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previous artist: allen strange		there are 5 titles featuring strategy in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: igor stravinsky

$13.47

new to stock as of
june 26th, 2008

threads:
minimalism-drones
beat-research
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics

audio dregs (usa) #adr 068 cd

strategy “music for lamping” compact disc

i can't stand the rain (14:12)
cathedral spark (7:33)
bike click (9:13)
all day... (5:45)
world service (5:42)
lower macleay (14:37)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "world service"

april 2008 release ; a lovely set of pieces from paul “strategy” dickow leaning more towards the horizontal applications (read: textural / ambient / drone / whathaveyou) than his more known dancefloor antics ...

audio dregs press release...

strategy - music for lamping cd (audio dregs recordings: adr068: 708527506820)

strategy's paul dickow has been a longtime cornerstone player in portland, oregon's electronic and experimental music community. he was once a drummer in the punk group emergency, a keyboard player in jazz/post-rock's fontanelle, played drums and electronics in nudge, djs eclectic disco and techno sets, and also remixes and produces dancefloor bangers as well as ambient, abstract pop expressions under his solo moniker strategy. he has built up a name releasing acclaimed albums for kranky and 12"s for labels such as orac (seattle) and dreck (london) and also by founding the premier cascadian freedom music record label known as community library

for years paul and audio dregs have been comrades and collaborators and now we are proud to bring you his latest offering that collects strategy's rain-soaked chillout recordings and slow motion filtered dubscapes. these are the tracks rescued from the mornings after the dance parties and longer compositions collected from his studio in moss covered corners of green cascadian forest caverns.

"music for lamping contains six years' worth of music that can roughly be called ambient - perhaps "meditative" is a better word. all of this music combines my interest in blurring/expanding/clouding processes--such as granular synthesis, vocoding, and bucket-brigade delay -- with happenstance sound sources, such as field recordings or a favorite record sitting around the studio. the earliest music dates to a 2002 cd that was never released, entitled strategy at beacon rock, which was intended as a 'gentle' or 'atmospheric' treatment of plundered audio. the material from 2004 onwards dates to a period of soundwalks in my neighborhood of northwest portland (a perfect strolling zone). taken altogether, these pieces form a traceable thread through my work where i use my usual raw materials to reach a more liquid, spontaneous end result." -paul dickow

$12.01

new to stock as of
november 1st, 2007

threads:
beat-research

kranky (usa) #krank 108 cd

strategy “future rock” compact disc

can't roll back (6:20)
future rock (9:07)
running on empty (8:59)
windswept (interlude) (2:15)
stops spinning (5:34)
phantom powered (6:43)
sunfall (interlude) (2:59)
red screen (8:24)
i have to do this thing (planete sauvage mix) (7:02)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "red screen"

kranky press release...

artist: strategy
title: future rock
catalog #: krank108
formats available: cd
release date: may 21, 2007

this is paul dickow's second full length for kranky and third as strategy. he is extremely busy running the community library label, which will be releasing a 12" version of this album's title track, while also collaborating in the trio nudge, and recording and performing solo work.

three years have passed since drumsolo's delight, and strategy finally comes forward with a new full-length. his third album to date, future rock focuses strategy's diverse interests into a single point, while still drawing directly from the dense, shimmering sonic language established on delight.

based on a refined studio process that incorporates multi-tracked live instrumentation, archaic synthesizer equipment, archived recordings of improvisations and band practices, digital sound design, and sound of non-musical origin, the album is a polyglot solution of genres. musical quotations, discrete sonic jokes, and skewed musicological impressions are blended into a dream-like, impressionistic musical composite which confounds and compounds music's past, present, and future. a gauzy, vibrating curtain of sound, much like the one that made drumsolo’s so distinctive, ties together all the songs as do the signature wurlitzer electric piano and old-school spring reverb.

incorporating compositions that have taken years to develop, a handful of close collaborators (including his cohorts from the band nudge), and using source material that dates as far back as 2000, future rock is easily strategy's most complex, narrative, ambitious and overtly "pop" record to date; as well, it's practically a thesis statement for his vision of a genre-free musical world. to date you've heard strategy dabble in everything from headphone-oriented ambient music to house and dub; this is the work that brings it all together.

$12.01

back in stock as of
november 1st, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2004

threads:
beat-research
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

kranky (usa) #krank 066 cd

strategy “drumsolo’s delight” compact disc

cascadian nights (4:03)
super shewolf inna city (5:37)
drumsolo's delight (5:31)
jazzy's dilemma (5:40)
super final zen (5:54)
walkingtime (5:29)
the jazzy drumsolo (11:44)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "cascadian nights"

kranky press release...

artist: strategy
title: drumsolo's delight
catalog #: krank066
formats available: cd
release date: april 26, 2004

drumsolo's delight is the second album paul dickow has made under the name strategy. dickow was a fan of synth-pop who simultaneously learned to play keyboards, the drums and program. he went on to drum in the art punk outfit emergency, play keyboards in fontanelle and multiple instruments in nudge.

strategy wires together dickow's programming and performing experience via a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship. combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic sensibility, strategy unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by complex pulsations. the portland mercury described dickow as "portland's laptop prankster/meister of disquo."

paul dickow has been performing and djing at dance clubs, rock clubs, dance parties and galleries up and down the west coast. he releases music on his archigramophone imprint and curates monthly community library nights at the dunes club in portland. strategy has released dance singles (with seattle's orac label), remixes and a debut album, strut, on the portland-based outward music label in summer 2003.

drumsolo's delight weds the subtle rhythmic promise of the early work anthologized on strut with a discreet ambience. the album flirts with the tensions of hyper-modern digital vastness on one hand, and the gritty immediacy of live dub mixing on the other.

drumsolo's delight moves towards the points of overlap between rhythm and cloudiness- reaching towards the grey area where sounds share active and passive characteristics. drumsolo's delight is strategy's most thematic work to date, and aside from the technical syntheses achieved in the studio, the album is an accurate snapshot of several years' of work creating music concerned with geography/place, people, memory, and weather.

$5.76

back in stock as of
june 26th, 2008

first in stock on
july 26th, 2005

threads:
bedroom
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

audio dregs (usa) #adr 054 cd

“fork ends” compact disc

f.s. blumm - bedvanilla further
lullatone - bushman's samba
greg davis - regional potato chips
nudge - your castle's vaporware
flim - donkey trains
nice nice - deep #8
guido möbius - goreng
honey & colleen - lala musica
kazumasa hashimoto - ending (variation)
e*rock - breaking things and fixing them (again)
baikonour - 60 to 0
lineland - meriwether
frz - teenage big ideas
un caddie renversé dans l'herbe - turu ru ru
strategy - super 80s future
e*vax & supersprite - 12 halfs

2005 budget compilation from audio dregs featuring a grand selection of music by roster artists and friends of the label both established and otherwise. audio dregs, as a label, is carving out a fine niche of melodic-tronic-a with one of the most interesting design personalites of any us label... most to some included tracks are exclusive. a great way to check out this label on the downlow ...

audio dregs press release...

v/a - fork ends cd (audio dregs recordings: adr054: 708527505427)

audio dregs presents it's brand new compilation featuring exclusive songs by adr regulars as well as a host of artists from around globe. some artists may be new to many people in the states and some may already be favorites to some of us for their previous releases on labels like carpark, tomlab, kranky, tigerbeat 6, plop, and melodic. we’ve even included a couple exclusive collaborative pieces to take things a bit further into new realms.

fork ends is meant to be a follow up to last years for friends comp; specially priced for the people, and a salute to musical friendships and community. it’s not a sampler, and it’s more than a collection of songs, but a compilation in the best sense that is meant to listen like an album. filled with a variety of home listening experiments, bucolic melodicism, and acoustic-electric instrumental pop songs with the intent to take you into the microworlds of some of our favorite electronic composers of recent times.

includes music by f.s. blumm, lullatone, greg davis, nudge, flim, nice nice, guido mobius, honey & colleen, kazumasa hashimoto, e*rock, baikonour, lineland, frz, un caddie renversé dans l'herbe, strategy, e*vax & supersprite.

$7.75

new to stock as of
september 29th, 2005

file under:
lap-top
contemporary-electronic
break-core

tigerbeat6 (usa) #meow 099 ep

“planet of the fight club” twelve inch single record

nice nice vs. strategy - onneon rmx
stars as eyes vs. dwayne sodahberk - if i could rmx
nathan michel vs. aelters
kid606 vs. drop the lime - ecstasy mofo rmx
kid606 vs. com.a - the illness/metal booty rmx
xanopticon vs. dev/null - agoraphobic nosebleed rmx

tigerbeat6 press release...

planet of the fight club is the show-stopping finale in tb6's no-holds-barred, vinyl-only fight club series, pitting like-minded artists from across the globe in a series of pitched sonic battles.

tonight's fight card features: stars as eyes vs. dwayne sodahberk, nice nice vs. strategy (kranky), agoraphobic nosebleed (hydrahead) vs. dev null / xanopticon (hymen/mirex). we've even got kid606 on two tracks, going up against com.a and america's finest breakcore artist, drop the lime. the last and best in the fight club series!

previous artist:
allen strange

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next artist:
igor stravinsky