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Shallow Earth [Party Mix]

by Milieu

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about

Earlier this year, I completed and released SHALLOW EARTH on my 36th birthday, a record that was (at least, in the beginning of its conception) meant to be a loose, easygoing and feel-good affair to hit the reset button with, after the completion of SUN CAST, an eight-year triple-album odyssey that bordered on an obsession by the end, in 2018. In the end of SHALLOW EARTH's production cycle, however, I realized I'd essentially made an encore to SUN CAST, this time pooling together even more topical and far-reaching influences into a brightly colored aural equivalent to cough syrup-spiked Ecto Cooler. If that descriptor works for the album, then you might describe this, the alternate-timeline PARTY MIX of the album, as some of DJ Screw's infamous "purple drank" with extra muscle relaxants and a couple tabs of blotter thrown in.

I wanted to issue SHALLOW EARTH on an analog format, in addition to the CD-R at Recycled Plastics, and that's where the ever-interesting Illuminated Paths version came into focus. Never content to have the same thing simply on different formats, the decision was made to ask resident sound manipulator BROKEN MACHINE FILMS to have his way with mutating and re-presenting the album in his own unique mastering pass, which involved multi-generational analog overdubbing, copy-of-a-copy xerox style, with different cassette and VHS machines, and perhaps even more secret fidelity-warping magic that I am not privy to. The result elongated the album considerably, not just because a few extra tracks were included to fill out two tape sides, but because the pitch had become so affected that SHALLOW EARTH went from a dance party to a hallucinatory Percoset funk party, perhaps more properly echoed in the tired and apathetic expression on the face of the UK mannequin that graces the cover.

And yet, this mix became far more than the sum of its process, opening up new spaces, flavors, grooves and colors in the tracks that weren't there before. I've always been a huge fan of playing my tapes and vinyl back at the wrong speeds, and this felt like a grand tribute to both 45-at-33 slow-mo and low battery Walkman bliss. A few of the songs even sound closer to the early Milieu sound from 2005-2007, so in some ways the PARTY MIX is an imagined take on what SHALLOW EARTH would have sounded like, had I created it way back then.

No matter how you decide to listen to it, it's clear that BROKEN MACHINE FILMS have completely reconfigured the entire SHALLOW EARTH experience, and for this effort I am quite grateful. This release appears here in digital format after numerous requests have come in for it, since the IP cassette did not include a digital version. Many humble thanks to everyone who purchased the tape, and if you're just now discovering this PARTY MIX and want to pick up a copy of the tape, there are still a few more at ILLUMINATED PATHS here: illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-earth-party-mix-ip-cassette-exclusive

credits

released August 16, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at 114RKD and White Pillar Workshop, 2010-2019. Mastered by Broken Machine Films. Text and design by ABM&D. Photography by Rudolf Kremers. This is Milieu Music number MMDL09. Broken Machine Films appears courtesy of Illuminated Paths / illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com Rudolf Kremers appears courtesy of Omni Systems UK / www.omni-labs.com (C) + (P) Milieu 2019 / All nights preserved. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com

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: Burt T / Brian S / Jake P / Christ S / Damian H / Levi G / Brian C / Arthur W / Joel B / Peter H-B / Rik J / Jose S / David P / Helge J / Peter C / Alan A / Alex G / Seth B / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / J.C. Bastos

Many humble thanks to the subscribers of the Deep Earth series. Without them, this music might not exist, and if it did, you might not be able to hear it. Support deep electronic mining initiatives today: malfokusita.bandcamp.com

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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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