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01. Alex Menzies - 2B
02. Alex Menzies - 3C Rev2
03. Alex Menzies - Not Upbeat 8
04. Alex Menzies - Aristo R27 M7
05. Alex Menzies - Sketch 22
06. Alex Menzies - Upbeat 7
07. Alex Menzies - 6C
08. Alex Menzies - 7C REV2
09. Alex Menzies - 12C II
10. Alex Menzies - 14B
11. Alex Menzies - 10F II
12. Alex Menzies - 18B REV2
13. Alex Menzies - 21B II
14. Alex Menzies - Sketch 1
15. Alex Menzies - Sketch 5 II
16. Alex Menzies - 7D
17. Alex Menzies - Upbeat 9 II
18. Alex Menzies - Sketch 17 III
19. Alex Menzies - Sketch 23
20. Alex Menzies - Sketch 15 II
ARTIST
TITLE
Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KTX 006LP KTX 006LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/24/2016

Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams is Alex Menzies', aka techno head Alex Smoke, follow up to 2015's Order & Disorder LP (KTX 003LP) release for Kathexis, both original soundtracks to BBC4 documentaries. The film Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams explores the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life. Much of the instrumentation used for Menzies' carefully constructed score was also of the type actually incorporated into automatons, including bells, chimes and wind organs. Percussive patterns scattered throughout the cues are samples of machines moving, gears grinding, halting, some of them automatons themselves. As with Order & Disorder strings and choir are also spread throughout these evocative cues bridging a link from 18th century instrumentation and machines and providing an emotional connection to these long-forgotten marriages of art and engineering that are actually the ancestors of many of our most-loved modern technologies, from recorded music to the cinema and much of the digital world. With Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams, Menzies' talents as a composer really shine through; each piece revealing a level of technical sophistication and an inventive use of instruments both new and old to hauntingly beautiful results. Edition of 300.