Case Studies brings you one of the finest romanian electronic music producer, Montgomery Clunk (aka Contorsionist here at Asiluum)

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We went by his place located somewhere in Bucharest’s periphery and asked him to play some of his new tracks as Montgomery Clunk that will be out via Error Broadcast pretty soon but also a new Contorsionist track that will probably be available  here at Asiluum.
Also included is an extensive interview about his projects but also glimpses of Bucharest at night!

Enjoy!

New Asiluum Case Studies episode folks!

This time we went at Montgomery Clunk’s pl ace for

a special set featuring some of his new tracks and we also asked him a question or two about friends, cash and jobs while at it!

Coming soon!

Via Farver:
“We are really proud of our second release, a split album coming from Brio (Aebeloe’s experimental alias) and FJORD (a duo composed of Mountain and Contorsionist both of them being remixers on our first EP – Averos’ “Theme One”). Rounding off at 4 tracks from each side, 3 originals and a remix of the other half, “Ellem” is more than a gutsy representation of what the guys like to call ‘after death music’. It is a conceptual and organic sound, inspired from

and

as

a tribute to the E

arth.

FJORD – Unstable Affliction by Farver

Absent Without Leave:  http://www.facebook.com/absentwithoutleave
Contorsionist: http://soundcloud.com/user3498996
Parachute Pulse: http://soundcloud.com/parachutepulse

Biletul costa 10 RON si se poate procura la intrare.

Biography:

absent without leave is the solo project of George Mastrokostas, based in A

thens, Greece.

Re cording

everything himself at his home-studio, he produces a sound that h as

at times been described

as a mix of shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronica.

He has just released his third album, called faded photographs, featuring guest appearances from some really great artists, including port-royal, stafraenn hakon, epic45, millimetrik (below the sea, le chat blanc orchestra, glider, parallel lines) and members of hood, the declining winter, plumerai, eksi ekso, tupolev, slon and others

too.
To date, he has released his music on labels such as distant noise records (uk), unlabel (uk), chat blanc records (canada), awkward silence recordings (uk), thisquietarmy records (canada), symbolic interaction (japan), october man recordings (uk), friend of mine records (japan), duotone records (japan), bsbta (denmark), fuzzy panda recording co.

(usa) and also on his own label sound in silence (greece) and has collaborated for split releases and remixes with artists like port-royal, yellow6, televise (ex-slowdive), landshipping (ex-metrotone) featuring isan, millimetrik and kimonophonic amongst others.

He has played several gigs in Greece at various venues, including synch festival 2007 (alongside mum, !!!, front 242, fischerspooner and alexander hacke, amongst others) and has shared the stage, most of the times after being personally invited by the artists themselves, with god is an astronaut, 65daysofstatic, port-royal, piano magic, i like trains, jeniferever, manyfingers (ex-movietone, collaborator of matt elliott / third eye foundation and hood), millimetrik, section 25 (from legendary factory records), sigmatropic and many others.

He has composed the soundtrack of the short film the crossroads (directed by Petros Sofikitis) and his music has been played on some of the best radio stations worldwide like BBC 6 Music, Resonance FM and others too. 

(Raster Noton, Skam / Osaka-

Japonia)

Seria party-urilor electro de joi continua in Control cu dj set-urile a doi artisti autohtoni Huzur si Contor

sionist si nu in ultimul rand cel al

invitatului special japonez.

Joi 12 mai, Bring The Noise si clubul CONTROL va propun o seara alaturi de Kouhei Matsunaga aka NHK yx si o „demostratie” dementiala ce implica sintetizatoare si samplere.

Warm-up si afterparty:

Huzur: http://soundcloud.com/huzur
Contorsionist: http://soundcloud.com/ user3498996

Intrarea este libera. 

Kouhei este un muzician si grafician japonez din Osaka.

In perio ad

a sa de formare a crescut ascultand hardcore-techno, rap si hiphop, a studiat arhitectura si a inceput

sa faca muzica in 1992.

In 1998, spre finalul adolescentei, lanseaza deja primul sau album “Upside Down” la Mille Plateaux (Germany) in 1998.

Compozitiile sale au fost produse sub diferite nume de scena ( NHK, NHKyx, Internet Magic, Koyxen) de numeroase case de discuri din intreaga lume – Mille Plateaux, Raster Noton (Germany), Wordsound (US), Important Records (US) and Skam Records (UK), etc.

Fascinat de lumea samplerelor si a sintetizatoarelor , Kouhei experimenteaza si participa la diverse performance-uri alaturi de artisti cunoscuti ai scenei muzicale electronice : Merzbow, Autechre’s Sean Booth, Mika Vainio (Fin), Conrad Schnitzler, Asmus Tietchens (Ger) , Rashad Becker (Ger), Puppetmastaz crew, Sleeparchive si Sensational.

In 2002 preia initiativa de a crea ”Flying Swimming” propiul label de organizare

de evenimente muzicale experimentale si

de arta contemporana.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57343027@N06/5297569266/

Mountain & Contorsionist Tape Split
#018 – 08.11.2010

Side A: Mountain

01. Vessel
02. The Great White Sea
03.

Sun Paradox
04.

Mt. Mnt

Side B: Contorsionist

01. fringe
02. terran
03. gamma
04. coldfeet

Download !

Buy Tape (limited edition of 50)

Guess you already got used on us releasing cd versi

ons of our albums alongside the all familiar free download.

But for this rele ase we thought why not make something a little different and go back in time a few decades.

Mountain and Contorsionist were already planning on releasing new material on our label so it seemed natural on teaming them up for a split record.

We all remember split tapes from the days of underground electronic music

and even black metal  so why not release one ourselves

?

Some of you may already know the man behind Mountain as a member of another band brought to you by asiluum, Semiosis, or from his older project, Candlestickmaker.

Contorsionist needs no introduction; he already has two releases on asiluum, the last one of them, Starkiller, being easily on top of our preferences in terms of electronic music. Being a workaholic, he is also preparing for the inauguration of another project of his, Montgomery Clunk, only five days later on Error Broadcast.

These being said, wipe off the dust from your cassette player, turn it real loud and hit play!

Check out the release party aswell!

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In cadrul serii Asiluum cu numarul doi ne-am propus sa schimbam un pic sintagma “lansare de disc” si sa lansam, pe langa varianta de download gratuit a albumului, si varianta pe caseta.
Albumul in sine nu este un LP ci un split intre Mountain si Contorsionist.
Pe omul din spatele Mountain il stiti deja probabil ca membru in Semiosis, o alta trupa lansata de Asiluum sau din celalalt proiect al sau mai vechi, Candlestickmaker.

Contorsionist nu mai are nevoie de prea multe introduceri, el avand deja lansate la Asiluum nu mai putin de doua releasuri, ultimul dintre ele, “Starkiller“, concurand cu lejeritate la albumul electro al anului.

Totodata fiind un workaholic prin excelenta este deja cunoscut pentru inca un proiect, Montgomery Clunk, proiect ce se va lansa

la doar 5 zile diferenta,

la labelul Error Broadcast.

De ce caset?? Poate datorita am intirii vremurilor

in care faceam schimburi de casete sau ascultam cap coada albumele procurate cu greu.

Vremurilor sunetului precar, infundat si de multe ori greu

descifrabil.
Asadar scoateti din debara casetofonul, volumul la 10 si dati play.

O piesa de pe acest split se poate asculta in premiera aici:
http://soundcloud.com/asiluum/mountain-the-great-white-sea

Lansarea virtuala va avea loc cu o zi inainte ( 8 Noiembrie 2010) pe www.asiluum.com iar marti, pe 9 Noiembrie, va asteptam in Club Control pentru lansarea fizica si

pentru un concert special.

Primii 30 ajunsi la concert vor primi gratis splitul “Mountain & Contorsionist”!

Check out mister Contorsionist‘ s brand new project, Montgomery Clunk!

via error-broadcast.com

“Introducing Montgomery Clunk 25.09.2010

Montgomery Clunk is another youngster hailing from the Eastern parts of Europe, this time Bucharest, Romania.

He embraces so many styles of electronic music it is hard to believe it makes sense eventually.

However, it does.

Starting from Hip Hop and Dubstep, you can find Ambient and classic Electronica as well as a neat Pop edge and a certain leaning toward progressive songwriting.

You probably never heard about him till now, but once again GIMME5 helps you discovering what’s next. The exclusive “You Neon Knight” is hosted on their website and it’s available for free download! ”

Montgomery Clunk – You Neon Kinght (Xclusive) by Gimme5