Here’s an exclusive podcast mix from Tim Hecker for XLR8R Magazine for your listening pleasure. It appeared on XLR8R website yesterday and mysteriously vanished just a few hours later. As far as the mix goes, it is truly a marathon session, clocking in at nearly 10 hours.
Some info on the mix from the original blog post:
What a brilliant idea it would be to have the Canadian noisemaker share with us a mix of even more glacial and angelic soundscapes–maybe a nice collection of his unreleased or back-catalogued material along with a handful of tracks that resonate within him as an artist. Well, in hindsight, maybe we were a bit naive to think Hecker would turn in the customary assemblage of tracks one figures to hear, as he has instead delivered an extremely long (not exaggerating at all here) mix, which is as unexpected as it is intriguing.
Download it here or via direct download here (~1.4GB MP3, save as..). Please DO NOT share the direct download link, thanks!
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Update: The original XLR8R blog post is back online.
KRANKY, 2011 // LP / BUY: VINYL / CD / DIGITAL
I fell in love with Tim Hecker‘s music a couple of years ago after hearing the track “Introducing Carl Cocks” off his 2002 My Love Is Rotten To The Core EP that caught me completely off guard and blew me away instantly. Soon after, I started collecting all his albums, including the seminal Radio Amor and Harmony In Ultraviolet LPs, as well as his dubbed-out escapades under his Jetone moniker.
Recorded alongside Ben Frost in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland in July 2010 and centered around recordings of a pipe organ as the primary sound source, Ravedeath, 1972 is essentially a live recording. It is another powerful sonic statement from Hecker – a record that pulls you in with immediate intensity and plays out with fashion and intimacy only a handful of producers can match. I know we are less than three months into 2011 so far, but Ravedeath, 1972 already sounds like a heavy contender for one of the best albums of the year. Needless to say it is very highly recommended.
AUDIO: “Hatred Of Music I” (YouTube)
AUDIO: “In The Air I / II / III” (YouTube)