Style: Ambient | Electronica-Indietronic
offthesky – “Cumulae Movement” (Autoplate)
Organic Ambient Symphony | Jason Corder, the civil name behind the offthesky-moniker, is back with an epic one-track EP. "Cumulae Movements" is sort of a teaser for his upcoming full-length release at Autoplate, and if you consider the duration of nearby 30 minutes of this single tune I'm a bit anxious what "full-length" will mean... Nevertheless, if Kentucky-based Corder manages to maintain the quality of his eclectic ambient music like he does on "Cumulae Movement" for a whole album, we got to re-arrange our best of 2007-lists.
Jason Corder is into Netaudio since 2000, appearing under a whole bunch of names, switching from Ambient to Postrock to atmospheric Techno like it's no deal. After all, Off the Sky seems to be his main alias. The title of Corder's third Autoplate installation "Cumulae Movement" refers to the formation of thunder clouds (cumulo nimbus) that can build impressive clusters, announcing rain and tempest.
Influenced by field-recordings and weather pattern data (offthesky.com), Jason Corder injects his dense Ambient music with the unreal and slightly menacing atmosphere of a threatening thunderstorm. Highly processed field-recordings and all kinds of warm glitches form his music alongside huge harmonic synthesizer-textures, clean and amplified guitar, sketches of piano and a few subliminal beats. Beautiful and eclectic, experimental yet enjoyable.
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Direct Download: "Cumulae Movement" ZIP
Artist Website: www.offthesky.com
About the Author
This article was written on 26.October 2007 by Bettina Rhymes.
Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.
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[...] favorite remix comes from Jason Corder a.k.a. offthesky, a guy you probably have heard from. His “Miniature Forest” is the most song-like [...]
12. Jul 2008 at 12:57 pm
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[...] Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007’s Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent releases at IOD, Zymogen and Resting Bell [...]
7. Jan 2009 at 7:53 am
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