''Scanners'' is the second album by
Kontour
Kontour is an English electronic music artist, signed to Some Bizzare Records.
Background
Early work included recordings of distorted telephone calls and late night television. He uses a range of vintage recording equipment and analog synthesise ...
, released on
Some Bizzare Records
Some Bizzare Records was a British independent record label owned by Stevo Pearce. The label was founded in 1981, with the release of ''Some Bizzare Album'', a compilation of unsigned bands including Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, the The, Neu Elect ...
.
Background
Recorded in
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...
, 2007. The Executive Producer was
Stevo Pearce
Stephen John Pearce, commonly known as Stevo (born 26 December 1962), is a British record producer and music industry executive, best known as the owner of indie record label Some Bizzare Records.
Biography
He was born in Dagenham, Essex, Engla ...
head of
Some Bizzare Records
Some Bizzare Records was a British independent record label owned by Stevo Pearce. The label was founded in 1981, with the release of ''Some Bizzare Album'', a compilation of unsigned bands including Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, the The, Neu Elect ...
.
[Scanners CD Booklet] The album was recorded using no
MIDI
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instruments or personal
computer
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s, instead primitive
music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Cont ...
s, tape effects and
Drum Machines were used.
["Official Web Site interview"](_blank)
accessed 4 March 2009 The vocals on the album where treated like a sound source and manipulated with
audio
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Sound
*Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound
*Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum
*Digital audio, representation of sound ...
effects.
The album follows a theme based on
paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concer ...
; the idea of always being watched wherever you go.
Track listing
#"The Kennedy Syndrome"
#"Loose Wire"
#"Fireworks"
#"Scanners"
#"Inhalation"
#"Necromance"
#"Taken"
#"Pressure Point"
#"Unseen"
#"SHC"
#"Second Skin"
#"Lazarus"
#"Setting Sun"
#"Snow Blind"
#"Lest We Forget"
Personnel
*David Hunt - Instruments & production
*Executive Producer -
Stevo Pearce
Stephen John Pearce, commonly known as Stevo (born 26 December 1962), is a British record producer and music industry executive, best known as the owner of indie record label Some Bizzare Records.
Biography
He was born in Dagenham, Essex, Engla ...
*Mastering - Simon Davey at The Exchange, London
References
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2008 albums
Some Bizzare Records albums