Legion of Spunky   -  Profile

Artist/Band Profile: Ludo Maas (multi-panel) and Mike Steelman (P9FM) are Legion of Spunky. Hurling digital files across the Atlantic, they create an unique sonic blend that's sometimes glitchy, hypnotic and noisy, but never boring

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Reviews: Despite the myriad of confusing genre classifications, electronic tracks seem to sort themselves into two big metagenres. There?s the head-nodding music and the intellectual stuff. The head-nodding stuff also includes the music that?s clearly dance floor material, while the intellectual stuff just refers to music that doesn?t overtly groove. But occasionally, artists will fall into the cracks and offer up fare that borrows from both of these areas. Autechre comes to mind as music that can be both nodded to and sat back and thought about. It grooves, but covertly, rather than overtly. Legion of Spunky?s ?Spunk06?, I?m happy to report, is this rare kind of music.

Built just as much from silence as from sound, ?Spunk06? begins with the sort of bizarre noise elements that constitute much of the percussion work on Warp, for example. These elements slowly sort themselves into a kind of plodding (but not heavy-handed) groove that just barely tickles the surface of the sonic space. The firs

Studio / Music Equipment: Mike uses Metasynth and MetaTrack to create sounds. Ludo uses CoolEdit and Fruity Loops