After the amazing equilibria and None For The Crow, Paul Crocker (a.k.a dustmotes) drops another LP for Dusted Wax Kingdom.
"Horror Vacui" is a fascinating trip-hop/lo-fi fairytale full with chilled melanchlic ambient track-stories.
tracklist: 01 Horror Vacui (feat. Madeleine Bloom) 05:42 02 Via (feat. Jared Smyth) 04:31 03 Dead Wax 05:45 04 Vancouver 06:20 05 Glue 07:06 06 Motions 03:44 07 Little Show 02:35 08 Liar 02:48 09 Odd Numbers 04:18 10 Credits 08:00 11 Under Arches 05:10 12 Curtains Drawn 05:21 13 Dead Inside 03:32 14 Magpie 01:08 15 Cube Steak 02:33 16 Horror Vacui - Sparse Mix (feat. Madeleine Bloom) 05:49
Second release from the producer and sound designer Paul Crocker (a.k.a. dustmotes) for Dusted Wax Kingdom. "None For The Crow" EP is a magical ambient, lo-fi, abstract hip-hop sound-therapy medicine, boosting the spiritual energy and turning the state of mind in a lovely hypnotic reverie.
tracklist: 01. Saudade 02. Go To Sleep 03. Never Right 04. Malaise 05. In Here 06. Gangs 07. Lethargy
After a few amazing releases for PublicSpacesLab, the talented producer and sound designer Paul Crocker (a.k.a. dustmotes) makes his debut on Dusted Wax Kingdom with another fabulous masterpiece! "equilibria" it triple distilled ambient beats elixir, spiced with wonderful vinylistic and glitchy sounds.
Paul Croker is a versatile artist, reflected by his various musical influences from past to present. His love affair with the vinyl format started at the age of 4, when he was given his first 7″ single, and would grow throughout the next few decades throughout the Hip Hop, Trip Hop and Big Beat movements. During the early years, he ruined a few parentally-owned record players teaching himself to scratch and mix records. From the age of 14 he learnt the guitar, joining like minded friends from school, playing in Zeppelin/Hendrix/Floyd influenced bands, gigging all over the country at pubs, clubs and festivals. Finding particular resonance with Eastern influenced sounds, he experimented with alternate tunings and backwards phrasing, forming the core of his sound. In the 90’s after becoming immersed in the Big Beat scene in London and Brighton, Paul began to experiment with creating Digital based music, finding an affiliation with the use of samples and loops to build soundscapes. DJ’ing in local clubs, he learnt to beat mix and also layer sounds within a live environment. His first release, ‘Beats for the Subverted’ is primarily influenced by early DJ Shadow, Portishead and UNKLE. The simple aim was to set about recording a vinyl-only sample based work, overdubbing bass and percussion where necessary. The result is a dark, ambient hip hop flavoured album, with a light social commentary. Following the coherency that we have always sustained at the Lab, PS012 is not what you would call our typical ambient/noise release. In the same way that Paul approached us with his fabulous work, and surprised us with his sound, talent and concepts we hope that you will also feel what we felt, the many times we have already heard these tracks. For those that still need a “logic” explanation the answer is very simple: We love it! And that has always been the reason behind every release we have made so far and will continue to be for many more to come. Paul would like to thank to: My wonderful understanding family & friends, all at PublicSpaces Lab, my Twitter family, and Ableton & Technics..
“We have rarely experienced here at the Lab the build up of expectation behind a release like we felt for this one. “Beats for the Subverted” was one of the releases that reached out from our usual listening base and brought other listeners to the Lab. Right after [PS012] was released we started to get asked, by mail, in talks or on twitter when the next release from Paul Croker would see the light of day. That moment has arrived and the wait was well worth it. Dustmotes delivers with his “Containment Sessions” a release that is a few notches above “Beats for the Subverted”. When listening to it for the first time I could feel a sound that is more confident and, but I might be wrong, I think that has a lot to do with all the positive feedback Paul got from his first ever release. Nothing in “The Containment Sessions” is out of place and the same attention to details that Paul got us used to, is here. I feel privileged for being one of the few that got to enjoy this release before everyone else and it is my opinion that we all should be grateful to Paul for sharing his immense talent with us.” Alex Mendez, Barcelona, April 18th 2010
