Team Doyobi

The authors of the mix are Alexander Peverett (b. 1976) and Christopher Gladwin (b. 1976), founders of British electronic music duo Team Doyobi. They began their tight creative partnership by producing soundtracks for self-made video art in the early 1990s. Team Doyobi are authoritative voices in the UK digital music scene, using obsolete computers (Commodore Amiga) as serious musical instruments, cutting chip sounds out of video games and presenting them to audiences in the form of techno, breaks or IDM. In over a decade Team Doyobi released numerous records on such labels as FatCat Records, Alku, or Icasea. Currently they are signed to Skam Records, known for its solid IDM catalog (Boards of Canada, Bola, Gescom and Jega). Their most recent releases have been the brilliant 2012 Digital Music Volume 1 and 2013 Digital Music Volume 2.

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STM 048 is a gradually shifting voluminous musical compilation that includes diverse works by such prominent composers and musicians as Klaus Schulze, Laurie Spiegel, Bill Nelson, Daphne Oram, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, Pete Namlook, Tangerine Dream, Robert Hood, and many other audio production pioneers. This is a thoughtfully crafted 2 hour long compilation that explores linearity and expression of variety. Stylistic frames are incapable of obscuring the individual beauty, flexibility and singular ideas of each included work. By doing their best to employ their technical virtuosity and compositional freedom, Team Doyobi create something rather ambitions. In some of the tracks, the importance is with certain technologies, studio techniques and their uses by individual masters. The EMS Synthi 100, Yamaha CS30, Roland System 100, Roland SH-2, EDP Wasp, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Frippertronics and Emu Emulator are some of the instruments utilised to their fullest in strong compositions. There are some unreleased pieces included from solo projects of Team Doyobi members, S>>D and Collapsoft. The surface is rich with solid moving textures, mesmerizing atmospheres, excellent varying rhythmics and charismatic melodies. Encoded and integrated hypnotic patterns of complex micro sounds, enigmatic rustles, expressively generated effects go into a full on sound collision and create a touching and thrilling background. All these great stylistic decisions have been and are influential to Team Doyobi’s sonic approach.

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STM 048 is like the chimerical abstract modern painting by Joan Miró, Étoile Bleue (Blue Star), where the brilliant azure background and the dynamic geometric shapes form a dreamscape – a vacant infinite space that creates a refined spectacle of the sky, the voyage of life, convulsions of personal illusions and existence.