Mercury Retrograde available in digital form today
Roel Funcken - Mercury Retrograde
Prolific Dutch producer Roel Funcken has established himself an agile,
meticulous sonic craftsman whose output has consistently been as accessible as it has innovative. Most recently, he opened for Flying Lotus and Tipper during his last US tour. As half of the group Funckarma, he has recorded for esteemed labels including Skam, Ad Noiseam, Arcola (Warp), Isophlux, Marguerita, and others. For Mercury Retrograde, his first release on Schematic, Funcken taps into textures reminiscent of the mid ‘90s drum n bass subgenre techstep, the lush downtempo of Bristol, and Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack work. This latest release adds to the ever evolving, rich, and inspired catalog of Funcken.
Watch the visionary video of Bextures Teeth by Michel De Klein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ArB97LSpY
Read:
http://igloomag.com/reviews/roel-funcken-mercury-retrograde-schematic
Check out Roel's very impressive back catalogue:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Roel+Funcken
http://roelfuncken.com/
http://www.funckarma.com/
catalogue number: SCH-096
2012 Schematic Music Company
http://schematic.net/
Mesmer is a collaboration with Rena Jones http://renamusic.com
Smart Ambient is a remix for Known Rebel
collab with Cor bolten (Jupiter 4 & Jupiter 8)
beat version previously released on Tympanik Audio
tympanikaudio.com/ soundcloud.com/known-rebel
Deer is a remix for Seaming To seaming.co.uk
Gangsta Riddim is a remix for Scanone
previously released on Outside recordings
outside-recordings.com/ soundcloud.com/scanone
Design by future tenses
Timothée Mathelin aka shift/ futurorg.com

“As the experimental envelop is torn to shreds, Roel Funken offers the Schematic team a futuristic balance of primed electronics tied to leftfield dub extracts and leaves listeners to decipher for themselves how these frequency ranges will interact with their lives.”
