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17 May, 2011 | 6.42AM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Music News: border community, luke abbott, tech

We love the Border Community artist Luke Abbott. His records have a burbling, psychedelic quality that’s rare in dance music; stylistically, he slots somewhere in between James Holden and Four Tet, but Abbott’s synthesizer-heavy music definitely has a specific quality all its own. You can practically hear the patch cables bobbing between the beats in Abbott’s grinding, bubbling modular freakouts.

Until now, he has been using a laptop and MIDI controller for his live performances. But now he’s come up with an almost all-analog live set, using the computer primarily as a MIDI clock. He runs down his list of gear in a new blog post, including a few tasty photographs. You can’t argue with this reasoning: “ ...heavier, less functional, more prone to damage, more expensive, harder to travel with. Yep, this is less practical than a laptop set in almost every way. But, it sounds better and it’s more fun.”

For anyone interested in re-thinking live electronic performance, it’s well worth a read.

Keep reading to check out Abbott in full-on modular mad scientist mode, in a 13-minute drone piece we found posted on Border Community’s SoundCloud page. And don’t miss his new remixes for Crimea X, on Hell Yeah, and Ghianda, as well as his most recent Border Community single, ”Trans Forest Alignment.”

Luke abbott - forgive and remember by Border Community

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We love the Border Community artist Luke Abbott. His records have a burbling, psychedelic quality that's rare in dance music; stylistically, he slots somewhere in between James Holden and Four Tet, but Abbott's synthesizer-heavy music definitely has a specific quality all its own. You can practically hear the patch cables bobbing between the beats in Abbott's grinding, bubbling modular freakouts. 

Until now, he has been using a laptop and MIDI controller for his live performances. But now he's come up with an almost all-analog live set, using the computer primarily as a MIDI clock. He runs down his list of gear in a new blog post, including a few tasty photographs. You can't argue with this reasoning: " ...heavier, less functional, more prone to damage, more expensive, harder to travel with. Yep, this is less practical than a laptop set in almost every way. But, it sounds better and it's more fun." 

For anyone interested in re-thinking live electronic performance, it's well worth a read.

Keep reading to check out Abbott in full-on modular mad scientist mode, in a 13-minute drone piece we found posted on Border Community's SoundCloud page. And don't miss his new remixes for Crimea X, on Hell Yeah, and Ghianda, as well as his most recent Border Community single, "Trans Forest Alignment."
We love the Border Community artist Luke Abbott. His records have a burbling, psychedelic quality that's rare in dance music; stylistically, he slots somewhere in between James Holden and Four Tet, but Abbott's synthesizer-heavy music definitely has a specific quality all its own. You can practically hear the patch cables bobbing between the beats in Abbott's grinding, bubbling modular freakouts. 

Until now, he has been using a laptop and MIDI controller for his live performances. But now he's come up with an almost all-analog live set, using the computer primarily as a MIDI clock. He runs down his list of gear in a new blog post, including a few tasty photographs. You can't argue with this reasoning: " ...heavier, less functional, more prone to damage, more expensive, harder to travel with. Yep, this is less practical than a laptop set in almost every way. But, it sounds better and it's more fun." 

For anyone interested in re-thinking live electronic performance, it's well worth a read.

Keep reading to check out Abbott in full-on modular mad scientist mode, in a 13-minute drone piece we found posted on Border Community's SoundCloud page. And don't miss his new remixes for Crimea X, on Hell Yeah, and Ghianda, as well as his most recent Border Community single, "Trans Forest Alignment."

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