Submitted By: Tricky

Genre: Techno

Date of Set: Dec 16th, 2005

Filesize: 61.20 MB

Total Downloads: 30

A New York City native, and label manager for Microcosm, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on emotively warm and minimal music. Though often based in techno, he strives to incorporate the ethos of the past with something new, striding that blurry line between occasional dance floor sensibility and intriguing, yet heart warming home listening. Ambience, soft, colorful tones, found sounds, an occasional dub influence, 4/4 microsound, and an affinity for off kilter rhythm edits are all involved in this process, while paying constant attention to deceptively simple melodic structures, along with seemingly random percussive elements and textures, pairing the pure and beautiful with more clunky and dirty 'mishaps.'

Always striving to make them something different from studio work, his improvisational approach to live sets, combining loops and bits from various material with on the fly arrangements, editing, and effects yields new songs from shards of the old. This influenced his newest album, Scattered Practices, aiding the compositional process both in terms of sketching ideas, and in developing nuggets of sound into fuller pieces, sometimes splitting into separate compositions, using tangential ideas from the original source. Continuing his exploration of less loop-based material, the album retains Honig's signature, shifting further towards warm, expansive, minimal songs.

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