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Harmonious Discord 049 PointBender – Dusk Remixed

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Harmonious Discord label boss and abstract artist PointBender reimagines Dusk Frontier with DuskRemixed, featuring remixes by Dorian, Murr, and a PointBender redux. PointBender is the moniker of Sean Anderson, an independent artist living in Austin, Texas, who has also released work on imprints like Guidance, Thoughtless and Blaq. The track features Toronto-based vocalist and Lal frontwoman Rosina Kazi. This collection of remixes pushes more experimentation on the dancefloor while retaining some of the hypnotic elements of the original but with greater intensity.

Label mainstay and Carmen San Diego of monikers Brad Dale offers up an interpretation through his Dorian moniker. Brad has been featured on the label in many forms, most notably Molecule, Echo Conscious, and Ishi. A man of many talents and musical precision, Brad offers up a pensive rework formulating the hypnotic vocal takes into a backdrop of classic deep house atmospheres. Propelled even deeper by heavily plated live guitar and bass, Dorian’s rework puts the subconscious on auto-pilot as intensity and uncertainty mount. Lal co-pilot and independent artist Murr pulls in his twist of events, focused more of the range of vocals. Murr stays true to his signature methods, presenting shades like linear algebra, where the sum amounts to so much more than the parts. Our final rework comes from PointBender himself, offering up a stripped down, beat-driven alternative. This collection of remixes pushes more experimentation on the dancefloor while retaining some of the hypnotic elements of the original but with greater intensity.

Label and Artist Links:
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www.pointbender.com

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Harmonious Discord 048 – Discordian Dreaming 8

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The Harmonious Discord label ceremonially introduces each year with a new installment of its Discordian Dreaming series, previewing what the label has in store over the coming months. This eighth edition features an abstract collage of sounds fitting for an evening of mindful expansion and dance floor excursions. Included are label mainstays Dorian, Onium, Tobor Rellik, and Josiah Fontenot plus appearances by new artists Triptique and Joshua Davidson alongside the return of legacy legend Litex. This set will offer a shine of interest to every tech-house collector.

Onium begins the release with dub laden saxophone serenade. Crisp percussion and tense atmospheres collide with dense melodies. Dorian resets with an afro-cuban-inspired percussive techno journey. A beautiful mixture of celebration and energy, “Run Run Run” is a full narrative told in music. Joshua Davidson makes his debut on the label with a pensive, deep tech-house performance. Warm accents roll through this cut and Josh shows that his talent for creating complex moods is polished. Josiah Fontenot follows with a non-typical linear techno composition. With a strong focus on character and warmth this tracky bicep beat continues to deliver. Dallas native Tobor Rellik moves us onto the dance floor with a plucky tech-house tune with automation into filthy territories. Triptique then provides a nightclub-favored alternative with hypnotic sweeps and Moroder-esque bass lines. HD001 artist Litex returns with a heavy and driving track that flows into spacey progressive territory but stays crisp with technique.

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Harmonious Discord 047 Jeffrey Tice – Aurora

San Francisco native Jeffrey Tice has a talent for seeing color in the blank spaces.  Jeff’s roots are in early electronica but that doesn’t stop him from adopting the methods of the future.  The Aurora ep is Jeff’s sophomore release on our imprint following the success of his first project “Where do you go?”.  Jeff is now asking, what’s going on in a new collection of musically minded dancefloor tunes.  Austin resident and Denied Music boss Daniel Allen provides us a blissful reprise and longtime contributor of sonic oddities Plastic Pope returns to the label with a signature of strange.

Harmonious Discord 047 Jeffrey Tice – Aurora

1. Aurora
2. What’s Going On?
3. What’s Going On? (Daniel Allen Remix)
4. Been Alone
5. Been Alone (Plastic Pope Remix)
6. Table Cape Leisure

Aurora provides a great balance between floaty ethereal accents and driving funk bass.  A snappy rhythm section helps move the experience forward with jovial flare.  What’s Going On changes tone with a serious intro with built in tension and masterful dub design.  Rich in texture and methodical in design this tune is an essential dancefloor tool.  Daniel Allen returns to deliver an inspiring heater that elevates the mood to euphoric atmospheres with rich chord interplay and spacious arps.  Been Alone delivers immediately on thick garage and deep house constructs, including a building analog bass pattern that begs for foot movement.  HD’s mysterious but ever consistent provider of strangeness Plastic Pope makes a much anticipated return offers a small slice of insanity with hints of breakbeat, jackin Chicago house, and quirk.  Jeff ends the ep with a disco inspired whale sonnet named Table Cape Leisure.  Pressed with rim shots and summer fair this funk jam session can fit within the borders of a diverse set of music.

Harmonious Discord label boss and abstract artist PointBender returns with his third and most expressly creative full-length album yet.  PointBender is the moniker of Sean Anderson, an independent artist living in Austin, TX who has been putting out back-pocket releases for over 15 years on imprints like Guidance, Thoughtless, Blaq, and his own imprint Harmonious Discord.  Sean’s third album is a project 1.5 years in the making with collaborations from Toronto based vocalist and Lal frontwoman Rosina Kazi, Texas based dub artist Vegenaut, and techno artist Matthew Thompson.  Sean took a new approach to constructing this album, focusing on recording single takes of audio directly and limiting himself to outboard gear with minimal computer intervention.  In addition, the album features a multitude of live instrumentation with recordings of guitar, bass, drums, and clarinet alongside some personal field recordings.  Dusk Frontier embodies a new outlook and direction for Sean as an artist and showcases a taste of the future of the project.

Intro to an Airplane is an ambient sound design experiment recorded and produced completely on an airplane using recordings of the air vents, people, and field noise with the aid of some heavy FX processing.  The title song Dusk Frontier is a mixture of deep moods and cinematic overtures supported by driving percussion.  Rosina Kazi showcases a wide range of vocal phrasing and complex harmonies over a field of growing synthesizer interplay.  Splashes of percussion and bass slides help grow the space in between until the break where warming chimes drift the listeners into a greyed abstraction.  Steam Morris is another deep selection focusing on smoky old world undertones.  Live clarinet and evolving pads keep the mood pensive as support from drum machines and synths grows to complicate the mood.  For Brain Mud, Sean teams up with Vegenaut, a cross-genre artist with a flair for off kilter glitchy dub works to create a messy slow burn with smooth bass and a competing mixture of leads and synth sketches.  Passive Casio starts a nice divergence to rough and tumble urban techno jams.  The song was recorded in a single session inside a beat machine with tons of automation and sound morphing.  By the second breakdown the song is in complete chaos embodied by gritty distortion and staggered delays.  Dub Creature is a canonical example of PointBender’s signature cinematic sound.  Tightly controlled dub chords build into a druggy midnight bouncer with bass slides and plenty of dark arpeggios.  Pferd continues on the dubby theme with gargantuan bass and a variety of capped and swung drum fills.  Likely one of the dancier of the pieces, Pferd works well as a dancefloor tool.  We finalize the album with an 80’s inspired emotional journey called Three Complications.  Sean uses guitar and vocals to accompany the warm lush pads and arpeggios of that toe the line between an indie musical piece and a proper Balearic house song.  While each selection has its unique lens and language the album as a whole is a thoughtful narrative on the boundaries of electronic music and the ability to abstract away from cemented dancefloor formulas.

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