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Umbilical Digital (HM018LP) [EXPERIMENTAL, TECHNO, ELECTRONIC]

by Exterior

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" pressing on clear vinyl (strictly limited to 150 copies)

    + A3 insert featuring exclusive Riso Print of sleeve art in unique tones.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Umbilical Digital (HM018LP) [EXPERIMENTAL, TECHNO, ELECTRONIC] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Uber Limited Edition Riso Print of 'Umbilical Digital' Sleeve Art by Panos Baras in unique colours (rust red, lime green and teal).

    --

    NB INTERNATIONAL BUYERS, PLEASE NOTE:

    This will be shipped using Royal Mail's International Standard service, which takes "from 3-5 days" to arrive.

    If you're happy for the print to be folded along the edge of the image, it can be shipped anywhere in the world for £4 using Royal Mail's new International Economy service but please note this will take "from 2 weeks" to arrive.

    Please get in touch if you would prefer this service.
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Umbilical Digital 05:23
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Menu Diving Olympics 05:05
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Orthodox Dreams 05:15
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Populist 04:30
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The Unbearable Shiteness Of Indie 04:30
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Adoption 05:44
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Tyranny Of Choice 05:27
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Load Bearing 04:21
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about

FEEDBACK:
“Loving Exterior, a definite coherence to all the sounds. I think if Steve Albini was forced at gunpoint to make an electronic album it would sound like this, like AFX meets Shellac” STEVEN MCCONNELL (Benbecula Records)
‘Sounds great!’ AUNTIE FLO
‘This is really good, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE
'I really like some of the tracks, specifically Menu DIving Olympics, The Unbearable Shiteness Of Indie (what a track name) and Orthodox Dreams, possibly some others as well, but I haven’t had time to really listen to them with closed eyws and headphones on etc' ND_BAUMECKER (Berghain)
‘Really loving Load Bearing’ ROLANDO (UR)
‘I really like Load Bearing’ LEO MAS
'Wow, I really get why you want to release this' LEONIDAS
'Exterior's music if off the hook and his live set is absolutely brilliant. The Unbearable Shiteness Of Indie caught my ear in particular - great title' KIRSTIE PATON / SHE-BANG RAVE UNIT (Radio Magnetic, Glasgow; Threads Radio, London)
'Takes a lot of balls to release this... It's a bit more mental but i get it all the same ..... Dunno where i would fit it into a set at the moment but i see what's being done and how it works, especially after a couple of listens' DRIBBLER
'The Exterior record is great' NAOMI PALMER (Earth Agency)
‘Very nice!’ NICK STEWART (Sneaky Pete’s)
'Wow, totally love this. Only skipped through, but oh my, superb! GEORGE DEMURE
'I enjoyed the whole release awesome job! My fave was Adoption, The Unbearable Shiteness of Indie and Menu Diving Olympics. I thought it was really solid! Could work well with some of my radio mixes for sure' SOSI
'Really impressed with the blend of styles and obviously I'm not the only one given the names mentioned in the press release. Definitely some Overground-friendly gear in there especially A1, A3 and A4' WRISK (Overground)

RADIO:
Live session and interview on THREADS RADIO, LDN 12.4.22: bit.ly/Exterior-HM-Showcase-Threads-Radio

LIVE STREAM:
Live show on LIMBIC TV, 3.5.22:
youtu.be/eSmUAGOjezc?t=655

REVIEW:
'Without losing touch with rhythm and melody, the latest album from Edinburgh producer Doug MacDonald (under the guise of Exterior) is an experiment in texture, club sonics and live-sounding instrumentation. A largely percussive tapping, drum-skidding and bouncing affair, Umbilical Digital channels some quite eclectic tastes, with an array of both bpms and styles; from ambient scores to coarse abrasive guitar techno fusions.... Synthesised music with a human touch, this album loses none of its experimental luster; still honed for the dancefloor as well as the head, whilst turning steel into something far more melodious. This is techno, electronica with a heart and purpose.' MONOLITH COCKTAIL

Full review:
monolithcocktail.com/2022/05/05/the-perusal-30-black-mango-celestial-north-ethan-woods-misha-sultan
(scroll down)

ARTIST OF THE WEEK (Scotland On Sunday):
www.newfoundsound.co.uk/blog/exterior-scotland-on-sunday-12-june-2022

INTRO:
EXTERIOR released the unique 'Plagued Streets Of Pity' EP (HM011) via Hobbes Music back in January '19, picking up plaudits from Laurent Garnier, Avalon Emerson, JD Twitch, Mixmag and a few others: bit.ly/Exterior_PlaguedStreetsOfPityEP_HM011

His music is some of the gnarliest and most confrontational the label has released and also some of the most exciting. Experimental without losing sight of dance floor dynamics, he manages to traverse genre boundaries while sounding coherent and like no one else out there. He's also one of the most exciting live performers we've seen - and we're not the only ones (see comments on HM011 and below) - and the crowd always laps up his set, which gets better every time.

EXTERIOR is the artist moniker of Edinburgh producer Doug MacDonald. The artistic mission is to bring together the formally disparate worlds of electronic club sonics with elements of live instrumentation. Exterior’s pathway coalesced from years spent performing in bands and nights spent on dancefloors. Guitar feedback and live drum eruptions provide a textural abrasion and a haunted, humane groove currently absent in much UK dance. Admittedly, the latter’s unshakable syncopation and melodic pressure inform the method of the former. The two approaches are synthesised most noticeably in live performance. The combination is now made manifest in Exerior’s debut album ‘UMBILICAL DIGITAL’.

The record is a playful, irreverent, propulsive long-player, underpinned by the emergent global latticework of connectedness. UMBILICAL DIGITAL is an admission of the level of dependencies in contemporary music styles. This comes most noticeably in Fugazi-on-dancehall moment ORTHODOX DREAMS, footwork and math-rock mashing oddity TYRANNY OF CHOICE, or ritalin-addled robo-disco workout POPULIST. That the record is only eight tracks long and combines as many elements as it does, reflects Exterior’s artistic ambition in the process. The bedrock allowing this confidence has been road-testing the material live in Edinburgh venues, most overtly at local electronic institution The Bongo Club.

credits

released April 22, 2022

Doug MacDonald [Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, Mix]
Panos Baras [Artwork & Design]
Keith 'Radioactive Man' Tenniswood (Curvepusher UK) [Mastering]

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