Looptronica: A Noise Tribute To Jacob Two-Two
Released may 29th, 2012.
Since I started recording LOOPTRONICA, I knew that it was going to be a great album, but I didn't imagined at first how big it could be. It was all thanks to the support given by Oracle Music Netlabel and Amigos de la Contaminación Sonora, who helped me to promote the album.
LOOPTRONICA was better produced, ensemble and performed than any other album I made before, it turned to be the most elaborated thing I've created at that point on A.S.S. Studios. Music and dialogues from the original animated series, Jacob Two-Two (based upon the books of Mordecai Richler) were used as source materials, fixing the gap between music and concept presented on BROFLOVSKI'S KILLERS and IMAGINE ME. I wanted to make clear that this album was a tribute to Jacob Two-Two, not only as a mere concept for artwork and names of tracks, but as a whole sound odyssey. Even considering the traditional "a noise tribute" subtitle, LOOPTRONICA has more in common with musique concrete rather than noise itself. It's a big collage of musical genres all put together to form what I like to call "the Sir Edgar Carpenter genre". It was also the first album in my discography recorded as gapless (no silence is heard between tracks).
Notes
Recorded and mixed at A.S.S. Studios & Scriptsound Recordings, late 2011 - may 2012.
Uses parts from Jacob Two-Two's episodes. Main title theme composed by Martin Kucaj.
Dedicated to Nelvana's animated series "Jacob Two-Two" & to novelist Mordecai Richler.
Sir Edgar Carpenter: Laptops (Looptronica, Transformations, Effects, Mixing), Vocal Synthesizers, Voice, Real Synthesizers, Musique Concrete, Field-Recordings, Samples, Metal Devices, Junk Instruments, Piano, Synthesized and Real Drums.
Track listing:
When it was released in 2012, all songs were indexed on a single track.
1. Introduction
2. Real Fiction Spying
3. Duet (A Fight Of Voices)
4. Loop Play
5. More Than Reality
6. Real Fiction Spying ( Reprise)
7. The Anthem Of Jacob Two-Two & Mordecai Richler
* Voice Realization (hidden track, not listed on artwork)
Notes from 2015 Re-issue Version:
Remastered at Heaven & Hell Works, may 2014.
Inlay designs by Sidd Anders & Ray Barret
Text by Daniel Kurt & Sir Edgar Carpenter.
EC: Microphones (Vocal Synthesizers). Laptops (Looptronica, Mixing, Edition, Effects, Noise, all treatments, transformations and sounds), Musique Concrete, Drums (Real and synthesized), Piano, Multiple Synthesizers, metals (feedback, noises), vocoder.
Each track was separated individually for the re-issue version.
2012 original release artwork
