Delightful analogue beats and sounds from Scott August of Vote Robot

You must know the John Cage maxim that if something seems boring after doing it for a minute, try doing it for two minutes, and if still boring, try four, then eight, sixteen and so on and so on. Eventually you will find that it is not boring at all, but in fact, very interesting. With that in mind, here are a series of thoughts on “Conversions In Metric”.
Hans Werner, while building a new prototype robot, borrowed a ruler from an electronics engineer. An interesting ruler, with the usual increments for inches on one side; fourths, eighths, sixteenths, etc, but on the flip side, increments in tenths, fiftieths, hundredths. It was of Japanese design. Older model digital audio machines utilize different data transfer methods than some of today’s machines, so occasionally material recorded on older machines can’t always be played properly on the new machines. This can result in the need to transport an old machine to a small room on the second floor of a nondescript industrial zone building in order to get the proper transfer of data required by a certain set of circumstances. “Van Der Graaf Helicopter” has never, to my knowledge, been used as a band name. Does anyone know the meaning or origins of the word “scepana”? Everybody knows the meaning of “Déjà vu”, but is there a term for hearing something that is simultaneously alien and familiar, at once both the surface of Venus and your very own pillow? An astounding amount of synapses are firing electrical charges during the playing of drums with all four limbs, especially if the syncopation involved is even slightly complex. Don Hill says that listening attentively to music increases many facets of brain activity, and therefore people who listen closely to a variety of music tend to be able to think quickly. Music that is challenging in nature will tend to improve with repeated listening. At its simplest breakdown, “music” is comprised of rhythm and melody. “Sound” is just that; any audible frequency, derived from infinite possibility. The music of French Paddleboat is all its own; gentle and joyful, subtle, graceful, perfectly disorienting in its comfort. The sound of French Paddleboat is all of the above. Vibes, chimes, bells and clarinet provide melodic and harmonic measures, while odd sounds punctuate, and samples swim over lilting acoustic drumbeats and loops. Eating pennies can cause excruciating pain, and even death, as copper reacts strongly with gastric fluid, creating a new substance not entirely unlike hydrochloric acid.

Related Discography

FRENCH PADDLEBOAT - Constantinople CS (Granted Passage)
FRENCH PADDLEBOAT - Rome Loves Tan CS (Granted Passage)
VOTE ROBOT – untitled CS (Shelter)
VOTE ROBOT – R.U.R. LP (Vegas/Catsup Plate)

Selling Points!
-Handsome, professionally designed and printed package.
-Scott August, the talent behind French Paddleboat, is still a teenager. We are astounded to hear something this good and “on the tip” from someone so young…and from the Okanagan small burg that is Kelowna, BC.
-Names we keep hearing in reference to this: Oval, Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, Raymond Scott, Can.
-Defines the category “organica” for today’s ever-popular electronica market.
-Earlier associated releases popular in Europe, notably Germany, where people are notoriously fickle.
-The first pressing of Vote Robot’s ”R.U.R.” LP went instantly out of print.
-Scott August is one half of the well respected Vote Robot.
-Can be filed with equal prestige in the “Electronica”, “Experimental”, or “Pop” music categories.
-Don’t be misled by all those vinyl purists who can’t let go of the past, the CD is still a great format.