Tracklisting:
- Feel The Tubes Gliding Around You - Neuro... No Neuro
- Perfume Remix - Nakamura Tomotsugu
- Aeroelastic - Autistici
- It's / A / Burning / Hoot / To / Mix / A / Fire / And / Match / The / Distance Distant Fires Burning
- Perfume Eater - Q7XL feat. YoungGettem & DJ Milkman
- Pollinated - Russ Young
- Lavender Soap - Seakn
- Amber - Flight Mechanics
- First Return - Deckard.Momma
Tracklisting:
- We All Have Hot Chocolate Tummies and Frozen Faces (for 6 Bass Viols) - Bryan Teoh
- Suite Part 4 - Anura
- Perfume MIDI - Correspondence
- Suite Part 3 - Nomad Palace
- Burn - Made of Oak
- Samsara - Ümlaut
- Heartdive - He Can Jog
Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog - Vol. 1 & 2
There are some very limited handmade cassettes available of volume 1 & 2 you can buy these here - http://www.hecanjog.com/play/.
These tapes are a collection of new and old music by folks close to the Audiobulb family. Some were commissioned for this project specially and some were produced over the years in other contexts now collected and remastered here.
Most recently I invited some friends and Audiobulb at large to have at a data dump of renders, stems and alternate takes. Quite a number of pieces feature procedurally folded trumpet recordings from a segment of the EP "it's / a / hoot / to / mix / and / match". I had such plans for those trumpets but they never really materialized in "hoot". I'm really delighted that they've taken on a new life.
Many of these pieces use none of those recordings. Like Bryan Teoh's haunting arrangement of "We All Have Hot Chocolate Tummies and Frozen Faces" for multitracked viola de gamba.
Anura and Nomad Palace also composed their contributions from the ground up, reworking two different movements from the album Middlemarch. On guitar in Anura's case and accordion / melodica in Nomad Palaces'.
These tracks recompose the material so extensively it's a matter of trivia to note what sounds were sourced in the process. To me these tracks possess a frailty in sound -- the potential of scraps and detritus is enough. What is enoughhhh?
This collection is for Louis. <3”
Credits:
• Mastered by Andrew Weathers
He Can Jog
He Can Jog is Erik Schoster a sound artist based in Minnesota. He is a very special artist within the Audiobulb family. His music was a driving inspiration to start the label in the first place. Across the years Erik has continued to release beautiful, accomplished multi-genre music utilising his many instrumental skills and passion for coding.
This two volume set includes remixes and recordings of He Can Jog from friends of audiobulb and will be released in full on 20th January 2024.
The albums will also be available on cassette from Erik who has made bespoke artwork for the project. We hope you enjoy this collection of the works which demonstrates the breadth of the He Can Jog sound as it morphs through ambient, jazz trumpet, electronic, classical, rap and glitch.
Reviews
African PaperAudiobulb are just releasing a large-scale homage to the American computer musician Erik Schoster aka He Can Jog in the form of a two-part compilation. The work is a celebration of a long creative friendship between Erik, the label and the musicians who contributed various remixes and reinterpretations and at the same time a comprehensive introduction to various genres of electronic music relevant to the label. Ümlaut, Nakamura Tomotsugu, Bryan Teoh, Neuro… No Neuro, Anura, Nomad Palace, Russ Young are just a few of the names represented, and He Can Jog himself can be heard alone on one track. In addition to the digital version, the release is also available on two limited tapes.
Original > HERE
FBi Radio
I've followed the music of Eric Schoster's He Can Jog here on Utility Fog for over 13 years. It's ranged from folktronica to drone to generative electronica, and thus the music on these two cassette volumes is similarly far-reaching. For the start of 2024, with the Audiobulb label Schoster has compiled Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog - Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, featuring remixes, reworkings and even covers of He Can Jog's music through many years. For a mere £3 each, it should be cinch for experimental electronic music fans to grab these. Tonight, two Milwaukee-based artists for some reason: Seakn gives us glitchy sounds, sparsely accreting into accelerated beats, while Q7XL unexpectedly takes the glitchy rhythms into hip-hop, with YoungGettem (maybe an alter-ego?) and DJ Milkman.
Original > HERE
Silence and Sound
Erik Schoster aka He Can Jog asked a host of friends and artists from the excellent Audiobulb Records label to compose new things with old personal tracks. And the result is there, simply astonishing in diversity and quality.
It is over two volumes that we can benefit from the phenomenal work carried out by the artists who participated in the adventure, restructuring or reinventing the music of the American composer. Between ambient beaches and more rhythmic structures, like the sublime Perfume Eater revisited by Q7XL with YoungGettem and DJ Milkman , for a hip hop trip with absorbing coolness.
The titles follow one another with sinuosity and virtuosity, plunging us into territories where electronica abstraction, electronic experiments, organic drum'n'bass and IDM variations catapult us into a colorful wonderland full of vibrant auditory pulsations. Stunning.
Original > HERE