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Omniverse

by Xordox

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thenewspaper This music is unique from JGT and most music I listen to or hear. It has some rare energy like marching band music, where it feels somehow improper to sit still or not be worked into a frenzy by it. Maybe like doing cocaine in a pitch-black basement. Favorite track: Endeavor.
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DARRYL SMITH The electronic vibe of these sounds are amazing. Just like the 1st album Neospection which was also awesome !! Favorite track: Between Dimensions.
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MacK Xordox is back! Another wide-screen, CinemaScope, inter dimensional classic.
souril
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souril Brilliant menacing electro, the most 'instant' stuff JG's released since the 2nd Venture Bros. album. Favorite track: Between Dimensions.
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1.
Endeavor 06:35 video
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Argonia 05:26
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Dark Matter 05:28
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Croydon 03:29
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Oil Slick 13:04
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Rivet 04:27

about

Throughout his vast career, the New York based Australian composer JG Thirlwell has adopted many masks as a means of infiltrating and subsequently subverting a wide range of cultural forms. His work under the Foetus moniker has taken on everything from big band to opera to noise-rock. Steroid Maximus embraced exotica and the world of soundtracks, while his Manorexia project continued his quest to the outer limits of contemporary composition and musique concrete. Thirlwell has also carved out a significant output in the field of the soundtrack via the large body of work created for the animated television shows Archer and The Venture Bros. In addition he has been commissioned to create compositions by such notables as Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, String Orchestra of Brooklyn and many others.

Now we have ‘Omniverse’, the second release under the moniker Xordox. Xordox is a synthesizer-based project, and on this evocative album we see the project branch into many new avenues. Science fiction elements brush up against crime noir and the epic film scores. With an audacious attitude and an arsenal of machines Thirlwell serves up a selection of thrilling retro-future mind capsules. This is music made from a life saturated in culture, both underground and mainstream, high and low. Fully formed compositions, tense sequencing and noir tinged keyboard lines invoke a powerful visual image of films and memory, of screens and speakers, of sound and space, all entering the cosmos and the subsequent galactic race.
Thirlwell’s decades long exploration of sampling and sequencing, composing and ingesting a daunting amount of audio and visual artworks speaks volumes for the bold assimilations exposed here. ‘Between Dimensions’ lays out a tense theme which starts off suspensefully before morphing into a simulacra of sci-fi dystopia; ‘Oil Slick’ permeates wormholes, updating lifeforms with its stealth sequencing and tense momentum, and ‘Argonia’ appears to herald the creation of a new sonic civilization.

‘Omniverse' is a synthesised soundtrack journey, one which embraces past forms whilst reshaping them for the new unknown. ‘Omniverse' is a thrilling liquid ride through fear and hope, and like all the best of Thirlwell’s output, is simply one hell of an enjoyable journey to take.

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released May 7, 2021

All songs composed, performed and recorded by JG Thirlwell at Self Immolation Studios

Final mixes with Al Carlson at Gary’s Electric Greenpoint

Buchla and Serge recordings made at EMS Stockholm
Tech and engineering at EMS by Jonas Broberg and Daniel Araya

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Vinyl cutting by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnitstelle, Berlin
Artwork by JG Thirlwell
Additional layout by Heung-Hueng Chin

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JG Thirlwell Brooklyn, New York

JG Thirlwell is a Brooklyn based composer who is known for his musical projects Foetus, Manorexia, Xordox, Steroid Maximus and more. He creates the musical scores the animated shows Archer and Venture Bros. He has collaborated with Melvins, Zola Jesus, Lydia Lunch, Simon Steensland, Tredici Bacci and many more. He has composed for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Dither, Alarm Will Sound and more ... more

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