Bibio (Warp Records) Pushing the Filters in the Studio and Garden with his EMU SP-1200

I have no idea what “Filter House” is. Except that maybe it’s House music with an emphasis on the filter?! Doesn’t really matter to me though. I was enjoyed listening to his Hand Cranked and Ambivalence Avenue LP’s. Which by the way, are 2 great albums worth a listen if you haven’t done so already. Also, having gotten rid of my EMU Sp-1200 sampler some years back, I got a bit nostalgic when watching these videos. My favorite is the “Sampling in the Garden” video. Behind me is a beautiful sunny day probably wondering why I’m indoors instead of outside basking in the Sun. Enjoy!

1.Bibio – Sunday Evening Filter House

From Youtube:
Sequencing the SP1200 via MIDI and jamming on the mixing desk. Great fun. All the samples & beat are coming from the SP. FX: Akai MFC42 analogue filter, Boss DD7 delay and Moog phaser.

2.Bibio – Saturday Evening Choppage

3.Bibio – Sampling in the Garden…

From Youtube
Sunshine in England is precious, so when the weather is fine it feels sinful to be cooped up in a studio, I’m very lucky to have the choice, so why not choose?

When the weather is fine, I like to take a few bits of gear outside and enjoy being creative in a different environment, plus there are all sorts of other sounds to explore outdoors, and in this case, sample.

A quick video of me making beats entirely out of recordings of objects found in the garden. No previously recorded samples were used.

Capturing sounds with a vintage Sennheiser MD-21 microphone, then using the EMU SP1200 for its inimitable fidelity, then resampled and sequenced on an Akai MPC 5000.

Videoed by Bibio on a Canon 5D mkii.

Bibio’s second album for Warp ‘Mind Bokeh’ is out now. Click here for a free download track from the LP entitled-Lovers’ Carving.

James Cargill Talks: Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age [EP]

This is a great video interview with bass player and electronics musician, James Cargill of Broadcast. His comments on UK television were especially interesting. Now I understand a lot about my contemporaries! They got their morbid sense of humor from television. I got it from all of those suspense filled horror movies my parents took me to go see at the local movie theater. Good stuff…

From XLR8r.com:
Broadcast’s first release since 2006’s The Future Crayon is a conceptual mini-album collaboration with The Focus Group (a.k.a. British designer/filmmaker Julian House), and their recent live show incorporates a 20-minute improvised soundtrack to one of House’s films. As James Cargill, the male half of the band, explains, the project was borne out of a lot of half-remembered children’s television shows of the early 1970s, drug parties from Hammer films, and a couple other cultural references that Americans might not get. Here, he explains what inspired him and bandmate Trish Keenan, and how a full appreciation of their new project might require a certain adjustment of expectations.

Thinking about Trish Keenan of Broadcast

I was really sad to hear about Trish Keenan’s untimely death today.   I am a fan of Broadcast and was always curious to learn more. There choice of album titles always impressed me and even gave me a good chuckle now and then. Names like Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
surely require a chance and time on your media player.

Here is a very good write-up on her, her performances, and the feelings she created in many. MUSIC: RIP Trish Keenan | The Spectator

 

From Wikipedia.org:

Broadcast are an electronic music band, based in Hungerford, England (previously based in Birmingham). Original members were Trish Keenan (vocals), Roj Stevens (keyboards), Tim Felton (guitar) and James Cargill (bass). Various drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes, Steve Perkins, and Neil Bullock. As of 2005, the group consisted of Keenan and Cargill, with Felton having departed to form a new project, Seeland, with Billy Bainbridge, formerly of another Birmingham Warp act Plone.