FUTURE PLANS

TRACKLISTING


A1. Transistorcake - Future Plan I
A2. Transistorcake - Future Plan II
B1. Transistorcake - Ribbles
B2. Transist orcake - Kluts





INFO


Five years after hi s track 'Mr. Croissant Taker' appeared on Soulwax's Grand Theft Auto V radio sta tion, Belgian producer Transistorcake releases his official debut release, the ' Future Plans' EP on Eskimo Recordings. Featuring 4 tracks of hazy electronica th at would sit neatly alongside early releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label or re cent excursions by the likes of Palmbomen and Betonkust.

Opening trac ks 'Future Plan I' and 'Future Plan II' sets out Transistorcake's stall nicely. Swirling synth melodies, an ever evolving bassline that leads you down a labyrin thine maze and diaphanous strings and pads all add up to create an ecstatic yet at the same time melancholic quality to the music that manages to sound both anc ient and modern.

"Future Plans I and II are constantly changing route s of ideas, improvisations and coincidences," explains Transistorcake, "nothing is a constant in the two numbers, outside the pulse of the drums. You can see th em as two possible versions of the future or as an old version of the future alo ngside its current variation."

Whilst cut from the same cloth as the previous tracks 'Ribbles' has more than a touch of the Nordics to it. Sparkling, playful melodies glitter like snowflakes caught in the flash of a strobe light before a pulsing disco beat rockets the track into the stratosphere. In his own words the track is "an ode to spontaneity and dancing without braking. I picture d it being played by a live band next to a pool at an LA cocktail party in the ' 80s."

Closing the EP we have 'Kluts', driven by a stuttering, head-no dding, rhythm that recalls that rapping sound of a woodpecker in the forest, the track is gently swaddled in a warm embrace of synthetic stings that gradually d evelops and asserts its dominance over the course of nine, all-too brief as it h appens, minutes. For all its gauzy textures there's also an undeniable solidity to these tracks, an underlying organic quality and nostalgic warmth that permeat es them.

Having previously studied jazz composition and played in se veral bands over the years, Transistorcake brings a sense of spontaneity to the often all-to-structured world of electronic music. This EP just capturing a snap shot in time of these songs that can be endlessly reworked and reimagined in his live set, where live bass and drums, are added to his collection of vintage syn ths to an endless back and forth between man and machine.