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Updated: 09/08/05
Producer Tim Exile on production, his custom live kit and his album 'Pro Agonist'
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Meet Tim, aka Exile, Tim has an album out, it's called 'Pro Agonist' on Planet Mu Records, it's a sonic mish-mash of styles forced together by technology - we like that here! Exile recently performed an hour long set for OneMusic with Rob da Bank which was completely improvised from start to finish, occasionally using little more than samples of his own speech. We needed to know more about how it was done, so we locked him in the interview cage and this is what we found out...
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"I don't like the way it's become acceptable for people who make electronic music to turn up to gigs and just play tracks they made in the studio on a laptop." |
Is it the norm for your live set to be completely improvised?
"Totally! It's partly to do with the way I am, and partly to do with the way I think music should be performed. It never sounds slick or well-mixed like a studio production does, but I think that is completely made up for by the fact it's genuinely live. I don't like the way it's become acceptable for people who make electronic music to turn up to gigs and just play tracks they made in the studio on a laptop or turntables and maybe put them through some effects. I find it difficult to see how that can really be a performance."
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How do you go about making records?
"Don't bother trying to find the latest bits of software, find what works for you. I really have no idea how I start making tracks. It's just a symbiosis of me, my body and my computers. I do something to them, they do something to me in response, I respond to that by doing something to them and so it goes. It's a free dialogue between two very complex types of machine with I/O devices that talk to each other that ends up being a piece of music."
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