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- Interview: Eric Copeland
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- Moderat, II
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Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:36 PM PDT
 “I don’t actually know how to do Skype,” says Eric Copeland, warily, by phone from New York. That’s not a huge surprise: Copeland’s no Luddite, but his solo releases are resolutely lo-fi affairs, soupy with tape hiss and slurred frequencies. They count as “electronic music” insofar as they employ samples and loops and the telltale buzz of arcane hardware gizmos, but they don’t sound much like electronic music as it’s conventionally rendered; they sound like pause-button tapes made on busted boomboxes, using stray shortwave signals as their source material. Copeland’s sound is clearly related to that of Black Dice, the New York noise band in which he has played since 1997, but his is a lumpier, chunkier sound, like Black Dice remixed by Rammellzee, mashed up with Raymond Scott, and fed through a gummed-up tape deck at the wrong speed. |
