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Dazed and Confuzed // Mick Harris presents FRET live A/V

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New River Studios

199 Eade Road N4 1DN London

Gig Description


Mick Harris / FRET

In writing a press piece for the dark lord Mick Harris, where does one even start? Especially for a man with decades of releases over various solo projects, collaborations and pseudonyms, whether it’s doing blast beats in the original Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Godflesh or crushing techno brutality as Monrella, savage drum & bass as Quoit, cold hellish soundscapes as Lull... Then of course there’s the mighty Scorn and his numerous collaborations with fellow luminaries such as John Zorn as Painkiller. It should come as no surprise Harris has appeared not once, but twice on John Peel's legendary Peel Sessions.
Rather than being tied to genres or scenes, Mick Harris is one of those producers who creates a whole sonic world uniquely of his own, in which varying tracks, styles and tempos take form, but yet in which everything sounds unmistakably characteristic of the creator. Needless to say his work has influenced legions of producers like Surgeon, Regis et al, yet after all this time, Harris has never been surpassed in his own production/performance game.
After a hiatus of several years, he is back with a new album under the guise of Fret.
Working at a faster tempo than his Scorn material, the Fret project first surfaced years ago on the Downwards label, rooting it firmly in the dark, industrial and technoid world, and appeared more recently on Tresor (Kern mix by Objekt), maintaining the characteristic colossal bass-heaviness and textural depth.
Harris fans will be delighted to know that despite the 130 bpm tempo which allows it to easily blend into techno (DJs take note here), Fret still resolutely avoids any straight four-on-the-floor kickdrums; every track lurches, stumbles, staggers and charges forth with beats in beautifully broken asymmetry. If you had to reference it to his other work, Fret is closer in spirit to Scorn but at a higher tempo, rather than the more straight up Monrella. Fret live has already ripped up Atonal Berlin 2017 and will only get more powerful.
For Fret AV, Mick Harris teams up with Stormfield. The pair have collaborated audiovisually since 2011 with the Scorn AV set at Bangface Weekender. (Bio below)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4417-Mick-Harris
https://www.facebook.com/Mick-Harris-53824973368/
https://soundcloud.com/mick-harris-390132372

STORMFIELD / AV artist

Head of the Combat Recordings label, Derek Szeto produces and DJs under the Stormfield moniker, while collaborating in various other guises like Scald Process (with Liam Noonan and Eden Grey), Fausten (with Monster X), Tactile Members (with Alice White), and Coldpress (with Joe Boyce), as well as AV crews like Brainwash Glastonbury. An audiovisual technician for UAL and Tate Britain by day, he began merging the visual and audio aspects of his music work in 2009, honing it via heavy involvement in communities of practice such as VJ London, Crux, Looking Sound, Temporary Autonomous Art, Splice AV Festival and has taught AV workshops at events like Norberg Festival (Scandinavian Arts Council) and Burn the Machine.
Derek has been audiovisually involved with artists such as Scorn, Stormfield, Scald Process, Anodyne, Plaid, Broken Note, Hekate Soundsystem, Blackmass Plastics, Guncleaner, UKAEA, Brainwash Glastonbury and Towards Collapse.
For Fret AV, he uses a combination of infrared camera work, generative patches and custom video built from the audio itself, synced and improvised live to interact very closely with the live sonic improvisation of Mick Harris.

More info: http://www.combatrecordings.com/artist/stormfield/

SEN NA
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/sen.na
https://soundcloud.com/sen_na
https://www.facebook.com/vs.senna

UKAEA
https://ukaea.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/UKAEAtech/

TRIANGULAR SHAPED
https://www.facebook.com/TriangularShaped/

Source: Facebook Event