patten (band)

patten
Background information
Origin London, England
Genres Electronic, experimental
Years active 2006–present
Labels Warp Records, No Pain in Pop, Kaleidoscope
Website www.patttten.com

patten (always written in lowercase) is an undefined exploratory project currently operating from London.[1][2][3]

Biography

patten has been performing and releasing music on ultra-limited edition CDRs under the moniker since 2006, whilst also running the conceptual label Kaleidoscope.[4][5] Composing and performing prolifically, rare small-run patten recordings occasionally surfaced from the underground. Issue 283 of experimental music journal Wire magazine described the 2007 CDR 'There were Horizons' as "a world of exquisitely detailed microscopic, ordered purposeful harmony", while the "sonically nuanced, breathless, rugged" track 'Version (test mixxx)' appeared as music blog Pitchfork's Best New Music in May 2009.[6][7]

Following a series of increasingly intense live performances, billed alongside artists as varied as Thurston Moore, DJ Spooky, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Leafcutter John, Caribou, and JD Samson, the first official LP GLAQJO XAACSSO was released in September 2011 through small UK label, No Pain in Pop to widespread acclaim.[8][9][10][11]

Over 2012 & 2013, patten shed light on numerous other underground artists by releasing limited-run editions of their work via their conceptual imprint Kaleidoscope's LIMITED DUBS series. These releases including; Sculpture's 'Slime Code' (later reissued by Digitalis), the 'I've Been You Twice' EP – Karen Gwyer's debut release, 'Retreat' by Vanilla Hammer, Orphan's 'Retakes', the double album 'Cracked Lacquer/Vanadium' by Yearning Kru later to be noted as one of The Wire magazine's top electronica albums of 2013, and 'Guardian Petted' by ALAK whose second single, 'Ilial Clone' was named BBC Radio 1 Review's 'Most Loved Track' eight days after the EP was released.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

In November 2013 patten were announced as having signed to Warp Records, releasing the EOLIAN INSTATE EP soon after in an edition of just 500 12" picture discs worldwide, with artwork by frequent visual collaborator Jane Eastlight. Weeks later, as part of the Late at Tate series in December 2013, patten performed a live audiovisual set in front of thousands at Tate Britain, for the Warp X Tate event.[19][20][21][22]

February 2014 saw the release of the highly-anticipated first LP for Warp, entitled ESTOILE NAIANT. A few days before release, BBC Radio 3's Late Junction dedicated a show to patten's work, featuring a live session and interview. Touring extensively throughout the year, patten performed distinctive audiovisual shows across Europe, North America and Japan, reimagining material from EOLIAN INSTATE and ESTOILE NAIANT with a custom video system, electronics, live treated guitar and vocals.[23][24][25][26]

Partial discography

Albums

EPs

CDRs

Files

Cassettes

References

  1. ↑ Fox, Charlie (29 September 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". The Quietus. Retrieved 4 February 2014. but patten (always lower case, apparently) seems like the proper inheritor of Aphex's crazed, childlike approach to music-making
  2. ↑ Wichowska, Justyna (26 June 2014). "Encounters: patten". 160grams. Retrieved 12 December 2014. ‘One of the key ideas embedded in the whole project in all of its different forms – visible forms, audible forms, spatial forms – is that there is the third person involved in the production of what the work is, and that’s the person on the other side of it – the audience member, listener, video watcher, yourself,’ [...] ‘One of the key aims is to produce materials that are open enough for those people to really become engaged with it in a creative way. So the production of something doesn’t really end with the record, or with the video, or with whatever else it might be. It’s really once this thing finds its way out into the world, that’s when something really begins.’ The work that occurs is two-directional: patten invites the audience to co-create the project, and considers the reception and any thoughts or action that result from that reception an inherent part of it.
  3. 1 2 Ashurst, Hari (7 November 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 25 December 2013. GLAQJO XAACSSO feels like it could exist in a parallel universe
  4. 1 2 3 Bulut, Selim (5 December 2013). "Dollars to Pounds: Interview with patten". The Fader. Retrieved 25 December 2013. Following the release of his debut album, the tongue-twistingly titled GLAQJO XAACSSO, for No Pain in Pop in 2011, patten has found a very appropriate home in Warp Recordings, who released his EOLIAN INSTATE EP last week (November 25th) ... curating releases for his great label, Kaleidoscope
  5. 1 2 3 "patten signs to Warp, announces EOLIAN INSTATE EP". Fact. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013. The camera-shy producer remains principally known for 2011 LP GLAQJO XAACSSO ... he's mostly spent the last year captaining his Kaleidoscope label ... patten's first release for Warp will be EOLIAN INSTATE, a limited edition five-track EP. The record will arrive on picture disc 12″ in a run of 500 copies at the tail-end of the month.
  6. ↑ "patten There were Horizons review". Wire magazine. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 9 March 2014. over the 17 tracks and near hour of music on 'There Were Horizons', the listener is drawn into a simplified world of ordered purposeful harmony, as microscopic in its exquisite detail as the music of the spheres is vast and expansive in its wonder"
  7. ↑ Thompson, Paul (14 May 2009). "patten Version (test mixxx)". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 9 March 2014. That cowbell and what sounds like mbira give way to a melody-averse snare-and-snarl and affectless echoey alien moaning that, not unlike the no wave "Version" is so clearly indebted to, grooves far harder than something like that ought. Synths whir and drums whip, keyboard pangs pop up halfway through to offer a bit of color, all piling up towards a hypnotic cacophony and, to close, a little headspin-easing breakbeat. Laden with sonic nuance and fire-under-the-assness as it is, the breathless, rugged "Version" seems sturdy enough to withstand potential summer playlist ubiquity or Jason Statham movie trailers or endless bloggy remixes or whatever else may be in store for it; not shabby for a tune apparently still in the test phase. More of this, please."
  8. ↑ "No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents". e-flux. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Parallel Anthology". openmusicarchive. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "Caribou, London". Time Out. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "Club MOFO". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "patten's Kaleidoscope imprint announces super-limited Karen Gwyer release". FACT magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  13. ↑ "Vanilla Hammer "The Big Fight Live"". XLR8R. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  14. ↑ "ALAK, BBC Radio 1 Review Show, Oct 29th 2013". BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  15. ↑ "ALAK won 'Most Loved Track', recap BBC Radio 1 Review Show, Nov 5th 2013". BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  16. ↑ "Year-End Critics' Polls 2013". iluxor. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  17. ↑ "The Wire: 2013 Rewind [Columnists' Charts A-Z]". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  18. ↑ "Sculpture, Slime Code, Digitalis Reissue". Boomkat. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  19. ↑ "patten signs to Warp Records". Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  20. ↑ "patten primes EOLIAN INSTATE for Warp". Juno Plus. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  21. ↑ "Late at Tate Britain: December 2013". Tate. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  22. ↑ "Warp x Tate". Warp Records. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  23. ↑ "patten ESTOILE NAIANT". Warp Records. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  24. ↑ "patten reveals psychedelic new album ESTOILE NAIANT". FACT Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  25. ↑ "patten Late Junction". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  26. ↑ "patten". Moogfest. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "patten Discography". Discogs. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2014.

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