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lounge-influenced drum and bass, with kitsch visuals.
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remixes
minke recently remixed laroca's "the elevator tester" - hear the remix here
echaskech have remixed minke's "the sound comes alive" - this ferocious acid stomper can be heard here, or you can watch the video here.
minke live
The summer of 2008 saw Minke play live av sets at festinho in suffolk, echaskech presents on london's south bank, drop beats not bombs and strax audiovisual in birmingham, and moorfest (aka mudfest) on the yorkshire moors.
More live sets are planned for 2009.
minke av
we have a YouTube site, containing several of our videos.
minke in "future music"
Minke's "Radio Minke" appeared on the cover DVD of the March 2008 issue of "Future Music" magazine.
Inside the magazine was a review of the track and a mini-interview with Minke.
purple radio
Rod hosts a regular monthly Sunday evening slot on Purple Radio, under his Reg pseudonym.
Next show : sunday 19th april, 5.30pm
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about us
minke are rod devonshire and gareth lynn.
we met in brighton in 2000, and have been collaborating since 2001.
our music is the result of far too many late nights spent trawling our extensive music collections for samples.
we are an av act, and have appeared at a number of festivals (festinho, gazastock, moorfest, drop beats not bombs) and electronica / av nights (digital city, concrete, strax, baked beats, the big chill house).
here's how lookandlisten described our live show :
minke are maestros of the krautpop loungecore scene, who will be travelling to the land of the north with a bulging sack of audio and visual wonderment. their musical reference points include easy listening, warped pop, charity shop bargains, electronic weirdness and other audio oddities. you can probably imagine that their visual reference points are just as eclectic, best classified as modern retro. expect samples from the golden age of advertising and film, with yet more classic gentlemens entertainment thrown in, so we’re told ! sit back, relax and let minke envelope you in av molasses.
history
rod has been making music for twenty years.
after several years playing in a series of ill-fated bedroom bands, by the mid-90s, he was one third of house trio bush babies, whose sole release "delicious" had more than a whiff of fromage about it.
with the income from this single, rod invested in a home studio, and since 1998 has pursued a more eclectic musical direction.
rod also guests occasionally with laroca at their gigs.
likes : bracken, and lacey bond. dislikes : dunstable.
gareth has been hunched over his woolworths guitar and 4-track since adolescence, drawing his primary influences from the music of ice cream vans and
public information films.
likes: bracken, and lacey bond. dislikes: banjos.
playlist
rod's home listening april 2009
1. baikonour - your ear knows future (melodic)
2. baikonour - for the lonely hearts of the cosmos (melodic)
3. future loop foundation - the sea and the sky ep (just music)
4. laroca - valley of the bears (just music)
5. laroca - the elevator tester (remixes) (just music)
6. digitonal - silver poetry ep (just music)
7. william orbit - my oracle lives uptown (kobalt digital)
8. roxy music - stranded (virgin)
9. minke - the sound comes alive (echaskech's acid bastard remix)
10. harmonic 313 - when machines exceed human intelligence (warp)
buff
most of our tracks are started by gareth, on a pc running acid.
rod then takes 'em and gives 'em a bit of spit and polish at his home studio the boring room, adding sounds from his collection of prehistoric analogue synths, dusty old 70s beatboxes, casio keyboard, sampler and melodica.
all the sounds are recorded into his pc for further mangling, buffing, and general faffing, eventually emerging at the other end as minke.
thanks to andy ralph and saul parker for lending reg your synths.
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Matt F (photographer)