State Mix #1: Nouveaunoise

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By Niall Byrne on Thursday, 24 January 200812 Comments | Print this post

The inaugural mix in what we intend will be a long-running series for State, where we ask artists to submit exclusive mixes for download. It can be anything from an original set of tunes to a more DJ-orientated blend.

The honour for our first mix falls to Dublin electronic duo Nouveaunoise, who are producing some of the most intricate, organic electronica coming out of Ireland at the moment. Four Tet is a big influence on Conor Gaffney and Nile Conway yet the twosome have the added skill of competence in musical instruments to colour their arrangements with.

The mix is entitled Fuaim Nua, the Irish equivalent of their moniker and clocks in at a short but sweet 16 minutes. It was all recorded live in their studio too as they explained to us: “We used 3 push button samplers with real-time effects loaded with our own recorded sounds, usually an acoustic instrument but fucked beyond recognition. We used our reel-to-reel tape with synths recorded on it and had that cued up. A toy synth and an old Roland, we used CoolEdit as another sampler (you can assign the keys to play different samples) and live vocals through a mic through one of the samplers.”

“It was hard to get it all down live, as in having enough hands to do everything, so it took a lot of preparing, and we took maybe 40 hours learning it before we got it right.”

The mix is divided into three distinct parts made up of original Nouveaunoise tracks.

Part 1: Flamenco Hop into Ceirniní
Part 2: Cinnte into Avant Disco
Part 3: Supposed Something Jam

Look out for an album from the duo some time this year.

State Mix #1: Nouveaunoise Fuaim Nua

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Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nouveaunoise
Video: Live – Live Part 1 | Live Part 2

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12 Comments »

gary said:

1

Oh no, V-E-R-N.Broken link when I try to download the mix.

- 25 January 2008 at 7:56 am

gary said:

2

but apart from that, the site looks good – hope it works out well

- 25 January 2008 at 8:03 am

Niall (author) said:

3

Fixed now

- 25 January 2008 at 10:46 am

Eamon Leonard said:

4

Nialler. This kicks. Love it.
Great job on the site too.
E.

- 25 January 2008 at 3:23 pm

Mike said:

5

Go on the fookin noise
cinnte is bloody amaaaaazin

- 25 January 2008 at 5:39 pm

shorty clan said:

6

great stuff! love the mandola….. it soundz great!

- 27 January 2008 at 12:56 pm

Nicorigo said:

7

Sure it’s funcky.
Long live State magazine!
Website is spot on too, fair play.

- 28 January 2008 at 10:59 am

Gav said:

8

Definitely ones to watch this year.
Spellbinding supporting some geezer in Kennedy’s-they were that good I can’t even remember the guy’s name!
This is one of the better live mixes I’ve heard.
Keep up the good work Nialler.

- 28 January 2008 at 11:34 am

Mr J said:

9

That Propeller remix is top notch too

http://www.bebo.com/nouveaunoise

Mr J

- 13 February 2008 at 10:38 pm

State Magazine | Podcast: The Meteors, Choice Music Prize and Ham Sandwich said:

10

[...] forget to check our other podcast series: State Mix in which musicians submit a mix for the pleasure of all ears. Nouveaunoise kicked things [...]

- 19 February 2008 at 3:01 pm

State Magazine | Showtime May 22 - 29 said:

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[...] – Boom Boom Room, Dublin – May 23rd The inaugaural State mixers warm up Parnell Street with beats and [...]

- 22 May 2008 at 5:50 pm

Nouveaunoise LP on the way | Nialler9 Music Blog said:

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[...] album Paraphrase Accolade in May this year. One of the last things I heard from them was their State mix nearly two years ago which is still [...]

- 4 March 2010 at 1:44 pm