Album art by Acampante.

BLEEP BLEEP BLOOP! This album represents the work of many spoomusic.com artists and a bunch of great guests. We’re so excited to have the opportunity to present these songs to you that we have had our index fingers surgically replaced with MP3 players (bluetooth-enabled).

The following artists graciously appear on this ambient electronic IDM electronica chill chillout downtempo search engine-friendly release:

• Abstractology [website] [myspace]
  Resident ambient masters pumping out dreamy cityscape science for thee.
• alex black
  A vile henchman!
• ANgR. MgMT. [myspace]
  Celebrated for his dance floor stompers, now available in new ambient flavor!
• captainmarmalade [myspace] [website]
  Circuit bending madman, previous releases on milk beep.
• Consumer
  The anti-producer.
• Lime [myspace]
  Freshly plucked from the sacred tree of things-swirly.
• Machine Spleak
  Kim Jong Il.
• Sir Katiie [myspace]
  Of Sit Down Katiie and the Sitts fame, flying through the air via electric umbrella.
• Sleem [myspace] [website]
  .5 sp00, 00ps 5., cowboy with a propeller beanie.
• sudonim [myspace]
  Slicer of beats, dicer of hearts.
• Terminal 11 [myspace]
  Laptop donkey-puncher extraordinaire. Previous releases on Phthalo, Cock Rock Disco, Zod, and 216 others.
• transient [website] [myspace] [monotonik]
  Glitchbient vagabond vanguard vagrant. Previous releases on monotonik, Miasmah, Camomille, and 492 others.
• wjoojoo [myspace]
  The most elusive walrus-beetle on the Internet today.

Thanks and best wishes for a happy 2007,
Your friends at spoomusic.com.

We proudly present Spoon Music Volume 1, featuring many of your favorite spoomusic.com artists and a bunch of great guests! Includes tracks by:

• Abstractology
• alex black
• ANgR. MgMT.
• captainmarmalade
• Consumer
• Lime
• Machine Spleak
• Sir Katiie
• Sleem
• sudonim
• Terminal 11
• transient
• wjoojoo

Thanks to all the artists who contributed to make this such a great compilation!

Spoomusic.com: Greetings, thanks for letting us dock on your craft. We know you both go by Abstractology, but have you ever used any other pseudonyms?

Andrew Pinaire: I use my real name sometimes, also Androne. I think thats it at the moment but i’d like to start a new project soon.

Spoo: What spectacular epiphany resulted in your desire to craft music?

AP: I recall listening to a certain heavy metal album when I was about 8 which gave me a lot of inspiration. It had a very unique sound. From there I started paying attention to things like tonality and timbre.Then I scrounged up a nice equalizer and started playing around ‘mixing’ albums I could get my hands on. After awhile I decided I’d rather mix my own music. I experimented with guitars and amplifiers quite a bit to limited success. About 7 or 8 years ago I was talking with Matthew about music and he showed me this keyboard with a sampler on it and some sounds he was making with it and I was intrigued from then on.

Matthew Blakely: Sonar and Radar.

Spoo: What kind of tunes do you listen to?

MB: Pings, snare rushing, beast kits, and basslines

AP: A bit of everything, I couldn’t really pin it down if I had to. Mostly to me just anything I find inspiring, or unique. Last thing I listened to was ‘A New White’ by Subtle.

Spoo: Where do you get your inspiration from?

AP: Some of it comes from childhood inspirations, for example my androne side project is based mostly on a fascination with old sci-fi films and the way the future was percieved in the 1950′s. Otherwise, with Abstractology much of the inspiration comes from sketches we make, kind of like a feedback loop, just feeding off of itself until it peaks out, and thats when the sketch is complete …by then it doesnt sound anything like it did originally.

MB: Life and death.

Spoo: What do you predict will be the future of music?

MB: Anti-music mobs destroying any sound producing device

AP: I would like to see surround mixes becoming the norm, but until then I’m reluctant to spend the time working on a surround mix. As for genres, who knows, everything flows around and gets mixed up, now and then someone comes along and changes the way you look at something and influence is drawn and things change. Right now there are so many independent musicians flooding the internet with fresh music that I have no idea whats really out there now, its great.

Spoo: Which naked and/or clothed artists would you most like to collaborate with?

AP: I’m working with a fellow now called WOK, I look forward to what comes of the collaboration. Aside from current projects, I can’t really think of any person I would like to collaborate with, but I have an idea in my head about what type of projects I would like to work on. I enjoy working with vocalists or traditional musicians but haven’t had much experience doing so. So I guess it would be some more traditional musicians. As Abstractology we have been working a bit with Paul Everest Tucker whom we plan to continue working with for at least a few more tracks. He has some classical piano training which offers a different perspective to our music and ours certainly to his. I don’t think he will be the same after working with Matt for awhile. Gone a bit strange I think…

MB: Ghosts.

Spoo: Which musicians have influenced you most?

AP: Much of my early influence in electronic music came from dj spooky’s early works, dj lloop, the orb, and so on. Anything textural really. Lately I’ve been inspired by a musician called Hecq out of Germany, I recommend everyone to get his latest release ‘Bad Karma’ on Hymen records. Beyond electronic music, and music in general, I’ve been influenced mostly by perceptions of the world, just in general, daily happenings and sounds and feelings.

Spoo: We shall add Hecq to our database of 3,052,980 artists that we will listen to before death. In conclusion, do you plan out your songs or do they just happen magically?

AP: A bit of both I guess. Generally speaking most of it comes from experimentation, but I wouldn’t say that the experimentation isn’t driven.

It was just then that we noticed that Matthew Blakely was not present. Alas, he had accidentally opened the airlock and was drifting off into space! Don’t worry. We rescued him, since we’re heroes. Thanks for the interview, Abstractology!

Mammals and Computers is one of those discs that stimulates one’s thoughts, sending them soaring over snow capped mountains and through underground hallways lined with control panels. It is heard as a fusion of lovely organic streams and chittering animals with chrome cityscapes and robotic insects. The dark ambience feels ominous at times, daring one to imagine combinations of flesh and circuitry, and yet there is a human touch to it all.

“Almost nothing about Mammals and Computers sounds like the music most are familiar with. There are no guitar solos to be found here, no catchy pop hooks, no pounding drum beat. Each one of the album’s 14 tracks blends together in a field of lush ambience. This is more the type of thing you would imagine ghosts up in some godforsaken forest of trees and blackness would sing, than what you would hear coming out of any sane teenager’s speakers. Each track sounds like some hellish side effect of nature, a noise that only the wind could create, yet instead two men fathered it. There is nothing to catch your attention within the album, no blaring guitars or dancey bass. With the exception of the album’s sporadic vocals, which come out sounding more like the voice of god himself speaking to an unpopulated, post-apocalyptic world than that of a “lead singer”, the only other thing that is strikingly protruding from the album’s noises is the call of seagulls found on track 9, Harmonic Drift.” – The Katz Brothers @ sputnikmusic [ click here for the full review ]

t’s like walking down an endless hallway in a dream, haunting soundscapes colliding with esoteric melodies… we are absolutely pleased to bring you this brilliant work of ambience.

the entire album is available for free. go, download! download until your heart is content!

sincerely,
your friends at spoomusic