http://www.johnrobert.net/
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myspace.com/dialrecords
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MIXES & INTERVIEWS
Red Bull Music Academy: (Live set)
Tim Sweeney's radio show Beats in Space, 11th January 2011 (Live set)
Little White Earbuds: (DJ Mix / Interview)
Clubberia, JP: (DJ Mix)
BBC RADIO 1: (Interview)
Dummy: (Interview)
AWARDS 'Glass eight' album & John Roberts
Sonic reverie
Resident Advisor
Fact magazine
Litte white earbuds
De:Bug magazine
Groove magazine, GER
Litte white earbuds
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JOHN ROBERTS (LIVE & DJ)
''Glass Eights''
release date: 11th October 2010 on Dial Records, Berlin
(distribution by Kompakt)
The complex sounds of GLASS EIGHTS, the snag and pop of an old record looped into percussion, the eerie clanging of glass come from a subtle curation of samples drawn from overlooked second-hand dollar record bins, his mother's piano, Roberts' own instrumentation and musical genres born before the synthesizer was employed as an instrument itself. This disparate collection of material insists on the non-hierarchical nature of sound, proposing that a new auditory aesthetic comes from not only the way the album sound is collaged, but more specifically, Roberts' ability to hear his own sound? if even for a spit second or two? in music often left contained in the press of its vinyl. This highly personal aesthetic harbors the intimacy of Roberts' sequencing process: working mostly at night on headphones in bed. Roberts uses a sequencing software (originally designed for the Amiga computer system in the early 1980s), virtually antiquated by the infinite possibilities of the day, to create a structure that delivers the contemporaneity of his sound. GLASS EIGHTS does not just generate a new auditory experience but builds an ornate frame through which to view the intricate psychological undertones in music of the past, and more importantly, constructs an anomaly that sounds a lot like the future.
Little White Earbuds (DJ Mix / Interview)
Red Bull Music Academy (Live Set)
Groove Magazine (feature September / October issue, a track on the CD, and an album review online)
BBC RADIO 1 (Inteview)
more Interviews coming:
on Resident Advisor, a Feature / Interview in DE:BUG and a DJ Mix / Interview for FACT Magazine
other upcoming releases:
remixes for Pawel, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Creep feat. Romy Madley Croft from The xx, Darkstar, and Superpitcher
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Top 5 EPs 2009:
http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/lwes-top-5-eps-of-2009/
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interview sup mag with great photos!!
http://www.supmag.com/2010/john-roberts/
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URB Next 100:
http://www.johnrobert.net/JRURBNEXT100.jpg
