REANIMATOR & STRATEGY ON TOUR - OCTOBER and NOVEMBER 2007
Community Library label chief, and Kranky label recording artist STRATEGY and Community Library mainstays REANIMATOR
are headed to the UK and mainland Europe for live performances! We are playing at the Wire 25 party in London, celebrating Wire
Magazine's 25th Anniversary alongside Soft Pink Truth and Soul Jazz DJs! We're also playing at Festival Soy in Nantes, featuring luminaries such as Rhys Chatham and Sunburned Hand of the Man. Here you'll find: press clippings, scans from print articles, and soundfiles about our music.
October 24: Nottingham, UK- Strategy, Reanimator, Gareth Hardwick - at The Chameleon
October 25: Leeds, UK- Strategy, Reanimator, Unicorn Love, and more - at The Packhorse
October 27: London, UK- Wire25 Party - Strategy, Reanimator, Soft Pink Truth, and Soul Jazz DJs
October 30: Nantes, France- Festival Soy - Strategy at Planetarium and Reanimator at Pole Etudiant, Universite de Nantes
November 2: Nijemgen, Holland- Reanimator, Strange Attractor at Merilyn
November 3: Dusseldorf, Germany- Reanimator at Salon D'Amateurs
Contact:
STRATEGY
Having played almost every game on almost every field in underground music, Strategy has made his most recent splash with his critically acclaimed Future Rock CD on kranky. His past and current endeavors in ambient, experimental, dance music, and dub are brought to a highly focused point on this breakthrough album. Strategy's live shows are similarly diverse, combining elements of all his various genre forays into dubbed out, sonic masses that are at once rhythm driven and full spectrum head music, combining improvisation and composition, streetwise soundmaking combined with experimental ingenuity. More info: http://www.community-library.net/strategyhome.htm
Wire Article
Can't Roll Back
Future Rock
Unreleased - From forthcoming ambient/experimental album on Audio Dregs label
"Few albums or artists can start with such a broad palette and leave such an indelible mark." - Lost At Sea
"Retro-futurism has its pleasures, sure, but it's satisfying to hear artists melding genres in search of the real deal, especially when the combination is as exquisitely constructed as it can be here." - Pitchfork
"where a lot of electronic music can seem distant and cold, Strategy is warm, accessible, moreish, and compelling. One of the best records I've heard this year." - Stylus
"Future Rock is the rare record that needs no explanation and sounds exquisite from the start." - Brainwashed
REANIMATOR
Originally from Portland, the deep-electronic/experimental techno duo Reanimator are now nomads, splitting their time between Brooklyn, Asheville, New Orleans, and now New England. Combining a punk rock ethic with a totally fresh approach to thrown-out musical gear, the band's music references everything from Pan Sonic-styled minimalizing, to the rhythmic pummel of American electronic noise artists like Yellow Swans, to nuanced polyrhthmics that almost hint at Konono No. 1 styled syncopation. The band utilize their analogue gear to massive effect, improvising through dubbed-out echoes and machine music untethered from the conservative legacy of Techno. You might call them "7-on-the-floor" music, truly futuristic visionary beat music from America's underground.
Wire Article
Recent Track
Special Powers
"with Special Powers the duo have cheated from obscurity one of the finest potting-shed techno records I've heard. If such a genre, in fact, actually exists…" - Jon Dale, Dusted Magazine
"Reanimator's music exudes a vitality that clearly distances it from Pan Sonic's far more contained and colder style." - Textura
"these eight songs, bleating and throbbing, crunching and droning, are incredibly vital — a "warts 'n all" vision of minimal techno in which error and chance lend humanity to lurching, off-kilter rhythms, and a reminder of what minimal techno has lost as it's gone all streamlined." - Philip Sherburne, Earplug
