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01. Freedom Engine - Worlds Above
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02. Freedom Engine - The Very Strange
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03. Freedom Engine - The Very Strange Pt. 2
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04. Freedom Engine - Oriental Dragon (feat. Magda)
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05. Freedom Engine - Shinkansen
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06. Freedom Engine - Space Time Continuum
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07. Freedom Engine - Attack Of The Omnibots
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08. Freedom Engine - An Evil Charm (Where Is The Forest)
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09. Freedom Engine - A Box Full Of Magic
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10. Freedom Engine - Computerized
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11. Freedom Engine - A Sunrise On The Front
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ARTIST
FREEDOM ENGINE
TITLE
A Box Full Of Magic
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DEKMANTEL
CATALOG #
DKMNTL 070CD
DKMNTL 070CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2019
Freedom Engine
's
A Box Full Of Magic
is experimental work from
Mathew Jonson
. Worthwhile albums tend to be as much about the process of making them as they are about the end products themselves. One can almost hear formal, technical, even philosophical questions being asked and answered on them in order to arrive at something personally and politically new for the artist.
A Box Full Of Magic
is at once sprawling, cosmic, and psychedelic in the best of ways, follows in this album-making tradition. It is a record steeped in off-kilter percussive time, live recording, occasionally summer cloud-paced tempos, and lush, emotional, melodic instrumentation. "A Sunrise On the Front," the final track of the record (and a composition crushing in its beauty), encapsulates much of this: recorded live on a Rhodes, the melody gives voice to the paradoxical sense of hope even during the pathology of war. Such conceptual ambition fits perfectly well within the capacious vision of Jonson's Freedom Engine, a project whose name explores the conceptual paradox and complexity of approaching freedom through the engine of technology. In a fundamental sense, this tension between freedom and machine informs much of the album. Desiring to break out of his old ways of production, the album abounds with fresh fascinations in things like the sound of mathematical equations, quirky time signatures, and experimental phrasing through intuitive timings. There is likewise an interest in the liberating potential of deconstructing old sounds to make new ones, as Jonson applies techniques like innovative noise gating on classic drum samples to create space-age percussion. At other moments, air itself is sampled in field recordings to create unnatural percussive patterns. An encyclopedia of machines and synths are employed in the making of
A Box Full Of Magic
but what is perhaps new here, and in keeping with the dialectic he traces between freedom/engine, is a non-mechanistic, spontaneous impulse. While it is not a live album, it has an at-times spiritual and organic inclination despite or perhaps because of the way his panoply of gear attempts to capture dream-like tonalities that reach poetic heights on a track like "Sunrise" or morph into an almost diabolical,
Lynch
ian dimension on "An Evil Charm (Where Is the Forest)."
A Box Full Of Magic
helps to expand the sonic vocabulary of contemporary dance music.
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