I’m about to get on an international flight, say hi if you’re at any of these:
June 28th Middlesbrough w JK Flesh
July 5th Bristol w Gorgonn
July 17th Toronto w Delta Kane & Doctor Cement
July 18th Kitchener w Delta Kane & Doctor Cement
July 19th Hamilton w Delta Kane & Doctor Cement
July 24th Peterborough w Delta Kane
July 25th Ottawa w Delta Kane
Monochrome
Monochrome volume one: House of Flying Daggers is out now on Iron Lung Records
Sometime last year whilst pulling a release from a label in an effort to save my sanity and not go completely postal I realized I had a vast amount of tracks either just floating around in virtual shared drives or in semi-finished states on my hard drive and some of the material should be heard.
Every time I release an album there’s always material that doesn’t make the final cut (there’s probably two albums worth of material cut from Scraping the Divine), and anytime I try and learn a new audio skill there’s a lot of demos of me trying to figure out how something works.
So Monochrome is the occasional home for material that for whatever reason didn’t make it very far; sometimes it’ll be abandoned remixes and collaborations, sometimes it’ll be compilation tracks that were physical only releases, sometimes the better end of the demos I do, and sometimes the tracks that I like, but that ultimately didn’t fit on the final version of a release for whatever reason.
House of Flying Daggers is the first Monochrome release (and volume two is probably about a month away) and is mostly tracks raided from the Wolfagram1 archives and finished off.
Several of the tracks on House of Flying Daggers began life as segues or small jokes (you’ll hear it immediately) in my live sets. Duck Season was put together for a show where I was the only non death metal or grind core act on the bill.
Mandrake 2 is a new version of a track from my split with Like Weeds (Industrial Coast) that I wanted to revisit with New Villain on the mic; cut down on the noise, get some vocals on it.
Recent Listening
Dangerous Creatures - Dead Earth 1.0
Scanner & Nurse With Wound - Contrary Motion
Lukah & Statik Selektah - Lost Language Found
Saprogenic - Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs
Dripping - Archaic Scriptures of Epistemology
Hilary Woods - Birthmarks
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Best Books I’ve Read Recently
D.P. Watt - Petals and Violins: Fifteen Unsettling Tales
Benjamin Tweddell - A Crown of Dusk and Sorrow
Bernardo Esquinca - The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
Right, flight to catch, see you soon.
I’ve produced four (?) albums and several tracks and singles for rappers as Wolfagram. If the material is mostly hip hop, but too many external elements start entering the fold then it’s not released as Wolfagram. Material under my now name can and does encompass anything, the Wolfagram name has a much more narrow focus.