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SPECTAC
- Garvilla
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Paul Morrin, a.k.a. Spectac, has been producing odd un-categorisable music since his very first "track" in 1993 entitled: “Space Rabbit”. “In these early days we had no clue of midi etc.” states Morrin, “It was all guitar pedals, record players, and scrap metal”, he says.
Under their Members of PSR-400 moniker, the rabbit was received extremely well by a surprisingly large public, though The Members had never officially released or promoted it. In fact there wasn’t a single review in writing.
About five hundred tracks and five years later, he finally purchased some real equipment, a Korg MS-10 and an EMU sampler. He set about a new project using mostly computer software, forming Piqlet with the drummer from local band The Jimmy Cake (then Das Madman), John Dermody. It was during this time that they set up local label Front End Synthetics as a platform to release theirs and their friends’ music locally.
Morrin’s debut live performance came around in 2000 at Vicar Street, playing support to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & the Robotiks as Burning Man with Dublin’s D1 & u:mack regular Tóirse, all the while preparing for his own solo shows. These soon came in a flood around Dublin and parts of the country, sometimes playing up to 6 times in a month in venues the likes of the tiny Lazybird to larger festivals like Mór in Charleville castle, earning his reputation as one of the most original electronic acts in Ireland.
His music is mainly comprised of sharp-edged percussive sound with many various overlaying patterns. Melody-saturated riff writing with random twisted noise is another glorious trait of Spectac’s.
In 2004 Morrin took a year and a half break from touring the Dublin live circuit to work on music without the constant interruption of assembling and disassembling his outboard equipment, and preparing constantly alterating one-off live sets.
As his skills in the studio started to improve Morrin was asked to help out as a programming engineer for South Dublin composer in residence; Daniel Figgis. He was asked to work on spatial sound effects for local animation crowd the Delicious 9’s animated feature "Stars", which won “best animated short” at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2005.
The "Garvilla" mini-album consists of his more recent works and is available now for download on AudioTong.
Download:
| 1. Centurion |
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| 2. Pudder |
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| 3. Sendle |
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| 4. Grannk |
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| 5. The Fear (is hear) |
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| 6. Nerveherzer |
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| 7. Regato |
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www.frontendsynthetics.com/spectac
www.myspace.com/respectac
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