PL009 – ComputerScheisse – These Beautiful Minds EP

Cat No: PL009
Artist: ComputerScheisse
Release Date: Friday 12th July 2013

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1 – These Beautiful Minds

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2 – Incubation Interlude

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3 – Hot’s Hot

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4 – Wet (ComputerScheisse vs Jonnie Common)

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5 – Tuesday Sunshine

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Say hello to the 9th release on our Phuturelabs label and the debut EP from ComputerScheisse. Available now as a pay-what-you-like download from Bandcamp or as a free download via pay with a tweet.

“These Beautiful Minds” is a five-tracker of fine genre swerving electronica from Edinburgh’s Tommy Perman AKA ComputerScheisse that has picked up support from Numbers’ Jackmaster, Optimo’s JD Twitch and BBC Radio 1′s Ally McCrae amongst many others.

As one-third of FOUND Tommy was responsible for production duties and bass notes on the collective’s three albums and countless singles and remixes. He also contributed brain power to headline-grabbing art projects such as Cybraphon, the world’s first wardrobe based player piano with a soul and #unravel, the collaboration with Aidan Moffat that saw your favourite classic singles played out in front of your eyes by a mechanical robot band feeding on the emotion in the room in real-time.

While the ComputerScheisse hat has been donned in the past, this EP sees its first full length debut.

From the winding pads, mechanically powered drums and infectious robotic vocal snippet of the title track to the beatless two minute bleep excursion that is “Incubation Interlude” via the electro fuelled disco stylings of “Hot’s Hot” to the driving electronica of “Wet”, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to a chess game with Four Tet and Syd Barrett at either side of the table, and finally ending up with the soothing melancholia of “Tuesday Sunshine” it’s a truly wonderful EP that we’re proud to give a home to. Many thanks to S-Type for the brilliant mastering job also.

To give you a further insight into the EP, Tommy had this to say about each track…

These Beautiful Minds

This was the first solo track I’d written in a long time. I’d been in a bit of a gloomy slump for a while but decided that sitting down to work on some music would help and this is the result. I’d been reading How To Wreck A Nice Beach (history of the vocoder) and so it made sense to plug in one of my vocoders and see where it took me.

It’s one of those tracks where all the ideas came together really quickly but the final mix took months.

Incubation Interlude

Written while my girlfriend was pregnant with our little boy Patrick, this bizarre little piece even contains a recording of his in utero heartbeat. As with most expectant fathers I was experiencing a wide range of emotions in the build up to the arrival of my first born. This tune captures some of my nerves, excitement and anticipation.

Hot’s Hot

I’m not the world’s greatest dancer or even the most enthusiastic – in fact like a lot of djs I know, one of the reasons I started playing records was to avoid having to dance. I’d been djing a lot when this was written and I just fancied a shot at crafting something to get the ladies dancing. When Bobby S-Type first heard it he asked “Ha what’s this again?” thinking it was a cover of a Paul Simon track. I take this as a great compliment.

Wet

This tune began life as a remix I did for Scottish music-scene luminary Jonnie Common but since then it has morphed into a clash of pompous brass and frantic synth arpeggios.

Tuesday Sunshine

Some of my favourite records end with a gentle outro and so here I am aping them. This bones of this song began as a sketch made on my phone with nanoloop – a wondrously simple piece of music software that I urge everyone to check out.

The bass and drums in this track put me in mind of Art of Noise and early 80s electro.