Release date : 25 MAY 2001
The band is a four piece, formed by 2+2 brothers with a bizarre feticist attitude
for every electronic circuit able to generate sounds, plus various instruments, from
Analog Modular Synth to Sampler, Bass, Keyboards and various effects. They are great
supporter of DOEPFER Analog Modular Synths, and they hardly abuse of them during
their live performances.
All recordings are based on pure improvvisation, live mixing and absolutly no overdubs....They
usually just cut the best pieces and assemble their masters.....
The best way to understand the Latex experience is to see them playing live, moving
from extreme terroristic sounds to states of deep ambient . 4 hours of their usual
live mixing and you will be lucky if your neurons will be still connected the same
way they were before !!!! The band played extensively all over Italy, (islands included)
reaching the attention of italian media thanks also to their soundtrack work into
the italian indipendent movie "La Mucca Magnetica" (The Magnetic Cow) and
various visual installations.
After their pluri-appreciated selftitled demoCd which went quickly sold out through
the italian electronic underground circuits, their official debut EP titled "Slightly
Out Of Frame" was been released on 25 May 2001 under our trademark.
1. VCO COMMUNICATION: itís a part integrant of Enjoy Know Culture, growing
from a sonic magma already dense of loops. The track is characterized by noisy sweep
interventions of the analog modular synth like a sort of mad singing.
2. ENJOY KNOB CULTURE: run enterily on a really captivating 3/4 sample supported
by a regular bass line which scan the rhythm changes, while the synth continue with
its crazy singing. On another sonic level a series of modulations and filterings.
Interesting the rhythmic deconstruction at the end of the track where the sample
is played polyrhythmicaly . All is closed by an heavy radio waves filtering.
3. S-SCREAMING: hyper arranged totally aleatory is based on rhythmic variation
of the drum sample with a timing shifting of the istrumental parts which are lean
against a screaming texture and regular bass. The synth sweep interventions grow
up step by step creating with the rhytmic section overlaps always different. Could
be considerated the most accessible track of the band.
4. ONE WAVE OUT: represent the typical way of working of the band, which have
the unique peculiarity of working absolutly live, without premade base or presorted
structures. In these track the drum machine si programmed during the exhibition,
creating istants of big tension. Really beatiful the ambient work and the final crescendo,
a very achieved full accord moment of the band.
5. ASTRO HYPOTHESIS: liquid ambients, oniric, industrial screechs for a track
that close this EP without drum sounds which represent the other side of Latex, where
the ambients are sick, restless and absolutly "drumless".
Listening instructions : Lots of people told us that the record is more appreciated
after various listening between months, most of them was been really surprised about
things they didn't appreciated on a first stage, and suddenly realized after 1 month
or 2, seems also that a dark room is a good place to enjoy it. |
