What a strange "Best Of" ?
"Electromotorik Hardtek for Post-industrial lovers"
Outrageous long for a best of indeed, but how to make a smaller one with such a project ?
I wanted to make it since few years in fact, but it's only with the DRACO accident that I understood I've got the final piece of this puzzle. I recorded a two hours session with my very enjoyable new set, I listened it and it was pretty like a new start for the project, but the morning after when I wanted to edit it, I was no more able to listen it, the sd card had a problem, and after the fix the data was moved on another track impossible to be read. Then I only had the seven last minutes on another track, this is this DRACO track. So I kept only that rescued part and decided that it's fine like this. What would have been able to do with so many music when the two parts of METAVERSE are already 6h long ? I had planned to add already 2 other unreleased tracks Night And Day & Day And Night, but more would have been too much.
I need to explain a little the origin of this project it was at a time I noticed that in the concerts as well than beer drinkers only need a drummer for enjoy the music,
the same way the ravers only need a bumper. That's why the early steps were without any rhythm at all. From this kind of enjoyable challenge came something like forty cassette tapes of improvisation called "Agonies".
The reason of the name is because of the electric charge I was receiving while playing, doing the junction with my fingers in the electric circuit of old toy synthesizers.
It was a strange sensation, this electric venom making my glottis curl up all the session long. Next I began to use an electric frequency generator.
Strange "best of" because there is none of this agony tapes. From the early time I only kept two tracks from Necktar compilation. So no one will ear early tapes like the insane concerto for whales or the last state of euphoria...
Also in electronic music there is often remix albums, a way to connect with friends :
S K U M / Berthelot / Damaryliss / Flying Species / KHAOMAN / MARUDA / ardleg / Planetaldol / M. Nomized / Studio112.
In METAVERSE, You have a first part track 01 to 17 only solo.
and the second part 18 to 33 with my friends.
Everything about TKno Beurk is about transgression, the name itself is an absolute disliker.
And I tried my best to find something as ugly as title for this "best of". I think Meta was already has been when it popped out. Despite we used it a lot for the meta compilations few years ago.
Track 18 "Fiend Like This Remix" for example sounds like if it was usual TKno BeurK Rhythms but in reality Stephen Surreal made them I mostly only did a strange vocal to mix with it.
Few years ago I did a strange audio video mix with a pretty amazing work which was based on William S Burroughs and I thought the guy who made the original may be a fan of free experiments pushing the boundaries and would be happy of this kind of hijack tribute. Instead he was really upset. So madly upset. Halas I lost the musical files I used for made it and I wanted to keep a little of this album so I made this forbidden cut-up. Which includes maybe bits of his work as well than Burroughs' voice.
I'm usually sweet and respectful but I can't understand that someone working with Burroughs' art could disallow to mutate it too. Little bit like someone using a creative commons license Share Alike and putting it in No Derive. If you see what I mean it seems really unfair. Anyway.
Overall the goal of this virtual record is to show how through the years the sound evaluate but remains the same project, whatever the engines used in the sets, the pioneering spirit leading this project makes its singular sound.
Video Art Clips are here www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAOQS2lpu2SShl82PfL74l5VirrmkDbkC
