FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
The international composer of digital
music known as R. Bot has released his debut full-length record, “Fly
on Five.” The album is comprised of 12 original tracks for an
approximate total listening time of one hour. Categorized variously
online as Balearic, downtempo, EDM or simply electronica, R. Bot's
latest official offering is a highly textured and creatively
atmospheric album. “Fly on Five” recalls the very best of the
mid-'90s electronic music underground scene, much of which flew
beneath the mainstream radar for being far too ahead of its time.
R. Bot's “Fly on Five” constructs
an alternate reality around the listener full of majesty and awe,
suggesting stainless-steel environments and journeys through the
cosmos without ever sounding silly or contrived. It has clear and
powerful elements of the ambient subgenre, yet with clear structures
and melodies. Its general composition is closer to classical music
than the looped machinations of popular contemporary EDM, reminiscent
of the subtle complexities of digital music before the turn of the
millennium.
The explanation for this is that R.
Bot's “Fly on Five” is a sonic time capsule, its tracks having
been composed in the mid 1990s.
“Returning to the Netherlands in 1992
from having lived in Canada for eight-and-a-half years, I found it
difficult to adjust to my new surroundings,” writes R. Bot. “Music
served as a way to escape reality and allowed me to get back into my
comfort zone.”
Using his first synthesizer, a Roland
D50, and recording live on digital audio tape, R. Bot produced a bevy
of compositions. His favorites from these make up the “Fly on Five”
LP.
“I’ve continued making music and
some artistic videos under the name Gholar Fix,” he writes.
“Occasionally I have worked on projects outside my own, providing
music or sound design on film projects. Recently, I decided to listen
through my old recordings which I made in the nineties on DAT and
pick out 12 tracks to remaster and release as a debut album named
'Fly on Five,' feeling I owed it to my past self not to let these
tracks go to waste.”
Fans of digital music everywhere have
very good reason to be glad for it. Get in early.
“Fly on Five” by R. Bot is
available online worldwide beginning 1 February 2014.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
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