Evol

Conceptual avant-rave duo Evol take an educational approach to acid solution house, deconstructing and recontextualizing their core elements to generate extreme, difficult experimental digital works they describe as “computer music for hooligans.” The brainchild of Barcelona’s Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Evol started in 1996 like a audio art project focused on discovering the intricacies of digital music-making, beginning with the bottom up with the numerical principles root the development of sequencers and synthesizers. Cisneros spent some time working numerous collaborators over time, the most regular and longstanding of whom was Scotland’s Stephen Clear. The project’s debut launch was the 1999 EP Principio on Mego, that was performed completely on the Yamaha RY-30 drum machine. Knowing the limitations from the technology, they turned to computer systems and started to explore digital synthesis and algorithmic era. After that, Evol managed at complete tilt, churning out a large number of singles, digital produces, artwork installations, and efficiency art pieces each year. An early focus on of the catalog was the 2004 EP Punani Shell (section of their intensive “Punani” series), a vicious 20-minute stream of abstract digital noise. It had been followed another yr by their debut full-length recording, Magia Potagia, which explored pitch-bending and time-stretching to intense degrees. Regardless of the educational nature of the music, Evol’s function was seen as a a feeling of playfulness, fun, and absurdity. Their function drew high compliment in experimental music circles, and evaluations to other performers working in exactly the same field, such as for example Peter Rehberg, Russell Haswell, and Tag Fell. Toward the finish from the 2000s Evol developed their idea of “rave synthesis,” re-creating digitally — and occasionally organically — particular elements through the rave and content hardcore music of the first ’90s, specially the so-called “hoover” or “Mentasm” synth audio. Abstracted using their unique environment, placed right into a beatless soundfield, and put through time-stretching as well as other results, these sounds shaped the actual duo known as “rave slime,” that was the basis of the acclaimed 2011 discharge Wormhole Shubz. The albums Proper Headshrinker and Perform These implemented in 2013 and 2016, respectively.