Tom Demac - sounds, words, n splurges

Electronic music producer & musician.. cigarette smoker, coffee drinker and hopefully your favourite idiot..
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For its latest single Canada’s My Favorite Robot Records looks to the UK and the unique pairing of producer Tom Demac and Manchester based band Silverclub…

Tom Demac has, over the last decade, become one of the UK’s most respected electronic music producers releasing records on the hottest labels around including Hypercolour, Four Twenty, Murmur, Morris Audio, liebe*detail & his own Electronique audio. Now this celebrated London based producer has teamed up with hotly tipped Manchester band Silverclub for a brand new single to be released on the ever-excellent My Favorite Robot Records.

The EP sets sail with title track ‘Holiday’s Over’, a richly produced slice of vocal electronica that deftly fuses live elements with programmed parts to deliver an emotive and instantly likeable track. Demac’s funk infused backing provides the perfect soundbed for Silverclub frontman Duncan Edward Jones’ distinctive vocals and together the pair deliver a record that should have truly broad appeal. ‘Throat Trip’ continues in a similar vein with Demac laying down a bass driven rhythm section and Jones providing an intense yet other-worldly vocal, quality stuff.

The package is completed with two remixes; the first comes courtesy of Buzzin Fly act Flowers & Sea Creatures who take ‘Holiday’s Over’ and rework it into a deep and dubby version that imbues the record with a haunting quality, the second is provided by Swedish production don Tiger Stripes who remodels ‘Throat Trip’ into a wonderfully hypnotic house cut.

Tom Demac and Silverclub have provided My Favorite Robot Records with another stellar release.

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Hypercolour returns with an EP from close friend and now London based Tom Demac. With his move to the capital, and amongst dreams of owning a fixy bike, we have seen a change in his fashion attire, he now sports a crown fitting wooly hat reminiscent of a northern ‘where’s wally’. Some things never change though, and Tom’s penchant for raw sounding, sub heavy house music stands rock-solid.

After release on imprints like Morris Audio and Liebe Detail, Demac has earned himself a reputation as something of a crafty craftsmen – his house sounds operate in a freaky little pocket all their own and seemed carved as if with different tools. This EP is no exception.

Kicking off with the rubberised hop and skip of “Jackapella Bowles,” taught analogue bass notes ping out a pattern around which non-standard claps, hiccupping sounds and some subtly used vocal samples all coalesce.

“Dirty Honey” is just as fresh sounding, with double kicks and this time eerie bass notes jostling about like mischievous loiterers until a recognisable “hey, today, baby I got your money” vocal ups the ante yet further. Playful, poppy but propulsive, these are exactly the sort of super fresh house sounds you’d expect from left of centre Hypercolour.

On the flip you’ll find the wavy, soupy tech grooves of “Trying is right by me” which wallows in a quiet backroom as the party around it (weird synths, weird voices and filtered robots) grows louder and louder.

As is often his want, Sheonda strips the same track back to a solid, locked-in and heads down groove of the sort he’s nailed on recent release for Hypercolour and Fear of Flying. The shady male vocal remains, closing out a delightfully off kilter house package that isn’t weird for weird’s sake, but certainly operates in a modern sphere, a world away from the usual tired house tropes.

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Remix I’ve done from Scandinavian band ‘Darkness Falls’. I love scandinavian swag, so it made sense to get on this.. Original and their album produced by the mighty Trent Moller. Other remixes on the package from Com Truise, Sun Glitters & Trent Moller.

Here’s some press blurb:

Following their incredible debut album ‚Alive In Us‘, Darkness Falls quickly return on hfn with their next release - ‚Timeline‘. Including the brooding original version, then a real international crowd of remixes from the likes of Trentemøller -who has already worked with Darkness Falls as producer of their aformentioned album, US upstart Com Truise, the UK‘s Tom Demac and Spain‘s Pional.

Laden with atmosphere, room filling production and dramatic synths, the original of ‚Timeline‘ rushes into our consciousness like only Darkness Falls can - moody, bittersweet and timeless. An instrumental mix is included as a bonus at the end of the record. Copenhagen‘s prime production master, Trentemøller drops us in the deep end with his cinematic, dubbed out remix, giving a nod to the days of pioneering downtempo electronica like Massive Attack or Unkle.

NYC‘s new kid on the block Com Truise turns up with a cool electro mix that takes us on a glamourous drive from the 80s, to the future then back again!! This works especially well in contrast with the B side‘s remixes - if you flip over the record you‘re greeted with the blissful harmonics and twinkling synths of Tom Demac‘s remix. Demac warms up his analog gear and studio knowhow in a truly spellbinding deep house treatment of ‚Timeline‘ - heavy, playful and sincerely original.

Spain‘s Pional has made a name as a stand out figure in the nu-disco / deeper house scene of tomorrow. The mix pushes into earthy, vintage funk zones as the reverb units are set to full and wonderful live bass and acoustic instruments help tell the emotional story.

As a digital bonus, the deep twisted electronics of Sun Glitters completes the package, with their engaging, bass heavy mix.

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So, it has been nagging’ at me for time.. a long time. The trend or ‘fad’ if you like has been standing over dancefloors dropping bombs to the unaware masses for at least 12months now.

This common phenomenon hasn’t shown any evidence of subsiding. It seems to be getting discovered more and more throughout clubland. Someone in a boardroom containing a troop of ‘smart casual’ dressed designers is chewing on the end of a pencil giggling. Looking down at their doodles of flower pots and scribbled cock n balls on last months minutes, knowing they really are having the last laugh…

Scoop neck in black

So, let’s cut to the chase. I ain’t a fashion follower, fuckin’ far from it. I like wearing rubber fishing jackets, shit high-street chinos that rip and horrendous christmas jumpers picked up in charity shops (of which I’ll add I seldom wash after buying and wear immediately, giving me a pungent musk of your dead Gran’s attic).

BUT… sometimes an unfashionable cunt like me has to stick his wrinkly neck on the line n ask:

“excuse me mate, why the fuck can I see your nipples??” 

I understand if your kicking sand on the beach, or you’re raving so hard you feel the urge to share your sweat by rubbing your naked torso on my arm on the dancefloor. I’ll definitely let you off you’re at a decent fetish club or squeaking around in wellies / gum boots at the local P.I.S. event -

men drinkin piss with high viz

“a club for men into ‘watersports’, wanting to meet others with similar interests. Wear what you want, some come in footy kit, some joggers n trainers or some just wear speedos. P.I.S. welcomes anyone from experienced piss pigs to the complete beginner..”        

- other than that, I’d keep yo nipples at bay mate! 

So, delving in a little deeper - the best thing for the raver in my eyes is when the whole DJ box is full of DJ’s and other innocent bystanders, raising hands aloft in a celebratory fashion, jigging side to side seductively as if they’ve won the fuckin super-bowl or FA cup and it’s a tradition to carry out some sort of sexual Haka dance to house music. Whilst dancing in such a way, it won’t take long for you to lower your gaze slightly, tune the lamps, n ul spot a visual eye sore of collective chest hair, popping out the top of many a V shaped neckline t-shirt.

I myself, have not been blessed by the Lord in the chest hair department, I reckon you could count my lone stragglers on Jeremy Beadles, now dead and cold gammy hand (sorry). Maybe that’s why I chose not to wear them. That’s it, I have no chest hair.. Oh and I ain’t a fan off the shop All Saints, although a vintage sewing machine is ok in my book..

Now I’ll head into territory in danger of sounding like I’m belting out a rendition of Cliff Richard’s Christmas message… but it just pisses me off, the way society has to jump on a bandwagon. We all end up looking the same, sounding the same, shitting the same (although some men do wipe their ass back to front, at risk of spreading poo on their bollox), smelling the same, laughing at the same badly photoshop’d image 7377 times or sticking a triangle on a t-shirt or a club flyer cos everyone else is at it?
We all apply a ‘run of the mill’ to everything, so that everything we do is just one big ball of unsurprisingly safe and boring shite. If we don’t we’re classed as ‘uncompromising’ or a ‘try hard’, say things like ‘nice but i wouldn’t play it’ or ‘ooh that looks good but not sure if i’d eat it’.

….but, come on! When did society ever decide that in order to be very wicked at playing music to people twatted off their faces on a dancefloor ever warrant wearing something as fuckin ridiculous as this:

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‘Whatever’. Either way, this phenomenon can be found at a nightclub near you. In the mean-time, I dug out a couple here from the AW011 collection for your perusal..

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Recorded a mix for a lovely website which has featured podcasts from many greats such as Andrew Weatherall, Ivan Smagghe, Roman Flugel, DOP, Nicholas Jaar & Claude Von Stroke…

Inspired by a Christmas with me lady in Amsterdam.. In other words - having to deal with Pork instead of turkey for dinner, bollock chafe from riding a bike lots, trying to flush one of the biggest turds ever seen by man off a northern European poo shelf, staying on a boat with jelly legs, winning many games of cards & composing ones self whilst a thai hooker slaps your ass when butt naked with your missus.. All in all a very ordinary period of festivity which delivered a very far from ordinary mix:

Blurb: 

Better to wait for a truly special set to begin another year of wicked podcasts, don’t you think? Well, we just found that set, it’s this lovely mix from mancunian Tom Demac. The last few years he’s authored a handful of more than legit tracks, and he’s certainly one of the british house producers to keep an eye on these days. He delivers a mix that begins with cotton wool tunes introducing beats of slo-mo persuasion, perfect for your purple drank sessions. You’ll find some elements of UK Bass syntax trickle down and reinterpreted in house lingo, which is great cause it is 2012 after all. The result is a rather musical and obviously dance-inducing set tailored for your afterhours debauchery, but also for indoors listening at anytime of the day which in this rather chilly time of the year are far from being rare occurences.

His next EP will be released by Glass Table. It has been described to me as ‘immense’ and we are quite eager to hear it.”

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