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Gadget Babies

by Lex Plexus

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Adam Pfeffer The album cover is a very good visual representation what this album sounds like. Those babies are damn clever to make such creative, fun, and complex music using a phone app. What sets this music apart from other electronic music is the chord progressions and meter changes. I always find it inspiring when a prolific artist manages to retain the same excitement, joy, and discovery as when they first began composing music. This music does not sound influenced by pop culture, the music industry, politics, robots taking over the world, the latest VST plugin, or anything else that typically distracts many artists from focusing on their craft. This is simply a collection of thought provoking compositions that will make you smile. :) Favorite track: 9 5 11.
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1.
Shucks! 04:37
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2.
12-String Transformer 06:21
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3.
How Was It Made? 04:23
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4.
SpongeBob Effigy 04:28
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5.
Squeeze Until Empty 06:01
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6.
'67 Split Window 04:48
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Bobcat Scrapes 03:50
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Purple Boot Stomp 03:42
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9.
Polly Breezes 03:59
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Zill Bezant 04:54
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9 5 11 04:46
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12.
Seven Levels Deep 04:57
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Hot on the heels of "Stellar Trip," which made Top 5 in the National Electronica chart earlier this year, Lex Plexus unveils another new collection of inspired electronica. The Canadian producer, a.k.a. Sean Luciw, has taken a different approach this time... as he says, "Whereas 'Stellar Trip' was made over a 6-year period using various computer-based technologies, 'Gadget Babies' was all made using Korg Gadget, in less than 2 years! Besides the incredible convenience of constant access to this techno studio-in-my-pocket, which is a phone app I can use anywhere, I immediately noticed the high quality of the built-in sounds. This enables me to concentrate my time on composition instead of polishing turds. The digital gadgets sound like physical hardware to my ears. You gotta understand I was born in the 70's, so this is like science fiction becoming science fact. I'm living in a Star Trek episode!"

What do these tunes sound like? Fans of Lex Plexus could expect almost anything. On "Gadget Babies" you'll find an intense concentration of adhesive earworms, head-bobbing beats, mysterious textures, and puzzling polyrhythms. Far beyond apologizing for his inner math nerd, Sean Luciw relentlessly mixes "non-four" rhythmic numbers in a similar vein to his metal band, Volcano Calculator. "For some reason, I really like 7-beat rhythms. I also mix 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's, 8's, 9's, 10's and 11's on this album, whether it's in a metrically modulating manner or polyrhythmically."

Don't let the technical mumbo-jumbo fool you: "Gadget Babies" is full of catchy fun and friendly lightness that bears repeated listening. "12-String Transformer" features beautiful neo-classical 12-string guitar. The song "How Was It Made?" is an obvious nod to the TV show "How It's Made." Sean says, "I love the music on that show - it's futuristic but quirky." One gabber-esque track features the sound of a Bobcat scraping its shovel across the pavement. "Zill Bezant" mixes an Arabian scale with Locrian, the most-difficult-to-use (and least popular) of the 7 modes. The ascending keyboard solo on "Shucks!" is inspired by the amazing sax solo on the Maceo Parker classic "Shake Everything You’ve Got." Pac-Man fans will appreciate the basslines of the rhythmic enigma "9 5 11." Lex Plexus is happy and thankful to offer this music to the world!

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released July 31, 2018

all music composed by Sean Alexander Luciw using KORG Gadget

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Lex Plexus Kamloops, British Columbia

Lex Plexus - mutant techno since 1995.

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