#procrastinatrix

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Procrastination. A luxury I can't afford right now (too many deadlines!) 😅

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An interview with Procrastinatrix for Illustrate Magazine.

"PROCRASTINATRIX: Music is a vehicle for social change as well as spiritual development. My personal mission is to catalyse a mainstream appreciation for human time travel. This is more of a spiritual concept than attempting to teleport matter to the past; I believe it is possible to meet yourself in the Future and navigate accordingly. The music is a tool for time travel, it opens pathways and allows the mind to make the leap."

[notthefinalvinyl]

Manifest by Procrastinatrix

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Procrastinatrix is an electronic music artist hailing from Wales. He produces moody, glitch-laden tunes at an alarming rate. Google him!

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Mould EP, by Procrastinatrix

5 track album

Music Review: Mould EP by Procrastinatrix (Bandcamp)

 There is a strand of electronica invariably made by men who remember the hayday of 90s IDM, the acronym if you don’t know standing perhaps embarrassingly for “Intelligent Dance Music”. Many of the proponents of this phase of music are still going now – Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Bonobo, Matmos. Music to make your brain dance more than you’d actually jig about to it. Samples are looped and reconfigured, and generally messed with all over an often glitchy or irregular somehow beat. It’s a genre of music that the few leaders are fairly widely known while a hoard of imitators lurk in the shadows. So what makes Procrastinatrix effort worthy of your attention?  Well, I’m going to approach this question track by track. There is a range of sounds and a focus at play that makes this effort stand apart from its peers. Mould is an EP and there are five tracks, so bear with me.

           Track 1 is called ScissorSlice – the name alludes to the cutting and splicing of sounds that cycle over the incessant beat. It is purposeful and trance inducing, the synth sounds both classic and fitting to the piece. ScissorSlice evolves, almost with glacial slowness, wheras track 2 Zaphod’s Hangover is a more hectic Aphex-esque arrangement starting with a swirl of reversed and cut up sounds before a speedy beat comes in. It is frenetic and the playful shifts in tempo keep you on your toes. This is more reminiscent of the fun side of Squarepusher. The clipped snippets of vocals integrate well. Track 3 Paying for Algorithmic Friends has shades of Boards of Canada and even early Chris Clark, with a satisfying loop being made the most of with a cyclical beat over the top, but some changes so subtle you think you just didn’t notice them last time around. The production throughout is impressive and appropriate to the style. Opticon is track 4. A more brooding one that builds. As soon as the beat comes in we are reminded of some of Chemical Brothers more strident moments. There is an air of that shortlived genre of Big Beat here but an earnestness not shared by that whimsical genre. It’s like a soundtrack for a film in your head, if you’re an imaginative type and would lend itself well to film. Track 5 is called Mothers All The Way Down and has a bitcrushed beat echoing over some saturated synths.  This is the kind of music that would be perfect in the background in a late night session drinking and chatting but you’d find yourself drifting off and listening to the music and being like where were we oh yeah we were talking about the monopoly Spotify and YouTube have in the music industry and how its difficult for smaller artists to get anywhere so why not indulge your curiosity and listen to this record on bandcamp and maybe even buy it or explore his back catalogue because like those memes say about small makers Toby would probably do a happy little jig. Stay tuned for the forthcoming album which promises to be a vivid and lively selection of magpielike collected sounds, a vertitable time machine that goes back into simpler, happier times while facing a brave new future, and certainly and album worlds away from the mainstream formulae you hear on the radio at work.