Slow Up, Speed Down, by Darren McClure

Slow Up, Speed Down

by Darren McClure

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1.	Petrichor 05:16	buy track
2.	Slow Up, Speed Down 12:53	buy track
3.	Invique 07:04	buy track
4.	Filed As Flies 03:37	buy track
5.	Denoted Spheres Taking Their Time 13:29	buy track
6.	Look At The Light 07:29	buy track

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The tracks on this album were all assembled during 2021, with a deliberate focus on slowness, space and stasis. My goal was to construct pieces that were less detail-oriented, more smudged and blurred, like distant indistinct sounds carried by the wind.

For this reason, sound sources were often pitched down and time-stretched into elongated drones, while trying to maintain harmonics that simmered just under the surface. These buried melodies are intended to be covert, hidden messages to the listener’s ears.

I wanted to create tracks that implied motion, but a subtle motion in otherwise stillness, like the illusion of fluidity in a heat haze. Mostly, I wanted to make an album of unhurried music that was happy taking its time, each track existing in the moment, slowing up and speeding down.

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released July 16, 2022

Darren McClure is from Northern Ireland, now living in Matsumoto, Japan. His audio work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere. Sound sources are both analogue and digital, hardware and software, incorporating found sounds and field recordings to lend an organic, tactile quality to the material. His main intent is to create music to zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience.

He has released solo and collaborative work on a number of labels, including Dragons Eye, Glistening Examples and n5MD. His music has also been used in conjunction with video artwork and documentary shorts.

Album photo: Clive Maidment

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Darren McClure is from Northern Ireland, now living in Matsumoto, Japan. His audio work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere. His main intent is to create music to zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience. ... more

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