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Following January’s acclaimed vinyl debut from Exterior and summer’s much-loved Kota Motomura EP, Edinburgh’s Hobbes Music label ends 2019 with its first album release, also a debut, from GAMING, a fresh new braindance electronica project straight outta Glasgow.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed. It's a bit of a grower and may take time to get under your skin....
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me.
It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that.
This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary.
The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths).
This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward.
The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.” - Additional Information
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Artist Gaming Label Hobbes Music Music Format General Vinyl Music Format Specific 2x12" Genre Downtempo, Electro, House, Techno Release Date 6 Dec 2019 Track 1 Position A1 Track 1 Title Urban Decay Sale Track 1 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_A1_Urban_Decay_Sale_PM_97_(HM013)_CLIP.mp3 Track 2 Position A2 Track 2 Title Ripples Begin Track 2 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_A2_Ripples_Begin_PM_124_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 3 Position A3 Track 3 Title Otago Lane Track 3 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_A3_Otago_Lane_PM_105_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 4 Position B1 Track 4 Title Sodium Orange Track 4 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_B1_Sodium_Orange_PM_110_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 5 Position B2 Track 5 Title On The Corner Track 5 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_B2_On+The+Corner_PM_105_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 6 Position B3 Track 6 Title Night Drive (Thru-Govanhill) Track 6 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_B3_Night_Drive_(Thru_Govanhill)_PM_125_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 7 Position C1 Track 7 Title Bruised Track 7 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_C1_Bruised_PM_85_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 8 Position C2 Track 8 Title Abandoned Suburbs Track 8 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_C2_Abandoned_Suburbs_PM_95_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 9 Position C3 Track 9 Title North Wood Encounte Track 9 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_C3_North_Wood_Encounter_PM_96_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 10 Position D1 Track 10 Title Deserted City Track 10 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_D1_Deserted_City_PM_110_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 11 Position D2 Track 11 Title Centro Track 11 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_D2_Centro_PM_95_(HM013)_clip.mp3 Track 12 Position D3 Track12 Title False Dawn Track 12 Preview URL https://usolnaudiopreviews.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/HM013/Gaming_D3_False+Dawn_PM_101_(HM013)_clip.mp3 - Reviews
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