Hmm, so they recorded the whole thing in one take on Tuesday this week. OK.
"Transient Drums..." is in the tracklisting. It's fine but not exactly Krack. I hope this is a bit like "The Girl is Mine" preceeding Thriller and the rest is better. Might be best not to expect something as good as Nite Versions though.
Full press release - nicked from Reddit- including a list of some European dates.
SOULWAX ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF BRAND NEW STUDIO ALBUM FROM DEEWEE ON MARCH 24
RECORDED IN ONE TAKE ON FEBRUARY 7 AT DEEWEE STUDIO IN GHENT, BELGIUM
Soulwax today announce the release of FROM DEEWEE, a studio album of brand new material. After a period of extensive rehearsals and a level of planning to befit such a huge feat, FROM DEEWEE was recorded with the band in one take at the Dewaele brother’s DEEWEE Studio in Ghent, Belgium on February 7 2017 and will be released on March 24. “Based on the 'Transient Program For Drums and Machinery' which began touring in the summer of 2016, we set out to record these songs live with the exact same setup, machines and musicians as we had on the road”, say Stephen and David Dewaele of the recording process. As the artwork FROM DEEWEE says.. Playing on this record are Stephen and David Dewaele, Stefaan Van Leuven, Iggor Cavalera, Victoria Smith, Blake Davies and Laima Leyton. The instruments used are two Staccato drumkits, one clear crystalline Meazzi Wooding drumkit, one set of Rototoms, various Hofner bass guitars, a Macbeth M5n, an Oberheim Two-Voice Pro, a Two Thousand Six Hundred copy built by The Human Comparator, one Oberheim OB-Mx, an EMS Synthi AKS, an Arp Odyssey, a TB-303 clone, a Mellotron M4000D, a Sequential Prophet 6, a Waldorf Streichfett, a Burns Sonic guitar, a Vox Phantom guitar, one Syncussion clone built by Loudestwarning, various solid state Roland, Peavey and Acoustic amplifiers and a wide range of effects, all going through three Trident Fleximix consoles, straight into Pro Tools.
FROM DEEWEE CD pre-order:
http://found.ee/fromdeeweecd iTunes:
http://found.ee/fromdeeweedigi Listen to Soulwax on Spotify HERE
FROM DEEWEE will be released on Play It Again Sam on March 24 The LP will follow at a later date
See Soulwax live in 2017:
Wednesday 29 March Magazani Generali Milan, Italy Thursday 30 March Halle 622 Zurich, Switzerland Friday 31 March Live Music Hall Cologne, Germany Saturday 1 April Huxleys Berlin, Germany Monday 3 April Elysee Montmatre Paris, France Tuesday 4 April Paradiso Amsterdam, Holland Wednesday 5 April Rockhal Luxembourg Friday 7 April L’Aeronef Lille, France Saturday 8 April Electric Brixton London, UK Sunday 9 April Ritz Manchester, UK Tuesday 11 April AB Brussels, Belgium
Since the creation of Soulwax in 1995, David and Stephen Dewaele have consistently pushed the boundaries into new and innovative territory. In addition to Soulwax, the brothers continue to tour the globe as 2manydjs, have their DEEWEE record label and studio, Radio Soulwax – a visual radio station and app, the Despacio project with James Murphy and their 2 x 2 radio show on Beats 1. Not to mention producing some of the most cutting edge remixes we’ve seen in recent times for the likes of Warpaint, Tame Impala, Metronomy, Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, Gossip, Hot Chip, MGMT, and many more.
and tracklisting:
Preset Tense
Masterplanned
Missing Wires
Conditions Of A Shared Belief
Is It Always Binary
Do You Want To Get Into Trouble?
My Tired Eyes
Transient Program For Drums And Machinery
Trespassers
The Singer Has Become A Deejay
Here Come The Men In Suits
Goodnight Transmission
They're using a Macbeth. Isn't that the huge thing that Orbital took on their Wonky tour?
Why a 303 clone rather than original?
Ha! I'm talking like I know equipment!
