Maps and Diagrams - Free-Time
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artist: | Maps and Diagrams |
| release: | Free-Time | |
| catalogue number: | PAUSE009 | |
| formats: | CD | |
| availability: | out soon | |
| tracklisting: | Transparancies On Film Autohoum Us Do It Yourself Ideol It_U Reabsorb My Love Djur Hours Formatt Dormatt Midsommer Uniq Miscel Kluge Mid Spron |
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| interesting features: | card envelope + outer sleeve, not a jewel case in sight! | |
| artwork: | illustrations: combi, text: tim martin | |
| barcode: | 5030094082021 (CD only) |
blurb:
Occasionally things drop in, things drop out, sometimes intentional, sometimes not. In the prolific world of Tim Martin (aka maps and diagrams) it is often an array of happy accidents/experiments which lead to the final cut; a refreshing change from the recent trend towards over produced, highly programmed and processed robot electronica for super-human brains.
'Free-Time' combines a playful mix of rounded cotton-bud rhythms with a smoothened, softened emotive and melodic edge, it's a collection of simplistically structured analogue electronic music, it ebbs and flows with warmth and innocence; it's the first full-length release from the one-man-and-his-electronics.
Born in 1972, Tim spent most of his childhood whizzing round Nottingham on a bmx and listening to his friend's dad's collection of Kraftwerk, Talking Heads and punk records. While the guitar was always part of his musical plan, he found himself more inspired by the smoothness of electronically synthesised music, rather than the harshness of the guitar. A new found love affair with electro and hip hop then ensured that he never looked back. When Tim got his hands on a clapped out keyboard in the early nineties, he soon found the sounds he imagined when he was younger and his childhood memories came flooding back.
Back to the present tense and now living in sunny Peterborough, Tim produces Maps and Diagrams, a guise to present his music which shows influence from modern melodic electronic music, but with it's own fresh naivety. As Maps and Diagrams, Tim has also previously released music for Neo Ouija, Tundra Music and Endorphin. In addition, he runs his own label, Cactus Island.
