New Erased Tapes Signee Immix Ensemble To Release Collaborative EP With Tri Angle Producer Vessel

Erased Tapes has announced the newest member to its growing family of electro-acousticians: Immix Ensemble.

The ensemble is a half ruse — Immix Ensemble is essentially one man: Australian-born and current Liverpool composer and sax player Daniel Thorne. As stated on Erased Tapes website, “the idea behind Immix has been to galvanise the innovative musical voices from across the country.” To form an “ensemble,” Thorne collaborates with various producers to test the limits of classical composition within the environment of electronic music.

Tri Angle producer Vessel — known for his abrasive, industrial production work — has been announced as Immix Ensemble’s newest collaborator. The two musicians have come together to record Transition, a 4-track EP that Erased Tapes will release on March 18. It’s over-arching theme, as stated in its press release, is instruments and technology: “Musical instruments are somewhat of a technological anomaly” states Thorne in the release. “Once they are conceived and invented, they are rarely updated and modified […] In this sense, each instrument can provide a snapshot of what life was like upon the invention of the particular instrument, what was ‘cutting edge’ at the time of its inception.”

Transition‘s first single “What Hath God Wrought” marries what sounds like a failing radio transmission with a concerto, pulling off both grace and pensiveness at once. Listen to it below.