Marke B. at the San Francisco Bay Guardian posted my top eleven in music from 2011 with a lot of Youtube links.
View it here.
“Local techno producer and live performer Marc Kate, a.k.a. Silencefiction, a.k.a. Husband, a.k.a. Never Knows comes to us from the future with this heady emendation of the recent musical past, replete with technicolor shadows, tripped-out mixtape passings, overdue redos, shapeshifting pop sublimity, fortunate live distortion, and bass hauntology. Check it.”
A great write-up from San Francisco Bay Guardian editor Marke B. about my upcoming live performance at OK Hole featuring photo by Michelle Blioux:
‘A Korg-load of brainiacs are still making techno in this town (yay!). But how many of those brainiacs are merely getting in the way of their machines? “There’s something beautifully pure about techno. Too pure. That pristine, precise sound needs to be undermined, soiled and sullied. Electronic dance music usually relates a narrative that is predictably written. The only way I see out of this trap is to be more of a mediator between the machines as they each take turns telling their own side of the story: sometimes harmonious, sometimes revelatory, often conflicted.” That’s Marc Kate (a.k.a. Silence Fiction, a.k.a.Husband), one of SF’s more vital underground fixtures, whose latest, kind of spooky incarnation as Never Knows channels a tasty bank of live equipment as it folds old-school goth atmospheres into sweeping techscapes. Ensorcel much? Strap in for his debut at the essential, experimental monthly O.K. Hole party.’
This Saturday, October 15th, I will be debuting Never Knows as a live performance at OK Hole. This will be the culmination of six months of preparing an integration of laptop, analog and digital synths and guitar pedal effects with accompanying visuals.
Also on the bill are Water Borders, Total Accomplishment and Elon Katz.
Facebook announcement here.
At Amnesia, 853 Valencia, San Francisco, California.
A new Never Knows mix, titled ‘Transience’ is the first feed for the Untitled & After Podcast - over an hour of dark, textural techno and house.
You can download the mix here.
Subscribe to the podcast feed here.
Subscribe via iTunes here.
Tracklist:
Ryan Crosson “Metro Bunker” Eklo
Marc Houle “Inside” M_nus
Kassem Mosse “We Speak To Those” NonPlus+
I:Cube “Bionic Ears” Versatile
Gustavo Lamas “Mares (Luke Hess Deep Remix)” Modelisme
Pantha du Prince “Ursonate 3″ Rough Trade UK
Marc Romboy / Stephan Bodzin “Triton” Systematic
AFMB “Nasty Disposition” Drumpoet Community
Never Knows “Poe” Untitled & After
Remain “Dependance” Meant
Mist Works “Common Question? (Aybee’s Immortal Mix) Atjazz
Ital “One Hit” 100% Silk
Robert Crouch “Indian Summer (Birdcage Remix)” Untitled & After
In support of my most recent release on Untitled & After, “Untitled 20“, here is my most recent chart on Beatport.
View here:
Never Knows Charting Dark Corners Chart
In support of our new release on Untitled & After, “Untitled 19” Land Sound has posted a new chart of our favorite tracks on Beatport.
About Untitled 17:
Untitled 17 collects five very diverse remixes of Robert Crouch’s past releases on Untitled & After. Each track pushes and pulls at Crouch’s rhythmic and textural explorations. Each artist extracts Crouch’s key elements of subdued beats, deep drones and field recordings and expands them as their own. Untitled 17 is like a magnifying glass held up to all the intricate details of Crouch’s music, blowing them up into bold, focused, aggressive statements.
Morgan Packard’s remix of “5th of July” maintains the original’s vibrant textures, but pushes the beats to an off-step dub without the dread.
Birdcage’s remix of “Indian Summer” is deep, focused and propulsive. Shimmering pulses build into overwhelming shoegazer beams of white light.
Silencefiction’s remix of “Malibu” reinterprets the original as a techno track propelled by a fuzzy bass guitar. All rhythmic structures descend into a slow half-time trot before leaping back to life.
Yellowcake’s remix of “Everything Is Forgiven” is all deep blue swirling from the center. A complexity that keeps all in perfect balance.
Kyoka’s remix of “Malibu” is a radical rhythmic reinterpretation of the original. Fractured samples and loops of beats play off each other like some sort of Capoeira. Half giddy game and half aggressive battle, each moment is inspired and unpredictable.
Tracklist:
1 – 5th of July (Morgan Packard Remix)
2 – Indian Summer (Birdcage Remix)
3 – Malibu (Silencefiction Remix)
4 – Everything Is Forgiven (Yellowcake Remix)
5 – Malibu (Kyoka Remix)
More info here.
Available on Beatport here.
