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01. STEWART WALKER - Desolation Peak
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02. STEWART WALKER - Gone at First Light
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03. STEWART WALKER - Passing Through
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04. STEWART WALKER - Candycoated
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05. STEWART WALKER - Something I Can't Remember
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06. STEWART WALKER - Chakra (Interlude)
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07. STEWART WALKER - Rose Machine
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08. STEWART WALKER - Exits Have Been Chained (For Security)
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09. STEWART WALKER - Caught in the Switches
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10. STEWART WALKER - Shakemaps
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11. STEWART WALKER - Feeling of Reeling
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ARTIST
WALKER, STEWART
TITLE
Ivory Tower Broadcast
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MUNDO RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
MUNDO 002CD
MUNDO 002CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2014
American (but Berlin-based)
Stewart Walker
returns with his new album release
Ivory Tower Broadcast
. A quarter century of the same drum machines and bass lines turned future music into golden oldies. Visionaries don't make techno based on particular instruments but a set of techniques which can dilate time, implode sound, and confound expectation. Stewart Walker returns after a six-year retreat to bring his own future sound with
Ivory Tower Broadcast
. The Ivory Tower refers to a cloistered and elitist mental space removed from practical considerations and criticism. It's a perfect metaphor for a music studio: escape the noise outside and start from nothing but memory. Forget the rules, they're from a long time ago. Based heavily on live instruments and the scrape and noise of performance,
Ivory Tower Broadcast
tightly controls and contorts the human element and splays it across the time-corrected perfection of sequenced rhythm. Disparate recreations of post-punk bass lines and shoegaze guitars are sliced through with "drunken master" scratching inspired by the late great
DJ Screw
. German zithers and Japanese kotos are plucked and strummed to recall the warm chorus of Appalachian mountain music. The techno is there in the tension and hypnosis of the beat, stripped dry and metronomic to support the luxurious sound. On
Ivory Tower Broadcast
Stewart corrals sounds from different memories and geography and binds them into an emotional experience with rarely-seen vision and skill.
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