Erik Wiegand, who we as music snobs know as Errorsmith, works for a fancy little company called Native Instruments making synthesizers for music geeks who spend more time touching circuits than vaginas. One day, Wiegand needed some presets for a new software synthesizer and he asked Mark Fell to make him some.
Long story short: Fell came up with 40 sounds, gave ‘em to Wiegand, and they were ultimately rejected by Native Instruments. So Fell “decided to rework his UL8 project by extending the pattern generating systems used in its construction, which he then connected to the sounds produced in Erik’s synthesizer,” and while that sentence makes my brain hurt, I know that it means that Fell combined a couple projects (including his 40 sounds from earlier) and turned them into his new Manitutshu double 12-inch.
The new single, which sounds like thousands of electric ants exploding at the same time, is set for a May 27 release, comes with a poster, and features a remix from Mat Steel. If you’re curious to know what it sounds like inside of an android’s brain while it has sex, then preorder the record here and check out a track here.
Manitutshu tracklisting:
A1. Acids in the… thin razor, attack noise hat, Linn
A2. Acids in the… primes version
A3. Manitutshu (A New Algorithm)… LatelyBass and NewElectro, attack pulse hat
B1. Acids in the… razor experiment
B2. Manitutshu… parameter set 2, Linn HI Tom, JazzOrg, vortex study performance overdub, and synthesis reminiscent of Duet Emmo
B3. Acids in the… stochastic energy pause with thin razor, attack noise hat, Linn
C1. Manitutshu… First Algorithm Test
C2. Occultation… razor simple acid pause version with lfo to cutoff
C3. Materialisation epic razor chord and LatelyBass version with found voice
D. Occultation of… Mat Steel Extended Remix
• Mark Fell: http://www.markfell.com
• Editions Mego: http://editionsmego.com
