William Yates records under the name Memotone, and his debut album, I Sleep.At Waking is out on Black Acre in October. With influences as varied as John Cage, Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Shadow and J-Dilla, as well as having lived in a 400 year old haunted cottage in the middle of nowhere, its fair to say that a lot of different ideas feed into his music. He spoke to KMag about gathering music, putting it together and how he builds his sound.
“The idea behind Twisted Dawn fits perfectly as a platform for this mix, we wanted atmosphere with a cinematic mood to represent the still beauty of night, and that’s exactly what landed in our inbox yesterday.
We hope for these mixes to have a meaningful impact, something that you will want to keep longer than your average mix. Play it late at night, while out driving, walking, or on a journey and prepare to be drawn in as the mix becomes the soundtrack to whatever you are doing.”
TRACK LISTING:
1. Sleepwalk – Moon Ate The Dark [SONIC PIECES]
2. Prelude – Hildur Gudnadottir [Touch]
3. Ravens Lament – The Haxan Cloak [Aurora Borealis]
4. Empty Platform – Memotone [From Forthcoming Album on Black Acre]
5. microon III – Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto [raster-noton]
6. Mapa – Murcof [Leaf]
7. Rostro – Murcof [Leaf]
8. R.I.P – Actress [Honest Jon’s Records]
9. Flicker VIII – Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra [innova]
10. Killing Floor – Vex’d [???]
11. Stokes Croft 5am – Bass Clef [BLANK TAPES]
12. Nightfall (Ben Lukas Boysen Remix) – Borealis [Origami Sound]
13. Down Illusion – Memotone [From Forthcoming Album on Black Acre]
14. Time Spent – Deaf Center [Type]
15. Lichter – The Notwist [Alien Transistor]
16. Snow – Hauschka [Fat Cat]
17. It Goes Without Saying – Nico Muhly [BEDROOM COMMUNITY]
18. Days In The Wilderness – Leyland Kirby [History Always Favours The Winners]
19. Half Nelson Courtship – Puma – [Rune Grammofon]
20. Ghosts I; 9 – Nine Inch Nails – [HALO]
21. Kanon Pokajanen; Ode V – Arvo P‰rt: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir [ECM]
Thanks to A Future Without one of my tracks ‘My Stranger’ has been featured on the new CD that comes with the WIRE magazine. You can also hear it and read more on the wire website here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/current/
The track is taken from my Hands EP which was released earlier this year on A Future Without.
The EP also came with a free T-shirt. More more info and images check out the ‘Buy/Free Download’ section of this website. Enjoy!
I went up over the hills into a large valley with a pine wood on one side and the edge of a distant vale behind. Once up there I set up my binaural microphones on a tripod with a dummy head and climbed a little way down the valley leaving my microphone recording at the top. I then lit a dynamite banger and threw it high into the air. The banger exploded peeling and echo over the hills and wood and finally, 10 seconds after the initial explosion, a soft scattering of sound against the rim of the distant vale.
This is the piano part to a track from my forthcoming album ‘I Sleep. At Waking’ coming out on Black Acre Records towards the end of the year.
Performed on the Nord Piano 88 and recorded using a Zoom H4.
