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John Digweed and Nick Muir make off-grid LP with sci-fi writer Hawks
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 28 August 2014
John Digweed and Nick Muir, aka production house Bedrock, have made an LP based on a trilogy of dystopian books by sci-fi writer John Twelve Hawks.
It’s a symbiotic kind of collaboration, given that Hawks was himself directly inspired by Digweed’s ‘Transitions’ radio show/mix compilations whilst writing his ‘Traveler’ series. In spite of his choosing to live an incognito-type life ‘off the grid’, Hawks did consent to meet briefly with Digweed and Muir “in the middle of nowhere” to record spoken word excerpts for the project, narrating parts of the books via voice-changing software against the pair’s electronic score.
Digweed explains: “John’s contributions have been treated and changed with software in a variety of different ways on the album and the original recordings of his voice have been deleted to further protect his identity. These measures may seem drastic but this is how he wishes to conduct his career as an author in relation to the subject matter he deals with and we completely respect that. He is a perfect example of how it is possible to operate within an underground culture and we are privileged and delighted to bring a musical perspective to his ideas”.
‘The Traveler’ is released on 6 Oct, carrying with it this tracklisting:
First Line
Live Off The Grid
Am I Awake
Capoeira
Stay In The Present
The Traveler
The Truth
Battle
Find The Way
Damned By The Flesh
3B3
We Are All Connected
Last Line
And this is a preview of ‘3B3’, which will precede the LP as a single:
