LJ Kruzer

Since the turn of the year I’ve been making a couple of mixes, the first of which has just appeared here, the second of which should be on the internet next month. In both of them I’ve been investigating the exciting new world of mp3s – most of mix1 is made up of paid-for mp3s, and mix2 has been built out of freely available creative commons music found on archive.org. In other news, I’ve just finished work on a remix for Posthuman, which should also be seeing the light of day soonish.

Ooh, and thanks to everyone who turned out for the Echaskech Presents night at Concrete last month – I enjoyed it immensely! Thanks for the support.

Hup, nearly forgot – some remixes by other people are out on March 8th on Uncharted Audio. Have a listen…

If you fancy a couple of alternate versions of two album tracks in a similar vein to the Tam Variations, the website of the Wire magazine has on offer Bamab814 and Poil814 in their Web Exclusive pages… right here, in fact.

Copies of my second album, Manhood & Electronics, have finally landed, are looking excellent, and will be available to buy from all good music retailers very soon. You can pre-order a copy direct from the label and listen to the tracks here…

LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer’s forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result

of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data – stretching, squashing, restretching and resquashing giving the concertinaed timbres of Tamz; filtering, distorting and reverberating backwards and forwards to create the rough textures of Tamx and Tamxr; modulating brown noise with the source audio to give Tamb; and simple stretching and reverberating resulting in the billowy melancholy of the collection’s opener Tam814.

Download Tam Variations for free

For 320kbps and other high-quality versions, just enter the price you want to pay (even zero, if you’re willing to provide your email address in exchange). Manhood & Electronics is set for release as a CD and download on Uncharted Audio on June 29th 2009.