Coming March 2010 to CD and free digital download.
Monday, February 21, 2011
KTRU
http://ktru.org/newsite/top-35-for-2-20-2011
'Modular Puzzle' has been getting lots of radio play from the Houston-area FM radio station 91.7 KTRU. It is in their top 20 playlist this week.
'Modular Puzzle' has been getting lots of radio play from the Houston-area FM radio station 91.7 KTRU. It is in their top 20 playlist this week.
'Trills - Modular Puzzle' Sitting Now Review
http://sittingnow.co.uk/2011/02/19/trills-%E2%80%93-modular-puzzle-iabsentee/
"I was introduced to Trills on the recent Section 27 release “PH 14”, a split between him and some other guy who’s name escapes me. I was, therefore, quite happy to receive “Modular Puzzle” to further my research.
If you took Boards of Canada, Autechre and Aphex Twin and blended them in a large test tube, shipped them to America and injected them into a host stem cell and raised that stem cell as an electronic musician, you may end up with something like Trills. His influences are obvious (to me at least) but not in a crude way. This is a man who has been listening to the right stuff, while far enough away from the scene to fashion his own take on things. It is also an album of contrasts, one moment he is all futuristic (“Paragon” which is kind of like EP5 era Autechre but with straighter beats) and then on the next track (“Erawitt”) he’s on a kind of 80’s sci-fi movie thing…like an alternative soundtrack to “Running Man”. Then he’s all experimental and industrial on “Zurich”, before dropping in a retro sample and going all glitchy acid hip-hop on “Binarium”). Some people might struggle to move between styles like this but I can safely say that the ball is never dropped on this album. He maintains his own identity, while throwing his influences at a blank canvas and carefully squishing them around, to form something new and old, experimental but enjoyable and challenging but friendly.
http://www.i-absentee.com/IA029.html"
"I was introduced to Trills on the recent Section 27 release “PH 14”, a split between him and some other guy who’s name escapes me. I was, therefore, quite happy to receive “Modular Puzzle” to further my research.
If you took Boards of Canada, Autechre and Aphex Twin and blended them in a large test tube, shipped them to America and injected them into a host stem cell and raised that stem cell as an electronic musician, you may end up with something like Trills. His influences are obvious (to me at least) but not in a crude way. This is a man who has been listening to the right stuff, while far enough away from the scene to fashion his own take on things. It is also an album of contrasts, one moment he is all futuristic (“Paragon” which is kind of like EP5 era Autechre but with straighter beats) and then on the next track (“Erawitt”) he’s on a kind of 80’s sci-fi movie thing…like an alternative soundtrack to “Running Man”. Then he’s all experimental and industrial on “Zurich”, before dropping in a retro sample and going all glitchy acid hip-hop on “Binarium”). Some people might struggle to move between styles like this but I can safely say that the ball is never dropped on this album. He maintains his own identity, while throwing his influences at a blank canvas and carefully squishing them around, to form something new and old, experimental but enjoyable and challenging but friendly.
http://www.i-absentee.com/IA029.html"
Sunday, February 6, 2011
"Blue Metabolic Sunrise" announcement
Coming in February is the next Trills release entitled "Blue Metabolic Sunrise" which will be available as a free download from my friends over at Retronym. The artwork will be completed Joseph Bastardo from Future Forest Design
Here is a preview of the opening track entitled Euphotic Zone:
Trills - Euphotic Zone by trills
Here is a preview of the opening track entitled Euphotic Zone:
Trills - Euphotic Zone by trills
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Sandy Ewen & Jonathan Jindra live recording
Jonathan Jindra & Sandy Ewen (live improv 12-12-2010) by trills
Jonathan Jindra (Trills) & Sandy Ewen performing a live improvised set at the Binarium Sound Series in Houston, TX 12-12-2010
Jonathan Jindra (Trills) & Sandy Ewen performing a live improvised set at the Binarium Sound Series in Houston, TX 12-12-2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
2 B-Sides Available
Bermuda Triangle' @ I, Absentee is an outlet for them to present free extra tracks of artists connected with the label. Due to the nature of the concept, most files are unmastered and the older audio may contain surface noise in the original recordings. There are two Trills tracks added to the collective: "Blood ...Orange" is a Modular Puzzle demo outtake, and "Joguko" is a newer track that I quite like, but isn't fitting the flow of the rest of my more recent output.
"Joguko" and "Blood Orange"
AVAILABLE HERE
"Joguko" and "Blood Orange"
AVAILABLE HERE
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