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Cedar Mast [Expanded & Remastered]

by Coppice Halifax

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    ONLY 10 COPIES!!! Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, at the White Pillar Workshop. Two white 5" recordable discs, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20, held securely inside a dual-disk CPP sleeve with a flap and a soft cloth membrane separating them, with two hand-cut recycled white stickerpaper inserts bearing custom text sticker work on the back cover and a 1x3" spiral monolith sticker on the front cover.

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about

Arriving slightly delayed (laid...laid...laid...perfect for a dub album) for it's tenth anniversary celebration is CEDAR MAST, an album of minimalistic techno that was built using only samples of the Sega Dreamcast's boot menu and a Korg sampler, aided in part by samples of archaic drum machines like Mattel's Synsonics and Yamaha's MR-10.

CEDAR MAST conveys a set of straightforward dry techno mixes that bubble with white noise and the watery washes of Dreamcast samples. These tracks exist on the rim of monochromaticism, echoing both the ANALOG BOTANY sessions that preceded them and the LEAF CLOAK sessions that would follow. Alongside the five original tracks, I've also included the "Rebuild" that opened the CEDAR MIXES collection of reworks - a non-album cut that was fashioned using only the loops and materials offered to other artists who were invited to participate.

For the second half, CEDAR MAST REDUCED mutates the material into something more experimental and Chain Reaction-inspired, which provided a precursory look at the sound of DEEP EARTH, still yet to come at the time. This second disc has been augmented with a 2022 EXCAVATION, a new nearly hour-long session of soft-focus dub, created using the same machines and samples as the original album, a decade later.

There is a surprising amount of vagueness I feel now, with regard to adding anything prosaic to the topic of CEDAR MAST. Any sentiment I could think to express is very clearly and fully articulated somewhere in the dense surrealism of the music, and what initially began as a proof-of-concept experiment with sampling and already-outdated video game consoles in mind clearly navigated itself into many different atmospheres both above and below the forests and seashores of the Halifaxian continent. CEDAR MAST resembles many different facets of my work through the years, and so it feels that much more elementally a part of my creative landscape, rather than something that might occupy it.

Revisiting material from a decade ago has become, somewhat comically, a predictable exercise, although it is not without a fair share of challenges, all of which I am willing to forge a new path through in order to hopefully reinstate something in its best possible iteration, and maybe, if I'm lucky, rediscover what possessed me to do these things in the first place. CEDAR MAST is an anomalous ship in a nonlinear sea, and I've done my very best to update and maintain it in order to see it off for another ten years - perhaps when that time has passed, we will see if I have succeeded.

N.B. - A very limited edition of 10 copies of the 2xCD-R reissue has been made available for the occasion, first come first serve as always. If you've missed out, and you really can't live with yourself, please get in touch in all the usual ways and I'll see what I can do.

credits

released March 3, 2023

Written & Produced by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Botany Bay, Summer-Autumn 2012 (1.01-1.06, 2.01-2.05) using a Korg ES-1 sampler and the boot sounds of a Sega Dreamcast gaming console. 2.06 recorded at White Pillar, Autumn 2022. All material remastered by The Analog Botanist, Autumn 2022. Design and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AD63, issue #63 in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. (C) + (P) 2023 Oscillog ASCAP. All nights preserved.

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Coppice Halifax Dayton, Ohio

Analog Botany, since 2005.12.08. Impressionist techno and bedroom fantasist electronics. Compost instead of composition.

I also release music as Milieu: milieumusic.bandcamp.com

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