Музыка и песни Old Apparatus / Old Apparatus

In 2012, OLD APPARATUS launched a bid for independence with their own Sullen Tone imprint to release their own projects and others. The first of these releases on the label were EPs that spanned the second half of the year, opening with the Derren EP before releasing a series of EPs from three separate members of the group. Compendium draws together the highlights of those EPs into a sequenced mix that draws the sheer drama out of the music, like contrasting scenes in a film, enabling the listener to pick out details in music and get lost in its generous sound world. Starting with Zimmer's rising strings and watery hiss, rolling seamlessly into the far away shoegaze of Mernom and then the warm, woodblock and acoustic guitar 2-step of Derren. The mood switches up to the jungle atmosphere of Dourado, with hypnotising drums and a feeling of panic, before the chopped and screwed m Record Label: Sullen Tone Style: Electro

The "Derren" EP is a prologue to a trilogy of EP releases from the collective's individual members over the next six months. These will fully realise the creative vision they started with their previous records. The catchy "Derren" leads in with light syncopated drums, a repeating folky guitar figure and a ghostly male voice singing in and out of static and warm synths. The chilly, intense "Dealow" works delayed metallic drums and kicks against wasp like synth tones and a pitch shifting female vocal over a deep sub bass. Bodah ends the EP, taking it back to where we started, with naive melodic tones and glass like hand drums that melt away as the track stretches out into a cavernous, cosmic drone, filled with intense dark drama, before landing the listener back on earth. Record Label: Sullen Tone Style: Dance