10 track electronic / electro house album released 05.12. 2020
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10 track album & follow up to last years Ghosts on the Machine,
honing a hard edged, square format, 130bpm, sequenced instrument, bass driven set into a new new electro sound with references to Kraftwerk,
Humanoid and 808 State in addition to influences from across house music, old and new.
Evolving across the tracks, movement is the defining feature of this offering, often surprising the listener with gentle curves, dropping down from hard electro into a soft, melodious house sound.
Live urban field recordings slip in here and there. Recordings
made in downtown Philadelphia, Central Park NYC & the artist’s
garden at dawn infuse the music on occasion with an ambient real world, 5th wall.
Amphibious Craft Production
Produced during the tumultuous lock down of 2020, there is a sense of tension in this album, reflective of unprecedented and often stark adjustment to pandemic living in the age of strongman politics, but undaunted, there is hope and melody, a strong heartbeat and harmony here.
Music has the power to transcend strife and uplift the
mind in positive ways, it can provide an escape and a healing panacea for both the listener and the artist
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Interconnecting different moods is an essential part of the process for Outerground. Weaving disparate influences into a new sound for AMPHIBIOUS was key to production, utilising
multi-layered instruments, arpeggiation with complicated rhythms over simple 4/4 beats, doubled up bass lines, multiple melodies & intertwined FX enveloping, creating a sense of movement and space across the 10 tracks.
The glitch ridden sound of 2019’s Ghosts in the Machine is repeatedly referenced, adding a touch of not quite random chaos to the mix.
Tributes
The album contains a tribute to not one but two stellar influences sadly departed from the electronic music circuits in 2020. Florian Florian is dedicated to the one and only late, great Hérr Schneider and his influence can be felt across the tracks on this late autumn offering. RIP Scream is dedicated to the late and equally great Andy – The Guv’nor Weatherall who gave so much of his life, energy and craft to the UK music landscape and sadly passed long before his time, earlier in 2020.
UPC/EAN 5059580698652
Track List
1) Anaconda Planet 3:20 – ISRC GBLFP2101098
2) Florian Florian 3:44 – ISRC GBLFP2101105
3) Gold Panning 3:13- ISRC GBLFP2101112
4) Rapunzing Philly 5:34 – ISRC GBLFP2101115
5) Sublimation Chronicles 3:24 – ISRC GBLFP2101118
6) Rip Scream 2:28 – ISRC GBLFP2101120
7) Zangoolia Squared 4:44
– ISRC GBLFP2101124
8) Multigrain Frequency 2:50 – ISRC GBLFP2101127
9) Chombombiza Tronce 3:46 ISRC GBLFP2101131
10) Lockdown Sequel 2:17
ISRC GBLFP2101134
Running Time 35:20
Ghosts on the Machine
“Back to The Bass”
2019 saw Outerground return full time to music production.
Straight out of the oven – Ghosts on the Machine an 8 track compilation of a well defined Glitch’n’Bliss sound with a focus on the dance floor @130bpm.
For Techno Gadgeteers & Harmonic House Fans
With an uplifting harmonic beep & NY bells feel, making the feet itchy and heart flutter, Ghosts on the Machine and recent twin space mission themed single releases appeal to scientific minded minimalist techno gadgeteers and harmonic house fans alike.
The carefully blended Mothership Sound incorporates heavy elements of glitch, digital gremlins and space ghosts in the machine.
Ghosts on The Machine is currently available at all good online stores
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UPC/EAN 5059033734654
Track List
1) Choco Latte (Boom Box Cut)
4:19 – ISRC GBLFP1908840
2) Sartorialis 4:24 – ISRC GBLFP1922738
3) Amarillo Wang – Dirty Burst Edit 4:23 ISRC GBLFP1922749
4) Clapjack Antique 3:53 – ISRC GBLFP1922760
5) Lucid Stratosphere – Instant Sea Monkeys Magic Capet Higher State Edit 3:35 – ISRC GBLFP1922334
6) Chamboix Endless Permutation 3:45 – ISRC GBLFP1922773
7) Boombaa Bangaboo 3:21 – ISRC GBLFP1922776
8) X-Winged 4:51 – ISRC GBLFP1915777
Running Time 32:20
ABRACADABRA
Apollo Anniversary re-release
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon ABRACADABRA was re-released from it’s original 2007 format with a bonus track, (Moon Base) in 2019
With a distinctly space themed feel and a liberal sprinkling of NASA Apollo mission v/o this Leftfield electronic collection of early Outerground music takes the listener on a journey to discover the vast stillness of outer space
Opening track – Generalistic sets the tone of the journey to the Moon where tensions inexorably rise, as the lander attempts a steady landing down on to a new world of untold mystery and low gravity
Flight Console relives the Galileo experiment of Apollo 15 when Astronaut David Scott proved that in the absence of air..on the moon, a hammer and a (Falcon) feather fall at exactly the same rate…
End Now for More contains a mysterious poetic tale spoken by a HAL entity about how we fail to see the majesty of our galactic reality right before our very eyes, yet in time, we’ll see it, everything will settle.. “All things in the Universe eventually find their place in time & Space…”
As we travel on through ABRACADABRA we meet space aliens who turn out to be infra-terrerstrial and journeying on to the outer realms, the listener can share in inspiration From Above and celebrating Winter’s End, when a new spring for humankind beckons
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UPC/EAN 5059033721913
Track List
1) Generalistic 6:40
ISRC GBLFP1918661
2) End Now for More 6:17
ISRC GBLFP1918667
3) Infra Terrestrial 2:04
ISRC GBLFP1918668
4) From Above 3:47
ISRC GBLFP1918705
5) Winter’s End 5:11
ISRC GBLFP1918721
6) Flight Console 3:23
ISRC GBLFP1918731
7) Moon Base -Bonus Track 2:59 ISRC GBLFP1918736
8) Futura Be 3:09
ISRC GBLFP1918742
Running Time 33:30