The talented Tom Hill aka Origamibiro recently did an exclusive mix for Fluid Radio…..
From electroacoustic patterns into modern classical compositions, Tom has managed to blend a gentle journey of uplifting beauty in every sense of the word….

Track List:

01: Origamibiro: Vitreous Detachment
02: Kim Hiorthøy: Forskjellige Gode Ting
03: Talkdemonic: Bering
04: Jackson & His Computer Band: Minidoux
05: Nico Muhly: The Only Tune / III
06: Hauschka: Fernpunkt
07: Arve Henriksen: Blue Sky
08: Dollboy: Juicyfruit
09: Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint
10: Helios: Halving The Compass
11: Jon Brion (Origamibiro Extended Mix) : Peer Pressure
12: Ólafur Arnalds: 0952
13: Origamibiro: Nootaikok’s Demise

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The Man:

Origamibiro is the pseudonym of musician and producer, Thomas Hill. Originally from Beckenham in Kent, Tom moved to Nottingham in 2000 where he still lives, writing music and producing soundtracks for film and animations.

Formerly one half of the electronica duo, Wauvenfold with Noel Murphy (aka Visual Display Unit / Bury & Disinter) Tom released material on Wichita Records and produced other works under his old solo alias – Penfold Plum (it is the name Penfold that gave birth to the title ‘Origami-Biro’).

His debut with Expanding Records, ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, saw Tom shift away from his beat driven method of synthetic sound-design to sculpt an album of interlacing classical guitar-part harmonies and textural samples – including the creaks of chairs and all the knocks, scrapes, bumps and other by-products that come with playing a wooden instrument.

The result is an intimate and delicate, broken, organic sound that is both hauntingly vivid and atmospheric, whilst managing to retain some of those glitchy electronic characteristics that earned Wauvenfold its reputation among the likes of Björk, Super Furry Animals and John Peel himself. – 2007 Expanding Records Press Release. photograph taken by petecranston@mac.com

Reviews of Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks:

This is a truly beautiful blend of the glitchy electronic soundscapes of the likes of fennesz with some stunning spanish and classical acoustic guitar over the top, at times the album has that kind of desert feeling of ry cooders paris texas soundtrack, a really really beautiful meeting of electronic trickery and live acoustic sounds.’
www.roadrecs.com

‘Gone are the more angular beat contortions of Wauvenfold, Hill instead favouring a sound centred on his nylon-strung acoustic guitar and some finely spun, computer-aided audio treatments… A thoroughly beautiful listen which you’d do well to investigate without delay.’
www.boomkat.com

‘Straddling the middle ground somewhere between electronic and acoustic, ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’ has a high level of intimacy and an organic quality that is contrasted and often mixed with digitally created tones and broken electronic sounds. At times the contrast is distinct but at others they compliment each other beautifully, the warmth and fragility of the guitar melodies amplified by just the right amount of discrete glitchy electronic effects.’
www.igloomag.com

‘Origamibiro’s debut album is an absolutely beautiful journey through subtle, delicate and, above all, gloriously introspective music.’
www.smallfish.co.uk

More about Origamibiro here:
www.origamibiro.com

In December 08 one of our favourite live acts Digitonal put together a wonderful mix for Fluid Radio entitled “To Drive The Cold Winter”. Here is your chance to listen/download the mix and play it to your hearts content…

Listen/Download here

Digitonal presents:
To Drive the Cold Winter

A Fluid Radio mix
Christmas Eve, 2008

Thomas Tallis – Why Fumth in Fight
Xela – Impulsive behaviour
Glissando – Floods
Anon – Intonent hodie
Quietmen – Minimal Rendered Subtle
Rena Jones – Driftwood
Max Richter – Flowers for Yulia
Infinite Scale – Fade
Kaom – All of your mindz
Benjamin Britten – Balaulow
Plaid – This City is Hell
Maps and Diagrams – Back to Mono
Loess – Alt.Tone.Two
Digitonal – 93 Years On (LJ Kruzer remix)
Yimino – Ze Ka
Sunosis – Plato
Andrew Dobson – Drive the Cold Winter
Digitonal – The Beating of Her Heart

www.digitonal.com

A delicate electroacoustic affair from James…

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Track List:

Rose – Bark Psychosis
Una – Murcof
Thin Faces – Fognode
A Secret – Arovane
Mort Aux Vaches [extract] – Tim Hecker
Salvation – Ryuichi Sakamoto (Pan Sonic Remix)
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco – Jonathan Harvey
Measure de Mesure – Set Fire to Flames
Away – Múm
Frosti – Björk (Feisar’s Across The Lake Remix)
So Many Ways – Metamatics
Her Eyes Sparkled And She Walked Away – Xela
Trust is Important – Elite Barbarian
Awayward – James Murray
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel – Atlas Sound

James Murray is a London-based electroacoustic sound artist, producer and multi-instrumentalist. his productions weave together elements of electronica, downtempo, jazz and dub in emotive explorations of how the organic and electronic interact. All at once the city and the middle of nowhere, jm’s recursive themes draw hi-tech sound design, live instrumentation and lush pastoralism together in a sonic world where nothing is ever quite as it seems.
Previously released on em:t, psychonavigation and part2 records, he has recently completed his debut album “Where Edges Meet” on Ultimae Records and works as a freelance composer, producer and sound designer.

www.jamesmurray.info

I finally got round to creating a short mix for Phuture Frequency web site.
It focuses on some of my favourite electroacoustic tracks new and old.

Listen/Download here

Track listing:

Dial – Deaf Centre
Acoustics Of The Piano – Playb
Wake Up Call (Hoodwink Rmx) – Cantaloup
One Note Up – ESK
After The First Death – Digitonal
A Mountain Of Ice – Helios
As If – Ben Beiny
Crooked Rain – Cantaloup
Ten – Melorman
Mehr Als Alles Andere – Bersarin Quartett

Enjoy,

Dan