Mercury Retrograde by Roel Funcken
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Prolific Dutch producer Roel Funcken has established himself an agile,
meticulous sonic craftsman whose output has consistently been as accessible as it has innovative. Most recently, he opened for Flying Lotus and Tipper during his last US tour. As half of the group Funckarma, he has recorded for esteemed labels including Skam, Ad Noiseam, Arcola (Warp), Isophlux, Marguerita, and others. For Mercury Retrograde, his first release on Schematic, Funcken taps into textures reminiscent of the mid ‘90s drum n bass subgenre techstep, the lush downtempo of Bristol, and Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack work. This latest release adds to the ever evolving, rich, and inspired catalog of Funcken.
Watch the visionary video of Bextures Teeth by Michel De Klein
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ArB97LSpY
Read:
igloomag.com/reviews/roel-funcken-mercury-retrograde-schematic
Check out Roel's very impressive back catalogue:
www.discogs.com/artist/Roel+Funcken
roelfuncken.com
www.funckarma.com
catalogue number: SCH-096
2012 Schematic Music Company
schematic.net
released 04 September 2012
Tracklist
| 1. | Dialp | 4:20 |
| 2. | Cork Walls | 3:17 |
| 3. | Bextures Teeth | 3:33 |
| 4. | Boose Gumps | 3:45 |
| 5. | mesmer | 5:25 |
| 6. | Smart ambient | 3:52 |
| 7. | Zarwone | 3:17 |
| 8. | Mercury Retrograde | 3:42 |
| 9. | Deer | 4:29 |
| 10. | Fliquid Low | 4:05 |
| 11. | Torrance | 4:02 |
| 12. | Gangsta Riddim | 4:27 |
| 13. | Textures | 4:48 |
Credits
Mesmer is a collaboration with Rena Jones renamusic.com
Smart Ambient is a remix for Known Rebel
collab with Cor bolten (Jupiter 4 & Jupiter 8)
beat version previously released on Tympanik Audio
tympanikaudio.com soundcloud.com/known-rebel
Deer is a remix for Seaming To seaming.co.uk
Gangsta Riddim is a remix for Scanone
previously released on Outside recordings
outside-recordings.com soundcloud.com/scanone
Design by future tenses
Timothée Mathelin aka shift/ futurorg.com
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
His ambient textures maintain a cinematic quality throughout, while his percussive arrangements retain a constantly mutating framework, always reconstructing its rhythm and structure, contradicting complex configurations and minimal design. It's always a pleasure to taste the latest treat from this aural engineer, and find the latest gem in his never-ending arsenal of sound.