Music for Troubled Machinery, by Leb Laze

Music for Troubled Machinery

by Leb Laze

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1.	Simple Systems Mantra 02:32	download
2.	Complex Rising (free) 02:01	download
3.	Keep Rising 00:35	download
4.	Voltage Power Barrio 01:05	download
5.	Hushhhhhhh Maing 02:04	download
6.	Duck Duck Flow 01:33	download
7.	Static Radiates (Underwater Meditation) 02:25	download
8.	We Found Answers 03:01	download
9.	In Love (Vocoded Freak Testimonials) 03:10	download
10.	This Means to Clarify 03:07	download
11.	Nature Meets Static 04:01	download
12.	Swerve Transmissions 00:53	download
13.	Toxic Knock (A) 02:10	download
14.	Toxic Knock (B) (free) 02:09	download
15.	Revelations... 01:40	download
16.	Uncaged 04:28	download
17.	Dial In / Dial Out 00:36	download

about

What started out as a total bummer--musical sketches and ideas hindered by a conked out machine--actually turned into an album. What you are hearing on Music for Troubled Machinery is the slow and unruly death of Leb Laze's core production tool..the MPC 2000 (R.I.P). When this device begins to die it randomly "freezes" at any given moment, often times wiping out anything that has been created within its path. What is interesting though is when an MPC freezes it begins to uncontrollably spit out all of the sounds that are loaded within it in their raw and unedited form..over and over and over. This occurrence is like nothing I have ever heard. The machine begins to have a mind of its own.

Leb Laze began to record and embrace these freakouts, using them as a basis for the majority of the songs on this album..adding to them, enhancing them and/or sculpting around them. Two shorter pieces, Revelations and Dial In/Dial Out were actually created entirely from these freakouts. Think of this record and, most importantly, these two tracks, as my MPC's last words--a testament to the idea that the nonliving world is actually very much alive.