners of Ekoplekz's 2011 assault". The first tape features sounds captured and mildewed in his Dromilly Vale home studio (the name being a syncretic homage to King Tubby's Dromilly Avenue studio and the Maida Vale labs of the Radiophonic vanguard) and plumbs the depths of his cheap, archaic equipment to return with raw, brain-nutrifying/putrifying electronic dub of the oddest calibre. The second tape presents a selection of recordings made at his now-notorious live shows at venues across the UK and Europe. It's probably fair to say they follow a more disjointed flow than the ohr-worming home recordings, and should be taken more as glimpses of his recurrent brilliance as an in-the-moment improvisor who's constantly discovering new nooks and crannies in his ever-morphing echo chamber...
"Two hands, two channels, one take" accurately sums the Ekoplekz technique, but his pitch black portals of radiophonic dub continue to elude description like the movement of bats in a cave. Returning to Mordant Music - home of his 'Memowrekz' double cassette and 'Fountain Square' 12 - 'Skalectrikz' collects "searing live and studio scree from all corners of Ekoplekz's 2011 assault". The first tape features sounds captured and mildewed in his Dromilly Vale home studio (the name being a syncretic homage to King Tubby's Dromilly Avenue studio and the Maida Vale labs of the Radiophonic vanguard) and plumbs the depths of his cheap, archaic equipment to return with raw, brain-nutrifying/putrifying electronic dub of the oddest calibre. The second tape presents a selection of recordings made at his now-notorious live shows at venues across the UK and Europe. It's probably fair to say they follow a more disjointed flow than the ohr-worming home recordings, and should be taken more as glimpses of his recurrent brilliance as an in-the-moment improvisor who's constantly discovering new nooks and crannies in his ever-morphing echo chamber...