Red Box Recorder - Colour Codes

Red Box Recorder - Colour Codes

Colour Codes is Red Box Recorder's second album on Acroplane, and is a definite improvement on last year's debut. Embracing a gamut of different styles, and incorporating live instrumentation and orchestral samples alongside intricate programming, it is an upbeat and colourful record.

Absolutely free download.

Includes PDF booklet of exclusive artwork by Max McLaughlin. http://www.maxmclaughlin.com

01_Ghost Trio

02_Unabomber

03_Kid Cadmium

04_Too Young To Rave

05_The King's English

06_It's Not What It Looks Like

07_My R2 Unit

08_Colour Codes

09_In - Out

10_Because You're Worth It

11_Leonard

12_Up With The Bunting

13_The Leading Edge

Download the full LP for free from http://www.acroplane.org

You can check out some previews on the site there. I can't stop listening to the top one.

awesome, i really enjoyed fallow duusk!

This is seriously good shit!

innit! i wish more people would read our threads on here. booooooo.

Buff Artwork pdf too!

Where's the love WATMM?!?!

ACROPLANEZ BE BUSTING OUT DOPE FREE MUSICS LONGTIME!

  On 8/6/2009 at 4:42 PM, acroplane said:

innit! i wish more people would read our threads on here. booooooo.

i feel your pain!

hey, i ain't in too much pain. our releases all get downloaded bucketloads anyways. it'd just be nice for the watmmers to be onboard a little more.

heres a great review for this one.

http://phlow-magazine.com/mp3-music-download/hiphop/1264-red-box-recorder-colour-codes-acroplane

bah, i never even got a reply when I sent a demo... good stuff on acroplane tho... can't hate... haven't heard this yet...

I just get too many to reply to em all. I'm just one person. I only reply if i'm wanting to release something. I should probably put that explanation on the site again tho.

If I were to reply to everyone and get into conversations and give feedback I would simply have no time for anything else. Getting about 20 emails with mp3s in em a week now. This shit takes up too much time as it is.

rbr partakes in excellent noisemaking with the computerbox

some fine ass moments on dis er release paul

  On 8/8/2009 at 12:20 PM, acroplane said:

I just get too many to reply to em all. I'm just one person. I only reply if i'm wanting to release something. I should probably put that explanation on the site again tho.

 

If I were to reply to everyone and get into conversations and give feedback I would simply have no time for anything else. Getting about 20 emails with mp3s in em a week now. This shit takes up too much time as it is.

unfortunately it's really hard to give everyone feedback for a demo you do not want to release. If your music is really good and it's something i want to release usually i will respond within 24 hours.

This release is sick. Been blasting this out for the last couple of days. Epic.

SKELETON CREW QUARTERLY REVIEW

Red Box Recorder

Colour Codes

SCQ Rating: 84%

,Every few years an electronic album arrives that shines a light upon its genre from a previously unseen angle, one that no one perceived but everyone flocks to once said focus is pointed out. Endtroducing… did that, Music Has the Right to Children too… and those artists responsible for lamping new directions inevitably carry the notoriety/burden of a pioneer for the rest of their careers. Between these prophetic arrivals we, as avid collectors, celebrate the best of our critical grayscale; records that cause a surge in the electronic scene whereby an artist puts their personal spin on breakthrough styles. Melody AM accomplished that, From Here We Go Sublime too; records that borrowed from the old and created something startlingly fresh. Adding another to that category, Acroplane proudly presents Red Box Recorder, whose sophomore album Colour Codes is as multilayered and jubilant as the best 2009 has to offer.

As far as comparisons go, Colour Code’s adventurism is most reminiscent of Four Tet’s Rounds; a kaleidoscope of moods that bounce between urban break-beats (‘Ghost Trio’), symphonic build-ups (‘Unabomber’) and house rhythms (‘Kid Cadmium’)… and that’s just the first three tracks. What holds it all together – as it did for Kieran Hebden - is an obsessive’s attention to texture and sequencing. The minimal techno beat which opens ‘Too Young to Rave’ undergoes several transformations – including ceasing altogether - before concluding as a driving, complex collision-point, while ‘Leonard’ is a contemplative IDM track, replete with distant percussion and padded keyboard melodies. As some vaguely dubstep-ish rhythms grab ‘In/Out’ by the throat and offer some urban grittiness, ‘The Leading Edge’ dives for the opposite end of the pool with a clubbing track that channels Gui Boratto’s meticulous approach to trance while accommodating all of Red Box Recorder’s previous excursions; the orchestral cut-ups, the inside-out beats, that evaporating choir of drones. And, being Colour Codes’ last track, this grand closure lends gravitas to a superb sequencing job, as the unnamed London-based artist shuffles his/her talents to ensure the disc never feels unbalanced. Truthfully, the title says it all; here’s a woven rainbow of elastic sounds and beats that displays a confidence uncommon for an artist with only one previous album to hoist.

Colour Codes, while an update on established styles, stands out as both technically audacious and deserving of some dedicated attention. Highlights with the crossover potential of ‘My R2 Unit’ and the delicate touch of ‘Up With the Bunting’ are among the better electronic tracks I’ve heard this year, and should be ambassadors for Red Box Recorder’s coming-out party. Much like Rounds, Colour Codes doesn’t aim to have a monolithic impact on electronica’s identity; it won’t change the genre but it might just change your life. In my experience, these personal albums rival the critic’s best.'

http://theskeletoncrewquarterly.blogspot.com/

nice!