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Mordant Music is the band of Baron Mordant (Ian Hicks) and Admiral Greyscale (Gary Mills).
Mordant Music has similar hauntology aesthetics as the roster of the Ghost Box label (on which it has released a single together with Belbury Poly):
Electronic music flitting between eerie and whimsy, baleful and jaunty; discernible influences from library music (the band have apparently just done some work for Boosey & Hawkes)… then there’s a trace of the Skam/Boards of Canada end of things…. and when it gets more beat-y and driving, early 90s UK techno: Ubik and Holy Ghost and stuff on Network and Outer Rhythm. … pirate radio tunes before it all went totally breakbeat… the Survivors theme tune: that shudder-ripple of electronic sound just when the bacterial-warfare scientist drops the vial of plague…. and ooh, that’s descending reverb-trail, that’s from Another Green World, “Sombre Reptiles” maybe … and the clincher for the Ghostbox comparison is the involvement of Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 70s, on account of his being a continuity announcer for all the ITV regional franchises like Border, Tyne Tees, Southern and Thames… the mysterious Baron Mordant informs: “we tracked him down and interviewed him on the South Bank…he was delighted and mildly bemused to provide our continuity…originally it was slated to involve continuity only but the actual interview yielded so much that we cut and pasted him all o’er the tapestry…he was an abbo perb gent on all fronts”.
http://www.mordantmusic.com/
Mordant Music has similar hauntology aesthetics as the roster of the Ghost Box label (on which it has released a single together with Belbury Poly):
Electronic music flitting between eerie and whimsy, baleful and jaunty; discernible influences from library music (the band have apparently just done some work for Boosey & Hawkes)… then there’s a trace of the Skam/Boards of Canada end of things…. and when it gets more beat-y and driving, early 90s UK techno: Ubik and Holy Ghost and stuff on Network and Outer Rhythm. … pirate radio tunes before it all went totally breakbeat… the Survivors theme tune: that shudder-ripple of electronic sound just when the bacterial-warfare scientist drops the vial of plague…. and ooh, that’s descending reverb-trail, that’s from Another Green World, “Sombre Reptiles” maybe … and the clincher for the Ghostbox comparison is the involvement of Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 70s, on account of his being a continuity announcer for all the ITV regional franchises like Border, Tyne Tees, Southern and Thames… the mysterious Baron Mordant informs: “we tracked him down and interviewed him on the South Bank…he was delighted and mildly bemused to provide our continuity…originally it was slated to involve continuity only but the actual interview yielded so much that we cut and pasted him all o’er the tapestry…he was an abbo perb gent on all fronts”.
http://www.mordantmusic.com/
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Dead Air
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Silikube wrote:
New Mordant Music release: ModernismuseuM. Go... and find it now, it's well worth it.
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deepsignal wrote:
Scrobbling the audio ripped from the MisinforMation DVD with titles. I hope you don't mind.
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caro_vian wrote:
i luv
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Flaneuses wrote:
more MisinforMation > http://www.soundandmusic.org/features/sound-film/strange-sound-misinformation
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Flaneuses wrote:
interesting article> http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/25/stop-look-listen-public-information-films
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Flaneuses wrote:
Looking forward to MisinforMation!
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Hot_Bees wrote:
Baron Mordant is providing the soundtrack to some forthcoming BFI release. More details when I have them...
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derrp wrote:
where can i cop Dead Air????
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Flaneuses wrote:
<3
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Nachkebia wrote:
Dead Air is da fucking shit
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incubatetilburg wrote:
http://inlog.org/2010/07/17/inqa-mordant-music/
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cihansondogac wrote:
spectacular pop
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incubatetilburg wrote:
17 September 2010 @ Incubate Festival Tilburg http://www.last.fm/event/1237458+Incubate
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connect_icut wrote:
Fans of SyMptoMs should listen to Deadstock, Baron Mordant's project from the '90s: http://www.last.fm/music/Deadstock
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ernstdj wrote:
too much great!!
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ajndrei wrote:
so good
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Skimma wrote:
I am truely thankful for the existence of Mordant Music.
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IcarusB wrote:
I love fallen faces - difficult to grasp it's humour I guess - but the lyrics (such as 'lean-to suicide') are endearingly insane. But its the second Tower album which takes me to the 'elsewhere' I'm genuinely looking for in his music. Deepdownprimal.
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reinformpulse wrote:
Hummdrumm is otherworldly...
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Grindfucked wrote:
and fallen faces is damn great aswell. can't see why anybody should have a problem with that song.
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