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New York-based electronic musician Taylor Deupree (1971) debuted with the
EPs Freak Of Nature (Tension, 1996) and
Bang Bang Machine (Electric Music Foundation, 1997).
In 1997 he founded 12k, a label devoted to digital minimalism.
In 2000 he added another label, Line, devoted to even more minimal/digital music.
His style has been refined through a number of collaborations:
Tower of Winds (Caipirinha, 1997) with Savvas Ysatis,
Spec (12k, 1999) with Richard Chartier,
Active/Freeze (12K, 2000) with Tetsu Inoue,
Post_Piano (SubRosa, 2002) with Kenneth Kirschner,
After (12k, 2002) with Chartier and Kim Cascone,
Balance (Mille Plateaux, 2002) with Frank Bretschneider,
etc.
The subject and the object of Comma (12k, 1998) was repetition,
which only apparently led to a form of alienated techno music.
Deupree flirted more seriously with
techno on the EPs Focux (2000), Tokei (2001) and Print (2002).
.N (Ritornell, 2000), inspired by nanotechnology,
and Polr (Raster, 2000) were his best
Mika Vainio imitations.
Occur (12k, 2001) marks a quantum leap in originality: the work
is devoted to
sporadic musique concrete, like a panorama that is periodically disturbed by
brief catastrophic events.
On the other hand,
Stil (12k, 2002) is Occur's alter-ego: repetitive, geometric,
stationary, like the video of a still nature. But also very much like Oval
a decade before.
January (Spekk, 2004) is even more trivial in its minimal repetition.
Every Still Day (2005) is a collaboration with Japanese trio Eisi.
Mujo (2005) is a collaboration with San Francisco-based multimedia
artist Christopher Willits.
After the deadly stillness of January, more movement appears in the
lovely cartilage of Northern (12k, 2006), thanks to the influence of
Every Still Day.
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