Stream

Dan Abrams is a student of packaging at Los Angeles's Art Centre College Of Design, a fact that is reflected in the elegant simplicity and organization of his music. Also known as the critically acclaimed artist Shuttle 358 on the NY based label 12k, Dan Abrams has created quite a stir in the US minimal electronic scene due to his extraordinary releases on the 12k label. With his Mille Plateaux debut Stream, Abrams makes further developments uncovering dance music's archetype; be it techno, trance, drum 'n' bass or downtempo -- and shows them in their most sublime state. Stream represents a series of experiments all done synthetically with a script based software synth. A 'stream' is a software term that describes a series of processed (or 'dumped') elements registered into an index to define an order and sequence. all of the tracks use my script that pulls arbitrary clips from his library of songs (some even from 'frame' and 'optimal') and into a software step-sequencer. Some of these are only half a second in length, but are used in rhythmic patterns. others are pitched wildly to form pad sounds. When completed, the tracks become a glitchy, almost dirty highly resampled collage. Playing up any internal fuzz or clicks that occur naturally in the software, these are the basis that support the compositions. Some are techno, other ambient. Some play with overlapping tempos and time, others are very repetitive. The track titles humanize it all a bit, attempting to stray away from the common style convention ... these are very natural, they are not some strange technological niche.