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Bloody Knuckles Betaphase

by Milieu

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Heralding the start of a new sub-catalog at Milieu Music: The HOUSEWORK series. This heading will be responsible for distribution of Milieu live sets, recorded from 2017 onward. Every set will be cleaned up and mastered, as much as possible, by The Analog Botanist's loving hands and ears, made presentable for both club systems and home listening rituals, maximizing enjoyment.

The third volume, BLOODY KNUCKLES BETAPHASE, consists of two different live sets and a rehearsal track between them. The first of the two sets, Lastgasp Dusk Returner, was drafted as an "encore" performance for someone who missed the live stream of Sine Wand Honeydowsing. It bears some similarities in patterns and melodic sequences, but is an altogether more frantic and technoid entity, building up through patches of off-kilter breaks and bent acid lines to a barnstorming kickdrum fantasy at the end. The intermission cut, TEST ACID, is a recording of the first ever video broadcast from the White Pillar Workshop, created to ascertain and calibrate volume levels and distortion thresholds. The second set, the titular Bloody Knuckles Betaphase, was a proof-of-concept set made on the bedroom carpet, with a smaller Mackie mixer (instead of the usual Peavey mammoth) and a suitcase-rig of MIDI-free mostly analog instruments. It goes from an uptempo Analord-style approach to an industro dub lurch, with rugged distorted drum machines, shuddering glitch sequences and metallic pad chords, which tightens back up by the end and lays down the law with gigantic planetary collapse rhythmic fervor.

Mastering note: These recordings, and those that follow in the Housework catalog, were sometimes made so impulsively that there were less than ideal recording conditions present, such as ground hum, the occasional pop or click, etc. Every effort has been made to present the recordings as sincerely as possible, errors and all, with only as much editing as necessary. Please understand the raw nature of the performances is being preserved here above all else, and that sometimes means it retains some obvious flaws!

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released March 13, 2018

W/P by Brian Grainger. Improvised and recorded live at White Pillar Workshop on November 4th, 2017 (#1-6), November 2nd, 2017 (#7) and January 10, 2018 (#8-12). #1-7 created using Korg Volca Beats/Bass/Keys/Sample, with outboard FX and a Peavey FX2x24 mixing desk. #8-12 created using a Boss DR-110, 4x Korg Volcas and Bliptronic 5000, with Ibanez SM7 / Boss RV-3 / Synthrotek PT2399 FX and a Mackie ProFX8 mixer. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number HW003, and third in the ongoing live HOUSEWORK subcatalog.

Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Justin T, Burton T, William C, Brian C, Chris S, Levi G, Rich A, Jonathan W, Joel B, Matthew D, Peter B, Rik J, Jose S, Tony S, Alex G, Seth B, Jim P, David T, Devin H, Mathieu L, Andy B, Francois H, Benoit P, Daniel F, Gordon C, Alex K, Peter B, Sean W, Alex B.

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Milieu Dayton, Ohio

Psychedelic electronic music, sun-warmed analog ambient and sci-fi braindance, for cats, aliens and epicureans alike.

I also release music as Coppice Halifax: coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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