Electro-ambient, psycho-acoustic,trip hop,techno-dub

11 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Ambient, ELECTRONIC: Trip Hop



Details:
Mortal Engines is the electro-ambient dub project of Don Avera. Don has been recording/releasing music since the early 90s first, as a member of Cyclops Joint (Compilations: Manifestation VOL 3-1992, Bureaucracy of Hope: Elephants Force Fed on Stale Chalk....1992), & later as Mortal Engines (Compilations: Precipitation-1995, Amphibious Maximus-1995, A Storm of Drones-Asphodel, 1996). The years spent between now & then have been filled with parenting & making basement home tapes. Static Blue is the culmination of some of those tapes. Late in 2002, a computer was bought & much analog to digital transfer occured. Don, was also getting alot of tracks (rough ideas & full songs) from Brian Horst (AKA: Thaddeus Koohoeven of Noisettes' fame) through the mail. This was a prime opportunity to start learning about the vast editing opportunities that a computer could offer: Thus the birth of Static Blue.

Initially, tracks were chosen randomly & auditioned for potential. If there was even a small kernel of an idea, it would be extracted & put to use. Many full songs of either Don's or Brian's were often either laid down as a whole & processed with additional sequencing (ie. Electrokelp, Kumul), or chopped up beyond all recognition to formulate a brand new idea (ieTektonic, Audio Rorschach Test). The only rule at work was to keep the idea interesting & the process fun with the approach to each song differing from the previous.