Templates - Flanger

Product details

Title: Templates

Performer: Flanger

Genre: Electronic

Sub Genre: Electronica

Release Date: 21/06/1999

Original Release Year: 1999

Label / Distributor: Ntone / PIAS UK/Sony DADC

Pieces in Set: 1

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Performer

EAN: 5021392195124

Additional notes

Album Notes: Flanger: Atom Heart (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, vibraphone, samples); Burnt Friedman (drums, percussion, samples).
Recorded at Mira Music, Santiano, Chile in 1997.
Numerous are the visions of where electronic music and jazz will ultimately meet, but few producers can rival the sophisticated interface blueprinted by Atom Heart and Burnt Friedman. Individually, each has spent years mapping possible paths for the future sound of jazz. Working together as Flanger, each doubling on live instruments and sampler, these two multi-talented draftsmen have finally perfected the template.
As TEMPLATES opens, a books-on-tape voice zips through a catalog of stylistic signifiers. Flanger selects its palette from this curious sound-bite/byte manifest--which includes such dubious entries as "sports," "comedy animation," "body heat," and "commercial nostalgia"--and leaps straight into the startling fusion of "Music to Begin With." Realizing the next step beyond Hancock's SEXTANT and HEADHUNTERS, Flanger's digitally precise edits splice Atom Heart's piquant Latin-beat instrumentation and Friedman's spry synthesized/natural drumming with icy glitches and incursive samples. In spite of the extensive digital tampering, TEMPLATES swings like crazy. The processing plays receptive third-person in Flanger's hot trio, feeding off Atom Heart's phenomenally funky basslines, vibes, and Rhodes on "Quicksilver Loom" and "Lata" and complementing Friedman's detailed trap-work with intriguing, pixel-popping grain throughout "Short Note With a Few," "Studio Tan," and the invigorating Martian-dub skank of "Full On Scientist."

Album Reviews: The Wire (1/00, p.67) - Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records Of The Year ['99]"
Alternative Press (10/99, p.89) - 4 out of 5 - "...futuristic acid jazz...this album truly disorients and tweaks the genre into a brave new sonic world....Guaranteed to confound even the most agile dancers, TEMPLATES offers more surpirses...than most artists can muster in a career."

Titles on disc 1

1.: Music To Begin With

2.: Options In The Fire

3.: Endless Summer

4.: Short Note With A Few

5.: Studio Tan

6.: Full On Scientist

7.: Lata

8.: Quicksilver Loom

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