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09 October, 2011
Mero Star / Less Than Three

07 October, 2011
ICR releases double album for Fokuz (Knowledge Mag, 2011)
Hungarian producer ICR is set to release what will probably be his last drum & bass album. As you'd expect he's going out in style with a double album, Such Unimportant Things Like Us / To Make Right What's Left on Fokuz Recordings. ICR explains all.
Tell us more about the albums you're releasing, what can we expect?
When is it coming out and on what formats will it be available?
The worldwide release date for both albums are September 26 and will be available in digital format only.
What's the thought process behind the titles?
I know it's not the most customer-friendly product title but I'm glad that Marco at Fokuz understood that in this case these titles works well with the album concept even if they're very long. If I had to explain I would say the duality of the albums are about facing and letting go the past (love and struggle for self-acceptance) and finding a new way - both musically and personally.
Did you set out with a specific vision of what you wanted to do with the album?
The initial idea of the Such Unimportant Things Like Us came into my mind when I made the follow up to my 2006 Counter Intelligence release So Unloved. With Still Unloved and All Unloved I already had a vision of an album with lots of emotions and frustrations. However not the entire album was made in one session, I've included some older tracks too that fit the concept - for example Skins Shades To Red which was featured on both Fabio and Grooverider's shows. As for To Make Right What's Left - it's more of a manifesto of what directions I want to go with my music whether it's house, hip hop, nu-disco, dubstep or garage.
Who have you collaborated with on it?
I wanted the album to sound personal so only three of the 24 tracks have guests. I have a collab with long-time Misspent Music artist Salmz. I loved his minimal atmospheres on Dying Breed and I wanted to disturb it with my quirky drum edits. On the non-dnb side, Hungarian wonky hip hop duo Headshotboyz feature. Their crisp but smooth style is close to me, so remixing them back and forth was easy and fun.
Why will this be your last drum & bass album?
Maybe it's a frivolous thing to say, but as for now I can't feel comfortable making drum & bass. I've been releasing dnb for almost ten years now - and I felt with this fifth official LP I've told everything I've ever envisioned in dnb. In recent years I simply enjoy other styles more. Playing around with house, hip hop and other mid or downtempo genres gives more freedom to me right now. It's about exploring new territories and challenging myself.
Tell us more about the two videos that have been made for the project…
The first two videos were both made by Hungarian VJ duo Keep Watching Crew. Music is an abstract artform and visuals such as the artwork or videos can capture your musical thoughts and feelings, so it was interesting to see how others associate pictures to your sounds. However, these are more about impressions, we tried to put it in a concept: My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good is like to catch the last breath of summer and 'Semi-Converse Confession is about frustration and accepting yourself in my view. Watch out for more videos coming later on with original footage and directing.
Some house remixes for Orson Records and Dutch label Counter Intelligence will release their second compilation Coupe D'etat featuring two drum & bass cuts from me: Mero Star / Less Than Three.
Such Unimportant Things Like Us tracklist
- Such Unimportant Things Like Us
- Still Unloved
- Skin Shades To Red
- Until It's Untold
- Lost Balance
- Love, Hate and Between
- Dying Breed (with Salmz)
- Concept Of Time
- Surrender To Your Weakness
- All Unloved
- My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good
- Semi-Converse Confession
- E Voce Se Entrega
- Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences
- Yesterday's Man
- Sunset Like Supper
- Continuity-Discontinuity
- Under Twenty-Six
- Look So Good
- I'm In Love With A Sentence But Forgot What It Means
- The Risk Of Speaking Nonsense
- Little Panda's Echo
- Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences (Headshotboyz remix)
- Headshotboyz – Meanwhile In My Happy Place (ICR remix)
01 October, 2011
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28 September, 2011
Superman remixes

03. Superman (Mongoose Remix)
04. Superman (Tshabee Remix)
05. Superman (Empty Streets Remix
06. Superman (ICR Remix)
info:
The urban wilderness is the world of plunder, so one day - back in 2010 - Ambrus Tövisházi (Erik Sumo Band, Péterfy Bori Love Band) thought to go out fishing, to sack a scoop full of industrial murmurs and ambient noises of his living quarters. 'Hey, this totally calls for music. And lyrics.' - he thought then. After dropping a few lines in email to Kristóf Hajós-Dévényi of The Unbending Trees - asking if he would team up by taking the lyrics part - 'The Gomb' project started out right away, no messing around. Though the guys have never met prior to their collab, the album is now in the homestretch packed with 16 unique toned ballads, twisted with the singing voice of Tövisházi and Hajós-Dévényi. The album also features a previously unreleased track from The Unbending Trees, the rest fifteen is the duo's own work.
The only pop track of the album - Superman - was put up for remixing to Chi Recordings. Some of the heavy gunners of the label took it, and returned with 5 topnotch tracks of their interpretation.
There's this one peculiar state of mind that links all 'Superman' reworks, and unite all men of the planet, merging in one sigh: 'Lord, I've drunk myself to superman!' The booze in the hand makes the man fearless, invincible, a heartbreaker. Next day - while checking the bruises and scratches, earned by walking through windows - you become to a bittersweet recognition that you have no super powers at all, but you still have a real Superman hiding in you...
The heroes of the Chi Recordings team used their different forces to re-think 'The Gomb' song: Mongoose and Tshabee both pulled their own glitchy dubstep version. While the first one is a relaxed moderate piece, the latter one turns into a screaming madness. Empty Music is our guest hero from Australia, supporting the EP with his smooth tinkling 'Empty Streets Remix' tech house ballad, followed by a balearic deep house from ICR. The line is cut by a solid Kodek tech house rework.
http://soundcloud.com/chi-recordings/the-gomb-superman-icr-remix
available:
http://shop.chi-recordings.com/album/superman
http://recorder.blog.hu/2011/09/28/the_gomb_superman_a_teljes_ep
http://quart.hu/cikk.php?id=6680
http://www.mr2.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11633&Itemid=67
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Such Unimportant Things Like Us/To Make Right What's Left

