UNIVERSAL SWIMSUIT
I’ve been intrigued by Harry Sanderson’s musical output since his Divine Coils days, back when we both still lived in Oxford.
Now south London based and a member of Young Athletes League, alongside Pierre Vaux, he recently posted a new album online album as Universal Swimsuit, titled I Dream of Floating on Whales off the Nigerian Coast.
Existing only as a mediafire link on a disorientating blog, I asked him for some background on the release…
”The project started out as a solo remix thing, just taking the best parts of pop and euphoria and using DJ software to re-edit them live, running a song over a loop of the chorus and pitching up and down, staggering up delay etc…
I’m interested in cyber punk and DJ-ing avant garde music made on program demos off iTunes like when you’re at someone else’s house at 4am and they just want you to fuck off so they can go to bed.
I feel like I’m cycling through cultural defaults. More or less heartless, and pretty automatic, but that that’s also a pretty much a genuine way too feel now.
The process is all live without any sequencing or midi devices, but I tend to cross-fade things between each other as I often end up leaving loops on for a long time and just listening, or working on something else.
I hear that’s what Derrick May used to do.
Public Enemy said something about a noise/maximalist approach to making the loops they based their songs around. Like setting up everything, running it all and just diving into the chaos and searching for one perfect beat that would just come from nowhere, kind of divination in digital eternity.”
Download the album here.
