Italian webzine Vox Empirea recently posted a review of my CD, 'Duality'.
An excerpt from the review:
"... Music that, as suggested by the same FluiD, is perfectly suited to situations and themed environments like modern art galleries, avant-garde art exhibitions and alternative clubs, making 'Envisioning Abstraction: The Duality Of FluiD' and its complex and diverse structure, a sort of restyling of the traditional concept dub, formulating around it an ingenious databank of sounds psycholeptics and not easy to decryption relazioneranno that virtually the ideal listener, that he who possesses the ability to transcend the conventional testing new, futuristic microcosms trip from opiate. With this disc you will pass with surprising ease the fine line between the tangible and incorporeal..."
You can read the full review here
A very special thanks to Max @ Vox Empirea for writing such an insightful and detailed review...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
collide.scope mix
I recently did a mix for collide.scope. collide.scope is both a zine/vinyl series and an independent label operating out of Melbourne, Australia.
This month, Chicago based musician FluiD offers a selection of his favorites for the exclusive mix series.
Beginning with a maelstrom of defunct electronic stabs and petering out into a string of choice beats & vocals, this selection resembles a mixtape more then a dj set however no less poignant or befitting. Christophe ventures through low-fi washes of percussion, abusively distorted dub joints & pages of existential lyricism to give you an insight into his ideal cross-genre blend.
Comprised of artists who've inspired or befriended him from his humble beginnings in 1988 until today, this is a valuable insight into the world of fluiD & a strong testament to his dedicated venture through the terrains of industrial hip-hop.
GLITCHED, BLOWN & DRIVEN
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Fragment King - scape [a]
FluiD - Black Jinn
Black Saturn - Minor Affliction
Dalek - Paragraphs Relentless
90 (Noventa) - Route Barree
FluiD - UnjUst
Heat From a Dead Star - Black Swans (FluiD remix)
Speak Onion - Salt in the Symbols
Picore - Fiasco (Larvae remix)
Techno Animal - Megaton
Opedope - Explo Ring
Fujako - Sulpher Gaot (feat. Sensational)
Dr. Pytor - Derka
VoPhoniq - The Maker
Beginning with a maelstrom of defunct electronic stabs and petering out into a string of choice beats & vocals, this selection resembles a mixtape more then a dj set however no less poignant or befitting. Christophe ventures through low-fi washes of percussion, abusively distorted dub joints & pages of existential lyricism to give you an insight into his ideal cross-genre blend.
Comprised of artists who've inspired or befriended him from his humble beginnings in 1988 until today, this is a valuable insight into the world of fluiD & a strong testament to his dedicated venture through the terrains of industrial hip-hop.
GLITCHED, BLOWN & DRIVEN
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Fragment King - scape [a]
FluiD - Black Jinn
Black Saturn - Minor Affliction
Dalek - Paragraphs Relentless
90 (Noventa) - Route Barree
FluiD - UnjUst
Heat From a Dead Star - Black Swans (FluiD remix)
Speak Onion - Salt in the Symbols
Picore - Fiasco (Larvae remix)
Techno Animal - Megaton
Opedope - Explo Ring
Fujako - Sulpher Gaot (feat. Sensational)
Dr. Pytor - Derka
VoPhoniq - The Maker
Final Artwork for, 'The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024)
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| Back Cover |
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| Label artwork for FluiD side |
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| Label artwork for John 3:16 side |
All artwork by Trey Crim (p) (c) 2012
Release info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html
Test Pressings of FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation
Test pressings of ‘The Pursuit of Salvation’ (ALRN024);
my forthcoming split release with John 3:16 on Alrealon Musique.
Release info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html
Release date March 19, 2012.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Pursuit of Salvation
FluiD/John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation (ALRN024),
coming: Mar. 19, 2012 on Alrealon Musique...
For more info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html
Monday, January 2, 2012
New Review of Duality
"... An American one-man band backed by more than two decades of work emerges with a dark trip-hop album that is equally varied, and shows the relations between industrial, ambient, drone/doom metal, psychedelia and electronics.
Behind this name stands the one-man project of dark-skinned hip-hop DJ Christophe Gilmore from Chicago whose his first album 'Warhol' was released in 1988. Also, a great activist, calling himself an 'afro-futurist' and he has a whole series of performances at various festivals, charities, and is best known for his work on the soundtrack of 'The Gift Project Chicago' (together with very similar activists like Rebecca Zorach, Leslie Wilson, Kimberly Pindera , Patric McCoy and Samantha Hill). All of them have in common, although dealing with completely different activities (photography, sculpture, literature, critical theory, interdisciplinary arts) an association with the so-called, African-American diaspora to realize their activist collaborations.
While FluiD is totally unknown by his discography, he has been operating for more than two decades, it is quite messy and no one has so far put it in a chronological order. Most often mentioned as a remixer and collaborator with Ganymede, Fr/action, Heat From A Deadstar, Blood Into Water, One Dead Fuck, Worms of the Earth, DisinVectant, Black Saturn, Selbst-Morder, Finger Painted Dead and John 3:16. He also spent time in the industrial-gothic rock band Die My Darling, where he was a keyboard player and programmer. He was also a member of several bands where he played synth/keyboards and bass guitar - DOD, Wardrobe Cathedral, Immaculate Corrosion and Drug Of Choice. We also mention that there was a few years of primary music school, he began to play in the 6th year. He also studied orchestration of classical and jazz music and plays clarinet, saxophone, piano, flute and oboe.
On this album, which he recorded in 2010, and was officially released in early 2011, on the Swiss label Alrealon Musique, is very similar to the sound sphere around the likes of Dalek and Massive Attack. Although, several compositions stand out from the trip-hop/hip-hop standards, drawing in new areas of post-industrial along with his indigenous hip-hop, corresponds to the trees of metal, jazz, psychedelia, avant-garde, electronica, noise.
When I first listened to this album without any knowledge of the biography of FluiD, all at once I thought that it was a band that's somewhere around The Young Gods, at least in the opening composition, 'DH-1'. Sluggish industrial, sampled bass, plenty of cacophonic intervals with different frequency breaks are arranged in a very harmonious instrumental. To me that all these sounds might be a full band: hear the bass, guitar noise works, and the echo of some ancient junk synths continues with a piano in the next section of 'AIC', that does not run away from Massive Attack. Keyboard harmonies, relaxed pace trip/hip-hop refers to a competent author who skillfully handled the pop format, shaping them into a very dark atmosphere. There are no vocals (maybe a minus for such skilled grades), except for 'Iron Communiqué' which has as a guest on the mic a certain Black Saturn. Revealing a very good casserole of hip-hop, storytelling and polumelodičnog vocalists, referring to his style. With an increased atmospheric industrial apocalyptic noise-gothic and whose low-tuned guitar riffs are most suitable to black-metal/drone standards. While the only sung track, the previously released 'Disrupting the Ghost' has a dark mood, moving through a psychedelic hybrid of electronic trip-hop and world music, while continuing the detachment of an instrumental album (only here and there dotted with some vocal samples) although woven very creatively, giving the impression of a dark lethargy in which apart from the occasional experiment, lack a full insight into the overall plot. For example, ambient post-industrial 'Refuge' and 'Sublimation In the Zero Hour', acting as a fraction of the concept. Froz n II is again in the manner of industrial with the added effect of dissonant drone/doom metal, while 'Dread Futures', 'The Absent Present' and the ending 'Parallel States' obviously show some evidenence of ambient, besides the classic dub, vocal and experimental samples of allocation is not appropriate for anything but harmonious filing of space.
Is that the big problem of today's minimalist trip-hop scene? Is it more or less roughly similar to what Tricky said ten years ago, "that I did something like this at the time of be-bop and jazz, 50's, my music would be the usual crap" . However, it is obvious that all the criteria of the pop scene (whatever that is) substantially leveled at such semi-sampled/semi-played music it has to be considered an artform. Being a DJ and musician as well, FluiD is still not at all difficult (remember only Thievery Corporation). Surprisingly an artist, who is already as his biography says, a trained musician, his own knowledge and skill is here presented through a minor and very poor, already worn and battered form. Still, not as important a factor as the fact that FluiD identified with those who have far less talent and knowledge..."
Album Score (1-10): 7
Horvi 11.12.28
Behind this name stands the one-man project of dark-skinned hip-hop DJ Christophe Gilmore from Chicago whose his first album 'Warhol' was released in 1988. Also, a great activist, calling himself an 'afro-futurist' and he has a whole series of performances at various festivals, charities, and is best known for his work on the soundtrack of 'The Gift Project Chicago' (together with very similar activists like Rebecca Zorach, Leslie Wilson, Kimberly Pindera , Patric McCoy and Samantha Hill). All of them have in common, although dealing with completely different activities (photography, sculpture, literature, critical theory, interdisciplinary arts) an association with the so-called, African-American diaspora to realize their activist collaborations.
While FluiD is totally unknown by his discography, he has been operating for more than two decades, it is quite messy and no one has so far put it in a chronological order. Most often mentioned as a remixer and collaborator with Ganymede, Fr/action, Heat From A Deadstar, Blood Into Water, One Dead Fuck, Worms of the Earth, DisinVectant, Black Saturn, Selbst-Morder, Finger Painted Dead and John 3:16. He also spent time in the industrial-gothic rock band Die My Darling, where he was a keyboard player and programmer. He was also a member of several bands where he played synth/keyboards and bass guitar - DOD, Wardrobe Cathedral, Immaculate Corrosion and Drug Of Choice. We also mention that there was a few years of primary music school, he began to play in the 6th year. He also studied orchestration of classical and jazz music and plays clarinet, saxophone, piano, flute and oboe.
On this album, which he recorded in 2010, and was officially released in early 2011, on the Swiss label Alrealon Musique, is very similar to the sound sphere around the likes of Dalek and Massive Attack. Although, several compositions stand out from the trip-hop/hip-hop standards, drawing in new areas of post-industrial along with his indigenous hip-hop, corresponds to the trees of metal, jazz, psychedelia, avant-garde, electronica, noise.
When I first listened to this album without any knowledge of the biography of FluiD, all at once I thought that it was a band that's somewhere around The Young Gods, at least in the opening composition, 'DH-1'. Sluggish industrial, sampled bass, plenty of cacophonic intervals with different frequency breaks are arranged in a very harmonious instrumental. To me that all these sounds might be a full band: hear the bass, guitar noise works, and the echo of some ancient junk synths continues with a piano in the next section of 'AIC', that does not run away from Massive Attack. Keyboard harmonies, relaxed pace trip/hip-hop refers to a competent author who skillfully handled the pop format, shaping them into a very dark atmosphere. There are no vocals (maybe a minus for such skilled grades), except for 'Iron Communiqué' which has as a guest on the mic a certain Black Saturn. Revealing a very good casserole of hip-hop, storytelling and polumelodičnog vocalists, referring to his style. With an increased atmospheric industrial apocalyptic noise-gothic and whose low-tuned guitar riffs are most suitable to black-metal/drone standards. While the only sung track, the previously released 'Disrupting the Ghost' has a dark mood, moving through a psychedelic hybrid of electronic trip-hop and world music, while continuing the detachment of an instrumental album (only here and there dotted with some vocal samples) although woven very creatively, giving the impression of a dark lethargy in which apart from the occasional experiment, lack a full insight into the overall plot. For example, ambient post-industrial 'Refuge' and 'Sublimation In the Zero Hour', acting as a fraction of the concept. Froz n II is again in the manner of industrial with the added effect of dissonant drone/doom metal, while 'Dread Futures', 'The Absent Present' and the ending 'Parallel States' obviously show some evidenence of ambient, besides the classic dub, vocal and experimental samples of allocation is not appropriate for anything but harmonious filing of space.
Is that the big problem of today's minimalist trip-hop scene? Is it more or less roughly similar to what Tricky said ten years ago, "that I did something like this at the time of be-bop and jazz, 50's, my music would be the usual crap" . However, it is obvious that all the criteria of the pop scene (whatever that is) substantially leveled at such semi-sampled/semi-played music it has to be considered an artform. Being a DJ and musician as well, FluiD is still not at all difficult (remember only Thievery Corporation). Surprisingly an artist, who is already as his biography says, a trained musician, his own knowledge and skill is here presented through a minor and very poor, already worn and battered form. Still, not as important a factor as the fact that FluiD identified with those who have far less talent and knowledge..."
Album Score (1-10): 7
Horvi 11.12.28
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Various Artists - Winter Dubstep Essentials
Released on LW Recordings (12.15.11),
'Winter Dubstep Essentials (15 Unmixed Dubstep Tracks)'.
The compilation, includes my track, 'Sublimation In the Zero Hour'.
Winter Dubstep Essentials, is availabe from these digital retailers:
Juno Download - http://www.junodownload.com/products/1877601-02.htm
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