As some of you know, Cyclic Defrost also runs a ‘music club‘. The music club is a little subscription CD service which aims to supply you with music that we think is essential but usually a little difficult yo get hold of.
Every couple of months we also get together to have a chat, eat some food. At these get-togethers there is usually a guest musician who does a little performance and then participates in a Q&A session, demystifying what they do. In the past 12 months we’ve had great performances from Burnt Friedman, Dave Miller and Laurence Pike, Saddleback and Keith Fullerton Whitman.
Some Freak describes it nicely on his blog.
We lobbed up at the Feral Media HQ and were greeted by the genial Danny, who welcomed us in to his wonderfully-appointed abode, where Seb and a couple other folk were hanging around, chatting with Scott (who is, predictably, a lovely bloke and will be great for the Academy). More people arrived, introductions were made and we repaired to the studio where Scott had his laptop set up and hooked into the sound system. A few questions were asked about his shiny new copy of Live 6 (the sampler looks wicked) and then he treated the 10 or 12 of us to a fabulous 30 or so minutes of his trademark future dub, working his UC33 like a Sci-Fi King Tubby. Delightful. After he finished, he answered a few questions from the other guests, and we learned that his productions these days are informed by his live antics, containing much live tweakage and mixing, and – quite remarkably – he uses software exclusively. Truly a laptop dub technician.
A stack of pide arrived, and we all tucked in, enjoying easy conversation amongst ourselves before returning to the studio to question Scott some more, where he showed us the Tassman modular synth software he uses for his sound design, talked a little about Atlantic Waves and played us a sneak preview of his upcoming release on Shockout, which has Gregory Isaacs on vox and sounds lovely.
We do record the music on these special nights and last night’s set may appear as a podcast shortly.
If you’d like to find out more about the Cyclic Music Club then get in touch.
