
Ultre - Overkill Tour - Nov 2006
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jeeb
Genre: Electronic
Date of Set: Nov 20th, 2006
Filesize: 393.00 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Ultre
Ultre is the music project of Finn McNicholas who is from the North of England. His live shows have been blasted all over Europe and the UK for the past couple years. You may have seen the live audio visual shows in Kazakhstan with Tim Exile and N>E>D or the home-invented bow and arrow cello being battered and digitally manipulated on the Overkill tour that completed 2006. His solo recorded works are a world unto themselves, using and making electro acoustic instruments like its 1885, creating a sound that ranges from dusty old plinky-plonky ragtime to uncontrollable noise. You may have seen/heard his music/visual work on the animations and films he has worked on with the ICA, MTV, London Sinfionetta, Quayola or Flat-e. The debut Ultre album entitiled 'All the darkness has gone to details' was released in December 2006 and has received sweet critical and personal acclaim.
Here is what the Wire magazine said about it...
The animation work of Finn McNicholas - aka Ultre - has been used on Warp's Works & 20th Century Composers tour, and Warp's influence is certainly in evidence in the rhythmic chassis of All the Darkness, with its intemperate bursts of squalid rhythm counterpointed by more placid sequences. However, what lends the album its individuality is his use of instruments made from metal and wire, as well as slightly bashed-about acoustic instruments such as the untuned piano that weaves unsteadily through 'Nobodies Favourite'. There's a nice contrast between the conventionally sleek, futuristic aura of the electronic components of these pieces and a bustling, clankier DIY element suggestive of creaky doors and busy toolsheds.
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Mar 19, 2007