Recycling Records Profile Page
| Cover | Artist / Album | Category | Rating | User Rating | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recycling Records The Best Of Polish Smooth Jazz... Ever! (Recycling Records 2008) | Electronic | 4/5 | 0/10 |
| Cover | Artist / Album | Category | Rating | User Rating | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recycling Records The Best Of Polish Smooth Jazz... Ever! (Recycling Records 2008) | Electronic | 4/5 | 0/10 |

Recycling Records seems to include more than one artist within its bounds. What are the names of each artist included on the album?
Well... the album tracklist is a hoax. Listed artists are just to point to the original ones as well as the titles to indicate what song actually was treated so nasty. Every track seems to show some different approach but in fact it’s from start to end a job of one man. But shhhh! Let it be a secret
Where do you hail from originally?
The beautiful city of Wrocław in south-west Poland but I’m currently living in Dublin, Ireland.
Do you have any specific influences be they music or otherwise which can be identified within your music?
Classic plunderphonics works of John Oswald seem obvious as well as mashups, ie. made by Kid606 or Otto von Schirach. I was always really impressed with works of these who electronically deconstruct sounds like Fennesz or Ekkehard Ehlers. And at the end there are countless bands and artists proving that there’s always something new you can do.
Within electronic music, there are many subtle differences from scratch artists to field sampling to drum and bass. How would you classify your particular sound?
I’m listening to and I’m inspired by many genres from classical music to techno and from hip-hop to black metal not only electronic or experimental music and I don’t care much about stylistic boundaries. I’m just trying to make something that sounds interesting, intriguing and with the wide spectrum of music I’m listening to you can expect something different on every track and lot of cross-genre stuff. There’s a bit of glitchy ambient, drones, digital hardcore-like tracks, gabba (!), breakcore and lots of different noises. But for me, more important than the style, you can classify music by the way it is made, that is, by using sounds already used by someone else.
Do you feel there is something in particular that you do differently from everyone else in your genre?
While in general it’s plunderphonics I prefer a bit different attitude than you could expect from these kind of recordings.
When I was doing some remixes just for fun without having separate tracks with instruments, vocals, etc. I discovered that messing with carefully selected and properly treated bits cut from track still creates almost endless possibilities, even ones you would never, ever expect. So I devoted my work to transforming sounds and styles to completely different ones and looking for new possibilities of doing so. And this is the main idea behind this album: you take an awful pop-rock ballad – you get ambient landscape or noisy breakcore. Or the opposite!
What equipment do you use to achieve your sound? Is there one specific software program or hardware item that you value?
I create with ACID supported by lots of effect plugins. I love to explore the web, searching for some extraordinary effects and it’s a great you can find really valuable stuff for free. This applies to music as well!
What have you been listening to in the past couple months?
I love Merzbow’s album “Higanbana” as well as latest releases of Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars of the Lid & Burial. The fifth volume – one of the most interesting by the way - of great series from Sub Rosa “Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music” was a good reason to step back to all previous parts and with every listening you can discover something fascinating that was missed before.
Here are Music Emissions, we pride ourselves on our indie focus. In your opinion, what has been the best indie release in 2008 so far?
Unfortunately I don’t have enough time nowadays to explore new and unknown bands so I probably missed something good. I’m still waiting for an album that’s gonna positively shock me but for now on the two best I’ve heard would be the new album of Muslimgauze – “Wish of the Flayed” released as free download so you can all easily get it and works of polish abstract hip-hop producer Etam Etamski.
Do you have any tours lined up to promote this most recent album?
No, unfortunately not. But we’ll definitely work on presenting something live in the near future.
Anything else you'd like to add?
Copyright is not allright!
