Velvet Satellite by Atlantic Triangular Trade

Tulsa-based Digitalis head Brad Rose has been an insanely productive artist over the past few years, releasing tons of music on his label and still managing to create a constant stream of solo work as North Sea, Charlatan, and Ajilvsga, on top of seemingly endless collaborations. Now add to that list his new project: Atlantic Triangular Trade.

Velvet Satellite is a strictly digital venture. It's an immersion of computer electronics, MIDI sequencing and VST processing, melding both computer generated techno and distanced soundscapes into colorful lights and carnival melodies. In this odd universe, fragments of data intersect amidst an undercurrent of techno pulses and spinning beats. These wandering circular shapes create a definable dizziness within the auditory cortex.

"Atlantic Triangular Trade’s Velvet Satellite scopes the freshest frontier, though: it’s an intricately polyrhythmic, home-hallucinated refit of European dance modes. The A side warms you up: tick-tocking drum machines under out of time, Hypnagogic key lines doused in reverb. The B side shreds: pumping Industrial loops (Frankfurt 1992 strength), tripping bleep patterns and heady, hammering rave licks. All of which are so unusually organised that they fascinate the right brain even as they tease the left by invoking the basest possible, no-mind rave experience." (from The Wire, February 2011)

a repository for all of brad e. rose's projects, past and current, that are not on the jewel garden.

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