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.
The Worm
Alternative title: Lovecraftian horrors from beyond space. Many nightmares has this caused me... A masterpiece. Even better than Howard the Duck. Nightmare fuel for me as a kid. Creepy little bastards. Dude this is terrifying. Almost on par with Troll 2. It's sad when the one that eats toes is the least scary. They look like the Chucky E Cheese characters on Meth. Random urination on the floor during a musical number! An alligator with a foot fetish!!!! Now I've seen it all! They don't make em l…
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 grey box to an ultimate, logical conclusion that leaves dancefloors turned utterly inside out and begging for track ID’s, it’s the kind of idea that has been floated in raves, smoking areas and afterparties for the past 20 years but has never been execu…
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 original recipes, expanding the tropes, and hinting at novel paths for contemporary psychedelia. Almost three years after the influential Rave Slime, Evol's fifth album takes the idea one step further. The content of Proper Headshrinker was first pre…
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-strength reduction and concentration of early industrial techno tropes with their skull-cracking beats. If you appreciate the lissome fluidity of a strong acid or synth lead, you will relish the piece's tumultuous, microtonal variations, see-sawing u…
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 music for hooligans” — to their own, unique establishment for a proper headshrinker of a session. Since Diagonal’s incarnation, EVOL’s hardcore aesthetic and sense of absurdity has been a key influence on the label and Powell’s DJ sets. In effect, 'F…
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 Headshrinker’ (Editions Mego, 2013), a series which will also see a release on Diagonal later this year. Essentially, it’s acid house without the house, drilling down to the 303’s micro phase variations and psychedelic sleight-of-mind conjuring a sense of…
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-headed, bit of dancefloor lunacy, and therefore in key with EVOL's "hooligan computer music aesthetic." Their 30 minute tribute of sorts contains no samples but does feature a load of demented squelches, boingy kicks and "dyschronometric gabber". This…
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 lack of variation – a general description of EVOL’s work being one sound source stretched to absolute breaking point – the progression found in Right Nightmare as the latest in a series is noticeable. The material, admittedly, is only spread across two …
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 and style, could be implemented as computer algorithms [1] in their so called experiments during the 1950s, this series of acoustic pieces was conceived as an attempt to test a similar principle in reverse: is it possible to use physical and chemica…
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 music for hooligans.
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 Studios, Sheffield (03.12.08).The word “xerrameca” is Catalan for “babble”. Key words: simulated speech synthesis, fractals, algorithmic composition, noise.Contains 2 locked grooves.EVOL is a computer music project by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 19…
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) from 2003. He plucked a hair from his body, chewed it up, spat it out, made the magic with his fist, said the words of the spell, and shouted 'Change!'. It turned into hundreds and thousands of little monkeys, who rushed wildly about grabbing weapons…
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 in Barcelona in the spring of 2009 using generative algorithms to splice and rearrange a large amount of sound files.The title of this cassette comes from a series of chats and discussions on digital synthesis techniques by Rubén Patiño (aka Pato) and…