EVOL
EVOL is a computer music group started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, a musician and composer living and working in Barcelona.
EVOL is a computer music group started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, a musician and composer living and working in Barcelona.
Speed Snake
Edition of 130. Much slower and much more hypnotic than the usual EVOL style. Around an hour of weird computer raga. Mind-bending experience quite unlike any other
Ideal Acid
No hype, this record is the maddest belter you’ll hear this year. A rinse thru three hundred and three acid cherries pitted and sequenced, tweak for tweak, into the only rave weapon you’ll ever need. Taking Evol's obsession with Roland’s squelchy gre…
Proper Headshrinker
Ever since Stephen Sharp and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros embarked on the deconstructive process they refer to as "Rave Synthesis," the goal was to come up with odd relatives of well-established sounds in techno culture by constantly messing with the o…
Right Frankfurt
The incessant brain bogglers Evol present the nerve-gnawing acid pointillism of Right Frankfurt. Equivalent to an intravenous dose of acidic synthesis, Right Frankfurt nods to one of techno's most efficient power centers with a PCP-on-Modafinil-stre…
Flapper That
Concentrated, Bendy Acid From Computer Rave Hooligans Evol, debuting their first release for Diagonal. RIYL: Belgian Techno, Licking Batteries, Coloured Plastic Discs!* "‘Flapper That’ sees Diagonal invite EVOL — arch propagators of “computer musi…
Purple Melters
Invasive psychoacoustic acid killer from EVOL for the sympathetic freaks at Sweden’s iDEAL. Continuing a pursuit of altered states induced by pure frequency manipulation, ‘Purple Melters’ is the fourth work in a series that started with ‘Proper Heads…
Something Inflatable
EVOL pay tribute to Rotterdam Termination Source's gabber classic 'Poing' (1992) on 'Something Inflatable'. Notorious as one of the most annoying and hilarious International '90s chart busters, 'Poing' is and was a fairly radical, if knuckle-head…
Right Nightmare
The computer-controlled Hoover bass is back: EVOL have returned with their unique brand of extreme economy on Right Nightmare, the latest instalment in their continuing ‘rave synthesis’ series. And this time they have brought a friend.Despite the lac…
Three Hundred Grams Of Latex And Steel In One Day
'Three hundred grams of latex and steel in one day' is the second totally acoustic piece in our ever expanding Punani series. Just as Hiller, Isaacson and Baker set off to figure out how much composition, as a system with rules specific to genre a…
Rave Slime
Limited edition 12" vinyl. Comes in a 140 micron polished finish PVC sleeve. Contains 2 locked grooves and a palindrome. 45 RPM. A double blow of brutalist composition and raw electronic music. Key words: extreme rave, radical synthesis, computer mus…
Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks
Limited edition red vinyl 7", 100 copies. Two pieces for hand-held gas horns realized at the Music Research Centre, University of York, November 2008. Recorded using two Neumann U87 microphones and a Shure SM58 on custom-rigged pendulum.
Punani Xerrameca
Last coy, slight wear due to storage. The 7th part of Evol’s Punani series contains two pieces for solo computer edited from live recordings at: Superdeluxe, Tokyo (12.01.08), Fylkingen, Stockholm (26.02.08), CAPC, Bordeaux (24.05.08), and SND Studio…
Punani Rubberist
First edition of 300 copies. 'Punani Rubberist is a new composition for computer, bass clarinet and gas horn. The CD includes remixes by Kazumoto Endo, eRikm, and Joe Gilmore, and an additional unreleased solo computer composition (Excelsior Punani) …
Fart Synthesis
'Fart Synthesis' is the 8th episode in EVOL's ongoing Punani series, and was edited from live recordings in Osaka, Kiev and Toulouse between 2008 and 2009. All sounds were synthesized on the fly on various computers. The final tracks were assembled i…