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AMP 022CD
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Q Factors is a mixtape released in advance of the forthcoming new studio album from Amp. It's is a taste of what has gone before and what is still to come. Q Factors opens with the sonic trip beat chaos engine that is "Drowning Mind" mixed by Marc Challans. "Hownow" calms things down with an atmospheric trip hop vibe, a mix by Challans/Amp Studio. "Lost Love Cries", a song by Karine Charff, is given an electronica twist by Chris Smith under the name of Blaubac. Guitar riff grooves return with "Loveflower", given a second airing in this collection in remastered form, a mix by Amp Studio. Donald Ross Skinner supplies the mix of "Just Get it", an edgy stand-off with guitar washes and a lonesome harmonica haunted by Karine's vocals. "D'espoir De Mourir" is lo-fi French minimal techno in a gothic sea, mixed by former Amp cohort Olivier Gauthier. "Waiting Room Blues", a slice of quirky French techno blues, finds a home here. "Push N' Hold" is a mix by Amp Studio, followed by the ambient electronica of "When & Where", a mix by Yellow6. Concluding in the romantic tradition, "Ombres Sur La Lune" floats in like a slice of spacey ambience, mixed by French act Ladder To Royale, Karine's haunting vocals drifting the listener out...
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AMP 019CD
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Uncertainty Principles is the new Amp Studio album, the solo project of Richard Amp of A.M.P.. As the album's name suggests, it is an homage to the beauty that can manifest itself when random or complex processes are allowed to flow in the production and creation of musical or visual works. Serendipity and random or pseudo random events have been integral to the making of this record. The sleeve artwork has also been created using processes that produce coincidental imagery. It was an "out of the blue" request for a copy of the track "Tiller" that led to the formation of this album. The act of finding and locating the master for this track, lead Richard to the realization that there were sounds and tracks in the archive, "Tiller", "Slip", "Misstype Dolittle" and "Sleep City Drone" that deserved re-evaluation and an opportunity for a new lease of life. He set about working on new material, using sounds and field recordings, both new and re-discovered, mixing the new and remixing the once forgotten. The album traverses terrains of intersections and juxtapositions from the shorelines of "Sliptwo" to the event horizon perceived in "Photon Sphere". Spiral deconstructions and city noise chaos combine to create the expressionist drone of "Spinfactors" and the lo-fi rap of "Sleep City Drone". The combinations of the sound effects of a typewriter, used as percussion, analogue synth sweeps, and washed out distorted drone sonic guitar on "Misstype Dolittle" is signature Richard Amp in his Amp Studio guise. We drift though 'Slip' almost as an interlude before the full randomality speaks in "Mort Irritées", an homage to music-concrete and the work of Pierre Henry. "Tiller" concludes CD 1 like a blissful balm, steering us outward towards some distant horizon, piano echoes calling the imagination to float free in a minimal sea. A chance invitation to perform in Bethnal Green, East London resulted in the making of "Uncertainly Alive", a transcript version of the performance, which forms the core of CD 2.
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