patten (band)

patten
patten performing at OSA Festival, Poland, in Autumn 2018
Background information
Origin London, England
Genres Electronic, experimental
Years active 2006–present
Labels Warp Records, No Pain in Pop, Kaleidoscope
Website www.patttten.com

patten is a London-based project renowned for hi-tech immersive AV shows and multi-platform approach, tracing a boundary-irreverent path through outlets ranging from design as 555-5555, to installation, film, software programming, music, live performance, and publishing. patten started performing at underground venues and releasing music on limited edition CDRs and minidiscs in 2006. Over the years there have been numerous live line ups and stylistic approaches, including computer music, all-acoustic ensemble compositions, immersive audiovisual shows, DJ sets, and full bass, drums, and guitar band formations. The most recent recordings and live shows reach the outer edges of techno, hip hop, ambient, club music, grime, pop and industrial.[1][2][3]

2006-11: Early History, GLAQJO XAACSSO

The first patten performances took place across London at alternative music venues like East London rock club The Spitz, Hackney Road's 291 Gallery and South London's Utrophia project space. Recordings were circulated among friends and at shows on minidisc and home-burnt CDR in limited editions.

In 2011, after a series of increasingly intense live performances ranging from the Tate Modern Turbine Hall to Corsica Studios, patten released the album GLAQJO XAACSSO on London-based label No Pain In Pop.[3] GLAQJO XAACSSO featured 12 tracks of lo-fi shoegaze-inflected electronic music, with heavily processed but still recognizable guitar and vocals featuring widely. The record was put together through writing in liminal states between waking and sleeping, then test-driving material live over the course of a number of months, and finessing in the studio to arrive at final versions. On release, the album was met with widespread acclaim from a broad spectrum of music fans from techno across to the experimental and indie. Interviews and press images from this period extended the exploration into reflecting on the way artists are presented and present themselves to a public of strangers, with obscured faces and non-standard interview approaches. The project’s tradition in creative use of media spaces has continued through until the present, in materials like a playlist of silent tracks available on Spotify, the submission and publishing of identical answers to two different interviews, and a Q&A for Dazed answered entirely in Wikipedia links. [4][5]

2011-13: Kaleidoscope Imprint

After the success of GLAQJO XAACSSO, patten began to rapidly release music by other underground artists through their Kaleidoscope imprint, drawing wider attention to the work of others. The 2012-13 Limited Dubs cassette and digital series included Sculpture’s ‘Slime Code’, the I’ve Been You Twice’ EP, Karen Gwyer’s debut release, the double album ‘Cracked Lacquer/Vanadium’ by Yearning Kru and ‘Guardian Petted’ by California musician Jocelyn Noir’s ALAK. These were met with various accolades from BBC Radio 1 to Wire Magazine, with many of the artists going on to sign with key independent labels such as Planet Mu, Software and No Pain In Pop. 2015 saw a cassette (Chrome Series) from visual artist Benedict Drew in and a split vinyl release (50/50) including Aldous RH (ex-Egyptian Hip Hop) and Tel Aviv's Vanilla Hammer. Recent releases on the imprint’s 2017 Aether Editions digital-first series have been from The Newcomer, Actual Magic (a moniker of patten), and Japanese producer and DJ, Sapphire Slows.[6][7][8]

2013-14: ESTOILE NAIANT, RE-EDITS

In November 2013 the signing of patten to Warp Records was announced, with the EOLIAN INSTATE EP released soon after in a limited edition picture disc, echoing the project’s beginnings and experimentation with formats. Weeks later patten performed a live audiovisual set in front of thousands at Tate Britain as part of the Warp x Tate event in December 2013. The first LP for Warp, ESTOILE NAIANT was released in February 2014, supported by an extensive live audiovisual tour across Europe, North America and Japan.

It was during this period that patten began to release free RE-EDITS EPs, sampling, layering and restructuring fragments of existing music into new textural compositions. Tracks featured were from across musical worlds, fusing Sade, Drexciya, Siouxie and The Banshees, Pixies, Burial and Joy Division, The tracks were underpinned by dancefloor rhythms and the 2014 series were specifically created so as to produce an ‘endless generative mix’ when played on shuffle. Later RE-EDITS series eschewed this method for a more freeform approach, with ‘vol2’ remixing tracks by Death Grips, Rihanna, Tim Hecker, Julianna Barwick and Cypress Hill.[9][10][11][12][13]

2014-15: 555-5555, Tron, June 30th, Björk Remix

In 2014, patten threw a series of club nights with live electronic music and DJs at Dalston’s Power Lunches under the name 555-5555. The events were held in the basement venue with the group’s signature heavy smoke machine and a minimal single video projection as lighting. The lineups featured sets from artists such as Logos, Karen Gwyer, Slackk, SFV Acid, Darkstar, Visionist, Fotomachine and Max Tundra.[14][2] Across late 2015 and early 2016, numerous design works attributed to 555-5555 with it expanding in 2017 into a creative agency including members of patten, and visual collaborator Jane Easlight. 555-5555 work unrestricted across forms, creating anything from graphic design for Disney’s Tron run/R soundtrack,[15] to 555-5555 branded apparel, events, software, an NTS radio show, ongoing art direction for Dan Snaith (Caribou)’s Daphni and Jiaolong label, and pointed online videos encouraging their fans to engage in the political process.[16]

In collaboration with Hisham Akira Bharoocha,[17] patten contributed to Doug Aitken's Station to Station project, recording 'June 30th', an EP of new music created from found sound and improvised percussion made in one day at the Barbican Centre.[18]

In the same year, patten created several remixes for artists like Giorgio Moroder[19] and Björk. Their remix of her song Stonemilker was released as a single-sided 12" clear vinyl single.[20]

2016-17: Ψ (Psi) LP & Requiem EP

On September 16, 2016, their third album Ψ (Psi),[21][22] was released with the vocals of a member known as A featured heavily across the record. A first appeared publicly in Jane Eastlight’s 2014 ‘Winter Strobing’ video and was later seen performing in patten at the Warp25 concert in Poland (alongside Battles, Autechre, LFO and others) and later Baleapop in France, Fields Moscow and Electrowerkz London for a McQ launch event. A number of highly distinctive videos were released for album tracks Sonne (Matilda Finn), Epsilon (Werkflow), Dialler (555-5555), along with animation and video for each track made by 555-5555 for their immersive AV show which had at this point expanded to include a full custom video system, lasers, LEDs, smoke machines, live electronic drums and digitally processed vocals. In December 2016, patten released the first in a two part series of live session videos directed by Greg Barnes capturing their live AV show in a cinematic style echoing the sci-fi Science fiction feel of their performances.[23][24]

In May 2017, following Psi by 6 months patten released Requiem, a four track digital-only EP. Music videos for each of the tracks were made available on release day via YouTube. Requiem saw a further distillation of their sound, with dry sonics and heavily treated hip-hop-inflected vocals coming to the fore. The EP preceded a headline show at London’s ICA, where the group programmed screenings and installations and a 555-5555 pop up store alongside their AV performance. Screenings of art films at the event included Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, Muntean/Rosenblum, and others. In late summer, an autumn AV tour across the UK, Europe, and Mexico was announced.

In September, they announced their contribution to work on beta testing spectral processing software created by U.S.-based software developers Unfiltered Audio for Plugin Alliance. patten produced a number of presets bundled with the software download alongside electronic composers such as Richard Devine, and Uwe Zahn.[25][26][27]

Partial discography

Albums

  • GLAQJO XAACSSO, No Pain in Pop, 2011[28]
  • ESTOILE NAIANT, Warp, 2014. A limited number included a bonus CD of side A from the patten cassette tape Ship of Theseus (vol ii).
  • Ψ, Warp, 2016

EPs

  • EOLIAN INSTATE, Warp, 2013. Limited to 500 copies.[28]
  • Hisham Bharoocha & patten: June 30th, Vinyl Factory, 2015. Limited to 300 copies.[28]
  • Requiem, Warp, 2017. .[28]

Cassettes

RE-EDITS

  • RE-EDITS vol.3, Not on label, 2014[28]
  • RE-EDITS vol.1, Not on label, 2014[28]
  • RE-EDITS vol.8, Not on label, 2014[28]
  • RE-EDITS vol.17, Not on label, 2014[28]
  • RE-EDITS vol.2, Not on label, 2016[28]

Selected Remixes

  • My Love Is The Best, ALAK, Not On Label, 2011[28]
  • Hey Sparrow, Peaking Lights, Remixes, Weird World, 2011[28]
  • Two AM, Hauschka, Salon Des Amateurs Remixes, FatCat, 2012[28]
  • Keep It Low, The Hundred In The Hands, Keep It Low, Warp, 2012[28]
  • Most Of Missing, Orphan, Re:, Kaleidoscope, 2013[28]
  • Remember, Jon Hassell, Remixes 12", All Saints, 2014[28]
  • Mandan, Harold Budd, ARemixes 12", All Saints, 2014[28]
  • Silent Ascent, Downliners Sekt, Silent Ascent Remixes, Infiné, 2014[28]
  • Exxus, Glass Animals, ZABA, Wolf Tone, 2014[28]
  • Purplehands, Kwes., ilpix., Warp, 2014[28]
  • Metal Fatigue, Jon Hassell, City: Works Of Fiction, All Saints, 2014[28]
  • Stonemilker, Björk, One Little Indian, 2015[28]
  • Delta Antliae, Georgio Moroder and Raney Shokne, Tron Run/r (OST), Sumthing Else Music Works, 2016[28]

CD-Rs

  • Lacuna, Not on label, 2006[28]
  • There were Horizons, Kaleidoscope, 2007[28]
  • Sketching the Tesseract, Kaleidoscope, 2008[28]
  • EDITS, No Pain In Pop, 2011[28]
  • Ship of Theseus (Vol II): Side A, Warp Records, 2014[28]

Early Downloads

  • '09 tst2, Not on label, 2009[28]
  • '09 tst, Not on label, 2009[28]

References

  1. ↑ Fox, Charlie (29 September 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". The Quietus. Retrieved 4 February 2014. but patten (always lower case, apparently) seems like the proper inheritor of Aphex's crazed, childlike approach to music-making
  2. 1 2 Wichowska, Justyna (26 June 2014). "Encounters: patten". 160grams. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2017. ‘One of the key ideas embedded in the whole project in all of its different forms – visible forms, audible forms, spatial forms – is that there is the third person involved in the production of what the work is, and that’s the person on the other side of it – the audience member, listener, video watcher, yourself,’ [...] ‘One of the key aims is to produce materials that are open enough for those people to really become engaged with it in a creative way. So the production of something doesn’t really end with the record, or with the video, or with whatever else it might be. It’s really once this thing finds its way out into the world, that’s when something really begins.’ The work that occurs is two-directional: patten invites the audience to co-create the project, and considers the reception and any thoughts or action that result from that reception an inherent part of it.
  3. 1 2 Ashurst, Hari (7 November 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 25 December 2013. GLAQJO XAACSSO feels like it could exist in a parallel universe
  4. ↑ "patten interview: "Trying to describe dreams". Dazed. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "patten interview: "patten Exclusive Mix". Dazed. 25 Aug 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "patten interview: "patten's Kaleidoscope label announce Karen Gwyer EP". Fact Magazine. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Yearning Kru Copper Vale, Planet Mu". Fact Magazine. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sapphire Slows is getting more vocal, and not just in her music". Japan Times. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "patten ESTOILE NAIANT". Warp Records. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "patten reveals psychedelic new album ESTOILE NAIANT". FACT Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "Download patten's RE-EDITS vol 3". Do The Astral Plane. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "patten releases RE-EDITS vol 8". DummyMag. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "patten offers new RE-EDITS collection for download". XLR8R. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "555-5555 at Power Lunches, 27/06/14". DummyMag. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "Giorgio Moroder's 'Tron Run/r Original Soundtrack' Out Now". emusician. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  16. ↑ "Listen to patten's mind-altering new album". Dazed. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  17. ↑ "Meet our resident artists". Barbican. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  18. ↑ "Watch LoneLady and patten create Brutalist Music at the VF Studio". Vinyl Factory. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  19. ↑ "Giorgio Moroder's 'Tron Run/r Original Soundtrack' Out Now". E Musician. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  20. ↑ "Björk Shares Third Installment of Vulnicura Remixes". Pitchfork. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  21. ↑ "patten announces new album Ψ - shares razor-sharp 'Sonne'". Fact Magazine. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  22. ↑ "patten Return With New Album Ψ". The Fader. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  23. ↑ "Commute Through Dystopia With patten's Unnerving New Video". The Fader. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  24. ↑ "Watch patten face the future in an exclusive video". Red Bull. 30 Nov 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  25. ↑ "London Duo patten's New EP Is an Agitated 'Requiem' for the World". Red Bull. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  26. ↑ "Warp duo patten headline a night of leftfield electronics at London's iconic ICA". Resident Advisor. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  27. ↑ "Unfiltered Audio says that SpecOps can help you to achieve 'full spectrum dominance'". Music Radar. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  28. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "patten Discography". Discogs. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
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