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A few months ago, Simian Mobile Disco traveled into the Southern California desert with their new live set up – two modular synths, two sequencers, and a mixer. For three days, they rehearsed and played, wrapping up their time in the desert with a sold-out show at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, where they played to 900 fans who got to experience some of the recording process.
The productions they created became the basis for their new album, ‘Whorl,’ which the group has recently announced will be released this fall on September 9th via Anti Records. “Tangents,” a single from the new live project, will be released earlier on July 1st.
Jas further explained the recording process. “The recordings we did in the studio while we were writing and rehearsing the new material for ‘Whorl’ were simply “live” takes – the system we’re using has limited ability to save patterns in the sequencer, but nothing like the flexibily of a computer. Live performance and studio composition are essentially not the same process, rather than the common method of writing a track using the computer, and then working out ways to perform it live.
We planned not to slavishly limit ourselves just to this performance – when we came to mixdown the album, we used portions of three sessions – the show itself, an extended jam we did in the desert the day before, and a little of our London studio rehearsal.”
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