{"title":"Deathprod","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorwegian musician and producer, Deathprod, was born on 26 January 1971. With a career spanning over two decades, he has established himself as a prominent figure in the experimental music scene. Known for his unique soundscapes and innovative use of electronic instruments, Deathprod has captivated audiences worldwide with his haunting compositions. His work combines elements of ambient, drone, and dark ambient genres to create immersive sonic experiences that push the boundaries of traditional music. With numerous critically acclaimed albums under his belt, Deathprod continues to push the limits of sonic exploration and cement his status as a pioneering force in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"occulting-disk","title":"Occulting Disk","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeathprod, a.k.a. Helge Sten, has been deeply embedded in the Oslo music community for decades, but his brooding soundscapes and deliberate process make him seem sometimes like a phantom. Sten is a founding member of Supersilent, adding his sounds and treatments to the avant jazz leanings of that powerful collective, and he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Biosphere, and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eOcculting Disk\u003c\/i\u003e is the first new Deathprod album in 15 years; his attention to detail is next level, and the darkly powerful soundscapes arch and swell like the shifting of the Earth’s tectonic plates. Raw, emotional, political and deliberate, this is ambient music with deep intention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Steve Reich, Autechre, Swans, and GAS will all need this record – Deathprod makes some of the most powerful experimental ambient composition of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smalltown Supersound","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50449062199627,"sku":"1074010","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b4729c31-caa6-46b5-b13d-53f0cb4eb0fe_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727098863"},{"product_id":"compositions","title":"Compositions","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased in Oslo, Norway, Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) has been making his own forms of music with no compromise since the early 90s. His specialty is a deeply atmospheric, grainy minimalism that slows time down and explores the very particles of sound itself. This music can sound forbidding and alien at first, but compared to his more brutal output, it’s an extraordinarily close and intimate experience.  The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s \u003ci\u003eOcculting Disk, Compositions\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of an intense period at his legendary Audio Virus Lab studio in central Oslo. All tracks are released in chronological order – in other words, the order in which they were recorded. Helge used a personal, unique combination of obsolete digital audio processors and sound generators, combined with his own secret-sauce tuning system. Helge adopted the Deathprod alias in 1991. A complex array of homemade electronics, samplers, sound processing and analogue effects – cumulatively known as the ‘Audio Virus’ – combined with obsolete samplers and playback devices, to distort and transform sounds into unrecognizable relatives of their former selves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the new album \u003ci\u003eCompositions\u003c\/i\u003e, the virus has evolved into even more fascinating and kaleidoscopic new strains. Electronically generated sounds vibrate and tremble like undiscovered metals ringing and resonating together. Sonic forms attract or repel each other as if under the influence of a strange magnetism. None of the tracks are over four minutes, but no way are these ‘miniatures’. Each one contains its own fully-formed galaxy of tones and clusters, while all tracks audibly belong in the same universe.  These are 17 compositions in search of a sonic ideal. His \u003ci\u003eCompositions\u003c\/i\u003e are private rather than public music: like introspective chamber or solo compositions instead of the more strident, outward-looking tones of a symphony.  Helge is a founder of Norwegian improvising group Supersilent and has produced records by Motorpsycho, Susanna, Jenny Hval, Arve Henriksen and others. He recently composed music for Harry Partch’s legendary instruments, which can be heard on \u003ci\u003eSow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 2022 on Smalltown Supersound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smalltown Supersound","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50452352860491,"sku":"2004554","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50452352762187,"sku":"2004553","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Deathprod_-_Compositions_packshot_a78fbd5b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727148737"},{"product_id":"morals-and-dogma","title":"Morals and Dogma","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeathprod’s 3 minimalist masterpieces available for the first time on vinyl. Cut to vinyl by Rashad Becker (Dubplates and Mastering). Comes in black gatefold sleeve with japanese obi. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. \u003ci\u003eMorals And Dogma\u003c\/i\u003e is a ritual. Ten years in the making, it contains four pieces, recorded between 1994 and 1997. This is Deathprod at full intensity, featuring an even more expansive and billowing sound as Sten transforms and blends the textures of violins, saw and harmonium. Pieces like \u003ci\u003eDead Peoples Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTron\u003c\/i\u003e were revised numerous times, even though the very first versions of both were chosen for the final sequencing of the album. Both Ole Henrik Moe and Hans Magnus Ryan contribute with their unique approach to the violin, while Moe extends the metallic and textural qualities of \u003ci\u003eCloudchamber\u003c\/i\u003e, utilizing a musical saw. The harmonium on \u003ci\u003eOrgone Donor\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded direct to cassette by Hans Magnus Ryan, and later multi-tracked with dual violins at Audio Virus LAB. \u003ci\u003eCloudchamber\u003c\/i\u003e is layered with electronic treatments of the decay and noise, from a Maestro Echoplex tape-echo machine, and also lends it title from one of the beautifully crafted microtonal instruments of Harry Partch. First released on Rune Grammofon in 2004, this has been pressed from the 2004 original high resolution master.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smalltown Supersound","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50452469875019,"sku":"1008054","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0b8ccf05-3318-4fba-adf6-559d8c7da800_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727153257"},{"product_id":"sow-your-gold-in-the-white-foliated-earth","title":"Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth\u003c\/i\u003e exists first as a curator’s fancy – in this case from Oslo’s Ultima Festival for contemporary music in 2014. The idea was to give revered Norwegian experimental electronic musician Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, access to seminal avant-garde composer Harry Partch’s self-designed, custom-made, specialized, invented instruments – an orchestra tuned to just intonation, using up to 43 intervals instead of the standard 12 for the most commonly used Western equal temperament. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artist with a 30+ year career and an uncompromising reputation that reflects the emotional specificity of his uneasy, yet compelling sound, maintained throughout his expansive discography, Sten was an intriguing choice for such a project. Although he attended art school, training in electronic music and sound art, he had little experience with acoustic instruments and can neither read nor write music notation. Yet he’s been engaged with Partch’s music, and outsider art more generally, since he was a teenager. His resulting piece\/composition for the project was originally intended only for performance by Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, for a series of concerts in five European cities between 2015 and 2018. It’s Musikfabrik that undertook the painstaking, expensive process of building an entire set of the composer’s creations – the second only to the originals built by Partch himself. They are the professional musicians and virtuosic instrumentalists that had to re-train and re-educate on these unknown and experimental sound sculptures in non-standard tunings. And they house this large, gorgeous physical instrumentarium and deal with the enormous logistics of working with it, sometimes shipping the fragile pieces to other locales via semi-trucks or ships.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smalltown Supersound","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50469647450443,"sku":"1164389","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50469649023307,"sku":"1166063","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b5c3aa61-08ab-4f17-872d-037b7650dc29_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727364745"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_75594614_thumbnail_4096_99385216-196e-4a9c-b08f-c6b050b388bf.jpg?v=1727098841","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/deathprod.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}