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SPIEGEL, LAURIE / OLOF DREIJER - MELODIES RECORD CLUB #002: BEN UFO SELECTS
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Melodies Record Club #002: Ben UFO Selects
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Downbeat ELectronica Experimental Grooves - Inc Poster - The second instalment of Melodies Record Club 12"s is curated by none other than all round uber-DJ Ben UFO so you'd best sit up and pay attention.
The Hessle don drops a little science on our ass here with two total staples from his DJ sets, neither were originally produced with a club setting in mind, which is why they’ve never been available in this format before.
On one side, we have “Drums” from Laurie Spiegel’s 1980 experimental electronics album “The Expanding Universe”, a collection of tracks produced between 1974 and 1976 using a computer playing the actual sounds by controlling analog synthesis equipment under control of the GROOVE hybrid system developed by Max Matthews and F.R. Moore at Bell Labs. Drums is a percussive seven minute computer generated workout inspired by Laurie’s interest in African and Indian musics, and which brings to mind the most far out kosmiche music of the period to modern day techno. A connection Ben has tried to make explicit by including it in his first BBC essential mix back in 2013.
On the flip we have a track by Olof Dreijer from the Swedish band the Knife who’s work you might also be familiar with under the moniker Oni Ayhun. Back in 2009 his artist friend Adnan Yildiz curated an exhibition called “THERE IS NO AUDIENCE” in Montethermoso, dedicated to public imagination. Adnan commissioned a single piece from Olof called “Echoes from Mamori”, that played on loop during the exhibition and was subsequently released only on CD. A contemporary piece more clearly indebted to house music, Olof built the track around arpeggios generated using sounds of frogs he recorded in the Amazon and birds around Berlin, fed into a sampler.
The Hessle don drops a little science on our ass here with two total staples from his DJ sets, neither were originally produced with a club setting in mind, which is why they’ve never been available in this format before.
On one side, we have “Drums” from Laurie Spiegel’s 1980 experimental electronics album “The Expanding Universe”, a collection of tracks produced between 1974 and 1976 using a computer playing the actual sounds by controlling analog synthesis equipment under control of the GROOVE hybrid system developed by Max Matthews and F.R. Moore at Bell Labs. Drums is a percussive seven minute computer generated workout inspired by Laurie’s interest in African and Indian musics, and which brings to mind the most far out kosmiche music of the period to modern day techno. A connection Ben has tried to make explicit by including it in his first BBC essential mix back in 2013.
On the flip we have a track by Olof Dreijer from the Swedish band the Knife who’s work you might also be familiar with under the moniker Oni Ayhun. Back in 2009 his artist friend Adnan Yildiz curated an exhibition called “THERE IS NO AUDIENCE” in Montethermoso, dedicated to public imagination. Adnan commissioned a single piece from Olof called “Echoes from Mamori”, that played on loop during the exhibition and was subsequently released only on CD. A contemporary piece more clearly indebted to house music, Olof built the track around arpeggios generated using sounds of frogs he recorded in the Amazon and birds around Berlin, fed into a sampler.
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Last FM Information on Olof Dreijer
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Olof Dreijer (b.1981) is a member of The Knife. Now based in Berlin, he performs minimal techno shows as Oni Ayhun, previously as DJ Coolof.
Olof Dreijer is a producer, DJ, musician and member of The Knife who has been pushing the borders of electronic music for two decades, keeping things fun and colorful. Over the past decade, when he’s not been busy producing music, Olof has been DJing throughout Europe at clubs and highly-respected international festivals. At the turn of 2010, Olof started working as Oni Ayhun, a secret pseudonym that explored more experimental directions and played with gender. In 2015, Olof toured with Paula Temple, rRoxymore and Planningtorock as Decon Recon, a project that played with hierarchies in electronic music. Decon Recon’s music was made with a communal pool of sounds, not knowing who had done what. Olof is currently active producing other artists and teaching music production. He recently finished producing Tunisian multi-instrumentalist Houeida Hedfi’s album for Phantasy Sounds. He’s also worked with Swedish(-Kurdish) pop artist Zhala, their track “Holes” was released on Konichiwa Records. More music from Olof and Zhala will follow soon. Olof also delivered a remix of Zhala’s ‘Holes” and 2020 has seen further reworks from him of Moroccan artist Mehdi Bahmad’s "Rouge A Levres," ”Ti Chuong” from Sudanese artists Emmanuel Jal and Nyaruach and the Royksopp and Robyn collaboration “Monument.” Current Olof Dreijer DJ sets feature a tight mix of all kinds of grooves he likes to dance to himself, ranging from funky Techno and melodic house to Baile Funk and Batida.
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