Date/Time
Date(s) - 28 Jan 2012 until 29 Jan 2012
9:00 PM - 2:00 AM
Location
The Pattern bar
It’s always very important for us to share music at Pattern Bar that is thought out in not only it’s programming but also it’s purpose.
As you know by now, Pattern Bar is not a top 40 bar. Joining me this Saturday is a friend who’s music could not be further from top 40 or anything familiar, actually, it might sound familiar because I play quite a bit of it myself.
His music still feels cleverly accesible and it’s most definitely laced with class and sophistication.
I first heard Thomas’ sound a few years back and felt instantly connected to it.
I’m very happy yo welcome Thomas Hildebrand to his first Pattern Bar Session.
A bit about Thomas
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Thomas Hildebrand’s work is based in the foundations of musical thinkers who emphasize the sounds of the physical world as fodder for compositions. Influenced by the ideas of Cage and the like as much as the landscape of modern electronic music, he applies his unique sensibility to an approach which individualizes the vision of the artist – an approach which he makes the most of throughout his tangentially connected musical pursuits. Using his relative outsider status in the crowded techno scene as a virtue, Hildebrand is forging his own “found house” sound, embracing a variety of interests and sources and making them his own through jangling, moody tracks which hang in the balance between proper club music and personal couch listening.
Though his current work is predominantly in the minimal techno/microhouse vein, his perspective is shifted by his ongoing collaborations with leftfield hip hop/downtempo groups (Innaverse, Mainframe) and his background as a drummer in rock and funk bands. This consistent sense of moving away from his comfort zone helps his work satisfy enough genre conditions to fit, without ever unconditionally adhering to anything – adorning itself in its greatest virtue – adventurousness in not only its perspective on terms like techno or “found house,” but in the appropriation of his chosen sound sources. Digitally rendering the material culled from field recordings such as trains, key chains and random occurrences into rhythms which fit the 4/4 minimal form, yet are coming from a live drummer mind, helps position Hildebrand’s music in a place which is always searching for something else, without losing sight of the matter at hand.
See you at Pattern!