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October 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Vile: Speed, Sound, Lonely KV [EP]

Kurt Vile Speed, Sound, Lonely KV [EP] Matador I guess it’s a wee stopgap – though this EP is something Vile was chipping away at, recorded in bits and pieces across several years during visits to Nashville.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, EP, John Prine, Kurt Vile, Lonely KV [EP], Nashville, Sound, Speed, Speed Sound Lonely KV, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20

Jack Woodbury inst. 19-20 Rattle Jack Woodbury is a Wellington-based composer and audio engineer. And this set of numbered, untitled instrumental pieces comes from two audiovisual installations made across 2019 and 2020 (CORROSE and A Tree Falls).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Tree Falls, Album Review, Ambient, Audiovisual, CORROSE, Design, Electroacoustic, Glitch, inst. 19-20, Installation, Jack Woodbury, Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20, Rattle, Rattle Records, Sound, Sound Design, Sound Engineer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Laurel Halo  Raw Silk Uncut Wood  Latency Recordings  Berlin-based, American-born sound-artist and composer Laurel Halo loves skitterish percussion, tinkering pianos and strident textures. She loves jazz settings – and then totally fucking with them, and she creates the best movie soundtracks for non-existent movies. All of that is on display here on Raw Silk Uncut Wood – but overall this is her most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Aphex Twin, Collage, Come To Daddy, Instrumental, Latency Recordings, Laurel Halo, Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood, Raw Silk Uncut Wood, Sculpture, Sound, Soundtrack, The Necks, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 111 – Gil Eva Craig

Welcome to episode 111 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Gil Eva Craig – a sound engineer, producer, tech and musician. She was in the band Sugarbug (I loved them!) and she continues to make music in a variety of sporadic projects including as […]
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August 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heinali: A Wave Crashes

Heinali A Wave Crashes Fluttery Records We know – on some level, now – what to expect from Fluttery Records. Certainly quality – that’s for sure. But also leftfield sound/art/music amalgams, traces of electronica or artists who have dabbled and them moved on through versions of audio-collage and sound-design. So it is with A Wave […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Cloud Withdrew From A Sky, A Wave Crashes, A Wave Crashes I, A Wave Crashes II, A Wave Crashes III, Album Review, Ambient, Collage, Electronica, Fluttery Records, Heinali, Improvisations, Installation, Instrumental, Instrumentals, Noise, Oleg Shpudeiko, Sound, Uneasy Listening ·

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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 124 The Sound Guys

So much trust and hard work and they always do their very best. As I mentioned last week we’ve always somehow managed to get the best sound engineers with the Spines and its hugely important playing live. These people make you sound like you do and make you hear what you hear onstage – on […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Andy Craig, Andy Drew, Art, Bodega, Brent MacLachlan, Chris Winter, Gil Craig, Gillian Craig, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Malky, Malky Taylor, Marcus Wilson, Mike, Mike Gibson, Mixing Desk, Music, Nigel Stone, Raymond, Riki Gooch, Sound, Sound Engineer, Spines, Steroids, The Body Electric, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 124 The Sound Guys, The Sound Guys, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 124, Warwick, Wellington, Whare Moki, Writing ·

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September 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Nils Frahm: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm Late Night Tales The Late Night Tales series, when it works properly (and it usually does) gives some insight into the artist’s influences, more than that though it’s a mixtape of hopes and dreams. And also it’s designed – the very concept of it is – to suggest […]
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