Thursday, May 7, 2009

More Hauntology. The Woebot EP's.



Between the years of 2003-2008 WOEBOT wrote about music on his very own WOEBOT blog. A wonderful well informed labor of love that  was sadly packed up with little fanfare and put to rest. Then a year later I find out Matt Ingram had resurfaced again on the internets with 2 EP's of his own music on stark hand printed sleeves. One called the Automat EP the other East Centeral One EP

WOEBOT recently described his  music making process on A Resonance FM radio show as just him alone in a dark room with a lamp, computer and  a MPC2500 Beat Production station ( popular with beat producing hip hop DJ's). Along with this he discussed his favorite components to drum and bass, dub step and jungle and other music he has absorbed in his life time .  Which translates into you have to come to your own conclusions about what his recordings are about. I was hooked and had to order the discs to find out more

I think you could figure out that the past holds some importance to his creativity  and so does memory and preservation. Another important thing to notice  about both EP's is how music is handed down, transcribed, how it's heard and to be listened to. 3 inch CDs as a format are not typical nor are they fashionable at all. They are not something you can casually throw on and forget about.

Which means WOEBOT wins and you get to contemplate what you are listening to or what ever ideas might be running through your head. 


Look  here.