Ektoise - Remember Well

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This single is something a little different from Ektoise and features remixes by Danny Hyde and Tetra. Danny produced Love's Secret Domain and a myriad of other Coil material, the Threshold HouseBoys Choir stuff and Coil's Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode remixes. He spent much of 2010 working with Peter Christopherson on Throbbing Gristle's Desertshore release (which may or may not see the light of day) as well as new THBC material and the Time Machines Legacy release.

Peter has been profoundly influential to us over the years and we're dedicating this release to his memory. It was sheer coincidence that Danny is involved, as we had planned that many months ago but it certainly adds a poignant touch to the whole thing.

This release will be available for free download in 24bit FLAC, 320kps mp3 etc indefinitely but we are also planning an extremely limited vinyl edition. By "extremely limited" we mean something in the vicinity of ten or fifteen copies, we're currently working out the logistics of that but we'll announce the details on our website when we have it all sorted.

Love it.

Good to hear some excellent local stuff.

I was listening to this thinking it felt weird as a tribute (but then maybe that's the point) but reading your post on here it starts to make sense. I'm usually surprised by Ektoise (in a decent way) and I enjoyed Danny Hyde's mixes. But the highlight for me is the Tetra version which is really captivating. I don't want to go mad with the hyperbole but that's a great piece.

Where can I find/is there anymore Tetra stuff anywhere?

Hey glad you guys enjoyed it. There is a full-length Tetra album available here and there is also another Tetra remix of an Ektoise track on Remix/Reform

Yeah the tribute factor came into play when the whole thing was being finalized, the only track that was made after the event was the Tetra mix, which we wanted to be a Time Machines sort of thing

I'm nothing like in the same league as you on the Coil front and although I've got a good 10 or so of their albums Time Machines is one glaring omission. It's probably something I should look to rectify at some point.

I've been listening to the Tetra album and am almost finished the first listen... big thumbs up.

Cheers, glad you like the Tetra stuff. For me that project involves manipulation of space whereas Ektoise is about detail and complexity. We're putting out a new Tetra CD/download next month, it's a half hour live recording from the Gallery of Modern Art from 2008. They asked us to play at a screening of a silent German Expressionist film and improvise the score on the spot, we recorded it and I've basically taken the best stuff from that performance and put it into one big mix.

People have been saying some very nice things about us, these posts are from http://holyfuckingshit40000.blogspot.com/

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Here's a rather unique album by a band certainly having its own sound. Describing themselves to be a mashup of acts such as Coil, Throbbing Gristle, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Autechre and more. I'd say it's somewhere in there, yeah. I don't usually care that much for genrehopping myself, which this album seems to do a few times, but it keeps its shit together and makes all those different styles flow together. Gotta say my personal favorite must be the third song with its heavy shoegazy sound, later towards the end; changing into odd saxophone meeting in the style of Throbbing Gristle's disturbed jazz experimentation. But yeah as an album as layered as this is, and having heard it only once it's hard to come up with words for it just yet. All I can say to sum this one up with is I like what I hear.

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This is fascinating music. Certainly impossible to categorize in conventional terms, but that's no essential disadvantage. Music based upon deep and creative imagination that lies in the previously uncharted space between post-rock, ambient electronica, eurojazz, space rock, and grungy heaviness. Anyone who might appreciate a truly postmodern re-contextualizing of Eno, Jon Hassell, Spacemen 3, Autechre, and Radiohead should definitely check this out. A musical collective of real importance is at work here...and the remix album available on the band's website is equally impressive...

In the meantime I've been sorting through the mountain of unfinished material, going to put out some very dark ambient shit soon to counter-balance Remember Well being so heavily structured... We're doing something for a charity record based on the Chernobyl disaster, which I should have finished within a few days so I'll pop it online when it's wrapped