“Clear Your Mind” LP
(digital version includes an exclusive Bop album mix)…
Audio previews and tracklistings below.
Release date: Monday 27th July 2009.
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Following the beautiful ‘Song About My Dog’ single in April, Bop and his dog Booyaka have returned from intergalactic space travel to cool you down this summer with more ice-cold subtleties and Med School is proud to present his debut album ‘Clear Your Mind’. Like a Russian cosmonaut ascending through the stratosphere, you will capture a unique vantage point as you look down on planet d&b… space suits at the ready, the effects of weightlessness may be experienced!
‘Ataraxia’, a firm favourite with the likes of D-Bridge, Instra:mental and Doc Scott, greets the listener with crisp 808 beats, blips and bleeps all underpinned by deep sub and warm soothing pads. Flip over the first plate and switch your turntable to 33rpm for two mid-tempo excursions; title track ‘Clear Your Mind’ is a futuristic two-step beauty packed with cheeky organ stabs and rolling bass, and a hit with Christian Martin of Claude Von Stroke’s Dirtybird Records. Letting the needle run through to the second track on side b, ‘Rovor’ is a sparkling slice of four-to-the-floor minimal techno, complete with innocent keys and vocal samples of Bop himself as a young child epitomising the naive beauty of Bops music.
Onto the second vinyl and we return to 45 rpm for two more super-chilled delicacies at 170bpm. The uplifting ‘Nothing Makes Any Sense’ features finely filtered dub-reggae upstrokes dissected by gritty bass. Last but not least, the bit-crushed clicks and glitches on the intro of ‘Chaosmos’ are a precursor to the crescendo of epic pads and palette of drum sounds that propels the track forward.
Cast aside your drum & bass aspersions, Bop is an artist light-years ahead of the game and he’s determined to win the symphonic space race by stretching the parameters of electronic music.
Skip through the tracks on the Bop player for audio previews of the album …
or visit www.youtube.com/medschoolmusic
| CD tracklisting: 01. Tears Of A Lonely Metaphysician 02. Enjoy The Moment 03. Ataraxia 04. Forms, Ideas and Chips 05. Lost In This World 06. Clear Your Mind 07. Nothing Makes Any Sense 08. Zakoulki Soznaniya 09. Random Thoughts 10. I Found You 11. Rovor 12. Chaosmos 13. Song About My Dog |
Vinyl tracklisting: A. Ataraxia 45rpm B1. Clear Your Mind 33rpm B2. Rovor 33rpm C. Nothing Makes Any Sense 45rpm D. Chaosmos 45rpm |
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Just checked out the Hospital Bopcast and downloaded the album – haven’t been this excited by a sound since I first heard Photek. Congratulations, love it!
I like the minimalistic sounds, and the dog is so cute. Too much static on some tracks, but all in all great downtempo. Great build-ups, reminds me of aphex twin / circlesquare meets vadim…
Spreading the word in Toronto and Vancouver! This guy is sick!
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Interesting stuff,awesome sound…
I wonder that Russians can make music so good like BOP! BOP is the generation of electronic music!
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i’ve been hooked since tony first played song about my dog on the hospital podcast and havent stopped plugging bop to all my mates. That’s four months solid free advertising, surely worth a tp?
Gutted there will be no bop in bristol tomorrow night, fingers crossed for a visa next time
peace
Some of the best minimal stuff I’ve heard in a long time. Such a solid release.
Amazin’ stuff!
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Loving the album, the two slower tracks are probably my faves. Clear Your Mind and Rovor!!
Stunning music… every track!!
Bop =
terrible.
sounds thrown together, and should be the final release from “bop”
Wow!!
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