Locust - You'll Be Safe Forever

From his twitter:

https://twitter.com/...622992950575104


Mark Van Hoen ‏@Mark_Van_Hoen
New Locust album, just finished!


No definitive release date, but judging from the following interview conducted earlier in the year, it should be out this year.

http://madelikeatree...5-Mark-Van-Hoen

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I ask because while you have quite the respectable discography, your most recent The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego) has surely garnered you recent some attention, and must have opened to doors to putting you on some good bookings as of late.

Thanks, yes the record's gone very well, and yes some new doors have I think been opened for some new listeners. I had a very quiet decade in the 00's musically, which I am attempting to address by ramping things up somewhat. I'm hoping to get three records out this year. I have a Locust album slated for release on Apollo/R&S, a new MVH album, and then there's a collaboration with Neil Halstead of Slowdive/Mojave 3 too.
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Also, here are some new Locust tracks from Mark's most recent internet radio session. May or may not be on the new album.

http://www.wfmu.org/...sts/shows/45090

I can't wait!

first locust album proper since 2001

There is another guy joining Locust now. Louis Sherman. He played with Mark on that internet radio show I mentioned at the bottom of my first post

i wonder if the dj was aware of the speed on his record, heh

great!

Here it is:

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+162

It's going to be an excellent year for music.

Very cool. Great news.

So much great music on the way. Glad I got a pay rise this month

The tracks from the radio session were pretty dope. Interested to hear what the end result sounds like.

'Strobes':

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/locust-strobes-emego-162

I'll update this thread!!

I can't update the first post?

You need a mod to do it.

Sounds excellent, the Locust magic is still there: http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/emego162/Locust_Youll_Be_Safe_Forever.html

I love Locust and other of Mark's creations, can't wait for the new album...

I wasn't a big fan of 'The Revenant Diary', but then I've always preferred his Locust output anyway. I didn't have amazingly high hopes for this, but the samples I've heard to far sound really interesting.

Looking forward to this one now.

Sooooo good! The Revenant Diary was the best 2012 release IMO and this one is going to be second best of 2013...with the first being the new Autechre LP of course.

I've been listening to Natural Composite at work today.

Official release date is April 1st. I hope it's not gonna be an April Fool's joke...

Hm, just flicking through the tracks. Pretty diverse album. Some pop, some BOC-like IDM (like above posted Strobes), some sound experiments, some pretty rhythmic stuff, some nujazzy moments, and loads of analogue synth sounds all over the place.

Revenant Diaries ended up being available well in advance on amazon. Lets hope this happens again.

Video and official facebook page.

I received the cd in the mail last week. It's a grower for sure.

Really liking it now.

Album streaming on XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/04/listen-locusts-new-lp-editions-m

  On 4/9/2013 at 6:45 PM, apriorion said:

Album streaming on XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/04/listen-locusts-new-lp-editions-m

Thnx for the link. This was instant pre-order!

This is really dope.