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Gazelle Twin – Influences

 
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Gazelle Twin picked up The Quietus's album of the year award in 2014 with second album proper Unflesh – and the more we listen the more we agree. Unflesh was a splendidly unsettling listen, sparse electronic drums rattling through claustrophobic tunnels of synthetic collapse. Whether it was some hellish variant of hip hop, a modern industrial template, or the place that punk music went to live once more was uncertain. That is was very fucking good was certain.

After a feted performance at Convergence, we asked Gazelle Twin to offer us a selection of the tracks that are currently influencing her the most. Carter Tutti Void, Perc, and bursts of polymoog – it all makes a perfect, twisted sense.

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Carter Tutti Void - V3 (Edit)

I was lucky to catch a performance of this at Incubate in 2014. It was transcendental. When I listen to Transverse, I visualise a sort of rampant industrial death machine bulldozing through deep space. Hard to describe without sounding off my head, but it’s deeply pleasurable.

  • Carter Tutti Void - V3 (Edit)

    I was lucky to catch a performance of this at Incubate in 2014. It was transcendental. When I listen to Transverse, I visualise a sort of rampant industrial death machine bulldozing through deep space. Hard to describe without sounding off my head, but it’s deeply pleasurable.

  • Paula Temple - Gegen

    I’ve really enjoyed getting familiar with Paula’s intense sound. It’s like drinking adrenalin. Relentlessly brilliant.

  • Lorn - 'Diamond'

    There’s a subdued violence and restraint to Lorn’s music that I really admire, together with his use of samples. The videos that accompany his music are almost always excellent and perfectly matched.

  • Dean Blunt

    Dean Blunt’s music is mostly strange and unquestionably good. Live, he usually delivers the opposite of what everyone wants or expects. We need more of this.

  • Benge - 1975 Moog Polymoog

    I’ve been listening to Twenty Systems on tap since I began touring. I find it to be the most perfect travelling music because it’s structurally minimal and the warmth of an analogue synth is just what I need to sleep sound on uncomfortable planes or trains.

  • Perc - Bleeding Colours

    Pretty much everything on his latest album – The Power And The Glory is exactly the sort of thing I have grown to adore and really crave in the last couple of years. Just pure intensity with careful restraint.

  • Zamilska - Duel 35

    The Quietus paired me up with Zamilska for a live show in February, and she played an excellent and incredibly intense set. Here’s one of my favourites of her album UNTUNE from last year.

  • Pet Shop Boys - It Couldn't Happen Here (With Bbc Live Audio Track - Vjdustin 2013 2nd Edit)

    I’m almost completely new to The Pet Shop Boys’ non-hits. There’s a hint of the dreaded Lloyd Webber in this song, which would normally make me leap for the stop button, but in the context of the rest of the album (Actually), it’s got a strong melancholic hit that’s really intriguing.