Machine

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Release Date: 2020-11-06

Label: Machine

Once upon a time arrangements of stabs of ink on paper were the pinnacle of digital reproduction. Perforated concertinas revelling in the dot matrix. This was the time where Ollie Olsen drove a wedge into the analogue/digital divide and declared the birth of a new era. In the world of music this was the new dark art, the thirsty work of milking the machine.

Fast forward to a world of digital imaging and 3D reproduction, and in music, the constant dance along a line between original, digital and analogue; a vague and nebulous line. The analogue invested with qualities that seem even more original, until the reproduction becomes the realisation of what the original only hinted at.

Reproduction then, is not limited to mimicry; it redefines the original and asks where to next?

Enter then this most fabled and celebrated pioneer of the form. Isn’t it fitting to know that as we entered the strangest, most deliberate and yet arbitrary period of annexation and self-isolation that Ollie Olsen re-entered his own ground zero. The dark, rich and fertile void of the studio out of which a new creature was ready to be born…

As the world and more specifically the music industry awkwardly ponders who and what it is, this modern shaman has consulted his bank of Machines, wires, computers for an answer; his answer: Machine EP.

Bandcamp release date 6 Nov 2020
https://machinelabel.bandcamp.com/album/machine