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Mark Fell is appreciated. He’s a bit hit and miss, can fall into abstraction (conceptronica?) sometimes for my tastes, but when he hits he’s a game changer.
What I love and respect about Fell are how his self-confessed obsessions and lived experience of previous eras and various sound signatures are all accumulatively ingrained in the sounds he programs today. Eg drum compression, percussion patterns and NY/NJ House, which became templates for SND’s bottom-end heavy thump. Equally, anyone who can sample & amalgamate N.U.M speeches into transcendent House (with Sprinkles) is not to be snorted at.
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Really well done piece here on his evolution and influences, good fun going through the music too...
What I love and respect about Fell are how his self-confessed obsessions and lived experience of previous eras and various sound signatures are all accumulatively ingrained in the sounds he programs today. Eg drum compression, percussion patterns and NY/NJ House, which became templates for SND’s bottom-end heavy thump. Equally, anyone who can sample & amalgamate N.U.M speeches into transcendent House (with Sprinkles) is not to be snorted at.
DJ Sprinkles + Mark Fell - Complete Spiral EP
Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Complete Spiral EP by DJ Sprinkles + Mark Fell. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
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Really well done piece here on his evolution and influences, good fun going through the music too...
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I liked this piece he did for The Wire a few years back.
Collateral Damage: Mark Fell - The Wire
Mark Fell argues that the limits of technological systems do not frustrate creativity.
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I don't really like that tune. The music itself doesn't do much for me, and the sample feels a bit tacked on. I love 'Complete Spiral' though.
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He did a Fennesz remix years ago which I liked apart from he stuck MLK's Dream speech over the top...
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Mark Fell on his love of FM synthesis and algorithmic composition
The Rotherham artist on his creative process.
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Real Talk: Mark Fell
The UK artist recalls how the house and techno wave has impacted the wider European electronic music scene.
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Artist Tips: Mark Fell
The acclaimed experimental electronic musician shares his thoughts on production.
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Murphy
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It's a beast and definitely an ace in any pack, whole of one side and to have the ears to know that the groove can go on longer than most tracks worth a damn too. It passes the sound system test like fisted velvet, if that makes any sense.
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Real Talk: Mark Fell
The UK artist recalls how the house and techno wave has impacted the wider European electronic music scene.
Superb and fun. Wish he'd provided a link to the mix underpinning his discussion though, what a tease.
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Mark Fell is semi-genius. His Sensate Focus stuff was perfect, I believe this one is with Winston Hazel:
Some of the of the other stuff posted here gets a bit grating, though. Too much reverb
Still, SND was the best electronica act ever out of the UK, esp their early more swampy less digital sounding stuff.
Some of the of the other stuff posted here gets a bit grating, though. Too much reverb
Still, SND was the best electronica act ever out of the UK, esp their early more swampy less digital sounding stuff.
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chava
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I never tire of those early records, esp 'Stdio'. Flow is just incredible. The perfect soundtrack to the ultra bright 'corona blue' skies of lately. Best outcome of the click'n'cuts era.
Here's a recent one I quite like as well with a certain silliness possibly because of the Errorsmith colab:
Here's a recent one I quite like as well with a certain silliness possibly because of the Errorsmith colab:
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He's on that Urbanomic podcast once in a while, the one catalog was on about. Remember he talked about that Sensate Focus track that was posted too. Robin Mackay said it was the only music he could read to along with Eliane Radigue or something. It is a bit muzak-y.
He says some good stuff on that podcast, about the UK education system and what's wrong with it, he's just kinda down to earth and is speaking from his own actual experience, which is recreshing. I have tried getting into the senate focus tracks, I like the odd one. Not listened to any SND tho, maybe that would be more up my street
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Not even the early stuff, pre "Tender Love"? I find this very calming, soothing even. This is my definition of 'ambient':
