the DAC mixes, by Darkroom

the DAC mixes

by Darkroom

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Peter Jones There is life on other planets. Darkroom, their mission to act as cultural ambassadors, bring back these immersive experiences of their travels. Favorite track: shutterbug.

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2.	after dark 09:26	info	buy track
3.	dark tomb 06:19	info	buy track
4.	interlude 08:06	info	buy track
5.	dreams come licking 07:08	info	buy track
6.	ambitronic remix 05:04	info	buy track
7.	21st century schizoid remix 07:32	info	buy track
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A collection of unreleased Darkroom explorations recorded at the
Digital/Analogue Cambridge Festival, 2001, and subsequently put through the mixing mangle by the talented likes of Bass Communion, Rhinoceros, Theo Travis and Centrozoon.

Also contains Butterfly 2, featuring a vocal contribution from Tim Bowness.

"The Digital/Analogue Cambridge Festival took place on June 30th 2001 at the Cambridge Museum of Technology. Various artists were installed around the buildings, creating a continuous sonic collage for the attendees to wander through. Mike and Os of Darkroom played for over 3 hours and recorded most of that.

"For this project, the mixers were given about an hour selected from those recordings. The only constraint they were given was that their mix had to use at least some of this material.

"Os, Cambridge, May 2004."

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released May 1, 2004

Additional credits:
Tim Bowness sings on track 1, recorded by Peter Chilvers.
Track 5 remixed by Os.
Produced and mastered by Os, December 2003.

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Darkroom UK

Guitar but not guitar; synthesizers but not keyboards – Darkroom’s music starts with improvisation and a distinctive approach to sound design, followed by disciplined editing and stop-motion studio craft. By turns beautiful and beautifully ugly, theirs is a very human music that always sounds ‘played’ not ‘programmed’, despite the essential technology. ... more

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