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March 29, 2011
Manon from the blog Chroniques Electroniques who wrote one of the most poetic and insightful reviews of the
FluiD's CD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008) sent a couple of questions to FluiD.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the interview:
"Duality delves into a dark blend of industrial music, dub, rock, hip-hop. What inspired you when you create it?"
"Duality is really a reflection of me and the music/musicians and artists that inspired me and made an impact on me. I really wanted to make a musical statement about who I am. Music for me is about communicating what I'm thinking and what I'm feeling. I wish I was better at verbally communicating with people. There is a mystery and a weight to who I am. I think I've begun to understand that and realize it's part of who I am. It's something I can tap into and draw from. It was very important not to compromise and try to fit it into any category or genre. Duality blends different types of music because I don't listen to just one type of music. I have been profoundly affected by the music of many musicians across a very wide sound spectrum. The world is full of amazing musicians and music and I've spent most of my life seeking them out. Inspiration is also a challenge. I was not just inspired but challenged by what I had heard, seen and read. I needed to make something that honored those who had inspired me. In some way it's also a thank you to those who pushed and pulled music and art into new forms and new directions."
"You studied classical and jazz music, and learned to play a wide variety of instruments since you’ve been a child. How this education led you to a musical universe where the first thing you claim is abstraction?"
"Learning to play a wide variety of instruments was part of my musical education and sometimes it was out of necessity. I started on clarinet in the school band and then progressed to piano, saxophone, flute, oboe, drums and bass guitar. I studied classical music and Jazz to gain a greater understanding to those two musics. Abstraction is about reducing things to their essence. From Jazz and classical musics I learned new things, new ideas and new approaches and took those things and Incorporated them into my musical language. Abstraction isn't necessarily about nothingness. For me it's about gaining an understanding of something and then breaking it down into it's core."
Read the full interview in English here:
http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/pages/Interview_with_FluiD--4812080.html
The full interview in French here:
http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/article-interview-de-fluid-69437267.html
Read her review here:
http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/article-fluid-duality-66900750.html
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March 24, 2011
PAS & HATI present: P.H.A.S.T.I. The Stages of Sleep A Metaphor for Torun (PAS010/ALRN026) is now available at our store (CD/MP3/FLAC formats):
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=39
In April of 2010 PAS, Brooklyn based audio/video project traveled to Torun, Poland to play on the 3rd CoCArt Music Festival organized by musicians of HATI in cooperation with Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu. On April 10th 2010, just before PAS embarked on their journey a terrible plane crash happened killing 96 people including Poland's former President Lech Kaczynski. The CoCArt Festival was canceled but PASstill traveled to Poland. During this time two bands improvised together in a studio and recorded these 9 tracks and a wonderful friendship developed between PAS and HATI. These special recordings are now offered in a limited cd and digital formats but the friendship will last forever in time.
PAS & HATI - Stage 4 (Delta Sleep)
March 21, 2011
Reviews of
FluiD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)
have been published in Cyclic Defrost Magazine (Australia), Trebuchet Magazine (UK) and Mowno Webzine (France).
"...‘Disrupting The Ghost’ sends a haunting tribal vocal sample looping out over murderously wobbling sub-bass and scalpel-precise beats, the resulting oppressive atmosphere broken at points by the emergence of bright, 8-bit synths. All up, ‘Duality’ is an extremely impressive debut album from FluiD that should go down particularly well with fans of dystopian, post-industrial hiphop sounds along the lines of The Bug, Dalek and Scorn."
Read the entire review here:
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2011/03/19/fluid---duality-alrealon
"Duality's prose and aesthetic is anti-corporate, anti-establishment and anti-conformity. This record wants to challenge genres, a noble cause which is close to my heart. Yet the attempt to destroy genres only further imposes them. By blurring the lines and adding so many styles to his work, FluiD has produced amazing music but then increased the need for definitions. Extrapolating the many themes and sounds from within this record is exactly what every music journalist is going to do, as even I have done. Therefore the bonds of gentrification haven't been destroyed but merely bent and weaved. In of itself, this is a triumph and that's what the statement of this album should be."
Read the entire review here:
http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/index.php/site/article/fluid_duality
"...the Chicagoan took the time to reveal the diversity of his work, let down the pressure via a 'Dread Futures'. Wiser and hovering, is the more electro 'Disrupting The Ghost', decorated with oriental vocal samples and resumes the metal of concrete heights 'Froz'n II'. Tearing at the same time throughout the end of this disc with softening more and more present. What remains is an excellent craftsman, FluiD has made his yard a beautiful monument recommended for all fans of experimental music."
Read the entire review here (in French):
http://www.mowno.com/disques/fluid-duality/#more-28748
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March 15, 2011
Classwar Karaoke is a collective and netlabel operated by Adrian Beetjes, Anthony Donovan and Jaan Patterson. Founded in 2008, Classwar Karaoke is a label dedicated to the release of experimental music and short-films; principally, by means of a series of ongoing quarterly surveys, made available via sites such as internet archive, myspace, disclogs, youtube, lastfm, facebook, sonic squirrel, reverbnation, soundcloud, etc, under Creative Commons license 3.0. All material remains the property of the respective artists and is offered for free download in line with this license. The nine surveys published so far feature almost one-hundred artists, from all over the world; and the material in total represents significant documentation of the experimental scene itself. Involvement in the project has helped spawn many fruitful collaborations, live-shows and a vibrant exchange of ideas; so much so that, for several repeat-participants, Classwar Karaoke is as much a collective as it is a mechanism for the release of new material.
The latest survey from Classwar Karaoke, '0013' has been released and features new tracks from Alrealon Musique artists PAS, Zilmrah and FluiD.
Download 'Classswar Karaoke - 0013 Survey', here:
http://classwarkaraoke.blogspot.com/2011/02/0013-survey-28th-february-2011.html
or here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Classwar_Karaoke_-_0013_Survey/Classwar_Karaoke_-_0013_Survey
For more info on Classwar Karaoke:
http://classwarkaraoke.blogspot.com
March 8, 2011
PAS & HATI present: P.H.A.S.T.I. The Stages of Sleep - A Metaphor
for Torun (ALRN026/PAS010) will
be released on March 24, 2011.
More info:
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn026.html
The 9-track album will be available on Digital (MP3 and Flac) and CD (on PAS Records) formats via
the Alrealon Store:
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=39
PAS & HATI - Stage 4 (Delta Sleep)
March 1, 2011
A new review of
FluiD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008) has been published in
Chroniques Electroniques Webzine (France).
"A breath of fresh air that album. Behind the Duality of disturbed weather, the technical mastery and consistency which FluiD demonstrated is obvious. Dub manufacturers can rely on new blood,healthy and neurotic."
Read the entire review here:
http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/article-fluid-duality-66900750.html
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February 17, 2011
Reviews of
FluiD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)
have been published in the
Canadian webzine
Exclaim!
and in the French webzine
Beyond The Noize.
"As Dälek languishes in comfortable semi-obscurity, Scorn gets slower and dubbier, and Techno Animal masterminds Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin spin away at their respective projects, the industrial/hip-hop/experimental crossover that these groups once championed becomes harder and harder to find. Chicago, IL. based one-man army FluiD is intent on changing that, filling a void a select, devout few will be very pleased to see occupied..."
Read the entire review here:
http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/DanceAndElectronic/fluid-density
"FluiD manages to evoke the suffocating atmosphere of the Tricky’s, 'Angels With Dirty Faces' era
while FluiD repeats Industrial-Dub litanies at the confluence of hip hop 'Absence' style, version 3.0. We wish him to tour with Dälek, and even Picore, and we hope he's going to collaborate with new artists that will make FluiD’s music even more unique and essential"
Read the entire review here (in French):
http://beyondthenoize.blogspot.com/2011/02/fluid-duality.html
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February 15, 2011
You can read a review (in Spanish) of PAS 'Reconstruction' (ALRN023) here:
http://www.absentamusical.com/2011/02/pas-reconstruction.html
PAS 'Reconstruction' (ALRN023) can be purchased at our Store:
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=30
February 10, 2011
The latest show of plastik_mekanik (every Thursday at 9pm, On ckia FM 88,3 - In Quebec city!) featured
the track 'Dread Futures' taken from the album 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008) by FluiD.
Info here:
http://www.plastikmekanik.blogspot.com
Merci Sagana!
February 4, 2011
FluiD vs. Jason Wayne Sneed
This Sat., Feb. 5, 2011 at Swing State.
Lake Villa, IL.
10:00 pm
Come celebrate the release of the new FluiD's CD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008).
Joining FluiD onstage will be Chicago bassist, Jason Wayne Sneed.
February 1, 2011
FluiD - Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD (ALRN008) is now officially out.
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January 18, 2011
Free, exclusive EP when you pre-order the new FluiD CD, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)
You can pre-order the Digipack CD FluiD 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008) and get the FREE 4 track EP 'The Black Atlantien' (ALRN027)
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog
PRE-ORDER NOW!
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January 10, 2011
We are proud to announce the release today of the latest work by PAS called 'Reconstruction' (ALRN023).
More info here:
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn023.html
PAS - Here Ing Voices
PAS 'Reconstruction' (ALRN023) is available at our online store. Check it now.
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog
December 20, 2010
French industrial music magazine, Obskure has written a review of
'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008).
Below is an excerpt from the review.
"Right after a rough introduction, including feedbacks, cracklings and a powerful and rounded bass line, the FluiD’s expansionist world takes off. 'The Duality of FluiD' is presented first with a superb artwork that portrays the African continent repainted with the U.S. flag (the work is done by Trey Crim of Digitally Ruined Graphics).
The project started in Chicago (Christophe G. is originally from Los Angeles) and the industrial aspect of his music takes then a social meaning you can’t deny. The boundaries are pushed track after track to produce an intelligent and unclassifiable music. On one hand, you have a Trip-Hop coupled with the dirtiest Dub. Of course, some of you could think of Scorn ('The Absent Present'), but the guitars (always played in slow motion) provide a Rock/Heavy touch ('Froz n II'), downright Cold-Wave ('Parallel States') or Noise ('Iron Communique'), that will appeal to many listeners..."
Note : 80%
Sylvain Nicolino
The full review can be read here:
http://www.obskuremag.net/chroniques/fluid-duality
Listen to Two Tracks From
'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)
Dread Futures by FluiD
DH 1 by FluiD
