Obliq Recordings

Multicast/Obliq Recordings had a nice two hour showcase on KGNU.ORG’s Electronic Air. Hosted by Budda Bomb, Multicast played much of their new BCH album and also featured tracks from other projects and exclusive live and unreleased materials straight from the vault. Also included are interviews of band members.

	Electronic Air – 3/12/2005 – Hour #1
	Electronic Air – 3/12/2005 – Hour #2

Saturday February 14 Obliq Recordings project Freq Modif performed live at Wobble. Wobble is presented by the Lunar Lodge crew (partially Obliq Recordings) and Mother Earth Sound System. This was an amazing show at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado.

Richard Devine (Warp/Schematic), Kit Clayton (~scape/Orthlorng Musork), Equulei (Dorje/Nobot Media), Ovni (Commtomm.com/Radiovalve.net/EBN/Nobot Media) all played and everyone had fantastic sets!

Freq Modif showed off new beta technology from Elektron Sweden. The show was entirely done with two MonoMachines and one MachineDrum.

Freq Modif Live @ Wobble 2-14-2004

Cool hacked DVD project where music plays with random video.

ROJO.esee. es un concepto, una idea que buscando su forma ha encontrado en el formato DVD+CD su mejor aliado. A modo de pecera futurista ROJO.esee. está ideado para acompañar veladas post-modernas, estados de ánimo insomnes o como compañia en las tareas domésticas.

ROJO.esee. es una pintura sonora cambiante.

La parte musical a sido estructurada por Raúl Garcia (Dj.Zero) conocido pionero en la difusión de la electrónica en este pais y autor de numerosos
textos de referencia para el estudio y seguimiento de la música avanzada. Dj.Zero presenta en esta compilación un tracklist atemporal con autores procedentes de todo el mundo. Zero ha antepuesto en su selección el riesgo creativo y la experimentación sobre la “tendencia” y la publicación de novedades gratuitamente.

Los criterios de selección de piezas video han contrastado y reafirmado la postura de Zero y ofrecen más riesgo y más experimentación. Piezas de encargo con sólo un requisito: total libertad y originalidad, fruto del auténtico trabajo personal. Los videos han proporcionado a ROJO.esee. una diversidad de conceptos y técnicas generosa. Podemos ver 3D de última generación, documental, multimedia o cine mezclados en un cocktail colorista y muy arriesgado, sorprendente y a veces impactante.

ROJO y alicia aúnan fuerzas e ideas para llevar a cabo estas compilaciones visuales y sonoras. ROJO es una plataforma de difusión artística
multidisciplinar que se concreta en forma de revista, de web, en discos, exposiciones, eventos… alicia es una pequeña boutique creativa que sirve
ideas al entorno publicitario y artístico.

El cocktail está servido. El visionado del DVD arranca en modo RANDOM-ALEATORIO y se abre la posibilidad de que el azar escoja una de las 120 posibles combinaciones entre temas musicales y videos, creando la sensación de que hay piezas nuevas y nuevas canciones en el contenido del álbum en cada visionado.

Esta sensación de novedad constante es debida a que nuestra percepción une las imagenes y los sonidos en nuestra memoria. Somos capaces, por naturaleza, de “cuadrar” mentalmente audio y video de modo que percibimos cada una de las 120 combinaciones posibles cómo unicas y específicas.

ROJO .esee. es eso… sensaciones novedosas en paisajes sonoros aleatorios.

ROJO.esee. es un salvapantallas que se descarga en tu comedor. Imágenes y músicas en Hi-FI. Una alternativa a la programación televisiva.

Obliq residents, Freq Modif present their debut release here with warm and fuzzy de-tuned oscillators that hail in a warmer and brighter season. “Larkspur” is a homage to the all-encompassing deep blue Colorado skies and the fresh smell of passing afternoon rain glittering on the wildflowers of the Larkspur meadows. Pure analog sequencing and triggering at its best harkening back to the synthesizer masters of the 1970’s but with the bounce of the kick drum and the sparkle of hi-hats of the 808. Truly a gem of an electronic piece.

The b-side “Interstates” gives you a synthetic taste of a night drive along on the Colorado autobahn. Traveling back and forth between studios on the high-speed corridor of I-25 inspired this amazing new track of psychedelic ambience and pulsating dub. The fresh smell of rain evaporating on pavement is splashed by the roar of passing trucks and freighters along the journey. The sound of locusts great the passing cars. Both tracks recorded at the Larkspur Facility.

Released in 2002 on 7″ red vinyl.  500 pressings with 88 reserved for the 4213 Box Set.

NOTE: HD download available on 4213 OBQ-09 release.

Since 1996, projects including Multicast, Ted Sturgeon and Freq Modif represented this perspective to the contemporary electronic ideology, but with a more psychedelic and improvisational twist. From tracks constructed with the basics of noise and rhythmic sequences to full on melodic washes, Obliq artists sculpt aural images aimed not at the dance floor but the armchair. These artists employ methodologies of sequencing not too familiar with modern technology, but rather more traditional and improvisational in approach. Multicast, for example, creates most of their tracks from live, late night sessions. Guitars, electric mandolins, kalimbas, modular synthesizers, analog sequencers & effects and digital synthesizers are all part of the Obliq arsenal located at the Larkspur, Wallsteet and Erie facilities. Think of Multicast as an ever-evolving music project. A revolving door of ideas. A meeting of the minds from various individuals involved with the other projects within Obliq. It’s the flagship and corner stone project and even further an ideal representation of the Obliq record label as a whole. If you listen closely to the Multicast material, you will notice a sort of mesh of musical influences and backgrounds from all individuals involved yet close attention is paid in how the various parts are combined. The physical landscape of rural Colorado surrounding members of Multicast play a big part in the environmental influences in the music itself. These are wide-open spaces with room enough for ideas to flourish away from the confines and distractions of an urban environment. This isn’t to say that Multicast lives in a music vacuum or an environment void of art and music culture. Rather, the geographic location gives the project an opportunity to observe the world of electronic music from the outside in and not consumed by a metropolitan music clique. Therefore, members of Multicast rely on each other to be energized and inspired to create and follow through with ideas and bring them into being. A lot of the popular software-based music making tools — the ones dominant in modern day electronic music — are put aside which allow Multicast to focus on improvisational and organic composition. All members of Multicast are DJs, but styles may be surprising as compared to their musical output.