Showing posts with label eMMplekz. Show all posts
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Sunday, 13 March 2016

eMMplekz - Rook to TN34

Rook to TN34 cover art

More gloomy leper techno and twisted prose from Baron Mordant & Ekoplekz; Rook to TN34 is some kind of genius. Comparisons have been made with Sleaford Mods and I can see why - the Baron's stream-of-consciousness, absurdist snapshot observations are on a similar wobbly rail to those of Jason Williamson. Mordant, however, goes even further in chewing up modern life and spitting it out as pulped texts, cut-up lines leant thematic weight by use of repeated phrases. Nick Edwards, as always, completes each piece with perfect, moody, mangled electronics. You wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with it for fear of being driven insane in the membrane, but as a a form of unique, visionary madness, it's unmatchable.     


Thursday, 31 October 2013

eMMplekz - 'Your Crate Has Changed' (Mordant Music)


Baron Mordant as blank verse bard - 'in for the long haul, butter ohm my back...'. Kerouac had Zoot Sims, Ian Hicks has Nick 'Ekoplekz' Edwards for a bout of interStella underdrive anti-poetry.

'I'm hassled and tired...close to the wire...bad acid crawls thru me...slowly reduce me...'.

Spontaneous, or previously scrawled on napkins & notebooks, what does it matter? The Baron prefers to be elusive (he's withdrawn from Facebook!).

Except that Queer Vibe does tell a tale, of sorts, about sordid accommodation - 'just the sight of the room made our skin crawl'.

MMorose...

Sounds like it was made in a 'pale ale haze', Edwards' radiophonics enhancing the drugged deadpan atmosphere and occasionally anchoring the words to regular rhythms. But mostly, it's an inner space broadcast from from a man trapped in a tin can, his own mind.

There are no 'well-intentioned, badly realised, poorly executed synth pads' on this record...

VG plus.

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Coming Soon: eMMplekz - Your Crate Is Empty


I don't normally pre-hype albums but Baron Mordant & Ekoplekz as eMMplekz have made one worth plugging. The Baron's blank verse backed by Nick Edwards' radiophonics is a fascinating audio experience. 

'It's really sad when women go bald.'

'eMMplekz return server after 'IZOD Days' semi-beguiled local sorting offices…'Your Crate Has Changed' takes up that diarised baton & legs it to Rymans for future remnants…take a dose of plagued Pepys, a demijohn of Ekoplekz's masterly live voltage and siMMer…switch to classic...BM/EZ'

Tracklist:

The Quarry
Raining With Piss
AsspuMMel (Must Try Ader)
Tethered To My Hotspot
Abacabacus
Alby's Riddim
Sorry For Your Lossy
Queer Vibe
Your Crate Has Changed
Invoices In My Head
The Arc of Trapeze
Ireman
End Of
GaMMy GuMMy

Release date: 4th Nov 2013



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