Steven Hess/Miles Tilmann split on Other Electricities

Filed under: mp3, music, review — admin @ 2:34 pm

Other Electricities isn’t one of our favorite labels just because they are home to Scott’s band Jatun. Over the last several years, this hard-working Portland-based label has put together an impressive roster of talent ranging from Dot Tape Dot to Small Sails to Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love right along several others, all of which are worth checking out.

The one thing I’ve always enjoyed is that every band on the label has its own distinct sound. While there is some cross-over, it’s moreso in the integrity brought to the table by the bands the label signs, and less so a specific “sound”.

The label’s just about to debut a series of split vinyl releases, with the first up being Departures from Steven Hess and Miles Tillman. Admittedly, I wasn’t familiar with either of these artists, but after seeing the Spencer Black-directed video for Miles Tillman’s “Doppler”, I had to find out more.

Steven Hess has been involved with Pan American, Fessenden (also on O.E.), and Haptic, while Miles Tillman has been quite busy on his own - check here for over 100 downloads from throughout his career as well as the full Melt LP on Experimedia via Archive.org.

The deep, dubby ambient techno brought classic Basic Channel to mind, as well as the new wave of the Deepchord artists. I can’t wait to see how this whole thing turns out.

Here’s the video:

Spencer Black Time-Lapse Reel from Spencer Black on Vimeo.

The other announced volume will include Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns, and is due in August.

Additionally, here’s a mix by digitonal on undergroundelectrics.com featuring a Miles Tilmann track:

digitonal - toytronics mix

1) Ochre - Sticklebrick Symphony

2) NumNum - Toytronic Jingle

3) Infinite Scale - InMotion

4) Abfarht Hinwil - Trilogy

5) Loess - Sixt

6) Gimmik - Backtobasics

7) Ochre - REM Sleep Research