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18 Aug 2010

 

 

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Audio releases his second album, Genesis Device, on Ed Rush & Optical's Virus label on September 13th so we spoke to Audio to find out what he has in store for us...

Please introduce yourself...
My name is Gareth and I produce underground dnb as Audio. I started writing tunes back in 1997 and had my first release on G2 in 2000. Formed Resonant Evil soon after and had tunes on Outbreak and Hardware. Split from Resonant Evil to follow my own path and since then had tunes tunes on Subtitles, Offkey, Virus and my first LP on Techfreak.

Tell us more about the album you're releasing. Any concept behind it?
Genesis Device is my interpretation of the whole virus sound dating back from Medicine VRS001 to current. It follows the spacey sci-fi thread that runs throught all Virus releases. As much as I wanted this album to be a represenation of what I'm about I still wanted it to fit into the Virus back catlogue.

What's the thought process behind the title?
Sampling Star Trek 2 and finding a great vocal that describes the machine that creates life from nothing on planets... I love that shit.

How did it come to be released on Virus?
I was just sitting at home when Optical phoned to ask if I was interested in doing an LP for them... I said yes obviously!

How does working on albums compare with singles?
Working on an album allows you much more room to move creativley, which I didn't really take advantage of on my first album, so I was determind to make sure the LP shows exactly what I'm about, moving from bangers to deeper rollers and everything in-between.

Can we expect anything different on it?
The opening track Moon Dock is a 170 BPM glitch ridden three minute track, there's a 140 BPM dubstep track Detekted and a beatless outro, so yeah, there are different bits on there.

Who have you collaborated with on it?
I didn't collab with anyone as I wanted it to be all mine! I wanted to collab with Ed & Op but time schedules didn't match so it hasn't happened yet... but it will.

Over what period did you make it?
I wrote the LP over a nine month period, which some people may think is too fast, but for me an LP is an insight into the time period as well as the artist and the whole thing flowed from start to finish and as a producer you don't argue with that.

What are you working on at the moment?
Promotion for the LP and some remixes for Gridlok, Evol Intent and The Upbeats.

 

Genesis Device cover

 

Tracklist

  1. Moon Dock
  2. Fourth Kind
  3. Genesis Device
  4. Emissions
  5. Stratosphere
  6. Jibba Jabba
  7. Collision
  8. Abyss
  9. Nightbreed
  10. Scanners
  11. The Journey - Part 1

 

 

 


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