Technoself, by Deantoni Parks, Technoself

Technoself

by Deantoni Parks, Technoself

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snappechat This guy is brilliant, the entire album is absolutely incredible, I've never listened to something like that before! Favorite track: Black Axioms.

basslenny Deantoni is one of a kind & is taking drumming to a new area.

charles milo Thank you so much for making this record! I love the concept and the end result is banging! I love how raw it is! I've listened about 10 times since I bought it. Can't wait for the next idea!

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1.	Black Axioms 06:14	buy track
2.	Our Shadows 03:51	buy track
3.	Down 02:54	buy track
4.	Graphite 02:58	buy track
5.	Ashes 04:20	buy track
6.	Methodist 04:29	buy track
7.	Automatic 02:33	buy track
8.	Pebble 03:09	buy track
9.	Fosse in the Grass 04:45	buy track
10.	Bombay 03:28	buy track
11.	Orbis Magnus 04:26	buy track

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The relationship between music and technology is always evolving ... but true music can not exist without a soul. Some extraordinary musicians augment their natural talents with technology, adopting its benefits to fuel their own singular vision, and that is the basis of Deantoni Parks' debut album Technoself.

Parks is one of the finest drummers working today, displaying a sleek and intuitive balance between raw rhythmic physicality and machine-like precision. He can play on one hand what many great drummers could not achieve with two – which he does frequently. His skills have seen him perform with artists such as John Cale, Sade, The Mars Volta, Flying Lotus and his own boundary-pushing group KUDU, among others. Notable collaborations aside, Parks is an artist in his own right, constantly in motion and expanding towards something new.

On Technoself, you hear Parks totally in control. Three of the tracks were recorded live in a session at Dub Lab, the others in a studio. In his own words, "The sound result of Technoself is a digestion of sounds being refined, filtered, and re-arranged in the time period of the average thought." There are no overdubs or loops on this record. The sound is that of "segmented, split-second curated soundscapes atop a highway of refined, war-drum rhythms." The album plays out like a percussive crash course winding through Parks' diverse influences and moods, where the only constant is Deantoni's unmistakable sense of movement. In this case, the most important piece of technology turns out to be the human body.

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released December 4, 2015

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Deantoni Parks, Technoself Brooklyn, New York

Deantoni Parks AKA Technoself: avant-garde composer-percussionist, creative technologist. Founder of Technoself School of Philosophy, Humani Machina Records, and Technoself Immersive Arts Fair.

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WESTWAVE 2

May 2022
ATLANTASIA

Apr 2022
A Self

Jul 2021
Alright Okay

May 2021
GLITCHWOOD

Jan 2021
LIGHTLIKE // PARKS AND HUNT

Aug 2020
WESTWAVE

Dec 2019
Homo Deus

Nov 2018
Deanthoven

Aug 2016
WALLY

Jun 2016
Technoself

Dec 2015

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