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MOUNTAINS
Feeding The Landscape
Interview with Brendon Anderegg
and Koen Holtkamp
Fond of clear and delicate soundscapes,
Mountains’ Brendon Anderegg
and Koen Holtkamp have been gathering
praises since the release of their
debut album last year. With respective
solo projects and a record label under
their belt, the pair could have taken
it easy, but, following a first live
collaboration, they decided instead
to join forces. With their second
album, Sewn, just out, we took the
opportunity to chat with them both
about combining acoustic and electronic
instruments, playing live and choosing
a name that relates to their work.
NIGHTMARES
ON WAX Now And Then
Interview with George Evelyn
In A Space Outta Sound, a
luxurious blend of soul, hip-hop,
dub, and jazz-fusion is a signature
George Evelyn release. On this, his
fifth album on Warp under the Nightmares
On Wax moniker, Evelyn’s love
of analogue over digital and his willingness
to embrace the accidental in the recording
process is very much to the fore.
One track, Deepdown, for
example features vocals from random
passers by whom Evelyn dragged off
the street and into the studio. “If
it was all too perfect it wouldn’t
have had that kind of rough and ready
atmosphere to it that gives it its
magic,” explains Evelyn. The
track also features his 4-year old
daughter. “She was the most
awkward artist to work with on this
album” he laughs. In the 16
years since his first releases, the
seminal tracks Dextrous and
Aftermath, Evelyn has come
a very long way indeed. He talks to
Stuart Aitken about first meeting
Warp’s Steve Beckett, breaking
with the Soul City Rockers back in
the mid-eightiess and why he was always
preferred Warp to James Lavelle’s
Mo’ Wax.
TRUNK
RECORDS Found Sound
Interview with Jonny Trunk
Some of the most interesting electronic
music to have been released over the
last ten years or so has been overseen
by Jonny Trunk, proprietor of Trunk
Records. Curiously though most of
these releases are not the product
of young bedroom visionaries hunched
over the latest computer equipment,
but rather they have been rediscoveries
of lost gems made by eccentrics using
what would now be considered rudimentary
equipment. From Basil Kirchin’s
soundtracks to imaginary films, to
the pioneering music concrete of one-time
Spitfire pilot Desmond Leslie, Trunk
Records acts as a powerful reminder
to all that less can often be more.
As a new piece of salvage work, The
BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s music
for 70s TV show The Tomorrow People,
approaches its release date, Jonny
Trunk spoke to Stuart Aitken about
his appreciation of good old fashioned
British naivety and his love of the
eccentric underdog.
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