Mordant Music

Not really given these guys a listen before, but I'm really enjoying the new album ({i]SyMptoMs[/i]). Anyone else? What else is good from them?

Maybe this has already been covered in one of the rolling whatever threads, if so apologies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDgYyZ3iq0

^ kind of Throbbing Gristle-y, but also I'm getting a huge Underworld vibe off this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFelluWjKs

^ and this starts off like Disco Inferno before it turns into this dubstep-ish dystopian trance music.

I have Picking O'er The Bones which is like half MM and half Shackleton. It's great.

alls i have is carrion squared, which someone just sent me randomly in the post and it's amazing

outtakes from some industry only drone compendium?

it's just loads and loads (i mean, like, about 50 tracks) of really short snippets of radiophonic texture. i just want to take all of them and play them over and over and loop them into 20 minutes pieces to go to sleep to or something

does any of their other stuff sound like this?

Yeah I've heard a bit of that one before. New one is all longer tracks and mostly all with vocals intoning this slightly surreal, Iain Sinclair-meets-Dave Callahan urban decay stuff.

alright that sounds right up my alley

creepy radiophonics with apocalyptic psychogeographic ramblings - i do believe that has my name written all over it

Well, maybe not full-on apocalyptic, more like it's poking away at this dank blanket of decay with a shitty stick.

Hummdrumm is incredible. I've started beaucoup mixes with that tune.

symptoms is really good though it's not particularly radiophonic. a much darker, slower underworld is a pretty good reference point.

thematically - what, like that reigns album about the drowned village, that kind of creepiness?

i suppose i'll just have to listen to the youtube and find out, won't i?

oh fuck me this is such a predictable thing for me to say but i LOVE those slows down wet flubby drum samples like being hit upside th head with very thin very bendy corrigated iron in slow motion yesssssssss more of this pls

Carrion Squared sounds like it'd be up my alley, maybe more than SyMptoMs is - it doesn't quite go the extra mile for me and sort of reminds me of a bunch of that undanceable quasi-IDM that recovering lo-fi dudes made in the late 90s (as well as Underworld tbf). I like the MM aesthetic a lot but I dunno if I'll ever love it, is all

carrion squared makes no pretense at all at being dance music mind you

Check out the Vindicatrix album on MM! This is absolutely non-impartial advice as Dave's my housemate but it's a pretty extraordinary record - bierkeller at the end of the universe

I've been enjoying their 12" The Tower, did a search here to see if ILX had been talking about them. Going to listen to some of the youtubes you have been talking about upthread.

New product hoves into view:

http://boomkat.com/stuff/353369-mordant-music-misinformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mll5zL5djQs

The MisinforMation visuals and most importantly the sounds are fantastic. Had the pleasure of seeing Baron Mordant present this live a few weeks back and it was mindblowing. Fierce manipulated inputs from the films mixed in with heavy Mordant soundscapes, interweaving and screwing. An odd mix of films used to... some films on architecture and town planning, one on solvent abuse, others with a more natural bent. V.good.

Yeah, I was just reading the contents list:

• Mindless Reverie: Magpies - House (1984, original version available on the fourth COI volume, Stop! Look! Listen!)
• A Dark Social Template: New Towns in Britain (1974, using animated footage from Charley in New Town, 1947, which can be found on the BFI’s education-only release The Promised Land?, though discs do occasionally crop up for sale to the general public)
• Attack Plus 22 Days: Perspective - Near Enough (1985, extract only)
• Attenuated Shadows: Illusions (a film about solvent abuse) (1983, re-edited version)
• A Double Room In A Single Bed: Ideal Homes (c1970) with audio elements taken from Tackling Priority Estates (1983)
• Black And White Sound: Culham Labs (1984)
• Self’s Mordant Tone: Inkjet Printer (Living Tomorrow 245) (1979, directed by Peter Greenaway)
• Televasion: Sinclair Pocket TV (1980)
• Artificially Sympathetic: AIDS - Iceberg (c1986)
• GeoMetric FaMine: Perspective - Computer Aided Design (1985, extract)
• Ridyll: Looking at Prehistoric Sites (1982)
• FraMeforM: Birth of a Nematode (Roots) (1982, unedited roughs)
• MisinforMation: Cardiff Ship Simulator (CASSIM) (1983)
• The Dry Dock Dybbuk: The Sea in Their Blood (1983, directed by Peter Greenaway, original version available on the BFI’s Blu-ray release of A Zed and Two Noughts)

Take it you weren't at the Brighton show, Nick? It was really good. Would recommend coming to the Outer Church nights if you're into this sort of stuff.

Nuts, I didn't even know there was one. Gah...

Liking that these guys are a bit harder-edged than most of the Ghost Box-type stuff I've heard.

I'm a massive Ghost Box stan so I'm never going to complain about them continuing in their own vein, but it's nice to have a bit of variety to the ethos.

(Just throwing in a link to the Outer Church blog. Next one's Position Normal on the 8th.)

Next Outer Church:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs602.ash2/155433_165534776812176_100000669649761_375453_6699817_n.jpg

Visuals for the live performances by position normal and Hong Kong In The 60s on December 8th will be provided by video artist Jade Boyd, fresh from her outstanding collaborations with Alan Howarth, Kyle Hall et al at UNSOUND Festival 2010.

Lummy, I have totally been missing out on all this stuff. Thanks for the tip off!

i was at that Brighton gig as part of Vindicatrix, and yeah, the Mordant Music film was stunning and super intense. hopefully the Baron will take it on some kind of tour or something so people can see it on a big screen and hear the soundtrack on a decent system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TUMdoYW-w

Didn't hear this till now, second coming of Depeche Morte.