"Compiled in September 2007 but released in 2008, Uproot was less about Jace Clayton’s considerable DJ-ing skills -- though he still plays off three decks -- and more about creating a mood. Full-on ambient at times, contributors include chamber musician Jenny Jones and Dutty Artz labelmate Matt Shadetek, but although you're always very aware while listening to Uproot that you're dealing with a man abundant in both talent and taste, it's never turntablism for the sake of showing off; more the creation of space and texture through blending and recontextualising. "
Gregor on the one's and um's in Australia 2007. www.djolive.com
Discography
Powerhouse Sessions (CD) Room40 2002 Bodega (CD) theAgriculture 2003 Coonymous EP (12") theAgriculture 2003 Buoy (CD) Room40 2004 Perfect Partner (12" + Box) Electra Editions 2005 Scories (CD) Sub Rosa 2005 Heaps As, Live In Tasmania (CD) theAgriculture 2006 Sleep (CD, Album) Room40 2006
Remixes:
Barbecue Beets EP 2 (12") Oddity (DJ Olive Remix) theAgriculture Mix Oscillations (CD, Comp) << Tea Time On Doomsda... Noise Museum 1998 Sub Rosa vs. Kompakt (2xLP) DJ Olive vs. Jürgen P... Sub Rosa 1999 Sub Rosa vs. Kompakt (CD) DJ Olive vs. Jürgen P... Sub Rosa 1999 Barbeque Beets (CD) Vaus (DJ Olive Remix),... theAgriculture 2001 Polyhedric Tetrapak (CD) Dag Oozebap 2001 I Swear I Saw Garlic Growing Under My Father's Steps (CD) Asako's Notebook Interzone (Belgium) 2002 Most Events Aren't Planned (CD, Maxi, Promo) Most Events Aren't Pla... Elektra 2002 Barbecue Beets EP 1 (12") Vaus (DJ Olive Remix) theAgriculture 2003 Firecamp Stories (CD) Scorched Earth theAgriculture 2003 New York Soundtracks (CD) Halo (One Note Dub Remix) Human Highway 2004 New York Soundtracks (LP) Halo (One Note Dub Remix) Temporary Residence Limited 2004 Igneo (CD, Album) Frenetic Records 2005 Production: Crooklyn Dub Consortium - Certified Dope Vol. 1 (CD) Second Hand Science WordSound 1995 Welcome To Execrate (CD) Foil Leaf 1999 The Goldberg Variations (2xCD, Album) Winter & Winter 2000 Sub-Radar Liveset By Loan (Débauche Sonore) (CD, Dig) A Fond 2003 Anyways (CD, Album) theAgriculture 2004 Crooklyn Dub Consortium - Certified Dope, Volumes 1 & 2 (2xCD) Second Hand Science WordSound 2006
Mix:
Crooklyn Dub Consortium - Certified Dope Vol. 1 (CD) Second Hand Science WordSound 1995 Crooklyn Dub Consortium - Certified Dope, Volumes 1 & 2 (2xCD) Second Hand Science WordSound 2006 DJ Mixes: Barbeque Beets (CD) theAgriculture 2001 Appears On: Nosferatu (CD, Album) Knitting Factory Works 1995 Triptycal (CD, Album) After The Gold Rush, T... Antilles 1996 Pre-set (CD, Album) Knitting Factory Works 1997 Urlicht / Primal Light (CD, Album) Winter & Winter 1997 The Road To The Western Lands (CD) Joan's Haunted Hints A... Triloka Records, Mercury 1998 Mahler In Toblach/I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside (2xCD) Winter & WInter 1999 Welcome To Execrate (CD) Foil Leaf 1999 Record Player (DVD) Record Player Intermezzo Films 2000 The Goldberg Variations (2xCD, Album) Winter & Winter 2000 Blue Marble (CD, Album) Tzadik 2001 052402 Echo 4 (12") Table Of The Elements 2004 djTRIO (CD) Pittsburg, July 5, 200... Asphodel 2004 Text Of Light (CD) Starlight Furniture Co. 2004 Two Novels: Gaze / In The Cochlea (CD) Gone Fishing Crónica 2004 Keystone (CD, Album + DVD-V) Greenleaf Music 2005 Reel 1 (CDr) Not On Label 2005 Shelf-Life (CD, Album, Sma) Winter & Winter 2005 Transit (CD, Album, Car) That Was A Lucky One Cajid Media 2005 Trax#15 (CD) Washington, September ... Trax (Magazine) 2005 Live in Sweden (CD) Greenleaf Music 2006 Plays Mozart (CD, Album, Sma) Winter & Winter 2006 Rotterdam 1 (Minimax, EP) Room40 2006 Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (CD, Album) Thirsty Ear 2006 Cosmic Debris Volume I (CD) 033103 Paris A Silent Place 2007 Tracks Appear On: Headz Pak V.1 (CD, EP, Promo) Back Fence Suite / Chi... theAgriculture Valis l - Destruction Of Syntax (CD) Quark Soup Subharmonic 1995 Axiom Dub - Mysteries Of Creation (CD, Promo) Illbient Axiom 1996 State Of The Union (2xCD) Nontheory Atavistic 1996 Funk: This Is Jungle Sky Vol. 6 (2xCD) Contra Quien Jungle Sky 1999 Land Of Baboon - An Illclectic Compilation (CD, Album) Lulla Baraka Foundation 1999 This Is Jungle Sky, Volume 6 (7xLP + Box) Contra Quien Jungle Sky 1999 Welcome To Execrate (CD) Foil Leaf 1999 Cloudwatch: A Soundtrack To A Freeform Gathering Vol. 2 (CD, Comp) Cloudwatching You In Dub Sonic Soul Productions 2000 Copier Coller (2xCD) Bank It A,B,C,D,E,F Quatermass 2000 Copier Coller (2xLP) Bank It A,B,C,D,E,F Quatermass 2000 Up From The Archives (CD) The 3rd Avenue El Sub Rosa 2000 Vooruit Geluid Fe5tival 2000 (CD, Comp, Promo) Modulana Vooruit 2000 A Diagnosis, 1998-2001 (LP + CD + Cass + Box) Extract Number One, Ex... Revolver - Archiv Für Aktuelle Kunst 2001 A Mutated Christmas (CD) I Saw Mommy Kissing Sa... Illegal Art 2001 Barbeque Beets (CD) Enter, Exit theAgriculture 2001 BitStreams (2xCD) Perpetual Sound Check JDK Productions 2001 Emit One (CD) Cooneymus EMIT 2002 City Sonics 2003 (CD) Perpetual Soundtrack (... Transcultures 2003 Illicit Sounds Of Maffia - Chapter 3 (CD) Hallum Kom-Fut Manifesto Records 2003 052202 Tonic / 020103 RAW (Vinyl, Ltd) 052202 Tonic, 020103 Raw EN/Of 2004 Back Up Exec (CD, Mixed, Comp) Telekinetic Soulmate (... We Nod Records 2004 BBQ Beets II: Return Of The Yams (CD) Round Fire Strut, Coon... theAgriculture 2004 Melatonin: Meditations On Sound In Sleep (2xCD, Comp) Yard Swing Sunrise Room40 2004 Festival Voor Nieuwe Muziek > Happy New Ears 2005 (CD, Dig) Walking Slowly, Intern... Gonzo Circus 2005 Music For Plants (2xCD) Coffee, Oxygen & Gas PerfectIfOn 2005 Evening At Room40 (CD, Comp, Promo) Sleep, First Light Sunday Wire Magazine 2006 Mutek 08 (File, MP3, 320) Running Snail Mutek_Rec 2008
Appears On: Pop Ambient 2001 (CD, Enh) Regensburg, Pilot Kompakt 2001 Pop Ambient 2002 (LP) Donaunebel Kompakt 2001 Pop Ambient 2002 (CD) Donaunebel Kompakt 2002 Pop Ambient 2003 (CD) Express Yourself, Chrom Kompakt 2002 Pop Ambient 2003 (LP) Express Yourself Kompakt 2002 Pop Ambient 2004 (CD) Damit Du Endlich Weiss... Kompakt 2003 Pop Ambient 2004 (LP) Damit Du Endlich Weiß... Kompakt 2003 Pop Ambient 2005 (LP) Innenfeld Kompakt 2004 Pop Ambient 2005 (CD) Innenfeld Kompakt 2004 Pop Ambient 2006 (CD) Baghira Kompakt 2005 Pop Ambient 2006 (LP) Baghira Kompakt 2005 Pop Ambient 2007 (CD) Altocomulus Opacus Kompakt 2006
Tracks Appear On: Pop Ambient 2001 (CD, Enh) Regensburg, Pilot Kompakt 2001 Pop Ambient 2002 (LP) Donaunebel Kompakt 2001 Sven Väth In The Mix - The Sound Of The Second Season - Noche Y Dia (2xCD Regensburg Cocoon Recordings 2001 The State Of E:Motion Vol. 9 (2xCD, Promo) Re-form E:Motion, E:Motion 2001 Unser Eins (CD) Äpfel & Birnen Festplatten 2001 Warenkorb #3 (2xLP) Carrier Ware 2001 Warenkorb #3 (CD) Carrier Ware 2001 Kollektiv Kraft Pt.1 (12") Enterprise Cleansuite Records 2002 Pop Ambient 2002 (CD) Donaunebel Kompakt 2002 Pop Ambient 2003 (CD) Express Yourself, Chrom Kompakt 2002 Pop Ambient 2003 (LP) Express Yourself Kompakt 2002 Warenkorb #4 (3xLP) Fastbreak Ware 2002 Pop Ambient 2004 (CD) Damit Du Endlich Weiss... Kompakt 2003 Pop Ambient 2004 (LP) Damit Du Endlich Weiß... Kompakt 2003 Speicher CD 1 (CD) Regensburg (Wasserman ... Kompakt Extra 2003 Tape 10 (CD) Markthalle Ware 2003 Kompakt 100 (2xCD) In Moll (Hannes Teichm... Kompakt 2004 Pop Ambient 2005 (CD) Innenfeld Kompakt 2004 Pop Ambient 2005 (LP) Innenfeld Kompakt 2004 Warenkorb #5 (CD) Royal Decree Ware 2004 Warenkorb #5 (2xLP) Royal Decree Ware 2004 Fabric 24 (Radio Mix) - Rob Da Bank (CD) Umgebung Fabric (London) 2005 Pop Ambient 2006 (CD) Baghira Kompakt 2005 Pop Ambient 2006 (LP) Baghira Kompakt 2005 Sounds Of Instruments 01 (CD + DVD) Never Want To Stop Playing Klik Records 2005 Underarms And Sideways (2xCD) Sideways One, Sideways... 4AD 2005 Underarms And Sideways (2xCD) Sideways One, Sideways... 4AD (US) 2005 Groove CD #99/N°8 (CD) All The Time (Renato F... Groove 2006 Pop Ambient 2007 (CD) Altocomulus Opacus Kompakt 2006 Pop Ambient 2007 (LP) Altocomulus Opacus Kompakt 2006 Spirit Of NETLAG (File, MP3) Snoevit Zerinnerung 2006 Spirit Of NETLAG (File, MP3) Snoevit Mixotic 2006 Trax#28 (CD) All The Time Trax (Magazine) 2006
Wired Magazine made "Post Ambient" a "hype" term in 1994:
3. Post-Ambient Most musical genres rapidly divide, mutating into a handful of different strains. Punk, for example, split into categories such as thrash, straightedge, oí. Ambient, however, may become the genre that expands to fill the universe. From the original warblings of Eno and Aphex Twin, ambient DJs now spin everything from ethnic chants to Schoenberg. Ambient has come to resemble The Face's facetious description, "anything remotely electronic that lasts longer than 10 minutes and has less than 80 beats per minute." Which, perhaps coincidentally, is also a good definition of Muzak.
Ambient Music mailing list: The Hyperreal ambient email list is flush with advance-release news, philosophical debate and creative tangents (ambient movies, ambient novels); like IDM, it's a mediated list. Visit http://www.hyperreal.com/music/lists/ambient/ to learn how to subscribe. Started in 1994. Trying running some scripts over the terrabytes of archived converations.
In the history of cryptography, Room 40 (formally NID25) was the room in the Admiralty which was the first location of the British cryptography effort during World War I.
This case, ROOM40 is Australian Lawrence English's music project and label.
An interview from Australian Music Online:
In between writing about and making music, Lawrence English also runs his indie electronic label, ::ROOM40::. Who are your 3-5 favourite Australian artists and why?
Oren Ambarchi, Pimmon, Biftek, Frost, The Necks. Five artists/groups each exploring interesting approaches to their chosen form of music.
Tell us about your label...
::ROOM40:: is an imprint and multiarts organisation. The imprint is primarily focused on releasing material such as improvisations, installation soundtracks and themed recorded works. ::ROOM40:: has released material by artists such as John Chantler, Scanner, David Toop, DJ Olive, I/O3, Frost and we have also curated several compilation releases including EMIT one for QUT.
What do you think is the most influential Australian album of all time?
An impossible question to answer – so many high points from so many genres and movements. I like to think I have a wide-ranging taste, so answering something like this is always difficult, if not simply impossible.
Who/where/when was the first local gig you ever attended?
I seriously can’t recall. I remember seeing bands like Regurgitator and a lot of the Valve related acts when I first started reviewing for magazines in Brisbane such as Time Off. I do know I’ve seen somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 bands/artists since first heading out at the tender age of 17. So many impressive groups too!
Describe your most memorable Australian music moment?
There’s been so many - probably too many to make sense of really... too many late nights.
What is the most crucial advice you could give a local artist seeking success?
John Zorn once said something like ‘respect the work, otherwise no one else will’ – that’s a sound idea and one I can recommend to other people. Other than that just be willing to work hard and face up to the creative and logistically challenges that will inevitably get in your way.
If you could have signed any act in Australia (part or present), who would it be?
Again an impossible scenario to access…there are just so many creative people making music in this country.
What do you think is the most important issue facing Australian music today?
The redefinition of the fringe/independent music scene verses the shifting role of major record labels/distributors – a global issue to be sure.
