Poignant and achingly beautiful sounds morphing like shadows taking form in the dawn. This is the sound of Karsten Pflum - the moniker of Jacob Madsen from Denmark.
We have been listening to Jacob’s music here at Worm for some time. And now it is here on CD. Not some bedroom micro nerd, Jacob is an accomplished musician doing it all with just minimal hardware, not computer software. In the past Jacob has played guitar in heavy metal bands and can play bagpipes too (but not in a metal context) - now he gigs around Europe at venues that support electronic music. We have been told that some of these ‘tracks’ are melancholic but we do not see it that way and even if this is so, we here at Worm Interface say that like life, music has many different hues and flavours, enjoy it!
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What they said about
Plod - ‘Pillow Talk’ [Wi021 CD]:
“Every once in a while, you discover an album that you can't stop listening to. No matter how many times you play it, it never gets boring ... Pillow Talk is definitely one of those albums.”
“Plod's strength lies in the meditative beauty of the tracks”
“gorgeous, sublime electronica”
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Karsten Pflum heads the post-Sonar 'Versus Electronics' festival at Nitsa/Apollo in Barcelona on Sunday 16th June - visit www.versuselectronics.com for more details and latest info.
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more tracks by Karsten Pflum - from the forthcoming CD 'Tracks' (wi029):
Debut from new signing from Denmark. This is bound to be huge. Massively technical but catchy drum programming á la Tom Jenkinson mixed with sweet-tooth melodic sensibility. Very current sound that will appeal to fans of Solar X, Tom J., Aphex Twin. The action-packed 'Lireskuffe' is a full-on KP assault whilst 'Der Kleine Pastor' mellows the mood right down with glassy guitars and an all-time classic tune. Sublime and beautiful electronics with advanced programming. A leader for the album later in the year.
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Slow like treacle this masterpiece of electronic-age jazz has been worth the wait. 'Bee Cave Sounds' is the first album by a UK artist now living in Texas - Nigel Smith in his Dunderhead guise. Having provided some early highlights for London electronic label Worm Interface (w.i.04 Dunderhead / Tom Jenkinson), he has returned in force as a major signing to the label.
In contrast to the now usual style of composition in the studio, these tracks have been developed and refined during live performance over a long period and were later committed to tape in a single studio session. The unique Dunderhead production style clearly shows all the nuances of live performance whilst blurring and blending the edges between real-time and sequenced; acoustic and synthetic. This is an authentic jazz album - gloriously psychedelic and unclassifiable with echoes of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Oscar Peterson - amazingly it is simultaneously a full-on exposition of the current electronic scene.
Dunderhead recently performed at the South by Southwest Music Festival alongside DJ Shadow in March.
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