Rolando Simmons - Magic Crystal

New EP (digital/cassette) from Rolando Simmons aka trackermatte, out now on Caoutchou.

https://caoutchou.bandcamp.com/album/magic-crystal

(someone please tell me how to embed the bandcamp player )

Rolando Simmons lives in a desolate coastal town of Sweden and divides his time between a creaky old townhouse and two rural homes. The dreamlike environment of meadows, grasslands, hills and lakes, combined with his fascination for Drexciya, AFX and Isao Tomita inspired Rolando to make this odd fairy tale music.

Similar to his heroes, Rolando uses a bunch of hardware: Alisa 1387, MS-20, MC-4, SQ-1, Blofeld, Machinedrum, TX-7, 606, Poly-800, Filterbank 2, VSR-3 reverb which all ends up in Renoise. Other inspirations include Sibylle Baier, Jandek, Vashti Bunyan and Debussy.

immediately purchased thx

edit: what a surprising treat this is. Didn't think I'd get new Rolando Simmons today!

Almost through my first listen and this is really great, top notch. Proper mastering as well.

Sisters on the shore is my favorite first listen around!

ya i buy every trackermatte, rolando thing that comes out.

  On 7/5/2015 at 11:55 PM, Utter Ninja said:

New EP (digital/cassette) from Rolando Simmons aka trackermatte, out now on Caoutchou.

 

https://caoutchou.bandcamp.com/album/magic-crystal

(someone please tell me how to embed the bandcamp player )

 

 

Rolando Simmons lives in a desolate coastal town of Sweden and divides his time between a creaky old townhouse and two rural homes. The dreamlike environment of meadows, grasslands, hills and lakes, combined with his fascination for Drexciya, AFX and Isao Tomita inspired Rolando to make this odd fairy tale music.

Similar to his heroes, Rolando uses a bunch of hardware: Alisa 1387, MS-20, MC-4, SQ-1, Blofeld, Machinedrum, TX-7, 606, Poly-800, Filterbank 2, VSR-3 reverb which all ends up in Renoise. Other inspirations include Sibylle Baier, Jandek, Vashti Bunyan and Debussy.

ahh renoise, i wondered about that. nice artwork too, really suits it.

On second listen, deep trail is my favorite.

ahh yes!!! gonna snatch up a copy of this

Hi, thanks for listening!

Poured some essence into this,

releasing more and more personal diary music..

Hope you enjoy. :)

purchased!

immediatly purchased, too

love all of your stuff and enjoying this right now :)

thank you mr. burglar/simmons/trackermatte

Picked up, great art!

This will be the first release I'm going to wait for the cassette before listening, should be special

  On 7/6/2015 at 5:14 PM, cult fiction said:

I'm going to wait for the cassette before listening, should be special

i saw this at 2am last night before going to bed and ran outside to get my wallet out of my car. thanks burglar!

There are some brilliant melodies in here. Sorry to rave so much as this has only been out a day but it's a really solid release lol.

I listened to it 3 times yesterday

Bought. my first cassette from bandcamp

love the softness of the sound .The melodies are like honey for my ears

http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9bb5147f19d727d74be5160fe&id=05be2ea010

A remix album with contributions by Global Goon, Beatwife, Wisp, Monolog X & Karsten Pflum will follow shortly!

Wow Mattias you did the artwork as well? =/

I feel useless

  On 7/7/2015 at 6:39 AM, Utter Ninja said:

http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9bb5147f19d727d74be5160fe&id=05be2ea010

 

A remix album with contributions by Global Goon, Beatwife, Wisp, Monolog X & Karsten Pflum will follow shortly!

 

whoa nice line up

yeah, really stepping up and getting the recognition.

awesome list of remixers. big up the burgler!

  On 7/6/2015 at 1:29 AM, StephenG said:

On second listen, deep trail is my favorite.

cassette purchased

i want to get a cassette but i'm moving soon and don't want it to end up at the soon to be old address, nevermind. (no don't hold one back for me, that would be madness, let the good people make their purchases, fulfil their dreams).

Awesome! Cassette = Ordered. I will listen to the FLACs on my flight home from work on Thursday, looking forward to it :)

Recieved my tape this morning :)

Proud to be the only one from belgium who got the tape.

The title track has really wormed its way into my brain.