To and Fro

Our first web-only podcast exclusive! Sydney’s Tom Smith aka Cleptoclectics has been finely tuning his own unique brand of aleatoric electronic over the last couple of years, creating little vignettes of warm glitch and freestyle beat theatrics. Over the course of the last year or two he has put a release out through Feral Media’s Pow Wow series – check that out here – and he’s also shared the stage with fellow sound experimentalists such as Flying Lotus, Francis Plagne and Mark Pritchard, in towns across Australia.

He’s put together a mix for us called “Autumn Solace.” It delves head first into his love of things jazzified, crafting a downbeat and spaced-out hour-long mix exclusively for the To and Fro website. As to be expected from a student of music – don’t let his fresh face (and beats) fool you, the dude’s an academic at heart – its a thoughtful and considered journey.

“It is the conquest of the right to make noise, in other words, to create one’s own code and work, without advertising its goal in advance; it is the conquest of the right to make the free and revocable choice to interlink with another’s code – that is, the right to compose one’s life.” Jacques Attali, Noise

Track-listing:
1. Tarentel – A Crystal The Size of Our Moon
2. Faust – The Lurcher
3. BB King – Ghetto Woman
4. Alog – Turn Back, Undo
5. Bigg Jus – Moss Pink Coats
6. Cluster – Marzipan
7. Les Baxter (Pablo Beltran Ruiz) – Sway
8. Cleptoclectics – 23 is Your Year
9. Sun Ra – Moon Dance
10. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Hip Chops
11. Monk Hughes and The Outer Realm – Well Done
12. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – Odwalla
13. Lukid – Light Up
14. Daedelus – The Crippled Hand
15. The Exposures – Sake Rock
16. The Mighty Hannibal – The Right to Love You
17. Yusef Lateef- Russell and Elliot

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