{"id":734,"date":"2016-07-29T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T05:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provenancerecords.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:03:46","slug":"pr004-spartak-fought-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2016\/07\/29\/pr004-spartak-fought-style\/","title":{"rendered":"PR004: Spartak &#8211; I Fought The Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tangents duo Spartak recruit Oval and Kangaroo Skull (MY Disco) for new EP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/273593919&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe dark vista they create fits in quite easily with the work of Australian contemporaries like Lower Spectrum or LUCIANBLOMKAMP, although, this being Spartak, they\u2019re probably the most stylistically diverse of the bunch &#8230; there\u2019s few styles Spartak have come against that they haven\u2019t tamed and added to their repertoire.\u201d<\/em> 4ZZZ<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007,\u00a0<b>Shoeb Ahmad<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Evan Dorrian<\/b>\u00a0have released numerous collections of tweakers rock, jazz abstraction and minimal electronics as\u00a0<b>Spartak<\/b>\u00a0on labels such as\u00a0<i>Low Point<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Feral Media<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>New Weird Australia<\/i>, while performing around the country and taking in tours of Singapore, Malaysia and Japan alongside the likes of\u00a0<strong>My Disco, Thomas William, Andrew Pekler, Lucky Dragons, Cuushe, Russian Circles, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Minamo, Mono\/Poly, Shigeto, Gold Panda, Mark Pritchard<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Container<\/strong>. Performances are always free-flowing interpretations of studio creations, using analog machines and live instrumentation to leave audiences engaged in a hypnotic state whenever they play.<\/p>\n<p>At various intervals during their history, the duo have been joined live and on recording by bassist Matt Lustri (<strong>Cracked Actor<\/strong>), Rory Stenning (<strong>Raus, Cold Emotion<\/strong>) on synths and vocalists Joe McKee (<strong>Snowman<\/strong>), Lucrecia Dalt and Hannah Peel (<strong>The Magnetic North<\/strong>). With this open approach to collaboration,\u00a0<b>Spartak<\/b>\u00a0expands to a quartet on the upcoming\u00a0<em>i fought the style<\/em>, to be released by\u00a0<strong>Provenance<\/strong>\u00a0in July 2016. Drawing on contributions from the talented\u00a0<strong>Lustri<\/strong>, delicate vocals from Becki Whitton (<strong>Aphir<\/strong>), glitch pioneer\u00a0<strong>Oval<\/strong>\u00a0and Melbourne producer\u00a0<strong>Kangaroo Skull\u00a0<\/strong>(aka\u00a0Rohan Rebeiro from<strong>\u00a0My Disco<\/strong>), Ahmad entangles synthetic textures through Dorrian\u2019s improvisational rhythms across this collection of digital ballads, fizzling ambience and futurist disco-pop.<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p>[highlight color=&#8221;silver&#8221;]TRACKLISTING[\/highlight]<br \/>\n1 &#8211;\u00a0Eulogist<br \/>\n2 &#8211;\u00a0Seasonal<br \/>\n3 &#8211;\u00a0Flags For An Organization<br \/>\n4 &#8211;\u00a0Revisionist<br \/>\n5\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Maps Of The Sounds Of Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p>[highlight color=&#8221;silver&#8221;]CREDITS[\/highlight]<\/p>\n<p><strong>shoeb ahmad<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; electronics, programming, vocals<br \/>\n<strong>evan dorrian<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; drums, percussion, vocals<br \/>\n<strong>matt lustri<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; electric + bass guitar, dr rhythm<br \/>\n<strong>becki whitton<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; vocals<\/p>\n<p><strong>music<\/strong>\u00a0spartak\u00a0<strong>words<\/strong>\u00a0ahmad<br \/>\n<strong>recorded<\/strong>\u00a0brick lane, canberra<br \/>\nbecki vocals recorded at home, melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>mixed<\/strong>\u00a0the boulevarde, sydney<\/p>\n<p>tracks 1, 3 &amp; 5 produced by Shoeb Ahmad &amp; Evan Dorrian<br \/>\ntrack 2 produced by Markus Popp<br \/>\ntrack 4 produced by Kangaroo Skull<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p>[highlight color=&#8221;silver&#8221;]DIGITAL[\/highlight]<br \/>\n[button link=&#8221;https:\/\/provenance.bandcamp.com&#8221; color=&#8221;salmon&#8221;]Bandcamp[\/button] [button link=&#8221;http:\/\/apple.co\/2eE1v5k&#8221; color=&#8221;salmon&#8221;]iTunes[\/button] [button link=&#8221;https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album\/Spartak_I_Fought_the_Style?id=Bvp544fhayo4yedwd7rxx6vur64&amp;hl=en&#8221; color=&#8221;salmon&#8221;]Google Play[\/button] [button link=&#8221;http:\/\/www.junodownload.com\/products\/spartak-i-fought-the-style\/3161717-02\/\u00a0&#8221; color=&#8221;salmon&#8221;]Juno[\/button]\u00a0[button link=&#8221;https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/63zEvlnO7WTwuu1OiCYJSy &#8221; color=&#8221;salmon&#8221;]Spotify[\/button]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangents duo Spartak recruit Oval and Kangaroo Skull (MY Disco) for new EP. 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