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by mr_mark_dollin & Alex Strain

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mmd_as :: The new collaborative album from Alex Strain and mr_mark_dollin

Originally released on 21/1/2009 ::
Remix and remaster released on 18/11/2010 ::

Alex Strain and mr_mark_dollin are very excited to present to the world their ‘mmd_as’ collaborative album that showcases some of their best material from 2006 to 2009. The songs are the results of long winded conversations and file-swapping over the internet, separated by Australia’s tyranny of distance: one camp in Ryde, Sydney, the other in regional/rural Armidale, Australia. Alex and Mark found a workable process where Alex’s unbound creativity and melodic detailing complimented Mark’s methods of sonic polish, dubby atmospherics and avant pop leanings. The results saw the two working to break out of the boxes of their past styles and and create music that doesn’t easily fit into the plethora of trends of electronic music. Like bower birds building nests from borrowed material, the album has sprinklings of both modern and old club music styles (e.g. breaks, techno, dub, hiphop, etc) that utilizes digital approaches (such as glitch and software synthesis) balanced with 70’s analog and acoustic warmth (such as Alex’s CS-30 and Mark’s vocal and guitar recordings). Overall an album like this couldn’t have been produced by one person: so the songs have a tasteful multi-personality disorder that gives them a lively uniqueness. It doesn’t get too restrictive or academic in approach: there’s as much improvisation as there is strategizing. There’s also ample variety to keep the listen interesting: from the quiet cinematic depths of The 4th, Dharawal and Uneasy; to the pounding and fluttering beat-and-bass of Effective and Phoebe; to the art-political protests in Backdropped and Saint Santa; or finally to the purely experimental narratives created by Rare Bird and Jbhaxadi. If you’re suffering from hearing too much music that abides fearfully to the codes and strictures of fads and formats then this album could be your balm.
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released 21 January 2009
All music created by Alex Strain and mr_mark_dollin, except as noted: Jbhaxadi contains synth lines created and performed by Laurence Davies; Saint Santa contains free-styling created and performed by MC Wrap Present. Final mix and master by mr_mark_dollin at Galloway Street Studio 2009. All sounds arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered via Renoise. Engineering advice by Simon Floth. Thanks to everyone who gave good feedback on these tracks along the way, especially Beatslaughter.

Artwork model: Maxwell. Art and web assembled by Mark.

Dedicated to the memory of lost furry friends.

For more music from Alex and Mark, visit:
www.dodgyrecordings.com
www.markdollin.com
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tags: electronic experimental improvisation pop ambient breaks cinematic drone dub electronic electronica experimental noise political Australia
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Who: Mark Dollin, music composer and audio production nerd. Plays guitar, synths, sings and spends most of his free time ... more being creative in his little studio.
What: A growing bunch of solo albums, EPs, and collaborative projects making a developing body of work. Also, the odd live performance or improvisation jam.
When: Since 1996.
Where: Armidale, Australia. less

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Track Name: The 4th
Now that I’ve left you alone :: It’s all quiet at your home :: Fear makes the madness within :: Let the delusion begin :: Bite your lip and sow your hate :: You’re so secretly irate :: This lie is all that you’ve got :: Until you eternally rot :: If only I could coax you to burst :: But delusion is forever :: In your quiet room :: In your quiet room ::
Track Name: Backdropped
Stuck in compliance cycle :: Washing their hands of responsibility :: Each of us rinsed and spun dry :: Hung out in the safe breeze of economics :: Our bodies secure we endure only to wait for the real danger :: The real danger :: We are backdropped :: We are backdropped :: An abuse more eternal than falling down your stairs :: Worse than any injury you can imagine :: It falls like night :: Its invasion is slight :: It renders you mute :: It silences your thoughts :: And holds us in equal utility :: We are backdropped :: We are backdropped :: Dropped :: One day we will be dirty :: And we will not be cleaned :: We will not keep in line :: Your places not kept :: It will be your time to wash :: Time to join us :: We will not be backdropped :: We will not be backdropped ::
Track Name: Dharawal
We’ve only a few hours :: Before the government will find us here :: Check all your stuff :: We can’t afford to loose anything now ::
Track Name: Saint Santa
This year you’re getting nothing :: This year you’re getting nothing :: Off to shop jock :: Big boy the toys the lot :: Ninety nine ninety nine :: Keep ‘em occupied :: Nine to five :: We have more presents :: Lots of tasty mmm window shoppin’ :: Window licking :: Tire kickin’ :: We could stick in :: Ninety ninety nine ninety nine ninety ninety nine :: List this :: All the presents I’ve got to get to hear this :: This Christ-miss :: Floors and floors of Santa Clause :: Licking up Torr’s :: In the red :: Licking tin tin :: Ring a ding :: Got every Christmas carol in :: Ring a ding :: A christian theory :: Bacterii :: Are you a pagan? :: I used to go down the street and buy a coupla things and then it got MORE :: And every toy I gotta get I gotta get MORE :: Bikes and carts and horses :: My house of schlock :: Doc to dot :: Bring it back The Christmas :: Ninety nine cents of every dollar goes to my Christmas present thing :: I’ve been saving all year for a hamper for the family :: Who got tinned ham and a lot of nice spam :: World spring of motivation :: Is this elation or just a MORE shopping? :: You’re getting nothing :: Waaa!!! :: This year you’re getting nothing :: Woa-oh ::
Track Name: Uneasy
And when he woke from childhood nightmare he discovered the brilliant bright orange was just as real and just as dangerous :: And he realised of all the places he could have been he was here :: He was here now ::
Track Name: Phoebe
How could it be? :: I’ve got to get away :: Get away :: I’ve got to hide away :: Hide away :: Your violence is silence and I wish to speak :: Military conspiracy the truth I do seek :: Missile telemetry sovereign soil :: I’ve got to get away :: Get away :: How could it be? :: How could it be? ::
Track Name: Rare Bird
Rare bird :: Flys within :: Take a look :: Through my eyes >>