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Attempt to change a running system e​.​p.

by Sebastian Arnold

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1.
Bits keep moving (digital grain dance) 08:01
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4 years 06:10
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3.
Falling and rising (on/off transition) 10:47
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Insert coin 05:04
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5.
Attempt to change a running system 06:34
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6.
Steve 07:35
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Sebastian Arnold's second solo album consequently focusses on the drummer's outstanding live performance on drums and synthesizers throughout 45 minutes of music: danceable electronic beats meet post-rock and indietronica, played live without a laptop, without playback, without a hidden agenda. Long arcs and accentuated synth lines coin the six tracks. The grooves are made out of oscillators, voices and loops while the drumset contributes the barnstorming energy. The title says what's going on: How the live set was moved towards a strongly electronic post-rock sound is audible on this record. Classic song structures on "4 years" alternate with electronic beats and intricate rhythms culminating in drum 'n bass thunderstorms on the fruit machine song "Insert coin".

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released September 10, 2010

All songs written, performed and produced by Sebastian Arnold.
Guitar on tracks 1&6 played by Jürgen Schwer.
Recorded at Tricone Studios, Funkhaus Berlin, additional recordings at Wohnzimmer Freiburg.
Mastered by Calyx Mastering Berlin.
Photographs by Markus Steidl.
Special thanks go to Katharina, Markus and Jürgen.
You're listening to a WAHAN drumset, a Nord Modular G2 Synthesizer, some self-built MIDI logic devices and a Debian Linux based DSP System running open source software SooperLooper and ChucK.

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Sebastian Arnold Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Arnold is a genuine one-man band behind his drum kit and synthesizers. Watching him for the first time, you may think of someone driving a spaceship with drumsticks. He is building song structures by layering loops and drum-triggered sequences with acoustic drums, keyboards and his own sequencer SENODE. The result is an organic mixture of elektro, post-rock, drum'n'bass and indietronica. ... more

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